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Travel to Gettysburg National Military Park with the Gettysburg Tourism Bureau & the National Park Service at Gettysburg, PA           Gettysburg, an important Civil War Battle Ground National Park Service Civil War Podcasts       Thanks to the National Park Service for the use of their photographs.. It's been 150 years since the dreary days when several slave-holding Southern States declared their intentions to secede from the Union of the the United States of America. It was just a short time after the election of President Abraham Lincoln. It all started when the legislature of South Carolina passed an ordinance stating that the "Union is Dissolved" on December 20, 1860 and published it in the Charleston Mercury Newspaper. The struggle between ideologies of states rights vs. a strong Federal Government was as controversial then as it is today. And the Southern agrarian, slave-holding states believed that their rights were being trampled on by the Industrial Northern Yankees. It was inevitable that there would be a Civil War between the North and South. On April 12, 1861 the first canon blasts were hurled at Ft Sumter in Charleston, South Carolina. President Abraham Lincoln called on the states that had not joined the Confederate States to supply 75,000 volunteers to suppress the insurrection.  By the end of the war, four years later over 600,000 men lost their lives. More lives were lost during this Civil War than during any other time in our nations history. And the loss of life at Gettysburg topped the list.   | Street Team Membership | Write a Review | LISTEN HERE Listen to internet radio with Cruise with Bruce on Blog Talk Radio   Join Bruce Oliver, host of the Cruise with Bruce Radio Show and owner of the Cruise Radio Network on this program.     Gettysburg Maps & Things   HISTORIC GETTYSBURG NATIONAL PARK Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address "Fourscore 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 or any nation so conceived and so dedicated can long endure. We are met on a great battlefield of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field as a final resting-place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this. But in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate, we cannot hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead who struggled here have consecrated it far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living rather to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us—that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion—that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain, that this nation under God shall have a new birth of freedom, and that government of the people, by the people, for the people shall not perish from the earth." - Abraham Lincoln, November 19, 1863. Lincoln is pictured in the center of the platform, hatless with his bodyguard, Ward Lamon, and Governor Andrew Curtin of Pennsylvania. Lincoln's private secretaries, John Hay and John Nicolay, orator Edward Everett, and Gettysburg attorney and organizer David Wills may be among those near the president. Abraham Lincoln at Gettysburg, November 19, 1863. Facsimile from glass plate negative. Brady-Handy Collection, Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress Digital ID # cwpb-07639 "Abraham Lincoln was the second speaker on November 19, 1863, at the dedication of the Soldiers' National Cemetery at Gettysburg. Lincoln was preceded on the podium by the famed orator Edward Everett, who spoke to the crowd for two hours. Lincoln followed with his now immortal Gettysburg Address. On November 20, Everett wrote to Lincoln: “Permit me also to express my great admiration of the thoughts expressed by you, with such eloquent simplicity & appropriateness, at the consecration of the Cemetery. I should be glad, if I could flatter myself that I came as near to the central idea of the occasion, in two hours, as you did in two minutes.” Drawn from the Library’s collections, the presentation that follows gathers the key documents linked to Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address." -  From the National Park Service Website" VIDEO - 273 Words to a New America - myLOC.gov (Library of Congress) myloc.gov ‎273 Words to a New America President Lincoln gave a copy of the Gettysburg Address to each of his two private secretaries, John Nicolay and John Hay. According to Nicolay, Lincoln had written the first part of the speech on Executive Mansion stationery, and the second page in pencil on lined paper Join Bruce Oliver as he interviews Gettysburg National Military Park's Communications Director and Gettysburg Tourism Bureau Media Relations Manager on this broadcast of the Cruise with Bruce Radio program about traveling to Gettysburg, Pennsylvania to visit the historic Civil War battlegrounds at Gettysburg. Broadcast Feedback Get advanced warning of all programming by following "Cruise with Bruce" radio on Blog Talk Radio or by going to and join the Street Team for email updates. The Cruise with Bruce™ Radio program is part of the Cruise Radio Network™. | Website |Gettysburg Visitor's Bureau | The Civil War - 150 Years Later| Gettysburg - 150| 01/23/2012 North Carolina Memorial HDR pa href=http://www.flickr.com/people/jdcow40/jdcow/a posted a photo:/p pa href=http://www.flickr.com/photos/jdcow40/6749270797/ title=North Carolina Memorial HDRimg src=http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7005/6749270797_5cf4d599a1_m.jpg width=240 height=161 alt=North Carolina Memorial HDR //a/p 07/10/2011 High Water Mark pa href=http://www.flickr.com/people/steelmanpa/SteelmanPa/a posted a photo:/p pa href=http://www.flickr.com/photos/steelmanpa/5921938345/ title=High Water Markimg src=http://farm7.staticflickr.com/6141/5921938345_cee615235a_m.jpg width=240 height=159 alt=High Water Mark //a/p pGettysburg, Pa/p 07/10/2011 Gettysburg, Pa pa href=http://www.flickr.com/people/steelmanpa/SteelmanPa/a posted a photo:/p pa href=http://www.flickr.com/photos/steelmanpa/5921934959/ title=Gettysburg, Paimg src=http://farm7.staticflickr.com/6030/5921934959_81e9d689d3_m.jpg width=240 height=159 alt=Gettysburg, Pa //a/p 07/10/2011 Gettysburg, Pa pa href=http://www.flickr.com/people/steelmanpa/SteelmanPa/a posted a photo:/p pa href=http://www.flickr.com/photos/steelmanpa/5922500964/ title=Gettysburg, Paimg src=http://farm7.staticflickr.com/6016/5922500964_522650ef88_m.jpg width=240 height=160 alt=Gettysburg, Pa //a/p pHigh Water Monument/p 07/10/2011 Gettysburg, Pa pa href=http://www.flickr.com/people/steelmanpa/SteelmanPa/a posted a photo:/p pa href=http://www.flickr.com/photos/steelmanpa/5922502160/ title=Gettysburg, Paimg src=http://farm7.staticflickr.com/6138/5922502160_5fde2778bb_m.jpg width=159 height=240 alt=Gettysburg, Pa //a/p pMajor General George G. 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