Gettysburg tells the story of more than a battle − the military park shows what national ‘reconciliation’ looked like for decades after the Civil War
- Written by Katrina Stack, PhD Student, University of Tennessee
The North Carolina memorial stands in Gettysburg National Military Park on Aug. 10, 2020.Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty ImagesOn Nov. 19, 1863, President Abraham Lincoln traveled to Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, to dedicate a cemetery at the site of the bloodiest battle of the Civil War. Four months before, about 50,000 soldiers had been...

