Before cats ruled the internet, the felines ran the battlefield. At least, that’s history as told by Gettysburg’s Civil War Tails at the Homestead Diorama Museum. The museum features painstakingly ...

On Nov. 19, 1863, President Abraham Lincoln traveled to Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, to dedicate a cemetery at the site of the bloodiest battle of the Civil War. Four months before, about 50,000 ...

Road Trip 2010: If it's Fourth of July weekend, that means it's time to reenact one of the most famous battles of the Civil War. CNET's Daniel Terdiman is on hand to see the action.

"The images are quite vivid, and they even have facial recognition capability, so they're pretty sophisticated," Phiel said. The cameras are pretty obvious, and that's intentional.

Each consists of a landscape reproducing a Civil War moment, with buildings and nature elements to scale, and one 1-inch-tall cat for each soldier. In addition to the full tableaus, there are also ...

Before cats ruled the internet, the felines ran the battlefield. At least, that's history as told by Gettysburg's Civil War Tails at the Homestead Diorama Museum.

Photo courtesy of Civil War Tails / Handmade clay cat figurines are on display at Civil War Tails museum in Gettysburg. Before cats ruled the internet, the felines ran the battlefield.

Before cats ruled the internet, the felines ran the battlefield. At least, that’s history as told by Gettysburg’s Civil War Tails at the Homestead Diorama Museum.