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13 unusual facts about Gettysburg


Ben Hibbs

They would then meet several times at either Gettysburg or Palm Springs to discuss the article, working from an outline prepared by Hibbs.

Cornelia Hancock

"I got into Gettysburg the night of July sixth – where the need was so great that there was no further cavil about age,” she wrote in her journal.

Emmitsburg, Maryland

However fate spared the town a battle between the opposing forces, which instead took place 12 miles north of it in Pennsylvania near the town of Gettysburg.

Hanover Junction, Pennsylvania

Following the 1863 Battle of Gettysburg, Hanover Junction was a major route for the transport of wounded soldiers from Gettysburg to hospitals in Baltimore, Harrisburg, York, and other Northern towns.

Hazel Forbes

Hazel Forbes (November 26, 1910 – November 19, 1980) was an American dancer and actress from Gettysburg, South Dakota.

Gettysburg, Pennsylvania Times, "Millionaire Weds Beauty in Maryland Town Saturday", May 12, 1931, Page 2.

Lawrence Palmer Taylor

The Taylors live in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, where they avidly pursue a family interest in collecting antique maps and books and ephemera from the U.S. Civil War and the Boer War in South Africa.

Lisa Klein

She followed that up with Two Girls of Gettysburg for which she traveled to Gettysburg, Pennsylvania to research the battle site.

Phillips' Legion

The Legion fought in the Gettysburg Campaign and was mentioned in Brigadier General Wade Hampton's report to the Assistant Adjutant-General, dated August 13, 1863, as having helped repulse a July 2 Union attack between Hunterstown and Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.

Pietro Lazzarini

For the Soldiers' National Monument in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, USA he helped design the five larger than life statues of History, War, Abundance, Industry, and Victory that are around the base of a tall granite column.

Union Mills, Maryland

Union Mills plays a central role in Gettysburg: A Novel of the Civil War, a 2003 alternate history novel written by Newt Gingrich and William R. Forstchen.

United States presidential election in Pennsylvania, 1956

Pennsylvania was the home state of President Eisenhower as he moved to the Gettysburg area after World War II.

Will Tallman

He was most recently self-employed performing computer networking and telephone line improvements for several small businesses in the Hanover and Gettysburg areas.


13th New Jersey Volunteer Infantry

Its further service would see the regiment take part in the Battles of Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, the Atlanta Campaign (most notably at the Battle of Peachtree Creek), the March to the Sea, and Bentonville.

82nd New York Volunteer Infantry Regiment

The regiment arrived at Falmouth, Virginia late in November; participated in the battle of Fredericksburg; returned to its camp at Falmouth; was active at Chancellorsville in May, 1863; after a short rest at Falmouth marched to Gettysburg and there suffered fearful loss, 192 members out of 365 engaged, Col. Huston being numbered among the dead.

A. Homer Byington

Byington gained a reputation as a war correspondent when he became the first to deliver news of the outcomes of the battles of Bull Run and Gettysburg.

Alfred M. Mayer

In 1863/4 he studied physics, mathematics, and physiology in the University of Paris, and on his return he filled successively chairs in Pennsylvania College, Gettysburg, and Lehigh University, Bethlehem, from 1865 to 1870.

Anders Rudolph Rude

He settled in Virginia and graduated again from the Gettysburg seminary and was ordained as a minister in Woodstock, Virginia.

Anthony Lledo

Lledo's latest projects includes the four-time Emmy Award winning Civil War film Gettysburg, directed by Adrian Moat and executive produced by Ridley Scott and Tony Scott, the horror/thriller Darkroom, directed by Britt Napier as well the animated fantasy TV series Legends of Chima which premieres early 2013.

Battle of Hanover

Stuart was forced to continue north and east to get around the Union cavalry, further delaying his attempt to rejoin Robert E. Lee's army, which was then concentrating at Cashtown Gap west of Gettysburg.

Battle of Winchester

Second Battle of Winchester, a battle fought between June 13 and June 15, 1863 as part of the Gettysburg Campaign during the American Civil War

Beaverdam Creek

Beaverdam Creek is a Pennsylvania stream near Hunterstown, northeast of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.

Camp Point, Illinois

Arthur S. Nevins (1891 - 1979), brigadier general in the United States Army, close friend of Dwight D. Eisenhower and manager of the Eisenhowers' Gettysburg Farm.

Carlisle Junction

South Mountain Junction, an 1870 branch point on the Cumberland Valley Railroad east of Carlisle, Pennsylvania ("Gettysburg Junction" after 1884) which the connecting South Mountain RR identified on schedules as "Carlisle Junction".

Cemetery Ridge

Cemetery Ridge is a geographic feature in Gettysburg National Military Park, south of the town of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, that figured prominently in the Battle of Gettysburg, July 1 to July 3, 1863.

Charles Carleton Coffin

Coffin rode with Major General Winfield Scott Hancock on the approach to Gettysburg, and then accompanied Gen. Strong Vincent and Col. Joshua Chamberlain on their way to the successful defense of the strategic hill known as Little Round Top.

Christian C. Sanderson Museum

The museum also houses the pocket book Jennie Wade was carrying when she was killed at the battle of Gettysburg, and a number of autographs including those of Sitting Bull, Shirley Temple, Helen Keller and Basil Rathbone.

