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El Supremo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-15-11 07:45 PM
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What's the over/under on the Army of the Potomac vs. the Army of Northern Virginia?
That's right. I'm now in Gettysburg. Pictures tomorrow night.
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Kingofalldems Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-15-11 08:07 PM
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1. Good barbecue at Chubby's just south of you
On Rts. 15 Emmitsburg.
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El Supremo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-15-11 08:44 PM
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5. Your'e telling a Texan to try another state's Bar-B-Que?
A damn Yankee state at that? I'd rather have sushi!

:P
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madinmaryland Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-15-11 08:16 PM
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2. Hey...
Can you find any reference to a Sampson Klingensmith. If so, take a picture, please.

He married the sister of my gg-grandfather.

BTW, take a ride down to Maryland tomorrow. Orioles???
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El Supremo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-15-11 08:41 PM
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4. What regiment?
Edited on Thu Sep-15-11 08:58 PM by El Supremo
I just drove through all of western Maryland. They have those real ugly designs on their sate highway markers. Just like the Terrapins.

I go to the East Broad Top Railroad on Saturday then home on Sunday.
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madinmaryland Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-15-11 08:48 PM
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6. 148th Regiment, Company E.
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El Supremo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-15-11 08:49 PM
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7. State?
Pennsylvania?
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madinmaryland Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-15-11 09:07 PM
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11. Yes.
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El Supremo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-15-11 09:16 PM
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12. There are two monuments.




Both are in the south. I'll look for them.
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El Supremo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-15-11 09:04 PM
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10. Here he is...
Klinglesmith, Sam. Private September 2, 1862 Killed at Gettysburg, Pa., July 2, 1863

http://www.pa-roots.com/pacw/infantry/148th/148thcoe.html

I'll look for for a monument to the 148th.
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Condem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-15-11 08:41 PM
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3. Haven't been there in twenty years, El.
But I lived there, then. Can't wait to see the snaps. You get by the Trostle Farm?
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El Supremo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-15-11 08:50 PM
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8. I've heard of that.
Is that the big red buildings on Picket's Charge?
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Condem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-15-11 08:58 PM
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9. There's a big brick barn. You can still see the cannon ball shots...
...but you can't stop yet. Precede east up that lane to a field. You have to take a chance because there's cows all over it. On the left hand side of the lane. Go into that field. You'll see a rock. Shaped like a chair. The Throne of God. It's where McGillvary's battery was stationed
and beat back Barksdale's charge of Mississippians. This is where the battle tilted to the north. Find it, El.
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El Supremo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-15-11 09:25 PM
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13. My problem is...
that all the fields are really wet and I didn't pack my hiking boots - just some good Rebocks.
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El Supremo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-18-11 09:23 PM
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14. I missed it.
Edited on Sun Sep-18-11 10:22 PM by El Supremo
If I had taken your directions I would have found it. I drove on a dirt road full of horse shit to look for it. I've got some pictures of other rocks near the Trostle Farm but not that one. Part of the problem is that the Trostle Farm is not on the driving map and I was lost.

on edit: One Park Guide said that she never heard of "the Throne of God" but she learns something new every day.
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Condem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-18-11 09:30 PM
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15. I had a whole summer to tramp around that place, El.
You can't possibly do it all in one day. Like Forney Field on the first day. Farmers for years would not venture after dark here. A ton of North Carolinians lost their lives in one volley. Anyway, hope to see more pictures. The aura at Gettysburg is indescribable. You have to witness it for yourself to know.
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El Supremo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-18-11 10:08 PM
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16. I saw damn near all of it in one day and walked Picket's Charge.
North Carolina's monument was one of the most striking.


Remind me to show you the Alabama monument. You'd appreciate it.
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El Supremo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-18-11 10:19 PM
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18. OK. Here is the Alabama monument without commentary. >>
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El Supremo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-18-11 10:13 PM
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17. At that farm they even have a moument where Sedgewick lost his leg.

He was a real jerk.
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Condem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-19-11 06:50 AM
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19. That's Sickles, El.
Left the Battlefield chomping on a cigar. As I recall, his Corps ceased to exist after Gettysburg. Many years later he toured the field with his old foe, James Longstreet.
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