The episode closes with the dedication in November of a new Union cemetery at Gettysburg, where Abraham Lincoln struggles to put into words what is happening to his people.

The year was 1913, and it was July – a month marked by heavy air and hot summer sun. George Thom, an elderly citizen from Hutchinson, boarded a train that was heading southeast to ...

Lincoln Cemetery—established in 1867 ... as the final resting place for more than 3,500 Union troops killed during the Battle of Gettysburg in July 1863. Local Black civilians dug most of ...

Head up the gentle slope of Cemetery Hill, where the "Gettysburg Address" was delivered, and where Union artillery repelled all Rebel approaches. Barely 40 feet high, the ridge includes the Angle ...

The Gettysburg National Cemetery and Evergreen Cemetery are next ... Willoughby Run is where the Union Iron Brigade faced off against Archer’s Confederates on the battle’s first day, marked ...

sending them reeling back through the town of Gettysburg. Simultaneous attacks from the west push Union forces toward Cemetery Hill and Cemetery Ridge, where they have stopped to regroup and ...

Confederate forces have won a signifcant victory, out-flanking and driving Union forces from the field and onto the high ground south of Gettysburg ... Union position on Cemetery Hill more ...

It was 145 years ago today, the Battle of Gettysburg, July 1-3, 1863, began. Two mighty armies – the Army of the Potomac under Union Maj. Gen. George Meade and the Army of Northern Virginia ...

Bordering the southern end of downtown Gettysburg ... individuals – including 3,500-plus Union soldiers – are buried in Soldiers' National Cemetery. Designed by local leaders after the ...