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What is Your Favorite Battlefield
| Antietam |    16.09% (121) | | Chancellorsville | 1.60% (12) | | Chickamauga | 6.52% (49) | | Fredericksburg | 2.66% (20) | | Gettysburg | 48.54% (365) | | Petersburg | 1.33% (10) | | Richmond | 0.80% (6) | | Shiloh | 7.31% (55) | | Vicksburg | 3.86% (29) | | Other--tell us what! | 11.30% (85) |
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Re: What is Your Favorite Battlefield (Score: 1)
by Basecat on Friday, September 01 @ 23:08:10 EDT
(User Info | Send a Message) | While Gettysburg has been the most visited CW Battlefield by me, in terms of solitude, scenery and contemplation, nothing tops Antietam, IMHO.
That place still exudes 1862 to me, and it is a great place to wander around and a lot more easier to do than the field at Gettysburg.
It's one of this Country's most sacred treasures, and IMHO is the place where the war changed.
Hope all are well.
Regards from the Garden State,
Steve Basic |
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Re: What is Your Favorite Battlefield (Score: 1)
by RELEE63 on Saturday, September 02 @ 12:15:25 EDT
(User Info | Send a Message) | | No doubt that GB is our #1 place to be. I would have to say that even if most of it is rebuilt when we visited Appomattox it would have to be a close 2nd. We got the same feeling there sitting in the cemetery as we feel in GB. Can't explain it. |
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Re: What is Your Favorite Battlefield (Score: 1)
by Cavgirl on Saturday, September 02 @ 18:46:29 EDT
(User Info | Send a Message) | Monroe's Crossroads. However, I will admit that I am biased. ;-)
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Re: What is Your Favorite Battlefield (Score: 1)
by GKWEAGLE1 on Wednesday, October 18 @ 11:44:30 EDT
(User Info | Send a Message) | Hi Guys,
If you had asked me this a year ago, I would have said Gettysburg hands down...
Buttttttttttttt Since I have been to Antietam now 4 times in 6 months, I find Antietam along with the Basecat, one of the most quiet,scenic, and truly sureal places.. I guess its the blood connection, especially in the east woods.
Sighhhhh..
Both now have a hold on me like no other........
JIM |
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Re: What is Your Favorite Battlefield (Score: 1)
by corydon on Thursday, October 19 @ 13:04:05 EDT
(User Info | Send a Message) | If I would use the boxing term, "best fighter, pound for pound" and made that analogy to battlefields, I'd probably pick Antietam slightly ahead of Shiloh. As others have mentioned, Antietam is quiet. It doesn't have near the same traffic as Gettysburg and Shiloh has even less. Plus a trip to Shiloh isn't complete without a stop at the Catfish Hotel.
However, since this question is so general and if I could only visit one place, I'd choose Gettysburg. Antietam and Shiloh can be done in one day. You could easily spend 3 days in and around Gettysburg.
Actually, if I could only visit one place, including anywhere in this country and outside this country, it would be Gettysburg. |
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Re: What is Your Favorite Battlefield (Score: 1)
by tommygee on Tuesday, December 26 @ 15:36:09 EST
(User Info | Send a Message) | | Glorieta Pass .. March 26-28, 1862 .. turning point of the New Mexico campaign |
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Re: What is Your Favorite Battlefield (Score: 1)
by kwk63 on Sunday, April 22 @ 11:58:51 EDT
(User Info | Send a Message) | | Fredricksburg is a nice place, but it is sad to look over the wall and see houses upon houses. |
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Re: What is Your Favorite Battlefield (Score: 1)
by kwk63 on Sunday, April 22 @ 11:59:50 EDT
(User Info | Send a Message) | | Antetam and Gettysburg are my favs. If I had to choose one I have to go with the burg. |
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Re: What is Your Favorite Battlefield (Score: 1)
by 1861-65 on Thursday, November 27 @ 13:23:30 EST
(User Info | Send a Message) | | Protector of the Confederacy's last major port, Wilmington, NC. It the earth made Fort Fisher. Without Fort Fisher protecting Wimington, Robert E. Lee's supply lines would be shut down, and the Confederacy would be shut off from the rest of the world. Eventually it was, on Jan. 15. The battle which lasted from Jan. 13-15 had some of the fiercest close-quarters fighting of the war. |
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Re: What is Your Favorite Battlefield (Score: 1)
by 1861-65 on Thursday, November 27 @ 13:24:06 EST
(User Info | Send a Message) | | Protector of the Confederacy's last major port, Wilmington, NC. It the earth made Fort Fisher. Without Fort Fisher protecting Wimington, Robert E. Lee's supply lines would be shut down, and the Confederacy would be shut off from the rest of the world. Eventually it was, on Jan. 15. The battle which lasted from Jan. 13-15 had some of the fiercest close-quarters fighting of the war. |
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Re: What is Your Favorite Battlefield (Score: 1)
by Paladin on Monday, August 03 @ 07:58:40 EDT
(User Info | Send a Message) | | My favorite is Cold Harbor. The proximity of the two armies is terrifying to contemplate. The grim bloodletting that went on there is a testament to the courage of both sides. I don't believe the field is haunted,but if any field were, Gettysburg and Cold Harbor would be, I think, the most inhabited.--Paladin |
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Re: What is Your Favorite Battlefield (Score: 1)
by Notch on Wednesday, February 24 @ 14:36:08 EST
(User Info | Send a Message) | | I voted "Other"... I think all the small and seemingly insignificant battlefields have more personal stories to be told than the more well known sites. |
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Re: What is Your Favorite Battlefield (Score: 1)
by bushwhacker on Wednesday, April 28 @ 21:19:36 EDT
(User Info | Send a Message) | | Ivy Mountain, KY. It's hard to imagine a few score Rebels holding off a couple thousand Union men in order to allow Jno. S. Williams's little army to escape from KY into VA anywhere except in a topography like that of the Big Sandy Valley of KY. The stories that began there ended in places like Chihcamauga and Cynthiana or with escapades like the Great Locomotive Chase, Today's it's mostly a 4-lane highway with only a roadside obelisk to memorialize the event, but in Nov. '61 the Ivy Mountain fight drew headlines North and South by preventing an untimely end to what soon became the 5th Kentucky Infantry, CSA, and a couple of associated cavalry outfits. |
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