For Gettysburg re-enactors, a moment 150 years in the making
Brig. Gen. Cadmus Wilcox's Alabama Brigade of some 1,700 Confederates marched all day July 1, 1863, nearly 30 miles from Chambersburg to Gettysburg. They rose before dawn and headed east, carrying...
View ArticleGettysburg, 150
Today, the Gettysburg battlefield is a national monument, one of the country’s most profound historic sites. Visitors can look for miles and miles and see nothing but fields, fences, a railroad cut,...
View ArticleThe Maine lesson of Gettysburg: real history is never so romantic as reel
The story goes like this: 150 years ago today, Little Round Top was the key to the Union position at the battle of Gettysburg. If the Confederates had taken the hill, they would have won the battle. If...
View ArticleRemembering Gettysburg: There at the crucial moment
Surveying the base of Little Round Top's south face, Union Army Col. Strong Vincent had just minutes to determine where and how he would place his 1,400-man brigade. It was just before 5 p.m. on July...
View ArticleMaking the Gettysburg story personal for Bucks County
The story of Robert Kenderdine brings the Battle of Gettysburg home to Bucks County. A school teacher, he lived in Solebury Township, where his parents belonged to Solebury Quaker Meeting. They...
View ArticleThe Sacrifice of the Second Wisconsin
Disunion follows the Civil War as it unfolded. Tags: Army of the Potomac, Civil War (US) (1861-65), Gettysburg (Pa), Gettysburg 150th Anniversary, Wisconsin On April 22, 1961, Philo Wright, a...
View ArticleLet's Learn From the Past: Strong Vincent
On July 2, 1863, a young lawyer-turned-colonel from Western Pennsylvania helped turn the tide of the Battle of Gettysburg. Born June 17, 1837, Strong Vincent grew up in and around Erie and returned to...
View ArticleAt Gettysburg, a taste of war in 1863
The bait - a small unit of mounted Union troopers - peppered away at gray-clad cavalry east of Gettysburg, as if poking a hornet's nest, then hurriedly galloped off. In hot pursuit, the Confederates...
View ArticleColumn: Independence Day at Gettysburg
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View ArticleA Regiment is Sacrificed at Gettysburg
Disunion follows the Civil War as it unfolded. Tags: Civil War (US) (1861-65), Gettysburg (Pa), Schurz, Carl Union forces along the northern edge of Gettysburg, Pa., occupied a precarious position on...
View ArticleGettysburg's most important lesson
By Rod GraggPublished July 02, 2013FoxNews.com On the afternoon of July 1, 1863 – the first day of fighting at the Battle of Gettysburg – a Northern soldier propped his rifle against a tree and took...
View ArticleDid black men fight at Gettysburg?
"For every Southern boy fourteen years old," William Faulkner famously wrote in "Intruder in the Dust" (1948), it is early in the afternoon on July 3, 1863, just before the order is given to attack the...
View ArticleOn reenactment's third day, history still alive
Gallery: On reenactment's third day, history still alive Travel Deals $1009 -- All-Incl. 4-Star Cancun Beachfront Trip from Philly See all travel deals » Edward Colimore, Inquirer Staff Writer...
View ArticleRecognizing the 150th anniversary of Gettysburg (The United States Army)
(Source: The United States Army) GETTYSBURG, Pa. "Sometimes the destiny of a nation is focused at the point of a bayonet." - John F. Kennedy About half way through the movie classic, "Gone with the...
View ArticleIntrepid tourists retrace Confederates' final steps in Battle of Gettysburg
GETTYSBURG — Marty Bryant took his place near the left flank of Gen. Lewis Armistead's brigade, his tall, lean form not far from where Asa Jones, a relative, stood exactly 150 years earlier. On the...
View ArticleHollywood helps turn Gettysburg hill into top site
The booms of ground-rattling cannon fire Monday marked the ceremonial start of the Battle of Gettysburg, 150 years to the day after Union and Confederate troops fought the defining encounter of the...
View Article>Damaged Gettysburg statue returns for anniversary
GETTYSBURG, Pa. (AP) — A statue of a Union soldier on the Gettysburg battlefield damaged by high winds is back on its post in time for the commemoration of the 150th anniversary of the pivotal battle...
