Thoughts for the Week
Gentle reader,
I've been refreshing my knowledge of late regarding the US Civil War through the wonderful Ken Burns' PBS documentary. My interest in this period in American history was first truly sparked in the summer of 1993, when I was stationed at Fort Lee, Virginia. Fort Lee is right next door to the Petersburg battlefield, site of the long siege, and we used to go for our morning run through it, jogging out past Fort Stedman and back. Propitiously that summer, I was also smack dab in the middle of the entire Eastern theater of the war, so with my good friend and Civil War expert, Anthony Bochicchio, we traveled to many of these battlefields, including Fredricksburg, Chancellorsville, and Antietam. The highlight of the summer was attending the 130th anniversary reenactment at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, where 10,000 took to the field. Probably the most meaningful bit of that particular trip, however, was when, in the stifling July heat, we marched in the steps of Pickett's ill-fated charge from the woodline one and a half miles to the so-called high water mark of the Confederacy.
So if you would like to enjoy the Ken Burns' documentary as well, you may find the links to it, as well as many other documentaries, here.
I've been refreshing my knowledge of late regarding the US Civil War through the wonderful Ken Burns' PBS documentary. My interest in this period in American history was first truly sparked in the summer of 1993, when I was stationed at Fort Lee, Virginia. Fort Lee is right next door to the Petersburg battlefield, site of the long siege, and we used to go for our morning run through it, jogging out past Fort Stedman and back. Propitiously that summer, I was also smack dab in the middle of the entire Eastern theater of the war, so with my good friend and Civil War expert, Anthony Bochicchio, we traveled to many of these battlefields, including Fredricksburg, Chancellorsville, and Antietam. The highlight of the summer was attending the 130th anniversary reenactment at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, where 10,000 took to the field. Probably the most meaningful bit of that particular trip, however, was when, in the stifling July heat, we marched in the steps of Pickett's ill-fated charge from the woodline one and a half miles to the so-called high water mark of the Confederacy.
So if you would like to enjoy the Ken Burns' documentary as well, you may find the links to it, as well as many other documentaries, here.
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