This was basically a rest day, after nearly 800 miles on the road the past two days. Didn't do much in the morning except read, do computer "stuff" and entertain the dogs. They loved the campsite, and even Dudley did several hundred yards of exploring.
Did some interesting touring in the afternoon. We traveled about 30 miles to the National Park office for the Chancellorsville and Spotsylvania civil war battles, and that office similarly covered the battle of the Wilderness nearby.
A friendly Park Ranger helped us research Tom Palmer's great-great-great granddad (hope we got the generation right!), BGen Leroy A. Stafford, CSA out of Louisiana. He was killed in the battle located there in Stafford County (by coincidence), by Union soldiers out of New York. We then drove to the specific location where his unit was, and Jim walked out on the trail and took photos of the views from both the CSA and Union sides. Of course, there wasn't any snow then in May of 1864. Made for a very interesting afternoon.
A friendly Park Ranger helped us research Tom Palmer's great-great-great granddad (hope we got the generation right!), BGen Leroy A. Stafford, CSA out of Louisiana. He was killed in the battle located there in Stafford County (by coincidence), by Union soldiers out of New York. We then drove to the specific location where his unit was, and Jim walked out on the trail and took photos of the views from both the CSA and Union sides. Of course, there wasn't any snow then in May of 1864. Made for a very interesting afternoon.
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