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I like Seminary Ridge. Looking out over that mile of Picket's charge really sends the chills up my spine. Other than that area...anywhere in the park, late afternoon/early evening on a hot July day. The setting sun and long shadows really change the place and you can really reflect upon what happened here without the hustle and bustle of the crowds.
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I'd have to go with the Devil's den. A man could find a good rock to ward off some of those yankee bullets! I remember being a bid awestruck by the North Carolina monument at the time (1956). I was a bit biased, however.
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I will have to go with Devils Den as well and the area from it to LRT. All those Big rocks scattered everywhere.. plenty of places to hide from direct fire but you then have the dangers of being hit from peices of rock broken off..
Kind of like the Lime atone out cropings just behind the Slaughter pen at the Stones River / Murfreesboro national Park.
Steven
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I mean, pretty much everybody like Devil's Den, LRT but I sorta like the cemetery. You can't help but get reflective when you are standing there; just try reading Lincoln's address and not have you eyes well up...yes, I'd say it is one of my favorite areas at Gettysburg.
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-Mark Twain
I was in Gettysburg last Sept. and toured the Park for three days and found Semitary ridge the best loved walking across the battlefield from W. Confederate Ave. to the Confederate high water mark and just trying to feel the emotions of Pickets charge.
I try to get to Gettysburg at least once a year, and no matter what time of year it is, I have to spend at least one sunset on Cemetery Ridge. I like to sit and look over the distance that the Confederates marched that day and reflect on it, wondering what I would have done if I were behind the stonewall on that day. There's just something about sunset, though, that makes it even better.
__________________ "I want to bury myself in a den of books. I want to saturate myself with the elements of which they are made and breathe their atmosphere until I am of it."
--Lew Wallace, 1885
Devils Den has to be my favorite place on the battle field.
__________________ "I want to bury myself in a den of books. I want to saturate myself with the elements of which they are made and breathe their atmosphere until I am of it."
--Lew Wallace, 1885
Mine too! I just cannot get over what a hell that place must have been with both sides in and around those rocks and boulders. Must have truly been a terrible scene on that hot, July day.
Unionblue
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