Turns out this isn't such a big bus tour after all. Our route covers major battles of the "Eastern Theater," Like Manassas, Gettysburg, Antietam, Appomattox; not the Western: Shiloh, Vicksburg, Mobile, Atlanta. It's a north-south corridor about 200 miles long.
Today we hopped on our bus - noonish - for a 30-minute ride, trudged the whole damn battlefield of Manassas (Battles 1 and 2) (Bull Run is the river that runs through it), hopped back on the bus, quaffed a quick Manhattan and jollied through a "Howdy!" dinner with the other 20 passengers. Yippee! We hall had space to lounge on the bus. Now we've skipped off to bed because we leave at o-dark-hundred for Gettysburg.
How exciting! Toni and I are greatly enjoying our vicarious Civil War vacation! As a warm-up, we watched all of Glory and most of Gettysburg (Cold Mountain is waiting in the wings). But you are really there, at the actual place and with people who really know rather than with Hollywood drivellers. I would though, welcome the opportunity to demonstrate how quickly and accurately a smoothbore flintlock must can be employed. And aren’t cannons fun? They, too, can be surprisingly accurate. Tom Kremer, Adam Kremer and I once shot the head off of a target at 100 yards with a smoothbore cannon. I think it was a French four-pounder but I don’t rightly recollect.
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