Posted on 06/26/2017 5:22:31 AM PDT by Enlightened1
While in Springfield, MO at the Nat’l cemetery where both Union and Confederate soldiers are buried, I always paid my respects to one site. Sixteen Pennsylvania unknown soldiers are buried under one stone.
You would be correct if you mean .69 cal round ball muskets, but I’ve only see re-enactors carrying rifled muskets that would use .58 or .577 minie balls. I thought the minie balls would show rifling since the base expands, when fired, to grip the rifling...otherwise, what would be the point of a rifled musket?
The North and the South still believed in God at the time. Today it is a great spiritual war. We know who wins but not until the evil ones get their mini time.
Gettysburg, the site of the Civil War’s pivotal battle, said Thursday it will no longer sell 11 items that use the battle flag as a stand-alone feature.
The bookstore says it will continue to offer items that feature both the U.S. and Confederate flags, as well as books, DVDs, and other educational materials “where the image of the Confederate flag is depicted in its historical context.”
The National Park Service had asked concessionaires to pull Confederate-flag clothing, stickers and other items.
National Park Service Director Jonathan B. Jarvis says “stand-alone depictions of Confederate flags have no place in park stores.”
The bookstore added that children seen pretending to be soldiers must pretend to kill all of the Confederate soldiers. Any stand alone children pretending to be Confederate soldiers, without the proper context, will be removed from the property.
Precisely.
“CW museum in Harrisburg, PA.”
That museum is great and made me interested in the CW.
A fun thing to do at Gettysburg is hire one of tour guides who drives your car. These people are absolutely fabulous and can fine tune the tour to your interests.
Well maybe a phone call from the White House would help. Failing that, the President can do it himself. Is, in the alternative rattle the Sabres as if he might. Hey, it’s working with regard to border crossings . . . Just like he said it would.
Good luck finding them.
It’s always useful to be forewarned.
One of those graves is a relative of mine. I may just have to meet you there is this starts to sound more serious.
Read “From Michael Medved’s book Right Turns about his ghostly encounter at Gettysburg” in post # 30
My compliments to Freeper “a fool in paradise” for posting this account.
Same here, and I've been there a lot (dozens of times). Walking out of the woods towards Emmitsburg Road (Pickett's charge), Wheatfield/Devil's Den area, and the unfinished railroad cut are especially noteworthy in this regard.
“Spookiest place I’ve ever been.”
Same experience I had while visiting the Little Big Horn battlefield in Montana at dusk several years ago.
I think that places on Earth where great violent events have occurred retain some of that energy forever. Call it ghosts or alterations of the space-time continuum or whatever, all of these places have the same “feel” to them.
I also felt similar in St. Petersburg, Russia though it was more diffuse. At Gettysburg I literally felt like spooks were flying in and out and between myself & the people I was with.
I am fascinated by all the experiences you folks have had at Gettysburg, feeling a presence or seeing apparitions.
Because of the huge scale of the events of July 1-3, 1863, and the many men killed or wounded there, there could possibly be residual spiritual presence there. Everywhere you go, a battle was fought.
Myself,I have been to Gettysburg many times. I used to stay at the Economy motel right next to the Gettysburg Cemetery(it is gone now). I could look out my window and see gravestones up close and personal(this is Evergreen Cemetery, not the National Cemetery).
I have walked the fields at dusk. I think I tried to find and read every monument I could (there are 2,200 of them).
I have to say I have not felt any presence, good or evil, there. The scale of human loss saddened me. I traced each day of the three day battle over a three day stay in 1997.
I have since been back there, even serving as a tour guide to a church group of men and boys that was very enjoyable.
Antietam is a smaller battlefield compared to Gettysburg. It was the scene of the deadliest day in American military history.
I toured the grounds by myself, and got the the Dunker’s Church just as a tour group was leaving. I sat down and was alone there for about 15 minutes before another tour group arrived, and I left.
The Church changed hands about 6 or 7 times during the battle and was used by both sides as a field hospital.
About one third of the structure is composed of original pieces and were witness to the carnage there on the day of the battle.
I tried to picture that many men who died there or who lost limbs there. There must have been blood everywhere.
Again, I felt a terrible sadness there in the still quiet when I was alone.
As for feeling a spiritual presence, in all my travels in the USA, the place I felt spiritual oppression was in New Orleans. The place was thick with evil. Never experienced that in any other city.
Las Vegas and Atlantic City. I avoid both places like the plague.
Thanks for the ping to post #30.
Praying the BIKERS FOR TRUMP show up and protect the graves
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