Driven by the Past

A Road Trip through our National Parks

Showing posts with label Civil War. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Civil War. Show all posts
Monday, November 14, 2016

Shiloh National Military Park, Shiloh, Tennessee and Corinth, Mississippi

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After the Confederate victory at Manassas and its invasion and retreat from New Mexico, both sides hunkered down, went into winter headquar...
Monday, November 7, 2016

Manassas National Battlefield Park, Manassas, Virginia and the Glorieta Battlefield unit of the Pecos National Historical Park, Pecos, New Mexico

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The rupture had happened, the first cannons fired. Now how to put soldiers in the field ready to fight? And not just fight, but win? In thi...
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Monday, October 17, 2016

Fort Sumter National Monument, Charleston, South Carolina

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From afar, Ft. Sumter looks like the stump of a tree cut off at its base. It was. From 1861 to 1865, tens of thousands artillery shells fe...
Monday, October 3, 2016

Harpers Ferry NHP, Harpers Ferry, West Virginia and Maryland

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The tragedy of a country founded on freedom engaging in a war to keep some of its citizens enslaved and the tragedy of Americans fighting A...
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Jon Hunner
I have traveled over 60,000 miles since 2012 visiting places preserved by the National Park Service where history actually happened. "Driven by History: A Road Trip through our National Parks" explores the past of the U.S. from the Bering Land Bridge to the Moon Landing.
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