. Abraham Lincoln and the battles of the Civil War . Me-morial ,and has additionaltracts. More than tenmiles of standardTelford road havealready been made ;U\Q: si.\ty-f(X)t steelobservation towershave Ikcu erected atimportant points onthe field ; trees havei)een planted ; fencesand tiefenses have 624 THE BATTLEF/ELD OF GETTYSFrRG. been rebuilt ; g-unshave been placed atall battery positions,some of the Confed-rate Whit worthSfuns occupying- theplaces they did in thebattle; miles of snb-stantial fencing- havebeen built : the en-tire property has beenrestored, as
. Abraham Lincoln and the battles of the Civil War . Me-morial ,and has additionaltracts. More than tenmiles of standardTelford road havealready been made ;U\Q: si.\ty-f(X)t steelobservation towershave Ikcu erected atimportant points onthe field ; trees havei)een planted ; fencesand tiefenses have 624 THE BATTLEF/ELD OF GETTYSFrRG. been rebuilt ; g-unshave been placed atall battery positions,some of the Confed-rate Whit worthSfuns occupying- theplaces they did in thebattle; miles of snb-stantial fencing- havebeen built : the en-tire property has beenrestored, as nearly aspossible, to its orig-inal condition; whilepark gnards havebeen apjiointed tocare for these niulti-farions interests ofthe Government andsave them from spol-iation at the hands of vandals. It is thepnrpose of the to event-ually have all the avenues on the fieldconverted into the Telford roads, thatthe visitor may have access to all pointsof the field at all seasons of the Slate- of Peiiiis\-lvaiiia lias ct-ded to. ^*5y_ MONUMENT TO TllK FIRST the United Statescontrol over morethan fourteen milesof ordinary* roadswithin the confinesof the park. These,too, are to be madeas fine as the prin-cipal avenues. The present mem-bers of the commis-sion are Colonel JohnP. Nicholson, ofPenn,sylvania, chair-man ; Major W. , of NorthCarolina, and MajorCharles A. Richard-son, of New York, thetwo latter being ap-pointed to succeed General Forney andColonel Batclielder, who died. When theirplans are carried out, the people of theUnited States will have a park, beautifulin its natural aspect, adorned with nobleworks of art^—a lesson to the militarystudent and an inspiration to the ]iatriot.
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