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    The first USS Gettysburg was a steamer in the United States Navy. The ship was built in Glasgow, Scotland, in 1858, named RMS Douglas, and operated by...
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  • United States Navy have been named USS Gettysburg for the Battle of Gettysburg. USS Gettysburg (1858) was built in 1858, captured in 1863, commissioned in...
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  • newspaper USS Gettysburg (1858), a Scottish ship supplying the Confederate States of America until captured by the Union Navy and renamed in 1864. USS Gettysburg (CG-64)...
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    ATA-207) USS Gertrude (1863) USS Get There (SP-579) USS Gettysburg (1858, PCE-904, CG-64) USS Ghent (1815) USS Gherardi (DD-637/DMS-30) USS Giansar (AK-111)...
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    Gettysburg, a former blockade runner captured off Wilmington, North Carolina, in November 1863. He spent the next seven months commanding Gettysburg while...
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  • before being taken as "prize" and serving in the Union Navy as the USS Gettysburg. SS Douglas (1864): the second steamer in the fleet of the Isle of Man...
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    successively of the steamer USS New Berne in 1868, the steamer USS Gettysburg from 1868 to 1870, and the screw gunboat USS Yantic from 1870 to 1871. After...
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    Gettysburg (1863) The "Gettysburg Portrait", A head-on photograph of Abraham Lincoln taken on November 8, 1863; eleven days before his Gettysburg Address...
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    the summer of 1863, where he was decisively defeated at the Battle of Gettysburg by the Army of the Potomac under George Meade. He led his army in the...
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  • submarine named for the state, the USS Virginia. Before that, it was the motto of the nuclear-powered cruiser USS Virginia. The phrase appears on the...
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    was released from Gettysburg, Pennsylvania on June 29, 1995. There have been a number of spacecraft in Star Trek bearing the name USS Farragut as background...
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    pro-Confederate elements went so far as to plot his assassination. His Gettysburg Address came to be seen as one of the greatest and most influential statements...
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  • Lodi, Madison Barracks, Plattsburg Barracks, and Rochester, New York. Gettysburg, Mercerberg, Reading, Philadelphia, Tamaqua and Upton, Pennsylvania; Barttleboro...
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    Confederate General Robert E. Lee's incursion north failed at the Battle of Gettysburg. Western successes led to General Ulysses S. Grant's command of all Union...
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    Divided speech (1858) Lincoln–Douglas debates (1858) Cooper Union Address (1860) Farewell Address (1861) First inaugural address (1861) Gettysburg Address (1863...
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  • Divided speech (1858) Lincoln–Douglas debates (1858) Cooper Union Address (1860) Farewell Address (1861) First inaugural address (1861) Gettysburg Address (1863...
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  • Death" 35:45 3 February 2020 (2020-02-03) The history and legends of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, including the ghost stories associated with The Farnsworth...
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    Civil War (1 July 1863), prior to being fatally shot at the Battle of Gettysburg "Tell father that I died with my face to the enemy." — Isaac E. Avery...
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    Divided speech (1858) Lincoln–Douglas debates (1858) Cooper Union Address (1860) Farewell Address (1861) First inaugural address (1861) Gettysburg Address (1863...
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    finished the acting season at Cleveland's Academy of Music, as the Battle of Gettysburg raged in Pennsylvania. Between September and November 1863, Booth played...
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    day. Lee and Meade first clashed in the Battle of Gettysburg on July 1. News of a victory at Gettysburg, and a great Confederate retreat, came on July 4...
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    image A58x1 Archived 2015-02-27 at the Wayback Machine Lincoln, July 17, 1858 Sotos, image A58hz Archived 2015-02-27 at the Wayback Machine Tarbell 1896...
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  • Divided speech (1858) Lincoln–Douglas debates (1858) Cooper Union Address (1860) Farewell Address (1861) First inaugural address (1861) Gettysburg Address (1863...
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    event of the War" such as the Union victories at Antietam, Murfreesboro, Gettysburg, and Vicksburg. On April 14, Booth's morning started at midnight. He wrote...
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    Divided speech (1858) Lincoln–Douglas debates (1858) Cooper Union Address (1860) Farewell Address (1861) First inaugural address (1861) Gettysburg Address (1863...
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    absolution from Rev. William Corby before going into battle at Gettysburg in the film Gettysburg. 2003 – The regiment's attack on Marye's Heights during the...
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  • route, delaying his efforts to unite with Lee's force outside Gettysburg Battle of Gettysburg 1–3 July Lee loses to Meade, Pickett's Charge fails, ends second...
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  • connecting Lincoln to the present day. To date, Gettysburg; Washington, DC; Detroit; Chicago; and the USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN-72) in Everett, WA have featured...
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    "Early Photography at Gettysburg", William A. Frassanito, 1995, photos of Isaac & Charles Tyson, pg. 29 "Early Photography at Gettysburg", William A. Frassanito...
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    1863 surrender to Ulysses S. Grant, along with the concurrent Battle of Gettysburg, marked the turning-point of the war. After the war came Reconstruction...
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