Use the arrow keys to move between letters. Press Enter or Space on the first letter of a word, then again on the last letter. Press Escape to cancel.
A few of the words
- MEADE
- George Gordon Meade took command of the Army of the Potomac only three days before the fighting began, on June 28, 1863.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
- PICKETT
- Pickett's charge came on July 3, the last day, and sent roughly 12,500 Confederates across open ground toward the center of the Union line.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
- ADDRESS
- Lincoln delivered his address at the dedication of the soldiers' cemetery on November 19, 1863. It ran only about two minutes.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
- CEMETERY
- Cemetery Ridge anchored the Union line, and the name came from the town's Evergreen Cemetery at its northern end.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
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The Battle of Gettysburg: a free online word search
A free Gettysburg word search set on the ridges and fields of Pennsylvania, July 1863, where Pickett's men marched across a mile of open ground.
About The Battle of Gettysburg
Gettysburg was a quiet market town of about 2,400 people when two armies stumbled into each other over a handful of roads in the summer of 1863. For three days the fighting rolled across a seminary, a peach orchard, a wheatfield and a cemetery on a hill. Today you can walk the same ridge in the early morning, with the cannon standing in rows and the fields mowed short, and it is hard to talk above a whisper.
How to play
- 1Find a word.Tap its first letter, then tap along to its last. The trail fills in and finishes itself when it spells a word. Or press the first letter and drag.
- 2Words run in straight lines.Across and down, and on the harder difficulties diagonally and backwards.
- 3It marks itself.Each word you find takes on its own soft color on the grid and is crossed off the list.
- 4Choose a difficulty.The level you pick sets those directions and how much the word list helps, never the grid size. Tap the A buttons at the top to enlarge the letters, or pinch the grid.
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