Last week I visited Gettysburg, Fredricksburg, Chancellorsville, and The Wilderness. Weather was beautiful. Still shocked at how little attended the battlefields other than Gettysburg were.
A national park ranger at Chancellorsville told me he thought everyone was at Disneyworld. It’s no wonder kids don’t know history anymore. Had all the sites to myself.
Hey how is the construction on the new visitor’s center at Gettysburg going?
Those are great sites... you should have included Antietam as well. It really is amazing how lightly visited these places are — just packed with history.
The Civil War battlefield that is closest to my home is Picacho Peak, near Tucson, Ariz. I’ve also been to Mesilla, NM, the capital of Confederate Arizona, and the Glorieta Pass battlefield near Santa Fe, NM.