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re: Who Lives Near A Civil War Battlefield?
Posted on 5/16/14 at 7:12 am to madmaxvol
Posted on 5/16/14 at 7:12 am to madmaxvol
I live a few blocks from Fort Tyler in West Point GA. I believe it was the site of the last battle of the Civil War. IIRC the war was already over when they had the battle, word hadn't reached the troops yet though.
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Posted on 5/16/14 at 7:18 am to Porky
quote:Shiloh is an interesting place. The drop from the battlefield to the river really shows you just how close to Confederates came to winning that battle on the first day. If the advantage had been pushed, they would have taken out a huge portion of Yankees before they could fall back and be reinforced by troops on the river.
Shiloh is another battlefield I'd like to check out.
Interesting fact about the Shiloh battlefield and cemetery. It was (and still is) illegal to bury Confederate soldiers in a US National Cemetery, but there are two Rebs buried at Shiloh Cemetery - prisoners of war who died shortly after the battle. It is one of the few battlefields where the Confederate dead were not moved from their initial field graves - they are buried in seven burial trenches and one mass grave where the bodies are said to be stacked 7 deep. This one mass grave has a Stars and Bars flying over it, the only Confederate flag allowed to fly on any battlefield controlled by the Park Service.
Posted on 5/16/14 at 7:21 am to BigOrangeBri
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I live less than a mile from the Battle of Thompson's Station. It was a small battle. Nathan Bedford Forrest's horse Roderick was killed in the battle. There is a memorial statue where the horse was buried
well...hello neighbor.
crazy thing is ...I did the walking tour of the battle of Franklin last week at the Lotz House
Posted on 5/16/14 at 7:28 am to Gcockboi
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Landsford Canal State park. I' going to bring a metal detector to the park during the night sometime this summer. It would be so epic if I found a rifle or sword. (bayonet)
Told me something I did not know. I live within 15 miles of Landsford and always thought Kilpatrick's Calvary, part of Sherman's army, in Lancaster was the furthest point west. I know Sherman's left wing passed though near Heath Springs after Columbia was burned, and crossed the state line near Cheraw. Confederate Calvary General Wade Hampton skirmished as best he could until most of his command was called to Petersburg. That is where my great-grandfather was killed by a Yankee sniper.
Posted on 5/16/14 at 7:31 am to Porky
quote:Interesting tie to Pea Ridge from my family. My g-g-grandfather and his siblings were all born between 1834 and 1854 (g-g-grandfather was the oldest) and lived in Cobb County, Georgia. The oldest sister married and moved to southwest Arkansas, near what is now Texarkana, sometime between 1858 and 1860. The next oldest brother went out to visit his sister and brother in law and was there when the war started. He enlisted and was a member of Co. D, 4th Arkansas Infantry.
Pea Ridge was a significant battle.
They saw action at Pea Ridge and later moved east and just missed fighting at Shiloh but fell back with the Confederates to Corinth. They moved with the army again to the east to Shell Mound, TN (right outside Chattanooga) and in camp my g-g-g-uncle ran into some of his old friends (and at least one cousin - more on him at the end) who were all members of the 41st Georgia.
He finds a substitute to take his place in the 4th Ark and transfers to Co. K 41st Georgia. The 41st accompanies Bragg on his invasion of Kentucky, and sees some of the hottest action at Perryville, where my g-g-g-uncle is killed, he is buried in the mass grave just off the battlefield.
The 41st moves back south with Bragg and eventually moves to Vicksburg, where they are stationed in the rifle pits near the Indian Mound at Chickasaw Bayou. During the fight there in December, the cousin was killed as well.
Posted on 5/16/14 at 7:46 am to BigOrangeBri
I used to live in Murfreesboro, TN.
Posted on 5/16/14 at 7:49 am to PJinAtl
I live a couple miles from the Battle of Olustee in Northeast Florida.
I'm a member of the Stars and Bars and the Sons of Confederate Veterans.
I participate in the reenactment with the first Florida Calvary for the last 10 years.
I'm a member of the Stars and Bars and the Sons of Confederate Veterans.
I participate in the reenactment with the first Florida Calvary for the last 10 years.
Posted on 5/16/14 at 7:51 am to PJinAtl
That's impressive that you were able to find out that much history about your family.
Posted on 5/16/14 at 8:13 am to BigOrangeBri
Kennesaw Mountain
Posted on 5/16/14 at 8:14 am to BigOrangeBri
Kennesaw Mountain..
