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Monday, May 9, 2005 10:50 p.m. EDT
Historians Miffed at Gettysburg Gambling Proposal
An investor group has announced plans to open a casino and spa near the historic Gettysburg battlefield site – a project contingent on the group winning a slots license.
According to the History News Network, some historians are upset about the thought of slot machines cranking away only a few miles from the historic battle site many consider to be the turning point in the Civil War.
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Critics complain the casino operation would demean one of the nation's most sacred historic sites, where more than 40,000 Union and Confederate soldiers were killed during a three-day battle in July of 1863.
Princeton University historian James McPherson, who helped to nix a community planned on part of the Manassas battlefield in Virginia in 1994, said the Gettysburg slots proposal is insulting:
"Nothing could be a greater besmirchment of the sacrifice of the men who fought and died there," McPherson wrote in an e-mail to The Patriot-News of Harrisburg. "By failing to honor their memory in this fashion, we would dishonor ourselves."
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