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Photos of Gettysburg National Cemetery
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Gettysburg National Cemetery, originally known as Soldier's National Cemetery, was created not long after the battle was over as a place to properly bury the Union soldiers after many of the hastily dug shallow graves were unearthed by the wind and rain. It is located on the battlefield near what would have been the center of the Union line on Cemetery Hill. William Saunders was the landscape architect responsible for designing Soldier's National Cemetery. His design called for the Soldier's National Monument to be at the center to "promote the Union victory and valor of the fallen soldiers." It was also designed with the graves arranged in a series of semicircles around the monument. The graves are arranged by state. There are also two sections for the unknowns and one for the regular army. The cemetery was dedicated on November 19, 1863 and attended by 10,000 citizens. The key speaker that day was Edward Everett whose speech lasted two hours, but it was the "Gettysburg Address" by President Abraham Lincoln that everyone remembers. The cemetery was completed in March 1864 when the last of the 3.512 Union soldiers were buried there. It was transferred to the War Department on May 1, 1872 and became a National cemetery. Today the National Park Service maintains it. In total there are more than 6,000 individuals buried there who served in a number of American wars including the Mexican-American War to more current wars. Of the 3,512 Union soldiers buried there, are 979 who are known only as "unknown."
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