Ruth, Glad you had such a good time, I intended to get back to Perryville this year, and didn't accomplish it. Yet! Yes, standing on that land, and near those graves is a very moving experience, when you know that they are your relatives! I wanted to cry the first time I stood there, I could hear the gamat of laughter, tears, happy, sorrow, kids, old folks, imagine, those old graves belong in our history . . . my first trip too was a very special one. Sorry I'm so slow responding, my mother has been ill and I've been running my tail off! All is well, (so far) now so, back to it. I'm working on a fringe line in genealogy, "Wynn/Brake" I think I've pretty well tapped out stuff on the "Bottom" surname, but as always you continue to search! Hope all is well with you. . . Dee At 03:28 PM 10/10/98 -0500, you wrote: >Hi Cousin Dee, > > My family and I went to Perryville today. It was wonderful! We took our >grandchildren to the Bottom Gabbert graves and visted Cosin Henry's house, >There are people living in it now. It looked very authentic. They let us >come in and look around. The activities at the battlefield were great. And I >feel that it was a great learning experience that the children will never >forget. It was on of those treasured moment kind of days. Hope you are well >and all your family. >Love, cousin Ruth Ann > > > > > >