It’s a park in the city, or a city in a park. In Gettysburg, the living people of the town are as numerous as the dead who made it famous, in July 1863, during the bloodiest battle of the Civil War (1861-1865). The country roads are lined with war memorials, markers and statues, over an area of 25 km2. Everywhere, we remember the Blues and Grays, who gutted themselves here for three days, leaving more than 7,000 corpses.
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