Like most places we visit, it takes a while to start to understand the area. Gettysburg battle would take a lot of time to really understand, but in the last 3 days we have a basic understanding of what happened here. We still can not imagine all of those soldiers being killed on both sides. I think we all need to take some time and reflect on what others have done to make our United States united.
This is Little Round Top mountain, the Union army was about to loose this hill on day two of the battle when reinforcements came in, but did not have time to load their guns and just ran down the hill to meet the Confederates in hand to hand battle. The loses were terrific on both sides.
This tree overlooked Devils Den and I was taken by its perfect shape.
This is Devil's Den, Confederate solders were killed by the hundreds in these rocks as they tried to take the hill.
New York monument in the National Cemetery
President Lincoln came for the dedication of the National Cemetery. The circle is him in the upper middle.
Kentucky Monument in the National Cemetery. Nice glow too.
Kind of spooky
The last living survivor of Gettysburg battle
Angle of Victory and Peace at the top of the Pennsylvania monument.
We walked up to the look out on the Pennsylvania Monument.You can walk up to the area just under the dome.
Another pic of the Pennsylvania Monument. The plaque on the side is a list of every soldier that was at the battle and a star on each one that was killed.
Another case where the Missouri soldiers did not have time to load their guns and had to do hand to hand conflict. They were outnumbered 4 to 1. The Confederates were about to break the line of the Union Army so they stopped them and they were successful at a great lost of lives.
New York memorial on Little Round top.
View from Little Round Top you can imagine Confederates coming up the hill
The Devil's Den in the distance.
We went up the spiral staircase to the top.
I made it.
We both made it to the top.
View through the monument.
If you want to walk a lot up the mountain from Devil's den. You will this monument and the next one. The view was nice and of course there was a story about the soldiers that you will learn by reading the monument.
Another Monument up the hill
Confediate solder were killed right in the rocks as they attempted up the hill.
