Gettysburg

We went to Gettysburg and had licensed guide drive around in the care with us. I love history, especially when I can walk around and live it.

At the top of Little Round Top, where the union held the upper ground on the second day of the battle at Gettysburg.

An unknown soldier buried at the Gettysburg National Cemetery. Flags are not placed by the park but by people who come and visit, but the park collects and stores all items left to remember the soldiers and battles. No confederate soldiers were buried here because the union won the battle at Gettysburg and chose to only bury their soldiers. Confederate soldiers where places in mass unmarked graved and burier. Around the 1970's an effort was made to find the remains of all casualties and identify them as well as give them a proper burial.

The cannon below is  is a real cannon that was used during the war, and you can tell because the barrel is stamped with the year it was made. The cannon above was not used in the war, the barrel is not stamped.

A cannon overlooking the field where Picketts Charge took place on the third day, and the Confederates lost the battle of Gettysburg.

This monument commemorates the place where Abraham Lincoln gave the Gettysburg address. The pennies are placed on the speech with the Lincoln side facing up. They are placed by people visiting the park.

Look closely at the building and you will see white marks. they are bullet holes, over 100 bullets were shot into the side of this house during the Civil War. It was a home taken over by the Confederate Soldiers and was used as a command center. The only civilian to be killed during the three day battle was shot here. We ate lunch at this building which is now a bed and breakfast and it was fantastic.