Gettysburg Day 1 – First Shot – Where Fate Meets History
July 1, 2013 My covivant and I rose early this morning, because I wanted to be there for the first shot. The site of the first shot is the Ephraim Wisler Home on...
Hopes of Our Country Were on Our Bayonets – Gettysburg Day 0
Probably the most fascinating guys at the event were a couple of federal employees. Mitchell Yockelson is an Investigative Archivist for the Office of the Inspector General of the National Archives. The other fellow is a special agent, who preferred to keep a low profile. Apparently there are a lot of documents floating around that really belong in the National Archives and these guys are charged with hunting them down. Maybe that will make another post.
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