ALERT: The Taneytown Road Entrance to the Museum & Visitor Center is currently closed for rehabilitation. Detour information is available for entering the complex at the Baltimore Pike Entrance. Learn more.
ALERT: Little Round Top is now closed to all visitation for rehabilitation. Learn more.
Revisit, Reimagine Gettysburg
Reimagine Gettysburg as a blend of a massive battle, a place of solemn remembrance and an emblem of democracy. Revisit Gettysburg for an opportunity to reflect and gain inspiration from the battle, from the soldiers, from the civilians and from the history.
Revisit Gettysburg
Revisit Gettysburg and share in the inspirational stories and sites you may have missed the first time or two.
It's time to Revisit Gettysburg.
Exhibits, Tours & Events
Go Prepared
Explore Gettysburg with us. Let us help you plan your visit to Gettysburg.
Plan Your Visit
From the signature Film, Cyclorama & Museum Experience and Battlefield Tours to National Park Service Ranger programs and our historic sites & experiences, your Gettysburg visit officially starts here. Plan your visit, purchase tickets and get information on free events for a memorable—and historic—Gettysburg visit.
Suggested Itineraries
Need help planning your Gettysburg strategy? We've got you covered with itinerary ideas from half-a-day raids to full, multi-day campaigns.
Join & Give
Support the Gettysburg Foundation's mission of preservation and education through your gifts and your Friends of Gettysburg membership.
Friends of Gettysburg
Renew your Friends membership and continue supporting the preservation of Gettysburg for all generations.
News
Spotlight
View the latest news and information from the Gettysburg Foundation
Leadership Development
Share:
October 17, 2018
This original copy of the Emancipation Proclamation is on loan from the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History.
Gettysburg National Military Park and the Gettysburg Foundation have teamed up to honor the history of the Emancipation Proclamation by exhibiting a copy personally signed by President Abraham Lincoln. One of three color lithographic broadsides, this was given directly to Lincoln by David Williams Cheesman, and is known as the Cheesman copy.
On loan from the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, the Emancipation Proclamation is on display through Sunday, Nov. 25, 2018, in the Gettysburg Museum of the American Civil War at the Gettysburg National Military Park Museum and Visitor Center. To purchase tickets, visit GettysburgFoundation.org.
Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863, as the nation approached the third year of the Civil War. The proclamation declared "that all persons held as slaves" within the rebellious states "are, and henceforward shall be free." It also announced the acceptance of men of color into the Union Army and Navy.
You will be leaving GettysburgFoundation.org to begin your shopping experience on an external website hosted by our Museum Book Store partner. If you do not want to continue, you can return to the previous page. Please continue