* The Battle Mill Springs
* The Battle of Davis Crossroads
* The Battle of New Market
* The Battle of Wilson's Creek
* The Battle of Pea Ridge
* The Battle of Resaca
That’s exactly why I chose those two battles. I like to study battles that are easily accessible for me to visit and explore. For me I learn so much more by visiting the actual sites than reading alone.For me it would be Gettysburg and Antietam because I live close enough to have visited them multiple times.
I agree completely.That’s exactly why I chose those two battles. I like to study battles that are easily accessible for me to visit and explore. For me I learn so much more by visiting the actual sites than reading alone.
All fairly small battles which did have some significance. Except Resaca.
Many large battles didn't.
On a side note, I’m curious to know how everyone got interested in the Civil War and how old you where when you started to study it seriously and read more intensively about it. For me when I found out I had family who fought in the 15th Texas infantry during the war that’s when my interest really started, but I didn’t start studying it sreiously until I was about 24. I’m 25 now.
On a side note, I’m curious to know how everyone got interested in the Civil War and how old you where when you started to study it seriously and read more intensively about it. For me when I found out I had family who fought in the 15th Texas infantry during the war that’s when my interest really started, but I didn’t start studying it sreiously until I was about 24. I’m 25 now.
I was in high school when the Civil War obsession started. I had to put it aside when I started paramedic training, got back into it afterword, took my first paid vacation to Gettysburg, and was hooked forever.On a side note, I’m curious to know how everyone got interested in the Civil War and how old you where when you started to study it seriously and read more intensively about it. For me when I found out I had family who fought in the 15th Texas infantry during the war that’s when my interest really started, but I didn’t start studying it sreiously until I was about 24. I’m 25 now.
I imagine most here will neither understand nor favor my favorite battle. This is partly because it is waaaay west of most of the big, pitched battles of the Eastern war. In addition, it is just purely difficult to understand. With that in mind, my favorite battle is the one waged in my home state of Missouri with home boys (plenty of them pretty rough and brutal) against the Kansas Jayhawker home boys (who were plenty rough and brutal in their own right.)
It is so complicated to figure out the war out here. Our ancestors were so busy just trying to survive. This overall theater of war (guerrilla versus jayhawker) is my favorite theater to study and discuss. I know I will have few followers in this matter.
That’s amazing, how did you survive for so long?In 1863 while I served in General Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia.
~ Colonel Brian Williams
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I was in elemtary school when I got a DK kids book on the war.About 7-ish? when I got the American Heritage book on the ACW.
I agree Bill.... I have very much enjoyed my visits to many other sites, major & minor.I tend to gravitate towards the conflicts which do not receive the notoriety as the Battles of Gettysburg, Shiloh and Antietam. Don't get me wrong.... I love the NPS venues in Gettysburg, Shiloh and Antietam. But there is more to the American Civil War than these three battles. In my humble opinion, get out and explore other sites. There is something special about learning and touring the lesser known battles and battlefields.
Bill