new england and the surrounding area + canada

I went to the battle field of Gettysburg today with the Chapter President. Some say it was the battle the changed the war. It was a three day battle July 2nd, 3rd, and 4th of 1862. One of the bloodiest battles over 52,000 casualties of war. The battle field was over 16 square miles. I also saw the site were Abraham Lincoln gave the Gettysburg Address, which was a four minute speech. The person who was speaking before Lincoln spoke for one and half hours, so a lot of people were angry he only talked for four minutes. The press was apparently very hard on him in the papers for speaking for such a short amount of time. The middle of the battle field is very flat lands sounded by many rocks, corn stocks and forests. The bloodiest battle of Gettysburg only last fifty minutes and was a Turing point of the battle and the war. I had great history lessons today...