8/4/15 - Gettysburg, PA

We caught the shuttle bus to the Eisenhower National Historic Site.  We went on a tour of the house and then walked around on the grounds.  Ike bought the house in 1950 and he and Mamie lived there after his presidency.  The back porch reminded us of the one in Jim's parents' house in Tyler.

We went back to the visitors center and bought tickets for the movie, museum and Cyclorama.  The Cyclorama was a huge circular painting depicting Pickett's Charge at the battle of Gettysburg.  It was painted in 1883 and was recently restored after suffering decades of neglect.  

The museum had lots of artifacts from the battle and the Civil War in general.  

Then we drove the whole battlefield road.  This was the bloodiest battle of the Civil War..  There are over 1,300 monuments here.  We took pictures of a few of them.  When we got back to the trailer we washed clothes.