It's safe to say most people around our coverage area know about the Battle of Gettysburg. And yet, with all the interest in the battle itself, people tend to forget (or not know at all) that the three days at Gettysburg were just the culmination of a campaign that took the better part of a month, and would take several more weeks after the battle to finish.
Meet the historical figures for whom the planned Thaddeus Stevens & Lydia Hamilton Smith Center for History and Democracy at Queen and Vine streets is named.