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Thanks Carlo for such a wonderful posting...when I have a lot of quiet time, I will read this full article...

Heres a little story about Gettysburg...

I have been to Gettysburg many times...my dad, altho born and bred in the east, nonetheless settled down in Chicago with mom...yet with so many relatives still in New Jersey and Pennsylvania, from my earliest days, I remember going back east every three years for vacation...

And we always stopped at Gettysburg for a few days...dad loved roaming around all of Gettysburg, and mom and we kids enjoyed it as well...

Many years later, when I had married and had my boys, in 1976, my hubby, I, and my two boys, along with my mom and dad, decided to go back east for the bi-centennial...we planned to concentrate our time between Gettysburg, and Williamsburgh...

It was late May, and we were camping, in a tent...we arrived near Gettysburg in late afternoon, and found a campground, set up camp, cooked, ate, my boys played, and we had a fine evening...then we all settled down in the tent, to get to sleep early, so as to be able to get to the Gettysburg battlefield, in early morning...

In the middle of the night, my husband woke up, terrified, and screaming, that he heard canons going off, heard men screaming and hollering, heard guns going off...I shook him a few times, convinced that he was dreaming, but he says no, he was not dreaming...that all that sound had woke him up, and he swears he was sitting up, wide awake in his sleeping bag, and still heard all those sounds...which eventually just disappeared...

The next morning, he told us all that he heard, while we were having breakfast...my dad just looked at him, and told him he was not the first one to tell of such an experience, and he would not be the last...many people, have sworn that they have heard the sounds of battle coming from Gettysburg, in the middle of an otherwise quiet nite...

To this day, my husband swears that what he heard was real, ,not a dream...some will believe that my husband was really just dreaming, others will believe that spirits of those, who fought and died at Gettysburg, are still there, still reenacting the battles...

To each his own to decide what my husband heard...

Just a little true story about Gettysburg...