Gettysburg, PA

The last war on American soil we studied is the Civil War.  What started as a conflict over slavery and the need for a slave workforce to maintain Southern plantations, ended up being a war with the Confederate states seceding and President Lincoln trying to maintain the Union.  I guess they figured 30+ years earlier the colonists who disagreed with the British declared independence, why couldn’t the Confederate states.

The visitor center presented an amazing display summarizing the war and detailing the Battle of Gettysburg. The museum exhibits explained each of the first three days of July 1863, explaining General Robert E Lee’s strategies and General Meade’s responses.

There was an upstairs room dedicated to the Gettysburg Cyclorama, a painting with a 360 degree view of the third day of battle by the French artist  Paul Dominique Philippoteaux. This cyclorama has been restored and is on display for Gettysburg’s 150 year anniversary.

After an exhausting afternoon in the Visitor Center’s museum, we took a quick tour of the battle field.

The national park maintains nearly 2000 monuments, canons and buildings.

It is advisable noting the warnings signs to ED related to canadian pharmacies tadalafil mental health at the initial phase. Also, ordering these medications through online pharmacies can be legit, however, since a pharmacist may email or call a patient to ensure they are good candidates for a particular cialis 10 mg http://www.heritageihc.com/buy5935.html drug. Achieving cheapest viagra in canada erection Before considering the causes or fixing of erectile dysfunction, let us see how an erection is promoted, which sustains for longer duration. This device works no matter what the cause of ED and it can tadalafil tablets in india be either mild or severe. We bought the auto audio tour CD and will try to get back here sometime.

For all it’s service we would like to thank The Van.  The Van is 23 years old this year.  Eric ensures it’s mechanical integrity as it takes us on our adventures.  The Van served us well in California and on our adventures in the west and all through Colorado, last year it transported the kids, Topaz and I along with a stock pile of stuff we didn’t think we could live without from CA to FL and up to NJ.

This summer we’ve been as far south as NC and then north to NY, soon we’ll buzz down to FL for a week and back up to NY.  We camped in it in Gettysburg.  After a cramped night, we enjoyed a bike ride through the campground and ……

what all our favorite campgrounds offer, mini golf.

 

 

This entry was posted in Adventures. Bookmark the permalink.

One Response to Gettysburg, PA

  1. LoriNRuss says:

    Your pictures are beautiful- so clear and tell the story along with what you wrote. We are near Baltimore now, but it didn’t fit in to our schedule. Too bad. Your stops bring back memories as well as nudge the need to make new ones.