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Looking forward to our next CWT Gathering two weeks from now, this time at Shiloh-Corinth National Military Park, Tennessee-Mississippi, for this week's Throwback Thursday I was thinking back to another quick visit there in May of 1973 with my then-girlfriend Charla. I was then living in and teaching near Hot Springs, Arkansas, and was getting positively antsy for a weekend getaway trip; I decided Shiloh, one of my favorite battlefields, was within a day's driving distance. We drove across Arkansas and spent the night in Memphis where we went to a fancy restaurant there called Four Flames located in a large antebellum home or mansion. We spent the next day on the battlefield where Charla was thrilled by the musket firing demonstration by the NPS ranger and is seen here posing at the Confederate Monument above and the so-called War Cabin at the Peach Orchard below. For additional photos from our quick trip please see:
A Quick Weekend Trip to Shiloh in May, 1973 | Shiloh / Pittsburg Landing
Part I - A Visit to Shiloh In 1973 I was living in Hot Springs, Arkansas, and teaching at the nearby Ouachita Job Corps Center. That spring I was feeling like getting away for a short weekend "vacation" and decided that Shiloh was within reach, so set out with my girlfriend Charla in my...
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