Thursday, September 6, 2012

History Visited

My recent trip to some Civil War battlefields inspired me to compile a list of battlefields and other historical places I've visited.   Here goes:

Civil War battlefields and related sites:
1.  First Manassas
2.  Second Manassas
3.  Chancellerorsville
4.  Salem Church
5.  Wilderness
6.  Spotsylvania
7.  Fredericksburg
8.  South Mountain (Md)
9.  Antietam
10.  Monocacy
11.  Harper's Ferry (Bolivar Heights)
12. Gettysburg
13.  Kennesaw Mountain (I just saw a couple of signs here.  Arrived late and didn't really have time to tour).
14.  Fort Monroe
15.  Yorktown (also Revolutionary War)
16.  Cold Harbor
17.  Malvern Hill
18.  Gaines Mill
19.  Confederate White House/Museum of the Confederacy
20.  Petersburg
21.  City Point (Grant's HQ)
22.  Drewry's Bluff
23.  Ball's Bluff
24.  Cedar Creek
25.  Fisher's Hill
26.  New Market
27.  First Winchester
28.  Second Winchester
29.  Third Winchester (Va)
30.  Battle of Williamsburg Walking Trail
31.  Ford's Theater
32.  Fort Pulaski
33.  Grant Park, Atlanta Ga (not sure Grant Park was the site of one of the battles fought around Atlanta, but they have the Atlanta Cyclorama).
34.  Chattanooga (This was a long time ago.  I remember Lookout Mountain but not much else).
35.  Cedar Mountain
36.  Fort Harrison
37.  First and Second Kernstown
38  Appomattox Court House
39.  Saylor's Creek Battlefield
40.  Five Forks battlefield
41.  Port Republic
42.  Cross Keys.
43.  Battle of Hunterstown (PA)
44.  Hanover (PA)
45.  Fort Couch (Lemoyne, PA.  Near Harrisburg)
46.  Carlisle (shelling)
47.  Monitor-Merrimac Overlook
48.  Congress-Cumberland Overlook
49.  Lee's Mill Walking Tour
50.  Twin Forts Walking Trail (Newport, Va) Battle of Dam #1
51.  Mariner's Museum (Monitor)
52. Roanoke Island NC sites
53. Battle of Lee's Mill



Revolutionary War battlefields and related sites
1.  Saratoga
2.  Stony Point
3.  Fort Montgomery
4.  Monmouth (NJ)
5.  Springfield (NJ.  Some assorted signs and the Caldwell House in Union NJ)
6.  Brandywine (PA)
7.  Independence Hall
8.  Yorktown (also Civil War)
9.  Washington's Crossing (Pa)
10.  Valley Forge
11.  Morristown Historical Park (Washington's HQ and Jockey Hollow encampment)
12.  Quebec (also French and Indian War)
13.  Fort Ticonderoga (also French and Indian War)
14.  Colonial Williamsburg (Va)
15.  Newton Battlefield (NY)
16.  Federal Hall
17.  Liberty Bell
18.  Mount Independence
19.  Dewint House (Washington's HQ; Tappan, NY)
20.  Hubbardton Battlefield
21.  Bennington Battlefield
22.  Washington's Headquarters; Newburgh, NY
23.  Fort Griswald, Groton, Ct.
24. Old Stone Fort; Schoharie, NY
25. Old Barracks, Trenton, NJ
26. Paoli Battlefield
27. Battle of the Capes Overlook

War of 1812
1.  Fort McHenry
2.  River Raisin
3.  Old Fort Niagara (also French and Indian War)
4.  Stonington, Ct.
5.  Groton Long Point, Ct (small marker commemorating small battle there)

Other Military Sites
1.  Castillo de San Marcos
2. Fort Matanzas
3.  Fort Frederica
4.  USS New Jersey
5.  USS North Carolina
6.  USS Texas (did not board)
7.  USS Massachusetts (did not board)
8.  San Jacinto battlefield (Texas)
9.  USS Intrepid
10.  Fort Wadsworth (Staten Island)
11.  Crown Point, NY
12.  Fort Trumbull (New London, Ct)
13. USS Olympia
14. USS Nautilus
15. Fort Jay (Governor's Island)
16. Historic Deerfield (Queen Anne's War. Mass.)


Other Sites
1.  Mount Vernon
2.  Monticello
3.  Winterthur (Dupont Estate)
4.  Mary Washington House
5.  Grant National Memorial (Grant's Tomb)
6.  Hamilton Grange
7. Castle Clinton
8.  Kill Devil Hills-Kitty Hawk (Wright Brothers)
9.  St. Paul's Church
10.  Theodore Roosevelt Birthplace
11.  Grant's Cottage
14. Eisenhower Farm
15. Jamestown
16. Springfield Armory
17, Fort Raleigh
18. FDR Home

Historic B&B's
1. Piper House on Antietam National Battlefield. No longer serves as B&B.











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