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Gettysburg, Vicksburg change course of Civil War while draft leads to riots, ridicule and 54th Mass. fights and dies for glory

• Part 25 -- April 1863: Civil War reaches its halfway point as jobs and culture flourish locally and Lincoln looks to enlist God on Union side • Part 26 -- Civil War: May 1863 marks deaths of ...
YDR

Civil War field hospital programs at Gettysburg

– The Gettysburg Foundation will open the historic George Spangler Farm Civil War Field Hospital site to visitors on weekends, June 8 through August 12. Visitors will be transported back to July and ...
fox43

Thousands gather in Gettysburg for Annual Civil War Battle Reenactment

GETTYSBURG, Pa. -- Hundreds of spectators and thousands of reenactors gathered in Gettysburg for the 154th Annual Gettysburg Civil War Battle Reenactment. Rain or shine, the battle went on, and it ...
Reuters

Skull of Civil War soldier found at Gettysburg to be auctioned

HARRISBURG Pa. (Reuters) - (This June 2 story was refiled to show last find of Civil War dead at Gettysburg, not nationally, in 1996 in the sixth paragraph.) The skull of a Civil War soldier and ...
Yahoo

Gettysburg tells the story of more than a battle − the military park shows what national ‘reconciliation’ looked like for decades after the Civil War

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 ...
The Denver Post

Gettysburg anniversary increases demand for stolen Civil War relics

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... GETTYSBURG — With 250,000 visitors expected to converge on the Gettysburg battlefields this week, historians and antiquarians say the 150th anniversary of ...
Today

Civil War general blindsided at pivotal Gettysburg battle

(Reuters) - Confederate General Robert E. Lee was "virtually blind" to the superior positions held by Union troops hidden by rolling hills and valleys, which contributed to his downfall at the pivotal ...
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Gettysburg Museum of History expansion plans

Around 4,000 artifacts are inside the Gettysburg Museum of History on Baltimore Street. The building is out of exhibit space.
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Licensed Guides at Gettysburg raise alarm of "major threat" to Civil War monuments

GETTYSBURG, Pa. — The Licensed Battlefield Guides at Gettysburg are raising the alarm over a recent vote in the U.S. House of Representatives that would remove Civil War monuments from federal parks ...
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Effort continues to preserve Civil War General George Stannard’s Milton homestead

The bones of a home sit along Route 7 in Milton, the only remaining pieces on the former property of General George Stannard, ...
Penn Live

Gettysburg Civil War Reenactment canceled for 2020

After a brief glimpse of hope that the 157th Gettysburg Civil War Reenactment would indeed be held in 2020, it once again looks like the annual event commemorating the pivotal battle in our backyard ...