Join Seminary Ridge Museum and Education Center staff for special walking tours, each of which will examine a specific aspect of Seminary Ridge before, during, and after the Battle of Gettysburg. Special focus will be paid to people who lived and fought here.

Friday, June 25—6:30pm
The Final Attack: The Seminary Grounds on July 1, 1863
**Part of American Battlefield Trust’s Twilight Pop-up Tours**

Friday, July 30—6:30pm - Artillery on Seminary Ridge

No portion of the Gettysburg battlefield was occupied longer than the campus of the Lutheran Seminary, serving one army or the other for all three days of the battle and beyond. Though it operated as an observation post, hospital, headquarters, rallying point, and fighting ground, perhaps no aspect of the landscape has remained as quietly influential as its use as a heavily concentrated artillery platform. During this tour, we will focus on more than 20 United States cannon that occupied the campus on July 1, the 18 Confederate cannon that took their place on July 2 and 3, and the stories of the artillerists who manned these guns.

Friday, September 24—6:30pm - The Hospital at the Seminary

Between July 1 and September 16, 1863, hundreds of wounded soldiers were treated in and around the brick Seminary building. Dozens of civilians came to the hospital complex to help care for these men broken in body and spirit. During this tour, we will focus on how soldiers received initial care after wounding, as well as the structures that were put in place to feed, clean, and care for patients throughout the months following the battle.

Friday, October 8—6:00pm - Art and Photography on Seminary Ridge

RESCHEDULED FROM AUGUST 27 - NOTE TIME CHANGE

Soon after the Lutheran Seminary moved to the ridge that now bears its name, various 19th-century observers remarked upon the campus as “a delightful and hallowed retreat” with “a beautiful view,” featuring a “handsome four story brick building...on a commanding eminence.” Soon, artists turned those words into imagery, creating sketches, paintings, engravings, and photographs of the picturesque grounds and structures—from before the Civil War, through the Battle of Gettysburg, and into modern times. During this tour, we will focus on a handful of such artistic representations, including landscape painters in the 1830s, post-battle photographers, and military history artists of today.

-FREE-
(Donations Appreciated)

Meet on West Side of Seminary Ridge Museum
111 Seminary Ridge, Gettysburg
Questions? Call 717-339-1300