Gettysburg 150th

[Mundy]

ORIGINAL: Skyros

What did you find different, the heat or the foliage. Here is a pic I took in April 2011 and it was cold.

I would say the foliage. I think it was in 2009. It was actually around 70 at the time, so it was a beautiful day.

Ed-

[Canoerebel]

I love Civil War battlefields - at least that's the way I feel about the three I know best - Chickamauga, Sharpsburg and Gettysburg. Beautiful, tranquil, interesting, haunting places.

For those of you close enough to visit Chickamauga, the park has a newly produced introductory film that is fabulous. It's more like watching Gettysburg and Glory! than the typical park documentaries of the past.

I make a standing offer to give a tour for any AE players able to visit Chickamauga. Except during the sesquicentennial observation. I understand this will be the largest reenacement for any battle - even larger than Gettysburg - but that it will take place in a rural location a few miles south of the park (on terrain involved in a major skirmish a few days before the battle). But I won't be at the reenactment. I'll be walking and bicycling through the park, stopping to read the historic markers and pausing to reflect on what happened there 150 years ago. I think that's best done alone.

[janh]

ORIGINAL: Canoerebel

I love Civil War battlefields - at least that's the way I feel about the three I know best - Chickamauga, Sharpsburg and Gettysburg. Beautiful, tranquil, interesting, haunting places.

For those of you close enough to visit Chickamauga, the park has a newly produced introductory film that is fabulous. It's more like watching Gettysburg and Glory! than the typical park documentaries of the past.

I make a standing offer to give a tour for any AE players able to visit Chickamauga. Except during the sesquicentennial observation. I understand this will be the largest reenacement for any battle - even larger than Gettysburg - but that it will take place in a rural location a few miles south of the park (on terrain involved in a major skirmish a few days before the battle). But I won't be at the reenactment. I'll be walking and bicycling through the park, stopping to read the historic markers and pausing to reflect on what happened there 150 years ago. I think that's best done alone.

Damn, if it were not that far... As a child I and I friend used to play "Rebel Charge at Chickamauga" by Landrey and Kroegel on C64 every afternoon and every free day I could scrape together. The loading times, and the "computer plotting" phases sometimes took 3 hours between every turn, but I'd fill that gap by keeping notes and sketching battle plans or reports. Those were the days... Since then I always wanted to see Chickamauga and Chattanooga.

[topeverest]

Canoerebel,

I never really read what I thought was a definitive 'Coddington' style analysis of Chickamauga. What would be your favorite study?

And I agree that Chickamauga was a spectacular struggle. It is hard to stand on Snodgrass and not stand in amazement at the struggle that occurred there. I wish I could say that I know the battle as well as many others I have studied, and I recommend any that haven't to visit.

[John 3rd]

Dan got me hooked on Cozzen's writings. EXCELLENT work!

[Canoerebel]

This Terrible Sound, by Peter Cozzens, is the finest treatment of Chickamauga. Huge book told from the perspective of the soldiers (through letters, diaries, reminiscences, etc.). I pay it the highest possible compiment when I say it's the second best piece of historical writing I've ever read (We Were Soldiers Once being the finest).

[topeverest]

Thanks gents...I'm headed out now to find this puppy. Got a long flight to Fairbanks,, need a prose fix, and I don't do electronic readers.

[Symon]

ORIGINAL: Canoerebel
This Terrible Sound, by Peter Cozzens, is the finest treatment of Chickamauga. Huge book told from the perspective of the soldiers (through letters, diaries, reminiscences, etc.). I pay it the highest possible compiment when I say it's the second best piece of historical writing I've ever read (We Were Soldiers Once being the finest).

Yep. +1. Think Colonel Moore would agree. The writing of battles is the writing of the men who participated in them.

Ciao. JWE