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Photographs by ŠHelen S. Schwartz, Artistry In Photography www.artistryinphotography.com Top: Brown’s Battery B, 1st Rhode Island monument and Basil Biggs barn.

Middle: from left, monuments to 78 and 102 New York Infantry, Alabama State, 7th Indiana Infantry.

Bottom: Parrott rifle near North Carolina State monument, at right, and 29th Pennsylvania monument.

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Local Civil War Events Scheduled June 26 Through July 5 June 26 Programs: Seminary Ridge anniversary programs near Seminary Ridge Museum main parking lot. Living history encampment, 6:30 p.m. talk, music, Taps from museum cupola.

Free. For information, 717-339-1300; www.seminaryridgemuseum.org Spangler Farm: George Spangler Farm Civil War Field Hospital Site interpretive programs from 10-2. Take shuttle bus from the park museum and visitor center, fee charged.

Theater Program: The Ridge Players interactive museum theater performance, “Citizens at a Crossroads,” about the people affected by the Battle of Gettysburg and its aftermath. 7:30 p.m. at Gettysburg Seminary Ridge Museum. Advanced tickets 717-3391300, www.seminaryridgemuseum.org

June 27

Spangler Farm: George Spangler Farm Civil War Field Hospital Site interpretive programs from 10-2. Take shuttle bus from the park museum and visitor center, fee charged.

interpretive programs from 10-2. Take Programs: Seminary Ridge annivershuttle bus from the park museum and sary programs near Seminary Ridge Museum main parking lot. 6:15 Lt. visitor center, fee charged.

Col. George F. McFarland Wayside Collectors’ Show: 42nd Annual Civil dedication, 6:30 p.m. talk, music, Taps War Collectors’ Show, AllStar Expo from museum cupola. Free. For infor717-339-1300; Collectors’ Show: 42nd Annual Civil Hall at Eisenhower Inn, Gettysburg, 9- mation, War Collectors’ Show, AllStar Expo 2. Sponsored by Gettysburg Battlefield www.seminaryridgemuseum.org Hall at Eisenhower Inn, Gettysburg, 10- Preservation Assn.

July 2 5. Sponsored by Gettysburg Battlefield June 29 Preservation Assn.

Anniversary Programs: Battle of Programs: Seminary Ridge anniver- Gettysburg Anniversary at Gettysburg Theater Program: The Ridge Players sary programs near Seminary Ridge National Military Park. Guided walks & interactive museum theater perform- Museum main parking lot. 6:30 p.m. programs. For information, 717-334ance, “Citizens at a Crossroads,” about talk, music, Taps from museum cupola. 1124 Ext. 8023; www.nps.gov/gett the people affected by the Battle of Free. For information, 717-339-1300; Gettysburg and its aftermath. 7:30 p.m. www.seminaryridgemuseum.org Programs: Seminary Ridge anniverat Gettysburg Seminary Ridge sary programs near Seminary Ridge Museum. Advanced tickets 717-339Museum main parking lot. 6:30 p.m.

June 30 1300, www.seminaryridgemuseum.org Programs: Seminary Ridge anniver- talk, music, Taps from museum cupola. sary programs near Seminary Ridge Free. For information, 717-339-1300; Museum main parking lot. 6:30 p.m. www.seminaryridgemuseum.org

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Programs: Seminary Ridge anniversary programs near Seminary Ridge Museum main parking lot. Living history encampment, 2:30 skirmish, 6:30 p.m. talk, music, Taps from museum cupola. Free. For information, 717-3391300; www.seminaryridgemuseum.org

Programs: Seminary Ridge anniversary programs near Seminary Ridge Museum main parking lot. Living history encampment, 2 p.m. skirmish, 6:30 p.m. talk, music, Taps from museum cupola.

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For information, 717-339-1300; Living History: 20th Maine Infantry & 2nd United States Sharpshooters at www.seminaryridgemuseum.org Pennsylvania Memorial. Federal Aid at General Meade’s Living History: 20th Maine Infantry Station & 2nd United States Sharpshooters at Headquarters. 2nd Maryland Infantry at Pennsylvania Memorial. Federal Aid Pitzer Woods. 23rd Virginia Infantry at Station at General Meade’s Spangler Spring.

Headquarters. 2nd Maryland Infantry at Pitzer Woods. 23rd Virginia Infantry Spangler Farm: George Spangler at Spangler Spring.

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Spangler Farm: George Spangler Farm Civil War Field Hospital Site interpretive programs from 10-2. Take shuttle bus from the park museum and visitor center, fee charged.

Sacred Trust Talks: Sacred Trust talks and book signings at Gettysburg National Military Park Museum & Visitor Center. Opens with 7 p.m. panel.

Free. Co-sponsored by Gettysburg Foundation. Info 717-338-1243, www.gettysburgfoundation.org Historian Talks: Eight author speakers 10 a.m. and 3-8 p.m. at Gettysburg Heritage Center. For information, 717-334-6245; www.GettysburgMuseum.com.

Theater Program: The Ridge Players interactive museum theater performance, “Citizens at a Crossroads,” about talk, music, Taps from museum cupola. the people affected by the Battle of Historian Talks: Six author speakers Free. For information, 717-339-1300; Gettysburg and its aftermath. 7:30 p.m.

10 a.m. to 6 p.m. at Gettysburg Heritage www.seminaryridgemuseum.org Center. For information, 717-334-6245; at Gettysburg Seminary Ridge Museum. Advanced tickets 717-339Evening Walk: “Walks Through www.GettysburgMuseum.com.

1300, www.seminaryridgemuseum.org History” in Gettysburg, 5:30-8:30 p.m.

July 3 Various specific topics. $30 per session, July 4 buy 6 get seventh free — series runs Battle Anniversary: Battle of into September. Sponsored by Gettysburg anniversary free special Battle Anniversary: Battle of Association of Licensed Battlefield National Park Ranger-guided walks and Gettysburg anniversary free special National Park Ranger-guided walks and Guides.

For information, programs. programs. www.gettysburgtourguides.org Reenactment: Annual Gettysburg Civil War Battle Reenactment at July 1 “Gettysburg” movie site on Pumping Battle Anniversary: Battle of Station Road. Daily battles with Gettysburg anniversary free special pyrotechnics, living history village, National Park Ranger-guided walks and activities tents. For information, programs. www.gettysburgreenactment.com

Reenactment: Annual Gettysburg Civil War Battle Reenactment at “Gettysburg” movie site on Pumping Station Road. Daily battles with

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Presentations: Two artist demonstrations 10-4, five author speakers 10 a.m.pyrotechnics, living history village, 8 p.m. at Gettysburg Heritage Center. activities tents. For information, For information, 717-334-6245; www.gettysburgreenactment.com www.GettysburgMuseum.com.

Spangler Farm: George Spangler Farm Civil War Field Hospital Site Living History: Confederates Take the interpretive programs from 10-2. Take Shriver House Reenactment at Shriver shuttle bus from the park museum and House Museum, 5-9 p.m. visitor center, fee charged.

Theater Program: The Ridge Players Living History: Mifflin Guard Infantry interactive museum theater “Citizens at a at Pennsylvania Memorial. Confederate performance, Military Forces Infantry at Pitzer Crossroads,” about the people affected by the Battle of Gettysburg and Woods. its aftermath. 7:30 p.m. at Gettysburg Sacred Trust Talks: Sacred Trust talks Seminary Ridge Museum. Advanced 717-339-1300, and book signings at Gettysburg tickets National Military Park Museum & www.seminaryridgemuseum.org

“Gettysburg” movie site on Pumping Station Road. Daily battles with pyrotechnics, living history village, activities tents. For information, www.gettysburgreenactment.com Living History: Mifflin Guard Infantry at Pennsylvania Memorial. Confederate Military Forces Infantry at Pitzer Woods.

Spangler Farm: George Spangler Farm Civil War Field Hospital Site interpretive programs from 10-2. Take shuttle bus from the park museum and visitor center, fee charged.

Sacred Trust Talks: Sacred Trust talks and book signings at Gettysburg National Military Park Museum & Visitor Center, 9:30-5:30. Free. Co-sponVisitor Center, 9:30-5:30. Free. sored by Gettysburg Foundation. For July 5 Co-sponsored by Gettysburg 717-338-1243, Foundation. For information, 717-338- Reenactment: Annual Gettysburg information, 1243, www.gettysburgfoundation.org.

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Historian Talks: Three author speakers, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at Gettysburg Heritage Center. For information, 717-334-6245; www.GettysburgMuseum.com.

Confederate Markers Excerpt about marking Confederate positions from the 1898 Report of the Gettysburg National Military Park Commission to the Secretary of War. The commission are much gratified to notice an awakening of interest in influential quarters among the people of the Southern States concerning this battlefield and the importance of erecting monuments to commemorate the heroism of their soldiers here, as the people and States of the North have done, and it is hoped that Congress will recognize and foster this praiseworthy sentiment springing up in the South by liberal appropriation of moneys needed to purchase and acquire title to the lands on which the Confederate troops operated and where their monuments must be placed.

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Join National Park Service Rangers and Living Historians at the Farm The Spangler Family at Work 10:15 a.m. (20-30 minute program) Join living historians demonstrating trades of the period and get a glimpse of civilian life at the farm.

Manning the Guns: Artillery at the Spangler Farm 11:15 a.m. (20-30 minute program) Join living historians and discover the experiences of one of the Civil War artillerists stationed near the Spangler Farm by becoming a member of a cannon crew at work.

An Army Field Hospital: The George Spangler Farm 12:15 p.m. (20-30 minute program) Discover the field hospital where over 1,900 soldiers wounded during the battle of Gettysburg were cared for.

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Outdoor Programs At Seminary Ridge From June 26 to July 2 Seminary Ridge Museum is hosting free living history encampments and outdoor special afternoon and evening speaking and musical programs on the west side of Seminary Ridge near the main museum parking lot.

The museum itself will be open daily from 10 a.m.-5 p.m.

June 26 All day living history encampment.

6:30 p.m. Campfire Talk: “Myths and Humor of Abraham Lincoln,” Robert Brugler. Musical performance by Steve Ball and Lisa Williams. Sunset Taps played from museum cupola.

June 27 All day living history encampment, wet plate photography demonstration and sales. 2 p.m. skirmish. 6:30 p.m. Campfire Talk: “Campfire Tales of the Iron Brigade,” Lance Herdegen and Phil Spaugy. Musical performance by Calvert Arms Fife & Drum Corps. Sunset Taps played from museum cupola.

June 28 All day living history encampment.

2 p.m. skirmish. 6:30 p.m. Campfire Talk: “A Campfire with Leaders in Blue” featuring Gens. Buford, Reynolds, Warren and more.

Musical performance “Dearest Home” in performance tent, east side of the Ridge. Sunset Taps played from museum cupola.

