Gettysburg Stories

"There's not much you can do when you're free-falling through time and space except to scream and hope someone will hear you. You may also get the feeling that you'...

A song inspired by a visit to Gettysburg way back in 1976. The Bi-Centennial year for the USA. I visited at the insistence of my friend and fellow traveler, Michael. He...

Emeline "Emma" Adams is an eighteen year old girl living in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania with her aunt Violet, having been sent there by her mother two years befor...

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Vault 97 was originally built in Blue Ridge Summit, Pennsylvania as a joint venture between the U.S. Government and VaultTech to be a second, miniature Pentagon outside...

Yet another essay written about Abraham Lincoln, and his speeches from the Civil War. Out of everyone, didn't Abraham age the most (as in appearance)? He went through a...

David Summers never expected any of this...not in a million years. He thought for sure he was a goner. After leaving Alabama and enlisting with the cavalry, his delusion...

As the deadliest battle of the American Civil War plays out around them, the Baker family sits huddled the cellar. Fear grips the family, but so does the growing tension...

Paul Westlake runs A New Day Travel, a travel agency that offers its clients a trip like no other. From second chances at past failures to front row seats at historical...

On November 19, 1863, in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, amid the American Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln delivered a profoundly important speech during the dedication o...

Jeremiah gets the chance of a lifetime when he is hired as an extra on a civil war film being shot near his house. But his opportunity looks more like a curse when stran...

Philip, the indifferent son of patriarch John Stanhope, is sent on a routine errand on behalf of his Grandmother. Instead of returning the next day, Philip is cast into...