That is the one I’ve been referring to and it’s *outside* of the national park property.
A private citizen paid for both the land and the statue.
There are NO monuments to Lee on site and I think there’s like *4* Confederate stones in the whole, huge park.
And yes, it is agonizingly beautiful country.
I’m blessed to live so nearby.
I hope y’all climbed the tower while you were there....:)
You’re right...the TN monument is heart breaking.
One of the Gettysburg documentaries I watched recently they devoted a lot of time to the “lowly” standard bearers.
-Knowing- that they were painting a huge target on their backs, the nearest soldiers would rush to grab the flag before it hit the ground when the current bearer went down.
And now, scumbags joyously burn our flag in the streets.
There’s an object lesson there, somewhere.
Where exactly is the Lee statue relative to the rest of the park? The article you linked to said the park bought the land and the statue in 2005. How far away from the rest of the park is it? If I had known where it was, I’d have gone to see it.
My son and I climbed the tower. We also found the Texas monument, erected by the state in 1964 out of Texas granite. There is a similar Texas monument at Shiloh. We also saw a Georgia monument at Antietam.
Some of the modern looking plaques/informational signs show graphically the number of men on both sides of the particular area of the battle it describes. One of those at the sunken road shows 10,000 Federal troops versus 3,000 Confederates. The one at Burnside’s Bridge showed 500 Confederates versus 5,200 Federals.