Friday, December 1, 2017

THE BATTLE OF PARKERS CROSSING TN. - on the road again!

Today is Friday December 1st 2017, we left Eastern Tennessee on Tuesday morning with a new slide-out motor, a new 12 volt breaker and a new control switch. The motor arrived on Monday afternoon and the tech said it would be a easy install and you will be on the road in a hour or so.
Well im old enough to know when someone tells you it will be easy or no problem, it usually turns out the opposite. This time was no exception to the rule. The motor only took a 1 hour to install, when the tech when to operate it NOTHING. Well he looked at the switch and found it faulty and said it would be a easy fix, sure it would be? Put switch in and nothing, no power at all. To make a long story short it took them to the sun set to find the 12 volt breaker that had also burned in half The one positive of all of this is im really learning how the systems operate in a RV.

Monday morning wile we were waiting for our motor to arrive we decided to walk the Battle field nearby called Parkers Crossroads. It has an awesome visitor center with a movie explaining the battle in detail. Just like the battle of Shiloh the rebels had it won and faith at the last minute changed everything and the Union ended up winning. I have been to many of the Civil war battle fields thurout the years and I am amazed at the courage of the soldiers that fought at such close combat!
The amount of troops in the tens of thousands, the supplies, cannons, horses etc are just amazing how they moved from battle to battle with little knowledge of exact placement of troops. The casualties and wounded are always in the thousands.    
 BATTLE OF PARKERS CROSSROADS LINK:
 https://www.civilwar.org/learn/civil-war/battles/parkers-cross-roads

Almost 5000 troops were in this battle in the Western part of Tennessee





Beautiful sunny day with over 5 miles of trails

It took 7 troops to man each piece of field artillery and there were 4 to 6 cannons in a battery
LINK to Field Artillery http://cwartillery.com/FA/FA.html


1 comment:

  1. were you really there? cause I don't see you in any pictures

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