Saturday, Oct. 17, 11 a.m. to 12 p.m. Battlefield Overlook Event Center, 625 Biglerville Road, Gettysburg On July 2, 1863, an unassuming rocky hill in Gettysburg witnessed perhaps the most famous counterattack of the Civil War. On Little Round Top, Union Colonel Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain led the 20th Maine to victory over the Confederate forces, […]
Saturday, Oct. 24, 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Battlefield Overlook Event Center, 625 Biglerville Road In August, Gettysburg History received one of the most extraordinary archival donations in the organization’s history: more than 40 original letters written by Southern families seeking information about—and, in many cases, the return of—the remains of loved ones killed at […]
Saturday, Nov. 14, 7 to 8:30 p.m. Battlefield Overlook Event Center, 625 Biglerville Road, Gettysburg Join actors Stephen Lang and Billy Campbell for this special program moderated by Harold Holzer. Two of the greatest writers of the 19th century—Abraham Lincoln and Walt Whitman—never formally met during the years they both lived in wartime Washington, D.C. […]
