How Many Battlefields Have You Slept On?

[Malingerer]

One of the great joys of doing living history and reenactments is the opportunity to bivouac where the Boys of '61 slept. So I put to you gentlemen: upon which battlefields have you slept? For me the list is pathetically small:
1. Fort Donelson
2. Stones River
3. Chickamauga
4. Perryville
5. Saylors Creek
6. Petersburg -Hatchers Run
7. Payne's Farm
8. Fort MacAlister
9. Gettysburg
10 Fort Fisher, NC

[FlatLandFed]

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Hmm, let's see what I recall ... I've visited lots of sites and participated in living histories in the approach areas involved with fighting, but these are the only battlefields on which I've slept:

Lexington, Mo.
Fortescue, Mo.
Wilson's Creek, Mo.
Perryville, Ky.
Raymond, Miss.
Manassas, Va.
Gettysburg, Pa.
Port Hudson, La.
Spring Hill, Tenn.
Lookout Mountain and environs.

Brings back some interesting recollections ...
Paul Hadley
Long Way from the Action Faction

Lads -- let's help put the "memory" back in Memorial Day this year.

[tomarch]

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I've not slept on any, but from a cullinary point of view I've eaten or drank:
Corn from Millers Cornfield (Antiedam)
Peaches from the two Peach Orchards (Gettysburg and Shiloh)
Filled my canteen from Spangler's Spring (Gettysburg)

[cprljohnivey]

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Mmmm...

Harpers Ferry
New Market
Gettysburg
Sharpsburg
Monocacy
South Mountain
Saylors Creek
Fort Delaware (Not battlefield but was POW Camp)
Cedar Creek
Fishers Hill
Manassas (Portions of 1st and 2nd Battle)
Malvern Hill
Fort Frederick (Very small skirmish there... ok now I'm reaching)
Chanslorsville/Wilderness
Williamsburg (non-civil war)
Fort Ligonair (non-civil war)
McDowell

[27thNCdrummer]

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Lets see.............
1. Gettysburg
2. New Market
3. Ft.Anderson
4. Ft. Macon
5. Cedar Creek
6. Petersburg
7. Goldsboro Bridge
8. Bentonville
9. Wyse Fork
10. White Hall Bridge

I'm sure this list will grow.

[Jim Mayo]

Re: How Many Battlefields Have You Slept On?

Inside Dunker Church at Antietam
On a church lawn in Sharpsburg
Ft. Steadman in Petersburg
Ft. Harrison near Richmond
Cold Harbor
Spottysvania
Gettysburg
Sailors Creek
Bentonville
Ft. Wool at the mouth of the Chesapeake Bay
Appomattox
New Market
Cedar Creek
Five Forks
6th Corps Break at Pamplin Park

[Steve Acker]

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Great prompt that has me remembering each experience.

Sites I've camped on the following sites:
Antietam
Gettysburg
Gaine's Mill
Fort Donelson
Shiloh
Stone's River
Carter House
Fort Pulaski
Lookout Mountain
Perryville
2nd Manassas
Pickett's Mill
Fort Granger


I need to get busy this summer.

Steve Acker

[10TnVI]

Re: How Many Battlefields Have You Slept On?

Let's see-
Shiloh
FT. Pillow
Brice's Crossroads
Parker's Crossroads
Perryville
Raymond
Springhill
Ft. Granger/Franklin
Ft. Gaines
Ft. Pickens

[Huck]

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Ok after 19 years, here is the list I have able to come up with:

National Battlefield parks

Gettysburg
Shiloh
Antietam also inside Dunker Church
Richmond (Gains Mill)
Cold Harbor
Perryville
Stone's River
Lookout Mountain
Chickamauga
Appomattox Courthouse
New Market
Fisher Hill

State Parks
Sailor's Creek
Pickett’s Mills
South Mountain
Carthage
Bentonville
Athens Mo

[Michael Comer]

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Brought back a lot of memories thinking about this one. In no particular order:

Prairie Grove AR
Wilson's Creek, MO
Athens, MO
Shiloh, TN
Carter House - Franklin, TN
Spring Hill - Franklin, TN
Pickett's Mill, GA
Ft. Pulaski, GA
McDowell, VA
Resaca, GA
Rich Mt., W. VA
Pilot Knob, MO
Perryville, KY
Vicksburg, MS
Ft. Donelson, TN
Chalk Bluff, AR
Columbus, KY
Camp Jackson, MO - not really a battlefield but important in MO CW history
Mansfield, LA

[CYoungJSU]

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I'm game on this one...

1. Chickamauga, Ga
2. Lookout Mountain (Point Park), Tn
3. Stones River, Tn
4. Kennesaw Mountain, Ga
5. Pickett's Mill, Ga
6. Bentonville, NC
7. Spring Hill, Tn
8. Resaca, Ga
9. Mill Springs, Ky

[Kevin O'Beirne]

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These lists sort of remind me of the old t-shirt you'd buy at a rock concernt where the band listed on the back of the shirt all the stops on their current tour. Anyway, here's where my roadies took me; list may be incomplete.

1. Cedar Creek, VA
2. New Market, VA
3. Monmouth, NJ (RebWar battlefield hosting a CW event; never did quite figure out that one...)
4. Pamplin Park, Petersburg VA
5. Brandy Station, VA
6. Bentonville, NC
7. Gettysburg (couple different areas)
8. McDowell, VA (well, bivouacked in the town near the battlefield itself...)
9. Cold Harbor, VA
10. Campton's Gap (South Mountain), MD
11. Fort Pulaski, GA
12. Harrison's Landing, VA
13. Perryville, KY
14. Antietam, MD
15. Pickett's Mill, GA
16. Chancellorsville, VA (NPS property)
17. Fredericksburg, VA (NPS property)
18. Rich Mountain, WVa
19. Second Bull Run, VA (NPS property, different sites)
20. Fort Niagara (Youngstown, NY - a battlefield in the F&I War and War of 1812, but still hosting a CW event...)
21. Newtown (near Elmira, NY - another RevWar battlefield hosting a CW event...)
22. Payne's Farm/Mine Run, Locust Grove, VA

I could swear I'm forgetting some...

[boreguard]

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My North American Tour consist of:

1. Raymond, Ms
   Vicksburg, Ms
   Shiloh, Tn
   Fort Jackson, La.
   Port Hudson, La.
   Camp Moore, La.
   Blakely, AL.
   Slema, Al.
   Springhill, Tn
   Peryville, Tn.
   Sharpsburg, MD
   Wilsons Creek, MO
   
   Many other historic places that weren't battlefields.
   

[Tyler Gibson]

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Vicksburg
Gettysburg
Shiloh
Raymond

[coastaltrash]

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Port Hudson, Louisiana
Fort Jackson, Louisiana
Mansfield, Louisiana
Camp Moore, Louisiana
Carter House- Franklin, Tennessee
Fort Granger-Franklin, Tennessee
Fort Donelson, Tennessee
Perryville, Kentucky
Spring Hill, Tennessee
Grenada, Mississippi
Vicksburg, Mississippi
Raymond, Mississippi
Blakely, Alabama
Tunnel Hill, Georgia
Chickamauga, Georgia
Olustee, Florida
Rich Mountain, West Virginia
Fort Gaines, Alabama
Shiloh, Tennessee
Selma, Alabama
Pickett's Mill, Georgia

Hell I'm sure I missed something. This weekend I can add RESACA! to that list.