Trippin' with Susan Straley

First, the History... Since I last wrote, we left the Great Allegheny Passage (GAP) Trail and drove to a couple spots with Civil War History. Antietam is a huge hilly area of farmer's fields where a series of battles were fought in the Civil War.  In the visitors center we watched a film with reenactments.    The picture below is of a ranger talk.  It was good that we watched the movie and did the driving tour before we listened to him walk us through the battles.  One battle, 5,000 died, another battle 8,000 killed... What struck us was that we know in the revolutionary war we had learned some battle techniques from the native Americans.   Hide behind a rock or tree and run closer to another rock or tree.  Get fortification in front of you. But in these battles, instead they would line up soldiers, shoulder to shoulder, and March them toward the enemy guns.  Of course, the first line was mowed down, and then the second... and the third....