2016 Battlefield Pennsylvania: Hanover Junction

On June 27, 1863, Confederates raided Hanover Junction, cut telegraph wires & burned bridges. President Abraham Lincoln passed through Hanover Junction on Nov. 18-19, 1863, as he traveled to and from Gettysburg for the dedication of the Soldier's National Cemetery and to deliver the Gettysburg Address on Nov. 19, 1863. His funeral train also passed through Hanover Junction on April 21, 1865, a week after he was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth.