HANOVER, Pa. (WHTM) – History lovers, get excited! A large electric map that for decades helped Gettysburg visitors understand the Civil War battle is going back on public display. Starting Friday, ...
GETTYSBURG, Pa. (WHTM) — The Gettysburg Foundation’s Rupp House History Center has always concentrated on the lives of civilians before, during and after the battle. After almost two decades of ...
Some listeners were startled; a newspaper reporter later wrote that Lincoln’s speech “passed unnoticed by many”; another ...
The three-day Battle of Gettysburg began on this day in 1863. It proved to be a turning point in the Civil War. As measured by the number of troops engaged, the first day ranks as the 23rd biggest ...
GETTYSBURG — It’s been 160 years since Robert E. Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia ventured into the Pennsylvania crossroads town of Gettysburg in what became the largest battle ever fought in North ...
Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! Battlefield guide Jeffrey Harding and Penn State University professor Jon Nese provide opening remarks for the lesson about how weather impacted the ...
Headquarters Maj. Gen. George G. Meade, during Battle of Gettysburg. Pennsylvania. July 1863 Just back of the cemetery at Gettysburg, on the road leading to Taneytown, stands a humble dwelling, made ...
The following pages are taken from Lancaster Newspapers archives as part of the 150th anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg. The pages offer a glimpse of the coverage provided by the newspapers from ...
On this day in 1863, President Abraham Lincoln, speaking at the dedication of a military cemetery in Gettysburg, Pa., delivered what has become one of the most profound speeches in U.S. history. In ...