Remembrance Day & Dedication Day – 2025
November 14, 2025We turn somber, reflective thoughts toward the hallowed ground of Gettysburg.
On Wednesday, November 19th, 2025, we observe the meaningful anniversary of Dedication Day, the day President Abraham Lincoln delivered his transformative address. This time calls us to deep reflection, asking us to honor the immense sacrifices made here with genuine humility and grace.
The Gettysburg Remembrance begins the weekend before, starting Saturday, November the fifteenth.
The annual Remembrance Day Parade steps off in Market St. in Gettysburg, a quiet and moving procession that honors the Civil War era through the historic streets. This march is a simple, humble act of respect, honoring every soldier and civilian touched by the events of that summer.
These weekend events lead up to the observance of Dedication Day itself. The annual ceremony takes place right here, where Lincoln called for a “new birth of freedom.” His address wasn’t just a speech; it was a charge to the living. It’s a powerful reminder that our duty isn’t only to remember the past, but to live up to the promise of unity and peace that those sacrifices demanded. We approach this day with a deep sense of responsibility, committed to continuing that unfinished work.
Whether you join the parade or stand at the Dedication Day ceremony, we at Gettysburg Battlefield Tours encourage you to join us. This time of year is a unique chance to connect with history and carry forward the lessons of humility, grace, and dedication. Come tour the fields with us, and feel the weight of history on this consecrated ground.
Observe Remembrance & Dedication Day with Us.
For a complete schedule of our current tours and experiences:
To learn more, here’s the article we wrote back in two thousand twenty-five discerning the difference between Remembrance Day and Dedication Day for The Battle of Gettysburg:
And to learn how Gettysburg feels the bond between Thanksgiving, Remembrance, and Dedication day in part to Lincoln’s foresight and grace, please read here:
The Gettysburg Address (Bliss Copy)
Lastly, if you’ve never read it, here is the Gettysburg Address, known as the Bliss Copy, the one that is inscribed on the walls of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington DC:
“Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth, upon this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.”
“Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.
“But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate — we can not consecrate — we can not hallow — this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us — that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion — that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain — that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom — and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.
Abraham Lincoln
November 19, 1863.”
Source: Abraham Lincoln Online