Gettysburg

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Gettysburg may refer to:

[edit] Events

• Battle of Gettysburg, a battle during the American Civil War that took place at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania on July 1-3, 1863.
• Gettysburg Address, a famous speech made by President Abraham Lincoln at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, a few months after the Battle of Gettysburg.

[edit] Places

• Gettysburg, Pennsylvania
  • Gettysburg Battlefield, the National Military Park administered by the National Park Service.
  • Gettysburg College, a liberal arts college in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.
  • Gettysburg Regional Airport, a general aviation airport in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.
• Gettysburg, South Dakota

[edit] Entertainment

• Gettysburg (film), a 1993 movie portraying the Battle of Gettysburg
• "Gettysburg" (The Outer Limits), an episode of The Outer Limits involving the Battle of Gettysburg
• "The Death Merchant", an episode of The Time Tunnel involving the Battle of Gettysburg
• Sid Meier's Gettysburg!, a computer game based on the Battle of Gettysburg
• Gettysburg (game), a board game
• Gettysburg (1863), a 30-minute epic trilogy of songs by heavy metal band Iced Earth off their 2004 The Glorious Burden album.
• Gettysburg: A Novel of the Civil War, the first volume of an alternate history trilogy by Newt Gingrich and William R. Forstchen, describing the possible outcome of the Confederacy winning the Battle of Gettysburg.
  • Though not including the word "Gettysburg" in its title, Ward Moore's Bring the Jubilee also describes an outcome (substantially different from that envisioned by Gingrich and Forstchen) of a Southern victory in the same battle.
• Gettysburg: An Alternate History, a 1997 novel by military historian Peter G. Tsouras posing a significantly different retelling of the battle with J.E.B. Stuart's cavalry being present at the battle earlier and a cautious George G. Meade replaced by a more aggressive Winfield Scott Hancock.