Gettysburg National Military Park Museum

100+? on display

Created in 1895

Gettysburg, Pennsylvania

focused on the three-day Battle of Gettysburg (July 1-3, 1863)
November 19, 1863 dedication of the Soldiers’ National Cemetery
March 1864 cemetery was completed
1864 Gettysburg Battlefield Memorial Association created
1870 to 1873 bodies of 3,393 Confederate dead were sent to home cemeteries
1872 U.S. War Department took Control of the site
1895 Gettysburg National Military Park was established
– 800 acres and 300 monuments
1933 Control of the Park to the National Park Service, U.S. Department of the Interior
– 1,400 monuments and markers

Pre-History

1929 Dr. William J. Chewning 100,000 Civil War artifact collection
opened National Battlefield Museum in Fredericksburg, Virginia
1929-1937 private museum
1938 Sold to Julius T. Richards
May 8, 1938 2nd ” National Battlefield Museum” built on the Manassas, VA battlefield
then into storage
1945 3rd ” National Battlefield Museum” re-built in Vicksburg, Mississippi
4005 Washington Street
1960 now called the “National Civil War Museum” sat along the Suwannee River in Old Town, Florida
June 15, 1961 Richards sold his collection to Rosensteel

1921, George D. Rosensteel, IV opened the Gettysburg National Museum
Taneytown Road, across from Gettysburg National Cemetery
June 15, 1961 bought Richard’s collection
1967 new steward was the National Park Service
1971 Family sold the collection
89,000 artifacts and the museum building passed into the hands of the government

1195 Baltimore Pike
Gettysburg, PA 17325

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