. Summer tours, season 1911 .. . HIGH WATER MARK, SUMMER EXCURSION ROUTES AND battle ofGettysburg, occupies about seventeen acres on Ceme-tery Hill adjacent to the village cemetery, and was dedicatedwith imposing ceremonies and an impressive address by Presi-dent Lincoln, November 19, 1863. A soldiers monument, sixtyfeet high and surmounted by a colossal marble statue of Liberty,dedicated July 4, 1868, occupies the crown of the bill. At thebase of the pedestal are four buttresses bearing marble statuesof War, History, Peace and Plenty. Around the monument insemicircular s
. Summer tours, season 1911 .. . HIGH WATER MARK, SUMMER EXCURSION ROUTES AND battle ofGettysburg, occupies about seventeen acres on Ceme-tery Hill adjacent to the village cemetery, and was dedicatedwith imposing ceremonies and an impressive address by Presi-dent Lincoln, November 19, 1863. A soldiers monument, sixtyfeet high and surmounted by a colossal marble statue of Liberty,dedicated July 4, 1868, occupies the crown of the bill. At thebase of the pedestal are four buttresses bearing marble statuesof War, History, Peace and Plenty. Around the monument insemicircular slopes are arranged the graves of the dead, thespaces being divided by alley and pathways into twenty-twosections—one for the regular army, one for the volunteers ofeach State represented in the battle, and three for the unknowndead. The number of bodies interred here is three thousandfive hundred and sixty-four, of which nine hundred and ninety-four have not been identified. Near the entrance to the ceme-tery is a bronze statue of John F. Reynolds, who waskilled in the first days fi
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