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    GETTYSBURG’S BIGGEST FAN

    Dec 14, 2021 4 minutes

    IN MAY 2021, Wayne Motts was named president and chief executive officer of the Gettysburg Foundation, an organization founded in 1989 to help preserve Gettysburg National Military Park. A lifelong aficionado of the Civil War, Motts began his career as a battlefield guide at Gettysburg in 1988. He also served as director of the Adams County Historical Society in Gettysburg and director of the National Museum of the Civil War in Harrisburg, Pa., before assuming his new post.

    CWT: What is your new position and how did you get there?

    I’ve been a battlefield guide at Gettysburg National Military Park for 33 years, since 1988. I went to school for military history at Ohio State University and got a master’s degree in

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