History is everywhere in Gettysburg. You can’t avoid it, but that’s the point. The cannons, monuments, statues, cemeteries…they’re all here as lasting reminders of courage and sorrow. And most ...

Considered the turning point of the Civil War, the Battle of Gettysburg was also the bloodiest, amassing an estimated 51,000 ...

In our last article we considered the cultural and military background to the Battle of Gettysburg in 1863, in which the fate ...

“For every Southern boy fourteen years old, not once but whenever he wants it, there is the instant when it’s still not yet two o’clock on that July afternoon in 1863.” So starts a powerful passage by ...

This Day In Weather History is a daily podcast by Chris Mei from The Weather Network, featuring stories about people, communities and events and how weather impacted them. Between July 1 and 3, 1863, ...

The three-day Battle of Gettysburg, the bloodiest battle of the Civil War and one that tipped the scales in favor of the Union, ended 156 years ago on Wednesday. The Union fielded 90,000 troops in the ...

For the first two years of the Civil War, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, had been the homefront, where residents feared for their husbands, brothers, and sons who were away fighting, and waited for word ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. GETTYSBURG, Pa. (WHTM) – The Battle of Gettysburg was fought from July 1-3, 1863. Records show that temperatures were in the 80s ...

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