Gettysburg... What a tragic place!!!!

Day before yesterday we drove to Gettysburg, which is only 25 miles south of Carlisle,PA, where we've been camping. Well, actually, we've been camping in a state forest about 10 miles northwest of Carlisle called Doubling Gap. Gettysburg is an old town that was visited by a huge bunch of confederate soldiers and Union soldiers in July 1-4, 1863. Cemetery Hill is apparently where a lot of the action took place and 1000's of those visitors died. The Union soldiers that were killed there are now buried there. There are plaques and statues all over the cemetery and surrounding hills telling about the different groups from different states that fought there and the battles that were fought and how many died, were wounded and were captured. New York lost the most men, over 1000.
Abraham Lincoln gave his Gettysburg one minute speech there in November 1863, in the cemetery, although, now that I think about it, it probably wasn't a cemetery at the time. Well, maybe it was... because they apparently buried all the dead soldiers right away. There was some confusion about what to do with so many dead men. Especially the confederate ones. I guess a lot of the soldiers pinned their name and address to their shirt. Not a happy place. Because all those plaques telling about the battles and the results made what happened there very real.
We are now in Ohio at Dan and Joan's house.