Here's something interesting for Civil War Buffs

[Adam West]

I live about 30 minutes from Antietam battlefield. I heard on a local radio station that a hiker stumbled across human bone fragments while taking a short cut. It turns out that apparently, this was a Civil War soldier killed at Antietam who just happened to be found recently.

Pretty interesting stuff although I have to admit I sometimes feel strange touring these battlefields. The thought of standing in the exact spot where someone was killed is bit surreal but also the knowledge that there is a likelihood that you might be walking right over the remains of a soldier who never was recovered.

I visit Gettysburg almost every year and my family and I are always hiking up through trails and wooded areas that aren't frequented and I always wonder if there is a dead soldier that was never recovered beneath my feet.

http://www.nps.gov/anti/parknews/civ...t-antietam.htm

[toys2cool]

wow,well I'm glad he was finally found,now he can get his proper resting place where other soldiers like him are resting

[Mikey]

Interesting news.

I visit Gettysburg almost every year and my family and I are always hiking up through trails and wooded areas that aren't frequented and I always wonder if there is a dead soldier that was never recovered beneath my feet.

Me too ... sometimes twice a year.
Been a tradion with me for a long time now.
I've been out at night sometimes ghost hunting but never seen a thing.
One time the park rangers booted me out for loitering around the Wheatfield at 3:00 in the morning

[Bizarro Amy]

"I visit Gettysburg almost every year and my family and I are always hiking up through trails and wooded areas that aren't frequented and I always wonder if there is a dead soldier that was never recovered beneath my feet."
"Me too ... sometimes twice a year.
Been a tradion with me for a long time now.
I've been out at night sometimes ghost hunting but never seen a thing.
One time the park rangers booted me out for loitering around the Wheatfield at 3:00 in the morning "

Do either of you ever go to Remembrance Day or other events? My husband, father-in-law, and sometimes my sister-in-law do reenactments. I usually go, but I haven't dressed up yet, although my f-i-l keeps telling me I should.
I'm not into the supernatural thing, because I used to try the ghosthunting thing too. We used to take recording equipment, but still never saw/heard anything unusual, other than the effects of overactive imaginations.
I'll never forget - my one friend and I used to go sit on the Sachs Bridge, just because it was peaceful at night. We met this guy named Adam who claimed that the bridge was named after his family. And he insisted that there was a ghost named Tennessee who would stand there and "talk" to him by rattling and knocking of parts of the bridge. So he'd go to this one spot and say. "Tennessee! You gonna talk to us tonight?" And either there would be no response and Adam would tell us, "Guess he's got nothing to say," or Adam would try to fake it by tapping and knocking on things himself.

[Mikey]

I've never went during any big event's.

I think the biggest dress-up event I seen was maybe 2 years ago.
It was in front of the wax museum and a few guys were in full dress telling battlefield stories.
It was right in the middle of the summer and it was sweltering hot.
I wanted to stay and listen to the whole thing, but after about a half hour I started to feel faint from the heat.
I gotta give them guys credit for baring it.

BTW,
I know i'm probably alone here, but I really miss the tower.
Nostalgia Alert !!!
When I was a kid, to me the tower was the centre of everything.
I do miss it and wish they didn't knock it down.

[Adam West]

I have been to one re-enactment but not Gettysburg or Antietam. It is a smaller skirmish called Battle of the Monacacy. Basically a group of Confederate troops noticed that Washington D.C. was essentially undefended and the plan was to capture D.C. by coming in through Maryland and attacking down from the North.

Once the North figured out what was going on; a small force was sent to hold off the Confederates as long as possible until reinforcements could arrive. Basically, the small Union army ended up burning down a bridge crossing Monocacy River and creating just enough of a delay until reinforcements arrived.

I thoroughly enjoyed it. A guy I knew was a re-enactor and he used to joke around that one of the funny things about re-enactors is no one wants to die so you'll see a line of soldiers fire on the other line and not one person hit the ground and pretend to die.

I know Gettysburg has a huge re-enactment every year that attracts 10's of thousands of re-enactors. I imagine that has to be quite a scene.

Antietam used to do a pretty cool re-enactment not of the battle itself but the aftermath of the battle. You would walk in rooms and it looked like soldiers were having their legs amputated. It got too realistic and people were passing out, freaking out, etc. so they stopped.