Day 11 - Gettysburg Battle Fields

I visited Gettysburg today and took a two hour guided tour of the battle fieldsThese are original cannons from the war, their are many left all over the battle fields

Since the end of the Civil War there have been over 1400 monument erected in the battle field, all are erected precisely where the event happened

This is the group of us on the guided tour

This is the Pennsylvania Monument it is the largest of the monuments

This is an original building in the city of Gettysburg that was used as a headquarters for the Union. Click on the picture and you will be able to see the potholes that were left from bullets that hit the side of the building.

Cemetery Hill

Another monument overlooking one of the battlefields

Another monument

And another

Riding from Herndon, Virginia to Gettysburg, Pennsylvania I traveled through the state of Massachusetts and saw a lot of wonderful farms and houses


The Battle of Gettysburg was a turning point in the Civil War, the Union victory in the summer of 1863 that ended General Robert E. Lee's second and most ambitious invasion of the North. Often referred to as the "High Water Mark of the Confederacy", it was the war's bloodiest battle with 51,000 casualties. It also provided President Abraham Lincoln with the setting for his most famous address.

The rest of the pics are here