New Market Battlefield - looking south from Bushong Hill

I must have watched The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly too many times. I’m a sucker for this framing for a shot when on Civil War battlefields.

This is looking down the hill at the the Bushong Farm, and the field between there and the gun was a muddy wheatfield on the day of the battle. When the VMI cadets charged across it a number of them lost their footwear in the mud and it was afterwards known as “The Field of Lost Shoes”.

en.wikipedia.org
(link for those wanting further info on the battle)