The Plan

I plan to leave the farm on Monday morning September 19 and take two days to reach Dallas.  The distance is about 650 miles so I will likely stop for overnight in Post, Texas.  Jeremy arrives Tuesday evening at about 9:30 pm after an all-day flight starting in Glasgow, then Amsterdam, New York and finally Dallas.  Robyn found a Super 8 near DFW with a shuttle bus to the airport so we will crash there and escape the city on Wednesday. 

I want to use National Forest campgrounds as much as possible so I'll give a running commentary on some of the famous forests of the southeast US.  The first Civil War site on the trip will probably be Vicksburg, Miss.  The sites that we must see are Fort Sumter, Gettysburg, Antietam and Shiloh.  Beyond that we'll take it day by day.  There are about 350 major battlesites and approximately 10,000 sites where fighting occured.  In addition to Civil War history, we will be close to Colonial Williamsburg, the Jamestown Colony, Monticello and Washington, D.C. 

We have a month to spend on this history tour.  We'll be searching for Confederates, hush puppies, crab cakes, microbrews and minnie balls.