D.C.-area Civil War battlefields offer history and hiking

Posted by on Sep 4, 2014 @ 9:07 am in Hiking News | 0 comments | Last modified: September 4, 2014

Tracing the footfalls of Ulysses S. Grant and visiting the room where Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson breathed his last can be experienced within a day’s drive of the nation’s capital, ringed by battlefields where thousands of soldiers fought and bled and died in the Civil War. Protected by the National Park Service, these hallowed grounds still echo the conflict they once...

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