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Originally Posted by siberian khatru
Twice. Once as a teen, another as a married adult, where we stayed in a bed and breakfast on the battlefield. I loved it both times (but then, I'm a battlefield nut).
I have not been since they redid the visitor's center a few years ago. I really want to go back to see that, and to walk the battlefield again because it's so neat.
Walking Pickett's Charge in the summer is something else. You get the scale of the situation they faced.
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It really helps to be there in person. I went to the Little Bighorn Battlefield several years ago - you really get a sense of how isolated Custer's men were from the rest of the troops, and just isolated in hostile territory in general. Seemingly takes forever to drive from place to place - can't imagine what it would have been like on a horse. It's a long, long way from Weir Point (the closest a rescue mission got before being turned back) to the spot he and his men were killed.
Sadly, I've never been to Gettysburg - made plans to go a couple of times, but they were always derailed by something. Someday.