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Originally Posted by trackrat59
I love Civil War history. I tend to focus on the Confederate and Union Cavalry. I'm lucky to be in and around a lot of good Civil War historical sites of significance. I’m only about an hour from Gettysburg in MD.
The best was, once I did a guided ride on horseback around the battlefields of Gettysburg. We rode Pickett’s Charge and all that good stuff. It was a four hour ride.
I had fun but my horse could not get outta there fast enough due to the cannons going off, and the double-decker buses giving tours. The best was when we rode by the super-duper large tarp flapping in the wind over one of the larger monuments that was being refurbished at the time. That about did us both in.  |
Civil war sites on horseback -- it doesn't get much better than that.
I worked a job for a while that was adjacent to an old railroad right of way, the tracks of which were torn up years ago. I checked around and found that it was the Charleston & Savannah RR, a vital link between the cities and the object of a number of skirmishes and battles until the Union took Savannah and soon after that the railroad. Although the ROW goes through a lot of private property, it's amazing just how much of it is still visible. Many of the bridges remain. I've walked several miles of it, much of it barely above the swamps it crosses. I can't imagine being a foot soldier in the area, especially in the summertime.
At one point, a two-lane highway bridge goes over the old railbed. The bridge was built
after the tracks had been torn up, yet the state still built it to a height such that railcars could pass under it with ample clearance. Perhaps they were thinking that the South might rise again.