Posted on 5/16/14 at 8:18 am to BigOrangeBri
Kennesaw Battlefield
Posted on 5/16/14 at 8:19 am to DoubleDown
I was recently at Appomattox and it's quite interesting, but there's not much to do. You may want to see it as part of a Virginia roadtrip or something. If you've got kids, you can see it on your way to Busch Gardens
Posted on 5/16/14 at 8:29 am to Kentucker
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Lexington is 20 miles north of Perryville where the Battle for Kentucky was fought October 8, 1862.
I'm roughly a little over an hour away from Perryville and Munfordville.
BTW, when I recently visited the Frazier History Museum here they had a historical interpretation presentation of Sam Watkins memoir detailing his time as a regular with the Confederates and more specifically the battle of Perryville. It's good stuff. The memoir is "Company Aytch".
Posted on 5/16/14 at 8:33 am to DByrd2
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I live in Centerville, TN (hometown of Minnie Pearl, and my home of record, being in the military), which is about an hour from Parker's Crossroads.
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. I-40 runs right through the middle of the battlefield.
I was just getting ready to ask what battlefield this was since I drive past it frequently on my way to MS. You can see the cannons set up by the fence just off I-40 too. I'll have to stop there if I have some time next time.
Posted on 5/16/14 at 8:37 am to BluegrassBelle
i'm in dade county ga which covers part of lookout mtn. i'm on opposite side of lookout from chickamauga battlefield. so i've spent my life running around 2 battle sites.
Posted on 5/16/14 at 8:40 am to Pear
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Pear
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Kennesaw Mountain
Neighbor?
Posted on 5/16/14 at 8:55 am to 2007lsuno1
20 minutes away from site of "The Battle of Santa Rosa Island" and 45 minutes away from "The Battle of Mobile Bay".
We go to Fort Barrancas and Fort Pickens several times a year, it is a blast (slight pun intended.)
We go to Fort Barrancas and Fort Pickens several times a year, it is a blast (slight pun intended.)
Posted on 5/16/14 at 9:49 am to BigOrangeBri
UA was burned down, and there was a call to arms for the cadets, but I can't find any casualty reports.
Posted on 5/16/14 at 10:00 am to TheCheshireHog
quote:It helps that my family has a somewhat unique name and was one of the first to settle in Cobb County when it was opened to settlement in the 1830s. I can trace this particular line back to Virginia in the early to mid 1700s.
That's impressive that you were able to find out that much history about your family.
Once you find the name and unit number you can pretty well trace their actions from the various records. I have 25-30 Civil War soldiers in my tree, on both sides of the fight. I have actually handled my g-g-grandfather's muster roll at the Georgia archives, which has his signature (somewhat surprising for that time period a southerner could sign his name with more than an X) from when he was acting CO of his company.
There is also an associated branch (not blood kin to me but tied in a few generations back), that descends directly from the former Lord Governor of South Carolina.
Posted on 5/16/14 at 11:28 am to PJinAtl
I grew up near Battle of Richmond in Kentucky.
Richmond's Cemetery gates are made of the fence that was created to house the captured union soldiers at the courthouse.
Bull Nelson and some of his men escaped, but the Confederates captured over 4,300 Union troops. Total casualties were 5,353 (206 killed, 844 wounded, 4,303 captured/missing) on the Union side, 451 (78 killed, 372 wounded, 1 missing) Confederate. The way north towards Lexington and Frankfort was open.
Civil War historian Shelby Foote remarked that Smith "accomplished in Kentucky the nearest thing to a Cannae ever scored by any general, North or South, in the course of the whole war."
Official Website
From Civil War.org
Richmond's Cemetery gates are made of the fence that was created to house the captured union soldiers at the courthouse.
Bull Nelson and some of his men escaped, but the Confederates captured over 4,300 Union troops. Total casualties were 5,353 (206 killed, 844 wounded, 4,303 captured/missing) on the Union side, 451 (78 killed, 372 wounded, 1 missing) Confederate. The way north towards Lexington and Frankfort was open.
Civil War historian Shelby Foote remarked that Smith "accomplished in Kentucky the nearest thing to a Cannae ever scored by any general, North or South, in the course of the whole war."
Official Website
From Civil War.org
This post was edited on 5/16/14 at 11:30 am
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