weekend update
4 November 2003 20:07![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kmusserI didn't do anything for Samhain or go to any Halloween parties. :-(
I did get to play tourist with my Mom and her husband and the weather was perfect for it.
On Saturday we went to Harpers Ferry and looked at all the nifty Park Service exhibits.
Also took them up to Hilltop House for the rather magnificent view.
After that we went to the Antietam Battlefield which was also interesting.
One of the things I find fascinating about the civil war is how much the personalities impacted the course of events. The bloodbath at Antietam was a combination of Lee's ego and McClellan's idiocy. Things that amazed me:
1) Lee's decision to make a stand at Antietam figuring his 20,000 could whip McClellan's 85,000 based purely on his knowledge that McClellan is an idiot.
2) Lee being largely justified in this belief.
3) The number of missed opportunities the Union had for completely wiping out Lee's army. I mean it's not like they just had one big screw up, but that they screwed up repeatedly.
4) That the Union did "win" the battle - numbers won out in the end and in political terms the victory was fairly significant. Just weird to think that if the Union forces were led by someone at all competent it could have been a decisive victory and ended the war 3 years earlier than it did - of course if the Union general was different Lee might not have made the decision to stay in the first place.
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zammis joined us for an excursion to Berkeley Springs to get pampered at Artesia Spa, something we should do more often.
In other news my car still isn't registered. I didn't like the safety inspection the local service station gave me ($2,000 to fix struts? I think not) so I'm taking it to another station. Hopefully I'll get this resolved soon.
For the gamers - next weekend is Euro Quest - you should all go. This is the 1st year for this Games Club of Maryland convention, we'd like it to become an annual thing.
The weekend after that is my party, just a friendly reminder. :-)
I did get to play tourist with my Mom and her husband and the weather was perfect for it.
On Saturday we went to Harpers Ferry and looked at all the nifty Park Service exhibits.
Also took them up to Hilltop House for the rather magnificent view.
After that we went to the Antietam Battlefield which was also interesting.
One of the things I find fascinating about the civil war is how much the personalities impacted the course of events. The bloodbath at Antietam was a combination of Lee's ego and McClellan's idiocy. Things that amazed me:
1) Lee's decision to make a stand at Antietam figuring his 20,000 could whip McClellan's 85,000 based purely on his knowledge that McClellan is an idiot.
2) Lee being largely justified in this belief.
3) The number of missed opportunities the Union had for completely wiping out Lee's army. I mean it's not like they just had one big screw up, but that they screwed up repeatedly.
4) That the Union did "win" the battle - numbers won out in the end and in political terms the victory was fairly significant. Just weird to think that if the Union forces were led by someone at all competent it could have been a decisive victory and ended the war 3 years earlier than it did - of course if the Union general was different Lee might not have made the decision to stay in the first place.
On Sunday
zammis joined us for an excursion to Berkeley Springs to get pampered at Artesia Spa, something we should do more often.In other news my car still isn't registered. I didn't like the safety inspection the local service station gave me ($2,000 to fix struts? I think not) so I'm taking it to another station. Hopefully I'll get this resolved soon.
For the gamers - next weekend is Euro Quest - you should all go. This is the 1st year for this Games Club of Maryland convention, we'd like it to become an annual thing.
The weekend after that is my party, just a friendly reminder. :-)
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