Tourists trickle through the Gettysburg Train Station’s burgundy door, some to escape the heat and others to pick up battlefield maps. Only a scant few come to trace President Abraham Lincoln’s path through here to deliver the famous two-minute speech that defined the Civil War and began to reunify the country.
When Walter Powell walks through, his eyes don’t register the racks of picked-over tourism brochures or the weariness of travelers who rest achy feet on 150-year-old benches.
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