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Can you tell me why so many famous Civil War battles were fought on National Park Sites?

May 11, 2010 by  
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10 Responses to “Can you tell me why so many famous Civil War battles were fought on National Park Sites?”
  1. christy says:

    it is more like, they turned the places where civil war battles took place into National Park Sites.

  2. Emilia says:

    You’re kidding, right?

    Cute.

  3. Amanda S says:

    The reason for this is the Wars were fought first. And the American Govement then came in and made the parks so that people could see where they took place.

  4. byderule says:

    would it not have been the other way round ,and famous war battle places became national parks ,
    this makes more sense to me.

  5. efw says:

    made hallowed be their deaths….i’d laugh if your questions wasn’t so funny…

  6. Tina Borja says:

    Notoriety is better than no attention at all!

  7. ohhhdear says:

    LOL… do you really think the generals looked over the map, pointed their finger on some coordinates and said “Hey, this looks like a *great* place for a National Park someday! Let’s fight here, and y’know, we can leave room for six or seven big granite monuments and a couple plugged cannons!”

    Hmmm… no, probably not. I think the NPS decided to honor the war dead with a quiet resting place after the fact, don’t you?

  8. somepenguins says:

    because of all the ample parking

  9. Michael R says:

    This is a conspiracy by the Masons planned since the Revolution. They needed ways to put more monuments around the nation to mask their ingenious plan to dominate the nation and take over the world. BTW, an amazing secret lies beneath the seventh tomb from the east in the seventh row from the north in every Civil War battlefield. ;-)

  10. tjhand5094 says:

    how did they let you out of school.

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