Ruins of Windsor

[groovyone]

I really like the composition, especially #1.

[princer7]

Originally Posted by iCe

Have you ever made it to Shiloh National Cemetery? I've been to a number of Civil War battle sites and Shiloh is the only one that had "feeling" to it. I don't know if that translates all that well but if you know anything about the Civil War it might make sense. Gettysburg was just a big park (don't get me wrong, there's lots of meaning there). Shiloh is preserved in such a way that it gives a feel to the battles and the lives that were lost there. Anyway, you seem to travel quite a bit, I was just wondering if you had ever made it there.

I have never made it to Shiloh but did venture to Gettysburg in my youth. Agreed, it did seem very park-like. I'll have to add Shiloh to the bucket list.

[princer7]

Originally Posted by venchka

Note to self. Road Trip. Civil War Battlefields. Vicksburg to Gettysburg. Parallel BBQ exploration.

I would be all up for that road trip!!

[venchka]

Could take awhile. With good planning & lots of luck, a person might be able to start in Vicksburg with the redbud & dogwood bloom & get to Gettysburg before the spring bloom was finished.

[iCe]

Don't forget a swing through Appomattox Courthouse. It's kind of cool to see where Lee let Grant win

[wclavey]

Michael, I agree with you about Gettysburg - - it was a much more meaningful trip when I went there with a Civil War battle historian than just to wander around the park.

I have wanted to go back to Windsor Ruins for a while now... but it is a full 8 hr drive from Houston and if I were going that far and that far back, which, realistically you could do in a weekend, I would want to stay somewhere to explore a bit more... at leas a full day in the Vicksburg area or see a few other plantation homes - - something like that.

We saw the ruins as part of a trip to Baltimore one Thanksgiving week... it was great! You can see from the picture I posted above that the leaves were starting to fall from the trees. We were there on a Sunday morning and had the place to ourselves for about 3-4 hours before anyone else came along. We stayed in Vicksburg the night before. If we were not on the road with a schedule we had to meet, I would have stayed another day or 2, at least, in that area. But we only had one 4-hour window on that trip for photography and Windsor Ruins was it.

[lhdvies]

Beautiful work Jennifer! I've enjoyed all your road trip photos.