Civil War Battlefield Tour, last part

Last, but certainly not least, Gettysburg.

View from Little Round Top

One of the cannon (on the left, out of the frame) was the first shot of the battle

Another view from Little Round Top

Pickett's Charge

Pickett's Charge

Me and Pop

Civil Wat Battlefield Tour pt. 2

Battle of Antietam (in Sharpsburg, MD) - single bloodiest day of the Civil War. The three major areas where the battle took place were the Cornfield, Sunken Road and Burnside's Bridge (all pictured below).

View of the field from the Visitor Center

Memorial to NY

At the Cornfield (start of the battle)

Burnside's Bridge

Sunken Road

Sunken Road

Civil War Battlefield Tour, pt. 1

This will be the first of 3 posts documenting my Civil War Battlefield tour Pop and I took this past Mother's Day weekend ;)

Up first, Harper's Ferry, WV - site of the John Brown raid and an industrial town that was occupied by each side 4 times each during the course of the war.

View next to the church looking down at the town

Harper's Ferry Cemetery (all the way at the top of hill)

Point at which the Shenandoah & Potomac rivers meet

Monument marking the location of John Brown's fort

Old firehouse (original building from before the war)

View from the cemetery on the hill

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Arlington Cemetery

Had the folks down the other weekend (always love when they visit - I can do all the really touristy things...not that I don't do them anyway ;)
Anyway, went to the American History Museum (we had the first snowfall of the season...and it was October 29!), but the next day was beautiful and surprisingly warm so we went to the Pentagon Memorial and Arlington Cemetery. 
Took all the following with my iPhone.

Pumpkin Patch

Went to a pumpkin patch/corn maze this weekend with the bf, his sister and nephew. Became a little obsessed shooting the kids (they are just so darn cute)

And to shake things up - here's a landscape.

National Arboretum

After a failed attempt to go to the Arboretum the day after Hurricane Irene, we made it this past weekend. Frankly trees didn't do much for me (although with so few people around it was very peaceful and serene), but I was a little obsessed with the Capitol Columns (in case you couldn't tell). These columns are the originally ones from the Capitol Building - they were removed when the building was expanded and replaced with marble reproductions and these original columns (made of sandstone or limestone or something) were moved here. With no one around and in this setting you can almost imagine yourself in Ancient Rome.