Gettysburg

Our class visited Gettysburg, the site of the Civil War battle in 1863. Lee's Confederate Army was turned back from its incursion into Pennsylvania.

 

Susquehanna River above Harrisburg
The river flows through a water gap in the ridge. Harrisburg lies on the main transportation route of the Great Valley, the first valley in Pennsylvania's Ridge and Valley Region.

Shippenssburg- Former Court house.
Note the square window panes, indicative of a very old house.

Gettysburg Town Square.
At the time of the Civil War, Gettysburg was strategically located at the terminus of a railroad.
It was the center of the region with many roads radiating out from the town.

Along McPherson's Ridge, where the fighting took place the first day of the battle.

 

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