. Gettysburg and Lincoln; . xpended in defraying the cost ofremoving and re-interring the dead, and of com-pleting the work connected with the cemetery un-der the direction of the cemetery corporation. Itwas also suggested that, when this work was com-pleted, the grounds should be kept in order from afund created by annual appropriations made bythe States, and represented in the cemetery cor-poration in proportion to their representation inCongress. The national monument was to be a con-spicuous feature of the cemetery, and acommitte was now appointed to procure de-signs for a monument worthy
. Gettysburg and Lincoln; . xpended in defraying the cost ofremoving and re-interring the dead, and of com-pleting the work connected with the cemetery un-der the direction of the cemetery corporation. Itwas also suggested that, when this work was com-pleted, the grounds should be kept in order from afund created by annual appropriations made bythe States, and represented in the cemetery cor-poration in proportion to their representation inCongress. The national monument was to be a con-spicuous feature of the cemetery, and acommitte was now appointed to procure de-signs for a monument worthy of the heroicdead. The work of exhuming and bringing together inthe cemetery the bodies of the Union soldiers, com-menced on October 27, 1863, was not completeduntil March 18, 1864. The total number of remov-als at that time was 3512; of these, 979 wereunknown. Other bodies were subsequentlyfound, and in 1865 the State of Pennsylvaniapublished a Hst, by States, of all the burialsup to that time. The summary was as fol-lows:. Monument in National Cemetery Provision for Maintenance 139 Maine . 104 Ohio . . • 131 New Hampshire 49 Indiana 80 Vermont 61 Illinois . 6 Massachusetts . 159 Michigan • 171 Rhode Island . 12 Wisconsin . 73 Connecticut 22 Minnesota . 52 New York . 866 U. S. Regulars . 138 New Jersey 78 Unknown—Lot North . . 411 Pennsylvania . 526 Unknown—Lot South . . 425 Delaware . 15 Unknown—Lot Maryland . 22 Inner Circle . 143 West Virginia . II Total . . 3555 The design for a national monument in the cem-etery, to be executed by Mr. J. G. Batterson, ofHartford, Conn., was accepted, and the comerstone was laid July 4, 1865, with an oration Howard. At the dedication of themonument, July i, 1869, the prayer was by HenryWard Beecher. P. Morton delivered theoration. There was also an address by G. Meade, and an ode by Bayard monument is sixty feet high, and is crownedwith a colossal statue of Liberty, standing
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