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- Soldiers Nat. Cemetery Monument, site of Lincoln's Gettysburg Address, National Military Park, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.
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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 ...
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- Gettysburg - Lincoln's Gettysburg Address Memorial.
- Gettysburg Gateway.
- Position of Battery H, 1st U.S. Artillery. Led by 1st Lt. Chandler Eakin, the Battery’s six 12-pounder Napoleon smoothbores moved into position on the afternoon of July 2 and dueled with enemy guns while enduring the pesky musketry of Confederate snipers at the edge of town.
- The Soldiers’ National Monument. Standing at the monument’s front, the semi-circular arrangement radiates down a gentle slope into inner and outer rings separated into sections of states.
- 2nd Lt. Sumner Paine, 20th Massachusetts Infantry (Plot E-1) This grave represents Massachusetts’ commitment to lay their fallen heroes to rest at a public spot in Gettysburg rather than private burials at home.
- George L. Boss, 15th Massachusetts Infantry (Plot D-10) Boss, 19, lived with his parents and younger siblings in Fitchburg when he enlisted in the 15th Massachusetts Infantry in July 1861.
Gettysburg National Cemetery. / 39.81722°N 77.23194°W / 39.81722; -77.23194. 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.
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.
