Gettysburg National Park Coin bear #6 in the America the Beautiful Series

Description

Gettysburg National Park
was created by an act of Congress signed into law by President Grover Cleveland on February 11, 1895. The law directed the War Department to establish the park as a means to commemorate the importance of the American Civil War Battle of Gettysburg and those who fought in it.
To accomplish this task, the War Department accepted a deed conveying the ownership of 800 initial acres for the park from the Gettysburg Battlefield Memorial Association. This association was created shortly after the actual battle some thirty years earlier to mark “the great deeds of valor … and the signal events which render these battlegrounds illustrious."
The Battle of Gettysburg is seen as one of the most important in the American Civil War as many believe it to be the turning point for the struggle between the United States of America and the Confederate States of America. Prior to this battle, the Confederate forces of the Southern states were routinely defeating forces from the North. However, following the Battle of Gettysburg, the Union Army of the North would proceed to obtain many more victories eventually resulting in the surrender of the Confederate Army.
However, to achieve this victory, thousands would lose their lives including over 7,800 at the Battle of Gettysburg alone. Adding in another 27,000 wounded, and the battle would go down in history as the bloodiest in the Civil War.
History would also be linked to the battlefield owing to a speech given here a few months following the conflict by President Abraham Lincoln. Known as the Gettysburg Address, the speech is perhaps one of the most famous in the history of man and began " Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal
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The Gettysburg National  Park coin Bears produced by Limited Treasures has a permanently attached and sealed, brilliant Uncirculated United States Mint National Park quarter of Gettysburg on the right foot of this bear. These are brand new, patented, smoke free, and they stand about 9 inches tall. This is the #6 bear in this series and we will be carrying each one as they are released
The quarter for this bear was released by the US Mint on
January 24, 2011
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