A Day at Getysburg!

   This has been a wonderful day!  It started with getting an iPad from the visitor center which was the voice and pictures to a driving tour of the battlefields.
  The battlefields are huge, across several hundred acres.  With the help of the iPad, each of the stops told a a story, of history, of courage and bravery in the face of fear and almost certain death. In the extras, you will find a picture of the killing fields... a holler over the hill where the Confederate snipers laid in wait and killed a couple thousand soldiers.  

Most of the buildings in the Gettysburg historic business district were standing in during the Civil War.  The corner of the gray hose still shows the bullet holes where a sniper hid and shot his enemy.  There was fierce fight here to get the sniper, as the number of bullet marks testifies to.
    The posted photo is where I had lunch, outside, in a wonderful breeze on the patio of the Dobbin Tavern.  The Dobbin House was originally built in 1674 when Mr Dobbin came over from Ireland.  During the Civil War it was used as a hospital for the injured soldiers, from both sides.  The inside of the house is still original... and operational as a brewery and tavern.