Across the road, inthepasture, the horses, mules and cowsstoodquietly with heads over the split-railfence, waiting tobe driven to the stables and supper.
It's too late for a park on the scale of Gettysburg or Antietam, but off the side roads important battlefield fragments still exist, behind split-rail fences, amidst cattle, corn and glistening yellow tobacco leaves.
Johnson Library, a midcentury futuristic cube at the University of Texas at Austin, the imperial and the folksy are at odds: Sweeping travertine stairs and a monumental display of scarlet storage boxes emblazoned with gold presidential seals contrast with an animatronic, Stetson-wearing Johnson posed at a split-rail fence.