What American among us has not heard at least snippets of President Abraham Lincoln's famous Gettysburg address?

"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."

And these are words our country was built upon, words that Gettysburg still holds true in its historic soul. Gettysburg Pennsylvania, while known specifically for Abraham Lincoln's address, and the Battle of Gettysburg, is also home to the Lutheran Theological Seminary, founded in 1826, and Pennsylvania College (now Gettysburg College), which began teaching students in 1832.

Most of us have heard of the Battle of Gettysburg, one of the most significant battles in American history, but few know the details, pain and anguish that echoed across our land when in July 1-3, 1863, between 46,000 and 51,000 Americans were killed in battle.

With that many people who died tragically, it seems only fitting that those who believe in ghosts, or even those who are ghost hunters might fixate on the souls who still do battle on the fields of Gettysburg. Whether or not you believe is your choice, but according to Mark Nesbitt, a local historian, and now noted ghost hunter, "There are strange and paranormal forces that continue to haunt the battlefields of Gettysburg".

Gettysburg has retained that quaint yesteryear feeling in the small shops and old style homes that blanket the area, attracting visitors year round, especially in the summer and fall. "I felt like I'd stepped into a history book", said one smiling tourist at a local shop.

Abraham Lincoln was not the only president who held Gettysburg close, the town being a favorite of President Eisenhower, who was stationed at nearby Camp Colt. President Eisenhower would later call Gettysburg home, buying a beautiful and peaceful country estate/farm adjacent to Gettysburg Battlefield. The home is now maintained by the National Park Service and available for tours.

If you gaze back into history to the beginning of the Civil War, Gettysburg was a typical Pennsylvania community with a mix of English, German, Irish, and African-Americans, people who had no way of knowing their small town and nearby meadows would become gridlocked in battle and thus their town burned into American history.

After that tragic three-day battle, the people of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania pitched in to provide medical assistance, bury the dead, and begin to preserve this tragic setting for future generations to ponder and hopefully never repeat.

"History is far more than the excitement of battle, the flags and guns and desperate assaults. In a place like Gettysburg, the visitor-the native for that matter-may easily become absorbed in the three days of conflict, forgetting that history was also made here in quiet lives, on farm and village street, through a century before the battle, through a century after it." Dwight D. Eisenhower

Every American should visit Gettysburg Pennsylvania at some point, if only to touch a point in our history we never wish to re-visit. While the Civil War is far in the past, it can never be erased from American history and while much of Gettysburg, as President Eisenhower stated, is made of those living quiet lives, once cannot visit without remembering those pivotal days in 1863.

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