I spent a day at Gettysburg last week. I knew it was a large area (6500 acres) But when you actually are touring the battlefield you really get a sense of how immense this battle really was. I was able to see just about everything. For those of you who have never been, you wouldn't believe how many monuments their are, some simple, some very beautiful in there design, all put up by the individual states both north and south. I saw little round top, the devils den, peach orchard (Which actually is no longer there) The main field where Pickett made his infamous charge. Meade and Lee's headquarters. It was all there. I was very impressed with how well it was preserved. They still had parts of the walls that the 20th Maine had erected on little round top.  So well preserved if you took away the monuments and threw some dirt on Emmitsburg road you could probably hear Dixie and the battle hymn of the Republic in the wind. (You almost could anyway)I also saw Harpers Ferry. Very neat little town. I stayed at the Jackson Rose Bed and breakfast, It was Jacksons headquarters during his stay there. Are room was right next to his. Very historical town, But after Gettysburg I found it a bit anticlimactic. You walk around for a couple of hours see the firehouse where John Brown was hold up during his failed raid and theres not much else. Still if your in the area defiantly go. But Gettysburg is worth a trip in itself, Go in the fall, nice weather, crowds are sparse and the fall colors make it a little sad in a way, I guess for me it kind of took it off the pages of all the books I've read and humanized it a little more.