martin goddard  | 23 May 2016 5:15 a.m. PST |
Is there a single battlefield that made you feel either "the troops could arrive at any minute from over that rise" or " a sense of the sacrifice" or even "surely the battle was not fought here".<br />In summary what have battlefields ever done for us.</p><p></p><p>martin |
| martin goddard | 23 May 2016 5:17 a.m. PST |
Sorry about the "notations". Suffering from time out lock etc… martin |
| Vigilant | 23 May 2016 6:42 a.m. PST |
Start of Pickets charge at Gettysburg. Made me wonder what made them think it was a good idea. |
| Allen57 | 23 May 2016 7:23 a.m. PST |
Gettysburg is definitely one of those battlefields where you can almost hear and feel the battle. Another is the Little Big Horn. To me it is kind of creepy. I have only visited battlefields in the US. Been to a lot of them and no others seem more than just a monument/park. |
| Thomas O | 23 May 2016 10:29 a.m. PST |
Antietam the Sunken Road, walked down it on two different trips and both times I had the same feeling, it is hard to describe, but there are a lot of souls who are not at rest their. My wife said she could feel it too. |
| martin goddard | 23 May 2016 10:37 a.m. PST |
Pickettt's charge. It is a long way! |
| rebmarine | 23 May 2016 1:59 p.m. PST |
Ditto what Thomas O said. Visited Sharpsburg with a friend that knew nothing about the battle. She stopped in the Sunken Road with a strange look on her face. She then turned to me and said "Something really bad happened here, didn't it?" |
| Elenderil | 23 May 2016 2:31 p.m. PST |
Some years ago I was at the site of the first battle of Newbury (ECW) for a re-enactment. We staged the Counter attack by Parliament and there was an odd sense of having two minds one that was following the safety rules with a second one saying no not like that swing that musket harder! Edgehill and Marston Moor have a "feel" to them as well. But in terms of feeling like the troops could just roll over the crest line Naseby wins hands down. Standing in a block of a couple hundred musketeers right on the spot where Parliament's second line of foot stood really brought home how little they could see of the action unfolding across the front lines. They could hear it though and it really brought home to me what it must have taken to step forward while the remnants of the front line were fleeing back through the second line! |
| Swampster | 24 May 2016 11:58 p.m. PST |
Seeing the French right flank at Waterloo made me think, 'Surely the Prussians couldn't have attacked here?' It made so much more sense why Plancenoit as so important rather than making a general advance. |
Oberlindes Sol LIC  | 06 Jun 2016 10:13 a.m. PST |
I visited Manassas/Bull Run years ago. They had some period cannons set up for direct fire, and have marked the spot where infantry were advancing on that position. The guns are damned close, and there are lot of them. |
