While your group visits Gettysburg, you may want to stop by the Gettysburg National Cemetery. The location is the final resting place for more than 3,500 Union soldiers who were killed during the Battle of Gettysburg. There are a number of monuments for you to view throughout the cemetery. The battle is referred to as being the turning point in the Civil War. President Lincoln dedicated the location on November 19, 1863. He made a few remarks known known as the famous Gettysburg Address. The student group can take a walking tour of the area which includes five stops. The tour is 30 to 45 minutes in length. The first stop on the tour is the Lincoln Speech Memorial which commemorates the famous speech given by President Lincoln. It is one of the few memorials dedicated to honor a speech rather than the man himself. There is a bronze statue of Lincoln that was sculpted by Henry Bush Brown. This statue reveals the heavy toll the war and the nation’s suffering had on the president. There is an inscription of the Gettysburg Address on the left side of the statue. Another stop on the tour is known as Cemetery Hill. Your student group can take some time and look at the artillery which marks the location where the Union soldiers fought in the battle. The group will also see the poem plaque which is located near the row of gravestones during the tour. You could discuss the fact that the soldiers buried in the cemetery were not the only victims in the war but that their wives and other family members also suffered as well.