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Post by charlesheath on Sept 3, 2007 8:53:40 GMT -6
I was thinking about some of you folks yesterday and Saturday while looking across the camp at the Tuning Fork Monument at Spangler's Spring. It was a nice LH in one of the few cool and shady spots at G'burg. Loads of interesting scenery jogging by, too.  |
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Post by boozie on Sept 4, 2007 7:18:26 GMT -6
Wish I could have been there. That is a nice spot, the 27th Indiana was at Spangler's Spring, Bill "Bugs" Young's GG Grandpap was there in the 27th. Nothing is better than western men in the east. My kin Josh Swihart was in the 20th Indiana fighting on the Rose farm, that Dan Sickles sure knew how to handle his men.  |
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Post by charlesheath on Sept 4, 2007 12:44:07 GMT -6
I never really understood Sickles motivation for moving forward until I saw where he was between Hazel Grove and Fairfield at Chancellorsville. The rebs had the advantage of a slight elevation, and put it to good use there. I suppose Sickles remembered being on the receiving end of artillery and didn't want to be in that same position. One never really knows, but it's one idea.
One could do a "Western" tour of Gettysburg or Antietam, for that matter, and have some fun with it.
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Post by boozie on Sept 6, 2007 8:59:51 GMT -6
One could do a "Western" tour of Gettysburg or Antietam, for that matter, and have some fun with it. We tried doing both two years ago, but we really got caught up in Gettysburg because it had been so long since we were last there. So much to see and so little time. |
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