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RE: Name the battlefield.... - 1/14/2010 5:23:03 AM   
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You Americans,,,can't you play nice? Like you guys can "project" proper values... Kill. **** cat, kill, kill, kill!!!!



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RE: Name the battlefield.... - 1/14/2010 5:28:19 AM   
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RE: Name the battlefield.... - 1/14/2010 5:29:23 AM   
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RE: Name the battlefield.... - 1/14/2010 5:30:47 AM   
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RE: Name the battlefield.... - 1/14/2010 5:32:13 AM   
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RE: Name the battlefield.... - 1/14/2010 6:18:08 AM   
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RE: Name the battlefield.... - 1/14/2010 10:47:33 AM   
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Definitely Gettysburg.  I was there last April.

One day isn't enough...


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RE: Name the battlefield.... - 1/14/2010 10:59:25 AM   
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RE: Name the battlefield.... - 1/14/2010 11:31:34 AM   
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RE: Name the battlefield.... - 1/14/2010 11:40:45 AM   
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RE: Name the battlefield.... - 1/14/2010 11:41:05 AM   
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RE: Name the battlefield.... - 1/14/2010 12:31:34 PM   
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Status: offline 		Raver, I love your sig quote, but your avatar drives me nuts. I like spiders about as much as Indiana Jones likes snakes - a necessary evil, but I ain't gonna keep one as a pet.

Your sig quote reminds me of what Grandpa used to say, and Heinlein wrote:

Never wrassle with a pig. Ya both git dirty and the pig likes it.

About the battlefield... it could be Manassas...but can't really tell from the angle of this shot.

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RE: Name the battlefield.... - 1/14/2010 12:33:57 PM   
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Status: offline 		Stones River?  I grew up 30 miles south of there and have visited the battlefield several times.  Perhaps, if the cannon are the ones near the highway and next to the circular grove of trees the Union made their last stand around.  Most of that battlefield is full of rocks and dense trees, but there are some open fields that look like that.

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RE: Name the battlefield.... - 1/14/2010 1:54:34 PM   
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RE: Name the battlefield.... - 1/14/2010 2:55:13 PM   
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Status: offline 		I had guessed Stones River/Murfreesboro above, but I'm withdrawing that guess.  The terrain there has alot of cedar trees and I don't see any in this photograph.

I had also guessed Chickamauga.  I'll stick with Chickamauga and throw in Kennesaw Mountain as my second choice.

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RE: Name the battlefield.... - 1/14/2010 3:32:47 PM   
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Status: offline 		I don't think it's Chickamauga; that battlefield has more trees on it than Stones River does, and is relatively flat until you get to the Union's final position.   I'll stick with either Stones River or Antietam.

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RE: Name the battlefield.... - 1/14/2010 3:36:01 PM   
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ORIGINAL: Ron Saueracker

You know...bomb the boats, feed the fish. Seriously, why do I have to watch a squadopn of F-16s do a flyby at a football game? (I'm half in the bag on Caaaanuck beer)


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RE: Name the battlefield.... - 1/14/2010 4:40:54 PM   
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RE: Name the battlefield.... - 1/14/2010 5:06:58 PM   
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Status: offline 		I don't remember Stone's River (Murfreesboro) being that open so I don't think it is Stone's River.

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RE: Name the battlefield.... - 1/14/2010 10:16:38 PM   
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(I'm half in the bag on Caaaanuck beer)

Only HALF in the bag?

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RE: Name the battlefield.... - 1/14/2010 10:18:30 PM   
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Us Canucks are pretty mellow....

Umm...yeah...very respectful too.

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RE: Name the battlefield.... - 1/14/2010 10:19:43 PM   
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Some fine guesses.....but as of yet....no right answer.......

D'oh! I'd like to retract my previous comment re: my awesomeness (for the time being). Has anybody shouted 'too late'?

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RE: Name the battlefield.... - 1/14/2010 10:34:11 PM   
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Status: offline 		So it's not Gettysburg, Antietam, Manassas, Mine Run, Kennesaw Mountain, Chickamauga, or Stones River.

I feel sure we can eliminate:  Vicksburg, Shiloh, Ocean Pond, anything to do with Charleston, Savannah, Fort Fisher, Knoxville, Nashville, Chattanooga, Missionary Ridge, Lookout Mountain, Brice's Crossroads, the Peninsula, Fredricksburg, Harper's Ferry, Pea Ridge, the Red River campaign, Wilderness, Spotsylvania, or Petersburg.

Leaving as possibilities:  Perryville, Appomattox, Chancellorsville, Winchester?

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RE: Name the battlefield.... - 1/15/2010 12:01:43 AM   
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I'm guessing that it is either Sharpsburg (Antietam) or Murfreesboro (Stones River). I put the alternate names in there for those of you who only speak Yankee...


Brad:

You made me laugh with this comment. In class I tell my students that I use Battle Names interchangeably. If I hearing Battle Hymm of the Republic, it is Antietam. If I'm hearing Dixie, it is Sharpsburg. Drives my students nuts.

As to a guess--and that is what this IS--I would say a Union perspective looking towards Seminary Ridge at Gettysburg OR somewhere along the Stone's River site. These are fairly useless guesses but it is my thought.


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RE: Name the battlefield.... - 1/15/2010 12:31:50 AM   
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Some fine guesses.....but as of yet....no right answer.......



Chancellorsville!

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RE: Name the battlefield.... - 1/15/2010 1:26:49 AM   
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Status: offline 		Couldn't imagine it being Chancellorsville due to the heavy forest throughout that Battlefield.  Might be a open field there though.  HECK--I don't know.

Can we get a TINY hint???


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RE: Name the battlefield.... - 1/15/2010 1:35:32 AM   
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So it's not Gettysburg, Antietam, Manassas, Mine Run, Kennesaw Mountain, Chickamauga, or Stones River.

I feel sure we can eliminate:  Vicksburg, Shiloh, Ocean Pond, anything to do with Charleston, Savannah, Fort Fisher, Knoxville, Nashville, Chattanooga, Missionary Ridge, Lookout Mountain, Brice's Crossroads, the Peninsula, Fredricksburg, Harper's Ferry, Pea Ridge, the Red River campaign, Wilderness, Spotsylvania, or Petersburg.

Leaving as possibilities:  Perryville, Appomattox, Chancellorsville, Winchester?


Winchester is in the Shenandoah valley. Should be able to see the Blue Ridge somewhere. Agree on the not wooded enough for Chancellorsville. Don't know enough about Perryville.

What about Bentonville in NC? That is very flat land and open.

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RE: Name the battlefield.... - 1/15/2010 1:54:02 AM   
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RE: Name the battlefield.... - 1/15/2010 3:02:58 AM   
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RE: Name the battlefield.... - 1/15/2010 4:20:05 AM   
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John, I'm glad that someone appreciated my little joke...


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