Nov 19, 2016
2016 Events
Remembrance Day Parade - November 19, 2016, 1:00 p.m. Downtown Gettysburg, Lincoln Square. The parade features Civil War living history groups. The Parade Route starts on LeFever Street, goes west on Middle Street, over to Baltimore Street and then onto Steinwehr Avenue.
The best place to watch is at the corner of Baltimore and Steinwehr Avenue.
Annual Remembrance Illumination - November 19, 2016, 5:30-9:30 p.m. Gettysburg National Military Park Museum and Visitor Center, 97 Taneytown Road Gettysburg, PA. The ceremony features the lighting of a luminary candle on each of the 3,512 Civil War soldier's graves. Names of the fallen soldiers will be read throughout the evening.
Dedication Event - November 19, 2016, 10 a.m. November 19, the anniversary of the Gettysburg Address and the Dedication of the Soldiers' National Cemetery, was formally designated as Dedication Day, by a joint resolution of the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives in 1946. This annual event features a wreath laying, keynote speaker and is sponsored by the Lincoln Fellowship of PA, Gettysburg National Military Park, Gettysburg College, and the Gettysburg Foundation.
Gettsyburg, Pennsylvania, the site of the American Civil War's most famous battle, kicked off its five-year commemoration on April 29, 2011. Through 2016, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania - the scene of more than 50,000 casualties in just three days in 1863 - will remember this important period in history with re-enactments, living history, solemn remembrances and the opening of a new museum housed in one of the most historic buildings in America. Following is a list of Gettysburg events honoring the 153d Anniversary of the Civil War.
Gettysburg is located about an hour and a half northwest of Washington DC.
Image: Remembrance Day Parade. Gettysburg Convention & Visitors Bureau
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