How many Civil War Battlefields have you visited?

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Re: How many Civil War Battlefields have you visited?

Gettysburg
Vicksburg
Shiloh
Stone's River
Lookout Mt.
Chickamauga
Camp Morton
Northern Kentucky Fortifications
Perryville
Parker's Crossroads
Harpers Ferry
Sharpsburg
Franklin
Mills Springs
Fort Duffield
Bardstown
Camp Dennison

[guad42]

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Glorieta Pass
Picacho
Wilson's Creek
Harper's Ferry
Antietam
Gettysburg
Fredericksburg
Chancellorsville
The Wilderness
Spottsylvania
Cold Harbor
Seven Pines
Yorktown
Fort Monroe
Lookout Mtn

-Sam Dolan

[106th PVI]

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I have been to:
-GETTYSBURG
-Dranesville
-Antietam
-Hasrrisonburg
-New Market
-Yorktown
-Peninsula Campaign Battlefields
-Cross Keys
-Winchester
-Hanover ( Cavalry Fight June 30th 1863)
-South Mountain (Turner's and Crampton's Gap)
-Shepherdstown
-Manassas
-Harrisburg, Pa entrenchments ( yes, they dug rifle pits and trenches to protect Harrisburg, Pa during the Gettysburg Campaign)
-Cedar Mountain
-Harper's Ferry

[musketbal]

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Man!!! I live on the Eastern Shore of Maryland, easy traveling distance to many battlefields, but I feel ashamed by my small list. What is most inspiring to me is that many of you take children, who then become interested. Great way to keep our history alive.

Brent Conner

[Southernlady1862]

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My father has been carting me around to battlefields since I was born... So I may have forgotten a few! :)

Atlanta GA
Allatoona pass GA
Chickamauga GA
Kennesaw Mt GA
Griswoldville GA
Resaca GA
Lookout Mt TN
Franklin TN
Nashville TN
ShilohTN
CorinthMS
Selma AL
Mobile AL
All over charleston... Ft's Moultrie and Sumter
Gettysburg PA
Hanover PA
Antietam MD
Harper's ferryWV
Fredericksburg VA
Petersburg VA
Manassas VA
Winchester VA
Mill Spring KY
Perryville KY

[Gary of CA]

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Virginia: Ball's Bluff, Yorktown (including Dam No. 5), Seven Pines (Fair Oaks), Mechanicsville (at the Chickahominy), Gaines Mill, Garrett's Farm, Savage Station, Cold Harbor, Glendale, Malvern Hill, Drewry's Bluff, Bermuda Hundred, Five Forks, Sayler's Creek, Appomattox, Fredericksburg, Petersbug (including Weldon RailRoad, Ream's Station, Deep Bottom, Crater), Cedar Creek, New Market, Harper's Ferry, Harrisburg (where Ashby Turner was killed), Lexington (if you consider it's where Hunter burned the place down), Manassas (Bull Run), Spotsylvania Court House, The Wilderness, Chancellorsville, Winchester, Richmond (including Tredegar Iron Works, Belle Isle, Chimborazo, MoC) and Williamsburg (including many of the Confederate fortifications in that area). Fort Monroe (even though it wasn't besieged).

Maryland: Antietam/Sharpsburg, Monocacy (and Frederick).

Pennsylvania: Gettysburg (& Harrisburg)

Georgia: Chickamauga, Lookout Mountain, Kennesaw Mountain, Marietta, New Hope Church, Pickett's Mill, Atlanta (if the Atlanta Historical Center counts),

Tennessee: Nashville (Fort Gaines), Franklin, Murfreesboro, Fort Donelsohn, Shiloh, Knoxville, Chattanooga (if that counts).

Kentucky: Bowling Green (Confederate fortifications still on the campus of WKU), Richmond

South Carolina: Charleston area (Fort Sumter, Fort Moultrie, Secessionville, Charleston)

Non Civil War sites include:

American Revolution: Fort Ninety Six(SC), Cowpens (SC), King's Mountain (SC), Guildford Court House (NC), Bennington (NY state), Saratoga (NY), Fort Montgomer (NY), West Point (where Arnold became a turncoat), New York (Manhattan, Long Island, Governor's Island), Vicennese (Fort Sackville), Oriskany (NY), Fort Stanwick (NY).

French & Indian War: Fort No. 4 (NH), Ticonderoga (NY), Fort William Henry (NY), Ille aux Noix (Canada), Fort Chambly (Canada), Quebec (Plains of Abraham and old city), Montreal (still some fortification left from F&I), Jumonville Glen, Fort Necessity, Bushy Run, Fort Pitt (Pittsburg).

