While rereading Killer Angels it hit me! Day one is today! I am so excited that the trip was planned for July. (Remind me about that when I am sweating in the 95 degree temperature....) Still, feeling the place at the same time of the year will be amazing. Am I remembering correctly? 147 years ago it was raining there. "He (Lee) came out of the tent into a fine cold rain." (on pg.77) On pg. 91 Buford was experiencing "a fine, soaking rain, a farmer's rain, gentle on the roof." We could be so lucky....
It is interesting to think about the part that weather plays in battles. It changes strategies and outcomes. It plays into everything.
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I used to think that the Civil War was so long ago. I just hadn't taken the time to stop and think. I always "knew" I just didn't process the time until this seminar. That was less then a hundred years before I was born. That really isn't that long ago. Our country is so young. Perspective of time changes when you get as old as me!
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