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Events

* Gettysburg Campaign, a series of American Civil War military engagements in the Main Eastern Theater. **
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 **
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 * Gettysburg Address, President Abraham Lincoln's speech at the November 19, 1863, Consecration of the National Cemetery at Gettysburg.


Places

; Pennsylvania-related articles *
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 Regi ...
, of historic properties, buildings, and structures in Adams County, Pennsylvania **
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 ***
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 ***
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 ***
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 **
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 **
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 **
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 ** Gettysburg College, a liberal arts college mostly within the borough **
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 * Gettysburg Regional Airport, 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 ;Elsewhere *
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 * Gettysburg, Preble County, Ohio, an unincorporated community * Gettysburg, South Dakota ** Gettysburg Air Force Station, a General Surveillance Radar Station in South Dakota during the Cold War * Gettysburg, Washington * Gettysburg Township, Graham County, Kansas * Gettysburg Seamount, the highest peak of the Gorringe Ridge, a seamount in the Atlantic Ocean


Entertainment

* '' Gettysburg: A Novel of the Civil War'', an alternate history novel by Newt Gingrich and William R. Forstchen * '' Gettysburg Cyclorama'' or ''The Battle of Gettysburg'', an 1883 painting by Paul Philippoteaux * ''Gettysburg'' (1993 film), a film based on the novel ''The Killer Angels'' * ''Gettysburg'' (2011 film), a History Channel television movie * "Gettysburg" (''The Office''), a television episode * "Gettysburg" (''The Outer Limits)'', a television episode * '' Sid Meier's Gettysburg!'', a computer game * ''Gettysburg'' (block wargame), from Columbia Games * ''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 *
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 *
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 *
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 *
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 * The Gettysburg Times, 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 {{disambiguation