June 29 6:30 Campfire Talk: “Flight 93 Heroes,” Tom McMillan, followed by “Day One Heroes,” Carol Reardon. Musical performance “Gettysburg 1863 in Song & Story” with Wayne Hill and Michael Matsinko. Sunset Taps played from museum cupola.

June 30 6:30 Campfire Talk: “The Devil’s to Pay: John Buford at Gettysburg,” Eric Wittenberg. Musical performance “Dearest Home.” Sunset Taps played from museum cupola.

July 1 Lt. Col. George F. McFarland wayside dedication near museum, 6:15 p.m. 6:30 Campfire Talk: “Stories of the Seminary Hospital Wounded,” Michael Dreese and Ben Neely. Musical performance by Buzz Jones Jazz Ensemble on east side of Ridge. Sunset Taps played from museum cupola.

July 2 6:30 Campfire Talk: “A Campfire with Leaders in Blue,” featuring Gens. Buford, Reynolds, Warren and more. Musical performance by Susquehanna Travelers. Sunset Taps played from museum cupola.

For museum information call 717339-1300 or visit www.seminaryridgemuseum.org

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Confederates Will Occupy Shriver House On July 4 On July 4, from 5 to 9 p.m., the Shriver House Museum at 309 Baltimore St. will reenact the Confederate taking and occupation of the Shriver home.

In July 1863 Hettie Shriver was 24 years old with two young daughters when two armies descended on Gettysburg and fought for three days.

Her husband George had joined the cavalry two years earlier. Hettie, the girls and neighbor Tillie Pierce fled to Hettie’s parents’ home, the Weikert Farm, at the base of Little Round Top. Confederate sharpshooters took over the Shriver home. Many of the furnishings were used to build a barricade in the street. Wounded soldiers were tended to in the house after the battle.

Visitors to the house will see how the Civil War affected the family. They will meet Confederate soldiers as they

prepare for battle and watch snipers fire at Union forces on Cemetery Hill from the sharpshooters’ nest in the garret, and, in some cases, die.

The tour will include rooms plundered by the occupiers and wounded soldiers waiting for treatment in the makeshift hospital in the summer kitchen.

Cold root beer will be served to visitors in Shriver’s Saloon.

Young visitors can have a nurse bandage their wounds or make whirligigs to keep as a memento.

The Shriver House has been restored to its 1860s appearance and is open to the public as a heritage museum. Tours offer insight into the lives of residents during the battle as well as the lifestyles, customs and furnishings of the period.

For information call (717) 337-2800 Confederates occupied the Shriver House on Baltimore Street, firing as sharpshooters from the attic. or visit www.shriverhouse.org.

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Living History Groups Will NPS Offers Summer Battlefield Programs Be At Park Over Weekends Gettysburg National Military Park will host infantry, artillery, cavalry, medical and other living history groups on the following weekends through Nov. 1.

June 27-28: 20th Maine Infantry & 2nd United States Sharpshooters at Pennsylvania Memorial. Federal Aid Station at General Meade’s Headquarters. 2nd Maryland Infantry at Pitzer Woods. 23rd Virginia Infantry at Spangler Spring.

July 4-5: Mifflin Guard Infantry at Pennsylvania Memorial. Confederate Military Forces Infantry at Pitzer Woods.

July 11-12: 6th New Hampshire Infantry at Spangler Spring. Letcher’s CSA Battery at Pitzer Woods.

July 18-19: 1st Rhode Island Light Artillery, Battery B, at Pennsylvania Memorial. 2nd U.S. Cavalry, Co. A, at Pitzer Woods.

July 25-26: 3rd Virginia & Prince Anne Grays at Meredith Avenue (McPherson Barn). 10th Virginia Sharpshooters at Spangler Spring.

Aug. 1-2: 124th New York Infantry at Pennsylvania Memorial. 2nd U.S. Cavalry, Co H, at Pitzer Woods.

Aug. 8-9: North Carolina State Troops at Pitzer Woods. 2nd U.S. Artillery, Battery M, at Pennsylvania Memorial.

Aug. 15-16: Society of Civil War Surgeons at Pennsylvania Memorial.

4th Maryland & Stribling’s CSA artillery batteries at Pitzer Woods. 10th Virginia Infantry, Valley Guard, at Spangler Spring.

Aug. 22-23: Liberty Grays at Pitzer

The National Park Service is offering –First Shots on McPherson’s Ridge: programs for all interests at Gettysburg Sunday, Tuesday, Thursday at 11:30 National Military Park until Aug. 16, a.m.

Woods. 44th Georgia Infantry at after which the schedule will be –Ranger Guided Battle walks: daily Spangler Spring. reduced. Details about these programs at 3:30 p.m.

Aug. 29-30: 1st Tejas Infantry, CSA, is at (717) 334-1124 and at Pitzer Woods. 3rd U.S. Regular www.nps.gov/gett.

Key Moments Infantry at Pennsylvania Memorial. ranger-guided programs Sept. 5-6: Annual Labor Day Battle Programs –Little Round Top: Monday, Artillery Weekend. 1st Pennsylvania –The Battle of Gettysburg Wednesday, Friday, Saturday at 11:30 Artillery, Battery D, at Pennsylvania a.m.

Memorial. 28th Virginia Infantry at Overview: daily at 9 a.m.

–Battlefield in a Box interactive bat–Devil’s Den: Monday, Wednesday, Pitzer Woods.

Saturday at 10 a.m.

Sept. 12-13: 87th Pennsylvania tlefield map building, daily at 4 p.m.

–The First Day: daily at 10 a.m.

–Culp’s Hill: Sunday, Tuesday, Infantry at Pennsylvania Memorial.

–The Second Day: daily at 2 p.m.

Thursday at 3 p.m.

Sept. 19-20: 1st North Carolina –The Third Day & Beyond: daily at –Cemetery Hill: The Key to Artillery at Pitzer Woods. 69th New Gettysburg: Sunday, Tuesday, York Infantry at Pennsylvania 4 p.m.

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Sept. 26-27: 53rd Pennsylvania Infantry at Pennsylvania Memorial.

Oct. 3-4: 2nd U.S. Sharpshooters at Pitzer Woods.

Oct. 10-11: 26th North Carolina Infantry at Pitzer Woods. 150th New Authors, historians and National Marquette University; M. Keith York Infantry at Pennsylvania Park Service (NPS) Rangers will talk Harris, independent historian; Memorial. about the Battle of Gettysburg and Timothy Orr, assistant professor of Oct. 17-18: Ohio Valley Civil War 1865 Civil War events during the history at Old Dominion University; Association at Pennsylvania Memorial. Gettysburg battle 152nd anniversary. and Christopher Gwinn, NPS United States Sharpshooters on Little The annual Sacred Trust Talks and Supervisory Ranger of Interpretation Round Top. Richmond Fayette Book Signings will be held July 3, 4 and Education.

Artillery, Maryland State Parks and and 5 at the Gettysburg National July 4 and 5 from 9:30 a.m. to 5:30 South Mountain State Parks Programs Military Park Museum and Visitor p.m. speakers will give talks in the at Pitzer Woods.

Center. Sponsored by the Gettysburg tent on the front lawn and authors will Oct.24-25: 1st Pennsylvania Foundation and Gettysburg National sign books in the Visitor Center Artillery, Battery F, at Pennsylvania Military Park, the talks are free and Lobby. More than two dozen historiMemorial. open to the public. ans are scheduled in the two venues.

Oct. 31- Nov. 1: The Squabblers’ The Sacred Trust event will open Scheduled speakers include Scott Mess at Pennsylvania Memorial. July 3 at 7 p.m. with a panel discus- Hartwig, Carol Reardon, Elizabeth 12th Alabama Infantry at Pitzer sion on “How Veterans Told the Story Varon and Brian Craig Miller. Books Woods. of Their War” moderated by NPS will be available for purchase. A comFor more information call 717-334- Historian John Heiser. plete schedule of talks and book sign1124 ext. 8023, or go to Panel participants will be James ings can be viewed at www.nps.gov/gett Marten, professor of history at www.gettysburgfoundation.org.

Visitor Center Sacred Trust Talks, Signings Are July 3-5

Thursday at 1:30 p.m.

–East Cavalry Field: Friday at 1:30 p.m.

–Spangler’s Spring: Sunday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday at 10:30 a.m.

–Pickett’s Charge: Monday, Wednesday, Friday, Saturday at 3 p.m.

The Living and the Dead ranger programs –Lincoln and the Soldiers’ National Cemetery: daily at 11 a.m. and 3 p.m.

–Care of the Wounded: daily at 3 p.m.

–Sunset on Cemetery Ridge: Monday, Wednesday, Friday, Saturday at 7 p.m.

–Long Remembered: Saturdays and Sundays at 6 p.m.

The Civil War Experience –Civil War Soldier: daily at 2 p.m.

–Campfire at Pitzer Woods: nightly at 8:30.

Visit to the past new interactive living history programs – “Cannoneers to your post!”: Monday, Wednesday, Friday at 2 p.m.

–Trials and Triumphs: Gettysburg’s farm families, Sunday, Tuesday, and Thursday at 1 p.m.

–Courage on trial: Saturday at 1 p.m.

For Young Visitors –Join the Army!: daily at 11 a.m.

–Junior Ranger program, ages 5-13, details at the park Visitor Center information desk –Hands-on History Cart: daily, at 2 p.m.

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SATURDAY SPOTLIGHT Every Saturday evening at 8:00pm Programs vary each week. $10 Adult, $6 Child

Friday, July 3rd 7 - 9 pm Learn how ordinary people did extraordinary things. Utilizing interactive displays, storyboards, 3D photography and videos, experience the town of Gettysburg and civilian life: before, during and after the battle.

Lt. Col. Ralph Peters (ret.)

Author of Valley of the Shadow and Fox News correspondent Presentation followed by book signing Re-enactors assemble on the grounds most weekends April through October

Additional authors, artists & living historians July 2 - 5

Interactive museum

Special Exhibit Summer 2015 Extensive gift shop

See the hearse that carried President Abraham Lincoln’s body in Washington, DC. 150 years ago.

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Park Will Host 2 Artists- Ridge Players Give Human Dimension In-Residence During July To Exhibition At Seminary Museum Gettysburg National Military Park is one of the first four national parks to participate in a new artist-in-residence program.

In partnership with the non-profit National Parks Arts Foundation and the Gettysburg Foundation the park will host three artists for month-long residencies. Poets and multimedia artists Michelle Bonczek Evory and Robert Evory will spend July at the park.

Afterward, they will give an illustrated program about the significance of their poetic and photographic discoveries and research and how they drew inspiration from the battlefield.

In their winning proposal the Michigan couple said, “It’s our hope to use poetry and photography to bridge history and connect park visitors to the individual men and women who participated in the different aspects of the Battle of Gettysburg whether they fought on this field or prayed at home for their sons.”

