Gettysburg

Wow, what a day we had in Gettysburg, everyone should have the chance to visit this important historical park.

We started at the visitor center, it was huge, besides the regular restaurant and book stores there were two theaters, a circlegram theater and a huge museum. The visitor center alone took us over 4 hours.

Here is a picture of Abe Lincoln, the man most would hold responsible for the Civil War.




The circular theater is a 377 degree round painting, which was actually done in 1889, was almost destroyed before the National Park service got ahold of it and in 2008 became this wonderful setting for the theater.

Before leaving the visitor center I bought an audio tour for the 24 mile path we would drive to see the actual battlefield, you have never seen so many monuments and cannons in all your life and everyone told a story.

Seminary Ridge was where General Lee ordered those poor Confederate troops to charge across the open field on a charge into the Union lines.

The fall colors made everything look so wonderful.





The Virginia Memorial had General Lee and his horse Traveller on top.

James Longstreet was the poor General that Lee ordered to give the fateful order to send the men across Seminary Ridge.

Just a quick peek out across the countryside.

Gettysburg was known as the battle with the most casulties of the Civil War, over 52,000, dead, wounded or missing.

We started our audio tour ride at 230pm and it was to take 2 and a half hours, so now as you can see the sun is setting and we are not quite finished, by the time we get to the cemetry it is to dark for pictures.

We drive by the cemetry and listened to the audio tour but that part of our day must come to an end but we did find a varsity football game and even though it is pretty cool tonight it was fun to go.