. Summer tours, season 1910 .. . emetery, forms tin- central .ind most striking feature at (lettys-hurg. Hen; were tiie Inion head(|U:irters, and standing on itscrest the visitor hius the key to the position of tin- Inion forcesduring those eventful three days of .July, ilanking CemeteryHill on the west, about a mile distant, is Cemeterv Ri<lge, onwhich were (jeneral head<|uarlers .and the bulk of liwConfedfTatf! forces. Other H|)ots visited are KennersHill, Culps Hill, Rouml Ton and Little]{ound ioi): .also Wil-louglii)y Iltm, where cavalry held \. !. Hills coiu
. Summer tours, season 1910 .. . emetery, forms tin- central .ind most striking feature at (lettys-hurg. Hen; were tiie Inion head(|U:irters, and standing on itscrest the visitor hius the key to the position of tin- Inion forcesduring those eventful three days of .July, ilanking CemeteryHill on the west, about a mile distant, is Cemeterv Ri<lge, onwhich were (jeneral head<|uarlers .and the bulk of liwConfedfTatf! forces. Other H|)ots visited are KennersHill, Culps Hill, Rouml Ton and Little]{ound ioi): .also Wil-louglii)y Iltm, where cavalry held \. !. Hills coiunmin clieck during two (Tili,contjiining the of llie^lnion .^who,fell in tliebattle of (iettysburg, occupies about .siiventeen acres on Cemeter\Hill afljacent to the village cemetcrj, and was de<licated williim[)osing ceremonies and ;in impressive .adilress by PresidentLincoln, Nuveinber 19, 1863. A .sohliers monument, sixty feet 96 SUMMER EXCURSION ROUTES AND HIGH WATER MAKK, GETTYSBURG. high and surmounted by a colossal marble statue of Liberty,dedicated July 4, 1868, occupies the cro^Ti of the liill. At thebase of the pedestal are four buttresses bearing marble statuesof War, Historj, Peace and Plenty. Around the monument insemicircular slopes are arranged the graves of the dead, thespaces Vjeing divided by alley and pathways into twenty-twosections—one for the regular army, one for the volunteers ofeach State represented in the battle, and three for the unknowndead. The number of bodies interred here is three thousandfive hundred and sixty-four, of which nine hundred and ninety-four have not been identified. Near the entrance to the ceme-tery is a bronze statue of John F. Reynolds, who waskilled in the first days fight. Opposite the cemeterj an obser-vatory sixty feet Wgh has been erected, commanding a fine there are now three hundred and forty-eight monu-ments erected to perpetiuite the memory of brave men w
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