Gettysburg

Friday morning’s cloudy gray skies seemed appropriate for touring the Gettysburg battlefield sites. Over 51,000 were killed, injured, or captured here during the course of three days of battle July 1-3, 1863.

We followed a two hour, 18 mile driving tour with an accompanying audio tape (thanks, Pat and Tom!) which provided a narrative of the battle and the stops along the way.




Something we had not known until recently was that the town of Gettysburg is also the site of Dwight and Mamie Eisenhower’s retirement home – “the only home we ever owned”, now a national historic site. See http://www.nps.gov/eise/ for more information.