Gettysburg should be on everyone’s bucket list. Yes, there’s a lot of tacky tourist trap-isms, but overall it’s a fantastic and educational experience, and definitely one of the finer National Park Service efforts.
I love Gettysburg. In fact, I love that whole area. Mr. Mercat and I went to Gettysburg for two days, one day in Harper’s Ferry area, an hour at Antietam (they closed).... very moving all. I want to go back to Gettysburg and take a tour but we did get a lot of info since there are a lot of people there who know tons and talk about it wherever you go. And we sort of followed a couple of the tours some. One of my favorite places was the little farm house that was General Meade’s headquarters. They actually used it in the movie. And Little Round Top was amazing.
Antietam is good also. Farther off the beaten path plus I am convinced it is haunted.