Around 4:00 p.m., Union positions north and west of Gettysburg broke. Federal troops retreated through town to Cemetery Hill and Culp’s Hill, forming a fishhook-shaped line along Cemetery Ridge.

In every battle fought since the United States’ founding, U.S. Army troops have relied on their issue longarms, from muskets ...

Gettysburg Borough Council members steered design of the southern end of Baltimore Street revitalization toward a boulevard ...

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A battle over plastic—a material so prolific the UN calls the 90 percent of it that ends up as trash a pollution crisis—is under way in Florida. Coral Gables, a small city of 51,000 people ...