Today Gettysburg is visited by millions of people and her five thousand residence take great pride in calling her home. She is also home to some fantastic golf. A trip to Gettysburg combines everything the modern traveler wants. Fun, Golf, Experiences and Excitement. Whether your family would like to explore the battlefields and visit museums or your golf group wants to combine some history and sport, Gettysburg has a little for everyone. The newest museum, Beyond The Battle, allows guests to discover what the experience for those civilians in and around the town during the historic battle was like. It comes complete with a war room. Guests enter the room made to look like a kitchen in 1863. Soon the ‘immersive experience” explodes around guests. They will hear and feel cannons fire, gun shots, screams, plates braking. It leaves the visitor shaken. The battlefield at Gettysburg is hollowed ground. The sheer magnitude of the loss of human life is overwhelming. Pickett’s Charge left 6,555 men either dead or brutally wounded. Lincoln’s speech several months after the battle ended is perhaps one of the most important ever given in American history. His word’s echo through the ages with truth and honor.
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