So after a long stressful week I was trying to figure out where I could go that didn't involve being around people and get my mind right. And it occured to me to go take a nice walk at my favorite area Civil War battlefield, which is Gaines Mill. Been there untold times, probably at least 10 in my lifetime. By far my favorite battlefield. I did take some pictures because some things have changed since I was last there and walked the trail 2 or 3 years ago.
It appears they recently rebuilt the fencing along the walkway that leads from the parking area to the overlook
Thank you for sharing your Gaines Mill trip and photos.
The following link
(A historical marker located in Mechanicsville in Hanover County, Virginia.)
www.hmdb.org
shows photos of the 11
th Mississippi Infantry Regiment monument that was erected on the site in 2016. It marks the place where the 11
th Mississippi formed before their now famous charge that broke the Union line, at the order from Stonewall Jackson to “press them with the bayonet”.
I had the pleasure of meeting many of the folks with the 11
th Mississippi memorial association, who erected the monument. They invited me to come to Mississippi and during my trip there, I collected soil from Holmes, Madison, Carroll, Lafayette, Marshal, and Union counties, the town of Oxford and from the campus at Ole Miss. I placed a small sample of each of those places at the base of the monument at Gaines Mill in 2019.