New Testament
date: label: Date made
content: 1852
name: label: user
content: Stetson, James H.
label: publisher
content: American Bible Society
notes: label: Description
content: Physical Description
label: Description
content: Print on paper; bound in leather.
label: Description
content: Specific History
label: Description
content: New Testament owned by James H. Stetson, who was killed at the Battle of Gettysburg.
label: Description
content: General History
label: Description
content: The Battle of Gettysburg was a critical turning point in the American Civil War. During the first three days of July 1863, over 172,000 men and 634 cannons were positioned in an area encompassing 25 square miles. An estimated 569 tons of ammunition were expended and, when the battle had ended, the losses toped 51,000 in dead and wounded soldiers on both sides. While the Confederate army retreated after Gettysburg, the war would drag on another two years. It would be the most costly battle ever fought on U.S. soil. The battle was commemorated by Abraham Lincoln’s legendary address. Lincoln stated: “Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation or any nation so conceived and so dedicated can long endure. We are met on a great battlefield of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of it as a final resting place for those who died here that the nation might live. This we may, in all propriety do. But in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate, we cannot hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead who struggled here have hallowed it far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here.” The world has remembered both the battle and Lincoln’s eloquent words.
place: label: used
content: United States: Pennsylvania
topic: label: related event
content: Civil War
label: related event
content: Civil War and Reconstruction
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content: Military and Society: Armed Forces History, General
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content: ThinkFinity
label: Exhibition
content: Price of Freedom
label: Exhibition Location
content: National Museum of American History
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Mrs. Robert Southworth Stetson
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: AF.77318M
label: catalog number
content: 77318M
label: accession number
content: 307583
objectType: label: Object Name
content: book
label: Other Terms
content: book; Documents
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: leather (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: ink (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 4 1/2 in x 5 3/4 in x 1 in; 11.43 cm x 14.605 cm x 2.54 cm