I drove to Little Round Top back when we only had about three inches of snow to take a photo of the landscape – but the Park Service had closed the roads so I had to settle for these.
Now, of course, the battlefield is covered with three feet of snow, so it will be awhile until I get back out there.
If nothing else, it’s great weather to get some writing done. I think I will remember the Winter of 2010 for a long time to come!
It’s so beautiful!!! When I think of the Civil War and it’s history, I get tears in my eyes. I live in Alaska but was born in Delaware. My family started this country… through Richard Warren on the Mayflower to Grinnells who settled in R.I. and so I have a lot of family invested in this great country. I cry for all the families that lost so many, for all the women left at home to cope with the loss. The slow rebuilding of the South. I have always loved reading everything I could get my hands on about the Civil War, no matter what side it was written by. It becomes more real when you put the men and their families together than to think of cold blooded killers or those who loved their country so much they couldn’t not fight for it. The way it is now, each of us who loves this country shouldn’t worry about why the government does what it does, but to serve proudly and to be honored for that service. I’ve been to Harper’s Ferry, Gettysburg and Antietam back in 1993 just before the movie Gettysburg came out. I sat in that movie and cried, even my 16 year old son sat there and cried. How could we lose so many men? And at Antietam, you can’t even imagine that sunken road so full you had to walk on them. So I guess that is why I keep reading all that I can, because it’s still so hard to “see” it happen. Just briefly I thought about how it would have been fought today, all those cell phones and “honey I’m kind of busy right now”, hey Joe, I gotta run, see ya later.” I’ve passed my love of history and reading onto my granddaughter Kylie who is sick of seeing me copy the Battlefield Detectives for her “history lesson”. I want to show her all of the historical places in the “Lower 48”, from the East Coast to the West. People born up here just can’t connect with the history that took place out there, it’s a world away, I want to shake them and tell them it’s because of them they are here!!! Keep writing about more of that history!!! Cynthia Grinnell Thornlow