Anyone ever been? Worth checking out? Doing a day trip from Nashville to jack Daniels distillery and trying to find another site to see. Open to other suggestions as well.
None of the Peninsula Campaign battlefields get the same love no matter where they are at. Some were even as big or bigger battles than Gettysburg and Sharpsburg and even Union victories And yes, they are very much in danger of subdivisions now.Langenator said:
There's probably a lot too that. Gettysburg and Antietam were both Union victories, on Union territory, along with not being near any later development. Spotsylvania Court House, North Anna, and Cold Harbor don't get the love from the Park Service that Gettysburg and Antietam have, but they're preserved by lack of proximity to development.
It's interesting that Yorktown isn't covered with monuments. There is the Victory Monument, but it's a bit away from the site of the siege itself.Sapper Redux said:
Battlefield preservation in the 19th and early 20th centuries meant something very different from today. Most of the Revolutionary War battlefields have massive marble monuments that date from the 19th century. The idea of preserving the field as it was when the battle occurred is a much more recent phenomenon.
Sapper Redux said:
My understanding (perhaps incorrect) was that locals didn't want to preserve much of the Nashville battlefield because of how disastrous it was for the Confederacy. Only Civil War battle that actually destroyed an army.