War of 1812: Tippecanoe, Fort Meigs (War of 1812).

[Annette Bethke]

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Way too few

Pleasant Hill
Mansfield
Manassas
Gettysburg
Monocacy
Galveston (does that count? I'm ashamed to say the only one in Texas I've been to :()

[lojafan]

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I've also only been to a few. Hopefully I'll be on the east coast sometime in the near future so I can visit a few out that way!

Arkansas
Pea Ridge
Prairie Grove
Massard Prairie
and various Forts and camps

Missouri
Carthage
Wilson's Creek

Mississippi
Vicksburg

Tennessee
Shiloh

[John Meece]

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Compared to many of you I've only visited a few but am working on it. I will be moving to the east coast soon and hope to really hit the Virginia batttlefields. But I have been to
Gettysburg, Pa.;
Buffington Island, Oh;
Camp Wildcat
Bardstown
Barbourville
Mills Spring
Perryville
Chattannoga
Chickamauga
Mission Ridge
Lookout Mountain
Kenesaw Mountain
Pickets Mills

Will not a battlefield I was able to visit Camp Nelson in KY where my ggf was in the 49th KVI as a drummer and also Halls Gap, KY where he reenlisted as a private in March 1865 as a private.

[mslaird]

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My parent's home and property is right in the middle of where Ben McCulloch's division stopped on March 6th 1862 before the battle of Pea Ridge.

I have visited:

Bentonville, AR
Elm Springs, AR
Carthage, MO
Potts Hill, MO
Pea Ridge
Prairie Grove
Fayetteville, AR
Cane Hill, AR
Little Rock, AR
Nashville
Shiloh
Corinth
New Madrid, MO
Bentonville, NC
South Mountain
Sharpsburg
Fredericksburg
Chacellorsville
The Wilderness
Spotsylvania Courthouse
Big Bethel
Norfolk
Fair Oaks
Gaine's Mill
Glendale
Malvern Hill
Mechanicsville
Cold Harbor
Petersburg
Culpeper Courthouse
All around Richmond
Hampton Roads
The Outer Banks
Yorktown
Williamsburg

[oldsecesh]

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Not enough! I've got a bunch for my "bucket list". I have been able to visit:

Vicksburg
Gettysburg
Charleston
Olustee
Andersonville (ok ... not a battlefield)
Grand Gulf
Manassas

[tomarch]

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Hmmm..
AZ
Pacheco Pass
Apache Pass

NM
Valverde
Ft. Craig

ARK
Pea Ridge
Prarrie Grove
Drripping Springs (sm skirmish just N. of Van Buren Ark.)

TN
Memphis
Shiloh
Nashville
Missiuonary Ridge

MISS
Vicksburg

GA
Chickamaugua
Atlanta
Milledgville
Unmarked skirmish site
Griswoldsville

NC
Ft Macon
Avesboro
Bentonville

VA
Ist Bull Run
2nd Bull Run
Fredricksburg
Chancellorsville
Wilderness
Spotsylvania
Petersburg
New Market
Appomatox C.T.
Five Forks
Harpers' Ferry

MD
South Mt.
Sharpsburg

PA
Gettysburg

[Annette Bethke]

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Way too few

Pleasant Hill
Mansfield
Manassas
Gettysburg
Monocacy
Galveston (does that count? I'm ashamed to say the only one in Texas I've been to :()

Oops, forgot Shiloh.

[Phantom Captain]

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Wow, and I thought I had been to a bunch. Some of you are WAY ahead of me!

PA
Gettysburg

MD
Antietam
South Mountain
Monocacy

VA
Harpers Ferry/Bolivar Heights
Manassass/1st and 2nd Bull Run
Brawner's Farm
Thoroughfare Gap
Beaver Creek Dam
White Oak Swamp
Gaines Mill
Savages Station
Glendale
Malvern Hill
Williamsburg
Chancellorsville
The Wilderness
Spotsylvania
Salem Church
Fredericksburg
Cold Harbor
Richmond
Petersburg (the crater and all the major surrounding forts and works)
Pamplin Park/The Breakthrough
Five Forks
Appomattox Court House

TN
Bean's Station
Stones River
Franklin
Nashville
Shiloh
Chattanooga/Missionary Ridge/Lookout Mtn

GA
Chickamauga
Kenesaw Mountain
Nash Farm/Atlanta