Bolivar Heights

Well the temperature has been up in the 50's and 60's this week and all the snow is gone. Cold weather's supposed to return tomorrow so I took Lagniappe up to Bolivar Heights to chase the tennis ball around. I like to throw for him from the top of a hill as I get more distance out of the throws and he gets to work harder bringing it back up the hill time and time again. He tires quicker and that's good for me.




Here's Lagniappe surveying Harpers Ferry down below. It was on this spot that a 14,000 man Union Army under Colonel Dixon Miles tried and failed to hold off a Confederate Force under Confederate General Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson in September of 1862. Jackson's forces surrounded the encamped troops on this ridge and bombarded them until Miles surrendered, resulting in the largest capture of American troops in the history of this nation--12,500 Union soldiers, 73 cannon, 11,000 small arms and 200 wagons and teams. Some of the dead from that fighting are still buried on and around this ridge-line in unmarked and forgotten graves. Today it's maintained nicely by the National Park Service.

And here's Lagniappe, all set for a rematch as he readies a Union field gun for action.














Wrong side you silly dog. You're Southern!