Gettysburg
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Events
- Gettysburg CampaignGettysburg CampaignThe Gettysburg Campaign was a series of battles fought in June and July 1863, during the American Civil War. After his victory in the Battle of Chancellorsville, Confederate General Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia moved north for offensive operations in Maryland and Pennsylvania. The...
, a series of American Civil War military engagements in the Main Eastern Theater- Battle of GettysburgBattle of GettysburgThe Battle of Gettysburg , was fought July 1–3, 1863, in and around the town of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. The battle with the largest number of casualties in the American Civil War, it is often described as the war's turning point. Union Maj. Gen. George Gordon Meade's Army of the Potomac...
, July 1-3 military engagements during the 1863 Gettysburg Campaign - Retreat from GettysburgRetreat from GettysburgThe Confederate Army of Northern Virginia began its Retreat from Gettysburg on July 4, 1863. Following General Robert E. Lee's failure to defeat the Union Army at the Battle of Gettysburg , he ordered a retreat through Maryland and over the Potomac River to relative safety in Virginia. The Union...
, the Confederate and Union armies' return to the South following the Battle of Gettysburg
- Battle of Gettysburg
- Gettysburg AddressGettysburg AddressThe Gettysburg Address is a speech by U.S. President Abraham Lincoln and is one of the most well-known speeches in United States history. It was delivered by Lincoln during the American Civil War, on the afternoon of Thursday, November 19, 1863, at the dedication of the Soldiers' National Cemetery...
, President Abraham Lincoln' speech at the November 19, 1863, Consecration of the National Cemetery at Gettysburg.
Places
- Gettysburg, OhioGettysburg, OhioGettysburg is a village in Darke County, Ohio, United States. The population was 558 at the 2000 census.-History:Gettysburg was founded by natives of Adams County, Pennsylvania in the late 1820s. When the settlement was platted in 1842, the community was named for Gettysburg, the county seat of...
- Gettysburg, South DakotaGettysburg, South DakotaGettysburg is a city in Potter County, South Dakota, United States, along the 45th parallel. The population was 1,162 at the 2010 census. It is the county seat of Potter County. Gettysburg area historical tornado activity is 42 percent less than the overall U.S...
- Gettysburg Air Force StationGettysburg Air Force StationGettysburg Air Force Station is a closed United States Air Force General Surveillance Radar station. It is located north of Gettysburg, South Dakota. It was closed in 1968.-History:...
, a General Surveillance Radar Station in South Dakota during the Cold War
- Gettysburg Air Force Station
- Gettysburg Ranch, site of Robert N. Getty's former Gettysburg Hotel at the mouth of the Lyre RiverLyre RiverThe Lyre River is a river in Washington, USA that flows out of Lake Crescent in the Olympic National Park and into the Strait of Juan de Fuca. Originally referred to as "singing waters" by the Indians living near it, the river was first named Rio de Cuesta by Europeans in 1790 by Gonzalo López de...
in Clallam County, Washington - Gettysburg Township, Graham County, KansasGettysburg Township, Graham County, KansasGettysburg Township is a township in Graham County, Kansas, USA. As of the 2000 census, its population was 83.-Geography:Gettysburg Township covers an area of and contains no incorporated settlements...
Places in Pennsylvania
- Gettysburg Battlefield Historic District, 11000 acre (4,451.5 ha) of historic properties, buildings, and structures in Adams County, Pennsylvania
- Gettysburg National Military ParkGettysburg National Military ParkThe Gettysburg National Military Park is an administrative unit of the National Park Service's northeast region and a subunit of federal properties of Adams County, Pennsylvania, with the same name, including the Gettysburg National Cemetery...
, 4000 acre (1,618.7 ha) protected by the National Park Service- Gettysburg Museum and Visitor CenterGettysburg Museum and Visitor CenterThe Gettysburg Museum and Visitor Center is the Gettysburg National Military Park facility which displays the 1884 Gettysburg Cyclorama and provides the tour center for Licensed Battlefield Guides and buses to the Gettysburg Battlefield and Eisenhower National Historic Site. The museum displays...
, the National Park Service's reception center - Gettysburg National CemeteryGettysburg National CemeteryThe Gettysburg National Cemetery is located on Cemetery Hill in the Gettysburg Battlefield near the borough of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania and adjacent to Evergreen Cemetery to the south...
