One of my favorite characters from the Civil War is Josh Chamberlain. As a Union Colonel, he was awarded the Medal of Honor for ordering the downhill bayonet charge off of Little Round Top.
Maybe you read the book Killer Angels, which recounts the events leading up to Gettysburg and the battle itself. I read it at the suggestion of a friend who is a Civil War historian, and then we walked the battlefield and she pointed out the areas described in the book. On her wall is a framed letter or note (I forget which) signed by Chamberlain. It was a gift from her dad.
As mentioned, Antietam is also a good place to visit. I believe it was the single bloodiest battle of the war--in one day. I remember driving through on a special anniversary where they'd lit small lights to commemorate all those who'd fallen. At nightfall, some of these set the grass ablaze and the effect was that of a battlefield after the fighting was over. Re-enactors huddled around campfires--it was a sobering and moving effect.
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Today's Featured Article - Harvestin Hay: The Early Years (Part 2) - by Pat Browning. The summer of 1950 was the start of a new era in farming for our family. I was thirteen, and Kathy (my oldest sister) was seven. At this age, I believed tractor farming was the only way, hot stuff -- and given a chance I probably would have used the tractor, Dad's first, a 1936 Model "A" John Deere, to go bring in the cows! And I think Dad was ready for some automation too. And so it was that we acquired a good, used J. I. Case, wire tie hay baler. In addition to a person to drive th
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