8/6/15 - Boonsboro, MD

The electric sites in the state park are booked up for the weekend so we drove through the boondocking sites and picked one out to move to on Friday.  Then we drove to Antietam National Battlefield and drove the roads through it.  The heaviest fighting was at a cornfield, a sunken road now known as Bloody Lane, and at Burnside's Bridge.  This was the bloodiest single day battle in the nation’s history -- there were over 23,000 casualties.  General John Bell Hood’s Texas Brigade suffered the most casualties at 83% loss, mostly at the cornfield.  Ft. Hood in Texas is named after General Hood. 

 Then we drove to Harpers Ferry in West Virginia. We walked around town and saw a movie about John Brown’s failed raid on the National Armory here.  We walked across the Shanandoah River into Maryland to see lock 33 on the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal National Historic Site. 

On the way back to camp we stopped in Boonsboro at Dan’s Tap House and had a few IPA beers.  Today was National IPA Day and all the IPAs were $3.00.  We also talked to a nice young man who was born in Kileen, Texas near Ft. Hood.  He also was a homebrewer.  We told him about the Dixie Cup and encouraged him to submit some of his beers to the competition.