No, Not That War; At Saratoga, They Remember a More Revolutionary Fight From: The Washington Post | Date: June 22, 2005| Author: Bob Thompson | Copyright 2005 The Washington Post. This material is published under license from the Washington Post.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Washington Post.Copyright information

Don't talk to Joe Craig about Gettysburg or Manassas. Not unless you want to hear the voluble, gray-ponytailed ranger at Saratoga National Historical Park denounce the Civil War as "the Budweiser of American history."

It's a sunny, off-season Saturday afternoon, and Craig holds forth in the nearly empty Saratoga visitor center, where there's not a double-decker tour bus in sight, let alone a strip of cheesy tourist traps. Yes, the ranger confesses, he's used that Budweiser line a few t...

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