A-Cutting-Edge-Second-Look-at-the-Battle-of-Gettysburg.html

Smithsonian Institution ^ | 6/29/2013 | Smithsonian Institution

[JoeFromSidney]

This is really amazing. The Smithsonian has developed a digital reconstruction of the Battle of Gettysburg, showing not only the map and movement of the respective armies, but what was visible to each side during the battle. Well worth looking at.

[JoeFromSidney]

Somehow I goofed on getting the link inserted. Click on Smithsonian Institution above and you'll get it.

[UnwashedPeasant]

Here is the link:

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history-archaeology/A-Cutting-Edge-Second-Look-at-the-Battle-of-Gettysburg.html

[Rodamala]

Link takes me to a blank add coments screen... on android.

[Tax-chick]

bttt

[Drango]

I found the interactive very difficult to use. Kludgey comes to mind.

[Hulka]

Very moving.

Very close battle.

Brave men all.

[PAR35]

15 trackers on that web site. And I clicked to allow 4 of the 7 web sites and it still didn’t load. Think I’ll sit this one out.

[Red_Devil 232]

Same here - Clunky

[Conan the Librarian]

Pull out your old copy of Terrible Swift Sword from SPI and then you can re-fight the battle over again and find out why Lee did what he did.

[miliantnutcase]

From this map it makes you wonder how the Confederates lost the battle. Not until you see the 3D battlefield can you view the tactical advantage Meade was using.

[JW1949]

I went to the site a few years ago.....Standing at the site of Pickett’s charge and death marker, I had the strangest feelings come over me...My wife and I looked at each other and started talking about what we felt and could hear inside our heads...We both could actually “sense” the battles...sounds...shots...death...
The hair stands on my arms even today when I remember these feelings...
I am a Vietnam veteran, but I have never experienced anything like I felt at Gettysburg that day.....

[IncPen]

15 trackers on that web site. And I clicked to allow 4 of the 7 web sites and it still didn’t load. Think I’ll sit this one out.

I very much recommend a browser plugin called Do Not Track Me. It's free, and it works.

http://www.abine.com/how-donottrackme-works/

[PAR35]

I use Ghostery.

[Tax-chick]

My old boss said she couldn’t get out of the car at Gettysburg because there were too many dead soldiers around ... and she was not generally a sensitive lady in that way.

[Ditter]

I am pretty sensitive to things like that but when we were on the Gettysburg battlefield I did not sense anything.

A visit to the battlefield of Custer's Last Stand was entirely different. I was overwhelmed with sadness and pictures in my head.

[Anoreth]

I’ve been there. I felt similarly odd.

[Defiant]

re: trackers on the site: 90 percent of the people who would visit a Gettysburg site, or any civil war history site for that matter, are the kind that Obama's regime would consider enemies. Leftists don't care about history or heritage.

This would be one of those data points that NSA algorithms would look at.

[donmeaker]

Leftists care about history. They are agin it.