# Battlefields you have visited. **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [July 22, 2011, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/battlefields-you-have-visited/589993 "2011-07-22T15:53:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 17\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![hogarth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hogarth/32/1773_2.png) [@hogarth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hogarth)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2011, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/battlefields-you-have-visited/589993/21 "2011-07-22T20:19:30Z")
Little Bighorn Batoche, Sask. Pearl Harbor Bunker Hill Plains of Abraham …and various North American/European/Chinese cities that would have seen battles as well (e.g. Toronto and Washington, D.C. were both attacked in the War of 1812). ---
**Author:** ![KRC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/45deac/32.png) [@KRC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KRC)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2011, 3:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/battlefields-you-have-visited/589993/22 "2011-07-23T03:35:38Z")
I went to Perryville when I was about 6. As was my usual reaction to battlefields, I thought it just looked like a field, and my sister losing her lunch in the car afterwards was more memorable. This would have been around '71 and maybe they didn’t have Civil War re-enactors then. (Could have livened things up.) ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2011, 7:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/battlefields-you-have-visited/589993/23 "2011-07-23T07:23:54Z")
The house I grew up in. Definitely a battlefield site. Oh, and also Fort Ticonderoga. ---
**Author:** ![Spoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@Spoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoke)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2011, 12:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/battlefields-you-have-visited/589993/24 "2011-07-23T12:47:43Z")
Revolutionary War: [Cowpens (South Carolina)](http://www.nps.gov/cowp/index.htm) [King’s Mountain (SC/NC - right on the line)](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kings_Mountain_National_Military_Park) [96 (South Carolina)](http://www.nps.gov/nisi/index.htm) [Bunker Hill](http://www.nps.gov/bost/historyculture/bhm.htm) Indian Wars: [Horseshoe Bend (Alabama - Creek War)](http://www.nps.gov/hobe/index.htm) [Fort Gadsden (Florida - Seminole War)](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Gadsden) [Fort Mims (Alabama - Creek War)](http://www.exploresouthernhistory.com/fortmims1.html) Civil War: [Chickamauga](http://www.nps.gov/chch/index.htm) (Very close to where I grew up.) [Lookout Mountain/Chattanooga](http://roadsidegeorgia.com/site/pointpark.html) [Antietam](http://www.nps.gov/ancm/index.htm) [Fort Pulaski](http://americancivilwar.com/statepic/ga/ga001.html) Surprising that I haven’t visited more actual Civil War _battlefields_ but then again, the Civil War is all around us down here. Markers everywhere. Skirmishes and battles all over the place. I currently live a couple of blocks from where the heaviest fighting occurred in the Battle of Atlanta, and my house is just below Atlanta’s easternmost line of fortification. Of the parks and facilities listed above, I was really surprised at how nice the **Horseshoe Bend** facility is, given that it’s out in the middle of nowhere. Same for **Cowpens** and **King’s Mountain**. Really nice facilities and interesting stops. ---
**Author:** ![Spoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@Spoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoke)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2011, 12:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/battlefields-you-have-visited/589993/25 "2011-07-23T12:56:12Z")
I should add that those are just the formal battlefield parks (with facilities) I have visited. There are battlefields all over the South where there are no facilities, just maybe a few roadside markers. Didn’t include those. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2011, 1:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/battlefields-you-have-visited/589993/26 "2011-07-23T13:25:23Z")
Carthage Little Bighorn Manassas The Ardennes Waterloo Wounded Knee The Alamo Harper’s Ferry Vietnam (but not willingly) Multiple European cities that were bombed/occupied ---
**Author:** ![Snooooopy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ee7513/32.png) [@Snooooopy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snooooopy)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2011, 6:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/battlefields-you-have-visited/589993/27 "2011-07-25T06:51:07Z")
When I lived in the eastern part of West Virginia, I took a trip over to Antietam. I find that battle to be interesting because the impression the school textbooks gave me is so much different than what actually happened. I had always thought Antietam was a glorious Union victory when, in reality, it was kind of a flimsy one (and one hell of a missed opportunity, given the Union’s discovery of Special Order 191). ---
**Author:** ![Freddy\_the\_Pig](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/a587f6/32.png) [@Freddy\_the\_Pig](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freddy_the_Pig)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2011, 2:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/battlefields-you-have-visited/589993/28 "2011-07-25T14:02:02Z")
> [@Ellen\_Cherry](#): > > I see no one’s been to the [Perryville Battlefield](http://www.perryvillebattlefield.org/) in Perryville, Ky., said to be one of the bloodiest of the Civil War — my only contribution. I went there once. It was closed. They were doing some kind of renovation. :mad: But hey, I’ve been to Waterloo, where Napoleon did surrender. (sort of) I was inspired by Victor Hugo, who toured the site when it was still a living memory. Some day I want to visit Borodino. I’ve seen most of the famous Civil War battlefields, except in Virginia, where there are just too damn many of them. And except for Perryville. :mad: My favorite: Palmito Ranch, a roadside marker in the Rio Grande Valley. It was the last battle of the Civil War. The Confederates won. ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2011, 2:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/battlefields-you-have-visited/589993/29 "2011-07-25T14:17:59Z")
