{"id":4795,"date":"2016-03-08T16:15:00","date_gmt":"2016-03-08T21:15:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2025-07-01T10:20:12","modified_gmt":"2025-07-01T14:20:12","slug":"olustee-battlefield-historic-state-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bcpoa.org\/wordpress\/?p=4795","title":{"rendered":"Olustee Battlefield Historic State Park"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bcpoa.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Ocean-252520Pond_thumb-25255B3-25255D.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; float: none; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-left: auto; display: block; padding-right: 0px; margin-right: auto; border: 0px;\" title=\"Ocean Pond\" src=\"https:\/\/bcpoa.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Ocean-252520Pond_thumb-25255B3-25255D-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"Ocean Pond\" width=\"700\" height=\"394\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>Ocean Pond is a 2 mile in diameter lake with the campsites along the North shore. Here we are, packed up for our last night in Florida.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bcpoa.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Ocean-252520Pond-252520Last-252520Day_thumb-25255B3-25255D.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; float: none; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-left: auto; display: block; padding-right: 0px; margin-right: auto; border-width: 0px;\" title=\"Ocean Pond Last Day\" src=\"https:\/\/bcpoa.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Ocean-252520Pond-252520Last-252520Day_thumb-25255B3-25255D-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"Ocean Pond Last Day\" width=\"700\" height=\"394\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bcpoa.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Olustee-252520Battlefield-252520Memorial1a_thumb-25255B2-25255D.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" style=\"background-image: none; float: left; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin: 0px 10px 0px 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border-width: 0px;\" title=\"Olustee Battlefield Memorial1a\" src=\"https:\/\/bcpoa.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Olustee-252520Battlefield-252520Memorial1a_thumb-25255B2-25255D-300x261.jpg\" alt=\"Olustee Battlefield Memorial1a\" width=\"550\" height=\"479\" align=\"left\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>On our last day here we decided to take a bike ride over to the Historic Battlefield. It is only 4-1\/2 miles by bike from our campsite and it is well worth the visit.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bcpoa.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Soldier_thumb-25255B1-25255D.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; float: left; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin: 0px 10px 0px 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border-width: 0px;\" title=\"Soldier\" src=\"https:\/\/bcpoa.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Soldier_thumb-25255B1-25255D-168x300.jpg\" alt=\"Soldier\" width=\"254\" height=\"452\" align=\"left\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>They have a small museum that shows a film with a good explana-tion of the battle that the Union should not have fought and ended up losing because of their incompetence. There were 2800 casualties and nothing was accomplished that mattered in the war.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bcpoa.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Olustee-252520Battlefield-252520Memorial2_thumb-25255B4-25255D.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; float: none; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-left: auto; display: block; padding-right: 0px; margin-right: auto; border-width: 0px;\" title=\"Olustee Battlefield Memorial2\" src=\"https:\/\/bcpoa.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Olustee-252520Battlefield-252520Memorial2_thumb-25255B4-25255D-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"Olustee Battlefield Memorial2\" width=\"700\" height=\"394\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">There is a big reenactment of the battle every February, but today we were the only visitors.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><strong>Heading Home a Little Earlier This Year<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Finally the weather turned warm and dry for us, so what do we do? That\u2019s right, we plan to head home to take advantage of the warm weather forecast for NE Ohio. Our plans could change if the weatherman lets us down, but right now it looks like it would be good for unpacking our RV at home with the temperatures in the 60\u2019s.<\/p>\n<p>This means we would want to get home by Friday night 3\/11 or Saturday morning. To allow a leisurely drive home, we will leave our campground here at Ocean Pond on Wednesday morning. We hope to be in SC on Wednesday night and in WV on Thursday night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ocean Pond is a 2 mile in diameter lake with the campsites along the North shore. Here we are, packed up for our last night in Florida. On our last day here we decided to take a bike ride over to the Historic Battlefield. It is only 4-1\/2 miles by bike from our campsite and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bcpoa.org\/wordpress\/?p=4795\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Olustee Battlefield Historic State Park<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4797,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-1516trip","category-16fltrip"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bcpoa.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4795","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bcpoa.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bcpoa.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bcpoa.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bcpoa.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4795"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/bcpoa.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4795\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6928,"href":"https:\/\/bcpoa.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4795\/revisions\/6928"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bcpoa.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bcpoa.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bcpoa.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bcpoa.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}