The Battle Of Gettysburg!!

Hey Friends!! So i have come to find how much i love history... especially the history of the United States! The great part is, i have been so blessed to actually see these places first hand and what an amazing experience it has been! Before, Gettysburg to me has always just been a famous name of what i guessed to be a huge famous battle! Little did i know what i was in for when we decided to go this last week! To prepare us we decided that we should watch the movie called 'Gettysburg' to get us to really understand what happened there. I totally recommend doing it this way because the movie changed the whole experience for me. It put emotion behind it and helped me to understand why the Civil War happened and who were the men that fought there were. I couldn't get enough, i fell in love with a huge part of history. Everyone should take the chance once in their life and go to Gettysburg! It's a beautiful sacred place and i am so grateful for those men that did fight valiantly to unify this country and the men that still are!

Me and Abe- We became really great friends

THE SOUTH

General Lee

The 3rd Day

THE NORTH

General Meade-
The Grove of trees General Lee told his men to aim for

This is the North side, but if you look closely you can see the
South side (General Lee's Monument) across the field,  this is where
 the 3rd day battle occurred where General Lee sent his men to attach the center
 of the North's line, the North stood strong and General Lee lost all his men. 

A cool thing that my Mom told me was that the only women to be killed in this battle was Jennie Wade. She was hit with a stray bullet in her house. My mothers maiden name is Wade. We're related! This is her little museum.