Spotsylvania 140th and more... 
Confederate Commander Bob Tolar confers with General Lee on the Battlefield near the trenches of Spotsylvania. It is said that when the Confederates saw the Union troops were getting too close, they demanded, "Lee to the rear!"
NPS Historian Emeritus Ed Bearss with General Lee.
Mr. Bearss addressed the crowd on several subjects
including the most important one of "battlefield preservation"!
General Lee inspects the trenches of Spotsylvania. This was the
most elaborate and historically accurate breastworks I have ever seen.
The weekend after Spotsylvania I went to the Twin Lakes Campground
in Chocowinity, North Carolina for the Civil War Rememberance
Weekend. On the right is Sandy Fenn, who coordinated the event. On the
left is....you know who.
And on the way back to camp, I stopped in Sharpsburg, Md. In the background
of the picture is the "Dunker Church" at the Antietam National Battlefield.
The name Dunker derives from their method of baptism (full immersion).
However they were more commonly known as the German Baptist Brethren.
I visited the "General Jackson Shrine" at Guinea Station, Va. on May 10, 2004
at 3:15 PM EST. Here I'm kneeling at General Thomas Jacksons' death bed. I
hadn't remembered this was the exact date and time General Jackson uttered the
famous last words, "Let's cross over the river and rest under the shade of the trees".
I thought it was uncanny serendipity that I arrived exactly 141 years after his death.
General Jackson, I'm sure, would have thought it was the result of "divine providence".
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