Step back into the turbulent summer of 1863 with historian Tim Smith for this special walking tour of the Mary Thompson farm — the site of General Robert E. Lee’s […]
Following the disastrous defeat of the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia at Gettysburg, General Robert E. Lee ordered his men to withdraw across the South Mountain Range into the Cumberland
By Jane Malone Abraham Lincoln died at 7:22 a.m. on Saturday, April 15, 1865. The news of his assassination came in over the telegraph. In Gettysburg, whether one was a
By Jane Malone One of the more curious events that followed the Battle in Gettysburg was the exodus of ministers from the town’s churches in 1863 and 1864. Like most
Artifact of the Month Below is William H. Tipton’s camera—used to take many of the most famous views of the Gettysburg Battlefield. The Adams County Historical Society also has hundreds
Artifact of the Month “This ominous note was left by a Confederate soldier in the 9th Alabama at the farm of George Culp, near Gettysburg. In it, the Alabamian gives
