[mainepatsfan]

View from the top of Little Round Top.

[ReleaseTheHounds]

The day the 20th Maine held the extreme left flank for the North — the heroism of Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain. Here’s a link:

http://www.civilwarhome.com/jlchamberlainbio.htm

[EternalVigilance]

Lincoln's address at the dedication of the Gettysburg National Cemetary, November 19, 1863

"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." - President Abraham Lincoln

[GATOR NAVY]

I made it to Gettysburg last summer. I was in awe walking around just seeing the place such a momentous battle took place.

[EternalVigilance]

"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."

[Shaun_MD]

In great deeds something abides;
On great fields something stays.
Forms change and pass;
Bodies disappear but spirits linger,
To consecrate ground
For the vision place of the soul.
And reverent men and women from afar,
And generations that know us not
And that we know not of...
Shall come...to ponder and to dream....
And the power of the vision
Shall pass into their souls

Col Joshua Chamberlain - October 3, 1886

[ryan71]

I remember Shelby Foote (God rest his soul) describing how he would visit battlefields on their anniversaries. He would even get there at the times the battles were to have taken place.

Shelby was the best.

[StoneWall Brigade]

Hood’s boys put up one heck of a fight

[wolficatZ]

Does anyone have a video clip from the 1938 Gettysburg veterans reunion where there is an actual recording of a Confederate vet doing a rebel yell; it was in the Ken Burns series.

[ussc1863]

My husband and I try to get to Gettysburg at least once every three years. He asked me to marry him on Little Round Top at dawn. Couldn’t ask for a better setting. We are planning on going next year again. My gg grandfather fought there and is named on the PA monument as are all of the Pa troops that fought there. Very special place for a lot of reasons.