The battle at Gettysburg was really nasty and full of all sorts of gunshot wounds, dead people and really nasty food, so I don't think I'll go into great detail of who shot who and where and why. Like so many other sites of national history, there's a special feel in the 6,000 acre battlefield, and you can tell by how
reverent people are, and how serene the area is, that something remarkable happened there. Another great indication of the impact this site has had on our current state of freedom is the overwhelming prices stuck onto the gazillions of books and
memorabilia for sale in the gift shop.
Since there is so much land to cover, and over 1,400 monuments have been built to
commemorate the battle, we found it impossible to even try and read all the plaques. We followed the marked trail through the park, stopping at the 20 or so sites listed on the map, and read about what happened there. Along the way we looked at the monuments that had neat statues, or lots of sticks that Zoe could dig in the dirt with. Since the place is so gigantic you have to follow the trail by car, which required a lot of getting Zoe in and out, which required a lot of leaning over on my part, and a lot of screaming on Zoe's part as she did not want to leave all her newly
acquired Civil War sticks behind at each of the stops. I began to call this Zoe's own personal rebel yell, but stopped when I realized that was probably
sacreligious.
I've thrown a picture of each of our favorite monuments in this posting, or at least the three pictures that came out well. The first was taken looking over the battlefield from the top of Little Round Top. Sara loved it up there and we spent quite a while walking from one side of the hill to the other looking across the field. This is another one of those Sara pictures that could probably be a post card. I'm not really sure who the statue is a likeness of, but I know that if you get up on the rock that the statue is standing on, the park people get pretty angry. The next picture down is of Zoe's favorite monument, Virginia's state monument. She liked it so much because there were like twenty cannons surrounding it, all of which she decorated with sticks. We're thinking about getting a Civil War cannon and a bunch of sticks to take to church with us since they kept her quiet for over an hour. She also enjoyed running up to the base of the monument while people were trying to take pictures of it, pointing at the statue of Robert E. Lee and shouting "Horsey". The monument at the bottom is my favorite, it was put there by the state of Pennsylvania in memorial of it's fallen sons. This is the largest of the monuments in the park, and visitors can climb up to the top of it and look around. We didn't go up there because this was towards the end of the trail and honestly, as you begin hour number six of looking at these things, you kinda just want to go get something to eat.
The battle at Gettysburg was really nasty and full of all sorts of gunshot wounds, dead people and really nasty food, so I don't think I'll go into great detail of who shot who and where and why. Like so many other sites of national history, there's a special feel in the 6,000 acre battlefield, and you can tell by how reverent people are, and how serene the area is, that something remarkable happened there. Another great indication of the impact this site has had on our current state of freedom is the overwhelming prices stuck onto the gazillions of books and memorabilia for sale in the gift shop.
Since there is so much land to cover, and over 1,400 monuments have been built to commemorate the battle, we found it impossible to even try and read all the plaques. We followed the marked trail through the park, stopping at the 20 or so sites listed on the map, and read about what happened there. Along the way we looked at the monuments that had neat statues, or lots of sticks that Zoe could dig in the dirt with. Since the place is so gigantic you have to follow the trail by car, which required a lot of getting Zoe in and out, which required a lot of leaning over on my part, and a lot of screaming on Zoe's part as she did not want to leave all her newly acquired Civil War sticks behind at each of the stops. I began to call this Zoe's own personal rebel yell, but stopped when I realized that was probably sacreligious. 
I've thrown a picture of each of our favorite monuments in this posting, or at least the three pictures that came out well. The first was taken looking over the battlefield from the top of Little Round Top. Sara loved it up there and we spent quite a while walking from one side of the hill to the other looking across the field. This is another one of those Sara pictures that could probably be a post card. I'm not really sure who the statue is a likeness of, but I know that if you get up on the rock that the statue is standing on, the park people get pretty angry. The next picture down is of Zoe's favorite monument, Virginia's state monument. She liked it so much because there were like twenty cannons surrounding it, all of which she decorated with sticks. We're thinking about getting a Civil War cannon and a bunch of sticks to take to church with us since they kept her quiet for over an hour. She also enjoyed running up to the base of the monument while people were trying to take pictures of it, pointing at the statue of Robert E. Lee and shouting "Horsey". The monument at the bottom is my favorite, it was put there by the state of Pennsylvania in memorial of it's fallen sons. This is the largest of the monuments in the park, and visitors can climb up to the top of it and look around. We didn't go up there because this was towards the end of the trail and honestly, as you begin hour number six of looking at these things, you kinda just want to go get something to eat. 
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