In this fight over how we remember America's most divisive conflict, national parks [battlefields] may be the final battlegrounds. --Princeton Historian James McPherson Pulitzer Prize-Winning Author/Historian If you don't know history, you don't know anything. You're a leaf that doesn't know it's part of a tree. --Michael Crichton Poor is the nation having no heroes...Shameful is the one having them that forgets. Civil War soldiers are heroes. Civil War battlefields are cemeteries. All should be treated with respect. In great deeds something abides. On great fields something stays. Forms change and pass; bodies disappear; but spirits linger, to consecrate the ground..... --Union Gen. Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain, 20th Maine Back to Table of Contents -- ACW Newsletter # 4 Back to ACW Newsletter List of Issues Back to MagWeb Magazine List © Copyright 2003 by Marc Shefelton. This article appears in MagWeb (Magazine Web) on the Internet World Wide Web. Other articles from military history and related magazines are available at http://www.magweb.com