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Posted: 9/17/2009 3:38:45 PM EDT
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Shiloh is pretty cool and of course Gettysburg
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Posted: 9/17/2009 3:39:47 PM EDT
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Gettysburg is a must-see.
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Posted: 9/17/2009 3:40:57 PM EDT
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Gettysburg is a must-see. Yes! Devil's Den and more... |
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Posted: 9/17/2009 3:42:17 PM EDT
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Quoted: Gettysburg is a must-see. Going to Gettsburgh is like a prerequisite of things you HAVE to do before you die. |
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Posted: 9/17/2009 3:43:57 PM EDT
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Gettysburg, especiailly now since they cut back the vegetation to where it was at the time of the battle and you can see it just as the troops did when they arrived to fight the battle. They even cleared the trench area on Culp's hill, you actually see the remains of the trench, caved in but the trench is still there.
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Posted: 9/17/2009 3:44:51 PM EDT
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Vicksburg, MS is worth visiting.
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Posted: 9/17/2009 3:48:45 PM EDT
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Quoted: Quoted: Gettysburg is a must-see. Yes! Devil's Den and more... Gettysburg is a definite. Very good idea about Devil's Den. I never knew about that part of Gettysburg. Thanks  |
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Posted: 9/17/2009 3:51:16 PM EDT
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Washington DC shortly after November 2010.
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Posted: 9/17/2009 3:52:43 PM EDT
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Gettysburg
Shiloh Vicksburg Chattanooga Fredericksburg The Wilderness Spotsylvania Petersburg Fort Morgan Fort Gaines I've been to many more. |
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Posted: 9/17/2009 3:54:04 PM EDT
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Gettysburg is about as cool as it gets. I've been there a number of times over the years. Plus ... it's infested with ghosts.
I've been to Antietam, too, and it's a really boring place. |
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Posted: 9/17/2009 4:34:13 PM EDT
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Kennesaw Mountain Battlefield Park in my home town of Marietta Georgia. a little ways off the coast and further south than you posted but a great area with much history that is still told.
National Park Svc. site http://www.nps.gov/kemo/index.htm North Georgia Travel Site info. http://ngeorgia.com/travel/kennesawmtn.html Battles in Georgia with re-enactments and information http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.28thga.org/gallery_unit2004/2006resaca_1.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.28thga.org/unit_pictures.html&usg=__QdR0EzeKNypA_KJ_FWASyW0GuRo=&h=409&w=500&sz=107&hl=en&start=83&um=1&tbnid=0eCPuKmOlKBidM:&tbnh=106&tbnw=130&prev=/images%3Fq%3DKennesaw%2BMountain%2BBattlefield%2BPark%26ndsp%3D18%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DN%26start%3D72%26um%3D1          |
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Posted: 9/17/2009 4:40:49 PM EDT
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Andersonville prison
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Posted: 9/17/2009 4:44:07 PM EDT
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Andersonville prison Another good one. The grave stones so close together... 
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Posted: 9/17/2009 4:55:33 PM EDT
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Harper's Ferry, that place always gave me goosebumps.
Visited Perryville in Ky. two years ago, interesting but a small engagement compared to others listed above me. I wouldn't go out of my way to see it but if nearby, by all means stop. Shenandoah Valley and by that I mean get off of RT. 81 and take the "Old Valley Pike" Rt. 11 from Winchester to Lexington if you have the time. You won't regret this at all. |
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Posted: 9/17/2009 4:58:52 PM EDT
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Appomattox is the only one I've visited. Pretty amazing. I'd love to visit more locations.
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Posted: 9/17/2009 5:03:33 PM EDT
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Andersonville prison yep! |
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Posted: 9/17/2009 5:15:09 PM EDT
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Out of the hand full I have visited I would say my favorites were Antietam and, Fredricksburg. I live in Pittsburgh but regretfully have not had the chance to visit Gettysburg but it is on my list of things to do.
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Posted: 9/17/2009 5:30:17 PM EDT
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Andersonville prison yep! Another good one. |
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Posted: 9/17/2009 6:35:37 PM EDT
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Standing at the visitor's center at Antietam, you get an unspoiled view of almost the whole battlefield (except for Burnsde Bridge).
Very simple. Very overwhelming. |
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Posted: 9/17/2009 7:05:01 PM EDT
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Chicamauga, the battlefield plus the sites on Lookout Moutain and Missionary Ridge.
