. Book of the Royal blue . dquarters, 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. A
. Book of the Royal blue . dquarters, 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 borough are theGettysburg Springs, whose waters, denom-inated katalysine, have acquired a wide. ■•PICKETTS CHARGE. represented in the battle, and three for theunknown dead. The number of bodies in-terred here is three thousand five hundredand sixty-four, of which nine hundred andninety-four have not been identified. Nearthe entrance to the cemetery is a bronzestatue of Major-Gen. John F. Reynolds, reputation for their medicinal are said to resemble the celebratedVichy water, and are considered remedialin gout, rheumatism, dyspepsia and affec-tions of the kidneys. The Springs Hotelaccommodates the patients who resort hereduring the summer for treatment.
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