Confederate heritage month ????

@monte3 Gettysburg is a great place to visit!

@windinhishair I need to go to more civil war battle sites.

@monte3 On one of my business trips, my colleague and I had a couple of hours in TN, so we visited the Stones River National Battlefield near Murfreesboro. His ancestor fought for the Union out of Indiana. We were there right at opening on a weekday, and no one else was around, so one of the park rangers looked his ancestor up and told us exactly where he had bivouacked before the battle. We went there and stood in the exact spot his ancestor stood some 150+ years prior. It was interesting, and would have been more so if the site was not the gas station that was there now. We figured they were somewhere around Pump 2.

@windinhishair I think it was Stones River that had the highest % of casualties of any civil war battle.

@monte3 That may well be correct. There was a huge cemetery there, and to see it in the morning with no people around was humbling and very moving, realizing that each small monument was another human life ended.

@windinhishair humbling is exactly the correct word.

@monte3 i haven’t been to Gettysburg.
However, i’ve been a few other civil war and revolutionary war battle grounds. i’ve also walked the Andersonville prison site.

All are very heavy....I don’t know that I need to experience Gettysburg ..

@SW-User Any of the battlegrounds are hallowed ground. I've never been to Andersonville. That would be a good place to visit as well.

@windinhishair It’s a drive to south Georgia...there isn’t much to see on the way there

@SW-User One of my clients is in Georgia, so perhaps I can take some time off to visit when I'm in state. I find it very beneficial to visit these areas to get a feel for what it might have been like to have been there when something historical happened.

@windinhishair i haven’t visited the location ...the union equivalent is Camp Douglas in Chicago...