Gettysburg National Military Park Anniversary
Gettysburg National Military Park Anniversary
On this day in 1895 Gettysburg National Military Park was established.
Take a look back at the early years on today's blog post...
https://npsgnmp.wordpress.com/2016/02/11/down-memory-lane-at-gettysburg/
Katie Lawhon
Management Assistant
Gettysburg National Military Park/ Eisenhower National Historic Site
1195 Baltimore Pike, Suite 100
Gettysburg, PA 17325
2016 NATIONAL PARK Service Centennial
To connect with and create the next generation of park visitors,
supporters and advocates
Office: 717/ 338-4402
Cell: 717/ 253-5776
Blogging From the Fields of Gettysburg
- Confederate President Jefferson Davis calls for March 27 to be a day of fasting, humiliation, and prayer.
- Following the Underground Railroad Route By Bicycle
- March is Women's History Month! Read the fascinating accounts of women spies hiding coded messages in women's hair, conductors of the Underground Railroad, soldiers disguised as men, surgeons, and advisors to the President!
- Teachers tackle race, economic disparity and history
- The President's Hymn: 'Give Thanks All Ye People'
- Thanksgiving Day during the Civil War
- Lincoln’s Thanksgiving proclamation in a divided time: ‘one heart and one voice by the whole American People’
- What Abraham Lincoln found reading the Book of Job amid civil war
- Civil War stories on display at Lincoln Highway museum in Unity
- Who was Henry Benning, for whom Fort Benning in Columbus was named?
- Fort Gordon Army Base: Who was John Brown Gordon?
- From the Civil War to the football field, we have been celebrating the wrong values
- History and Healing: Removing Controversial Artifacts from the Civic Landscape
- How to Reframe the Civil War in the Classroom
- Man scores Abraham Lincoln autograph in box of trading cards
- Native Americans' role in the Civil War
- Abraham Lincoln Healed a Divided Nation. We Should Heed His Words Today.
- An escaped slave was the 'Florence Nightingale’ of Indiana's Civil War regiment
- A Southern Democrat survived impeachment trap and came to be in charge of Reconstruction
- New Statue Unveiled In Response To Richmond's Confederate Monuments