Gettysburg Quotes

We entered Gettysburg in the afternoon, just in time to meet the enemy entering the town, and in good season to drive him back before his getting a foothold. - John Buford

This was a great, great hidden battle, overshadowed by Shiloh, Franklin, Tenn., and Gettysburg... We're about to give Corinth its just due. - Mike Moore

This history needs to be told, and the best way to do that is to have a visitor's center that people can be attracted to, where they come and you give them the story and the history -- let them know there is more to Utah than snow on the hills. Utah's history is just as important as Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. - Mike Moon

Rations were scarcely issued, and the men about preparing supper, when rumors that the enemy had been encountered that day near Gettysburg absorbed every other interest, and very soon orders came to march forthwith to Gettysburg. - Joshua Chamberlain

It wasn't by accident that the Gettysburg address was so short. The laws of prose writing are as immutable as those of flight, of mathematics, of physics. - Ernest Hemingway

It is amazing how the Gettysburg Battlefield has gone from not even being on the trust's list of 25 most endangered battlefields to the top of the list overnight, even though our resort has been a subject of debate and discussion for nearly a year. - David LeVan

Interest in the Civil War is at an all-time high. The government starves the Park Service for resources, but [Gettysburg National Military Park] is the best place to go to learn about the Civil War. - James McPherson

Indeed, as a view of American military history it may be rivaled only by the vista from Little Round Top at Gettysburg. - Howard Coffin

I'm glad they'll be coming to Gettysburg, and I'm glad they'll be listening to the people. - Susan Star Paddock

I was familiar with preserved Civil War fields like Gettysburg, where there are national parks and monuments all over the place. They're places that are hallowed and sacred and interpreted with text and park rangers. The whole mechanics of history is brought to bear on these places. - Nick Capasso