I’ve been there, spent a couple days doing a tour (they used to have CDs you could buy and do a self-guided driving tour.) I highly recommend going someday if you can. It’s life changing. Also, I saved some leaves from a “witness tree” that inexplicably is still around even though it’s life expectancy was only about 100 years.
Got there in late summer but felt like I got the "full" weather experience of the battle. They were building the new visitor's center and I think the mural wall was redone, a year or maybe two years after I was there. There was also an effort to restore the landscape to battlefield conditions, as much had changed over the years, with overgrown brush and treelines.
Walking across the center of the battlefield, from the Confederate treeline on Seminary Ridge to Cemetery Ridge and to the copse of trees of the Union center was surreal for me. Never experienced anything like it - the hair on the back of my neck was straight up. At one point, I remember laying down on the grass (they mowed large swaths across the field, rather than contending with waist-high grass/weeds) and just tried to imagine what it was like to transport myself back in time.
Maybe one day I'll go back again, with a family in tow lol. Hope you're able to make it there yourself, Doggo!
I’ve been there, spent a couple days doing a tour (they used to have CDs you could buy and do a self-guided driving tour.) I highly recommend going someday if you can. It’s life changing. Also, I saved some leaves from a “witness tree” that inexplicably is still around even though it’s life expectancy was only about 100 years.
...on my bucket list...
...but I want to go in July so I can "feel" what it was like to have been there...
Got there in late summer but felt like I got the "full" weather experience of the battle. They were building the new visitor's center and I think the mural wall was redone, a year or maybe two years after I was there. There was also an effort to restore the landscape to battlefield conditions, as much had changed over the years, with overgrown brush and treelines.
Walking across the center of the battlefield, from the Confederate treeline on Seminary Ridge to Cemetery Ridge and to the copse of trees of the Union center was surreal for me. Never experienced anything like it - the hair on the back of my neck was straight up. At one point, I remember laying down on the grass (they mowed large swaths across the field, rather than contending with waist-high grass/weeds) and just tried to imagine what it was like to transport myself back in time.
Maybe one day I'll go back again, with a family in tow lol. Hope you're able to make it there yourself, Doggo!
...time travel is real....
...the courage it took to look into the face of a certain death....
Yes....cannot imagine the courage as well as the horror. Will hopefully never have to think about it, God willing, but am prepared regardless.