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"The College at that day, was but a large family." - Reverend William F. Eyster, Class of 1839 In 1832, Lutheran theologian Samuel Simon Schmucker founded Pennsylvania College (now Gettysburg College). Chartered to provide instruction "in learn…
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"The Fire of Patriotism was Burning Me Up...My Mind Was Made Up and I was Bound to Enlist" George T. Ulmer - 8th Maine Volunteers America's First Music Music has always been a significant part of the American military experience. Throughout t…
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"Music has done its share, and more than its share, of winning this war" Union Cavalry General Philip Sheridan Common Bond There are many written accounts of how music inspired and united the armies during the civil war. During the winter of …
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"I don't believe we can have an army without music" General Robert E. Lee, 1864 During the American Civil War, field music provided invaluable communication in camps and on the battlefields. In camp, musicians were always placed near commandin…
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Jennie Wade, aged 20 years 2 months Killed here—July 3, 1863 While making bread for the Union soldiers
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Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, o…
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It is not difficult to imagine the wear on a barn from years of active farming and the changing Pennsylvania seasons. In the spring of 1875, two brothers, Samuel F. Frey and William H. Frey, painters by trade, and Hiram C. Lady, a carpenter's appr…
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You are now standing near the Spangler's original smokehouse, more than 160 years old. Although several changes have been made over the decades, such as the tin roof, a vast majority of the original structure still survives. Smokehouses had been p…
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The barnyard and fields in front of you filled with wounded men and medical supplies in the days and weeks after the battle. Pvt. Justus Silliman, 17th Connecticut Infantry, wrote "All the hospital tents have been put up and are filled, the b…
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As the threshing floor in front of you filled with wounded, W. R. Kiefer, 153rd Pennsylvania, noted, "The maimed were placed with heads next [to] the bays and middle partition (of the threshing floor) leaving a passageway at the feet of the p…
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