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Article: The sacred places of the killer angels.(an increasingly difficult battle is being fought to preserve Civil War sites)(Brief Article)
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- U.S. News & World Report
- Article date:
- March 12, 2001
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Pickets guarding the largest gathering of Confederate cavalry in the Civil War were spread thin on the banks of the Rappahannock, quiet in dawn's faint light. Then, at 4:30 a.m., a sentry's voice broke the silence. "The hills are black with Yankees, sir! The hills are black with Yankees!" With that, the largest cavalry battle ever in North America was joined, as 17,000 Union and Confederate cavalry collided in and around Northern Virginia's Brandy Station.
The Confederacy prevailed back in 1863. But over a century later, those rolling fields and historic woodlands would once again come under fire. In 1993, a developer announced plans for a Formula One racetrack ...