Gettysburg Train Station
by Guy Whiteley
Title
Gettysburg Train Station
Artist
Guy Whiteley
Medium
Photograph - Photograph
Description
Built in 1858 in the most fashionable Italianate Villa style, this railroad depot and its attendant telegraph line afforded Gettysburg modern day transportation and communication. The Battle of Gettysburg expanded its use for unanticipated purposes. On July 1, 1863, the building and its passenger platform were commandeered for use as an army hospital. When train service was restored following the battle, the U. S. Sanitary Commission set up a tent lodge across the tracks from the rear platform to help the wounded brought from the field hospitals for transportation to home or distant hospitals. Volunteer George Woolsey recalled, Twice a day the trains left . . . and twice a day we fed all the wounded who arrived for them. On November 18, 1863, President Abraham Lincoln arrived by train at this depot for the dedication of the Soldiers National Cemetery, where he delivered his Gettysburg Address.
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November 16th, 2013
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