My first visit to Gettysburg

[Sjscat]

Last Sunday through Tuesday i was in Gettysburg visiting the National Park. It was very moving. After years of reading about the battle i was finally there walking on the grounds.

I live in the midwest so we do not have such large, well preserved sites. I pray i get to come back many times.

 

[scooter748driver]

Welcome from the Fort Sumter and the Fredericksburg forums. I hope to make it there one day as well.

 

[gc45]

Great that U got to visit. I too would enjoy going but age and distance prevents my traveling now. My Dad took me there when being very young but I remember almost nothing but the ice cream we had!

 

[captaindrew]

Welcome to the forum and glad you made it to Gettysburg, hope you get back many times.

 

[1SGDan]

I have been there several times and always find it a emotional experience.

 

[Sjscat]

I picked up a reproduction Union kepi, haversack, and belt with a US buckel. My wife really does not like me wearing the kepi in public!

 

[C. Cash]

Quite a place.

 

[infomanpa]

Last Sunday through Tuesday i was in Gettysburg visiting the National Park. It was very moving. After years of reading about the battle i was finally there walking on the grounds.

I live in the midwest so we do not have such large, well preserved sites. I pray i get to come back many times.

Too bad that Little Round Top is closed. Hopefully, you will go back when the renovation is completed.

 

[JOHN42768]

Welcome, enjoy

 

[Sundance]

I'm glad you got there. I've been there several times as I have an ancestor who died on Little Round Top and has a grave in the soldiers' cemetery. You can't be there and not be moved.

 

[MRB1863]

Happy for you having had the experience of visiting Gettysburg! MrsMRB1863 and I think it is truly the most Magical Place on earth. And yes...good ice cream is to be had there.

 

[KianGaf]

Looking forward to my visit later in the year. It will be my fourth CW battlefield. So far I've made Balls Bluff, Bull Run & Chickamagua. With the addition of Fords Theatre into the mix. You can't beat visiting these historic sites.

 

[Eric Wittenberg]

I've been to Gettysburg more than 100 times in my life, and I see something new each and every time I go. Enjoy!

 

[gc45]

I picked up a reproduction Union kepi, haversack, and belt with a US buckel. My wife really does not like me wearing the kepi in public!

If having one, North or South, I would wear it as well! The hat does not make the man..

 

[Randoke77]

I'll make my seventh trip there next month. Hitting Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania and Richmond before.

 

[huds1117]

Last Sunday through Tuesday i was in Gettysburg visiting the National Park. It was very moving. After years of reading about the battle i was finally there walking on the grounds.

I live in the midwest so we do not have such large, well preserved sites. I pray i get to come back many times.

On your next trip East go to Antietam Battlefield in Sharpsburg, MD. It is a smaller area to cover, but it will still will take some time to do it justice. I would suggest staying in Frederick, MD and take old Route 40 from there - this will likely be the same directions given from any navigation system you use. By doing so you will take the route that the bulk of both armies followed and will also see the battlefield of South Mountain - a rear guard action fought two days before Antietam. The small towns that you will travel through, as well as the battlefield areas, are little changed and not over populated or heavily commercialized.

 

[Bentonville]

I have the same luck as my dad. He got to go in the rain, as did I. I did get to go to the old visitor's center. I didn't realize what a huge mess it was. Diorama.

Did walk past Mead's head quarters. Very nice horse there.

I ended up going to Shilo the same Sumner. That was more what I thought a field should be. Still holds up too.