. Gettysburg : the story of the Battle of Gettysburg and the field described as it is on the fiftieth anniversary, 1863-1913 . borately marked,so easy to understand by the layman as well as the mili-tary man. So accurately have the positions of thevarious commands in the battle been designated, thatone has no difficulty in finding the location of any regi-ment during the three days of the fight. In the year 1893, the Gettysburg National Battle-field Commission was appointed, by Act of Congress, toplot and suitably mark the battlefield, which up to thattime had but few monuments or markers upon
. Gettysburg : the story of the Battle of Gettysburg and the field described as it is on the fiftieth anniversary, 1863-1913 . borately marked,so easy to understand by the layman as well as the mili-tary man. So accurately have the positions of thevarious commands in the battle been designated, thatone has no difficulty in finding the location of any regi-ment during the three days of the fight. In the year 1893, the Gettysburg National Battle-field Commission was appointed, by Act of Congress, toplot and suitably mark the battlefield, which up to thattime had but few monuments or markers upon it. Planswere adopted by which the positions of every commandengaged in the battle were to be shown by markers,including Division, Brigade, Regimental, and in somecases Company organizations. In 1895, the government established GettysburgBattlefield as one of the National Parks, and since thattime the Commission has acquired a considerableacreage of the farmlands over which the contesting armieswaged warfare, and has bent its efforts to restore theBattlefield to as near the condition it was in in 1863, asis possible. 5i. Culps Hill and Stevens Knoll from East Cemetery Hill The National Park contains 15,360 acres or twenty-four square miles, which includes the scene of the First,Second and Third Days battles. Through the park,the Commission has laid out thirty-two and one-halfmiles of telford roads. These are called avenues andare named after the Division, Corps and Brigade Com-manders whose troops, at some critical portion of thebattle, centered around the territory through which theyextend. These special avenues open up to the pedestrian,the driver or the automobilist the portions of the fieldnot directly on the old main roads which radiated fromGettysburg at the time of the battle. These main roads—the Chambersburg Pike, theHagerstown or Fairfield Road, the Mummasburg, Car-lisle, Harrisburg, Hunterstown, Hanover, Baltimore,Taneytown and Emmitsburg Roads—have been improve
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