The award-winning poets are founders of The Poets Billow, which champions poetry as a life enhancing force and offers guidance and

consultation and a network for poets.

Michelle Evory teaches environmental writing at the SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry in Syracuse, N.Y. Robert Evory is a musician, astronomy buff and managing editor for The Poet’s Billow.

Talking about the new program, Supt. Ed W Clark said, “We hope to inspire, engage and connect with another generation of artists, visitors and youth about the significance and meaning of these hallowed grounds.”

Gettysburg battlefield has a long history with artistic interpretation, including photographers Mathew Brady and Alexander Gardner who arrived shortly after the battle, and the giant cyclorama painting of Pickett’s Charge which has been displayed for decades.

National Parks Arts Foundation curators and advisors select the artists in residence. Artists may apply with their proposals and find additional information at www.nationalparksartsfoundation.or g. The program requires that the artist donate a work to the park’s collection of exhibits and artwork.

The Gettysburg Seminary Ridge Museum hosts The Ridge Players, an interactive museum theater program, Friday and Saturday nights at 7:30 through the summer.

Their performance, “Citizens at a Crossroads,” brings to life the experiences and emotions of people whose lives were permanently affected by the Battle of Gettysburg and its aftermath.

The program’s format lets visitors interact with live characters within the exhibits and make

personal connections with history.

Advance tickets are recommended and are available at www.seminaryridgemuseum.org or by calling 717-339-1300 Monday through Friday from 9 2. Special group rates and performances are available.

The Gettysburg Seminary Ridge Museum, which opened July 1, 2013, focuses on three main areas in its permanent exhibit titled “Voices of Duty and Devotion.” It is the only local museum focusing

on the first day of the Battle of Gettysburg on Seminary Ridge, care of the wounded, and the larger issues of faith and freedom.

Special exhibits, programs and events are offered throughout the year. Wayside markers interpret a one-mile outdoor trail.

The museum is operated by the non-prof it Seminary Ridge Historic Preservation Foundation and is a project of the Adams County Historical Society and the Gettysburg Seminary.

Saturday, July 4th 5 - 9 pm

You may know what happened on the battlefield , but . . . do you know what happened to the families and their homes in town?

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“Who Were Those Other Heroes With Armistead at the Guns”

Their home was abandoned, occupied by Confederate sharpshooters, ransacked and used to treat the wounded! Come hear the Shrivers’ story.

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3 Exhibits in Gettysburg Through June: Gettysburg Seminary Ridge Museum temporary exhibition, “Reunion, Reconciliation,” about the Battle of Gettysburg 50th anniversary and how it dealt with issues of reunion and reconciliation. Special 50th reunion guests were housed in what is now the museum building. Included in museum admission. For information, 717-39-1300; www.seminaryridgemuseum.org Through September: “A Faithful and Efficient General: The Military Service of General Albion Howe” Gettysburg Foundation exhibit at Gettysburg National Military Park Museum and Visitor Center’s Exhibit Spotlight gallery. First

exhibit in new gallery featuring artifacts related to one person.

For information, 877-874-2478; www.gettysburgfoundation.org Through 2015: “Treasures of the Civil War: Legendary Leaders Who Shaped a War,” at Gettysburg National Military Park Museum and Visitor Center. Rare artifacts related to Jefferson Davis, Robert E. Lee, George G. Meade, Frederick Douglass, Clara Barton, others.

Sponsored by Gettysburg National Military Park, Gettysburg Foundation, other partners. Included in museum admission. For information, 717-334-1124; www.nps.gov/gett

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Special Park Programs Set July 1-4 Park Rangers and Licensed Battlefield Guides will lead free guided walks and talks on July 1, 2 and 3, the 152nd anniversary of the Gettysburg battle. Two programs are scheduled July 4. Visitors are reminded to park on the pavement on the right side of park roads unless otherwise directed.

Ranger Programs July 1-3 Battlefield in a Box: An Overview interactive 30-minute program to build a map of the battlefield using props.

Ranger Program Site 1 behind visitor center at 10 a.m. and 4 p.m.

Lincoln and the Soldiers’ National Cemetery 40-minute program about the cemetery and Gettysburg Address.

Meet at Taneytown Road entrance, 11 a.m. and 3 p.m.

Care of the Wounded, one hour, at Ranger Program Site 2 behind visitor center, 3 p.m.

Civil War Soldier, one hour, at Ranger Program Site 1 behind visitor center, 2 p.m.

Hoptak and Daniel Vermilya. Meet at the Eternal Peace Light Memorial, Auto Tour Stop 2.

2:30 p.m. Buford, Birney, Humphreys and Geary: Defending the Emmitsburg Road on July 1 with Troy Harman. Meet at the Peach Orchard for 2.5-mile hike. Park on Sickles Avenue, not Wheatfield Road.

6 p.m. “Plant Your Flag Down There!” – The Defense of Cemetery Hill with Britt Isenberg. Meet at the flagpole in the National Cemetery parking lot. Park there or along North Hancock Avenue.

Real Time Programs 30-45-minutes 9 a.m. The Battle Begins with Dan Welch, meet at Auto Tour Stop 1, McPherson Ridge. Park on Reynolds Avenue.

10:30 a.m. Cutler’s Brigade Arrives with Tom Holbrook.

Meet at the General Wadsworth Monument on Reynolds Avenue. Park along Reynolds Avenue.

2:30 p.m. The 26th North Carolina Family Activities vs. the 24th Michigan with Karlton Family Activities and Hands-on Smith. Meet at the John Burns Statue on History stations 10-4 in Gettysburg National Military Park Museum and Visitor Center Group Lobby. Also, hourly special guests, “Join the Army” programs, Junior Ranger activity booklets.

Park on the right side of Sedgwick and Hancock Avenue.

6 p.m. Gun Fight at the Peach Orchard with Ralph Siegel. Meet at Stone Avenue. Park on Stone and Louisiana Monument on West Meredith Avenues.

Confederate Avenue. Park along 3:45 p.m. Collapse of the 11th Corps avenue. with Chuck Teague. Meet at Barlow’s Knoll, East Howard Avenue.

5 p.m. Retreat to Cemetery Hill: End Real Time Programs of the 1st Day with Caitlin Kostic. Meet 30-45 minutes at Baltimore Street Entrance to 8:30 a.m. Lee Plans for Battle with Soldiers’ National Cemetery.

Chuck Teague. Meet at the North Carolina Memorial, Auto Tour Stop 4.

Campfire at Pitzer Woods Park on West Confederate Avenue.

8:30 p.m. at the Pitzer Woods 12 p.m., Berdan’s Sharpshooters in Amphitheater. “Letters from the Pitzer Woods with Caitlin Kostic. Meet Battlefield: July 1st, 1863,” with at the Longstreet Equestrian Statue near Karlton Smith. Auto Tour Stop 6. Park on West Confederate Avenue.

1:30 p.m. Sickles Moves Forward July 2 Special Programs with Evangelina Rubalcava. Meet at the Battle Walks, 2-3 hours 10 a.m. “Our little brigade fought like Peach Orchard. Park on Sickles Avenue. heroes” — The Irish Brigade at Do not park on Wheatfield Road.

3 p.m. Longstreet Prepares to Attack Gettysburg with John Heiser. Meet at the Father Corby statue, Hancock with Karlton Smith. Meet at Auto Tour Avenue. Park on right side of Hancock Stop 7, near the Alabama Monument.

4:15 p.m. Crisis on Little Round Top and Sedgwick Avenues.

2:30 p.m. Myths, Memories, and with Zach Siggins. Meet at the Warren Martyrs: The Battle for Little Round Statue, Auto Tour Stop 8, on Little Top with Christopher Gwinn. Rough Round Top. 5 p.m. The Valley of Death with terrain. Meet at John Sedgwick Equestrian Statue on Sedgwick Avenue. Chuck Teague. Meet at Devil’s Den. Do not park on Wheatfield Road.

July 2015 5:45 p.m. Into the Wheatfield with Col. Cross with Bill Hewitt. Meet at Auto Tour Stop 9, The Wheatfield. Do not park on Wheatfield Road.

6:30 p.m. Barksdale’s Mississippians take the Peach Orchard with Matt Atkinson. Meet at The Peach Orchard.

Park on Sickles Avenue. Do not park on Wheatfield Road.

7:20 p.m. Redemption of the Harpers Ferry Cowards with Philip Brown. Meet at Auto Tour Stop 12, The Pennsylvania Memorial. Park along Hancock Avenue.

8:15 p.m. Greene’s Brigade on Culp’s Hill with Daniel Vermilya. Meet at the Culp’s Hill Tower, Slocum Avenue.

Campfire at Pitzer Woods 8:30 p.m. at the Pitzer Woods Amphitheater. “Letters from the Battlefield: July 2, 1863,” with Bert Barnett.

July 3 Special Programs Battle Walks, 2-3 hours 10 a.m. Hancock at Gettysburg - July 3rd with Matt Atkinson. Meet at the Abraham Brian Farm on North Hancock Avenue. Park along Hancock Avenue and in the National Cemetery Parking Lot.

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Battle Walks, 2-3 hours 10 a.m. Striking Stone & Cutler: The Attacks of Junius Daniel’s [North Carolina] Brigade on July 1. With John

“CIVIL WAR REMEMBERED”

Funds & Helpers Needed For The Annual Sgt. Mac Wreath Project A Gettysburg family’s Christmas wreath project to honor their late son is expanding this year, with a goal of placing 1,600 wreaths on headstones in the original section of Soldiers’ National Cemetery and 8,400 wreaths at Quantico National Cemetery.

The Sgt. Mac Foundation’s National Wreath Project was founded by Susan and John McColley, the parents of Gettysburg native and U.S. Marine Corps Sgt. Eric McColley. He died on Feb. 17, 2006, along with seven Marines and two airmen in a helicopter accident in the Horn of Africa.

The first year’s wreaths were placed at Quantico, in Triangle, Va., where McColley is buried. With the help of financial donations and Gettysburg volunteers who tie bows on the wreaths, the program has expanded every year.

Some $80,000 is needed to cover $8 each for wreaths and bows provided at cost by Giant Food Stores of Carlisle, Pa. ABF Freight Systems transports the wreaths to Virginia.

People who can help are invited to the Giant Food Store on Route 30 at 8 a.m.

Dec. 4 to tie bows on wreaths. At 1 p.m. a short ceremony at the Taneytown Road entrance to the cemetery will precede placement of the wreaths.

At 10 a.m. on Dec. 5 volunteers will place wreaths at Quantico National Cemetery.

For information, photos from last year and to donate go to www.sgtmac.org or contact board member Stan Clark at 717-337-1728 or scmb@earthlink.net

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Campfire at Pitzer Woods 8:30 p.m. at the Pitzer Woods 2:30 p.m. Pickett’s Charge with Amphitheater. “Letters from the Philip Brown and Bill Hewitt. Meet at Battlefield: July 3rd, 1863,” with Chuck the Virginia Memorial, Auto Tour Stop Teague 5. Park along West Confederate Avenue.

