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Saturday, April 02, 2016

My five favorite interactive battlefield panoramas

The countdown begins: Later this month, I will travel south for my annual Civil War Power Tour. Stops at Manassas, Antietam, Gettysburg and elsewhere -- I sort of make it up as I go -- will refuel the Civil War tanks for several weeks and provide plenty of storytelling fodder for this blog. I am eager to add to my collection of interactive battlefield photos. In the meantime, here are my top five:

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5. FORT MORGAN ON ALABAMA'S GULF COAST

                                                         A view of the "murder ditch."

4. MALVERN HILL: UNION ARTILLERY POSITIONS

                                  Confederates attacked from right to left on July 1, 1862. 

3. ANTIETAM: BURNSIDE BRIDGE

                              Union IX Corps attacked here on morning of Sept. 17, 1862.

2. GETTYSBURG: CEMETERY RIDGE

         Rebel view of  wall  defended by Yankees during Pickett's Charge, July 3, 1863. 

1. ANTIETAM: ROULETTE FARM NEAR BLOODY LANE

                                    Union soldier's view on morning of Sept. 17, 1862.
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2 comments:

  1. Claudia2:10 PM

    I enjoy your blog. My ancestors arrived in the 1880's and 1920's, so I never had any interesting tales to tell. Until I ordered my husbands great grandfather's Civil War information. He was carrying a shell box from Virginia to Pennsylvania on 1 July 1863, and developed a hernia, and was sent to Harewood Hospital in DC, and missed the battle.

    I told my husband he owed his existence to a hernia.

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  2. Anonymous2:14 AM

    Do you have plans for the Virginia Peninsula?

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