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Posted: 9/17/2009 7:11:42 PM EDT
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Cold Harbor.
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Posted: 9/18/2009 12:06:18 AM EDT
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Gettysburg and Vicksburg, entirely different kinds of battles, fought more or less at the same time, both are considered to have sealed the fate of the Confederacy
Ft. Pulaski and Ft. Sumter. Both surrendered very quickly although for different reasons, and then Ft. Sumter was put through a real siege and you can see how obsolete the masonry fort concept was by then. Sumter was later upgraded all they way through until WW2. So the Charleston Sumter-Moultrie complex shows how sea coast defenses evolved. Also in Charleston you need to visit the H. L. Hunley submarine (only open on weekends) and the magnolia Cemetery where the Hunley crews and a lot of other Confederate fighters were buried or re-buried. Among the graves moved to there were the graves found under the Citadel Football stadium, including the 8 year old girl who was buried with them. There is a Virginia History Trail that runs from Petersburg to Appomattox following Lee's Retreat and has radio broadcasts at various locations along the way. Petersburg also has some interesting buildings down around the old RR station and a city museum there. Outside down is the Museum of the Civil War Soldier. I've never been there but it has an outstanding reputation. |
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Posted: 9/18/2009 1:08:57 AM EDT
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If you want to see a battlefield that looks as it did when the battle was fought there go to McDowell, VA. It was part of Jackson's Valley Campaign.
Stones River in Mufreesboro Franklin Perryville Nashville Petersburg Richmond Wilderness/Sposyvania CH Fredericksburg Harper's Ferry to name a few |
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Posted: 9/18/2009 1:54:41 AM EDT
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Don't forget the Museum of the Confederacy and the Tredegar Iron Works site in downtown Richmond.
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Posted: 9/18/2009 2:23:25 AM EDT
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I have been to Perryville, Chicamauga, Gettysburg and Fort Donelson. Some day I will see them all. Gettysburg is great, I could spend a week there alone.
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Posted: 9/18/2009 3:34:15 AM EDT
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My father took us to Gettysburg when we were kids, and I've been back several times since. What are the main things to see in Vicksburg? I'm interested in Naval history as well.
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Posted: 9/18/2009 3:37:43 AM EDT
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Gettysburg is about as cool as it gets. I've been there a number of times over the years. Plus ... it's infested with ghosts. I've been to Antietam, too, and it's a really boring place. I have to disagree. Gettysburg is monument infested and overesposed. Antietam is a much better preserved battlefield. You can actually visit Antietam on the anniversary of the battle and not be trapped in a crowd of tourists yammering on ceaselessly about stuff they don't actually understand. YMMV. I don't believe in ghosts, so that holds no appeal to me. |
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Posted: 9/18/2009 3:41:26 AM EDT
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Posted: 9/18/2009 3:52:37 AM EDT
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Gettysburg is about as cool as it gets. I've been there a number of times over the years. Plus ... it's infested with ghosts. I've been to Antietam, too, and it's a really boring place. I have to disagree. Gettysburg is monument infested and overesposed. Antietam is a much better preserved battlefield. You can actually visit Antietam on the anniversary of the battle and not be trapped in a crowd of tourists yammering on ceaselessly about stuff they don't actually understand. YMMV. I don't believe in ghosts, so that holds no appeal to me. I must say I agree with your post PAEBR332. I've been to Gettysburg more times than I can remember. A few years ago I went to Antietam in early September. It's not an exaggeration to state that I had the entire battlefield to myself. I stood on Burnside's Bridge for over an hour before I saw another person. I met more people on the Appalachian Trail a few miles down the road at South Mt. than at Antietam. |
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Posted: 9/18/2009 4:04:03 AM EDT
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Chicamauga, the battlefield plus the sites on Lookout Moutain and Missionary Ridge. This. Chicamauga is right up there with Gettysburg. Just something about the atmosphere of both places is awe inspiring and somber, yet peacefull at the same time. |
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Posted: 9/18/2009 4:12:27 AM EDT
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If you do go to Gettysburg, don't go on a weekend or a holiday. There are still people there on weekdays, but not so many that it's a problem.
Also, no matter which site you go to, spend a little time and learn the history before you go. Most people show up at these battlefields and know nothing beyond the fact that there are a few cannons there. Gettysburg in particular was such a huge battle that a little prior research will make your time there a lot more meaningful. 
