. Gettysburg and Lincoln; . ted were united in 1899 by constructingan avenue eleven hundred feet in length alongwhat is known as the Wheatfield road, whichwas a public highway when Sickles Avenue wasmade, and so could not be occupied and im-proved as a battle-field avenue. This difficultyhad now been obviated by an act of the Penn-sylvania Legislature ceding jurisdiction of allsuch roads to the United States, and an act ofCongress authorizing the Secretary of War toimprove such of these roads as in his discretionmight be deemed needful. Sickles Avenue wasnow made continuous, and follows, as ne
. Gettysburg and Lincoln; . ted were united in 1899 by constructingan avenue eleven hundred feet in length alongwhat is known as the Wheatfield road, whichwas a public highway when Sickles Avenue wasmade, and so could not be occupied and im-proved as a battle-field avenue. This difficultyhad now been obviated by an act of the Penn-sylvania Legislature ceding jurisdiction of allsuch roads to the United States, and an act ofCongress authorizing the Secretary of War toimprove such of these roads as in his discretionmight be deemed needful. Sickles Avenue wasnow made continuous, and follows, as near as thecontour of the ground will permit, the entire lineof the Third Army Corps from the Emmittsburgroad near the Rogers house to the Devils Den. The equestrian statue of John , a gift of the State of Pennsylvania, wasunveiled with appropriate ceremonies July 9, 1899. In the same year an avenue, known as EastConfederate Avenue, extending from the easternborder of the town across the intervening fields. National Park Commission 177 to Gulps Hill, and around the base of that hill toSpanglers Spring, was completed. Nearly a niileand a half long, and twenty feet wide, it followssubstantially the battle-line of Ewells corps, at itssoutheastern terminus joining Slocum Avenue,which marks the line of the Twelfth Corps alongthe summit of Gulps Hill. Reference has already been made to themounted cannon on the battle-field when theGommission entered upon its work in 1893, ^^idto the changes made in the carriages on whichthey rested. These cannon were not of the samecalibre as those used in the battle. Not only werenew carriages now substituted for the old, imper-fect ones, but new guns, and many additionalbatteries, all of the same class and calibre as thoseused in the battle by each battery. By the close of 1900 there were two hundredand twenty-five mounted guns on the battle-field,and the total number of monumental iron tabletswith appropriate inscriptions had inc
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