Posted on 09/07/2021 8:22:53 AM PDT by MplsSteve
In one week from today, The Wife (aka Mrs. MplsSteve) and I will be in Gettysburg for a few days. Obviously, we're gonna visit the battlefield. We lined up a tour guide thru the Gettysburg Heritage Center and at least for the first night, we'll be staying at the Best Western on Steinwehr Avenue.
I have a few travel brochures and have looked them over but I'm looking for any recommendations or advice on what else to see and do there. That includes places to stay that don't cost an arm and a leg as well as places to eat.
What did you like? What did you not like?
I'd appreciate whatever assistance you can give me.
Good ol “LDs”. Lincoln Diner. According to my daughter who went to college in Gettysburg, this was a place to go only when one is...uh...well let’s say “not entirely sober”. As in “I can’t drink anymore...let’s go to LDs” ;)
Also, if you want to see the site of the first shot at Gettysburg, it’s a tiny little marker on the side of 30 (Chambersburg Rd) and Knoxlyn Rd. It’s next to a house which was under construction/refurbishment when we were there in July.
Do you know why Lincoln didnt go to the Lincoln Diner? Too many booths.
I don’t need monuments. Tell me where I’m at on the battlefield and I’ll tell you who fought there and what happened.
If we need to “tell you where you’re at on the battlefield” you might not know as much as you think you do.
That sausage and egg muffin is welcome to hear at least!
Good to know things are improving.
Yes. And it was supposed to be coordinated with an attack in the Union rear. Custer stopped that, and in the eyes of the leaders, saved the battle that day.
The wars of that era were bad, combining old tactics with modern weapons. The Crimean war was another.
TBH hiring a ride along tour guide is well worth the cost.
Nice details, thanks.
They ruined the battlefield with marble monuments, watch Gettysburg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Vz5f9NOVuk.
Buffet!
We are in Pigeon Forge this week to go to Dollywood and also go to the Smokey Mountain Knife Works, cuz it’s my birthday! Supper tonight was the all you can eat buffet at Shoney’s in Sevierville. It was really good at $13.99 each.
Don’t know if you’ll get there, but the Bushman Farm is on the battlefield. I am related to them through my maternal great grandmother. Sadie Bushman was 9 at the time of the battle and kept sneaking away to help in the field hospitals. She gained some notoriety as “the youngest nurse”.
She was also related to Francis X Bushman the silent movie star.
I don’t know if you’re a quilter, but there’s a good quilt shop in Sevierville not far from the knife outlet.
Glad to hear that buffet dining has survived in parts of the country. To tell you the truth, the only reason I used to meet my friends once a month was for the buffet at the casino. The video slots bore me. We met last month at one of the full-service restaurants at the casino. It was the first time I’d returned there in a year and a half, and I was very disappointed in the lousy Chicken Caesar Salad I ordered. I’ll be very hard-pressed to meet them again any time soon. I can make better dishes at home.
Agreed, When I was a youthful teen, I used to partake in battlefield reinactments there as well as Antietam. I had a 69 beetle and went to both battlefields frequently. I have taken the whole family and showed them as much as I could and I plan on visiting again.
Enjoy Your stay, see the sights, Enjoy the food, Have Fun.
Really? With no no signs or other matters you’d know exactly where the Peach Orchard or the wheat field began and ended back then? You have have personally memorized every inch of miles of terrain from ground level? I think not.
Longstreet and Grant were good friends before the war. I believe Longstreet was beast man at Grant’s wedding.
And shell out the money for the tour guide. Those guys know their stuff. The last time I went, the guy who gave us the tour was a history professor who had retired to Gettysburg and gave tours because he found out he missed teaching.
I believe Longstreet was a distant relative of Grant’s wife.
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