Good question, Gettysburg was the site of the bloodiest battle of our Civil War, it does make a powerful and memorable message... I just found this...
Why Santorum Surrendered At Gettysburg...
Gettysburg has a bit of extra significance for Santorum. While he lives in Virginia now, Pennsylvania is the site of both his political rise and ignominious defeat. His speech here was his last chance to tell his old constituents that he’s more than just a failed senator.
"What I tried to bring to the battle was what Abraham Lincoln brought to this battlefield back in 1863,” Santorum said in his concession speech, “when he talked about this country being conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.”
The Battle of Gettysburg, fought from July 1 to 3 of 1863, was the bloodiest of the Civil War and a turning point in the fight. It was the last major offensive launched by the South against the North.
Four months later, Abraham Lincoln dedicated the Soldiers’ National Cemetery on that site, using the speech to firmly establish the Declaration of Independence as the guiding spirit of the nation.
Santorum, in turn, cast his campaign as the best chance at recapturing that spirit.
“I think it’s the most important election since the election of 1860,” Santorum said in Illinois. “The election in 1860 was about whether these United States ... would be ... a nation based on a concept, a concept that we were birthed with, a concept birthed with our founding document of the Declaration of Independence.” This election too, he said, was about “freedom.”
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