[
US
/ˈɡɛtizbɝɡ/
]
NOUN
- a small town in southern Pennsylvania; site of a national cemetery
- a battle of the American Civil War (1863); the defeat of Robert E. Lee's invading Confederate Army was a major victory for the Union
How To Use Gettysburg In A Sentence
- At the beginning of 1887, Welch journeyed to Englewood, Illinois, where he and Twachtman has signed on with a group of other artists to paint a cyclorama of the Battle of Gettysburg.
- For example, downtown Frederick, Md., is within driving distance of several shrines for Civil War enthusiasts, including Gettysburg, Antietam and Harper's Ferry. America's Best Neighborhoods 2010
- In November eighteen sixty-three, President Lincoln traveled to Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. He spoke at the opening of a military cemetery.
- The great debates between Webster and Calhoun over slavery or the Gettysburg Address are simply impossible today.
- The North was ready and the 1913 celebration of the Battle of Gettysburg emerged as nothing less than an intersectional, or better still, national lovefest.
- He graduated last year from the US Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland and is currently ranked as an ensign, having served aboard the USS Gettysburg.
- Eisenhower left the White House and retired to his farm in Gettysburg.
- All reasons for Longstreet's failure to attack during the forenoon are the subject of one of the most familiar controversies of Gettysburg. LEE’S LIEUTENANTS
- His was no Gettysburg Address, to be sure, but compared to some of the stem-winders of history, Mr. Clinton's speech, delivered at a rapid pace, flew by.
- Lincoln was successful in attaining the ideality of the Gettysburg Address.