, a district of the military park on Cemetery Hill - Gettysburg National Museum, the 1921 museum used as the 1974-2008 NPS visitor center and the corporation which owned it before 1974
- Gettysburg National Park Commission, the 1893 War Department preservation committee that succeded the memorial association
- Gettysburg National TowerGettysburg National TowerThe Gettysburg National Tower was a 307-foot hyperboloid observation tower that overlooked the Gettysburg National Military Park and Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, from 1974-2000...
, the former hyperboloid tower seized under the Takings Clause
- Gettysburg Museum and Visitor Center
- Gettysburg BattlefieldGettysburg BattlefieldThe Gettysburg Battlefield is the area of the July 1–3, 1863, military engagements of the Battle of Gettysburg within and around the borough of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. Locations of military engagements extend from the 4 acre site of the first shot & at on the west of the borough, to East...
, the area of Civil War military engagements partially within the military park- Gettysburg, PennsylvaniaGettysburg, PennsylvaniaGettysburg is a borough that is the county seat, part of the Gettysburg Battlefield, and the eponym for the 1863 Battle of Gettysburg. The town hosts visitors to the Gettysburg National Military Park and has 3 institutions of higher learning: Lutheran Theological Seminary, Gettysburg College, and...
, the county seat and borough of 2758 acre (1,116.1 ha) that is a small portion of the Gettysburg Battlefield (demonyms: Gettysburger/Gettysburgian)- Gettysburg ArmoryGettysburg ArmoryThe Gettysburg Armory is a former military facility listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The 61x96 ft facility was constructed as a $43,331 Works Projects Administration project for the local National Guard unit The Gettysburg Armory is a former military facility listed on the...
, a vacant borough facility on the National Register of Historic Places - Gettysburg CollegeGettysburg CollegeGettysburg College is a private four-year liberal arts college founded in 1832, in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, United States, adjacent to the famous battlefield. Its athletic teams are nicknamed the Bullets. Gettysburg College has about 2,700 students, with roughly equal numbers of men and women...
, a liberal arts college mostly within the borough - Gettysburg Railroad StationGettysburg Railroad Station-American Civil War:Train service to the depot was stopped when Jubal Early's Confederates burned the Rock Creek trestle on June 27, 1863. The depot's telegrapher, a young daughter of "Mr...
, a defunct railway station with a depot which remains and originally an engine house and warehouse- Gettysburg railroad museum, the museum on the first floor of the Gettysburg Railroad DepotGettysburg Railroad Station-American Civil War:Train service to the depot was stopped when Jubal Early's Confederates burned the Rock Creek trestle on June 27, 1863. The depot's telegrapher, a young daughter of "Mr...
- Gettysburg railroad museum, the museum on the first floor of the Gettysburg Railroad Depot
- Gettysburg Theological Seminary, the original name for the Lutheran Theological Seminary at GettysburgLutheran Theological Seminary at GettysburgThe Lutheran Theological Seminary at Gettysburg is America's oldest Lutheran seminary and a site of 1863 Battle of Gettysburg military engagements.-History:...
- Gettysburg Tour Center, a bus tour business in the borough
- Gettysburg Armory
- Gettysburg Battlefield Memorial AssociationGettysburg Battlefield Memorial AssociationThe Gettysburg Battlefield Memorial Association was an historic preservation membership organization and is the eponym for the battlefield's memorial association era...
, a former preservation organization for the battlefield
- Gettysburg, Pennsylvania
- Gettysburg Area School DistrictGettysburg Area School DistrictThe Gettysburg Area School District is a mid sized, public school district which serves students in a area of Adams County, Pennsylvania which includes Gettysburg Borough, as well as Cumberland, Freedom, Highland, Franklin and parts of Mt. Joy and Straban Townships. According to 2000 federal...
, a region of Adams County, Pennsylvania, with a high school north of the borough - Gettysburg Regional AirportGettysburg Regional AirportGettysburg Regional Airport , formerly known as the Gettysburg Airport and Travel Center, is a general aviation airport located two miles west of the Gettysburg, in Adams County, Pennsylvania, USA. The airport is situated approximately south of Harrisburg.The airport opened in 1926 and had been a...
