Historic views of Gettysburg : illustrations in half-tone of all the monuments, important views and historic places on the Gettysburg battlefield . GETTYSBURG NATIONAL CEMETERY. Several days after the battle, Hon. David Wills, of Gettysburg, communicated to Governor Curtin,of Pennsylvania, a proposition to provide a suitable place for the permanent burial of the soldiers who died in defence of the Union at Gettysburg. Hewas authorized to correspond with Governors of various States interested, and his efforts resulted in the formation of an organization which was incor-porated by the State of P
Historic views of Gettysburg : illustrations in half-tone of all the monuments, important views and historic places on the Gettysburg battlefield . GETTYSBURG NATIONAL CEMETERY. Several days after the battle, Hon. David Wills, of Gettysburg, communicated to Governor Curtin,of Pennsylvania, a proposition to provide a suitable place for the permanent burial of the soldiers who died in defence of the Union at Gettysburg. Hewas authorized to correspond with Governors of various States interested, and his efforts resulted in the formation of an organization which was incor-porated by the State of Pennsylvania as the Soldiers National Cemetery. Under their supervision the plot of seventeen acres on Cemetery Hill wasbought and arranged as it now appears. The Cemetery was dedicated November 19, 1863, and a prominent part of the exercises was the deliveryby President Lincoln of that immortal address Four-score and seven years ago ... familiar to every American. — >.; mil i 1 SUMMER HOUSE i. SOLDIERSNATIONAL MONUMENT: UCM laoum, inamuinal. otMtl tKY. Beginning with October 26th of that year and continuing until March xS, 1864, tie dead werefrom the parts of the field where they had been hastily buried and were re-interred in the semicircle facing the monument, in sections proporlthe number of graves for each State. The original burials amounted to 3555, and were divided by States, as follows: Maine, 104; New Ha49; Vermont, Si; Massachusetts, 158; Rhode Island, r2 ; Connecticut, 22; New York, 866; New Jersey, 78; Pennsylvania, 526; Delaware, 15; M G5TTY^BU< N^TONAL CEIV1ETERY. ^ Beginning with October 26th of that year and continuing until March t8, 1864, the dead were removed proportioned toHampshire, -, 15 ; Maryland, 22; West \1rg1n1a, ir; Ohio, 131; Indiana, 80; Illinois, 6; Michigan, 172; Wisconsin, 73; Minnesota, 52; U. S. Regulars, 138; Unknown, 979. The SoldiersNational Monument is a work of art. It is sixty-five feet high, and the pedestal, twenty-five feet
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