THINGS TO DO IN GETTYSBURG -VISITOR CENTER- PART 1- TODAY IN THE PARK
Going to start a new feature- something a little different- a multi-part series{ and I have no idea how many parts it will end up being} on Gettysburg. Gettysburg is […]
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155 YEARS AGO- AUGUST 8, 1863 GENERAL ROBERT E. LEE SENDS HIS RESIGNATION TO CONFEDERATE PRESIDENT JEFFERSON DAVIS
It was a little over a month after the Battle of Gettysburg- August 8, 1863- General Robert E. Lee commander of the Army of Northern Virginia sent a letter to […]
GRAVE OF BASEBALL HALL OF FAMER- GETTYSBURG EDDIE PLANK- EVERGREEN CEMETERY- GETTYSBURG, PENNSYLVANIA
Eddie Plank was a great baseball pitcher for the Philadelphia Athletics. He was born in Gettysburg on August 31, 1875 and grew up on a farm. He never played baseball […]
GEORGE NIXON’S GRAVE [GREAT-GRANDFATHER OF PRESIDENT RICHARD MILHOUS NIXON ] AT GETTYSBURG NATIONAL CEMETERY
Private George Nixon served in the American Civil War as in Company B, 73rd Ohio Voluneer Infantry. He was morally wounded on the second day of the Battle of Gettysburg […]
MY MUSIC LISTENING JOURNAL: DAY 109: WEDNESDAY JUNE 6, 2018
ALBUMS- STEVE FORBERT: ALIVE ON ARRIVAL: 1978: 4 STARS OUT OF 5 STARS: I always seem to play this and Ian Hunter’s album together- or at least think of them […]
THE MONUMENT TO THE 20TH MAINE AT LITTLE ROUND TOP- GETTYSBURG NATIONAL BATTLEFIELD
I am starting to get excited- next weekend we are going to Gettysburg for I don’t know the 100th time or so. I have no way of knowing for sure […]
MY LIFE THROUGH MY T-SHIRT COLLECTION- GENERAL DAN SICKLES- SELF PROCLAIMED ‘HERO OF GETTYSBURG’
General Daniel Sickles. When I wear this t-shirt to Gettysburg [where I bought it} it always draws a laugh. Sickles is my favorite general from the American Civil War- and […]
