How come so many civil war battles were fought on national park grounds?

Answer 1

~Most of the parks had plaques, statues, tour guides maps and the like to show the generals were to place their troops, and to tell the troops where to die or to kill. It just made organization of the whole affair soooooooo much easier for all involved.

Answer 2

The American Civil War was such a huge and catastrophic event, that the battlefields were saved and dedicated to the memory of those who fought and died there. It is hard for us to imagine, today, ten thousand men marching across a field, holding their rifles, as thousands of men on the other side opened fire on them with rifles and cannons, and they just kept charging and dying. The National Park Service took over the battlefields, and as there were so many battles and most of them took place in a fairly small area (Virginia, Maryland, Southern PA, Tennessee) it seems that the Park Service in that part of the country is devoted to the Civil War. Which isn't a bad thing. It was a bloody, long, horrible ordeal for both sides, and it's a miracle anyone survived it. It's too bad that we never learn from the past.

Answer 3

There were no national parks during the Civil War, the national parks came after the fact.

Answer 4

actually these grounds where mostly farm lands or meadows during that era of the war . The battle grounds of Gettysburg where actually farm lands when the war started there it changed to a bloody battlefield's. Now to honor the dead from both North and South It became a National Park also an unmarked cemetery for the buried bead there. nobody is allowed to step foot on that ground without special permission.

Answer 5

because the conflict began Lincoln and Jefferson , with a watch on the destiny determined that each and every one the battles should be fought contained in the nationwide Parks , that could convey contained in the vacationers and obviously the money after the Civil conflict become over. An astute foresight into the destiny would I upload no longer each and every of the commanders , Union or accomplice agreed with this technique , wanting to wrestle the battles on their chosen floor , yet many were fired because of this dissent Edit. My excitement. stupid questions deserve stupid solutions.

Answer 6

The parks were created to honor the battles, and the ones who fell in wartime.

Answer 7

i think they became national park grounds to commemorate the civil wars or anything of historic significance

Answer 8

I'm not sure!! What I wonder is how come all those Monuments on the battlefield don't have bullet holes in them? It was sure nice of someone to put them there so all the army companies knew where to stand during the battle. : )

Answer 9

they probably made them national parks after the war was fought. if not, I don't know that much about war, so I can't help you further.

Answer 10

...because it was free to do battle there....you got this upside down...typically they will take places that were battle grounds and turn them into National Park to honor those who lost their lives on the very spot you walked on.