Getting our Fill of Gettysburg

While driving around yesterday in Gettysburg we found a tour of all the monuments erected for the Battles of Gettysburg.   It's amazing how many there are.  

Here is a link to a website I found with them.  Honestly it is way too many to post.  We'll try to get a picture of some of them in the fields.  

http://www.gettysburg.stonesentinels.com/index.php

 Factoid: The battle of Gettysburg was fought from July 1-3 1863 in and around the town of Gettysburg.  This is the location of  the largest number of casualties in the Civil War.  The Union suffered 3,155 and the Confederates suffered 4,708.  A Military Cemetery was created.  President Lincoln came here to dedicate the Cemetery which is when he gave the Gettysburg Address.  

Outside the National Military Cemetery. 

Location of the Lincoln's Gettysburg Address....

Gettysburg Address....

Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation, so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.

But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate, we can not consecrate, we can not hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us—that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion—that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain—that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom—and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.

Next Stop....New Jersey