Yes Gettysburg is wonder, beautiful and a place that I have fond memories of. I especially liked the national cemetery, the monuments and the great town of modern-day Gettysburg.
My family and I took a summer vacation in the 1980’s to visit my in-laws in Tennessee. I took that as an opportunity to tour Chattanooga and Chickamauga. Along with every other CW battle site I could visit when I got bored visiting with my mother-in-law.
I have visited maybe 20 or 30 battlefields before and since then all across the south and I would say that this area of the country has some of the most beautiful and well-preserved battle sites. Chickamauga was especially beautiful.
When we were there, in the spring, it was spectacular, the morning fog and mist were just rising and everything was green and lush. The battlefield has a road system that takes you through the area and each unit, state, or veterans group erected monuments to events that took place in a spot where a unit, an individual or just as a remembrance occured. The men who were involved in the battle erected these monuments and each of them is a true work of art. Beauty is not a good enough word to describe my experiences with this battlefield. And the view from the top of Lookout Mountain in Chattanooga was spectacular.
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