R. Sickbert wrote:
I am looking forward to getting back to Perryville this summer.
Hope to get there some day, your full description sounds awesome!
One of the first battles you & I fought as well.
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| Author: | simovitch [ Tue Apr 13, 2021 10:00 pm ] |
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My Brother and I (and sister and her husband) did a 4-day whirlwind tour of Nashville-Murfreesboro-Chattanooga-Chickamauga-Corinth-Shiloh and back to Nashville just last month. My brother flew in from Texas and the rest of us from California - it was a real treat to finally get out and do something. All of the visitor centers were open and even the theater was showing the battle movie. I always wanted to get that view from Lookout Mountain down on Chattanooga, the "battle above the clouds". It was pretty cool I must say. Got pulled over by a Alabama State Trooper for speeding but he let us go with a warning when we told him we were touring the great battlefields of the South and my brother correctly identified General Joe Wheeler's house as coming up a few miles down the road. Most of the small town courthouse statues were still intact that we saw, and even a few 'stars and bars' flying in the front yard of peoples homes. All around a marvelous experience for some California Yankees. I've done most of the battlefields in the East, north of Richmond and it was a nice change to tour the West. |
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| Author: | Scott Ludwig [ Wed Apr 14, 2021 10:10 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Battlefield visits? |
R. Sickbert wrote: I am looking forward to getting back to Perryville this summer. Hope to get there some day, your full description sounds awesome! One of the first battles you & I fought as well.
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| Author: | Scott Ludwig [ Wed Apr 14, 2021 10:15 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Battlefield visits? |
simovitch wrote: Got pulled over by a Alabama State Trooper for speeding but he let us go with a warning when we told him we were touring the great battlefields of the South and my brother correctly identified General Joe Wheeler's house as coming up a few miles down the road. Most of the small town courthouse statues were still intact that we saw, and even a few 'stars and bars' flying in the front yard of peoples homes. All around a marvelous experience for some California Yankees. I've done most of the battlefields in the East, north of Richmond and it was a nice change to tour the West. Great story Richard!!
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| Author: | Scott Ludwig [ Wed Apr 14, 2021 10:18 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Battlefield visits? |
Made it out to Antietam today and snapped a photo of the 16th Connecticut's monument at sunset. 
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| Author: | RichWalker [ Sun May 16, 2021 5:09 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Battlefield visits? |
I just returned from the Fredericksburg area, and met up with John Ferry, and Ken Jones. We tramped the battlefields of Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, The Wilderness, and Spotsylvania Court House. One of the best battlefields trips ever. I also live in middle Tennessee, between Nashville, and Knoxville, so Stones River, and Chattanooga/Chickamauga are each about 90 minutes from me. Shiloh about 4 hours. |
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