Gettysburg on horseback takes riders back in time

By Nancy Nussbaum

Published June 18, 2012 5:34pm ET

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Gettysburg on horseback takes riders back in time — This April 12, 2012 photo shows battlefield guide Les Fowler giving a tour of Spangler farm which served as a field hospital during and after the July 1-3 1863 battle in Gettysburg, Pa., a turning point in the Civil War. Gettysburg can be toured in a number of ways, but on horseback you can transport yourself to the vantage and vulnerability of a Civil War officer on horseback directing his troops in the three-day battle. (AP Photo/Nancy Nussbaum) | Nancy Nussbaum

GETTYSBURG, Pa. (AP) — A twig snaps and brush rustles in woods on the Gettysburg battlefield. My horse does not flinch. It’s nothing more than a small animal scurrying away. But on a hot summer day nearly 150 years earlier, it could have been the enemy.

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