July 4 Special Programs Real Time Programs 30-45 minutes 8 a.m. Slaughter in Spangler Meadow with Brian Henry. Meet at Auto Tour Stop 13, Spangler’s Spring.

Park on East Confederate and Williams Avenue.

8:45 a.m. Confederate Failure at Pardee Field with John Nicholas. Meet at the Auto Tour Stop 13, Spangler’s Spring. Park on East Confederate and Williams Avenue.

9:45 a.m. Lee and Longstreet at Odds with Troy Harman. Meet at the Peach Orchard. Park on North Sickles or United States Avenue. Do not park on Wheatfield Road.

10:30 a.m. First Fire on East Cavalry Field with Chuck Teague. Meet at the Ranger Program sign on Confederate Cavalry Avenue.

Park on Confederate Cavalry Avenue.

11:45 a.m. Alexander Hays and the Fight for the Bliss Farm with Nate Hess.

Meet at the Abraham Brian Farm. Park on Hancock Avenue.

1 p.m. Alonzo Cushing and the Cannonade with Bert Barnett. Meet at the High Water Mark, Auto Tour Stop 15. Park on Hancock Avenue.

3:30 p.m. Alexander Webb and the Defense of Cemetery Ridge with Emma Murphy. Meet at the Meade Equestrian Monument. Park on Hancock Avenue or in the National Cemetery Parking Lot.

BATTLEFIELDS

Battle Walk, 2-3 hours 3:30 p.m. After the Storm: Gettysburg’s Experience with Dan Welch. Meet at the Mississippi Monument on West Confederate Avenue.

Campfire at Pitzer Woods 8:30 p.m. at the Pitzer Woods Amphitheater. “Voices of the Aftermath” with Caitlin Kostic.

Period Music Muster Set For Aug. 14, 15 The 20th Annual Civil War Music Muster will feature free performances at three venues on Aug. 14 and 15.

Past performers have included period bands, fife and drum corps, vocal and dance groups.

Performances begin Friday afternoon at the Gettysburg National Military Park Museum and Visitor Center.

Saturday concerts will be outdoors at the visitor center and the Dobbin House Courtyard. The event closes with an early evening concert at the Pennsylvania Memorial.

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TANEYTOWN ROAD GATEWAY — Gettysburg National Military Park will rebuild the 1923 gates to Hancock Avenue, shown above, as part of its Cemetery Ridge rehabilitation. The footing of the old gate is still visible and many of the original stones will be used to rebuild it. The rehab follows removal of the old visitor center, cyclorama center and parking lots. Hancock Avenue’s first entrance was an opening in the stone wall. A wood and wire gate was added in 1882. In 1896 iron fencing from Lafayette Square Park in Washington, D.C., was used. That fencing now forms the boundary between Evergreen Cemetery and the Soldiers’ National Cemetery.

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Gen. Samuel Crawford Fought & Saved Land At Gettysburg

By Carl L. Sell Jr. There were plenty of Union heroes at Gettysburg during July 1-3 of 1863, but it is what he did after the war that deserved special mention for Brig. Gen. Samuel Wylie Crawford of the Pennsylvania Reserves, 3rd Division, 5th Corps, United States Army.

Crawford, who led his troops in engagements that helped turn the tide for the Union at Little Round Top on the afternoon of July 2 and the morning of July 3, is honored for his heroics there with a 12-foot high statue mounted on a 3-foot base of stone from his nearby native Franklin County, Pennsylvania.

The statue sculpted by Ron Tunison stands on Crawford Avenue on 49 acres purchased by Crawford to memorialize the Pennsylvanians’ help in holding the line on July 2. Crawford then led a dramatic charge early on July 3 that some historians say resulted in the Union victory when defeat seemed imminent.

Crawford and Brig.

Gen. Gouverneur Warren are the Union generals honored with statues at Little Round Top. Warren realized Little Round Top, a strategic site overlooking the Union’s entire left flank, was unoccupied early on July 2 and rushed troops there just before a Confederate charge.

Col. Joshua Chamberlain of the 20th Maine received the Medal of Honor for his efforts there. Chamberlain led the attack that blunted the Confederates’ charge. Those actions came before Crawford arrived, apparently held the line, and pushed the Confederates back from the approaches to the little mountain the next morning.

The Crawford statue was erected in

1988, long after supporters and detractors had faded away, and history was the only benchmark remaining.

Crawford’s statue was funded through a combination of fundraising and a large grant from the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.

It previously was a victim of the Depression when the project was suspended for lack of funds during the 1930s. Warren’s statue had been erected 100 years earlier.

Gettysburg is one of the numerous milestones in Crawford’s military career. He was one of a handful of Union officers to be at both the beginning of the war at Fort Sumter, S.C., and the Confederate surrender at Appomattox in April 1865.

He commanded several guns despite being on the medical staff at Fort Sumter during the 49-hour barrage before the fort surrendered to the Confederates on April 13, 1861.

Although on duty at Appomattox April 9, 1865, he was not in the McLean House room during the actual surrender ceremony.

Crawford was involved in an interesting exchange with former army colleague Confederate Maj. Gen. Jeb Stuart after a Union defeat at Cedar Mountain in Virginia on Aug. 9, 1862.

Crawford’s forces had been routed by a vicious counterattack led by Stonewall Jackson after the Federals had punished the Confederates in the initial charge.

Stuart arrived the next day as dead and wounded were removed under a flag of truce. He met Crawford and remarked that the New York Herald no doubt would credit Cedar Mountain as a Union victory.

Brig. Gen. Samuel Crawford. A statue of Crawford was erected in 1988 on Crawford Avenue in Plum Run Valley, the Valley of Death, between Devil’s Den and Little Round Top. (Library of Congress) Crawford said he didn’t think the battle would be reported that way, but Stuart told his Union adversary that it would and said that he expected a new hat if he was right. A few days later, a new hat wrapped in a copy of the Herald arrived at Stuart’s headquarters.

On Aug. 18, Stuart left the hat, gloves and other items behind as he beat a hasty retreat to escape capture by a Union cavalry reconnaissance patrol at Verdiersville, Va. On Aug 22, Stuart’s forces made off with Union Maj. Gen John Pope’s coat when they raided a Union supply depot at Catlett’s Station.

Stuart suggested a trade with Pope, but it never happened.

Born in 1829, Crawford graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 1846. He earned a medical degree at

Penn a year later and joined the army as an assistant surgeon. After Fort Sumter, he accepted a commission as a major in the infantry.

Crawford was wounded in the thigh at Antietam in September 1862, and didn’t return to duty until May 1863 as commander of the Pennsylvania Reserves in the Defenses of Washington. These troops arrived at McSherrystown near Gettysburg on July 1.

At Gettysburg, Crawford’s official report stated that his force was ordered into action at daylight on July 2. By noon, they had reached the Gettysburg and Hanover Turnpike and were ordered into action at 2 o’clock.

The Federals already there had encountered a heavy Confederate attack and were forced to fall back, streaming through the Pennsylvania Volunteers’ lines, according to Crawford.

The Pennsylvania Volunteers rushed down the slopes and pushed the Confederates back behind a stone wall on July 2. The next day, Crawford ordered and led a charge by grabbing a flag from a surprised color bearer.

They advanced, capturing 200 Georgians and forcing a Texas unit to retreat into the main Confederate lines.

Crawford reported that his troops collected 1,151 rifles left behind by the retreating Confederates.

Crawford also was involved in the battle that led to the removal of Warren from command after a Union victory on April 1, 1865, at Five Forks in Virginia, eight days before the surrender at Appomattox.

Warren was removed by Maj. Gen. Philip Sheridan, commander of Union Cavalry in the Army of the Potomac,

with approval from overall commander U.S. Grant. Sheridan apparently felt Warren and his command had been overcautious in committing his infantry troops, including Crawford’s Division, to battle in support of Sheridan’s cavalry.

However, the order for dismissal assigned no cause, according to Warren, and he petitioned for a Court of Inquiry.

After a long delay, President Rutherford B. Hayes ordered the Court of Inquiry in December 1879. Crawford was among those named to be called as witnesses for Warren.

He had commanded a division on the right flank of Warren’s 5th Corps at Five Forks and had penetrated the Confederates’ line to almost encircle the Confederate defenders, causing the surrender of thousands of troops.

Among those who also sided with Warren was Chamberlain, who had shared glory with him at Gettysburg.

The Court deliberated until November 1882 when it exonerated Warren of all major accusations at Five Forks.

Unfortunately, Warren had died three months earlier.

Crawford died in 1892 and is buried in Philadelphia’s Laurel Hill Cemetery.

His headstone is inscribed “Fort Sumter.

Gettysburg.” above his rank, name, birth and death dates.

The author’s great-grandfather was one of the thousands of Confederates captured by the Union 5th Corps at Five Forks. Pvt. James Farthing of the 38th and 53rd Virginia Infantry units was wounded as part of Pickett’s Charge at Gettysburg. His service is the basis of Sell’s book, Thank God He Survived Pickett’s Charge.

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Cannon Repair Shop Will Have New Space At Old Armory The Gettysburg National Military Park cannon shop is on the move.

It is moving toward completion of the goal to restore the park’s more than 400 battlefield cast iron carriages and it will be moving into a new shop.

Park management assistant Katie Lawhon recently said the shop was working on cannon carriages 336, 337 and 338. The major move of tools, equipment and carriages to the new shop was expected to take place in June.

Thanks to the Gettysburg Foundation, which Lawhon said is funding the majority of the costs, the cannon shop’s new home will be the former three-bay garage at the Pennsylvania National Guard Armory that was closed in 2010.

Last year the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania donated the 3.67-acre West Confederate Avenue armory property, which is within park boundaries, to the Foundation.

The Foundation is raising funds for the armory renovation project, which

Brian Knepper works on the wheel of a cast iron carriage.

(Gettysburg NMP) will be completed in phases, the first for the carriage restoration. of which is the cannon shop. The According to the park, from 1895 Foundation has been paying $30,000 a through about 1910 the War year to rent shop space in Gettysburg Department bought iron carriages to

replaced deteriorated original wooden carriages. They were manufactured in the local foundry of Calvin Gilbert.

After more than 100 years in the weather the iron carriages need work.

Staff and volunteers sandblast them to remove primer coats of paint put on in the 1990s after lead paint was removed.

Carriage hardware such as sponge chain hasps, elevating screws and prolonge hooks are taken off. Missing hardware is replaced and damaged wheels are removed, if necessary, for welding repairs.

Each carriage is painted with two coats of primer and two coats of the period olive drab, which the park calls “Gettysburg artillery green.” The metal hardware is painted black as it was originally.

