Gettysburg
1863 battle site
Gettysburg is a town in Pennsylvania, site of the decisive 1863 Civil War battle that ended Confederate invasion of the North.
The three-day battle produced catastrophic casualties on both sides.
Lincoln's Gettysburg Address, delivered at the battlefield's dedication, became one of the most quoted speeches in American history.
We visited the Gettysburg battlefield on our trip.
Named political entity
- ConfederacySecessionist Southern government
- secessionFormal withdrawal from union
- slaveryOwnership of people
- emancipationRelease from legal bondage
Antietam · Appomattox · rebellion · abolitionists · Lincoln · Davis · Grant · Lee
Place for interring remains
- monumentStructure honoring someone remembered
- soldiersMilitary personnel who fight
- nationalOf a country
- dedicationWholehearted loyalty to purpose
fallen · commemoration · sacrifice · valor · remembrance · headstones · eternal · flame
Midwestern state capital
- dedicationWholehearted loyalty to purpose
- speechOral communication ability
- orationFormal public speech
- rhetoricArt of persuasive language
eloquence · November · brevity · democracy · proposition · equality · consecrate · hallow
July · infantry · cavalry · artillery · flanks · casualties · Union · Confederate
Spirits of the deceased
- apparitionsSupernatural visible manifestations
- paranormalBeyond scientific explanation
- spiritsLiquor or apparitions
- supernaturalBeyond natural explanation
legends · hauntings · soldiers · cemetery · sightings · Devil's · eerie · battlefield
Combat engagement area
- parkPublic leisure grounds
- reenactmentStaged reproduction of events
- museumPublic exhibit space
- visitorShort-term guest
center · tour · guide · Pennsylvania · monument · preservation · heritage · landmark
Union
Named political entity
- ConfederacySecessionist Southern government
- secessionFormal withdrawal from union
- slaveryOwnership of people
emancipation · Antietam · Appomattox · rebellion · abolitionists · Lincoln · Davis · Grant · Lee · reconstruction
cemetery
Place for interring remains
- monumentStructure honoring someone remembered
- soldiersMilitary personnel who fight
- nationalOf a country
dedication · fallen · commemoration · sacrifice · valor · remembrance · headstones · eternal · flame · tribute
Lincoln
Midwestern state capital
- dedicationWholehearted loyalty to purpose
- speechOral communication ability
- orationFormal public speech
rhetoric · eloquence · November · brevity · democracy · proposition · equality · consecrate · hallow · perish
Pickett
Lee · July · infantry · cavalry · artillery · flanks · casualties · Union · Confederate · assault
ghosts
Spirits of the deceased
- apparitionsSupernatural visible manifestations
- paranormalBeyond scientific explanation
- spiritsLiquor or apparitions
supernatural · legends · hauntings · soldiers · cemetery · sightings · Devil's · eerie · battlefield · spectral
battlefield
Combat engagement area
- parkPublic leisure grounds
- reenactmentStaged reproduction of events
- museumPublic exhibit space
visitor · center · tour · guide · Pennsylvania · monument · preservation · heritage · landmark · historic
watershed
Drainage area boundary
point · momentum · shift · climax · critical · seminal · tide · war · Union · victory
- American BattlesAntietam, Bunker Hill, Yorktown, Lexington, Concord
- Battle SitesNormandy, Waterloo, Antietam, Stalingrad, Verdun
- BattlesAntietam, Leipzig, Waterloo, Bunker Hill, Austerlitz
- Mid-Atlantic PlacesPhiladelphia, Baltimore, Washington D.C., Wilmington, Trenton
- PennsylvaniaPhiladelphia, Lancaster, Erie, Altoona, Easton
- 19th Century BattlesWaterloo, Trafalgar, Austerlitz, Antietam, Leipzig
GettysburgRichmond
Virginia's seat of government
Montgomery · Charleston · Fort Sumter · Stone Mountain · Appomattox
- Gettysburg Address1863 battlefield dedication speech
- Battle of GettysburgCivil War's bloodiest engagement
- Gettysburg battlefieldCivil War combat memorial site