The 150th anniversary re-enactment of the Battle of Gettysburg

 The battle scene on Friday was all cavalry.  Seeing several hundred troops on horseback getting into the fight was really something.  You can see how big the crowds were by looking at how full the grandstands were in the background of this picture.

 

I sat and talked with some of the ladies of the Dixie Rose Aide Society.

 

 

I was also glad to be able to sit in the shade on a bale of hay to listen to the 2nd South Carolina String Band play Civil War music.

 

The heat was extreme all day long.  The only way I was able to stay out there for over six hours to enjoy the encampments and lectures on fashions, spies and the Generals of the North was because I had taken with me a six pack of Gatorade.  By the time I left I had consumed 5 of the bottles and never had to go to the bathroom.  Ok,  a little too much information.  Then when it was time to leave I could hardly walk any further.  A very kind person who was riding around in a golf cart got me to the entrance gate, and then another person with a golf cart helped me to get across the road to the particular parking area where I had left my car.  Thank heavens that person helped me.  Even though I remembered the green flag with the letter "D" below it was my area and I had parked in the third row back, I still had difficulty in finding my car.  If I had been on foot, I know I would have sat down in the grass and just cried from the heat and frustration.  Anyway, I am glad I attended this event; but I was so tired by the time I got home, I probably looked like the man below.