Appomattox

[DanielC]

(08-09-2015 04:53 PM)BettyO Wrote:  Alright boys -

I may be threatened with being shot, but as a southern gal, I must admit that when I was young, i dated General Grant's great-great-great grandson.....

Appomattox is a wonderful place if no one has yet had the pleasure to visit it!

That is funny Betty! Visiting Appomattox is certainly on my bucket list. From the pictures I've seen, it looks beautiful. I just vacationed down in N.C. and It was so hard to drive by signs of all the battlefields, and historic sites I've read about, and not be able to stop. I was in D.C. just for one night and really really wanted to make a side trip visit the Surratt House. I plan on attending one of the conferences one of these years! On the way home, I passed a sign for the Jackson Shrine which is on my list as well. Has anybody been there? I'm going to put your feet to the fire and ask you of all the Civil War battlefields you have visited, which are your favorite? Two of my favorites are Antietam, and Fredericksburg. I have to qualify that with the fact that I have only been to three. Although I love Gettysburg as well, it was a bummer to see a KFC, Burger King and some other fast food place on the battlefield. Still there is nothing like standing at the Virginia monument and looking across to the copse of trees and imagine what those brave soldiers faced, and what was going through their mind. If that does not give you goose bumps nothing will. In Fredericksburg I did not get down to see the Union vantage point on it's attack on Marye's Heights. It was a long time ago that I visited that battlefield and I'm not sure if you could get a good visual. From what I recall standing at the stone wall is that there were houses so you would not get the full view.