Just found these 2 pics from my trip to Gettysburg!

[Shell Beau]

I forgot about these.


Me acting like I am some sort of rock climber while the hubby is strolling on another rock below.


I just thought these rocks were pretty.

[Avalux]

1. Did you visit my family's house?

It's the Trostle House - next to Little Round Top. The farmhouse was used as a hospital during the war. Nice pics! :hi:

[Shell Beau]

3. We did the whole tour of Gettysburg. It was very beautiful.

And very hard to conceive the history of that place.

[skygazer]

2. Little Round Top/Devil's Den area?

Gettysburg was one of the neatest places I ever visited. Very easy to picture what happened there.

[Shell Beau]

4. I climbed so many rocks I can't remember.

But I was trying to envision how the events unfolded. Amazing really!

[Hobarticus]

5. Sure looks like it...

I went to G-burg a few years ago, and I'd love to get back. It is very easy to imagine the battle.

[Shell Beau]

6. Yes and before the tour, I went to this room where the lights were out

and they had Gettysburg mapped out on the floor. And they lit up the Confederate areas in red and lit up the northerners in blue. Do you know what I am talking about? It gave a whole descrption of where they were located and a little narrative about different things. It really helped me envision the whole thing as well.

[Hobarticus]

8. I didn't catch that...is it new?

I was there maybe five years ago. That would be a great presentation to catch. I did find the area where my great-grandfather's unit was positioned, thanks to those markers they put up everywhere. That really brought it home, for me.

[Shell Beau]

10. I am not sure if it is new or not. But it

really helped envision everything. The lights lit up to show when each side moved forward or backward and how close they were at all times. Also where they slept, etc. It really gave a good imagery.

[Hobarticus]

13. I know the history pretty well, but something like that really would've

been nice to see ahead of time. It makes a world of difference to visit a battlefield if you know what went where.

[Shell Beau]

15. That is actually what saved me. I wouldn't say

I'd have been lost w/o it, but I wouldn't have gotten all that I could've out of the experience.

[Shell Beau]

7. I guess they place some of the rocks there.

Some of them just don't look like natural occurrences. When we went, there was a confederate redneck there. He was riding around and then parked at Robert E. Lee's memorial. He had Dixie playing really loudly and he had 2 confederate flags on each side of his truck blowing around as he drove.

[Hobarticus]

11. Niiiiiize. Only takes one jackass to ruin a solemn place.

Suppose he traipses through cemetaries tooting his 'lookit me, my side lost' horn.

[Shell Beau]

14. It actually made me appreciate the place more.

I thought Thank God, b/c if all that hadn't happened, there would probably be a lot more of people like him.

[Hobarticus]

18. Now, that's a good way to see things...

I like your attitude.

Still, you can't help but wonder what any spirits of the fallen are thinking..."what the hell's he carryin' on for?"

[Shell Beau]

19. Yeah, maybe he is one of the confederate's reincarnated

as a major redneck. Anyway, he really made me laugh. He looked pathetic. He pulled up at the Lee memorial , parked, got out, and sat on his tailgate with the music playing Dixie. I guess he was lost in the moment. :rofl:

[Hobarticus]

20. "Lost", is right...

Kind of like cheering for the home team long after they got beat.

[Shell Beau]

21. Ha ha ha! n/t

[Taverner]

9. Very cool BUT.........

You tried to climb up rocks in sandals?

[Shell Beau]

12. They were called Earth shoes. They

were very cushiony and comfortable and had an elastic band that wrapped around the back of my heel. I was prepared. I didn't want my feet to get hot in tennis shoes.

[southlandshari]

23. Ahem....

Leave Shell Beau alone or I will give you a spankin'! AND withhold Moon Pies indefinitely!

:spank:

Shell Beau, is this bad man bothering you? Just let me know, ok darlin'?

;)

[Shell Beau]

25. I am so glad to know that you have my back!!

You can handle Taverner I know! ;)

[southlandshari]

26. No sweat, my fellow southern sister!

He's toast if he keeps messing with you - I ain't a'skeered of no California blue state liberal elitist noways!

:hi:

[WI_DEM]

16. Did you see any supernatural activity?

I've heard stories that people occassionally see spirits of civil war soldiers.

[Shell Beau]

17. I did hear a bunch of stories of such. Especially

near the bloody battle (or whatever it is called), where the most people were killed. These strange breezes would come through all of a sudden and then just stop. But that is basically all. I guess it could be considered weird or normal depending on how you view things like that.

[Hobarticus]

22. Oh yeah, that's the 'Bloody Angle'...

That was a corner in a fenceline that jutted out into the front line, at one point. Anyone there got it from three sides. Yeesh. If anything paranormal was there, that's where it'd be.

I really got a chill at that tree where the Confederate advance got stopped cold. They call it the High-Water Mark, and there's a marker there. Imagine coming across that field, and having to climb those fences under withering fire.

[Shell Beau]

24. I know. It was very chilling to think about.

Not to mention the doctor's surgical kits I saw in the museum. They had saws in them. Yikes, I would have hated to been operated on by anything in those kits.