"I would like to say that Gettysburg is a place, that if you let it, the land will speak to you," historian Gabor Boritt told C-SPAN back in 2007. To see in person what he had only before seen on maps and official reports. President Abraham Lincoln arrived early because he wanted to see the battlefield. Gettysburg's population at the time was less than 3,000, but nearly 15,000 people would gather the next day at the official dedication ceremony for the Soldiers' National Cemetery on the site of one of the bloodiest and most decisive battles of the Civil War.
He arrived in the small Pennsylvania town on November 18, 1863, a day before he was to give one of his few national addresses.
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