“Bush tours Gettysburg battleground site” by Christine Simmons
Politics By CHRISTINE SIMMONS, The Associated Press 2008-09-06
GETTYSBURG, Pa. –
President Bush brushed up on his Civil War history Friday, touring the battleground of Gettysburg, the site of one of the deadliest battles of the Civil War.
Normally for a $55 fee, visitors to the Gettysburg National Military Park can tour the area along with a licensed guide. But Friday, Bush had with him Gabor Boritt, an Abraham Lincoln scholar and director of the Civil War Institute at Gettysburg College, who could explain chronological events of the war to match each site of the battleground.
The president began his mid-afternoon tour at the Virginia Memorial, one of 1,300 monuments on the park's grounds.
He also was treated to a sneak peek of the park's Museum and Visitor Center, which has its grand opening Sept. 26.
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Robert Kinsley, chair of the Gettysburg Foundation, was in the museum for the president's visit…
The town in the Pennsylvania countryside is near the site of a 3-day battle where Union troops successfully defeated Confederate troops' advances. More than 51,000 Confederate and Union soldiers were killed, wounded or captured.
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