Join us on Friday, November 7 for our annual salute to veterans, and a stimulating presentation by Ranger Dan Welch on the prominent Gettysburg attorney who moved heaven and earth to create the National Cemetery in Gettysburg.

More than any other, Gettysburg citizen and prominent lawyer David Wills ensured that the Union soldiers who gave their last full measure of devotion had a final and fitting rest place.  From its conception in July 1863 until the dedication of the Soldiers’ National Monument in July 1869, Wills worked tirelessly on the cemetery project, including the proposition of holding a dedication ceremony and supplying President Abraham Lincoln a quiet room to finish his “few appropriate remarks.”  Discover Wills’ important work in the creation of the Soldiers’ National Cemetery at Gettysburg.

Dan Welch is Lead Ranger at Gettysburg National Military Park.  He formerly served as an educator with a public school district in northeast Ohio.  Previously, he served as the education programs coordinator for the Gettysburg Foundation, and as a seasonal park ranger at Gettysburg.  Dan is the editor of the long-running Gettysburg Magazine and has been a contributing member at Emerging Civil War for over nine years.  He is the coauthor of two works in the Emerging Civil War Series: The Last Road North: A Guide to the Gettysburg Campaign, 1863 and Never Such A Campaign: The Battle of Second Manassas, August 28-30, 1862.  Welch co-edited several volumes in the Emerging Civil War’s Tenth Anniversary Series.  He is also the co-author of Ohio at Antietam: The Buckeye State’s Sacrifice on America’s Bloodiest Day with the History Press.  Dan resides with his wife, Sarah, in Gettysburg.  He last spoke to our Round Table in 2023 on George Sears Greene’s Brigade’s Defense of Culp’s Hill.

Those who are unable to attend this engagement in person are invited to tune in to the lecture and Q&A session via Zoom.  Click on the following link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83367266856.   No password in required.  To dial in by phone, call 1-301-715-8592 or click on the following link: https://us02web.zoom.us/u/kdx2xAd0By. The meeting ID # is 856 0870 8456.  Zoom participants should join the meeting by 7:00 pm.

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