Last November I took a trip down backroads from Brooklyn to North Carolina. I stopped at sites and battlefields from the Civil War along the way. The history pours out of these places. The trees hold so many memories and scars. I thought about the groups of men on both sides—meeting for battle standing side by side with their neighbors, brothers, and sons.
Images from Arlington National Cemetery, Fredericksburg Battlefield, Appomattox Courthouse, where the war ended, and breakdown lanes in VA.
