How Many Battlefields Have You Slept On?

[Possum Skinner]

Re: How Many Battlefields Have You Slept On?

Lemme see...

Selma, AL
Gainesville, AL
Fort Gaines, AL
Ten Islands, AL
Bridgeport, AL

Chickamauga, GA
Kennesaw, GA
Resaca, GA
Tunnell Hill, GA

Franklin, TN
Shiloh, TN
Ft. Donelson, TN

Vicksburg, MS
Corinth, MS

Athens, MO

[P.Brown]

Re: How Many Battlefields Have You Slept On?

hmmm....

the list is far tooooooooo short:

Cedar Creek
Wyse Forks
Bentonville

speaking of the culinary side of all of this I have had rasberries from Little Round Top.

And Mr. Heath I saw advertisements from Ft. Gaines last week in Alabama so I'm assuming it is still open.

-Philip Brown

[bAcK88]

Re: How Many Battlefields Have You Slept On?

Sleeping? I've slept on a number of battlefields, but the better question is, how many battlefields have you puked on?

Me:

RICH MOUNTAIN

[Johnny Lloyd]

Re: How Many Battlefields Have You Slept On?

Hmmm... pretty small for me

River's Bridge
Ft. Sumter (flew the Stars n' Bars over it in place of the Federal flag usually there)
Ft. Lamar (Secessionville)
Bentonville
Columbia
1st Manassas
Antietam

-Johnny

[Johnny Lloyd]

Re: How Many Battlefields Have You Slept On?

Dale Beasley has corrected me in this category...

More battlefields I've slept on:

Taqaddam (nice PX)
Husaybah (I puked on this one from salmonella for about a week last September- don't eat the Iraqi food if you can help it. IED! Suicide vest!)
Ramadi (Oh, Hazy Ramadi! It will be too soon if I see you again. Mortars!)
Taji (RPG attacks are fun- not!)
Tal Afar (Turks and deep mud...)
Al Asad (nice PX)
Camp Hit (Mortars again!)
Fallujah (nice PX)

and just about everwhere in Al Anbar except KV... the rest is OPSEC

Didn't sleep too well on -these- battlefields, though. ;)

Shoutout to my fellow brothers- lol

[Dale Beasley]

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Johnny, don't forget about pissing on the APOD on the way out!!!!

[crabby]

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Been at it for a while, here are the ones I remember:

Battlefields and areas of historic importance to the war:

Bentonville, NC
Springhill, TN
Resaca, GA
Mill Spring, KY
Munfordville, KY
Richmond, KY
Richmond, VA
Shiloh, TN
Charleston, SC
Vicksburg, MS
Pleasant Hill, LA
Mansfield, LA
Cedar Creek, VA
Pickett's Mill, GA
Rich Mt., WVa
Carnifax Ferry, WVa
Port Gibson, MS
Franklin, TN
Ft. Granger, TN
Fredricksburg, VA
Ft. Donelson, TN
The Wilderness, VA
Antietam, MD
Camp Nelson, KY
Camp Dennison, OH
Corinth, MS
Ft. Duffield, KY
Guyandotte, WVa

I have probably forgotten a few.

Crabby

[jacobite8749]

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You forgot Perryville Mr Crabb

[crabby]

Re: How Many Battlefields Have You Slept On?

Freddie,

You are so correct - how I forgot that one! I have been there at least three times a year for the past millinium - the farming programs, governors scholars and the annual events.:)

If we were to add non Civil War sites slept on or visited:

Omaha Beach
Hastings (not Michigan)
Waterloo
Monte Casino
Bastone
The Eagles Nest
The Pali (Hawaii, Kameameah's Victory)
Pearl Harbor
Schofield Barracks
Williamsburg
Beacon Hill
Yorktown
Ft. Meigs

Crabby

[DOC1861]

Re: How Many Battlefields Have You Slept On?

I can now add Franklin to my list.

[Frank J. Aube]

Re: How Many Battlefields Have You Slept On?

Sharpsburg
Gettysburg
Shiloh
Cold Harbor
Sailors Creek
Bentonville
Appomattox
New Market
Cedar Creek
Murfreesboro
Brices Crossroads



Frank J. Aube

[dusty27]

Re: How Many Battlefields Have You Slept On?

You could all include Kernstown if you went

http://www.stonewallbrigade.com/kernstown07.html

Two for one, if you catch my meaning

[CAC]

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Lay my head down every night on the Cross Keys battlefield....................

[RJSamp]

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In addition to many of the ones cited....here's a few that weren't:
July 1975 Gettysburg next to the High Water Mark monument and not part of any 'official' Park activity (in other words if they caught me I'd have been in deep wampu doodoo trouble).

Used to live in KCMO on the Brush Creek battlefield site.....ran nightly in Loos Park....lived over by Mockbee Farm (72nd and Holmes) drank beer over by Hinkles Grove (Charlie Hooper's)....played Soccer over by Byram's Ford (buddy of mine worked for Pepsi). Stayed in many MO and ARK battle sites...many.

Sabine Pass (Rebel Yell car hop had decent burgers and a chocolate Malt). and Galveston.

Nashville (you can easily buy a home on the battlefield)

Franklin (that one was too easy)

Corinth (there's a hotel on an outlying portion of the battlefield, not near Battery Robinett however)

Cousin's lived in Atlanta off of Peachtree Battle....stayed there and ran the battle lines in the mornings. Customer I worked for was on the Kennesaw battle field.

Am over 50 battle sites slept on and counting....(those events that are ON the battlefield made it easy!).

[TheRegularsDrummerCo.H]

Re: How Many Battlefields Have You Slept On?

Not to many for me

Gettysburg, PA
Perryville, KY
Antietam, MD
Cedar Creek, VA
I did the Civil War days and I slept at Ft. McHenry

Adam Ward
4th U.S Infantry Co. H