What is this historical location like?

Question

We are going to Gettysburg this month,but what is it really like.How is the ghost tour?

Answer 1

We didn't do the ghost tour. What we did do is explore the battlefield and all the national historic site interpretive programs. They were fantastic. The electric map in the visitor center gives you an overview, and then you need to get in your car and take the tour guide and stop at as many of the many tour stops as you can possibly imagine. Wherever possible, walk out onto the site, don't just stay at the edge.

When you get to Pickett's charge site, be certain to walk 1/4 mile into the battlefield. This will give you a perspective on exactly how and why battles are won and lost. I'm a civil war buff, but in all my reading, I'd never had a visceral understanding of exactly why a particular battle was won. When you walk Pickett's walk, you'll realize that you're looking up at what were the Union artillery forces. And, you'll realize that you couldn't successfully make that charge, no matter how fast or lucky you may be, without being shot down. It is truly illuminating.

I'm sure you'll enjoy some of the commercial attractions, and if you have time, go for them. If your time is limited, stick with the national battlefield. This was a tragic war, and this was an especially tragic battle, and you need to take the time to truly understand, which I guarantee you will after your visit here.

Answer 2

If you're really into history, and like to see where it happened, its okay. Gettysburg, when I was there, had a few museums where they had uniforms and pictures, accounts of the battle, an old hospital with people dressed in period clothes that we took a tour of. The Battlefield is just that...a field, forlorn and empty. The ghost thing was a boring, cold evening of waiting while the "tour guide" told stories designed to get you to jump a the wind blowing.
All in all, I didn't like it. I am a BIG history buff, and found Gettysburg to be very disappointing. I enjoyed going to Savannah, with its actual living, breathing history so much better!

Answer 3

I went a couple of years ago, we were going to to the ghost tour but never really had time. If you enjoy history then gettysburg is a great place to start, but if you are one of the people that couldnt really give a rip about it. then you will probably be bored out of your mind. i had a lot of fun there.

Answer 4

......listen with the right ears and try to hear, in that sleepy little farmtown in an area not much changed from 1863, as half a million men met and fought and died..........I am a descendent of a Union Colonel, who three years before the war had been a professor at a small college in Maine; on July 3 1863 he and 250 Maine farmers and fishermen held a hill on the Union left; fired off all their ammunition then fixed bayonets and charged downhill to turn back the Confederate assault.....my son and I have looked down that hill and tried to imagine what great granduncle Joshua saw and did that day; we have stood behind the Union line looking across the flat open coverless field Pickett charged across and marveled, without truly being able to understand, at the raw courage that took a few Confederates actually to the Union lines.....and left thousands dead behind them

if anywhere in America is haunted, Gettysburg is the place...
with the blood and the hopes and the fears and the deaths of tens of thousands of Americans......

Answer 5

Go to Gettysburg.com. You can drive it with a tape guide or go with a park guide. There are a couple of tours with the ghost theme. You'll get more info if you go to the site. Look in Tours.