Gettysburg

Friday, we drove to Gettysburg National Military Park. The park covers a large area and is crossed by normal public roads. Portions of the battle area are private property still. I took a lot of photographs, but I won't post all of them here, just a few. The visitor center has a small museum.
We bought a CD that narrated the auto tour of the park. It runs through the battle in chronological order. We had trouble at first finding the beginning but eventually we got headed in the right direction. The area has a zillion markers and memorials. You can see a few in this shot, along with the auto tour marker. The scope of the battle was much, much larger than Manassas. The drive goes along the artillery line for a mile and a half at one point. We learned from the audio commentary that the town is called (at least by that narrator) "Geh tiss burg", not "get teez burg".

This is the largest of the memorials. There is a stairway to the top, but we were tired from the observation tower and didn't go up.