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Gettysburg - The Delaplaine 2019 Long Weekend Guide: Long Weekend Guides
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- Gramercy Park Press
- Pubblicato:
- Sep 23, 2018
- ISBN:
- 9781386181644
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A complete guide for everything you need to experience a great Long Weekend in Gettysburg, where in 1863 the greatest battle of the Civil War was fought.
"My husband is a fanatic about visiting Civil War battlefields. We'd used the Delaplaine guides when visiting Miami and Washington, and found this one to be as helpful as the others." ---Darleen S., Nashville
You'll save a lot of time using this concise guide.
=Lodgings (throughout the area) variously priced
=Fine & budget restaurants, more than enough listings to give you a sense of the variety to be found.
=Principal attractions -- don't waste your precious time on the lesser ones. We've done all the work for you.
=A handful of interesting shopping ideas.
Informazioni sul libro
Gettysburg - The Delaplaine 2019 Long Weekend Guide: Long Weekend Guides
Descrizione
A complete guide for everything you need to experience a great Long Weekend in Gettysburg, where in 1863 the greatest battle of the Civil War was fought.
"My husband is a fanatic about visiting Civil War battlefields. We'd used the Delaplaine guides when visiting Miami and Washington, and found this one to be as helpful as the others." ---Darleen S., Nashville
You'll save a lot of time using this concise guide.
=Lodgings (throughout the area) variously priced
=Fine & budget restaurants, more than enough listings to give you a sense of the variety to be found.
=Principal attractions -- don't waste your precious time on the lesser ones. We've done all the work for you.
=A handful of interesting shopping ideas.
- Editore:
- Gramercy Park Press
- Pubblicato:
- Sep 23, 2018
- ISBN:
- 9781386181644
- Formato:
- Libro
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Gettysburg - The Delaplaine 2019 Long Weekend Guide - Andrew Delaplaine
GETTYSBURG
The Delaplaine
2019
Long Weekend
Guide
Andrew Delaplaine
NO BUSINESS HAS PAID A SINGLE PENNY OR GIVEN ANYTHING TO BE INCLUDED IN THIS BOOK.
A list of the author’s other travel guides, as well as his political thrillers and titles for children, can be found at the end of this book.
Senior Editors - Renee & Sophie Delaplaine
Senior Writer - James Cubby
Copyright © by Gramercy Park Press - All rights reserved.
Please submit corrections, additions or comments to andrewdelaplaine@mac.com
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Chapter 1 – WHY GETTYSBURG?
Chapter 2 – GETTING ABOUT
Chapter 3 – WHERE TO STAY
High on the Hog – Sensible Alternatives – On a Budget
Chapter 4 – WHERE TO EAT
Chapter 5 – NIGHTLIFE
Chapter 6 – WHAT TO SEE & DO
Chapter 7 – SHOPPING & SERVICES
OTHER BOOKS BY THE SAME AUTHOR
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Chapter 1
WHY GETTYSBURG?
I’VE ALWAYS THOUGHT it ironic that the famous battle fought here in 1863 that determined the fate of the Civil War was waged over the three days of July 1-3, ending just before our Independence Day.
So close did the Confederates come to winning when Pickett’s Charge breached the Union line on Cemetery Ridge that if they had not been repulsed, the Confederates could easily have called the following day, July 4, their own Independence Day. It’s not for nothing that this point in the battle is called the high-water mark of the Confederacy.
General Lee’s army retreated the following day back into Virginia. Though the awful war would go on for two more years and see countless more dead, this was the turning point.
A few months after the battle, a military cemetery was dedicated here. A famous speaker, Edward Everett, delivered a long-winded two-hour oration before President Lincoln delivered his slightly more
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