Gettysburg trip!

I don't what it is about Gettysburg.  Michelle and I have been there three times over the last year.  I like the place and Michelle is in absolute love with the place.

There is something about standing on the ground where history changed.  The Germans have a word for it--begrunden. It means something like "awareness".

I have had that feeling before in places like Marathon and Thermopylae.  I have sat along the road on Sherman's March trying to get that feeling too.  Maybe it has something to do with ghosts.

Although Gettysburg was a great Union victory and the turning point of the war, no one was aware that it was the turning point at that time.  After all, the war had been raging for two years and the grat victory was in Pennsylvania, not deep in the Confederacy.  And remember, victory was not assured.  There was still an election coming up in 1864 where one party was running on a "peace at any price"  platform.

Sherman's conquest of Atlanta is what won the war.

Have a great Father's Day!