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The upper walkway of the Gettysburg National Cemetery. NPS Photo. Proceed to Stop 4 by walking into the cemetery along the paved avenue’s upper walkway. As you walk you will notice a black iron fence to your right, beyond which is Gettysburg’s public Evergreen Cemetery. Established in 1853, it was this cemetery that gave the hill its name.
- Gettysburg National Cemetery
1195 Baltimore Pike. Gettysburg, PA 17325.
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- Gettysburg National Cemetery
75th Pennsylvania. 1st United States Artillery Battery H. 4th United States Battery G. West Virginia Battery C. Tour map of the National Cemetery on the Gettysburg battlefield, showing monument locations with links to individual monument pages.
Gettysburg National Cemetery is a United States national cemetery in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania created for Union casualties from the Battle of Gettysburg in the American Civil War.
The Soldiers’ National Cemetery was turned over to the Federal Government in 1872, and transferred to the National Park Service in 1933. Gettysburg National Cemetery sign along Taneytown Road. Parking is located near the southern entrance along Taneytown Road (Route 134) at GPS coordinates 39.81673, -77.23290.
At the cemetery’s dedication, President Lincoln delivered his immortal Gettysburg Address, Nov. 19, 1863. The Lincoln Address Memorial inside the cemetery commemorates the speech. At the cemetery center, the towering Soldiers' National Monument features the figure of Liberty on the pedestal surrounded on the base by War, Clio, (the Muse of ...
