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| Gettysburg - Little Round Top |
The first stop for the day once we made it to Gettysburg was the famous diorama museum. In the museum was the largest war diorama in the world. Supposedly. And it most certainly lived up to the expectation. This thing was huge. The whole city and battle of Gettysburg was made and there was even a prerecorded presentation that included a slides how of pictures and strobe lights. It was definitely a pretty cool place to start out, giving us a glimpse and overview of all the battles as they happened during the 3 days of July 1-3 of 1863. After this we were off to look at the actual sights of the battles at Gettysburg.
We first came upon a ridge overlook just outside of the Seminary that had been in Gettysburg during the time of the battle. It was that time again. Morning lecture. Our professor talked to us about the many strategic plans of the two generals as they began to find the places that they wanted to hold to start the battle. After talking there for a while, we continued along the tour route that you could drive on. We came across the Eternal Peace monument and we able to get out and see the area here. I was able to take some nice pictures overlooking the battlefield from the monument steps. You could see most of this middle ridge area that the Battle of Gettysburg was fought on. We then continued onto the next place we stopped which was the North Carolina Confederate monument. We had some guys who were from North Carolina so they took lots of pictures and all in front of the statues. It was a nice view as well overlooking some other parts of the battlefield. Many more monuments honoring the states in which soldiers came from lined this road we were on. The next monument we came to was the Virginia Monument. Most of the class was from Virginia, so we took a group picture in front of it. I think on top of the statue, Robert E. Lee was on his horse, so we were in good company. The one monument I had been looking for was the Florida monument. We found it, as my professor made fun of Floridians. He obviously was not stopping for me. Not too thrilled about that choice of his.
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| Gettysburg Diorama Museum |
Anyways, we made our way to an overlook tower which was about 4 stories of stairs up towards the clouds. Once we reached the top, there were so many great views. I captured every bit of them with my camera. As I was doing this, the ringing sound of midday lecture hit my ears. I knew we were going to be here for a while. So I sat tight and tried to hide from the wind best I could.
After the lecture, we were headed to lunch. Thank God. It was Mexican day. We ate at a place called Montezumas. I could tell this place was interesting just from the sign that was located inside the lobby area. "B.Y.O.B. Thank you keep comming." I don't know how this was considered "English", but I knew what BYOB was. Pennsylvania has strict beer and alcohol laws, so I guess they weren't able to get the license to sell beer here. You were just supposed to bring your own, if that's even legal. At lunch, we got on the topic of Gettysburg being haunted. Some of the other students in the class were searching stuff on their phones trying to figure out the places that might be the most haunted. What we came across was "Devils Den" and "Little Round Top". These were places in the far southern corner of the Battle of Gettysburg. We had convinced our professor that were legitimately needed to go there to see the site. So, I guess our professor was in a good mood after his burrito and gave in. We were headed to "Devils Den".
At Little Round Top, there were some crazy cool sites to see that produced some great photo opportunities. Just out on this little hill in the middle of nowhere, there were tons of boulders. Literally, massive boulders. We read many things about ghost sitings once we made it to the top of Little Round Top, even stories of actual ghosts handing movie extras ammunition from the civil war. But no luck here, no ghosts from the civil war were seen, and not even any sites of the ghosts in photographs. Next we were heading to Devils Den to see if there was any luck here as well. After we got to Devils Den, we were very determined to find a ghost. We were taking pictures everywhere. Supposedly here we were supposed to have all the battery in either our cameras or phones, but we had no luck with that. Also, there was a picture of the place where "The Dead Sharpshooter" was located, and we found it. So everyone was taking pictures, hoping something would show up. But again, no luck at all.
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| Gettysburg - Little Round Top |
Leaving Devils Den, We continued on the road to find a nice shady spot to set up for our afternoon lecture on "Pickett's Charge". It was a nice short lecture that was actually really informational. And our professor was able to get his picture with the statue of General Meade just as he wanted. So now that he was a happy camper, hopefully we would be too for the rest of the day. To finish off the day, we just drove around Gettysburg, getting a glimpse of some of the many memorials and monuments that surrounded the town. We had tomorrow to see the Gettysburg Cemetery, and most of us were very worn from the long day, so we decided to take the trip back to Chambersburg. Time for so much needed rest. And hopefully food soon. It was also a nice trip back to town knowing my favorite soccer team, Chelsea FC, were once again crowned Champions of Europe this afternoon.
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