For anyone who has taken a history course, it seems that the Battle of Gettysburg is primarily contextualized by an event that followed it: the Gettysburg Address. President Abraham Lincoln's speech, ...

“For every Southern boy fourteen years old, not once but whenever he wants it, there is the instant when it’s still not yet two o’clock on that July afternoon in 1863.” So starts a powerful passage by ...

1. Lee thought he could demoralize Union forces by invading Pennsylvania. In late spring 1863, the Union Army captured Vicksburg, Mississippi. Union generals hoped to split the Confederacy in half and ...

I’ve lived in Gettysburg all my life, but there is still no bias when I say there is nothing quite like Remembrance Day ...

For the first two years of the Civil War, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, had been the homefront, where residents feared for their husbands, brothers, and sons who were away fighting, and waited for word ...

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 soldiers ...

On November 19, 1863, President Abraham Lincoln visited Gettysburg to dedicate the Gettysburg National Cemetery, the final resting place for thousands of soldiers killed during the battle several ...

Weather seems to have played a major role in some of history’s most important moments, especially in warfare. The Battle of Gettysburg, over a century and a half ago, proved to be one of the bloodiest ...

Each time a dead soldier was dug up on the shattered battlefield here, the short, bearded figure of Samuel Weaver was there with his iron hook to ensure that it was not a rebel. He could usually tell ...

The structure is one of nine buildings in the city that still show damage from the battle.

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