History in a series of cannons...

After posting the last photo of me with the cannon at the Palo Alto Battlefield in south Texas, I went looking at my battlefield photographs. For years my parents and I visited Civil War battlefields in multiple states during summer holidays.

Sara at Kennesaw Mountain Battlefield, Georgia, 2001

History-excitement but not genealogy

Sara at the Palo Alto Battlefield National Historic Park

August 2012

So I had been wanting to visit some battlefields ever since I moved to Texas. I used to live on the East Coast, and there are TONS of battlefields there. Not so many in Texas, though.

A coworker and I were in the Rio Grande Valley for work and driving back to our hotel saw one of the brown historic signs. I was able to convince him to turn off, and we ended up at the Palo Alto Battlefield National Historic Park, the site of the first battle of the US-Mexican War.

Unfortunately (or fortunately, depending on the viewpoint), it was so hot that we forwent hiking the trails and did not take a gander of the site from the overlook. Nor did we visit the sister site of Resaca de la Palma. This means that I will have to go back, right?

Palo Alto Battlefield

August 2012

Taken by Sara Gredler