costing 7 1/2 millions. all but a few erected by the North in honor of Officers & Battalions by each state they came from. we only saw a couple erected by the South one of Gen. Lee. and one of Carolina Brigade saw some of the positions of the army. Round Top Oak Knoll. smaller Round Top. Culps hill. where we climbed an observation tower & saw all the battlefield it was cloudy & misty and couldn't see very good. There are five towers. The cannons are all supposed to be in their original positions (hundreds of them). They only had two (2) breech loading cannon in the battle they came from England & would shoot 4 to 4 1/2. miles {last word added in pencil} all the rest had to be loaded from the front. and would only shoot 2 1/2 miles. One of the biggest monuments was the Pennslyvania cost $500.00, also saw the Federal Cemetery a large Monument in the centre & the soldiers buried in a semi circle around it. a long strip of stone with each ones name on. (a grey stone) and the unknown soldiers have a small white stone each. we saw some of the old breast

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