This section is not just about the July anniversaries that occur in Gettysburg each year. It will also include different anniversaries that occur in and around the Battlefield. This will include the Remembrance Day weekend that is celebrated to remember the soldiers that fought and fell here. It also remembers re-enactors that have too lived and died resembling their ancestors. Remembrance Day weekend also celebrates the anniversary of the Gettysburg Address. Each monument on the Gettysburg battlefield, both Union and Confederate, have anniversaries to when they were dedicated on the battlefield.
Below is the illumination that they host at the National Soldiers Cemetery. Each grave, known or unknown, gets an illumination for the night, and all their names are read. Some of the re-enactors “stand on guard” at the Soldiers National Monument during the evening with TAPS playing often.
