 | CanadaSucks (50)
05/14/2008 | Underrated. On a good day out-of-season when it isn't full of tourists, it's a haunting and moving experience if you're a fan of history. It looks so peaceful you can't believe 150,000 men turned this charming landscape into a meat-grinder. Check out the Devil's Den- perhaps the worst ground for combat any solider could ever experience and (if you're lucky) note the weird felling of irony/history as children play on the rocks that were once soaked with blood. G-burg isn't perfect- it can get overrun with tourists. The locals (who forget PA.'s economic laws) do price-gouge. The local restraunts aren't that good. But this can be a rewarding day trip if a few dominoes fall into the right places. Good for a weekend bed-and-breakfast trip from DC or Baltimore and (of course) Philadelphia.
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 | irishgit (155)
05/14/2008 | Seen at the right time of day, or year, and from certain places on the field, it is very moving. If one can close ones eyes to the plethora of monuments that are scattered around the battlefield, it is possible, with a little imagination, to put oneself back in time.
I have visited twice, once on a hot sunny day in early July, and stood on the slope of Little Round Top where a small, tired group of Maine loggers and fishermen saved the Army of the Potomac; and at the crooked angle of the stone wall on Cemetary Ridge and looked out over that terrible field of fire, covered with ripening grain, and shuddered.
I don't believe in ghosts. But visiting a place like this makes you think twice.
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 | edt4 (115)
05/14/2008 | I went here once as a teenager with my parents. Unfortunately, I wasn't really up on Civil War history, and while it was sobering even to an immature teen to be in a place where so many young men had lost their lives so brutally, it might have been a more enriching experience for me had I a better understanding of all that had occurred here all those years ago. In recent years, I've reunited with my genetic family and have a half-brother who was a captain in the army. He's a Civil War buff and has been to Gettysburg several times. My birth-mother says it's very informative to go with him as it's like having your own personal tour guide, and the history really comes alive as he relates it.
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