[Clemenza]

If you are disappointed by Gettysburg, consider that it was spared a better fate than the sites of The Battle of Harlem Heights and the battle of Long Island from the War of Independence. Both merely look like the rest of NYC with only plaques at the old Morris Jumel Mansion at the former and in Fort Green Park in the case of the latter.

[Rodney King]

The Battle of Harlem Heights

Last time I drove through the battle appeared to still be going on.

[KC Burke]

A year ago I spent much of a day walking various battle sites spread over the sprawling battle ground of Chickamauga. It appeared to me that many of the actual fields-of-fire were as they had been.

That feature allowed me to mentally walk through my readings on this great event where both sides displayed their best and worst. I know that comforting surroundings, even if lately grown and different from historical are hard to leave behind. The confusion between change and preservation to a growing landscape can certainly be frustrating. But I hope those discomforted can lay it aside and perhaps see the surroundings anew by looking at them as if they had been there at the time.