Gettysburg Audio Walking Tour

Highlights

• Gettysburg College

  Founded in 1832 as Pennsylvania College, Gettysburg College spreads its campus in front of you. Founded in 1832 as Pennsylvania College by Samuel Simon Schmucker, this institution began as a sister school to the Lutheran Theological Seminary — the seminary that is now a campus of the United Lutheran Seminary.

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  Gettysburg National Cemetery

  Gettysburg National Cemetery, originally called Soldiers' National Cemetery, opens in front of you, a United States national cemetery created for Union army casualties of the Battle of Gettysburg during the American Civil War. In the summer of 1863 that battle raged over three days, July 1 to 3, and proved both the Civil War's deadliest and its most significant engagement, resulting in over 50,000 casualties — the most of any battle in the Civil War and in American military history.

• Gettysburg Cyclorama

  Curving a full 360° in front of you, the Gettysburg Cyclorama by French artist Paul Dominique Philippoteaux depicts Pickett's Charge, the climactic Confederate attack on Union forces at the Battle of Gettysburg on July 3, 1863. Commissioned by Chicago investors, Philippoteaux studied the battlefield and interviewed participants before completing the cyclorama in 1883.

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  The Angle

  Here at the Angle, sometimes called the Bloody Angle, you face the Copse of Trees—the 1863 landmark used as the target for Pickett's Charge—the 1892 monument marking the high-water mark of the Confederacy, a rock wall, and several other Battle of Gettysburg monuments. On July 3, 1863, roughly 1,500 Confederate Virginians broke through the Union line on Cemetery Ridge here, an intense moment that left this small place so central to memory.

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  National Homestead at Gettysburg

  Picture 777 Baltimore Street at the north foot of Cemetery Hill, where the Gettysburg Orphanage once opened its doors to war orphans. Once opened in October 1866 and incorporated March 22, 1867, this building began life as the Gettysburg Orphanage and a widows' home founded by Dr. John F. Bourns after fundraising sparked by the identification of a Battle of Gettysburg casualty's children as Amos Humiston's.

All 20 stops

• Gettysburg Railroad Station (Gettysburg Battlefield Historic District)

  Look at the depot on Carlisle Street, known as the Gettysburg Train Station, the Lincoln Train Station, and the Western Maryland Railroad Station.

• Adams County Courthouse (Gettysburg)

  Red brick rises in front of you at the Adams County Courthouse in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.

• National Homestead at Gettysburg (Cemetery Hill)

  Picture 777 Baltimore Street at the north foot of Cemetery Hill, where the Gettysburg Orphanage once opened its doors to war orphans.

• Evergreen Cemetery gatehouse (Evergreen Cemetery)

  Built in 1855, the brick Evergreen Cemetery gatehouse at 799 Baltimore Pike in Adams County, Pennsylvania, faces you now.

• Evergreen Cemetery (Cumberland Township)

  Picture this rural burial ground once called Citizen's Cemetery, resting quietly outside town in Cumberland Township, part of Evergreen Cemetery.

• Gettysburg National Cemetery (Gettysburg)

  Gettysburg National Cemetery, originally called Soldiers' National Cemetery, opens in front of you, a United States national cemetery created for Union army casualties of the…

• Soldiers' National Monument (Gettysburg National Cemetery)

  At the central point of Gettysburg National Cemetery, the Soldiers' National Monument rises in front of you.

• Gettysburg Rostrum (Gettysburg National Cemetery)

  Your stop is the Gettysburg Rostrum, a brick speaker's stand in Gettysburg National Cemetery.

• The Angle (Gettysburg)

  Here at the Angle, sometimes called the Bloody Angle, you face the Copse of Trees—the 1863 landmark used as the target for Pickett's Charge—the 1892…

• High Water Mark of the Rebellion Monument (Gettysburg Battlefield)

  Ahead of you stands the High Water Mark of the Rebellion Monument.

• 1st Minnesota Infantry Monument (Cemetery Ridge)

  Since 1893 the 1st Minnesota Infantry Monument has marked this ground on the Gettysburg Battlefield, and you face it now.

• The Pennsylvania State Memorial (Cemetery Ridge)

  Along Cemetery Ridge, the Pennsylvania State Memorial faces you.

• Gettysburg National Military Park Museum and Visitor Center (Gettysburg)

  Devoted to the American Civil War, the Gettysburg National Military Park Museum and Visitor Center opens in front of you.

• Gettysburg Cyclorama (Gettysburg National Military Park)

  Curving a full 360° in front of you, the Gettysburg Cyclorama by French artist Paul Dominique Philippoteaux depicts Pickett's Charge, the climactic Confederate attack on…

• McPherson Ridge (Gettysburg)

  McPherson Ridge rises in front of you, a landform central to the 1863 Battle of Gettysburg.

• Lutheran Theological Seminary at Gettysburg (Gettysburg)

  Known simply as Gettysburg Seminary, the Lutheran Theological Seminary at Gettysburg lies in front of you.

• Schmucker Hall (Seminary Ridge)

  Schmucker Hall faces you, an American Civil War site listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Adams County, Pennsylvania.

• Gettysburg College (Gettysburg)

  Founded in 1832 as Pennsylvania College, Gettysburg College spreads its campus in front of you.

• Pennsylvania Hall (Gettysburg)

  Four columns of the portico greet you at Pennsylvania Hall, Gettysburg College's oldest building and its central administrative building.

• Virginia Monument (Gettysburg National Park)

  High above you on the Virginia Monument, Robert E. Lee rides his horse Traveller in bronze, a Battle of Gettysburg memorial honoring the commonwealth's Sons…

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