A few more fun things!

 Because of Covid, some of the things we wanted to see in Gettysburg were on limited hours and weren't open until Thursday.  So - we did the Philadelphia things on Wednesday, and then on Thursday we went back to Gettysburg.

We started at the Jenny Wade house. Jenny Wade was a 20 year old girl who was the only civilian killed during the Gettysburg battle.  She was in this duplex helping her sister who had a baby the day before the battle started.  Her brother-in-law had signed up for the army, so he wasn't there either.

The Union was on one side of the house, the Confederates on the other.  Jenny was making biscuits when a bullet went though the door and killed her instantly.  Such a sad story!

These are bricks on the house. There were so many bullet holes!

In this hole, you can see the bullet still in the wall.

In one of the bedrooms, there is a bullet still in the bed post.

Upstairs, this wall was hit and broken through by a shell.  Union soldiers broke it further down as they helped to move Jenny Wade's body from one side of the duplex to another so the family could be safer downstairs.

We then went in search for the Union headquarters and found it here.

The side and back of the Union Headquarters.

We then went to the Gettysburg Museum.  It's full of information and interesting things.  Outside was this statue of Abraham Lincoln.  We had to get a photo of him with our 2 main history lovers!

Inside was this - the first Confederate flag, was later changed as they thought it might look too much like the US flag on the battlefield.

This is General Lee's cot, desk, heating cone and medical bag.

These are some of the actual notes written by Abraham Lincoln as he prepared the Gettysburg Address.

As we left the museum, we saw this mural with a quote from Major General Joshua :Lawrence Chamberlain, who we think was a great man, and the quote is very fitting.

"In great deeds something abides.

On great fields something stays.

Forms change and pass, bodies disappear;

but spirits linger... And reverent men 

and women from afar, and generations

that... we know not of... [are] drawn

to see where... great things were suffere

and done for them..."

When we finished at the museum, we went outside town to see the Sachs Covered Bridge.  It's designated as Pennsylvania's most historic bridge.  It was built in 1854 and was used by both the Union and Confederate armies during the war.

Andrew, Heather and Bob on the bridge.

We drove back through Gettysburg on our way back to the cabin and stopped at the Gettysburg Train Station.  This is the station Abraham Lincoln came in to when he gave the Gettysburg address.  It was also closed and used as a field hospital during the war.

We stopped at a BBQ place close to the cabin and got some yummy supper.

We are outside at the cabin.  It was another fun day!