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Gettysburg National Cemetery is the final resting place for more than 3,500 Union soldiers killed in the Battle of Gettysburg, a Union victory often cited as a turning point in the Civil War. Numerous monuments stand in both the cemetery and battlefield to commemorate the Union and Confederate troops who fought there.
- Gettysburg National Cemetery - Gettysburg National Military ...
1195 Baltimore Pike. Gettysburg, PA 17325.
- Soldiers' National Cemetery - U.S. National Park Service
The cemetery’s annex is located due north of the historic...
- Gettysburg National Cemetery - Gettysburg National Military ...
Gettysburg National Cemetery. / 39.81722°N 77.23194°W / 39.81722; -77.23194. Gettysburg National Cemetery is a United States national cemetery in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania created for Union casualties from the Battle of Gettysburg in the American Civil War.
The Soldiers’ National Cemetery in Gettysburg is some of the most historic and hallowed ground in Pennsylvania. Cemetery Hill, near the site from which Union forces repelled Pickett’s Charge on Cemetery Ridge, was in the months after the Battle of Gettysburg transformed into the final resting place for over 3,000 fallen Union soldiers.
At the cemetery’s dedication, President Lincoln delivered his immortal Gettysburg Address, Nov. 19, 1863. The Lincoln Address Memorial inside the cemetery commemorates the speech. At the cemetery center, the towering Soldiers' National Monument features the figure of Liberty on the pedestal surrounded on the base by War, Clio, (the Muse of ...
In 1872, the Federal government took stewardship of the cemetery and now it remains in the hands of Gettysburg National Military Park. Of the 3,354 bodies buried in the Soldiers’ National Cemetery, 979 are unknown.
