What to see in America . f the state near thejunction of Blair and Bedfordcounties is Blue Knob, 3136feet high, the loftiest summitin Pennsylvania. South of the capital, onlyseven miles from the Mary-land line, is Gettysbuig,where was fought, early inJuly, 1863, the most impor-tant battle of the Civil men on the Union sidenumbered about 80,000, com-manded by Gen. Meade, andthe Confederates 73,000 ledby Gen. Robert E. Lee. Inno other battle of the warwere so many engaged. Each side lost in killed, wounded,and missing more than 20,000. The Confederates had de-cided to carry the war north
What to see in America . f the state near thejunction of Blair and Bedfordcounties is Blue Knob, 3136feet high, the loftiest summitin Pennsylvania. South of the capital, onlyseven miles from the Mary-land line, is Gettysbuig,where was fought, early inJuly, 1863, the most impor-tant battle of the Civil men on the Union sidenumbered about 80,000, com-manded by Gen. Meade, andthe Confederates 73,000 ledby Gen. Robert E. Lee. Inno other battle of the warwere so many engaged. Each side lost in killed, wounded,and missing more than 20,000. The Confederates had de-cided to carry the war north into the enemys country, butwere decisively defeated. On the southern borders of thetown is a national cemetery, at the dedication of which inNovember, 1863, President Lincoln made the twenty-lineaddress which is considered his most immortal seventeen acres of this cemetery are the burial-place of3572 soldiers, among whom are over a thousand unknowndead. Beyond it is the most hotly contested portion of the. State House, Harrisbueg 120 What to See in America battlefield, including Little Round Top, the Valley of Death,the Devils Den, and the Bloody Angle. Probably Gettys-burg is more lavishly marked with monuments than anyother battlefield in the world. There are some five hundredof them scattered over its twenty-five square miles. An important battle in the Revolution was fought nearChadds Ford on Brandywine Creek, not far from the Del-aware boundary, in September, 1777. Washington wasdefeated in this Battle of the Brandywine, and in consequencethe Americans lost Philadelphia. On the southern border of the state, a short distance eastof the Susquehanna, Robert Fulton, the inventor, wasborn at Little Britain in 1765. He went to school onlyenough to acquire the ability to read and write, and when hewas old enough he was apprenticed to a Philadelphia , on the Lehigh River, has a certain romanticinterest because it was founded by the Moravians, which
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