And she obviously has crappy attorneys: any decent lawyer could have told her that by making her initial statement, she was compromising her Fifth Amendment rights.

This is why many criminal defendants don’t take the stand: once they have done so, called by their own attorney, they can’t just refuse to testify when the prosecution begins cross-examination.

Anyway, back west, the chickens in York paid the Confederates to save the city (50-50 on that thought). The Greys went west to join Gen. Lee. Some of Lee’s advance troops met accidentally north of Gettysburg on July 1st and had a skirmish. The Blues fell back to the town and the battle went to the 4th. This is the 150th Anniversary. The greys from the York came in from the NE. The Blues came in from the east on what is now US30. Meanwhile in Hanover to the southeast a little battle went on that delayed Jeb Stuart. I’m sure this Rail line was used to bring troops north.

In the link, they will mention Hanover Junction. That is 10 miles north of the picture. There, the line split to York and to Hanover, and onto Gettysburg. This route was used by Lincoln in November when he dedicated the Cemetery in Gettysburg and delivered the G-Burg Address.

Thanks to On Demand, I finally got to see “Lincoln,” the Steven Spielberg-directed, Daniel Day-Lewis-starring movie about the last weeks of Abraham Lincoln’s life and I’m still in something of an afterglow after that truly excellent historical drama. The replica of the train Lincoln rode to Gettysburg is not only timely, in light of that movie, but is also something that is definitly a treasure for your area.

In these days of cutbacks, Sequester, lay-offs and general malaise about the economy, its nice to see the results of proactive leadership with that replica of an important bit of history that your entire area can enjoy.

Then Watch Gowdy in this one