Comments on: Gettysburg: 145 years later http://civilwarhistory.wordpress.com/2008/07/05/gettysburg-145-years-later/ The Blog Between the States. Sat, 24 Oct 2009 18:31:34 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: Bookmarks about Civilwar http://civilwarhistory.wordpress.com/2008/07/05/gettysburg-145-years-later/#comment-579 Bookmarks about Civilwar Mon, 22 Dec 2008 22:00:08 +0000 http://civilwarhistory.wordpress.com/?p=146#comment-579 [...] - bookmarked by 4 members originally found by gaaraxtsunade on 2008-12-09 Gettysburg: 145 years later http://civilwarhistory.wordpress.com/2008/07/05/gettysburg-145-years-later/ - bookmarked by 2 [...] [...] – bookmarked by 4 members originally found by gaaraxtsunade on 2008-12-09 Gettysburg: 145 years later http://civilwarhistory.wordpress.com/2008/07/05/gettysburg-145-years-later/ – bookmarked by 2 [...]

]]> By: Dick Kraft http://civilwarhistory.wordpress.com/2008/07/05/gettysburg-145-years-later/#comment-564 Dick Kraft Mon, 01 Dec 2008 23:54:08 +0000 http://civilwarhistory.wordpress.com/?p=146#comment-564 My wife and I moved to Taneytown from Germantown several months ago and are extremely happy in this wonderful environment. I went online to research the town in relation to the Civil War. I am intrigued with the volume of information. I'm now planning to work up a scrapbook,so my visiting family and friends will have some very informative and enjoyable reading. I would greatly appreciate any additional info that might be available. Thanks in advance Dick Kraft My wife and I moved to Taneytown from Germantown several months ago and are extremely happy in this wonderful environment. I went online to research the town in relation to the Civil War. I am intrigued with the volume of information. I’m now planning to work up a scrapbook,so my visiting family and friends will have some very informative and enjoyable reading.
I would greatly appreciate any additional info that might be available.
Thanks in advance
Dick Kraft

]]> By: Warren http://civilwarhistory.wordpress.com/2008/07/05/gettysburg-145-years-later/#comment-392 Warren Sun, 27 Jul 2008 20:16:45 +0000 http://civilwarhistory.wordpress.com/?p=146#comment-392 Great site. I look forward to working my way through it. I just returned from Gettysburg and I have to say that I thought the new Visitors Center was awesome. The movie with Morgan Freeman as moderator really sets up your visit to the NMP. What I tried hard to get and only partially succeeded in getting was a sense of what really happened here. My strategy was early morning exploration before the tourists were up. We walked the battlefield as much as possible, including the site of Pickett's Charge. Culp's Hill, the Round Tops (an hour walk in the heat from the center of Cemetery Ridge - imagine the 20th Maine coming in from Taneytown and going right into battle), the Wheatfield and especially Seminary Ridge can bring it alive. McPherson's Ridge, Devil's Den and dare I say it, the Angle were too busy with cars and kids complaining that they were bored. Picure Gettysburg, a town of 2,600 souls, turned into one big MASH unit with 10,000+ wounded left behind, not to mention the dead. No facilities, no trained medical personnel, very little drugs for pain. What a mess to be in. My hats off to the descendents of these tough people. These are the stories I like to study. Thanks again for these posts. We need to keep this alive. Great site. I look forward to working my way through it. I just returned from Gettysburg and I have to say that I thought the new Visitors Center was awesome. The movie with Morgan Freeman as moderator really sets up your visit to the NMP. What I tried hard to get and only partially succeeded in getting was a sense of what really happened here. My strategy was early morning exploration before the tourists were up. We walked the battlefield as much as possible, including the site of Pickett’s Charge. Culp’s Hill, the Round Tops (an hour walk in the heat from the center of Cemetery Ridge – imagine the 20th Maine coming in from Taneytown and going right into battle), the Wheatfield and especially Seminary Ridge can bring it alive. McPherson’s Ridge, Devil’s Den and dare I say it, the Angle were too busy with cars and kids complaining that they were bored.

Picure Gettysburg, a town of 2,600 souls, turned into one big MASH unit with 10,000+ wounded left behind, not to mention the dead. No facilities, no trained medical personnel, very little drugs for pain. What a mess to be in. My hats off to the descendents of these tough people. These are the stories I like to study.

Thanks again for these posts. We need to keep this alive.

]]> By: Sue http://civilwarhistory.wordpress.com/2008/07/05/gettysburg-145-years-later/#comment-375 Sue Sun, 06 Jul 2008 10:00:21 +0000 http://civilwarhistory.wordpress.com/?p=146#comment-375 50,000 in casualties is a tremendous number. a small town has about that many people in it, sometimes less... Think of the significance of that number... 50,000 in casualties is a tremendous number. a small town has about that many people in it, sometimes less…
Think of the significance of that number…

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