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arthuriusrex

A Civil War Weekend

Sep 25, 2005 21:39

This weekend I decided to bring out the civil war buff in me. It started on Saturday afternoon when I spontaneously threw my bike into my car and drove down to Chancellorsville near Fredericksburg. (This is where Stonewall Jackson was killed). Well I started getting into it, so I drove down to Spotsylvania Court House ( Read more... )

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arthuriusrex September 27 2005, 02:43:37 UTC

Weren't you the one that posted the Civil War photo site - which is a pretty good site by the way.

If you are interested, I will probably start spamming the civil war community board: http://www.livejournal.com/community/uscivilwar/

anonymous September 27 2005, 13:33:02 UTC

yeah, I did. but I came across it randomly, looking for old pictures of DC. I'm glad you like it.

I'm always interested in history in general-- the civil war, however, is just one of those topics, like fan fic or anime, that just has an extreme pull for some people that I've never quite understood. I appreciate it, but I can't immerse myself in it.

It was interesting seeing how the Ft. Sumter visitor center had a distinctly southern slant to it, in how the story was told. They had a lot of quotes from Lincoln, with the point of showing how hypocritical he was.