Sorry no Hershey's Kisses from us, we went to Gettysburg

We got ourselves into the KOA at Hershey, went to pay and they told me it would be $65, everywhere else is in the 30's and 40's, I was mad and told them I thought they were taking advantage of us because we were all set up before we paid, she said, "If you don't like it, leave." So we did. Two thirds of the place was roped off because they were blacktopping the whole area, didn't look like fun there any way, but it meant we had to unhook and go to our next destination in the dark, which is not fun in a motor home to hook up and park in the dark, but we did.

Reds and purples were out in the leaves, the leaves were peaking in Pennsylvania

After trying to remember anything about Gettysburg to tell Cindy, I've been there before, we bought the auto tour, took us 2 1/2 hours to go through it but Cindy said it was the highlight of our trip, she loved it

Poor ole General Lee, with the perky eared horse, decided Gettysburg was the perfect place for a battle with so many roads leading in and out of it, if he won there it could end the war

All the battlefields are close to exactly like they were when it happened, took three days for the battle to end, and the tour takes you through it all, really done very well, you feel like you were there, it is raining so the pictures are misty

The only thing on the fields are monuments to the battalions, states, and individuals, both Confederate and Union

There are 600 cannons placed in exactly the position they would have been, they are all authenic civil war cannons

Some of the state monument are big, some are statues, this is Mississippi's

There were green and black cannon's at close range they would load them with a tin can with metal scraps in it and use them as shot guns, otherwise they could shoot accurately to 2 miles

50,000 people died in those three days, photographers took pictures when it was all over showing so many dead you could walk over them, one towns person died, shot in her kitchen making bread for the Union troops, by a stray bullet. The towns people had to bury them all.

This minister gave a short talk to the soldiers going into battle, in which he said that the Catholic Church doesn't give a proper burial to those who run from battle.  After the war he was head of Notre Dame for many years

General Silling's memorial, it is suppose to have a statue of him inside the columns, he was such a screw up in the battle that it is said he stole the money collected for the statue, he also killed Francis Scott Key when he caught him messing around with his wife, very big scandal

Pennsylvania has the biggest and nicest monument there

General Lee didn't want to leave the regular army, but when his home state, Virginia, ceded from the Union he agonized over it and decided to leave and become a Confederate Soldier, he was good, and made enemieswith the Generals in the Union. When the war was over they were determined that General Lee was not going to be going home to his house, so the only way they could take a way his house and property was to declare it a National Cemetery, and that is today, Arlington Cemetery.