. Book of the Royal blue . (iKNEUAL LEES HEADQtIAUTEUS. GETTVSBnRG. 1863, between the national forces underGeneral Meade and the Confederate Armyunder General Lee. The principal objectof interest. Cemetery Hill, so named fromhaving long been the site of the villagecemetery, forms the central and most strik- two critical hours. The National Cemetery,containing the remains of the Union sol-diers who fell in the battle of Gettysburg,occupies about seventeen acres on Ceme-tery Hill adjacent to the village cemetery,and was dedicated with imposing ceremon-. GENERAL MEADES HEADQUARTERS. GETTYSBURG. i
. Book of the Royal blue . (iKNEUAL LEES HEADQtIAUTEUS. GETTVSBnRG. 1863, between the national forces underGeneral Meade and the Confederate Armyunder General Lee. The principal objectof interest. Cemetery Hill, so named fromhaving long been the site of the villagecemetery, forms the central and most strik- two critical hours. The National Cemetery,containing the remains of the Union sol-diers who fell in the battle of Gettysburg,occupies about seventeen acres on Ceme-tery Hill adjacent to the village cemetery,and was dedicated with imposing ceremon-. GENERAL MEADES HEADQUARTERS. GETTYSBURG. ing feature at Gettysburg. Here were theUnion headquarters, and standing on itscrest the visitor has the key to the positionof the Union forces during those eventfulthree days of July. Flanking CemeteryHill on the west, about a mile distant, isCemetery Ridge, on which were General ies and an impressive address by PresidentLincoln, November 19, 180,i. A soldiersmonument, sixty feet high and surmountedby a colossal marble statue of Liberty, dedi-cated July 4, 18G8, occupies the crown ofthe hill. At the base of the pedestal arefour buttresses bearing marble statues of BATTLEFIELDS. 17 War, History, Peace and Plenty. Aroundtlie monument in semicircular slopes arearranged the graves of the dead, the spacebeing divided by alleys and pathways intotwenty-two sections—one for the regulararmy, one for the volunteers of each State who fell during the three eventful of them are magniKcent and costly,and all are unique. One mile west of the boro
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