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Gettysburg State Monuments Sample Chapter
We hope that even casual visitors to the Civil War Cycling website will enjoy this “Gettysburg State Monuments” sample chapter. This page contains scanned excerpts from chapter 10 of the guidebook, Bicycling Gettysburg National Military Park. The chapter covers Gettysburg’s eighteen state monuments. It illustrates the book’s approach to learning history on a bicycle, which includes learning how battlefield structures, especially monuments, inform our understanding of the Battle of Gettysburg and its historical aftermath. This sample chapter is one of seven chapters in “Part IV: Monuments and Structures,” which is roughly one-half of the book.
Bicycling Gettysburg National Military Park is unique in that it combines and integrates history, art, photography, cartography, and human interest stories in a way that captures your imagination and intellect. That’s the goal, in any case! Take a peek inside.
In addition to the guidebook, Civil War Cycling publishes digital (PDF) maps for 14 different bicycle routes through Gettysburg National Military Park. And guess what? The PDF files do not have license keys or passwords.
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