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Okay so I just published about 5 posts! So make sure you scroll to the bottom first if you want to read them in order.

Day 3

On our last day at Gettysburg we decided to drive the confederate side of the battlefield. This first picture is of John Buford who slowed the confederate army with a small group of cavalry giving the Union army some time to gather at Gettysburg.

Beautiful house in Gettegsberg. I think I want to move in, how about you? This monument is dedicated to Picket's charge. General Lee lined up around 120 long range canons and fired at the center of the Union line for about 2 hours before sending 15,000 men to try to take the ridge in the center of the Union lines. This of course failed and more than half of the confederates died. This was the mile long stretch where Picket's charge took place. This is the monument dedicated to General Lee and Virginia.

Leisha climed the Longstreet Tower to look over the battlefield. The tower is probably 150 feet high, so she got some great pictures!

The next set of pictures are of the greyhound parade at the outlet mall in Gettysburg.

We had a great vacation! Its so much fun learning and seeing where history took place. Sorry for all the pictures I just can't help myself...and that's not even half of what we took.

Gettysburg Day 2

We got into Gettysburg on Friday around 2:30. We then went to the brand new Gettysburg National Military Park Visitor's Center (seriously brand new, it opened a week ago) about a mile south of Cemetery Hill. It was a beautiful visitors center with lots of displays and information on the Civil War. Here are just a few of the pictures we took.

After the visitors center we headed back north toward Gettysburg and Cemetery hill. For any of you Gettysburg enthusiasts this was the north part of the "fish hook" position of the union army.

The northeast portion of Cemetery Hill is now the Gettysburg National Cemetery. It was a very beautiful cemetery with lots of monuments.

It also has a very large section dedicated to WWII soldiers.

The monument in the back of this picture is dedicated to the Gettysburg soldiers. The monument is surounded by rings that have names of those who died.

This shows the rings that run around the center monument at the cemetery

Our family photo at the cemetery...

One of the most amazing parts of Gettysburg were the numberless monuments that dot the battlefield. each one represents a group that fought here.

There is a road that runs along the lines of the confederate and federal armies. The first day we drove the Union side. On the south is Big and Little Round Top. This was the flank and lowest part of the Union lines.

This is the view of Devils Den from Little Round Top.

This is looking from Little Round Top north toward Cemetery Hill

Emma was getting "car crazy" and loved getting out and looking at the area. This is Devil's Den in the background.

This is a monument of General Warren who saw the confederate army moving toward Little Round Top and quickly moved his men into position and held the hill.

This monument is toward the center of the battlefield on the Union side. It was HUGE and had a staircase that had access to the top.

Can you see Leisha up there?

Amish County. Day 2

Since we were in Pennsylvania, we couldn't pass up the opportunity to see the Amish County. Did you know that their is an Ephrata in Pennsylvania? They say it different but spell it the same.

The land was just beautiful! The farms looked so clean and pretty. It made me want to get out and milk a cow. Apparently these are really old bridges. Made in the late 1800's. Very fun going through it! Yes this is an Amish man plowing his Field with a team of 6 horses!!! This was a Mennonite graveyard behind their church. It was very old and historic...I couldn't think of a better word.

Of course we had to take a picture of a horse and buggy sign...they have them in Geneva too, but it seemed a lot cooler here.

Right after we took the picture of the sign, we then came upon one of them...and yes we did pass him.

Then we made it to Intercourse! Intercourse is a little town that has a lot of cute shops. So we got a couple of souvenirs and what not.

This was in the parking lot. So I just had to take a picture.