, a general aviation airport in Adams County, Pennsylvania, west of the borough - York-Hanover-Gettysburg, PA Combined Statistical Area, a combined statistical areaCombined Statistical AreaThe United States Office of Management and Budget defines micropolitan and metropolitan statistical areas. Metropolitan and micropolitan statistical areas consist of one or more counties...
in York and Adams counties- Gettysburg, PA µSA, a United States Micropolitan Statistical Area that is the Adams County portion of the York-Hanover-Gettysburg CSA
Entertainment
- Gettysburg CycloramaGettysburg CycloramaThe Battle of Gettysburg, also known as the Gettysburg Cyclorama, is a cyclorama painting by the French artist Paul Philippoteaux depicting "Pickett's Charge", the climactic Confederate attack on the Union forces during the Battle of Gettysburg on July 3, 1863...
, an 1883 painting entitled The Battle of Gettysburg - Gettysburg (1993 film), a film based on the novel The Killer Angels
- Gettysburg (2011 film)Gettysburg (2011 film)Gettysburg is a 2011 American Civil War television documentary film directed by Adrian Moat that was first aired on May 30, 2011 on History. This two-hour documentary film, narrated by actor Sam Rockwell, commenced a week of programming by the History channel honoring and commemorating the 150th...
, a History channel television movie - Gettysburg (The Outer Limits), a science fiction TV episode partially set in the Battle of Gettysburg
- Sid Meier's Gettysburg!Sid Meier's Gettysburg!Sid Meier's Gettysburg! is a real-time tactical computer game designed by Sid Meier, the co-founder of Firaxis Games, that was released in 1997 by Electronic Arts. In 1998, Gettysburg won the Origins Award for Best Strategy Computer Game of 1997...
, a Battle of Gettysburg computer game - Gettysburg (game)Gettysburg (game)Gettysburg is a board wargame produced by Avalon Hill which re-enacts the American Civil War battle of Gettysburg. It was originally published in 1958, and was the first board wargame based on a historical battle....
, a Battle of Gettysburg board game - Gettysburg (1863), a trilogy of heavy metal songs on Iced Earth's 2004 The Glorious Burden album.
- Gettysburg: A Novel of the Civil WarGettysburg: A Novel of the Civil WarGettysburg: A Novel of the Civil War is an alternate history novel written by Newt Gingrich and William R. Forstchen. It was published in 2003 and became a New York Times bestseller. It is the first part in a trilogy in which the next books are respectively Grant Comes East and Never Call...
, an alternate history with the Confederacy winning the Battle of Gettysburg. - Gettysburg (song), on the 2006 Classics (Ratatat album)
- "GettysburgGettysburg (The Office)"Gettysburg" is the eighth episode of the eighth season of the American comedy television series The Office, and the show's 160th episode overall. The episode aired on NBC in the United States on November 17, 2011.-Plot:...
," a 2011 episode of the TV show The Office
Other
- Gettysburg Electric RailwayGettysburg Electric RailwayThe Gettysburg Electric Railway was a borough trolley that provided summer access to Gettysburg Battlefield visitor attractions such as military engagement areas, monuments, postbellum camps, and recreation areas...
, the 1893-1916 Gettysburg Battlefield trolley - Gettysburg RailroadGettysburg RailroadThe Gettysburg Railroad was a railway line in Pennsylvania that operated from 1858-1870 over the 17 mile main line from the terminus in Gettysburg to the 1849 Hanover Junction...
, the first of several Gettysburg-named steamtrain lines servicing Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, prior to the Western Maryland and Reading railroads - Forest City and Gettysburg Railroad Forest City and Gettysburg RailroadThe Forest City and Gettysburg Railroad was a small, short-lived railroad that ran between the South Dakota towns of Forest City and Gettysburg, a distance of 19 miles. The line was constructed in 1890, and in part transported agricultural products to Forest City for transshipment on Missouri...
, formerly servicing Gettysburg, South Dakota - The Gettysburg ChampionshipThe Gettysburg ChampionshipThe Gettysburg Championship was an annual golf tournament for professional women golfers on the FUTURES Tour, the LPGA's developmental tour. The event was played from 2006 through 2008 in the Gettysburg, Pennsylvania area....
, a former women's golf tournament in Adams County, Pennsylvania - The Gettysburg TimesThe Gettysburg TimesThe Gettysburg Times is an American newspaper in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania published by Times and News Publishing Company, which also owns Great County 107.7 and Fox Sports 1320 radio stations. It was founded in 1800 and is published daily, except for Sundays, Christmas Day and New Years Day.The...
, an Adams County, Pennsylvania, newspaper, a Scottish ship supplying the Confederate States of America until captured by the Union Navy and renamed in 1864., a Ticonderoga-class guided-missile cruiser