For four years of carriage restoration before 1999 the Friends of the National Parks at Gettysburg had helped pay for sandblasting, which was done in Mechanicsburg.

Carriage restoration was hampered by lack of maintenance shop space in

which to weld and paint at the same time and to store carriages after they were returned from sandblasting.

The Friends, now part of the Gettysburg Foundation, opened a three-bay cannon shop in former factory space in January 1999 and has paid the rent since.

After the Foundation restores the main armory building, park offices that are in five locations throughout the park will move there and the property will be given to the National Park Service.

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This photo of the Spangler Farm was taken in the 1890s.

Gen. Lewis A. Armistead died at the Spangler Farm on July 5, 1863. Two days earlier he led his Virginia brigade during the Pickett-Pettigrew-Trimble assault — Pickett’s Charge — against the Union line. Waving his sword with his hat at the tip, he crossed the stone wall at the angle. His hand was on a Union cannon when he was mortally wounded.

(Gettysburg Foundation)

Spangler Farm Field Hospital Open Weekends The historic George Spangler Farm Civil War Field Hospital Site is open to visitors through Aug. 16 on Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., with four new interpretive programs.

The George Spangler Farm is one of Gettysburg Battlefield’s best examples of a Civil War field hospital. More than 1,900 men were treated there. Among them was Confederate Brig. Gen. Lewis A. Armistead. He died two days after

leading his Virginia brigade across the stone wall at the angle where he was mortally wounded during the Pickett-Pettigrew-Trimble assault.

The Gettysburg Foundation and the National Park Service (NPS) are offering four half-hour programs that relate the stories of the Spangler family, the fighting, medical care and the dead. “George Spangler Family at Work� is a living history program at 10:15 a.m. that demonstrates trades of the

period and civilian life at the farm. “Manning the Guns: Artillery at the Spangler Farm� at 11:15 a.m. gives visitors a chance to join NPS living historians and discover the experiences of Civil War artillerists by becoming a cannon crew member.

More than 100 Union cannon occupied the fields surrounding the George Spangler Farm during the Battle of Gettysburg. “An Army Field Hospital: The George Spangler Farm� at 12:15

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features the field hospital set up at the Spangler Farm. “The Last Full Measure: The Dead at the Spangler Farm� at 1:15 p.m. explores the site of the Spangler Farm field hospital cemetery and the stories of those buried there.

Visitors to the farm can learn about period farm life, artillery, medicine and field hospital systems, soldier burials and more with NPS interpretive rangers and living historians who tell about the soldiers, officers, surgeons, chaplains and civilians connected to the farm.

Through donations which helped

the Gettysburg Foundation purchase the 80-acre property within the park boundary, the Spangler Farm’s authenticity remains intact and its future has been secured.

Access to the farm is provided by shuttle bus only from the Gettysburg National Military Park Museum & Visitor Center. Shuttle tickets are required and are sold at the lobby ticket counter. Adults are $5, ages 612 are $2.

For information about the George Spangler Farm to go www.gettysburgfoundation.org/span gler

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Group’s Members Dance & More For Gettysburg Battlefield The Civil War Dance Foundation (CWDF) is committed to helping preserve Gettysburg National Military Park and to encourage visitors to the battlefield.

Since 2004 the Foundation’s performing troupe, the Victorian Dance Ensemble (VDE), has conducted a Civil War Preservation Ball to raise money for the Pennsylvania Gettysburg Monument Project. This year’s ball raised $7,000, bringing the 12-year total to $82,000.

The CWDF also provides special interactive programs for Gettysburg

National Military Park and the Gettysburg Foundation.

The Victorian Dance Ensemble has presented dance demonstrations with audience participation for the Annual Civil War Music Muster since 1999 and will be performing again on Aug. 15. Earlier this year, the VDE taught Civil War dances for the park’s homeschool days. The dancers have also conducted balls and dance demonstrations for the Gettysburg Foundation at the park visitor center since it opened in 2008.

Several times a year, the CWDF’s

Civil War Dance Foundation Ordnance Detachment members Keith Foote, Tyrone Cornbower and Don Becker assist with the “Guns of Gettysburg” display at the park visitor center. Original weapons are available for close inspection and light handling.

(CWDF)

Ordnance Detachment displays original Civil War weapons, including the types of muskets, rifle-muskets, rifles, carbines, revolvers and various edged weapons used at Gettysburg. They are available for visitors to closely inspect and lightly handle.

The exhibit also includes information on the role of women and children in the manufacturing of ammunition and the hundreds who died doing that dangerous work.

The CWDF’s Ladies Union Relief Association displays civilian artifacts, presents living history programs about civilian aid societies, and recreates Christmas in the 1860s, including activities for children, for the Gettysburg Foundation.

In February, the CWDF added a new program, displaying “The Colors of the Blue,” a collection of high-quality reproduction Union Army flags. The display included various designs of national and regimental colors and the headquarter flag system that was used for the first time at Gettysburg.

The March 21 preservation ball attracted dancers from Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Virginia and West Virginia to “dance for preservation” in the rotunda of the Pennsylvania Capitol Building. The Victorian Dance Ensemble provided dance instruction with music by the Philadelphia Brigade Band.

Arriving guests were greeted by the Boy Scouts of America Venture Crew 1861 Fife and Drum Corps portraying the Civil War Field Music of the 1st Pennsylvania Reserve Volunteer

More than 175 people from eight states came to “dance for preservation” in the Pennsylvania State Capitol Rotunda. They raised $7,000 for Pennsylvania monument preservation at Gettysburg National Military Park. Civil War Dance Foundation members Dan Meyers and Annette Keener-Farley chassez down the line during the Virginia Reel at the Civil War Preservation Ball.

(CWDF)

Corps. The Scouts also provided music during the intermission.

Special guests included Ed Clark, Superintendent of Gettysburg National Military Park; Joanne Hanley, president of the Gettysburg Foundation; Barbara Mowery, president of the Gettysburg Battlefield Preservation Association; State Representative Harry Readshaw, founder of the Pennsylvania Gettysburg Monument Project; State Representative Dan Moul of Gettysburg; President Abraham Lincoln, in the person of James Getty;

and Pennsylvania’s Civil War Governor Andrew Curtin portrayed by David Klinepeter.

The Civil War Dance Foundation will lead the dancing at the National Civil War Ball on Remembrance Day, Nov. 21. The ball, sponsored by the Sons of Veterans Reserve, the Military Department of the Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War, has raised over $77,000 for Gettysburg National Military Park.

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Ford Motor Co. To Host Free Events Aug. 8 The Ford Motor Company Fund is sponsoring a day of designated free educational programs on Aug. 8 at the Gettysburg National Military Park Museum & Visitor Center, in collaboration with the Gettysburg Foundation and Gettysburg National Military Park.

The Ford Motor Company Fund Education Center at Gettysburg provides classroom space and learning resources for park visitors.

The Aug. 8 free programs include the cyclorama, film and museum with timed tickets from the visitor center ticketing counter from 8:15 a.m. to 5:15 p.m.

Half-hour interactive programs with a Licensed Battlefield Guide will be at 10:30, 11:30, 1 and 2 in the Ford Center.

From 10-4 the Family Activities Tent at the visitor center front entrance will offer special programs and hands-on history activities for kids through a variety of history stations. Children will receive keepsakes of this event.

Period music from various entertainers will be performed from 10-2 outdoors.

From 11-3 at the outdoor Ranger Site 3 free scoops of Mr. G’s ice cream will be served. Specially priced picnic lunches will be available from 11-2 on the patio outside of the Refreshment Saloon.

Gettysburg National Military Park Museum & Visitor Center is open from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m.

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Daniel Lady Farm Offers Weekend Programs Living history is featured at the Daniel Lady Farm every weekend for the rest of the year, culminating with “Christmas on the Farm” in December.

The Gettysburg Battled Preservation Association (GBPA) owns and maintains the farm at 986 Hanover Rd. with the help of volunteers and members of the American Living History Education Society.

The lower level of the restored 1843 barn represents the Confederate field hospital that treated soldiers from the army’s left flank there. A beam still holds a chunk of Union artillery shrapnel.

The front room of the house features an improvised operating table on which Confederate officers were treated. The floor around the table remains marked by blood stains.

Visitors can tour the restored and furnished farmhouse with Mr. and Mrs. Lady. Visiting living historians on various days will demonstrate aspects of 1863 life such as dressmaking, quilting, blacksmithing, cooking, religious preaching and nursing.

Union and Confederate generals are expected to drop by to address the strategy and tactics exercised at Gettysburg.

Special events include the Aug. 1516 “Gettysburg – The Aftermath” weekend featuring military, local civilians and aid volunteers caring for wounded after the armies were gone.

An “American Colonial Timeline” will be hosted Sept. 5-7. A special Thanksgiving program featuring soldiers and civilians will be held Nov. 28.

The Daniel Lady Farm will be part of the annual Holiday House Tour sponsored by the Inns of Gettysburg Association on Dec. 12 (www.gettysburgbedandbreakfast.co m) to benefit a food pantry and homeless shelter.

The Lady farmhouse will show period decorations for the annual “Christmas on the Farm” on Dec. 19 and 20.

During the summer the GBPA plans to build a classroom adjacent to a shed between the house and barn, on the footprint of a three-bay 1950s

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In addition to being available for seminars and meetings, the new room will be used for living history presentations. The goal is to dedicate it on Nov. 21.

(Beth Godin)

Tour hours are 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Saturdays and Sundays. All-day passes to the house and barn, including events, is $10 per person age 16 and older.

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Brief 1922 Description About Lutheran Theological Seminary From Peoples Pictorial Edition The Blue and Gray, A History of the Conflicts During Lee’s Invasion and Battle of Gettysburg Replete with incidents. containing Colored Maps and Complete Roster of the Armies.

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SEMINARY RIDGE MUSEUM — The museum’s home is the storied 1832 Schmucker Hall, formerly Lutheran Theological Seminary’s “Old Dorm.” It is named for Samuel S. Schmucker, a seminary founder.

With five stories commanding the ridge, the building stood higher than any other in town. On July 1, 1863, U.S. Brig. Gen. John Buford saw the advancing Confederates from the building’s cupola. Confederates occupied the building from July 1-4. The dorm was the first local building, and the largest, used as a field hospital, housing more than 600 wounded who remained until the middle of September. The cupola and building were featured in the film “Gettysburg.” Group tours were offered for the first time in 2006.

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The Seminary of the General Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in the United States, founded in 1826, is an able officered institution of high rank. It is from this seminary that the ridge receives the appellation by which it is generally known.

This building figured conspicuously in the battle as a prominent point.

Beneath the shadow of its consecrated walls the noble 1st corps, on the first of July, 1863, struggled for weary hours to hold the line against the overwhelming masses in gray that were surging upon them.

At its very portals many of the boys in blue fell dead or sorely wounded.

