Reply #19 on: May 13, 2020, 01:37:51 PM
In regards to visiting the ACW battlefields. John Keegan had a book, Battlefields of North America (?)
He tramped through many and gave good description s. His account of the Seven Days Battles was surprising. All the sites we're so close to each other and had very little in the way of markers. Virtually untouched, at that time. By now they're probably all paved over.
"These things must be done delicately-- or you hurt the spell." - The Wicked Witch of the West.
"We've got the torpedo damage temporarily shored up, the fires out and soon will have the ship back on an even keel. But I would suggest, sir, that if you have to take any more torpedoes, you take 'em on the starboard side." Pops Healy, DCA USS Lexington.