Into the Country Side

One measure of the maturity of a person is the sophistication of their humor.  A joke to a three year old is any sentence that ends in the word "underwear." But as we get older, we get  more sophisticated.

 

We headed out into Amish country, but apparently it isn't open on Sunday. Seems like they all go to church and then spend the day with their families.

So we headed down to Gettysburg. Below is cemetery ridge where the Union Forces had their lines.  It is high ground, but only by about 100 feet.

Here is a picture of Devil's den where there was fierce hand to hand fighting between the union and confederate soldiers.

On the third day of the battle, General Lee wanted to break the union lines.  Twelve thousand men broke from the trees in the distance and poured across this field in a battle known as Pickett's charge.

The were met by 100 union cannons with canister shot and 6000 Union soldiers.

By 4:00 6000 Confederate soldiers were dead and the battle of Gettysburg was over.  Ironically at the end of the war, General Pickett became a life insurance salesman.