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Get·tys·burg (get′iz bʉrg′)

town in S Pa.: site of a crucial battle (July, 1863) of the Civil War and of a famous address by Abraham Lincoln dedicating a National Cemetery: pop. 7,500

Etymology: after J. Gettys, its 18th-c. founder

Gettysburg Quotes

It wasn't by accident that the Gettysburg address was so short. The laws of prose writing are as immutable as those of flight, of mathematics, of physics.

—Hemingway, Ernest Millar

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