The structure is one of nine buildings in the city that still show damage from the battle.

On Nov. 19, 1863, President Abraham Lincoln traveled to Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, to dedicate a cemetery at the site of the bloodiest battle of the Civil War. Four months before, about 50,000 soldiers ...

The three-day conflict took place in July 1863 at what is now known as Gettysburg National Military Park, which spans roughly ...

The first shot of the bloodiest battle of the Civil War was fired by a man from DuPage County. Lt. Marcellus E. Jones of the 8th Illinois Calvary was on patrol outside Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, ...

Weather seems to have played a major role in some of history’s most important moments, especially in warfare. The Battle of Gettysburg, over a century and a half ago, proved to be one of the bloodiest ...

Although many war dramas are worth watching, the film Gettysburg stands out. Based on Michael Shaara’s 1974 novel The Killer Angels, the 1993 Civil War epic avoids clichés as it explores the historic ...

Samuel Wilkeson Jr. filed a report for The Times from the battlefield. Then he went looking for a Union officer, his son. By Dan Barry He survived the Holocaust and Communist rule in Hungary, arrived ...

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GETTYSBURG, Pa. — The 162nd anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg was commemorated with a series of reenactments of the famous Civil War battle throughout July Fourth weekend. The reenactments took ...

Most Civil War histories evoke the bravura of 19th century military skill, of masses of men moving across open fields to face other orderly masses of men and commence killing each other. Few books ...