Written by: Julie 3/16/2009 5:31 PM
On Saturday we drove to Angleton to the Brazoria County Historical Society annual book sale. It was the last day of the sale and they were selling boxes of books for $10 per box. Just fill a box with any assortment of books and pay the $10! The sheer number of books was overwhelming. Thousands of books that had been donated over the course of the past year. Some books were really old and some were almost new. I happened across this small collection of books about civil war battlefields. The books were published and printed by the National Park Service between 1954 and 1960. I was especially interested in the book about Shiloh. I grew up very near Shiloh and I've been there quite a few times to visit the military park along the banks of the Tennessee river. As a child in the South, I would hear my grandparents and their generation make references to The War. We knew they weren't talking about the wars of their youth: World War 1 or 2. They were still talking about the Civil War even into the 1980's.
On Saturday we drove to Angleton to the Brazoria County Historical Society annual book sale. It was the last day of the sale and they were selling boxes of books for $10 per box. Just fill a box with any assortment of books and pay the $10!
The sheer number of books was overwhelming. Thousands of books that had been donated over the course of the past year. Some books were really old and some were almost new. I happened across this small collection of books about civil war battlefields. The books were published and printed by the National Park Service between 1954 and 1960.
I was especially interested in the book about Shiloh. I grew up very near Shiloh and I've been there quite a few times to visit the military park along the banks of the Tennessee river. As a child in the South, I would hear my grandparents and their generation make references to The War. We knew they weren't talking about the wars of their youth: World War 1 or 2. They were still talking about the Civil War even into the 1980's.
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