CivilWarTalk Throwback Thursday, 2-9-17

[James N.]

Kennesaw Mountain NBP, Then & Now

Since this is the last Thursday before Valentine's Day, here's another photo from our August, 1968, honeymoon of my then-new-bride, Marilynn in a gun pit atop Kennesaw Mountain where we had been married only a couple of days before. The guns is a 12lb. Napoleon smoothbore cannon and it or one just like it is still in position there today:

 

[highplainsdrifter59]

The cannon is pointed northeast toward the Western and Atlantic railroad.

 

[LoriAnn]

The same 3 trees in the back left perhaps?

 

[Tennessee_Mountainman]

Seemed like everything was better kept back in the day. It's going to be even harder now since a new order has been given to freeze Federal hiring, which is going to kick National Parks in the teeth.

Thanks for the photos!

 

[Seduzal]

Kennesaw Mountain NBP, Then & Now

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Since this is the last Thursday before Valentine's Day, here's another photo from our August, 1968, honeymoon of my then-new-bride, Marilynn in a gun pit atop Kennesaw Mountain where we had been married only a couple of days before. The guns is a 12lb. Napoleon smoothbore cannon and it or one just like it is still in position there today:

The cannon may be in the same place but, the picture itself has changed. The landscape has changed! There is also added, a split rail fenc

 

[Pvt.Shattuck]

It's kind of interesting how the only part of the Federal government that ever seems to feel the pinch are things the public loves. Always the National parks and monuments, an infinitesimal part of the budget, get cut back.
Never the IRS.
Makes you wonder if they do it on purpose to make the rubes howl.
Remember when the government was shut down a few years back and they wouldn't let the 80 and 90 year old vets off the buses to see the WWII monument?
That's what I mean.

 

[Tennessee_Mountainman]

It's kind of interesting how the only part of the Federal government that ever seems to feel the pinch are things the public loves. Always the National parks and monuments, an infinitesimal part of the budget, get cut back.
Never the IRS.
Makes you wonder if they do it on purpose to make the rubes howl.
Remember when the government was shut down a few years back and they wouldn't let the 80 and 90 year old vets off the buses to see the WWII monument?
That's what I mean.

Yeah I agree. I'm happy to say since 2 days ago Tennessee is the first state to guarantee funding to protect Civil War sites. It's definitely a start! Hopefully other states especially Virginia follow. However, it's hard to say since the American Civil War isn't that interesting to the public anymore, especially with the **** going around right now if you know what I'm saying.

 

[reading48]

Was there just a little over a year ago....On the Bucket List to return this April, on the way to visit Vicksburg....

 

[James N.]

The same 3 trees in the back left perhaps?

The cannon may be in the same place but, the picture itself has changed. The landscape has changed! There is also added, a split rail fenc

When I posted these yesterday it was the first time I'd seen them together, and it amazed me just how closely they aligned. It was totally accidental but I was standing in virtually the exact spot where I'd stood 46 years earlier! As you can see, the trees seem to have grown and multiplied but the area itself retains its character.