Gettysburg may refer to:
Events
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Gettysburg Campaign, a series of American Civil War military engagements in the Main Eastern Theater.
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Battle of Gettysburg
The Battle of Gettysburg () was fought July 1–3, 1863, in and around the town of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, by Union and Confederate forces during the American Civil War. In the battle, Union Major General George Meade's Army of the Po ...
, July 1–3 military engagements during the 1863 Gettysburg Campaign
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Retreat from Gettysburg
The 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 (July 1–3, 1863), he ordered a retreat through Mary ...
, the Confederate and Union armies' return to the South following the Battle of Gettysburg
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Gettysburg Address
The Gettysburg Address is a Public speaking, speech that President of the United States, U.S. President Abraham Lincoln delivered during the American Civil War at the dedication of the Gettysburg National Cemetery, Soldiers' National Cemetery, ...
, President Abraham Lincoln's speech at the November 19, 1863, Consecration of the National Cemetery at Gettysburg.
Places
; Pennsylvania-related articles
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Gettysburg, Pennsylvania
Gettysburg (; non-locally ) is a borough and the county seat of Adams County in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania. The Battle of Gettysburg (1863) and President Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address are named for this town.
Gettysburg is home to th ...
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Gettysburg Battlefield Historic District
The Gettysburg Battlefield Historic District is a district of contributing properties and over 1000 historic contributing structures and 315 historic buildings, located in Adams County, Pennsylvania. The district was added to the National Reg ...
, of historic properties, buildings, and structures in Adams County, Pennsylvania
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Gettysburg National Military Park
The Gettysburg National Military Park protects and interprets the landscape of the 1863 Battle of Gettysburg during the American Civil War. Located in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, the park is managed by the National Park Service. The GNMP propert ...
, protected by the National Park Service
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Gettysburg Museum and Visitor Center
The Gettysburg Museum and Visitor Center is a Gettysburg National Military Park facility, with a museum about the American Civil War, the 1884 Gettysburg Cyclorama, and the tour center for licensed Battlefield Guides and for buses to see the Getty ...
, the National Park Service's reception center
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Gettysburg National Cemetery
Gettysburg National Cemetery is a United States national cemetery created for Union casualties from the Battle of Gettysburg in the American Civil War. The Battle of Gettysburg, which was fought between July 1 to 3, 1863, resulted in the larges ...
, a district of the military park on Cemetery Hill
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Gettysburg National Museum
The Gettysburg National Museum was a Gettysburg Battlefield visitor attraction on the south border of the Gettysburg borough. Established by George D. Rosensteel after working at his uncle's 1888 Round Top Museum, the facility had an interpretive ...
, the 1921 museum used as the 1974-2008 NPS visitor center and the corporation which owned it before 1974
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Gettysburg National Tower
The Gettysburg National Tower was a hyperboloid observation tower that overlooked the Gettysburg National Military Park and Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, from 1974 to 2000. The privately owned tower attracted many of the battlefield's visitors, who ...
, the former hyperboloid tower seized under the Takings Clause
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Gettysburg Battlefield
The 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 site of the first shot ...
, the area of Civil War military engagements partially within the military park
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Gettysburg Armory
The Gettysburg Armory is a former National Guard armory located at Gettysburg, Adams County, Pennsylvania. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990. The 61x96 ft (44 ft high) Art Deco facility was constructed as a ...
, a vacant borough facility on the National Register of Historic Places
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Gettysburg College
Gettysburg College is a private liberal arts college in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. Founded in 1832, the campus is adjacent to the Gettysburg Battlefield. Gettysburg College has about 2,600 students, with roughly equal numbers of men and women. ...
, a liberal arts college mostly within the borough
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Gettysburg Railroad Station
The Gettysburg Lincoln Railroad Station, also known as the "Gettysburg Train Station," "Lincoln Train Station" or "Western Maryland Railroad Station," is a historic train station with depot, platform, museum and offices on Carlisle Street in Gett ...
, a defunct railway station of which only the depot building survives, which houses a railway museum
** Gettysburg Theological Seminary, the original name for the
Lutheran Theological Seminary at Gettysburg
The Lutheran Theological Seminary at Gettysburg (Gettysburg Seminary) was a seminary of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. It was one of seven ELCA seminaries, one of the three seminaries in the Eastern ...
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Gettysburg Area School District
The Gettysburg Area School District is a mid-sized, rural, public school district which serves students in a area of Adams County, Pennsylvania. The district includes: Gettysburg Borough, as well as Cumberland, Freedom, Highland, Franklin and ...
, a region of Adams County, Pennsylvania, with a high school north of the borough
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Gettysburg Regional Airport
Gettysburg Regional Airport , formerly known as the Gettysburg Airport and Travel Center and as Doersom Airport, is a general aviation airport located two miles (4 km) west of the Gettysburg, in Adams County, Pennsylvania. The airport is s ...
