Sunday, July 9, 2006
Montreal Trip - Day 14
We woke up pretty early - I have to be at work soon! We continued on I-81, through Pennsylvania. We ended up heading down towards Gettysburg on US-15. I wanted to see a monument that I read about recently: there was a soldier in the battle (Amos Huddleston) who was mortally wounded. He crawled into town and died in a vacant lot. He was found the next day, clutching a small photograph of his children. Local people circulated copies of the pictures throughout the North and his family was eventually located. When we arrived in Gettysburg, we got some directions and found a little stone marker on the site where Amos was found. Later, we drove down towards Emmitsburg, MD. We drove up to Marymount - there is a huge statue of Mary on the hill and a shrine. We also discovered a memorial to St. Elizabeth Ann Seton and walked around in the area where she lived. We spent the night in Frederick.