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I like to take pictures and write about family and my experiences while traveling.
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My Civil War & Story Telling Blog
My Civil War & Story Telling Blog- I hear the train a comin’In earlier stories I talked about our Iowa reenactors - Battery C, 3rd Iowa Light Artillery - taking their new Parrott Rifle (a big canon) to Shiloh in Tennessee. Battery C traveled a good part of the trip via rail. You heard right – they rode a Union Pacific train with their cannon strapped down on a flatbed car. [...]
- Battle Cry of FreedomThe Shiloh reenactment had much more than Confederate and Federal soldiers shooting at one another. It had miles and miles of walking! Doesn’t that sound fun? It had rain Thursday night and Friday morning… and that led to lots of deep, sticky mud… and that led to trucks and cars getting stuck, even some 4-wheel drive vehicles. But [...] […]
- I hear the train a comin’
