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Found 2 Hoosiers who gave the ultimate sacrifice

Didn’t get to spend 10 minutes there yesterday as we had a dinner scheduled with Shooter and friends. Will be back at the Battlefield later today.
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Here’s a picture of General Brazens monument
(Where the 2 Hoosiers are buried)
My wife and I
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Beautiful day to be able to view the battlefield
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Very cool. Thanks for sharing, I have always wanted to visit there
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jsh909 wrote: October 3rd, 2020, 8:37 am Very cool. Thanks for sharing, I have always wanted to visit there
It’s worth it. I want to see Antietam next
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My in-laws lived near the Stones River at what was a contested crossing which changed hands numerous times during the battle. During the years in their house while working in flower beds etc., they found Indian artifacts, lead projectiles of numerous calibers, and a mint Union belt buckle which still had leather under the frog. My father-in-law a WWII, Pacific Marine vet, who was an amateur Stones River Battle historian and I discussed the numerous finds and the unknown fate of the belt buckle owner on many occasions. The preserved battlefield is a mere fraction of the area covered by the battle. Brice, the next time you come down, you need to go south to the Chickamauga battlefield and the museum
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decoykrvr wrote: October 3rd, 2020, 11:12 am My in-laws lived near the Stones River at what was a contested crossing which changed hands numerous times during the battle. During the years in their house while working in flower beds etc., they found Indian artifacts, lead projectiles of numerous calibers, and a mint Union belt buckle which still had leather under the frog. My father-in-law a WWII, Pacific Marine vet, who was an amateur Stones River Battle historian and I discussed the numerous finds and the unknown fate of the belt buckle owner on many occasions. The preserved battlefield is a mere fraction of the area covered by the battle. Brice, the next time you come down, you need to go south to the Chickamauga battlefield and the museum
That’s some good stuff. I love Indian artifacts and would flip out if I found civil war artifacts.

Chickamauga is one I want to visit also.

Have been to Stone Mountain, Gettysburg, Franklin, battle at Salyersville. Travelers Rest TN
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There are two places of national significance to our history that have had emotional impact on me when I visited both. The Viet Nam Wall and Andersonville. I've been twice to Andersonville. Between the two visits the National POW museum was built. The tragedy of over 13,000 men dying of disease, scurvy, diarrhea and dysentery in 11 months at Andersonville was inexcusable. 45,000 men where packed into an area of 16.5 acres without clean water or sanitation. Southern apologists say that there was not enough food for all and give the lame "whatabout" northern prison conditions for the rebels. The only bright spot in Andersonville's history was the story of Father Peter Whalen, the Angel of Andersonville. Father Whalen was a Catholic priest from Savannah who traveled to Andersonville after hearing the rumors about conditions. He borrowed $2,000 and bought 10,000 pounds of flour in a nearby town which he baked into bread for the prisoners. Several prisoner diaries at the POW museum tell of his kindness and charity. Father Whalen had been a POW when captured at Fort Pulaski. He was chaplain of the Irish Montgomery Guards stationed at Fort Pulaski. He went to Fort Delaware with an ancestor who was also captured there. Both were exchanged before the exchange was stopped. After the war, Father Whalen petitioned Stanton, the head of the Department of War to be reimbursed. He refused. Surviving prisoners considered Father Whalen to be a hero and his death was mourned by survivors. The monuments at Andersonville's cemetery erected by the northern home states of prisoners are remarkable. The one thing the South did right was accurate graves registration of the dead prisoners.
We've been to Chickamauga. Its size, over 12 square miles, and scope are remarkable. The battlefield and positions of the north and south units where marked out by surveyors and participants in the battle shortly after the war. It was done either before or shortly after the same was done at Gettysburg and is close to where the Battle of Lookout Mountain took place. Gil
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I was talking to a friend after my first visit to Gettysburg and he asked me, "Did you feel it?", and I knew exactly what he meant. I've had the same "feel" at Andersonville, other Civil War battlegrounds and major battlefields in Europe. It's a unique "feeling" hard to describe, but must be the lingering result of all the human suffering, death, and pain which transpired at the location and lingers yet. Once while backpacking in Europe, as darkness fell, I eased off of the road on my way tp Paris and camped for the night in some woods and experienced one of the strangest most discomforting nights I've ever had. As day broke, I began to survey the ruins of fortifications, trenches, and disturbed earth which surrounded me, and when I inquired, found that I had spent the night in a major position of WW I's, Battle of Verdun. I can't explain it, but have experienced sensations, emotions, and feelings totally out of the norm numerous times, sometimes at known historic locations, but several times, at places whose significance was unknown until after the "feel" was experienced.
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Good story about Verdun. A few years ago I read an article about a region of France that revered the US for its role played in war on French soil in WW1. I believe it was where the USMC fought at Belleau Wood. The region's landscape still bore the scars of WWI. I can't locate the article, but found this one which details all the US WWI monuments in France.
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decoykrvr wrote: October 5th, 2020, 6:43 pm I was talking to a friend after my first visit to Gettysburg and he asked me, "Did you feel it?", and I knew exactly what he meant. I've had the same "feel" at Andersonville, other Civil War battlegrounds and major battlefields in Europe. It's a unique "feeling" hard to describe, but must be the lingering result of all the human suffering, death, and pain which transpired at the location and lingers yet. Once while backpacking in Europe, as darkness fell, I eased off of the road on my way tp Paris and camped for the night in some woods and experienced one of the strangest most discomforting nights I've ever had. As day broke, I began to survey the ruins of fortifications, trenches, and disturbed earth which surrounded me, and when I inquired, found that I had spent the night in a major position of WW I's, Battle of Verdun. I can't explain it, but have experienced sensations, emotions, and feelings totally out of the norm numerous times, sometimes at known historic locations, but several times, at places whose significance was unknown until after the "feel" was experienced.
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Felt it at the 9/11 crash site in PA. It was unmistakable. Like the air and light changed.
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paboxcall wrote: October 6th, 2020, 11:48 am Felt it at the 9/11 crash site in PA. It was unmistakable. Like the air and light changed.
Shanksville. I definitely want to go there and to ground zero
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