147 years ago

[SvilleKid]

Originally Posted by gettysburgfreak

today one of our nations most important battles began. The Battle of Gettysburg started and in my opinion along with the falling of Vicksburg on July 4th, was the turning point in the Civil War and would lead to the eventual defeat of the Confederacy.

Sadly, Gettysburg is one of the few civil war battlefields I've not had a chance to visit. I don't know if I could actually walk on the fields there. I'm not a person that believes in ghosts, but I've been is Shiloh numerous times, Camped inside Chickamauga four times, Drove and walked Vicksburg half a dozen times, been to numerous smaller C.W. battle sites and dozens of C.W. cemeteries. For some reason, I seem to feel the presences of the dead in Shiloh and Vicksburg rather strongly, somewhat in Chickamauga. I think the feeling might be overwhelming in Gettysburg. For a non-believer in ghosts, it is a rather heavy and heartbreaking?? feeling!