Class Year
2018
Document Type
Blog Post
Publication Date
9-21-2015
Department 1
Civil War Institute
Abstract
Students, faculty, and visitors to Gettysburg College have likely noticed the most recent addition to our campus. Last Friday, a brand new bronze statue of President Abraham Lincoln was dedicated outside Stevens Hall. The statue, which stands nine feet tall, depicts a seated President Lincoln signing the Emancipation Proclamation and was designed by Stanley Watts, who also designed the Lincoln statue outside the Gettysburg Public Library on Baltimore Street. The statue unveiling comes almost 153 years to the day when President Lincoln issued the preliminary Emancipation Proclamation, which gave the Confederate States 100 days to return to the Union before emancipation would become law [excerpt].
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Recommended Citation
Lauck, Jeffrey L., "President Lincoln Finds a Permanent Seat on Campus: The Dedication of the New Abraham Lincoln Statue Outside Stevens Hall" (2015). The Gettysburg Compiler: On the Front Lines of History. 104.
https://cupola.gettysburg.edu/compiler/104
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This blog post originally appeared in The Gettysburg Compiler and was created by students at Gettysburg College.