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What American among us has not heard at least fragments of the famous speech by President Abraham Lincoln at Gettysburg?

"Eighty-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."

And these are the words of our country was built on the words at Gettysburg is still true in its historic soul. Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, which is known specifically for the leadership of Abraham Lincoln, and the battle of Gettysburg, is also home to the Lutheran Theological Seminary, founded in 1826, and the Pennsylvania College (now Gettysburg College), who began teaching students in 1832.

Most of us have heard of the Battle of Gettysburg, one of the most important battles in American history, but few know the details, the pain and anguish that resounded throughout our country, when in 1 to July 3, 1863, between 46,000 and 51,000 Americans died in combat.

With so many people who died tragically, it seems logical that those who believe in ghosts, or even those who are ghost hunters could look at the souls that still face in the fields of Gettysburg. Whether you believe it or not is your choice, but according to Mark Nesbitt, a local historian and ghost hunter now said: "There are strange and paranormal forces continue to harass the battlefields of Gettysburg."

Gettysburg has retained that feeling in the small quaint old shops and old-style houses that cover the area, attracting visitors all year round, especially in the summer and fall. "I felt like I had entered in a book of history," said a smiling tourist in a local store.

Abraham Lincoln was not the only president who was near Gettysburg, the town is a favorite of President Eisenhower, who was stationed at nearby Camp Colt. President Eisenhower would later call home Gettysburg, buying a beautiful, quiet farm / farm adjacent to the Gettysburg battlefield. The house is now maintained by the National Park Service and is available for travel.

If you look back in history the beginning of the Civil War, Gettysburg was a typical Pennsylvania community with a mixture of English, German, Irish, and African Americans, people who had no way of knowing that their little town and the meadows become stuck near the battle and thus saved his city in American history.

After the tragic battle of three days, the town of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania pitched in to provide medical care to bury the dead, and begin to preserve this tragic environment for future generations to think and hope I never repeated.

"The story is much more than the thrill of battle, flags and guns and desperate attacks. In a place like Gettysburg, the visitor, the native, for that matter-can easily be absorbed in the three days of conflict , forgetting that the story was also made here in a quiet life on the farm and village street, through a century before the battle, over a century after him. "Dwight D. Eisenhower

All Americans should visit Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, at some point, if only to touch a point in our history that never wants to revisit. Although the civil war is much in the past can never be erased from American history and although much of Gettysburg, as President Eisenhower said, is made of those who live a quiet life, once you can not visit without remembering those critical days in 1863.