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Driving Dixie

8 August 2015

9:00 AM

8 August 2015

9:00 AM

I am driving my son from Washington DC to Charlottesville, Virginia, for a two-day ‘orientation’ at the university he will soon be attending. You can’t go far in this part of America without being reminded of the Civil War, and we detour briefly via Antietam Creek, where in 1862 over 20,000 men died, making it the bloodiest day in American military history.

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