During whole last week I had my friends from Nebraska here, so I didn't have time for writing posts. I was exploring a night life in DC and having fun with my friends. It just reminded me how much will I miss some people I've met here... Well, unfortunately my friends had to leave DC on Saturday morning, so I tried to disperse my sadness through exploring new places. Saturday afternoon I visited great (but overcrowded - it's most visited museum in the world) National Air and Space Museum and National Botanic Garden. On Sunday Bob, owner of house where I'm staying offered me if I don't wanna go to Gettysburg in Pennsylvania, famous for it's fighting history. And I wasn't against...Gettysburg is one of the biggest battlefields in the US and a place that raises lots of emotions. At this place the armies of North-Union and South-Confederation met which led to bloody battle where many people were killed or injured. This battle took place July 1-July 3 1863 and Union won. This battle is considered like a breaking point of Civil War where South slavery states were defeated...
Gettysburg lies in Pennsylvania close to border with Maryland, hour and half far away from Washington, DC. It's neat and small east coast town. However, you can see the bloody history of this place all around. There is a big cemetery in the town with buried bodies (or just ash of bodies, because there were so many corpses that they didn't have time and room to bury all of them). And in the countryside around the town, on the places where the soldiers died there are many (at least tens, maybe hundreds) monuments and memorials for these people. Perhaps every troop from different states has its own monument. And in addition to it, every fighting state has it's own memorial. Especially Pennsylvania one is huge and amazing.
This is typically American I would say. They appreciate everybody who fought for their ideals and freedom. We have hardly main monuments for all the people killed in different wars and they have memorial for every person killed. Well, it's possible here, because America hasn't seen many conflicts on its homeland. Which you can't compare with European bloody history.
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Over the Civil War’s course from 1861 until 1865, 2.9 million soldiers, nearly one in every ten Americans at the time, fought over eighteen states and territories. Some 10,455 military actions took place, from titanic battles to smaller raids and skirmishes, and exacted more than 620,000 lives. . . . No arena of this conflict is more renowned than Gettysburg, a small Pennsylvania town that witnessed the bloodiest engagement on American soil: there were an estimated fifty thousand casualties, of which eleven thousand were killed, twenty-nine thousand wounded, and ten thousand captured or missing. Five times as many Americans died there as on Normandy’s beaches on June 6, 1944. The battlefield’s key landmarks, both cultural and natural, were preserved because the significance of what transpired there was apparent almost immediately.
From Monuments: America's History in Art and Memory, coming November 6!
Judith Dupre
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yep, this is probably better than my poor explanation of the battle... thanks! and you should definitely buy Judith's book :-)
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