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During almost 20 days in April, we'll be leaving Illinois to visit Savannah , GA incorporating visits to Olive Branch, MS, Clearwater, FL, and Ashville, NC. With that itinerary, I'll have time to visit only one CW site. Which one would you recommend that's not a full day outside that rough circle?
Ole
__________________ I never knew a man who wished to be himself a slave. Consider if you know any good thing that no man desires for himself. A. Lincoln
THere is a wonderful Fort right outside Savannah... From Asheville.. you will almost certainly pass thru Columbia... stop at the Museum of the Confederacy, it is in the same building as the State Museum and well worth the stop. Of coarse Savannah is a wonderful city which you will really enjoy.
If the opportunity presents itsellf to get into Charleston... Ft Sumter is there as are a lot of period houses.
Remember we expect a full debrief.
__________________ Few take the trouble to understand or to view the American scene with perspective. And we Americans love to find ourselves guilty of something. However, it is never I who am guilty, but those other Americans, the past or present government or the other political party. Americans almost never find other countries guilty. It is always ourselves or our fancied influence in other countries. Louis L'amour
Thanks for your interest. First inclination is to head for Memphis first as that is one reasonable day's driving. From there, it makes sense to do Clearwater, Savannah, Ashville; however, such an itinerary puts the good spots in Tennessee (Franklin, Stones River) out of the route to Clearwater.
Maybe we should skip Memphis, go directly to Nasville, and hit the spots between there and Clearwater? Or maybe go directly to Virginia and put Memphis last on the list?
This is very much to be my wife's trip, so I've limited myself to two days on site (no sense cramming a great spot into one day).
'Preciate it.
Ole
__________________ I never knew a man who wished to be himself a slave. Consider if you know any good thing that no man desires for himself. A. Lincoln
Ahhh ditch Virginia alltogether! Go w/ Nashville w/ a detour to Franklin & Murfeesboro
__________________ Few take the trouble to understand or to view the American scene with perspective. And we Americans love to find ourselves guilty of something. However, it is never I who am guilty, but those other Americans, the past or present government or the other political party. Americans almost never find other countries guilty. It is always ourselves or our fancied influence in other countries. Louis L'amour
I'm getting a germ of an idea: Memphis to Clearwater -- perhaps Andersonville. Then Savannah, Ashville and on to Franklin. Could work.
Ole
__________________ I never knew a man who wished to be himself a slave. Consider if you know any good thing that no man desires for himself. A. Lincoln
As you pass through or stay in Asheville you'll inevitably see a sign somewhere that mentions Hendersonville and think .... tarheel lives there
__________________ It will be of little avail to the people that the laws are made by men of their own choice if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood.
I will salute the sign that says Hendersonville. And I will promise not to burn a thing.
Ole
__________________ I never knew a man who wished to be himself a slave. Consider if you know any good thing that no man desires for himself. A. Lincoln
In Atlanta, the Atlanta Historical Center (Cyclorama & the Texan). Further north, there's Kennesaw with the Railroad Museum (The General) and nearby is Kennesaw Mountain, Pickett's Mill. Don't forget Chickamauga, Lookout Mountain (a must for a view of how the Yankees were trapped) and Missionary Ridge (a few spots are marked). If you go up to Nashville, be sure to see the Bleak House which is owned and operated by the Daughters of the Confederacy. Col (Brevet Gen.) Saunders was shot from there at 750 yards distance. Scoot over to Murfreesboro and then Franklin and then Nashville (go to the State Historical Museum and the War Memorial Museum and that stone fort) and afterwards Fort Donelsohn. Not much in Bowling Green, KY but Perryville is suppose to be well preserved. If you hit Louisville, go to the Frazier Arms Museum to look at guns & swords.
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