gettysburg battlefield

Joel Achenbach: Gettysburg forever: Yesterday I tromped around the battlefield at Gettysbur... http://t.co/OSjIKKrjJF #washingtonpost

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Green

What an awesome job of maintaining history of a most important event in American history! Kudos to Gettysburg and the National Park Service!

Sanders

day trip to Gettysburg battlefield this weekend :)))))))

White

Gettysburg Battlefield is beautiful in the winter and the snow. We had about 6 inches, but melted quickly. Harold did his orientation at the Museum and I started getting into the activities for Easter. Tomorrow Harold works at the center and I start decorating for this weekends festivities.

Lín

iam sitting here watching ghost adventures and thinking it would be so cool to go on a ghost hunt

Malik clan

Attended a conference at Gettysburg College last week on how Civil War history should be presented after the 150th Anniversery festivities are complete.

There were about 400 participants, with many "Academic" historians ( mostly professors) and "Public" historians (Park Rangers, battlefield guides, museum people, etc), and much disagreement among the two major groups. Most Academics (only a few of whom were from the loony left) want "inclusion" of many "underrepresented " groups (i.e. women, former slaves). The Public historians wanrt to cover all that is relevant, but need to give the viewing (and paying) public what they come to see. Some great discussions ensued. I also learned a neat new acronym - "PCBS" (Polliticaly Correct Bull Shit).

Got to do a couple of specializd tours of the battlefield, including a Command and General Staff Ride. All in all, a worthwhile trip.

Desai

I REALLY want to take Haybug on the ghost walk tonight! Thinking I might :)

Iyer

Yale Football Class of 2014 with General Stanley McChrystal at the Gettysburg Battlefield http://t.co/7Y4iJIACE0

Yamasaki

Okay since im not allowed to share any posts for the next 2 days, THANK YOU FACEBOOK FOR MY PRISON TERM. I will update yall on Dakotas trip. They have been in Gettysburg since about 2 o'clock yesterday, they did a walking tour of the national cemetery and an evening battlefield walk. Today there doing a tour with a licensed battlefield guide of the 6000 acre Gettysburg Battlefield National Military Park there also doing Harpers Ferry national park then a night time guided introduction to Washington DC to include the US Capitol, and the Lincoln, Jefferson, FDR, MLK Jr., Korean War and Vietnam War Memorials. They will be overnight in the Washington D.C area for the next 3 nights then they will be headed home. GOD I HOPE HE HAS TAKEN TONS OF PICS. And I cant wait for him to be back.

Myers

Gettysburg battlefield, can you believe that it was so thick with dead that one could not walk on the ground http://t.co/VvCI8TxAPL

Anderson

Just a few photos looking over the battlefield, and a couple monuments. These pictures in no way do this place justice.

Cukkemane

We are almost there...we are in Maryland. Who has been to Gettysburg? Is there something we can do for an hour on our way home?

Díaz

Finished up the 3 hour audio battlefield tour with a pretty sunset over Gettysburg and Gen. Meade

Phillips

April 13th - Bruce Stocking, Historian for the W.S. Hancock Society, is the tour guide for a battlefield tour of Gettysburg National Military Park for Montgomery Township, the area where Winfield Hancock was born. We have a full bus and Bruce is an awesome storyteller. Should be a great time!

Hayashi

Yale Football Morning Run at Cemetery Ridge Gettysburg Battlefield http://t.co/tMQp4h3s9A

Gray

The focus will be on paintings, photos, diary entries and quotes to illustrate the experience of eight veterans who served at Gettysburg in one of the following locally-based regiments: the 3rd Onondaga (122 NY Infantry), the 4th Onondaga (the 149th NY Infantry), and Battery B of the 1st NY Light Artillery.
Also included in the exhibit is a three-part framed battlefield map that shows the military maneuvering that took place over the course of three days of fighting, July 1 – 3, 1863. The exhibit is available for viewing Wednesdays through Sundays when the museum is open.
Date(s):
Weekdays Spring/Summer
Location:
Onondaga Historical Association Museum
321 Montgomery St.
Syracuse, NY 13202
Time:
11:00 am – 4:00 pm
Cost:
Free
Age Level:
Everyone
Telephone:
315-428-1864 x312

Lee

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We visited Gettysburg. Great museum with artifacts from the soldiers--clothes, letters, musical instruments, recipe for hardtack (yuck), even furniture full of bullet holes belonging to people unlucky enough to have homes on the battlefield. Rudi was interested in the battle strategy and appropriately sobered by the accounts of the carnage.

Flores

GETTYSBURG BATTLEFIELD FENCES http://t.co/xW56ObvbmS via @TwitPic

Powell

Cyclorama building at Gettysburg National Battlefield is no more...good or bad news? http://t.co/39TUxkH517

Ward

The Civil War: Soldiers & Battlefield Trauma - Civil War scholars give a historical perspective on the physical and mental battlefield trauma suffered by soldiers in fighting the bloodiest war in American history. More than 625,000 Americans died in the Civil War, and some historians believe the death toll exceeded 700,000. This event was part of a conference at Gettysburg College in Pennsylvania. http://ow.ly/2vZPUD

Collins

General Lee. (Not the one from Dukes of Hazzard) @ Gettysburg Battlefield http://t.co/sUgyNQefjO

Abe

Randall's Biscuits.

The story has been embellished but the quantities and method are exactly as taught to me by the man. Still the best Ive had.

This is widely believed to be the best biscuit recipe on earth. It is an ancient recipe passed through several generations of the famous Lee family of Virginia. It was reportedly the major downfall of General Robert E. Lee and his army of northern Virginia on the third and final day of the battle of Gettysburg July 3, 1863. Lee had learned that the north had captured his head cook Elmer T. Copeland of Rockwall Texas the previous day following a suicidal bayonet charge by the 1st Minnesota regiment causing chaos and collapse of the confederate left flank. Copeland and the recipe fell into enemy hands as darkness fell over the battlefield. The next morning General Lee gathered the remaining officers and in an attempt to recover the recipe launched the most audacious attack on a heavily fortified position in the history of the war. 12,500 brave men marched across one mile of open field straight into the teeth of the union line under heavy artill ery and small arms fire. They broke through at one point for a few moments of bloody hand to hand combat but the attack ended in tragedy for the confederates on cemetary ridge. Pickett's charge not only failed to recapture the recipe it is also significant in that it is considered the high water mark of the confederacy and the beginning of the end for the southern rebels. The recipe was later returned to Lee upon his surrender in Appomattox VA on April 9 1865 which marked the end of the American Civil War. Copeland's great great grandson Randall has been kind enough to pass this along.

Method and Notes: 1) scale and combine all dry ingredients in bowl of robot coupe
2) add 400 g of cubed butter and process until mix looks sandy
3) dump into mixing bowl and add remaining butter and work gently to break it up into pea sized pieces
4) add buttermilk and stir very gently to incorporate. It will be very wet. Its very important not to over mix. It will look like a broken mess and thats ok.
5) dump mixture out onto a heavily floured surface and flatten by hand. Sprinkle liberally with flour and roll with a rolling pin to a thickness of 1"
6) cut with ring cutter and place on half sheet tray lined with parchment. They can be frozen at this point.
7) If not freezing proceed with baking at 350 degrees F for 18-25 minutes until golden brown and cooked through.
8) remove and brush with butter and sprinkle with fleur de sel.

Name Amt. Unit
buttermilk 900 g
butter, cut into 1/2" cubes 750 g
Salt 25 g
sugar 60 g
baking powder 12 g
Baking Soda 30 g
ap flour 1250 g