Good post!
Visited Harper’s Ferry in the 60’s. The tour guide did and excellent job of keeping teenage boys attention and telling the story. Focal point in history.
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Thanks for posting. WOW. Good to see you. History/education BUMP!
Camped at the battlefield many moons ago, when my son was with the boy scouts. Memories of standing on the stone bridge that crosses the creek, trying to visualize what it must have been like trying to cross it during that battle.
Thank you for reminding us today. We need these reminders as the wicked try to Rob is of our history, our memories, our very selves.
My ancestor was serving a the chief medical steward for The Surgeon Generals Office in Washington ,DC dealing with the human carnage of Lee’s treason.
Nathan Bedford was an American Hero, doesn’t matter what side you were on. We were all Americans and we are still.
A cousin of mine was there in the Ct 16th.
We were doing well and advancing.
After crossing Snavely’s ford, within a half a day, A. P. Hill arrived and beat us back hard enough that the CT 16th could not bring enough troops to bear in Fredericksburg and sat that one out in the rear with the gear.
He was wounded in the Peninsula Campaigns, brought to a prison camp and later died. He is buried in the cemetery in New Bern, NC.
Thanks for the post. One of my ancestors was part of a regiment from Thomasville GA in the cornfield. Almost no survivors. he died there. That was before they dispersed men to keep whole towns from losing their young men.
So, what’s Fort A.P. Hill’s new name going to be?
The morning of October 12, he developed a “feeble, rapid pulse” and “shallow breathing.”. Lee’s reported last words were, “Tell Hill he must come up!” “Strike the tent!”.
Other revisionist also forget that, by law, passed legally, all participants (excluding Jeff Davis if I remember right, who may have just refused it) were granted a full ‘pardon’, for lack of a better word, and, regained their full citizenship.
I had relatives on both sides, so, I tend to be forgiving of both sides.
interior lines of communication helped Lee with reinforcements and counterattacks. Union learned nothing from sending wave after wave, piecemeal, against experienced troops in defilade.
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Thank you for that info.
Soldiers on both sides are American Heroes.
My GG-GF fought for the Army of Northern Virginia for most of 1864 in a SC infantry regiment that was part of Kershaw’s Brigade serving under Gens Early and Longstreet and Anderson.
He was at Cold Harbor,Petersburg,2nd Deep Bottom and Shenendoah campaign. I just purchased a book that details his regiment history .It will be an interesting read. Thanks.
Up came Gregg, Branch, Archer, Pender, Brockenbrough, and Thomas!
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Thank you to your Great Grand Father for defending states rights
-from a former Virginian