Cleveland Civil War Roundtable

Roundtable contingents went to Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, in 1997; Antietam, Maryland, in 1998; Richmond, Virginia, in 1999; Washington, D.C., in 2000; Charleston, South Carolina, in 2001; Virginia’s Shenandoah Valley in 2002; Shiloh, Tennessee, in 2003; Franklin, Tennessee, in 2004; Fredericksburg-Spotsylvania, Virginia, in 2005; and Perryville, Kentucky and the Underground Railroad Freedom Center in Cincinnati, Ohio in 2006.

Gettysburg Airport

The Gettysburg Flying Service operated airplane tours of the battefield from the west slope of Oak Ridge in the 1920s (cf. the Battlefield Airways at the Battlefield Airport across from The Peach Orchard), and the field was a 1939 site on the initial transcontinental airmail line.

The Gettysburg Airport (Forney Airfield in World War II) was a Gettysburg Battlefield facility northwest of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, on the west slope of Oak Ridge off of the Mummasburg Road.

Gettysburg and Petersburg Turnpike

U.S. Route 140, a former US highway designation—the northern portion of which had been the Gettysburg and Petersburg Turnpike.

Pennsylvania Route 97, which is the southern portion of the former Gettysburg and Petersburg Turnpike.

Ginnie Wade

A monument to her, designed by Gettysburg resident Anna M. Miller, was erected in 1900 that includes an American flag that flies around the clock.

Jake Boritt

In 2010 he wrote and produced the "The Gettysburg Story: Battlefield Auto Tour" performed by actor Stephen Lang ('Avatar', 'Gettysburg').

Boritt's 2007 film "Budapest to Gettysburg" explored the story of his father Professor Gabor Boritt, a world renowned Lincoln and Civil War scholar who returned to Hungary to find his roots in the tyranny of Hitler and Stalin.

Jennifer Donahue

Jennifer Donahue began lecturing, hosting events and appearing on television as an expert-in-residence on behalf of the Eisenhower Institute at Gettysburg College in the Spring of 2011, based in Washington, D.C. In January 2012, she hosted Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack on behalf of the Institute.

Jens Bargmann

He earned the degree of Master of Divinity from the Lutheran Theological Seminary in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania; and was ordained a Pastor by the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America in 2005.

Kenneth Lee Spencer

In 1938 he sang in the Federal Music Project NBC Blue radio opera Gettysburg, first from the El Capitain Theatre in Los Angeles, then at the Hollywood Bowl.

Lafayette McLaws

Just before his death, however, his opinion changed about the lost cause movement, and he began speaking out about Longstreet's failures at Gettysburg.

Leffert L. Buck

Before earning his civil engineering degree from RPI, Buck fought for the Union Army in the American Civil War under General Slocum, participating in the battles at Antietam, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, Lookout Mountain, Missionary Ridge, Peachtree Creek, Resaca and

Lincoln–Kennedy coincidences urban legend

James Buchanan, whom Lincoln succeeded, retired to Lancaster Township; Dwight D. Eisenhower, whom Kennedy succeeded, retired to Gettysburg.

McConaughy

David McConaughy (1823–1902), attorney, cemetery president, and civic leader in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, USA

Rathvon

William R. Rathvon (1854–1939), businessman and author of an audio recording with his impressions of the Gettysburg Address

Stellar Stone

Stellar Stone developed a total of eight known games—three drag racing games (Taxi Racer, Big Rigs: Over the Road Racing, and Midnight Race Club: Supercharged!), a puzzle game (Total Mahjongg and Shanghai), a hunting game (Remington Big Buck Trophy Hunt), a pinball game (Total Pinball), and two real-time strategy games based on the American Civil War (Gettysburg: Civil War Battles and Ultimate Civil War Battles: Robert E. Lee vs. Ulysses S. Grant).

Thomas A. Desjardin

Desjardin has appeared in nationally televised documentaries numerous times and was the historical consultant for actor Jeff Daniels in his role as Chamberlain in the 1993 movie Gettysburg.

Thomas H. Stockton

Stockton gave the opening prayer at the dedication of the Gettysburg Cemetery, the meeting at which Abraham Lincoln gave the Gettysburg Address.

Two Hats

Four of Abu Nazir's men emerge from the van, including the "munitions man" ("MM") who led the attack on the tailor's shop in Gettysburg (played by Mido Hamada), while one remains inside, obscured by tinted windows.

West Virginia in the American Civil War

Among these were the 7th West Virginia Infantry, famed for actions at Antietam and Gettysburg, and the 3rd West Virginia Cavalry, which also fought at Gettysburg.

Wheatfield Road

Wheatfield Road comes to an end at an intersection with PA 134 in the community of Round Top, where the road continues east as Blacksmith Shop Road to Baltimore Pike.

William H. Tipton

He became quite popular as an outdoor portrait photographer, taking thousands of photographs of visitors to the Gettysburg battlefield, where he established Tipton Park.

William Virgil Davis

He has published poems in Poetry, The Nation, The Hudson Review, The Georgia Review, The Hopkins Review, The Gettysburg Review, The New Criterion, The Sewanee Review, The Atlantic Monthly, Denver Quarterly, and Shenandoah, among others.