I was in Gettsyburg quite a number of years ago but do want to go back again. I was only there one day and tried to see as much as I could but it made for such an exhausting and hectic time I’d like to go back a bit more leisurely and soak in the atmosphere.
I have toured Gettysburg several times—and the best tour was not geographical, but chronological!
We walked the battlefield three times, for each day, in the order of the fighting. And we walked Pickett’s charge. No one did that other than my family. Empty field full of chiggers. . .
The Civil War is amazing and the battles are so interesting and it is so sad that kids now know nothing about it.
Exactly! You could spend years there and not see everything.
I was fortunate to visit the Battlefield in 1998. Me and the family did a self guided tours and found the Devil’s Den and Roundtops to be haunting. The second day we somehow wound up with pretty much a private guided tour of the cornfield and Cemetary Ridge after a light fog rolled in after a thunderstorm. The young lady park ranger must have had theater experience as she conducted the tour from the first person view of Armistead. It was an eerie experience.
I just returned from Gettysburg today. I spent two full days there, still not enough time. I walked from the angle over to Seminary Ridge and back yesterday. Chilling feeling when, half way across, you imagine the fire Pickett and Pettigrew were taking from the ridge ahead, Cemetery Hill on the left and Little Round Top on the right.
We spent two days there two years ago in May, Lodged at the Baladerry Inn, an amazing and beautiful place. My psychic senses were in extreme overload. Period. I stood on a bright, warm sunny day like it would be in July at the corner of the Wheatfield and was in awe. Gettysburg is sacred ground. If any profane it may they be sent to eternal damnation.