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Early on a foggy morning at the Virginia Monument. Erik, Keith and Emily. Keith invited some early risers on one of his famous morning walks to the battlefield. Photo by JW.
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Widow Lydia Leister's farm, which was used by General George G. Meade as his headquarters, behind Cemetery Ridge on the Taneytown Road. Looking east.
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Ranger Becky Lyons led the group on an exploration of the life on the farms around Gettysburg before and during the battle.
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Ms. Lyons explained that Lydia Leister had very little land and was not well off. When she returned to her home, her livestock was gone, her crops trampled, her house shelled, and there were dead horses in her yard.
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Michael and Phil near the Leister barn.
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UCLA Students in front of the Leister house.
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Kristen and Brooks listen to Ms. Lyons on the porch of the Leister farmhouse.
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Cemetery Ridge and the Leister farm looking west and north. Statue of Gen. Meade is on the ridge line at left.
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Leister farm on July 6, 1863. Note dead horses in the yard and road.
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