Gettysburg Battlefields and Ghost Tour

We stayed at the Battlefield Inn Bed & Breakfast in Gettysburg for one night after leaving Washington DC. It was wonderful!! It's the first time that any of us have been in a bed and breakfast and it was a really great place. The older part of the Inn was built in 1809 and served as a "hospital" for the wounded during the Civil War. Since there were no doctors on site, it was really more of a place for the wounded to wait for wagons to come and take them from the battle area. If you have never been to Gettysburg, it's really something that you should do someday. It's an amazing part of our history.

The Inn has many farm animals, including horses, goats, chickens and lots and lots of cats. Megan was surprised to see how very friendly these cats are. Cubby got a chance to be almost "nose to nose" with one or two of them....he also wanted to chase a couple of them...but Dad helped him to control himself!!

We had a meal at the Dobbin Tavern Restaurant in Gettysburg, which was built in 1776. Dad had the largest prime rib that I have ever seen....which was great for Cubby because there were leftovers!

During the day, Megan joined Mom W, Dad R and a battlefield guide for a battlefield tour. This was a personal guided tour where the tour guide rode in the car with them and spoke about the events of the war as they drove from location to location. Megan really enjoyed the tour, but it seemed a bit too much for Mom and Dad mostly because of the length of the tour (2 hours) and the guide was trying to talk about so much that he didn't allow enough opportunity for the questions that Dad really wanted to ask. But, they did get a really good look at all of the battle sites on a one-on-one basis. Cubby and I spent the time looking at the pond and the farm animals on the grounds of the Inn.

Gettysburg is known as one of the most haunted places in the U.S. So, Megan, Mom and I took a ghost tour that night with Miss Betty. Miss Betty is a story teller who took us to a few of the most haunted areas (including the Inn where we were staying!). We also went to a covered bridge and another Inn that served as a field hospital during the Civil War (many amputations were done in that house and we saw where the floor in the current dining room was still stained from all of the blood that once covered the floor). We listened to her stories and were encouraged to take photos as we went along. I'll include a few pictures of the orbs that were captured on my camera.....with our eyes we saw nothing....but the digital pictures show orbs....not in every picture, but in some of them. What's intersting is that one picture of the location might show nothing and the next picture might show an orb, or many orbs. The white orbs are thought to be positive energy...the orange orbs aren't seen as often, but are thought to be negative energy. One of my pictures showed a large orange orb as well as other white orbs....Miss Betty asked me to send her that picture so that she could include it on her website. Fine with me!! Whether you believe in spirits or ghosts or not.....the evening was entertaining and very intersting. I'm glad that some of my pictures captured something that I can't explain....we definitely saw nothing with our eyes.

I'm also posting a picture of our breakfast that we had at the B & B....it was really, really good and very pretty, too. Before the breakfast, there was a presentation by another storyteller about the role that women played in the Civil War. She wore 1861 clothing, including a big hooped skirt. She lifted the skirt at one point to show how women smuggled money, ammunition, medicine, messages, etc under the hooped skirts in the pockets that had been sewn onto the hoop.

As I said...Gettysburg is a wonderful place to visit and I'd highly recommend the Battlefield Inn and a ghost tour while you are there.