Monmouth Battlefield

I believe that Ron will post a rather long yet interesting and vital entry about the battle of Monmouth and all the excitement therein so I will keep my entry short and sweet and simply post some pictures.

The first pictures are from a church that was used as a hospital for injured soldiers during the war. We could not go into the church as it was closed, but a historical recording told us that the pews inside the church are still bloodstained and that divots from the amputation saws of wartime doctors still mark them as well. We'll have to go back...

Old Tennent Church

Surrounding the church is a huge cemetery, there many graves from the mid 1700s still standing.

Here is a detail of another tombstone. Many of the tombstones of this time and location seemed to have the engraving of the angel or skull (see stone above). The skull is a little macabre, I'm not sure why it was so popular.
Here is the marker from the church.

Then we moved over to Monmouth Battlefield State Park for a hot walk around the orchards which was good exercise before my surgery. Here is a picture of a statue I took, and a detail of a little bug that was buzzing loudly on it.

Ewww yucky bug.