As a kid I grew up a good part of my life in the suburbs of Washington D.C. Not only did we live 20 minutes from about 30 free museums but within a 50 mile radius there were dozens ofCivil War battlefields. Uba would claim that me and my dad dragged her to every Civil War battle field on the east coast but in reality she came on about 3 trips with us and me and mydad.Probably, she came with us to Fredericksburg, Gettysburg and Antietam.At the same time I received my second war game as a kid, the SPI Quad game with a plastic cover Blue & Gray 2. Meand my dad ended up playing all the Blue& Gray 2 and later my dad bought me Blue & Gray 1 so we ended up playing all 8 battles. In every battle I played the Union and he played Confederates.