This Month's Headlines:
Editor's Letter
As we approach Remembrance Day and the holiday season, those of us at The Gettysburg Experience offer another issue of articles of historical interest, along with our updated Calendar of Events – all beginning on page 11. Read More >
One Woman's Courage: Josephine Miller at Gettysburg
When Union Brigadier General Joseph Carr deployed his troops along the Emmitsburg Road on July 2, 1863, he realized that the orders from his corps commander, Major General Daniel Sickles, resulted in the placement of his six regiments a significant distance from the main Union line, and directly in peril. His men had lost heavily at the recent Battle of Chancellorsville, where they had formed the pivotal hinge of that fight. He was concerned that at Gettysburg, history was about to repeat itself with heavy casualties.
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In Lincoln's Hand: The Gettysburg Addresses
Thursday, November 19, 1863 “was a beautiful morning – a cloudless sky, and the sun shone out in glorious splendor.” Abraham Lincoln, who had arrived the previous evening by train, spent the night at the home of David Wills on the square. He had stayed up much of the night, working on his speech for the dedication of the nation’s first National Cemetery, to honor the slain from the Battle of Gettysburg earlier that summer.1 Read More >
The World Remembers Lincoln
There are countless statues, busts, and memorials to America’s 16th President, throughout the United States, and internationally.
Gettysburg boasts six Lincoln monuments to public view in the town: In Lincoln Square by the David Wills house, the Gettysburg Address monument by the library near the intersection of Baltimore and High Streets, the Lincoln Speech Memorial in the National Cemetery, the benched Lincoln statue near the entrance to the Gettysburg National Military Park Museum and Visitor Center, the portrait statue of Lincoln on the Pennsylvania State Memorial on Cemetery Ridge, and a pensive Lincoln as the Great Emancipator at Stevens Hall, Gettysburg College. Read More >
Editor's Corner: Who Were The Whigs?
Over the decades in American politics, numerous political parties have come and gone. One of these is the long defunct Whig party, which held some sway in the nation’s pre-Civil War government. Abraham Lincoln had once been a member of this party. How did this party originate? What was the provenance of their name? And for which platforms did they stand?
The American political party known as the Whigs copied their name from a British political party of the same name. Read More >
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Popcorn Balls
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The Gettysburg Experience magazine, a publication exploring the Gettysburg of yesterday and today. We offer an array of interesting articles – most of which have a direct relation to historic Gettysburg from the Colonial era through the turn of the 21st century, often with an emphasis on the famous battle that occurred in the summer of 1863.
The Gettysburg Experience also offers a comprehensive Events Calendar (for those who want to know what special happenings to attend when they visit – any time of the year), delicious recipes, Gettysburg trivia, profiles of people and area businesses.
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