Summer Review

Grant's Headquarters during the Petersburg siege

Hanging out with Ben

Museum of the Confederacy - Lee's tent

Bullet Rosette formed from a Northern bullet and a Southern bullet colliding - these are amazing!!  We actually saw several of them at various museums.

Richmond courthouse

Violet Bank - General Lee's headquarters for a short time outside of Petersburg

Museum of the Civil War Soldier historic buildings

Museum of the Civil War Soldier historic buildings

Museum of the Civil War Soldier - building exhibiting the line between the North and South

Virginia Battlefield

Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, Arlington Cemetery

Okay, so let's catch up on the summer.  Mike was in Petersburg, Va all summer taking a class at Ft. Lee.  I stayed in Texas and then Sandra (his mom) and I drove to meet him in Virginia on July 4 weekend.  After that, we spent the rest of the time hanging out with Ben and seriously catching up on Civil War history.  Virginia is heaven for Civil War buffs.  We saw Grant's headquarters and we saw Lee's headquarters.  We toured the Petersburg battlefield.  Mike took field trips with his class to battlefields in the area.  We went to the Museum of the Confederacy in Richmond and then we went to the Museum of the Civil War Soldier outside of Petersburg.  All of the museums were extremely well-done and I learned so much about the war that I hadn't known.  Now that we are in Maryland, there is even more to see including Gettysburg which is not that far from Havre de Grace.  And, we are in Revolutionary War territory now so that will be interesting as well.  So much history on the East Coast.  We also went to Arlington Cemetery on the way to the airport to fly out to Istanbul.  We were there in time to see the changing of the guard at the tomb and we visited the graves of several of Mike's classmates.  It was a very moving experience.