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I'll be the one without the hat.Rather the concentrating on the show I may be spending the whole evening playing hunt the forumite now!
Gettysburg is high on my priority list of places to visit, something I'll probably have to do alone as I can't see the missus being up to being dragged around ACW battlefield sites. But until it happens, I'll just have to content myself with watching the various Gettysburg tours on Youtube - something I've started doing when there's nowt on the telly. And yes, it does seem to have more than its fair share of monuments.It was well worth it although the abundance of cannon and monuments on that battlefield was quite startling.
It is interesting to speculate when slavery in North America would have ended otherwise...It's well worth a visit though. I wanted to see the place where Pickett's charge reached what was called 'the high watermark of the Confederacy.' In essence where the battle was lost. It was a much gentler slope than I had expected, in fact that whole ridge where the Union Army was deployed was only just a ridge in terms of elevation.
All of American history turned at that point, in that hour. That's why it's so fascinating.
I'm more interested in the northern part of the battlefield - Day 1 - especially around McPherson's Ridge and where Iverson's Brigade was decimated.It's well worth a visit though. I wanted to see the place where Pickett's charge reached what was called 'the high watermark of the Confederacy.' In essence where the battle was lost. It was a much gentler slope than I had expected, in fact that whole ridge where the Union Army was deployed was only just a ridge in terms of elevation.
All of American history turned at that point, in that hour. That's why it's so fascinating.
There are some rather strange results - a lot of Southerners still won't vote Republican, as that was the anti-slavery party of the North, although it is clearly much more in tune with them than the (originally pro-slavery) Democrats are now - weird.the problems that created the conflict in the first place are still there in situ in that country. They've never really gone away.