From its groves and lawns, Confederate cannon belched forth death.

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After the battle it was for many weary weeks a hospital (as was indeed every prominent building in Gettysburg and vicinity), from every room of which resounded the groans of agony and pain.

Within its walls the Blue and Gray were impartially nursed by tender hands to a new lease of life, whilst there many brave men breathed their last, far from their loved homes amid northern hills, or on western prairie, or sunny southern plain.

In this building the valiant Kemper and the chivalrous Trimble, both sorely wounded prisoners in the land they had hoped to prostrate before the arms of the Confederacy.

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DEVIL’S DEN — Raphael Tuck & Son of London, “art publishers to their majesties the king and queen,” published this postcard photochromed in Saxony in the early 1900s. It reads: “DEVIL’S DEN. This wild, weird spot consists of a most wonderful aggregation of massive rocks, rent with chasms and riddled with bullet marks. During the battle, it was the scene of a desperate fight, which left the rocks piled with the dead and wounded. General Sickles’ line rested here on the way to Round Top.”

Heritage Center To Host Talks By Historians, Artists The Gettysburg Heritage Center will host several authors and artists from July 2–5.

Among those scheduled is Lt. Col. (ret.) Ralph Peters of Fox News, author of Cain at Gettysburg, Hell or Richmond and, most recently, Valley of the Shadow.

His 7 p.m. July 3 talk on “Decision in the Shenandoah: Sheridan vs.

Early” will be followed by a book signing.

On July 4 from 10 to 4 sculptor Andrew Chernak will meet visitors and show his pewter collection and Victorian hair jeweler Lucy Cadwallader will display and sell her hair jewelry.

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Petruzzi, Stanley, Ryan and Peters on July 3.

On July 4 Chris Brennamen, John Archer, Varney, Petruzzi and Stanley will speak. July 5 speakers are Ed Alexander, Varney and Archer.

Additional authors may be added to the schedule. Books and artwork can be pre-ordered.

Through Labor Day the Heritage Center is holding Saturday Spotlight Programs with licensed battlefield guides, first-person interpreters, musicians and historians giving programs on specific areas of Civil War history. Tickets are required.

On the second Saturday of each month, in honor of the 100th anniversary of the Licensed Battlefield Guides, a guide will give the spotlight program.

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2015 W. Britain Model Figure Symposium Gettysburg, Pennsylvania • July 24-26, 2015 We are very pleased to announce our 2nd annual W. Britain Model Figure Symposium in historic Gettysburg Pennsylvania.

Please consider joining us to talk about history and miniatures again at the Wyndham Hotel on July 24, 25 & 26, 2015. This year we have a great line up of speakers giving the history behind the miniatures.

Rick Musselman: “An Army Travels on its Stomach” Rick has a degree in History from Ohio State University and is the Education Supervisor at Carriage Hill Historic Site, Dayton Ohio. Rick has extensive hands-on experience with 19th century agriculture and food ways.

Robert Bradley: “Tattered Banners: Alabama’s Civil War Flags” Robert Bradley is Curator of History for the Alabama Department of Archives and History in Montgomery, Alabama.

Robert has spent his life in the study of the American Civil War and has focused on the restoration of the Civil War flags of the State of Alabama.

Dr. Craig Sheldon: “Playing Both Sides: Native Americans and their interactions with both the French and British in the Eighteenth Century” Former Head of the Department of Sociology at Auburn University Montgomery, Dr. Sheldon is nationally recognized as a leading expert in Native American archeology having spent 3 decades researching historic Indians.

Les Jensen: “What Johnny Reb Wore: a Look at Confederate Uniforms” Les Jensen is the Curator of Arms and Armor at the West Point Museum & author of Johnny Reb: The Uniform of the Confederate Army, 1861-1865. Les is also the serving President of the Company of Military Historians.

Kevin Hampton: Kevin will be one of the hosts on the Sunday Bus Tour of the battlefield.

Kevin Hampton is Curator of Research & Public Programs Kevin Hampton serves at The Wisconsin Veterans Museum.

He earned a degree in History from the University of St. Thomas, in St. Paul, MN, and has been involved with living-history programs across the Midwest and the East Coast since 2000. The WVM has an extensive collection of original Civil War documents, flag, uniform and other related artifacts.

Kenneth Osen: “Uniforms: what do they represent and where did they come from?”

Kenneth Osen is the General Manager & Creative Director of W. Britain toy and model figure company, which is now in its 122nd year of operation. He has been involved in museum model research, design and construction for over 25 years with work exhibited in several museums in the U.S. He has also been instrumental in using primary research material to design and develop products made for the collectible miniatures industry.

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Work Continues To Bring Back 1863 Cemetery Ridge A National Park Service Centennial Challenge Grant of $600,000 will be matched with $700,000 from the Gettysburg Foundation to rehabilitate Cemetery Ridge, site of the old visitor center and cyclorama building. The project will be completed in early 2017.

Earlier restoration work funded by the Gettysburg Foundation includes the 2009 demolition of the old visitor center that was on the Ziegler’s Grove portion of Cemetery Ridge. The new

Gettysburg National Military Park Museum and Visitor Center had opened off the Baltimore Pike a year earlier.

In 2013 the cyclorama building was demolished. Removal of the former visitor center parking lot and restoration with grass and fencing took place in 2014.

The goal of all this work is to return the center of the Union battle line to its 1863 appearance. In addition, monuments placed by veteran groups that

were moved because of cyclorama building and parking lot construction in the early 1960s will be returned to their original positions.

The National Cemetery parking lot at the former cyclorama site will be made smaller. This will allow the replanting of missing portions of Ziegler’s Grove. The plan is to add some 125 trees of mixed species, including black cherry, red and white oaks, shagbark hickory, black gum and honey locust.

The smaller parking area will allow restoration of the Ziegler’s Ravine terrain. The ravine was a low point in

Cemetery Ridge that was partly filled in to build the cyclorama parking area.

The parking lot change will also restore Hancock Avenue’s end at Taneytown Road. The avenue will follow the ravine dip and rise for an approximately six foot change in elevation.

The Cemetery Ridge restoration will include reconstructing a commemorative era crushed stone pathway and stone walls.

Monuments to Battery F, 5th U.S. Artillery Battery, 90th Pennsylvania Infantry, 88th Pennsylvania, 12th Massachusetts Infantry and the 1st Massachusetts Sharpshooters position

marker will be returned to their historic locations.

Some were not moved far, but the 5th U.S. Artillery tablet site was covered in concrete. Last September park staff returned it to its original place.

According to the park, during Pickett’s Charge, the left flank of Gen. James Pettigrew’s division engaged Union forces in Ziegler’s Grove.

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November Lincoln Forum To Focus On 1865 Sept. Ride To Gettysburg The Lincoln Forum will end its focus on the Civil War sesquicentennial, which began in 2010 with the 150th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln’s election, at the Nov. 16-18 symposium dedicated to “1865: Triumph and Tragedy,” at the Wyndham Gettysburg Hotel.

The symposium will feature leading scholars and historians, lunches and dinners, panels, small discussion groups, music, special events and a battlefield tour.

The event will also mark the 20th anniversary of The Lincoln Forum itself, a milestone that will be noted with commemorative reflections and celebrations, highlighted by a Nov. 18 gala performance by the U.S. Army Chorus.

Lincoln Forum XX will focus primarily on the three major events of the Civil War’s final months: passage of the Congressional authorization of the 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution ending slavery; the conclusion of the four years of fighting between Union and Confederate armed forces; and the assassination and martyrdom of Abraham Lincoln, and the pursuit and capture of his murderer, John Wilkes Booth.

Major evening speakers include William C. Davis, author of Crucible of Command, a joint biography of Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee, speaking on “Grant and Lee: The Generals Nobody Knows”; and James L. Swanson, author of Manhunt: The 12-Day Chase for Lincoln’s Killer, who will give a dinner

lecture on “The Lincoln and Kennedy Assassinations Compared.”

Other Forum speakers are Terry Alford, author of Fortune’s Fool, the first full-scale biography of John Wilkes Booth; Richard Wightman Fox, author of Lincoln’s Body: A Cultural History, on Lincoln’s April 4, 1865 visit to Richmond; Edna Greene Medford of Howard University, on “Emancipation after Appomattox”; And, Michael Vorenberg of Brown University, “The Last Surrender: Looking for the End of the Civil War”; James B. Conroy, author of Our One Common Country: Abraham Lincoln and the Hampton Roads Peace Conference of 1865; and Elizabeth R. Varon, author of Appomattox: Victory, Defeat, and Freedom at the End of the Civil War. “This will be a highly focused but particularly dazzling symposium,” said Hon. Frank J. Williams, the Forum’s founding chairman. “Now it is time to recall the extraordinary, tragic, and inspiring final days of the conflict. It is altogether fitting and proper that we reach the summit together with sessions devoted to peace, freedom, and martyrdom.”

Williams will host one of the two major panels, “Why Was Lincoln Murdered?” which will feature Terry Alford, John McKee Barr (Loathing Lincoln: An American Tradition from the Civil War to the Present), Martha Hodes (Mourning Lincoln), Joan Chaconas of the Surratt Society, and

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Harold Holzer, Forum founding vice chairman, will moderate the panel, “‘A King’s Cure’ in Film and Fact: Lincoln, Spielberg, and the 13th Amendment.”

This panel on memory will include speakers Michael Vorenberg, Richard Wightman Fox and Edna Greene Medford. The title comes from Lincoln’s reference to the 13th Amendment as a “king’s cure” for the evils of slavery.

The Forum will again present the annual Richard Nelson Current Award for achievement by individuals in the Lincoln and Civil War fields and the Wendy Allen Award for institutions that contribute to and encourage public interest in Civil War and Lincoln studies.

Two of the premier Lincoln portrayers will speak. James Getty, winner of last year’s Current Award, will deliver the second inaugural. George Buss will present highlights from Lincoln’s last speech, the oration John Wilkes Booth heard from the White House lawn on April 11, 1865, vowing that it would be “the last speech he will ever make.”

The Forum’s final afternoon will feature small sessions: a new edition of “Cooking with the Chief and the Chef,” with Chief Justice Frank Williams and Wyndham executive chef Claude Rodier; the debut of Civil War-era dancing with the Victorian Dance Ensemble; And breakout sessions with historians and small audiences: Harold Holzer with Martha Hodes; Terry Alford, John Barr and Edward Steers Jr.; Edna Greene Medford and Richard Wightman Fox; and a discussion between a major Lincoln dealer and major Lincoln collector, Daniel Weinberg and Stuart Schneider, respectively.

