[jonascord]

Devil’s Den, right?

[tanknetter]

Devil’s Den, right?

Yup.

On the bright side, battlefields like Gettysburg can at least BE restored, should the decision be made to do so. My "local" (almost within walking distance) battlefield is Chantilly/Ox Hill. Not a huge battle, but definitely one of the more interesting Civil War ones not only due to the circumstances, but also as there were downstream repercussions (imagine Phil Kearny commanding the Army of the Potomac at/after Gettysburg).

Last night for dinner I took my daughter to the Five Guys that sits in the strip mall that is now in the middle of where the Confederate lines were. Pointed out that the multiplex theater across the strip's center quadrangle was where Stonewall Jackson made his headquarters.

[19th LA Inf]

Those rocks look like the place where Matthew Brady dragged the Union soldier’s corpse to photograph it. The first known example of press distortion of military news.