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Dwight D. Eisenhower

Gettysburg, Adams County, Pennsylvania

Marker Inscription

The future President of the U.S., General of the Army, and Supreme Commander in Europe in WWII lived in this house with his wife Mamie and infant son Icky in the spring and summer of 1918. An Army captain, he was then commanding Camp Colt at Gettysburg.

Erected by Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission

The Story

In the spring and summer of 1918, a young Army captain named Dwight D. Eisenhower lived in this Gettysburg house with his wife Mamie and their infant son while commanding nearby Camp Colt. There he trained American soldiers in the new weapon of the First World War, the tank, on the very fields where the great Civil War battle had been fought. Decades later he would return to Gettysburg as a five-star general, Supreme Commander in Europe, and President of the United States.

Why it matters

The marker captures Eisenhower at the outset of a career that would carry him to the command of Allied forces in World War II and the White House, rooting his lifelong bond with Gettysburg in his first field command.

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