{"id":23733,"date":"2011-06-03T17:05:57","date_gmt":"2011-06-03T21:05:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=23733"},"modified":"2011-06-03T17:10:57","modified_gmt":"2011-06-03T21:10:57","slug":"road-trip-two-civil-war-battle-sites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=23733","title":{"rendered":"Road Trip &#8211; Two Civil War Battle Sites"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just rolled back in from a road trip. Think of this as a snapshot rather than a dissertation.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nps.gov\/gett\/index.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Gettysburg<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nps.gov\/anti\/index.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Antietam.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you don&#8217;t know about either there are many resources available on-line.<\/p>\n<p>I won&#8217;t bore you with MY pictures, again there are plenty available. Some are moving and horrible, but capture moments simply impossible before the camera was invented.<\/p>\n<p>What I CAN do is offer an impression or two based a first visit after a fair amount of reading and studying.<\/p>\n<p>Gettysburg: Standing on Little Round Top looking down into The Devil&#8217;s Den&#8230; Surprising! Pictures and maps do NOT make clear the proximity.<\/p>\n<p>Antietam: Looking down at Burnside&#8217;s Bridge from the position of the Confederates&#8230; Shocking.<\/p>\n<p>Overall that was the surprise for me at both. My minds eye was expecting some epic scale at both places to justify the number of casualties, but no!<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll be reflecting on this trip for years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just rolled back in from a road trip. Think of this as a snapshot rather than &hellip; <a title=\"Road Trip &#8211; Two Civil War Battle Sites\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=23733\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Road Trip &#8211; Two Civil War Battle Sites<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":467,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,26,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-historical","category-blather","category-real-soldiers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23733","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/467"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23733"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23733\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}