View ArticleDamaged Gettysburg statue returns for anniversary
GETTYSBURG, Pa. — A statue of a Union soldier on the Gettysburg battlefield damaged by high winds is back on its post in time for the commemoration of the 150th anniversary of the pivotal battle of...
View ArticleRemembering Antietam: The Civil War battle 150 years ago was the bloodiest...
SHARPSBURG, Md. -- Ranger Dan Vermilya ended his guided tour of Antietam battlefield with a bit of personal history. Sept. 17, 1862, was the bloodiest single day in American history, he told visitors....
View Article150 years later, Michiganians relive Gettysburg battle
Tom Greenwood The Detroit News Comments One hundred and fifty years after the guns fell silent, hundreds of Michigan men in Union blue are returning to the battlefields of Gettysburg. As Civil War...
View ArticleThe Confederate soldier in the family tree
The sun was blazing overhead, and the horses and the men were waiting in the woods. They could see the Union cannons across the open field near the peach orchard. The men were staking out a...
View ArticleMuseum marking 150th anniversary of Battle of Gettysburg
New York provided the most Union soldiers of any state in the Battle of Gettysburg in Pennsylvania 150 years ago. Many of the Union units came from the Capital Region. New York soldiers also left the...
View ArticleIconic Civil War photograph sparks controversy
GETTYSBURG, Pa. - Photographer Alexander Gardner and his two colleagues, Timothy O'Sullivan and James Gibson, came upon a frightful landscape late on July 5, 1863. Soldiers of the Blue and Gray lay...
View ArticleCivil War historian makes Gettysburg his focus and his home
GETTYSBURG, Pa. — The wheat had been flattened in the somber field where the dead Confederates were lined up for burial in 1863. Forty-four bodies, some with their legs tied together to make them...
View ArticleRe-enactors from Poland headed to Gettysburg for battle's 150th anniversary
The battle of Gettysburg, July 3, 1863, from a lithograph published by Currier and Ives. (Currier and Ives/ Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Division) GETTYSBURG, Pa. — After surviving one...
View ArticleCapturing Gettysburg
By MARK YOST Harrisburg, Pa. Say "Civil War" and "Pennsylvania," and Gettysburg immediately comes to mind. Visitors to that site know the cyclorama by the French artist Paul Philippoteaux, a massive...
View ArticleChickamauga - The First Battle for Atlanta, Part 4 (Photos)
This year, 2013, is the sesquicentennial of the third full year of combat actions of the American Civil War, which Atlanta played a primary role within. By September 1863, it had become the primary...
View ArticleGettysburg suffered greatly in battle's aftermath
Story Highlights Gettysburg on June 28 begins 10 days of 150th-anniversary commemorationsThe anniversary commemoration this year will include battle re-enactments, tours and special park...
View ArticleGettysburg gearing up for Civil War anniversary festivities
If you've ever wanted to see a lock of President Abraham Lincoln's hair, or a cigar case used by Union Gen. Ulysses Grant, or a spur from the boot of Confederate Gen. George Pickett, you're in luck....
View ArticleTwo battles, one destiny: Penn State and Gettysburg during the Civil War...
(Source: Penn State - The Pennsylvania State University) Two battles raged in Pennsylvania in 1863. One would serve as a defining moment in the Civil War, a conflict that ended slavery and changed the...
View Article2013 marks the sesquicentennial of the Battle of Gettysburg
The Battle of Gettysburg opened on July 1, 1863 as troops from northern Virginia, under the command of Confederate General Robert E. Lee clashed with the Army of the Potomac, led by Union Major...
View ArticleSoldiers' stories inspire Pa. musician's 'Gettysburg' album
Jeff Stike could talk about the Civil War for hours. "It's just the humanity of it," he explained. "When you put yourself in that position and think about what these men did ... it illustrates what a...
View ArticleThis day in American history: July 2
On this day in 1863, the 2ndDay of fighting takes place in Gettysburg. After being pushed back across the town on day one, the Federals took up defensive positions on Cemetery Ridge, a line of heights...
View ArticleGettysburg: a 3-day Civil War battle whose significance is still debated 150...
Ten major roads came together at Gettysburg in 1863. That convergence allowed Union and Confederate forces to assemble there quickly for a three-day fight that remains the biggest and bloodiest battle...
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