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It rained all Friday night until early Saturday. Mid-morning we went back the battlefield and toured another third of the stops on the self-guided tour. Then late Saturday we went back to retake a few pictures after the sky had cleared and drove around a bit more.

When I bought the Tour CD, it said it took about 2 1/2 hours but that is the amount of recording. It does not consider the time you spend getting out reading plaques and looking over the grounds. So it has taken us much longer than anticipated. This National Park and the battlefield are so large. The two battle lines stretched over 3 miles and moved to different locations from the 1st day to the 2nd and 3rd day. We also spent some time talking to some interesting people. One couple was here because the husband is a real Civil War buff. (We saw lots of people carrying history books or who also sounded like rear students of the War.) They live nearby in Virginia and he has been reading a book just about the 2nd day’s fighting. So they came up so he could visualize what he is reading about. He really added to our stop at Little Round Top as he added details about the fighting. Another man we met at Devil’s Den was a former National Park Interpreter from Oregon who was backpacking and hiking around the park for a week. He had slept out there in the rain. He looked a bit rough after 3 days in the field, but we gave him a ride across the park to another location along our route back to the RV. Late Saturday evening near the Pennsylvania Monument (by far the largest in the Park),

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We came across a camp set up by Union Civil War reenactors.

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There we met this young man. His father is originally from England. The two of them were portraying British observers there to watch the fighting, which really happened during the war. They live in Maryland, but he mimicked a nice British accent and was a delight to talk with.

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Here are a few sunset pictures from our late evening visit. Click this link to see more pictures with brief explanations from our 2nd day touring.

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President Eisenhower only owned one home in his life since he had been a career Army Officer. That home and farm was next to the Gettysburg Battle field and can be seen in the photo below. You can catch a tour bus at the Visitor Center to tour his home.

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