So, to honor the 100th anniversary of the battle, the Rosensteel family created the Gettysburg Electric Map. Sign up for our Newsletters Their first electric map debuted in the late 1930s ...

An electrical map that depicted troop movements and points of interests during the battle of Gettysburg.

A fateful meetingA commercial map published in Philadelphia soon after the battle—waged from Wednesday, July 1, through Friday, July 3—shows the convergence at Gettysburg of General Meade’s ...

The Battle of Gettysburg ... Run, a stream that runs through the battlefield. “Our artillery on the hill to our rear was cutting its fuse too short. Their shells were bursting behind us, in ...

That’s what a Confederate colonel wrote home to his wife as a mass of men in tattered gray approached the town of Gettysburg. He called it a “land of thrift and plenty,” according to author ...

Today, travellers can explore Gettysburg’s fascinating ... mark the final resting spots of 6,000 US soldiers, including 3,500 who perished during the battle. This statue honouring the 72nd ...

The Battle of Gettysburg lasted from July 1 through July ... we fought each other for things we believed in, and it changed us forever," Reincke said. Gates open to the farm at 8:30 a.m. on ...

and memoirs,” noted Civil War scholar Allen Guelzo offers us an anthology of eyewitness accounts by many of the people who took part in the Gettysburg Campaign, naturally concentrated on the great ...