Registration forms have been sent to current Forum members. The Wyndham Hotel is offering special room rates. For information contact Jerry Desko or Betty Anselmo at admin@thelincolnforum.org or visit www.thelincolnforum.org

To Honor Jennifer LeVan The 15th annual Pennsylvania A.B.A.T.E. (Alliance of Bikers Aimed toward Education) Ride to Gettysburg on Sept. 26 will memorialize a local resident as well as the soldiers of the North and South who fought and died in Gettysburg.

This year’s ride will be dedicated to memory of Jennifer LeVan. For 13 years she and her husband David were major supporters of the A.B.A.T.E. ride from the Harrisburg State Capitol building to their Battlefield HarleyDavidson business in Gettysburg. They hosted a barbecue with music and recognition ceremony after the ride.

The rides raised more than $150,000 to benefit the Pennsylvania Gettysburg Monuments Project and preservation of the historic Daniel Lady Farm owned by the Gettysburg Battlefield Preservation Association (GBPA).

Jennifer LeVan died of breast cancer in February at age 56. She and her husband founded Battlefield HarleyDavidson in 2000 after a motorcycle tour to Europe and their move to Gettysburg, where he grew up.

Their local philanthropic interests included restoration of the Majestic Theatre and Lincoln Train Station and an endowed chair at Gettysburg College.

The Pennsylvania Gettysburg Monuments Project was founded by state Rep. Harry Readshaw, DAllegheny, in 1997 to repair and maintain the more than 140 monuments and markers commemorating Pennsylvanians at the 1863 Gettysburg battle.

The Jennifer LeVan commemorative T-shirt will be sold at the annual preservation Ride to Gettysburg.

All sales proceeds from a T-shirt featuring a picture of Jennifer LeVan will go to the Gettysburg Battlefield Trust Fund. The endowment was created in 2003 to provide a perpetual fund for periodic cleaning of the Pennsylvania memorials.

“Jennifer LeVan was dedicated to the preservation of Gettysburg’s legacy and the betterment of today’s Gettysburg community and its people,” said GBPA president Barb Mowery.

“Through her spirit and generosity, she has become part of that great legacy.”

State Reps. Bryan Barbin, DCambria/Somerset, and Mark Keller, R-Cumberland/Perry, will be marshals for the September ride.

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Tons Of Park Metal Were Donated To 1942 World War II Scrap Drives Excerpt from Jan. 26, 2013, GNMP blog at http://npsgnmp.wordpress.com about the park’s contribution to World War II scrap metal drives to provide material for tanks, ships, planes and other equipment.

As the Oct. 13, 1942, letter below from park Supt. J. Walter Coleman to the National Park Service director indicates, GNMP made a significant contribution to the war effort: We are enclosing herewith a newspaper clipping and photographs pertaining to our contributions to the salvage drive. This was handled by sale to the highest bidder because of the difficulty and expense which would have been involved if we had transported it ourselves.

A portion of this metal was sold on September 11 and consisted of 18 tons of miscellaneous metal, obsolete

signs, iron fence, and worn out equipment. At the same time, and in addition to the 18 tons, we sold a pick-up truck, one motorcycle, one tar heater, one sedan, and one panel-body truck.

Having later received clearance for the disposition of the ornamental cannon balls removed from the field about eight years ago, we awarded a contract for this metal on October 7.

This metal weighed approximately 38 tons.

The cannon balls were almost entirely of a type larger than any used at Gettysburg, were cast after the Civil War, and were placed on stone pedestals along the park roads.

We have continued our survey of metal that might be contributed and we have decided that a portion of the pyramidal piles of round and cylindrical shells placed beside each cannon on the field can be removed without serious interference with the visitor’s understanding of the battle.

Most of our cannon on the field occur in pairs or larger groups and it is our intention to remove half the shell pyramids. The survey indicates that 194 piles, weighing a total of approximately 60,000 pounds can be obtained.

The metal markers on this field indicate definite troop positions and are not primarily interpretive or story telling. Most of them are bronze markers on granite pedestals and we do not believe that they should be disturbed if this action can be avoided.

There are, however, 19 Union and Confederate bronze itinerary tablets which could be replaced with a simple painted sign and map. If the shortage of bronze becomes more acute, these tablets may be turned in. If you wish us to do this at once, please do advise.

According to present indications, our total contributions should be in excess of 200,000 pounds of metal.

BRIAN FARM ON TOUR — Visitors on the park’s new “Trials and Triumphs: Gettysburg’s Farm Families” interpretive tour program can visit the restored Abram Brian (Bryan) farm for the first time. It is at the northern end of Hancock Avenue on Cemetery Ridge. A free black born to slave parents in 1807, Brian owned a 12-acre farm in Gettysburg. It was one of the most heavily damaged properties, being in the center of the Union line. Read about it and see more photos at the May 15 Gettysburg park blog, “Trials and Triumphs: A New Opportunity to Explore the Abram Brian Farm,” at https://npsgnmp.wordpress.com.

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Dedication & Remembrance Day Events In November Nov. 16-18 Lincoln Forum: 20th annual Lincoln Forum at the Wyndham Gettysburg.

Speakers, exhibits, awards. For information, admin@thelincolnforum.org; www.thelincolnforum.org

Nov. 18 Evening Open House: At the David Wills House, Lincoln Square, where President Abraham Lincoln spent the night before the cemetery dedication.

Free. Co-sponsored by the Gettysburg Foundation. Free. For additional information call 717-334-1124, or go to www.nps.gov/gett.

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Meade Symposium: “Reflections on Meade’s decisive role as victorious commander of the Army of the Potomac at Gettysburg” 200th anniversary symposium at Gettysburg Heritage Center, 6:30-9:30 p.m. For information, registration, Stephanie Lightner, 717-3346245, slightNov. 19 ner@gettysburgmuseum.com; Dedication Day: 152nd Anniversary of www.gettysburgmuseum.com the Gettysburg Address with memorial services at Soldiers’ National Dinner & Ball: 13th Annual President’s Cemetery, 10 a.m. Program with Remembrance Day Dinner & Ball, keynote speaker Garrison Keillor, Gettysburg Hotel Main Ballroom. wreath-laying at Soldiers’ National Social hour 5:30, dinner 6:30. Music by Monument, George Buss recitation of The Dodworth Saxhorn Band with Gettysburg Address, naturalization cer- dancemaster Karen Duffy. For informaemony for citizen candidates. tion, www.remembrancedayball.com

Ball: Civil War Lady Friday Evening Remembrance Day Military Ball at Eisenhower Inn, 8 p.m. Beck’s Philadelphia Band with Victorian Dance Ensemble instruction. Period dress, advance tickets required. For ages 13 & up. Hosted by Joy Melcher.

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Nov. 21 Remembrance Day: 59th Annual Remembrance Day Parade and Ceremonies in conjunction with Gettysburg Address anniversary.

Parade 1 p.m. Sponsored by Sons of Veterans Reserve. For information, Brig. Gen. Henry E. Shaw, Jr., 740369-3722, 740-815-3284 (cell), h s h aw @ c o l u m b u s . r r. c o m ; www.suvcw.org.

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Victorian Tea: National Victorian Tea at 1863 Inn of Gettysburg ballroom, 3 p.m. English tea, Victorian menu & entertainment. Period attire & advance tickets required. For ages 13 & up. Hosted by Joy Melcher of Civil War Lady. For information, tickets, 712-310-9383; w w w. C i v i l Wa r L a d y. n e t ; Dinner & Ball: 13th Annual www.GettysburgBall.com President’s Remembrance Day Dinner & Ball, Gettysburg Hotel Soiree: The President’s Soiree at Main Ballroom. Social hour 5:30, Gettysburg Hotel, 3 p.m. Delicacies, dinner 6:30. Music by The Dodworth music, prizes, talk on Elegance & Saxhorn Band with dancemaster Etiquette. $38, ages 12 & up welSusan DeGuardiola. For information, come. Period attire required, limited tickets, John B. Newbold, 717-420availability. Hosted by Grand Civilian 5145, johngetysbg@aol.com, Events. For information, 636-775www.remembrancedayball.com 3330; www.grandcivilianevents.com

Meade Ceremony: Honor & dedication ceremonies for Gen. George Meade, his generals & Gettysburg battle veterans. Meet at Pennsylvania Illumination: 13th Annual Monument 10 a.m., procession to Remembrance Illumination at Soldiers’ National Cemetery, 5:309:30 p.m. Candles on every Civil War grave.

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GBPA Sponsors Venture Crew 1861 Fife and Drum Corps The Gettysburg Battlefield Preservation Association, founded in 1959, is the country’s oldest Civil War battlefield preservation organization — and sponsor of Boy Scouts of America Venture Crew 1861 Fife and Drum Corps.

The co-ed musicians represent the 1st Regiment, Pennsylvania Reserve Volunteer Corps (PRVC), a regiment raised in June 1861, which was taken into the Union army as the 30th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry in late July.

On Memorial Day the scouts and their leaders laid evergreen, laurel and flowers and posted a flag on the unmarked Lancaster, Pa., grave of Thomas Judge who died in 1867 at age 28. They hope to help get a government marker for his grave.

According to advisor Michael Cassidy the young musicians followed traditions proscribed by the short Funeral Ritual of the Grand Army of the Republic. They played Taps on bugle and Civil War fife and drum tunes including “Minstrel Boy” for Judge, the son of an Irish immigrant.

Judge died of rheumatism and consumption contracted in the war. He was buried in St. Mary’s Catholic Cemetery in Lancaster where his family lived in the North East Ward.

He enlisted in June 1861 and served as a musician in Co. B, 1st Regiment, PRVC. Co. B, raised in Lancaster, was known as “The Union Guard” because many of the men were members of Lancaster’s Union Fire Company.

When the regiment was mustered out in 1864, Judge reenlisted in the 195th Pennsylvania and served until 1865. His mother, to whom he sent much of his pay during the war, applied for and received his pension.

Make-A-Wish Child Will Be At Reenactment As in past years, The Regimental Quartermaster of Gettysburg is supplying a uniform so that a Make-AWish child can portray a Civil War Soldier at the annual battle reenactment.

Gettysburg Anniversary Committee is hosting the 152nd anniversary event July 3-5 on Pumping Station Road. Principal and Operations Manager Randy Phiel said the committee is proud to have participated in the Make-A-Wish program for 21 years.

Phiel said the event organizers and military command are honored to play a part fulfilling a child’s wish to dress in period clothing and take the field under appropriate supervision.

“I want to thank our staff media coordinator Andrea DiMartino, commanders Allen Baldwin and Brian Gesuero, reenactors and event principal and sutler George Lomas for making sure each year this wish does come true,” he said.

The Make-A-Wish Foundation grants a wish, on average, every 38 minutes to a child with a life-threatening medical condition. The people involved with the Gettysburg reenactment hope that granting this wish marks a turning point in the recipient child’s fight against illness.

Venture Crew 1861 Fife and Drum Corps members include the Nedrows from Lancaster, Pa., and the Johnstons from Manchester, Md. From left are Ryan Nedrow, Virginia Johnston, Lyndsey and Lauren Nedrow, Elias and Nathaniel Johnston.

