The year was 1913, and it was July – a month marked by heavy air and hot summer sun. George Thom, an elderly citizen from Hutchinson, boarded a train that was heading southeast to ...

General Ewell's Second Corps slams into ... reeling back through the town of Gettysburg. Simultaneous attacks from the west push Union forces toward Cemetery Hill and Cemetery Ridge, where they ...

Head up the gentle slope of Cemetery Hill ... toilet was slim). “Gettysburg was the turning point of the Civil War,” says Burns. “It’s this extraordinary three-day battle in a place ...

Confederate forces have won a signifcant victory, out-flanking and driving Union forces from the field and onto the high ground south of Gettysburg ... position on Cemetery Hill more exposed.

Gettysburg National Military Park has no entrance fee. Visitors are welcome to tour the grounds and the Gettysburg National Cemetery, though hours of operation ... contemporary facilities that help ...