As summer unfolds, those of us at The Gettysburg Experience are eager to offer a new issue of articles of historical interest, summer recipes, and our newly updated Calendar of Events, all beginning on page 11.

The terrible conflict at Gettysburg is shown on a personal level in The George Spangler Farm: “The Horrors of War”, beginning on page 21. A biographical glimpse of one Union leader is chronicled in “Virtually Annihilated”: Colonel Roy Stone at Gettysburg, beginning on page 31. Vivid pictures of the battle are written by those who were there in “From One Bloody Scene to Another”: First Hand Accounts, beginning on page 39.

Our Editor’s Corner offers some Origins of some of our popular phrases, beginning on page 45.

Don’t forget our Trivia Questions, located on the bottom of every odd-numbered page (except the center, where you will find our Map of Gettysburg). To ace the Trivia, be sure to read the articles first. Answers are on page 53.

We offer for your convenience an Advertisers’ Directory on page 54. We truly appreciate our advertisers, as they provide the only funding for our publication. They help to make Gettysburg the amazing town that it is. Please take a moment and see what they have to offer. We do, and can highly recommend them!

Thank you for choosing The Gettysburg Experience, a part of historic Gettysburg since 1997.

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