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Posted: 9/18/2009 4:12:28 AM EDT
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Vicksburg is great, especially with the ship museum that you can walk through now. Was just there this summer. Ft. Sumter is very moving to me, as is all of Charleston SC. Harpers Ferry is very interesting. I had just read 5 years of Hell, the Cival War in Harpers Ferry before I went the first time so seeing the distances and the various places discussed in the book first hand was a great experience for me. Antetium and Gettysburg both were just very over crowded that times that I have been there. Manassas was interesting as well.
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Posted: 9/18/2009 4:15:23 AM EDT
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I'm quite fortunate in that I'm close to many of the key battlegrounds, Gettysburg as mentioned, is awesome. We're actually going there in a couple weeks to take more time walking around, as the last time we went (for the first time in almost 20yrs) was back in July, and it was hot as hell, so we couldn't really take as much time as we'd have liked. Fredericksburg, what more can I say..it's like walking back in time. My family actually has a business there, and a house (a plantation house there since before the civil war) and we've spent summers walking the woods on the property relic hunting, and actually the first summer we spent a deal of time there back in the 80's, we stumbled across a cemetary that was overgrown beyond belief. We actually contacted the Historical Society who proceeded to come and clear it out, and list it on the registry as it hadn't been there originally. Antietam, right up the road halfway between home and Gettysburg, awesome place, but Gettysburg and Fredericksburg have more to see if you're really into the visual aspect, seeing what it was like during that time.
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Posted: 9/18/2009 4:19:23 AM EDT
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Gettysburg is about as cool as it gets. I've been there a number of times over the years. Plus ... it's infested with ghosts. I've been to Antietam, too, and it's a really boring place. I have to disagree. Gettysburg is monument infested and overesposed. Antietam is a much better preserved battlefield. You can actually visit Antietam on the anniversary of the battle and not be trapped in a crowd of tourists yammering on ceaselessly about stuff they don't actually understand. YMMV. I don't believe in ghosts, so that holds no appeal to me. You make a very good point. Gettysburg is very crowded. |
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Posted: 9/18/2009 4:25:51 AM EDT
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If you're going to Antietam (and you REALLY SHOULD go to Antietam), take some time to go to Harper's Ferry as well.
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Posted: 9/18/2009 4:26:11 AM EDT
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I love Civil War battlefields, been to most of them.
Recently I did a tour of the WV Battlefields - largely ignored or forgotten and it's a shame - some are quite interesting tho smaller. Harper's Ferry, Droop Mountain, Beverly, and Lewisburg are all within several miles and easily visited.  |
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Posted: 9/18/2009 5:06:16 AM EDT
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I live near Harper's Ferry and have to say, especially in the off season, down town is very interesting. It gets crowded around the old town in the summer though. More interesting however is the surrounding battlefield which hardley any one visits. There on School House Hill and Bolivar Heights 12,000 Union soldiers under Miles surrendered to Jackson (which also helped develop the situation that led to Antietem (about a 25 minute drive from Harper Ferry). Miles surrender to Jackson was the largest surrender of "Federal" troops until the Phillipines in WWII.
Highly recommended...........BTW, the old arsenal equpment display is worth checking out at the"old town" as well. They used to run the lathes and milling machines off of water power. There were 100,000 Harpers Ferry muskets stored there when John Brown made his raid (this is the ann by the way 1859-2009). PS, once your finished you can hop on the Appalacian Trail as Harper Ferry is the "half-way" point. |
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Posted: 9/18/2009 5:10:19 AM EDT
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Not Civil War...........but Little Big Horn may trump them all..........I was literally the only one there when I visited. If you know the sequence of events, it is an easy battle to invision while on-site.
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Posted: 9/18/2009 5:12:16 AM EDT
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If you do go to Gettysburg, don't go on a weekend or a holiday. There are still people there on weekdays, but not so many that it's a problem. Also, no matter which site you go to, spend a little time and learn the history before you go. Most people show up at these battlefields and know nothing beyond the fact that there are a few cannons there. Gettysburg in particular was such a huge battle that a little prior research will make your time there a lot more meaningful. http://i269.photobucket.com/albums/jj47/schv/Gettysburg/Gettysburg1.jpg http://i269.photobucket.com/albums/jj47/schv/Gettysburg/Gettysburg6.jpg http://i269.photobucket.com/albums/jj47/schv/Gettysburg/Gettysburg10.jpg Excellent advice. You will get VASTLY more out of any battlefield visit if you do a little homework beforehand. |
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