Day 7: Chris and Josh
Today we all went to Spotsylvania in the morning. Spotsylvania is Mr. Habel’s favorite battle of the Civil War. We did a lot of walking there. The Bloody Angle is where the Union and Confederate soldiers were on either side of a Confederate trench, the only thing separating them the breastworks of the trench. 16 hours of hand to hand fighting ensued after the magnificent charge. We hiked through the field to reach the Angle and observed a big old field of grass where many men had seen and committed acts of great horror.
We drove to Chancellorsville where a boisterous but very informative tour guide took us to where Confederate Lieutenant General Thomas Jackson was wounded. There was not much else to see there because the battlefield was very overrun by the town and highways.
We then took a long drive to Arlington National Cemetery where we were astonished by the impeccable guards of the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. We also saw the view that former president John F. Kennedy saw and said he could stay there forever. The cemetery is a pristine creation of mankind and will amaze you when you see it.
We then crossed the Potomac River to our nation’s capitol, Washington, D.C. We only saw a few of the numerous monuments. We saw the Jefferson, Franklin Roosevelt, World War II, Lincoln, Vietnam Wall, Korean War, and US Marines War Memorial in that order. We headed back across the river to Arlington and ate pizza provided by the teachers at out hotel. Today was a very enjoyable day.