Three Days in July, 1863 Laura tells me that my blogs should be more frequent and shorter. Bob tells me he likes reading these long things. Bob wins. Apologies to Laura. There's a lot here. I have no choice. So it all started when I was chatting with a colleague from the Sea Cadets in DC a few months back and learned he had published a Civil War book, gives lectures, tours etc. Back of my mind for the last several years was a thought to someday take an over the top tour of a historical battlefield. I asked him what he knew about that. "Hands down", Rick said was the annual Civil War Institute summer conference at Gettysburg College. Six days of classroom lectures and tours. I did more class time that week than Bob did at Saint Norbert. Obviously a liberal arts college as you can see from this parking lot shot below. Flew into BWI on June 14th, Flag Day, and headed in the general direction of Gettysburg PA using my phone as the GPS for the ...