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Letter from the Editor
July has been, for 145 years, a month of commemoration as well as celebration in historic Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. Here at The Gettysburg Experience magazine, we are proud to bring you an array of interesting reading.... Read more >
Born on the Fourth of July
After forming lines of battle on Seminary Ridge throughout the morning of July 3, 1863, the soldiers of Major General George E. Pickett’s Division had ample time to contemplate their role in history. The significance of the date could not have escaped the notice of the aptly named John Abbott Independence Lee. In addition to the approaching commemoration of the nation’s birth, the next day also marked... Read more >"He Had His Peculiarities": A Gettysburg Man Remembers John Burns
Theodore McAllister, a Gettysburg native and Civil War veteran, gave an address on the anniversary of Lincoln's Gettysburg address in 1914. After paying homage to the slain Commander-In-Chief, McAllister also took a moment to honor the memory of Gettysburg's civilian soldier... Read more>
A Dream Unrealized: A Lincoln Rebuke
In the summer of 1863 Robert E. Lee was the one to beat, and Lincoln knew it. With tensions growing exponentially between the President and General Joe Hooker, the current commander of the Army of the Potomac, a new general was needed to take the reins of the Union army as another battle appeared on the horizon... Read more>
"Down This Way, Boys!" Patrick O'Rorke at Gettysburg
Standing at the top of Little Round Top at Gettysburg on the afternoon of July 2, 1863, Brigadier General Gouverneur Warren, George Meade’s Chief Engineer, was noticeably nervous. The hill upon which he stood had been found devoid of troops when it was clearly the key to the battle. One Union brigade, Vincent’s, was holding their ground to the extreme left on the slope of the hill... Read more>
Repetitive History: A Tale of Two Battles
During the first three days of July in 1863, the Battle of Gettysburg was waged among the rolling fields and rocky hills in and around the small crossroads town that afterward was forever etched in the annals of history. As most of history tends to run in a cyclical fashion, students of the subject are not surprised to see parallels, ancient and modern, in famous battles... Read more>Dreadful Days: The Aftermath of Gettysburg, Songs and Stories of a Civil War Hospital
When the guns grew silent and the smoke cleared from the fertile loam of central Pennsylvania after the first three days of July in 1863, the civilians of Gettysburg cautiously emerged from the safety of their cellars. The sights that greeted them were beyond horrific, demonstrating a level of destruction, death, and human suffering that is still unmatched... Read more>One Hundred Years Ago
On May 30, 1908, Gettysburg passed its 40th anniversary of Memorial Day commemorations. The keynote speaker that day was Senator Philander C. Knox, who drove into town from Washington, D.C.. The day was one of the sunniest ever to grace the holiday; and over 10,000 people were in town for the event... Read more>
Recipes, Yesterday & Today >>Maxwell's Old General Store: A Taste of Old-Fashioned Pennyslvania
For some of us, a life filled with fast food and shopping malls was not what we remember as children. Decades ago, the old general store was where our parents, grandparents and great-grandparents shopped, purchasing the bulk of their food, notions, clothing, and a few little luxuries under one roof... Read more>
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