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i love visiting cw sites.i love walking the ground it gives me a better understanding about what happened there.antietam.chickamauga,shiloh to name a fewnatl parks you can go back in time.droop mountain,rich mountain.perryville state parks you can go back in time.the other side of the coin-chantilly,fredericksburg sunken road,cold harbor,franklin,large parts gone to development,in my book thats the way it goes.i want to save as much as possible.i dont cry over what other people do with their property.dont say save it because it hallowed ground,i can show peoplea hundred places across this country where someone gave up his life-bethesda church va for instance,no neat park exist there.save what we can.stop walmart if you need too,as for fredericksburg and the killing fields in front of that stonewall,that town moved on from the cw,she suffered more than most.they saved alot but the town didnt die but moved ahead.houses,a community,life grew where carnage rained down.bravo life lives on there.this is one mans opinion. kevin a kearns
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It is true that life moves on and that it can’t be stopped in memory of the CW but, it should be clear what is to be restored and kept as monuments to a war that made this country into what it is. The further from the CW we go down the time line the more we will need to have monuments, museums preserved battle grounds in order to be able to pass the story on to the next generation. Not very inch needs to be preserved, but some do.
yes i want as much saved as possible.the hallowed ground moniker just makes it seem phony to me
does anybody read thease blogs other then you or copper?
Sure! we have traffic :-), not a lot of people comment, though.
Sure, the whole area has moved fullbore into the twentieth century: Richmond, York and James River areas, Spotsyvania, Fredricksburg, to name a few, make a long, narrow stretch of history that sadly development is covering over at breakneck speed.
I think there was a discrimination against the South for a long time; it wasn’t helped by the Civil Rights era, and the lingering belief that Southerners were racist and wouldn’t, couldn’t change. Again, sadly, the New South is showing itself modern, progressive, fairly liberal, with a hughe influx of Northerners, and the combination seems disinclined to protect Southern battlefields and landmarks, as if to do so supports slavery, southern oldtime beliefs, and racism. I don’t know what to do. Starbucks, Walmart, 7/11, Marriot, ad nauseum cover much hallowed ground.
Also, African-Americans are loathe to support anything contributing to a positve history of the Confederacy. This is a shame, and yet my ancestors weren’t enslaved by the millions, so I don’t know how to change that.
a fite is on near the wildernss over walmart-they already have three not far away-join the civil war presservation society or just go to thier website to check this out,im not much on believing the term hallowed ground but i dont want more sprawl there.
Regarding Kakman’s comment about how few read the blog, do you feel the wave of civil war nostalgia and study has passed, that its heyday was the 80s and 90s? Quite possible, but we like it, and it’s always possible to draw more and more to the site. I would love the interchange of knowledge, ideas, and debate. I am also grateful to whoever (whomever?) started this site. Is it you, Sue?
First I agree with Pete, the more we write and talk here, the more interesting the place is becoming, and the more people will join us. Second there are many “silent” readers that read blogs - most readers never comment (me for example… ;-) )
As an Australian,i think its a real shame these hallowed ground sites are disappering for commercial interests.This is sacred gound surely,where a great many young Americans paid the ultimate price,both Nth and Sth.An american friend of mine,told me recently he visited one of the major battlefields,and just over the road,was a damn McDonalds and KFC,totally out of place and insensitive.These sites should have been protected by Federal Law,or by the National Trust,or Heritage listed.