The summer program of “Taps at Sunset,” which took place at Gettysburg’s Lincoln Cemetery every Sunday night since Memorial Day, came to an end for the season Sunday night. Therese Orr, a board member of the Lincoln Fellowship, spoke briefly before “Taps” was played. Each night, a different U.S. Colored Troops veteran buried in the cemetery is honored. The Lincoln Cemetery was created because colored troops were “segregated in death,” denied opp…
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