Touring Southern Civil War Battlefields
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This book was updated in August 2014. New maps and more photos were added.
During the years 1861 to 1865 America was engaged in a great civil war. Union and Confederate armies were locked in a desperate struggle that raged across nine states from Gettysburg in the north to Savannah in the south. The heart of the South, from Arkansas to the coast of Georgia was laid bare.
More than 600,000 Americans gave their lives for one cause or the other; more Americans died during the American Civil War than in all wars thereafter combined, up to and including the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Today, little remains to remind us of those terrible times, just a few National Military Parks whose quiet beauty belies the horrors that once took place upon them. Most of the folks who live in the Southern United States take these beautiful parks for granted; most of them have never visited even one. This booklet is a guide to the Civil War Battlefields of the South and it comes complete with photographs.
Visitors to the South will find that there's at least one of these great parks in just about every state, and they should not overlook these important historical sites for, in addition to their appeal as well maintained public parks, they also serve to remind us of the hardships our young nation endured in asserting the democratic principles of government that we so cherish today.
During the years 1861 to 1865 America was engaged in a great civil war. Union and Confederate armies were locked in a desperate struggle that raged across nine states from Gettysburg in the north to Savannah in the south. The heart of the South, from Arkansas to the coast of Georgia was laid bare.
More than 600,000 Americans gave their lives for one cause or the other; more Americans died during the American Civil War than in all wars thereafter combined, up to and including the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Today, little remains to remind us of those terrible times, just a few National Military Parks whose quiet beauty belies the horrors that once took place upon them. Most of the folks who live in the Southern United States take these beautiful parks for granted; most of them have never visited even one. This booklet is a guide to the Civil War Battlefields of the South and it comes complete with photographs.
Visitors to the South will find that there's at least one of these great parks in just about every state, and they should not overlook these important historical sites for, in addition to their appeal as well maintained public parks, they also serve to remind us of the hardships our young nation endured in asserting the democratic principles of government that we so cherish today.
Release date: March 15, 2013
Print pages: 70
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