Tuesday marks the 150th anniversary of President Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address, delivered five months after the battle.
Thousands are expected to visit the national park for an event commemorating the speech after 9,000 attended last year. The National Park service is streaming the ceremony on Tuesday to 90,000 colleges, schools, libraries, and museums nationwide.
A separate event, the annual Remembrance Day parade in Gettysburg, will be held on Saturday to commemorate the speech and battle.
Five months before Lincoln’s speech tens of thousands of Americans died at Gettysburg in one of the most important battles of the Civil War. An estimated 235,000 people came to Gettysburg this year on or around the battle’s anniversary in early July.
President Barack Obama declined an invitation to attend the ceremony on Tuesday.
