Introducing the series Road Trip 2007

My cousin and I have traveled life together since we were children. We spent summers on her parents ranch where we ran barefoot in the sun, shared all our secrets and giggled under the covers at night until our mothers told us to hush up and go to sleep. They were still telling us the same thing to our teenage years. And so it continues. She has just returned from a trip to the East Coast, cross country from ocean to ocean and I have "traveled" with her via e-mail and photos. I would like to share her trip with you as she shared it with me. I hope you will enjoy my paintings of the Road Trip With GG as much as I have. Yes, we still share our secrets and giggle into the night. Some things will never change.

Friday, September 7, 2007

The Battle of Little Round Top


GG's 2007 Road Trip

This is a beautiful photo, isnt it. And the countryside around Gettysburg is beautiful with the green and gold fields, the old rail fences, the rock walls. It is hard to visualize the battle that raged here in July, 1863 between the Army of the Potomac and the Confederate forces...and the terrible loss of lives in that four day battle. In an account written by a Captain in General Picketts Division, "The destruction of life in the ranks of that advancing host was fearful beyond precendent, officers going down by dozens and the men by scores and fifties." Across this field the Confederate soldiers must charge through the open to attack the Union soldiers dug in at Little Round Top just beyond the grove of trees.

5"x7" oil on canvas board unframed, $100.00 postage prepaid.
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