Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, holds a chilling history as the site of the bloodiest battle in the American Civil War. It is said that the spirits of the thousands of men who lost their lives still linger there. In addition to its haunted reputation, Gettysburg is also where President Abraham Lincoln delivered his famous Gettysburg Address. We will share the full address later in this article.
Over the past one hundred fifty years, the Battle of Gettysburg has gained a notorious reputation for being haunted. This battle marked Confederate General Robert E. Lee’s final invasion of the North, as Union troops were successful in turning him back.
In a video captured by Greg Yuelling of New Jersey, he claims to have captured evidence of ghosts haunting Gettysburg. The footage, taken on September 2, 2022, shows eerie scenes as he drove through the battleground, now a national park.
Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address, delivered on November 19, 1863:
“Four score and 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.
“Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battlefield of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.
“But, in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate — we cannot consecrate — we cannot hallow — this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us — that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion — that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain — that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom — and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.”
With the advancements in technology, more and more videos capturing ghostly encounters like this one from Gettysburg are surfacing. It begs the question: Do you believe that the site of the Battle of Gettysburg is haunted to this day? Watch the footage and share your comments below.
