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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.
Nine years ago, IT consultant John Stevenson brought some antique firearms into a Pittsburgh-area gun shop, where a man invited him to a Civil War reenactment. The rest, as they say, is history. Stevenson — who’s been taking part ever since in historically accurate reenactments that organizers call “living history”
From a tiny red snippet of a regimental flag to a large historic building, the Seminary Ridge Museum and Education Center deploys artifacts to help visitors connect with the Battle