jraf 0 #1 July 4, 2003 Do you fools realize that precisely 140 years ago at Gettysburg, PA the decisive battle of the civil war ended? 3 days of fighting took 7,000 dead and 33,000 wounded. The town itself was turned into one gigantic field hospital. Very memorable date.jraf Me Jungleman! Me have large Babalui. Muff #3275 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
colintri 0 #2 July 4, 2003 Actually, it's over 50,000 total in causalities. I don't think much of these people around here care much for CW topics. Former CW reenactor speaking out here. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
BikerBabe 0 #3 July 4, 2003 yep. If you like historical fiction, go read "The Killer Angels" by Michael Shaara. One of the best novels I've ever read (they based the movie "Gettysburg" on it). Very interesting and hard to put down once you start.Never meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Amazon 7 #4 July 4, 2003 QuoteVery memorable date Gettysburg is very memorable place as well. Everyone should go there and walk in the footsteps of the men who died to make this country what it is today. I have walked along the stone walls erected to protect northern troops in the woods of Little Round Top, and you know their blood is now part of that landscape. I have walked across the field that 3 of my distant relatives died in crossing that mile wide field as part of General Picketts forces. I have sat atop the rock wall on Cemetery Ridge that was the terminus of the attack that was the high water mark of a country that fought for what it believed in no matter that I do not share the beliefs those ancestors of mine held. It is one of the things that made this country. More Americans died in that war than in all the other wars we as a nation have engaged in. The landscape is littered with the places that are important to this countries soul. The War Between the States helped to define this country. It was not a Civil War... for no war is ever civil. The outcome of that war was an increased industrial base and new weapons that helped this nation rise to the place in the world it now has. I highly recommend going there to the places that helped to define this country , and listen to those men that are there to this day. They gave their lives on that ground and are laid to rest there. If you listen carefully you really can hear and feel them all around you. Amazon Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
racer42 0 #5 July 4, 2003 Yes actually I do remember that. However it was not decisive. Lee left the field with his army intact and Mead refused to follow. It was another 2 years before Grant so graciously offered terms at Appomottax. Last Battle of the War for Independence. Of course the real Armistice was concluded in the mid 1960's.L.A.S.T. #24 Co-Founder Biscuit Brothers Freefly Team Electric Toaster #3 Co-Founder Team Non Sequitor Co-Founder Team Happy Sock Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
tbrown 26 #6 July 4, 2003 I highly recommend going there to the places that helped to define this country , and listen to those men that are there to this day. They gave their lives on that ground and are laid to rest there. If you listen carefully you really can hear and feel them all around you. Amazon I was 13 when I visited Gettysburg in the summer of '69. Vietnam was still pretty hot then too. I was too young to really appreciate what had happened there, but we stood at the top of the hill where the Union forces stopped Pickett's charge. I'll have to go back again sometime. Are you surprised that so many bonehead skideevers DO have an appreciation for our history ? I'm not. Your humble servant.....Professor Gravity ! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
