10,033 tiny clay cats reenact the Civil War at a Gettysburg museum

A stone’s throw from the hallowed ground of the Gettysburg Battlefield, where over 51,000 soldiers died over three days, visitors can learn about the American Civil War with a medium most associated with elementary school projects. But these aren’t your second grade teacher’s dioramas. At the Civil War Tails at the Homestead Diorama Museum, thousands of handmade clay cats depict some of the war’s hallmark moments–from Fort Sumter to Pickett’s Charge to le