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by Venture Crew Associate Advisor Peter Johnston and local researcher Andre Dominguez, Thomas Judge has no living direct or collateral descendants.

The Venture Crew is searching for a living relative in order to apply to the Department of Veterans Affairs for a grave marker. Crew leaders and officers have the research and will help with the application process. If no kin is found the group is looking at other ways to place a permanent marker.

Following the Judge service the Venture Crew musicians moved to the adjoining Lancaster Cemetery to participate in the 126th Annual Memorial Day Service sponsored by Lancaster Camp 19, Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War. Ceremonies began at the GAR lot for indigent veterans, then moved to the grave of Gen. John Reynolds who was killed in the first day’s battle at Gettysburg.

The Boy Scout Fife and Drum Corps was formed in February 2004 by local Boy Scout Troop 53 of Maytown, Pa., and later as Venture Crew 53 to allow both boys and girls to participate.

The Crew rechartered in 2011 as Venture Crew 1861, sponsored by the GBPA in the Scouts’ New Birth of Freedom Council. The group’s mission remains: “To Preserve our Civil War Heritage; To Honor Our Nation’s Veterans; and To Promote the Ideals of Scouting.”

While primarily portraying the Civil War Field Music of the 1st Pennsylvania Reserve Volunteer Corps, the group occasionally

portrays Confederate musicians of Johnson’s Division in Robert E. Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia. They fielded musicians for both sides in

Pickett’s Charge at last year’s battle reenactment.

The “1861” in Venture Crew’s name is significant as it is the year when the original Pennsylvania Reserves were called up by Gov. Andrew Curtin. The 1st Regiment was formed with volunteers from Gettysburg, York, Lancaster and Philadelphia.

The current 20 or so youth members, ages 11- 21, also hail from these counties and surrounding areas in Pennsylvania and Maryland.

They began reenacting at the 145th Anniversary of First Bull Run in 2006 and have participated in numerous living history events, battle reenactments, veterans’ ceremonies, scouting programs, community festivals and parades since then.

They were featured in the August 2007 issue of Boys’ Life magazine participating in Gettysburg’s

Remembrance Day ceremonies. The Corps performed for the 2009 rededication of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C., and for Pennsylvania’s kick-off of the Civil War sesquicentennial in the State Capitol in 2011.

They closed Pennsylvania’s 150th anniversary observance with the commemoration of the Lincoln Funeral Train’s April 22, 1865, stop in Harrisburg. The group performed at the Preservation Ball in the Pennsylvania State Capitol Rotunda to benefit the Pennsylvania Gettysburg Monument Project and participated in the 150th Anniversary of Lee’s surrender at Appomattox, Va. Information about Venture Crew, its schedule and photos are at fieldmusic.org and on Facebook. GBPA information is at www.gbpa.org

Museum Exhibit On Gen. Albion Howe The Gettysburg Foundation’s new Exhibit Spotlight gallery in the Gettysburg National Military Park Museum and Visitor Center is showing “Faithful and Efficient General: The Military Service of General Albion Howe” through September. Visitors can see never before exhibited artifacts, including Howe’s presentation sword, ivory silk handkerchiefs and a framed photograph with him on the military commission that tried the Lincoln conspirators. Howe commanded a 6th Corps division at Gettysburg.

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When this circa 1930s photo was taken of the 12th and 44th New York Monument and the 140th New York Infantry monument with a bas relief of Col. Patrick O’Rorke, who died there, Little Round Top had attractive plantings and grass.

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This postcard that was mailed in 1950 shows the Gen. Gouverneur Warren statue at left; the 91st Pennsylvania monument, center; and the battlefield’s largest regimental monument, to the 12th and 44th New York Infantry, at far right.

Draft Report To Address Little Round Top Problems Gettysburg National Military Park’s draft environmental assessment to address overuse, overcrowding and circulation and safety issues at Little Round Top will be released for public review and comment later this year.

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The environmental assessment alternatives “would provide solutions for overuse, overcrowding and landscape degradation and identify appropriate locations for visitor conveniences at the site,” according to the park.

A cultural landscape report prepared in 2012 provided site history, current conditions, analysis and recommendations for the hill that is one of the park’s most visited sites — as many as 10,000 visitors a day during peak periods.

Pedestrians, buses, cars, bicycles and Segways vie for parking and travel space on Sykes Avenue. Seventeen personal injury accidents were reported in the last four years.

Because paved paths are too narrow and too few, pedestrians walk on the ground, creating unpaved paths and leading to erosion and lack of grass and groundcover because of soil compaction.

The park notes that heavy runoff of rain makes some paths gullies during storms and in some areas erosion has exposed roots of large trees.

According to a park summary, the rehabilitation work will include new roadwork, car and bus parking areas, retaining walls, trails, sidewalks, ramps, stairs, accessibility, drainage, retention areas, slope stabilization, erosion control, grading, seeding, plantings, interpretive signs, regulatory signs and other improvements.

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100 Years Of Excellence – Licensed Guiding At Gettysburg

By Linda Clark “See that tree? Same tree.”

During the years shortly after the Centennial of the Battle of Gettysburg, Licensed Battlefield Guide Harold Fry stood on Little Round Top and pointed to an aged tree in the distance that was also visible on a display of a vintage photograph.

That tree had witnessed the Battle of Gettysburg in July of 1863!

Today about 150 Licensed Battlefield Guides provide visitors to the battlefield similar moments of personal inspiration and connections with history.

On Oct. 17, 1915, the first formal guide examination was given, at which time 91 guides were licensed. The need for guides, however, was apparent as soon as the battle ended when a multitude of desperate relatives arrived in search of their fallen soldiers.

Initially local citizens answered the need to help guide these anxious family members. The next flood of visitors arrived in town in November of 1863 for the dedication of the Soldiers’ National Cemetery when President Lincoln delivered his iconic Gettysburg Address.

As the war continued, the number of visitors dwindled, thus the need for guides fell. By the 1880s, however, Union veterans returned to the fields where they valiantly fought to dedicate monuments of remembrance, with guides often meeting groups as they arrived by train.

In an effort to standardize the tour experience for visitors, the initial testing and licensing by the War Department began in 1915. An early fee schedule showed payment of $1.50 for a one- hour tour with an additional dollar for each additional hour.

The image of these professionals remained basically unchanged, with men dressed in paramilitary uniforms conducting tours by a range of

transportation modes including horsedrawn carriage, train, trolley and automobile. An arm patch and service stripes and stars were added to uniform sleeves to show years of service.

In 1933 the National Park Service assumed control of the National Military Park. Guide stations were built by the Civilian Conservation Corps on several of the main roads leading into town.

By the battle centennial in 1963 a new Visitor Center provided a centralized location for obtaining guides, with part-time personnel added to the force

to handle the heavy summer visitation.

In 1968, local resident Barbara Sadler Schutt was the first female to become a Licensed Battlefield Guide (LBG).

More than 600 individuals have earned guide licenses since 1915. They come from a wealth of educational and vocational backgrounds.

The Father of Guiding, William Holtzworth, who actually guided before the examination process, had the privilege of providing President Grover Cleveland with a tour of the battlefield.

In more recent years, Col. Jacob

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Sheads, a veteran of World War II and Gettysburg High School history teacher, had the opportunity to conduct President John F. Kennedy and his wife on a tour.

LBG Robert MacAskill also served as pastor of the local Presbyterian Church where President Abraham Lincoln attended a political service in 1863 and President Dwight Eisenhower and his wife Mamie were members. As their pastor, the Rev. MacAskill performed both of the Eisenhower funeral services.

LBG James Tate, a local resident, recalled listening to Civil War veterans tell their stories as they returned to their field of battle. He served in World War II and as a Battlefield Guide for over 60 years.

Perhaps President Lincoln best explained the passion that LBGs possess for history when he said, “The world…can never forget what they did here…It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us – that from these honored dead we take increased devotion…”

Battlefield Guides are available for tours daily throughout the year. They

invite everyone to become a part of history by experiencing the Battle of Gettysburg with a licensed guide during the Centennial of Guiding at Gettysburg.

Tours are available on a first-come basis at the Visitor Center. However, to ensure a personal tour, particularly on a specific topic of interest, call ahead to the ALBG office to make reservations for an upcoming visit at 717-337-1709.

For rates and more information visit the ALBG website at www.gettysburgtourguides.org.

Perhaps a recent visitor on a tour described the guided tour experience best when he said, “The guide not only filled my head with knowledge. My heart was filled with the emotions of history.”

Linda Clark, author and former teacher/librarian, is a native of Gettysburg and still has a Gettysburg Address. Serving as a part-time Licensed Battlefield Guide since 1979, Linda has met amazing people from around the world, and in the guide room. She is on the Centennial of Licensed Guiding Committee.

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Keillor To Speak At Nov. Dedication Day Garrison Keillor, founder and host of the “A Prairie Home Companion” national weekly public radio program, will give the Nov. 19 Dedication Day keynote address in Soldiers’ National Cemetery.

The day’s events will begin at 10 a.m., with the Dedication Day Program at the rostrum in Soldiers’ National Cemetery, followed by a wreath-laying ceremony at the Soldiers’ National Monument.

Lincoln portrayer George Buss will recite the Gettysburg Address. The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Service will hold a naturalization ceremony for citizen candidates.

On Nov. 19, 1946, a joint resolution of the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives designated the anniversary of the Gettysburg Address and dedication of Soldiers’ National Cemetery as Dedication Day. Since 1938, the Lincoln Fellowship of Pennsylvania has commemorated the address and rededicated the cemetery. The program is now cosponsored by Gettysburg National Military Park, the Gettysburg Foundation and Gettysburg College.

Keillor is the author of numerous books, including several about the town of Lake Wobegon, and a collection of verse, O What A Luxury: Verses Lyrical, Vulgar, Pathetic & Profound.

He said, “It is something of a miracle that the prosperous Illinois railroad lawyer who won the 1860 election turned out to be Abraham Lincoln. He was a better man than anyone knew and a masterful writer,

“A Prairie Home Companion” founder and host Garrison Keillor will speak on Dedication Day, Nov. 19. who gave us the Second Inaugural (“With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right”), and the classic of Gettysburg.”

Keillor noted, “It is his plain humanity that so impresses us today.

He feels like a contemporary.”

Dedication Day is free to the public. A limited number of seats will be available. Lawn chairs are welcome.

Parking is provided at the Gettysburg National Military Park Museum and Visitor Center in Lot #3 with free shuttle service on the Gold Line Shuttle to the cemetery. The Gold Line will operate from 8 a.m. to 6:30 p.m.

In the event of severe inclement weather, the program will be held in the Gettysburg College Union Building Ballroom on West Lincoln Avenue. For more information visit www.lincolnfellowship.org.

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