Greyhounds In Gettysburg
April 27th - 29th, 2012
14th Annual Event
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About Gettysburg
Battle of Gettysburg

The battle of Gettysburg occurred July 1-3, 1863.

The following provide additional online information on the battle.
  • US Army Gettysburg Website - A multimedia presentation on the battle.  This is an excellent narrated description of the battle day by day.  It includes interactive maps showing the position of the troops and pictures.
  • National Park Service Gettysburg site - Provides information about the park, planning a visit and the history of the battle and the park.
  • Wikipedia - Great encyclopedic information on the battle.
Town of Gettysburg

The town of Gettysburg has a small town flavor.  If you stay in town, you will find many people walking along the main tourism roads of Steinwehr Avenue and Baltimore Pike Road.

If you are interested in antiques or civil war memorabilia, you will find many stores to suit your desires.
Gettysburg Battlefields

Gettysburg National Military Park is part of the National Park System. It is a living history lesson, sight of the bloodiest battle of the Civil War, made famous by Lincoln's Gettysburg Address. Gettysburg - the town and the battlefield park - provide a landscape that is eerily unchanged from those scenes captured by the photography of Matthew Brady nearly 140 years ago. The National Park's features Visitor Center & Museum, some of the finest sculpture, as well as The Eisenhower National Historic Site.


Tick and Lyme Disease Notice from the National Park Service

"In natural areas such as Gettysburg National Military Park, caution must be maintained while walking through tall grasses and brush. Lyme Disease can be transmitted to humans after contact with an infected deer tick, a small species of tick common in Pennsylvania. Visitors who prefer to walk in such areas should be aware of this danger and be certain to examine their clothing for these parasites."


See your vet about Tick prevention. Preventic Tick Collars are safe for Greyhounds. Consult your vet before using any tick prevention products, be sure to inquire about the safety of using any product on Greyhounds and other low fat/underweight dogs. Remember many over the counter flea and tick preventions can be fatal when used on greyhounds.

Books

To prepare for you trip, we suggest that you read up on the battle.  There are a number of books in print that will give you background on the battle and the people that met in Gettysburg.
  • The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara - This best seller was made into a movie.

There is a whole page of books recommended by the Parks service.
Videos

There are a number of videos worth watching.  Some are documentaries and others are based on historic fiction.
  • Gettysburg - Based on the novel, The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara.  This was a made for TV movie that is now on DVD.  It starred Tom Beringer and Michael Sheen.
  • The Civil War - This is a John Burns documentary originally shown on PBS.   It is available on DVD.
Podcasts

If you are one of the large group of people that have an mp3 player (IPODs or something similar) then you will want to consider downloading a tour of the battlefied to play on your player.  The national park service in cooperation with Civil War Traveler magazine have produced free downloadable podcasts.  The current podcasts include:
  • Little Round Top - Anchoring an end of the Union line, this was the site of fierce fighting.
  • Devil's Den - The Union soldiers defending this pile of giant boulders just west of Little Round Top found themselves on the far left flank of the Federal line July 2, 1863.
  • Pickett's Charge - The doomed Confederate charge in which a division crossed open fields in the face of artillery fire.
  • The Peach Orchard - Confederate attackers had a real chance to cut the Union line in half in and around the Peach Orchard July 2, 1863.
  • The Wheatfield - The fighting in the Wheatfield at Gettysburg on July 2, 1863, was some of the most intense and confusing of the war.