Or that there are artillery shells still embedded ... A witness tree is a tree that stood during the Civil War and was a “witness” to the Battle of Gettysburg. Visitors to the well-known ...

"The Civil War was the most important event ... Head up the gentle slope of Cemetery Hill, where the "Gettysburg Address" was delivered, and where Union artillery repelled all Rebel approaches.

much as they did for most major battles in the war. Harman does an excellent job in showing readers the ways in which waterways, rail lines, and roads tended to bring the two armies together at ...

In addition to offering demonstrations with Civil War historians at Gettysburg National Military Park's battlefield every weekend from April through October, visitors can enjoy alfresco dining at ...

Jeffords, however, would not recover, becoming the highest-ranking officer to die of a bayonet wound in the Civil War. This week marks the 154th anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg ...

But his luck changed for the worse at Gettysburg, where Pickett lost a staggering number of his own men; nearly all the rest would be killed by the war's end ... heavy artillery fire and repeated ...

He comments on the Civil War-era artillery and rifles on display in ... and Denzel Washington; "Gettysburg" (1993), starring Jeff Daniels; and Steven Spielberg's "Lincoln" (2012), starring ...

On the afternoon of July 3rd, a thunderous artillery barrage ... to seek a negotiated end to the war -- on Southern terms. The South had won the war at Gettysburg.

"Incidents of the war: A harvest of death." The three days of conflict at Gettysburg resulted in 51,000 casualties, making it the bloodiest battle of the Civil War. Courtesy: Library of Congress ...