My College town, Gettysburg. The battlefield was a favorite college night parking place.
Met my wife and other swell coeds there. I adopted Getttysburg as my home town. my parents lived and died there. My father and my wife’s father attended Gettysburg college and Gettysburg Lutheran Seminary. my older brother Moved there and died there.
My wife’s grandfather was a civil engineer who built the Battlefield roads. A few of my Virginia ancestors fought there.
Y’all should visit
Yes I’ve visited several times—even though I live in CA—and on my last visit, went with an expert tour guide and we toured the Battlefield not geographically, but chronologically, so we toured it three times for each day of the battle.
And we walked Pickett’s charge, across the grass—no other tourists did that. Good way to get chiggers. . .
I love visiting Civil War Battlefields—they are amazing places. Holy ground. . .