Gettysburg

American  

[get-iz-burg] / ˈgɛt ɪzˌbɜrg /

noun

1. a borough in S Pennsylvania: Confederate forces defeated in a crucial battle of the Civil War fought near here on July 1–3, 1863; national cemetery and military park.

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Gettysburg British  

/ ˈɡɛtɪzˌbɜːɡ /

noun

1. a small town in S Pennsylvania, southwest of Harrisburg: scene of a crucial battle (1863) during the American Civil War, in which Meade's Union forces defeated Lee's Confederate army; site of the national cemetery dedicated by President Lincoln. Pop: 7825 (2003 est)

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“It took more than a decade — and the addition of names such as Antietam, Gettysburg, and Chancellorsville to our national canon — but Douglass’s vision of ‘our common humanity’ would be fulfilled,” he wrote.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 2, 2026

Abraham Lincoln asked the crowd that had marched to the White House to celebrate the twin Union victories in the Civil War, at Gettysburg and Vicksburg.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 1, 2026

So is “four score and seven years” later, when Abraham Lincoln said in the Gettysburg Address that we are a nation “conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 28, 2026

One of the most grotesque displays on view is an albumen print of an 1863 photo titled “A Harvest of Death,” taken by Timothy H. O’Sullivan after the Battle of Gettysburg.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 10, 2026

Out of the gloom of these predictions came the news during early July of Gettysburg, a spot of ground in Pennsylvania that Jethro had never heard of before.

From "Across Five Aprils" by Irene Hunt