Question of the Week: What’s your favorite site of the Overland Campaign?
The Overland Campaign began 160 years ago…what’s your favorite site to visit related to the Overland Campaign?
The Overland Campaign began 160 years ago…what’s your favorite site to visit related to the Overland Campaign?
North Anna!
The Wilderness
Cold Harbor crossroads to include Burnett’s Tavern !
I would have to say North Anna. My first time there, I was not expecting the preservation of lines, the smaller crowds, and how close you could get to the original entrenchments. Well worth the visit!
The Mule Shoe.
I’d probably have to say Saunders Field!
The intersection of the Orange Plank Road and the Brock Road. That’s where Grant chose to continue southward after the horrendous Wilderness engagement.
The Plank Road near Slocum’s Chancellorsville line is absolutely my target for the high water mark of morale, for both armies. At Chancellorsville, it was Confederates charging towards the Chancellorsville crossroads and the burning Chancellorsville House, full of fury and the elation of victory, led by their chief. Almost to the day, one year later, it was the eastward marching Union men of Burnside and Grant, leaving the Wilderness and turning right onto the Plank Road, elatedly realizing they had leadership that wasn’t going to fight and retreat, finally.
Harris Farm. Although it’s in a subdivision most of the time it’s eerily quiet and you can feel the weight of history.
Upton’s Road at Spotsylvania
The Widow Tapp Field.