**Seven Years War** Louisberg, Nova Scotia Plains of Abraham, Québec **North-West Rebellion** Batoche **WWII** Dieppe Normandy Paris ---
**Author:** ![percypercy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8baadc/32.png) [@percypercy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/percypercy)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2011, 2:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/battlefields-you-have-visited/589993/30 "2011-07-25T14:18:18Z")
When I was younger, my brother and sister were fascinated by the Civil War after seeing North and South so we went to Shiloh pretty often. so that’s Shiloh Memphis Gettysburg Pearl Harbor (Arizona Memorial) ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2011, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/battlefields-you-have-visited/589993/31 "2011-07-25T15:20:54Z")
I forgot that I had been to [Big Hole National Battleground](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Hole_National_Battlefield), where Chief Joseph and the Nez Perce fought their largest battle against American military forces. ---
**Author:** ![minionkat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f05b48/32.png) [@minionkat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/minionkat)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2011, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/battlefields-you-have-visited/589993/32 "2011-07-25T18:31:44Z")
Norman Conquest - Battle and Hastings French & Indian War - Plains of Abraham Waterloo American Civil War - Petersburg, Virginia & Alexandria, Louisiana Northwest Rebellion 1885 - [Batoche](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batoche,_Saskatchewan) WWI - Ypres WWII - Ardennes Corregidor - The Battle of the Philippines I am sure there are more, particularly from the War of 1812 and WWI & II, but these are the ones that stick out in my mind. ---
**Author:** ![UncleRojelio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/unclerojelio/32/3160_2.png) [@UncleRojelio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleRojelio)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2011, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/battlefields-you-have-visited/589993/33 "2011-07-25T19:21:08Z")
The Alamo Goliad San Jacinto I might be traveling to South Africa for business in the next year or so. I’m going to make it a point to visit Roarke’s Drift. ---
**Author:** ![zamboniracer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/e9a140/32.png) [@zamboniracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zamboniracer)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2011, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/battlefields-you-have-visited/589993/34 "2011-07-25T19:34:55Z")
Civil War sites: Gettysburg Shiloh First Manassas/Bull Run Atlanta (they seemed to have rebuilt it pretty well after the burning.) American Revolutionary War: Yorktown Valley Forge (no battle site per se, but site of famous encampment) Indian wars: Battle of Fallen Timbers, near present day Maumee OH . ---
**Author:** ![Spavined\_Gelding](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/958977/32.png) [@Spavined\_Gelding](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spavined_Gelding)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2011, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/battlefields-you-have-visited/589993/35 "2011-07-25T20:42:22Z")
As a geezer, an old soldier and sort of a half-ass student, I’ve had the chance to see a few, some of them pretty obscure. Waterloo Valmy Kaiserslautern, Hanau Wagram Augsburg Marengo Regensburg Lexington and Concord Bunker Hill Monmouth, NJ Trenton and Princeton Valley Forge Brandywine Yorktown Bull Run, First and Second Cedar Mountain Balls Bluff Seven Days/Richmond Antietam Chancellorsville Fredericksburg Gettysburg Wilderness and Spotsylvania Cold Harbor Petersburg-Richmond Sailors Creek Appomattox Court House Atlanta, Peachtree Creek, Ezra Church Brandy Station Fort Donnellson and Fort Henry Shiloh Corinth Tupelo Champions Hill (damned near impossible to find on the ground) Black River Bridge Vicksburg Jackson, MS Pea Ridge/Elk Horn Tavern Wilsons Creek Shenandoah Valley Fallen Timbers Squaw Rock /Mack-O-Chee Creek Little Big Horn Beechers Island Spirit Lake Sioux Uprising of 1862 (New Ulm, MN) White Hill Washita Sand Creek Braddock’s Defeat St Claire’s Defeat The Somme Ypres Verdun Chateau-Thierry Belleau Woods Cantigny Meuse-Argonne Normandy landing grounds St. Lo Ardennes Bastogne Ramagen Ober-Saltzburg and the Eagle’s Nest Pearl Harbor Arnhem ---
**Author:** ![Hyperelastic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Hyperelastic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hyperelastic)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2011, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/battlefields-you-have-visited/589993/36 "2011-07-26T02:29:43Z")
Gettysburg, Chancellorsville, Wilderness, Spotsylvania Court House. I lived in SCH for three months. Also, just over this weekend, [Blair Mountain](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Blair_Mountain). It’s criminal what they’re going to do to it. The state turned over the only access road to a strip-mining outfit. ---
**Author:** ![bibliophage](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bibliophage/32/7615_2.png) [@bibliophage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bibliophage)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2011, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/battlefields-you-have-visited/589993/37 "2011-07-26T19:12:00Z")
French and Indian War: Battle of Carillon (N.Y.) Revolutionary War: Battle of Ticonderoga (N.Y.) Siege of Fort Stanwix (N.Y.) Battle of Bunker (Breed’s) Hill (Mass.) Battle of Lexington and Concord (Mass.) Battle of Groton Heights (Conn.) Battle of Machias (Me.) War of 1812: Battle of Sodus Point (N.Y.) Battle of York (Toronto) Civil War: Battle of Gettysburg (Penna.) Battle of Antietam (Md.) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/battlefields-you-have-visited/589993.md?page=1)