. Book of the Royal blue . terest of Gettysburg is his-toric, and this it is that attracts touristsfrom all parts of the world. The greatestbattle, considered the high-water markof the Civil War, was fought here on the1st, 2d and 3d of July, 1863, between the bulk of the Confederate forces. Other spotsusually visited are Benners Hill, CulpsHill, Round Top and Little Round Top,also Willoughby Run, where Bufordscavalry held A. P. Hills column in checkduring two critical hours. The National L>^>:. ■ HIGH WATEK MARK. GETTYSBURG. National forces under General Meade andthe Confederate army und
. Book of the Royal blue . terest of Gettysburg is his-toric, and this it is that attracts touristsfrom all parts of the world. The greatestbattle, considered the high-water markof the Civil War, was fought here on the1st, 2d and 3d of July, 1863, between the bulk of the Confederate forces. Other spotsusually visited are Benners Hill, CulpsHill, Round Top and Little Round Top,also Willoughby Run, where Bufordscavalry held A. P. Hills column in checkduring two critical hours. The National L>^>:. ■ HIGH WATEK MARK. GETTYSBURG. National forces under General Meade andthe Confederate army under General principal object of interest, CemeteiyHill, so named from having long been thesite of the village cemetery, forms the cen-tral and most striking feature at Gettys- Cemetery, containing the remains of theUnion soldiers who fell in the battle ofGettysburg, occupies about seventeen acreson Cemetery Hill adjacent to the villagecemetery, and was dedicated with imposingceremonies and an impressive address by. MKADS HEADQUAKTKRS. GETTYSBURG. burg. Here were the LTnion headquarters,and standing on its crest the visitor has thekey to the position of the Union forces dur-ing those eventful three days of July. Flank-ing Cemetery Hill on the west, about amile distant, is Cemetery Ridge, on whichwere General Lees headquarters and the President Lincoln, November 19, 1863. Asoldiers monument, sixty feet high andsurmounted by a colossal marble statue ofLiberty, dedicated July 4, 1868, occupiesthe crown of the hill. At the base of thepedestal are four buttresses bearing marblestatues of War, History, Peace and Plenty. ALLEGHENY A/Or.\TJL\ RESORTS. 17 Around the monument in semicircularslopes are arranged the graves of the dead,the space being divided by alleys and path-ways into twenty-two sections—one for theregular army, one for the volunteers of eachState represented in the battle, and three One mile west of the borough are theGettysburg Springs, whose waters,
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