Chris Greisman - 2015-07-03 19:20:10-0400 - Updated: 2015-07-03 19:27:54-0400
Today
would have been Dad's 80th birthday (& is currently my friend Liz's
40th, too). Dad was really into the Civil War, so today was a good date
to do this.
As previously planned back in May, I returned with Travis (who is a fount of military knowledge) to Gettysburg Battlefield to complete my hike using the Boy Scouts trail guide. We started where I left off at Little Round Top, from where I took the panorama shot.
The place is littered w/monuments, so many gaudy, tacky ones for NY soldiers that I think any given minyan of NY troops got their own pile of intimidating Late Victorian granite! Amongst these rockpiles, we did manage to find the single ones for Vermont & Wisconsin.
We made it as far as the North Carolina monument on the Confederate side (which wasn't allowed to put up monuments until much later!) before deciding to abandon the guide, cut thru town, then the Cemetery, to Culp's Hill.
Other than scenery from Little & Big Round Top, the field of Pickett's Charge, & a few example monuments (I wasn't gonna pic them all!), there was simple bucolic scenery. I roughly estimate a hike of 9 miles.
As previously planned back in May, I returned with Travis (who is a fount of military knowledge) to Gettysburg Battlefield to complete my hike using the Boy Scouts trail guide. We started where I left off at Little Round Top, from where I took the panorama shot.
The place is littered w/monuments, so many gaudy, tacky ones for NY soldiers that I think any given minyan of NY troops got their own pile of intimidating Late Victorian granite! Amongst these rockpiles, we did manage to find the single ones for Vermont & Wisconsin.
We made it as far as the North Carolina monument on the Confederate side (which wasn't allowed to put up monuments until much later!) before deciding to abandon the guide, cut thru town, then the Cemetery, to Culp's Hill.
Other than scenery from Little & Big Round Top, the field of Pickett's Charge, & a few example monuments (I wasn't gonna pic them all!), there was simple bucolic scenery. I roughly estimate a hike of 9 miles.
