My name is Ward. I'm from the Heart of Dixie (Alabama) and based on my username, I'm obviously a big admirer of John Pelham. I just returned home from a weeklong trip to Chancellorsville, Fredericksburg, Sharpsburg, and Gettysburg. This was my first time visiting these battlefields and it was a very humbling experience to say the least. I have numerous relatives/ancestors who served for the Confederacy during the War.
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Welcome aboard. That sounds like a great trip. I'm jealous.
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Welcome to the board and excuse the chant. I read that when a column of Alabamans were marching by, the men (from another state) greeted them with that chant.
That one week road trip sounds quite interesting. Were you on a tour or were you a do-it-yourselfer? If it was an organized tour, what group and who was the guide?
Welcome to the board and excuse the chant. I read that when a column of Alabamans were marching by, the men (from another state) greeted them with that chant.
That one week road trip sounds quite interesting. Were you on a tour or were you a do-it-yourselfer? If it was an organized tour, what group and who was the guide?
That's a neat chant - I believe that I've heard it before but had forgotten about it. A chant that probably evolved from that one is a popular battle cry for the Alabama Crimson Tide faithful during football season and it's very similar. Here goes: "Rammer Jammer Yellowhammer, Give 'Em Hell Alabama!!!"
Our recent trip was a do-it-ourselves trip. At Chancellorsville one of the park rangers did a neat presentation where he did a first-person account of a scout that served under Stonewall Jackson. We found the memorials to John Pelham in Fredericksburg. Pelham even has a new, modern shopping center named after him in F'burg. We had a guided group tour at Sharpsburg (Antietam) that was very good and we had a licensed battlefield guide at Gettysburg who gave us a Confederate tour of the battlefield that paid particular attention to the role of the Alabamians and those rough and tough Mississippi boys who gave it hell in the peach orchard and in Pickett's Charge. I find it really interesting that the University Greys (the Ole Miss students) made it further than any other regiment in Pickett's Charge. I graduated high school in Mississippi, so I'm also a big Mississippi person also.
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Welcome to the forum, sir, and I do hope you enjoy your time and share your knowledge with us.
I look forward to seeing you on the field.
Sincerely,
Unionblue
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Welcome to the board. Sounds like your trip was great. I bet you can't wait to go again. Being from Houston everything CW is about 8 hrs away. I only get to take a trip like that every other year or so.
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