I find them all both fascinating and moving. There are audios you can buy to self guide, Park Rangers to walk you round, and in larger sites like Gettysburg, bus tours.
Personally I prefer to self guide.
I have now visited Gettysburg 3 times and have spent a total of 5 days on the battlefield. I have not yet seen it all.
It is an extensive site. Some locations are often busy, some are often quiet. The information boards are excellent at summarising what happened and what you can see.
And the enormity of what happened here cannot fail to move you.
Statues and eloquent monuments to people and events are everywhere. And the silence in the War Cemeteries is seldom broken. More than once I was moved to tears and prayers when confronted with the countless markers arranged across the lawns.
There are horror stories, stories of courage and bravery,of self sacrifice, and stories of soldiers moved to help even their enemies.
And these stories are repeated in every Battle site....Gettysburg, Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, The Wilderness, Spotsylvania, Antietam...and the list goes on, North and South of the Mason Dixon Line.
Though I have studied this war, I struggle to make sense of the Geography of it all. You are overwhelmed with information as your mind forms images of what it must have been like.
It would be momentous to be present at the re-enactment of one of these battles.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Gettysburg
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http://www.civilwar.org/battlefields/gettysburg.html
http://www.nationalparks.org/explore-parks/gettysburg-national-military-park
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