 Editor in Chief Bill   | 12 May 2018 5:35 p.m. PST |
Which battlefield has been preserved the best? |
 Saber6  | 12 May 2018 5:46 p.m. PST |
Little Big Horn is very much like it was. |
| Wackmole9 | 12 May 2018 6:26 p.m. PST |
2nd for Custer last Performance |
 Herkybird | 12 May 2018 6:36 p.m. PST |
I suspect almost any desert battle could qualify? I could of course be clever and mention Naval battles! |
| BTCTerrainman | 12 May 2018 6:40 p.m. PST |
Really tough. I have visited many smaller ACW sites outside of major population centers that are fairly good. In Germany I have found Jena and Teugn Hausen to fairly unchanged. |
| JimSelzer | 12 May 2018 6:48 p.m. PST |
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| zoneofcontrol | 12 May 2018 7:53 p.m. PST |
Battle Of The Atlantic (WWII). |
 Der Alte Fritz  | 12 May 2018 8:20 p.m. PST |
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| Grelber | 12 May 2018 9:52 p.m. PST |
Monitor and Merrimac. Honestly, when I was out there in '99, there was a sign sticking out of the water telling folks this is where it happened. Except for the sign, and the bridge you can see it from, I doubt that any change is noticeable. For ACW battlefields, one thing I've noticed is that a lot of them were open fields and pasture during the war, but they have reverted back to their climax vegetation (woodland) since the war. Keeping up with this takes some doing for the park people. Grelber |
| Cacique Caribe | 12 May 2018 11:53 p.m. PST |
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| advocate | 13 May 2018 1:23 a.m. PST |
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| 14Bore | 13 May 2018 4:55 a.m. PST |
Maybe not the best but they have brought Gettysburg closer to 1863. Always wanted to see Little Big Horn but haven't. |
| Fred Mills | 13 May 2018 6:06 a.m. PST |
Beaumont-Hamel, Somme, France. |
| jeffreyw3 | 13 May 2018 6:07 a.m. PST |
Borodino is in pretty fair shape, although much more heavily wooded now than it was in 1812. |
| Tgerritsen | 13 May 2018 7:15 a.m. PST |
Battle of Hastings (in Battle, not Hastings) is fairly well preserved with the exception of the Abby ruins. |
| Allen57 | 13 May 2018 7:39 a.m. PST |
Have not been to Europe. In the US Gettysburg, Little Big Horn, and San Jacinto. @TGerritsen: Hastings?? I had read that that is not the actual site of the battle. link Anybody know more about that? |
| Schlesien | 13 May 2018 8:22 a.m. PST |
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| Garryowen | 13 May 2018 8:47 a.m. PST |
Little Big Horn. But a number of battlefields in that area would qualify, but they are not so well known. Rosebud June 1876
Fetterman December 1866
Powder River March 1876
Dull Knife December 1876 What those in this list have going for them is that they are basically rangeland. Tom |
| Cerdic | 13 May 2018 1:13 p.m. PST |
Allen57… Their are various theories about alternative locations for the battle. As that linked article points out, they remain just theories! Having walked the site, it certainly fits with what we know of the battle. Apart from the massive, ruined abbey on top of the hill of course…. |
| Extrabio1947 | 13 May 2018 2:38 p.m. PST |
Shiloh. The battlefield has remained practically unchanged since 1862. |
 enfant perdus | 13 May 2018 4:26 p.m. PST |
Another nod for Shiloh. Chickamauga is also very well preserved. |
| Florida Tory | 13 May 2018 5:20 p.m. PST |
Cowpens; the battlefield is more than 80 years older than Shiloh or Chickamauga, and less changed. Rick |
| COL Scott ret | 14 May 2018 11:36 p.m. PST |
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| Allen57 | 15 May 2018 2:04 p.m. PST |
@Schlesien I don't know if you can call Antietam well preserved. In the 1930s the area was reforested as part of a Works Progress Administration project. Today those trees have overgrown the place to the extent that it bears little resemblance to what the area purportedly looked like at the time of the battle. |
| Old Contemptibles | 16 May 2018 8:55 a.m. PST |
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| Old Contemptibles | 16 May 2018 9:01 a.m. PST |
In the last ten years or so the NPS has been restoring Antietam and other battlefields to as close as they looked as they can. I was at Antietam a year ago and they have cut trees that don't belong, planting more trees where they should be. They were also restoring Burnside's bridge while I was there. Thankfully Antietam isn't as plagued with monuments as Gettysburg is. |
| Uesugi Kenshin | 18 May 2018 8:51 a.m. PST |
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| deephorse | 18 May 2018 2:33 p.m. PST |
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