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  1. Stop 1 - Cemetery Entrance The Gettysburg National Cemetery is famous throughout the world today as the site of Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address, delivered at the cemetery’s dedication ceremony four and a half months after the battle. The monument to your right, the Lincoln Speech Memorial, honors that moment and the 16th president’s ...

  2. United States of America. Pennsylvania. Adams County. Gettysburg. Gettysburg National Cemetery. Added: 18 Sep 2002. Find a Grave Cemetery ID: 1584934. Find 6949 memorial records at the Gettysburg National Cemetery cemetery in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. Add a memorial, flowers or photo.

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  3. GETTmap2. North. 0. 100 Meters. 0 500 Feet. Motorized vehicles are prohibited in the National Cemetery. Inquire at visitor center about access for those with disabilities. BR. 15.

  4. The centerpiece of Gettysburg National Cemetery is Soldiers' National Monument (1869), a 60-foot-tall (18 m) granite monument designed by sculptor Randolph Rogers and architect George Keller. It is surrounded by concentric semicircles of graves, divided into 18 sections for Union states (1 each), [4] a section for United States Regulars , and 3 ...

  5. This time, Major General George Gordon Meade —the hero of the Battle of Gettysburg—served as the keynote speaker. In 1872, the Federal government took stewardship of the cemetery and now it remains in the hands of Gettysburg National Military Park. Of the 3,354 bodies buried in the Soldiers’ National Cemetery, 979 are unknown.

  6. By Garry Adelman, American Battlefield Trust. When Gettysburg's Union and Confederate dead were exhumed for reburial in proper cemeteries (1863-1873), workers recorded key location and other information about each soldier's grave — a true gift to today's historians. Gettysburg National Military Park. Images of Civil War soldiers are one of ...

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