, a general aviation airport in Adams County, Pennsylvania, west of the borough
* York-Hanover-Gettysburg, PA Combined Statistical Area, a
combined statistical area
Combined statistical area (CSA) is a United States Office of Management and Budget (OMB) term for a combination of adjacent metropolitan (MSA) and micropolitan statistical areas (µSA) across the 50 US states and the territory of Puerto Ric ...
in York and Adams counties
** Gettysburg, PA USA, a
United States Metropolitan Statistical Area
In the United States, a metropolitan statistical area (MSA) is a geographical region with a relatively high population density at its core and close economic ties throughout the area. Such regions are neither legally incorporated as a city or tow ...
that is the Adams County portion of the York-Hanover-Gettysburg CSA
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Gettysburg, Ohio
Gettysburg is a village in Darke County, Ohio, United States. The population was 513 at the 2010 census.
History
Gettysburg was founded by natives of Adams County, Pennsylvania, in the late 1820s. When the settlement was platted by John Hershey ...
, a village
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Gettysburg, Preble County, Ohio
Gettysburg is an unincorporated community in Preble County, in the U.S. state of Ohio. The National Trail Local School K-12 complex is located on U.S. Route 40 in Gettysburg.
History
Gettysburg was laid out in 1832 when the National Road was ex ...
, an unincorporated community
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Gettysburg, South Dakota
Gettysburg is a city and county seat of Potter County, South Dakota, United States, along the 45th parallel. The population was 1,104 at the 2020 census.
History
Gettysburg was platted in 1884. The city was named in commemoration of the Battle ...
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Gettysburg Air Force Station
Gettysburg 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
In late 1951 Air Defense Command selected Gettysburg, Sou ...
, a General Surveillance Radar Station in South Dakota during the Cold War
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Gettysburg, Washington
Gettysburg was a town near the mouth of the Lyre River at the Strait of Juan de Fuca in Clallam County, in the U.S. state of Washington.
The community was named after Robert N. Getty, a businessman in the lumber industry. The 30-year-old Getty set ...
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Gettysburg Township, Graham County, Kansas
Gettysburg 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. According to the USGS
The United S ...
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Gettysburg Seamount, the highest peak of the Gorringe Ridge, a seamount in the Atlantic Ocean
Entertainment
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Gettysburg: A Novel of the Civil War'', an alternate history novel by Newt Gingrich and William R. Forstchen
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Gettysburg Cyclorama
''The 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 ...
'' or ''The Battle of Gettysburg'', an 1883 painting by Paul Philippoteaux
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''Gettysburg'' (1993 film), a film based on the novel ''The Killer Angels''
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''Gettysburg'' (2011 film), a History Channel television movie
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"Gettysburg" (''The Office''), a television episode
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"Gettysburg" (''The Outer Limits)'', a television episode
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Sid Meier's Gettysburg!
''Sid Meier's Gettysburg!'' is a 1997 real-time strategy, real-time Wargame (video games), wargame developed by Firaxis Games and published by Electronic Arts. It was designed by Sid Meier, and followed by ''Sid Meier's Antietam!'' in 1999.
Gamep ...
'', a computer game
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''Gettysburg'' (block wargame), from Columbia Games
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''Gettysburg'' (game), a board game
* Gettysburg (1863), a trilogy of songs by Iced Earth from ''
The Glorious Burden
''The Glorious Burden'' is the seventh studio album by the American power metal band Iced Earth. It is a concept album, which explores various moments in military history, such as the signing of the Declaration of Independence, the American Revol ...
'', 2004
* "Gettysburg", a song by Ratatat from ''
Classics
Classics or classical studies is the study of classical antiquity. In the Western world, classics traditionally refers to the study of Classical Greek and Roman literature and their related original languages, Ancient Greek and Latin. Classics ...
'', 2006
Other
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Gettysburg Battlefield Memorial Association
The Gettysburg Battlefield Memorial Association (GBMA) was an historic preservation membership organization and is the eponym for the Gettysburg Battlefield#Memorial association era, battlefield's memorial association era. The association was c ...
, a former preservation organization for the battlefield in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania
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Gettysburg Electric Railway
The Gettysburg Electric Railway was a borough trolley that provided summer access1991 Gettysburg Times to Gettysburg Battlefield visitor attractions such as military engagement areas, monuments, postbellum camps, and recreation areas (e.g., ...
, the 1893-1916 Gettysburg Battlefield trolley
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Gettysburg Railroad
The Gettysburg Railroad was a railway line in Pennsylvania that operated from 1858 to 1870 over the 17-mile (27 km) main line from the terminus in Gettysburg to the 1849 Hanover Junction. After becoming the Susquehanna, Gettysburg & Poto ...
, the first of several Gettysburg-named steamtrain lines servicing Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, prior to the Western Maryland and Reading railroads
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Forest City and Gettysburg Railroad The 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 prod ...
, formerly servicing Gettysburg, South Dakota
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The Gettysburg Championship
The Gettysburg Championship was an annual golf tournament for professional women golfers on the Futures Tour, the LPGA Tour's developmental tour. The event was played from 2006 to 2008 in the Gettysburg, Pennsylvania
Gettysburg (; non-locally ) i ...
, a former women's golf tournament in Adams County, Pennsylvania
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The Gettysburg Times
''The Gettysburg Times'' is an American newspaper in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania owned by the Sample News Group. It published daily, except for Sundays, Christmas Day, and New Year's Day.
The ''Times'' was founded in 1902 as ''The Progress'', but i ...
, 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
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