Sunday, April 05, 2009

HIKE TO TOP OF BIG ROUNDTOP GETTYSBURG BATTLEFIELD

Map picture
Map picture

Thickly wooded Big Round Top

I AM REAL GLAD I WAS HIKING AND NOT FIGHTING……………………………..

TALK ABOUT BEING STEEP AND WOODED……………………………………….

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THIS CONFEDERATE TEDDY BEAR WASN’T AT THE BATTLE

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ALWAYS DANGEROUS FOR ME “SELF GUIDED ANYTHING”100_1302 100_1306 100_1303

  100_1305PICTURE OF MY WIFE LINDA “NOT A UNION OFFICER”

100_1315  FINALLY MADE IT TO THE TOP…

100_1319 LOOKING BACK AT THE BATTLEFIELD FROM THE TOP OF BIG ROUNDTOP….100_1313 SOME REALLY BRAVE MEN, UNON AND CONFEDERATE FOUGHT ON THIS GROUND…OVER THE YEARS I HAVE READ A LOT ABOUT THE CIVIL WAR AND THE BATTLE OF GETTYSBURG IN PARTICULAR. FOR ME: IT WAS SPECIAL TO ACTUALLY BE THERE.

100_1321 I HAD THE CAMERA SO LINDA HAD TO KNEEL BEHIND THE ROCKS..I DID HELP HER GET BACK UP “WHAT A GUY”

100_1309 ONE OF THE HUNDREDS OF MARKERS AT THIS BATTLEFIELD.

National Park Service
Gettysburg National Military Park
1195 Baltimore Pike, Suite 100
Gettysburg, PA 17325

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CONTEST QUESTION:::

WHAT BATTLEFIELD IS THIS PICTURE FROM??

100_1493 AND WHAT IS THE SPECIFIC NAME FOR THIS AREA???

HINT: IT ISN’T GETTYSBURG..

THATS ALL FOLKS   JOE TODD

PICTURES TAKEN::MARCH 2009

 

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