Trip

[illreb]

Hello All,
I have been away for a week or so, I took a trip to Pa.and Md.,I had a wonderful time with some friends and spent a few days at Gettysburg and Antietam.
I walked the fields of Pickett's charge,( where the 11th Miss formed and attacked) I stood on the spot where both Reynolds and Armistead were killed, I walked the wheat field, Railroad cut and Devil's Den and watched the sunset from Little Round Top
In Maryland I visited the Dunker Church, walked the Bloody lane and Burnside's bridge, and stood where the Georgians fired on the hapless troops crossing that bridge.
It was a very moving trip that I will treasure for a very very long time .

[traveller]

Keith:

Sounds like a great time. I would love to get out there someday, but unfortunately it is a long way from here. I was fortunate enough to be able to visit Shiloh and Corinth last year and enjoyed it very much.

Traveller

Keith

I sure envy the great time and places your visiting. Hope we can here more about them when you get time.

[nancy]

Hi Keith,

I am Nancy and I am new. I have a question. Did you feel any kind of feelings at Antietam, such as, fear, anxiety, nervousness, crushing sadness? Because I sure did and it upset me greatly! It was my very first battlefield(in 2001) and I was excited, but from the moment we drove in until we left I had terrible feelings.
I went to Gettysburg 3 times last summer and had very moving experiences there, but not at all like that. Others on another Forum have said similar things about Antietam.

Nancy

The Civil War battlefields really do move people in many different ways. If you re-enact it you can absorb so much more and almost feel what they've felt when they marched, camped, ate 3 day rations, getting fired on on all sides (except we fire blanks) and basically living like a soldier. Both expierences are breath taking, exciting and can fill your mind with memories. It can bring your mind back to that time and relive it just as you imagined it.

[johan_steele]

I will never forget standing at one side of Kelly Field on the Chickamagua Battlefield... I have rarely ben effected by a location but that one moved me...

The Bloody Pond at Shiloh is another one that gets the heart pumping. I've been told the angle at Spotsylvania is another heart wrenching locale.

With Memorial Day yesterday it pays to remember th sacrifices so many have made. That "Last Full Measure of Devotion" that so many both North & South gave... Great men, worthy of respect, all of them.

[8thvacav]

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[illreb]

Rick,
I'm all the way over here in Illinois and got to them. So, if I can make it don't give up hope you may get out here someday yourself
Wil,
You are so right, I have many times "Been in the Moment" as a reenactor, especialy on actual battlefields.Being at Gettysburg walking the field that the 11th Miss marched during Pickett's charge was so overwelming
Nancy,
I didn't really get any feeling at Antietam but at Gettysburg I was in full uniform on Little Round Top and got chills, and I was drawn to the Devils Den twice and overcome with feelings. I myself never saw anything, but a friend of my said she saw a shadowy form following behind me as I passed the Devils Den and I have a strange mist on one of the pics I took