Thank you! Your very awesome and detailed article should have a post of it's own... please post one! In fact, I see you mention the number of Generals killed at that battle.
@redbob This nation needs to keep Carnton and it's cemetery preserved, and others like it, as a physical reminder of not only the war itself but to evoke the humanity, or lack thereof, within a civil war on any soil. Try as people might to "massage" history for purpose of political correctness, the fact remains EVERONE suffers during time of war and I believe hiding the severe scars on both sides is an error that can come to haunt us in the future. Empathy for others can be a powerful thing and I believe it is dwindling today with all the "me sheeple" out there.
Although reenactments pale to the actual battles...I praise all those for making an effort to at least remind citizens in real-time of this nation's, albeit imperfect, historical past and the cost of what got us to where we are today in the first place as a nation. I can only pray future generations get more inspired to partake before, pardon my expression, it's all "Gone With the Wind" I say the same about the Revolutionary War sites. "Bravo!" to all our ancestors and I challenge anyone today to ponder how hard it was even
surviving without the technology we have today. The videos on the "Townsends" YouTube channel never cease to amaze me of their ingenuity and a lot of it was still used during the Civil War era as well.