David Willis House

The New York Times just published an interesting article about a new museum in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. The David Willis House, which opens tomorrow (February 12, 2009), was where President Abraham Lincoln spent the night before he gave the Gettysburg Address. Yet as Sean Hamill explains, “the museum’s larger purpose…is to tell what happened after the Civil War battle [in July 1863], when dead and wounded soldiers outnumbered the town’s 2,400 residents by 11 to 1.” You can find out more about this museum at this National Park Service website.