Article posted: 9/1/2012 6:00 AM

Gettysburg on horseback takes riders back in time

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Madigan Nussbaum, 9, smiles while on a horseback tour through the Spangler farm, which served as a field hospital during and after the July 1-3 1863 battle in Gettysburg, Pa.

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The Nussbaum family, from left, father Rob, daughter Madigan, 9, mother Nancy and Nicole Nussbaum, 14, while on a horseback tour through the Spangler farm near where the battle at Gettysburg, Pa., was fought July 1-3, 1863.

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Battlefield guide Les Fowler gives 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.

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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. The rolling farmland that is 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.