Ditto. I visited Gettysburg many times as well. I preferred going in December and January when I had the park basically to myself. Can't remember the last time I was there. General Francis Channing Barlow...Barlow's Knoll...July 1st, 1863. His first wife Arabella contracted typhus while serving as an Army nurse. He later married Ellen Shaw, sister of Colonel Robert Gould Shaw of the 54th Massachusetts Infantry. I met, visited, and corresponded with a collateral relative of Shaw's. His name was Reverend Robert Shaw Sturgis Whitman. At that time he recalled having visited "cousin Nellie" as a young boy. She was a widow by then. And he took us by the house she and Barlow had once lived in.
Reverand Whitman was a WWII vet, and graciously welcomed me into his home while I was researching his family history. He showed me around his home in Lenox, and told me that his aunt Helen Whitman was married to the famous "Nuts" McAuliffe.
Another ancestor of his...can't remember if it was his great or great-great grandfather Colonel Royal Emerson Whitman, had served in a Maine unit during the Civil War, and eventually commanded Camp Grant, Arizona in 1871. Colonel Whitman had worked to get members of the Aravaipa Apaches to come to the camp. They had been driven off their land by settlers. Those that hadn't come to the fort were attacked by a group of Tucson citizens, Mexicans, and their accomplices from the Tohono O'odham tribe. The camp consisted mostly of old men, women and children. Those killed were all scalped. The children who were allowed to live, were sold into slavery in Mexico. Whitman fought hard to have the individuals who perpetrated the attack held accountable. There was a trial, but no one was ever convicted for the attack.
Whitman was a drinker, and a womanizer. He'd been busted a few times by the Army, and his personal military record at the National Archives was extremely interesting to read. During my research of newspapers, I found that he had purchased the old, wooden bridge in Washington, D.C. and had canes made out of it to sell. Long Bridge as it was called, was the bridge that Booth and Davy Harold rode over the night of Lincoln's assassination. Whitman is buried in Arlington. He was friends with Gutzon Borglum of Mount Rushmore fame, and Borglum designed Whitman's bas relief headstone.