The Battle of Gettysburg: Save the electric map before it's too late!

I'm glad we visited Gettysburg and saw the map last summer. (pic from SaveTheElectricMap)

The Battle of Gettysburg: Save the electric map before it's too late! - Gadling: "There's a group out there that has created a Web site aimed at saving the 40-year-old electric battle map at Gettysburg National Military Park, which is scheduled to be dismantled and put into storage when the old museum there is demolished next year.

The map has been a perennial park favorite, lighting up to show visitors key troop movements at important junctures at the famous Civil War battle. Thousands of Civil War buffs have been able to better visualize Pickett's Charge over the years because of it.

A new museum and visitor's center opened at Gettysburg last month, complete with the latest technology that, park officials say, will bring the battle home to visitors like never before. But there's a small army out there who says new technology be damned: the 30 x 30 electronic map (complete with more than 600 lights), invented by some guy in Connecticut, is one of a dying breed of old school Civil War displays, like the Cyclorama in Atlanta depicting Sherman's men torching the city."