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Visiting Historic Richmond

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My return visit to Washington was sadly lacking in triumph – Protip: Check that your GPS maps are correct before setting out – and I was too strapped for time to get over to Richmond.  If anyone is considering a visit, though, this piece sums up all the great Civil War sites to visit in town.

And look! It suggests a visit to a cemetery where the remains of some of those Jewish soldiers I mentioned are buried.

An offbeat cemetery is the Hebrew Cemetery, dating to 1816 and operated by Congregation Beth Ahabah. Within this cemetery is a plot called the Soldier’s Section. It holds the graves of 30 Jewish Confederate soldiers killed in the Civil War.

Visiting historic Richmond – Philly.com.

Civil War Roadtrip

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I missed this series when Slate first featured it, but am adding it to my to-do list now. Looks like a fun read.

…To find out, I’ve planned an ambitious road trip. Over the course of 10 days, I will drive from New Orleans to New York, stopping along the way at as many points of Civil War interest as I can manage. Many of the stops will be at national parks commemorating the war’s major battles. But also on the itinerary is Andersonville, the Confederate prison camp where nearly 13,000 Union soldiers died; the CSS Hunley, the first submarine to complete a combat mission; and Stone Mountain, Ga., the Mount Rushmore of the Confederacy and home to a nightly laser light show. (This is the stop I am most eagerly anticipating—I love a laser light show.)

http://www.slate.com/articles/life/welltraveled/features/2010/civil_war_road_trip/the_beauty_and_horror_of_shiloh.html