Gettysburg is also the first Sid Meier game to feature online play and multiplayer options.
For him, the contents of Lincoln's pockets were almost as important as the Gettysburg address.
On his 100th birthday he gave a recital at his former college in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.
In 1974 Michael Shaara published a Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, The Killer Angels, about the Battle of Gettysburg.
While the battle is historically accurate, the North does not always win in Sid Meier's Gettysburg .
"This is one of those Gettysburg-like battles that could turn the war, " says Legg Mason analyst Blair Levin.
The carrier and its 5, 000-person crew were to leave Feb. 8, along with the guided-missile cruiser USS Gettysburg.
At 18 minutes, it was not too short, but definitely one of the shorter ones (the Gettysburg address was 2 minutes).
Ike promptly invited the young man to his home in Gettysburg and entrusted Ambrose with the task of writing his biography.
But with this bill almost anything could turn into a procedural Gettysburg.
We honor those months of waiting when the decision turns out well: Lincoln pacing as he waited for news from Gettysburg, Vicksburg or Atlanta.
It was followed over years by the Gettysburg Address, the Constitution and the King James Bible, all arduously hand-typed, full of errors, by Mr Hart.
If only Day-Lewis had been allowed to read the Gettysburg Address.
Rothermel's "Battle of Gettysburg: Pickett's Charge, " which measures 16 feet high and 32 feet wide, and is the largest depiction of the battle on one canvas.
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And as the first African-American president, he can't help but see himself as a transformational figure, the modern-day incarnation of Lincoln's legacy at Gettysburg and at Appomattox.
The Army of the Potomac thereupon followed him to Gettysburg.
Sid Meier's Gettysburg , the first original Sid Meier game since 1992's Civilization and the first title from Firaxis Games , promises to continue Meier's tradition of innovative, brain-stretching games.
Pohlmann sold the egg-laying business to Ohio Fresh, a partnership ostensibly controlled by Donald Hershey and Orland Bethel, whose egg operations in Gettysburg, Pa. had run afoul of environmental authorities.
In addition to Hanks, Killing Lincoln is produced by Ridley and Tony Scott (the latter having joined the production before his death last year) and is directed by Adrian Moat (Gettysburg).
It has often been described by biographers as high-pitched with a Kentucky accent, and this was difficult to reconcile with the grave baritone we associate with the man reading the Gettysburg Address.
It's too late for a park on the scale of Gettysburg or Antietam, but off the side roads important battlefield fragments still exist, behind split-rail fences, amidst cattle, corn and glistening yellow tobacco leaves.
The continuing power of the Lost Cause romance can even be seen in a more recent film such as Gettysburg, which in the ending frames shows the fate of the various major characters.
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Widmer includes obvious classics like the Gettysburg Address.
There can be little doubt there were gay soldiers who fought for American independence, who consecrated the ground at Gettysburg, who manned the trenches along the Western Front, who stormed the beaches of Iwo Jima.
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Before he left office in January 1961, for his farm in Gettysburg, he urged the necessity of maintaining an adequate military strength, but cautioned that vast, long-continued military expenditures could breed potential dangers to our way of life.
"We made a decision over the weekend that while this presidential race for us is over for me and we will suspend our campaign effective today, we are not done fighting, " Santorum said during his speech in Gettysburg on Tuesday.
Lee's army was on the march north to the fateful battle of Gettysburg, President Lincoln wrote a letter commenting on the arrest of a leading Confederate sympathizer legislator (or "Copperheads" as they were then known), U.S. Rep. Clement L. Valladigham (Democrat of Ohio).
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