Journey Through Hallowed Ground

Confederates charge Union lines during a reenactment of the battle at Antietam. (© Kenneth Garrett Photography)

A Union soldier reenactor stands by an 1864 U.S. flag at Gettysburg's Lincoln Cemetery on Remembrance Day. A special ceremony is held for black soldiers who continue to be buried there. (© Kenneth Garrett Photography)

Cabernet Sauvignon grapes ripen on vines at the Boxwood Winery near Middleburg, Virginia. (© Kenneth Garrett Photography)

The colorful autumn tree-lined drive at Oatlands Plantation near Leesburg, Virginia, looks onto its front field. The 1,200-acre plantation succeeds in preserving the soul of the surrounding community. (© Kenneth Garrett Photography)

For the past 45 years an audience has gathered at Monticello on July Fourth to observe a U.S. citizenship ceremony. (© Kenneth Garrett Photography)

At this battlefield, now a bucolic park on Route 15 near Culpeper, Virginia, Stonewall Jackson's Confederates were victorious over Gen. John Pope's Union Army in August, 1862. (© Kenneth Garrett Photography)

A snowy day on a cattle farm near Broad Run, three miles east of The Plains, Virginia, is a common scene in this cattle-farming area. (© Kenneth Garrett Photography)

A scarlet-jacketed fox hunter leads his hounds to the gathering spot. First established in 1887 and recognized by 1893, the Warrenton Hunt is one of the oldest in the area and provides numerous topographical challenges. (© Kenneth Garrett Photography)