Peter Thorn was caretaker of the Evergreen Cemetery in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, until he joined the Union forces during the Civil War. After he left, his pregnant wife, Elizabeth, replaced him as ...

The Gettysburg National Military Park, 1195 Baltimore Pike, Gettysburg, will host a series of events in July, honoring the legacy of the Battle of Gettysburg. 2025 marks the 162nd Anniversary of the ...

About 28,000 Confederates were killed, wounded, missing or captured at Gettysburg, compared with roughly 23,000 casualties endured by the Union. Within a week after Gettysburg ended, Doubleday's ...

Lincoln Cemetery was established in 1867, two years after the Civil War ended. Courtesy of the Adams County Historical Society. At the edge of a busy emergency room parking lot in Gettysburg ...

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 Pennsylvania.

On the rolling fields of Gettysburg, the newly appointed Union commander, George Meade, led some 90,000 Union soldiers against 75,000 Confederates. At battle’s end, more than 50,000 men had been ...

GETTYSBURG, Pa. (WHTM) – Gettysburg National Military Park has released their events and programs to commemorate the 160th anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg. The three day commemoration… ...

Ordered to charge down Cemetery Ridge on July 2, ... First Minnesota Volunteer Regiment at the Battle of Gettysburg. A dead Union soldier from the 3rd Army Corps represents the battle from earlier ...

The Memorial Day service was held at North Burritt Union Cemetery Sunday. Attendees watched a Presentation of Color, among other events, including a reading of the Gettysburg Address and a playing ...

Four and a half months later, on Nov. 19, 1863, a crowd of about 15,000 gathered at Gettysburg to consecrate a new Civil War cemetery. The story’s headline in The New York Times makes clear who ...

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