There was rain in the forecast for the end of the week, so we decided to tour the battlefield on our second day. Why bike or take the car when you can rent a Segway Personal Transporter? We had some concerns that we might be too old to learn to operate the machine, but we passed our training with flying colors. Segway Tours
http://www.segtours.com/ provided us with an escort and a recorded audio tour. We spent three hours touring the main battlefield, reviewing our history lessons, and turning a few heads.
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| Segway Bev |
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| Me and Our Escort, Jesse |
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| Cannons and Caissons |
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| A member of our group reflects on the site of Pickett's charge. |
After the battlefield, we went on foot to the Gettysburg National Cemetery.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gettysburg_National_Cemetery There are over 3,500 Union soldiers buried here. Almost 1,000 of them are unknown. The last civil war soldier was interred in 1997. His skeleton was discovered in 1996 during an excavation.
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