This foggy, cool morning, I found myself in Gettysburg, PA where roughly 150 years ago the bloodiest battle ever fought on North American soil was won in three days by the Union troops during the U.S. Civil War. There is no easy way to discuss the feeling of this place, or my feelings as I entered this place. What I know based on my trip is that the battle could not have gone to the other side for it would have changed the very definition of freedom. I was surprised to find that many in the North were not particularly inclined to support abolition, but were compelled to uphold liberty and the new president of the United States, Abraham Lincoln.
I can't say that my drive through the battlefields was particularly spectacular, it really isn't my thing; however, the movie, cyclorama, the monuments, and museum depicting the times, the soldiers, their leaders, and the politics behind this war were certainly incredible.
Notice the cannonball hole just below the second diamond
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