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TO BE ERECTED AT
GETTY S B U R G , PA,
REVISED REPORT
MADE TO THE
Legislative of Pennsylyainia,
RELATIVE TO THE
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A.T GETTYSBURG,
EMBRACING AN ACCOUNT OF THE ORIGIN OE THE UNDERTAKING ;
ADDRESS OF HON. EDWARD EVERETT, AT ITS CONSECRATION,
WITH THE DEDICATORY SPEECH OF PRESIDENT LINCOLN,
AND THE OTHER EXERCISES OF THAT EVENT ;
TOGETHER WITH THE
ADD&ESS OF MAJ. GEN. 0. 0. HOWARD,
Delivered July 4, 1866,
UPON THE DEDICATION OP THE SOLDIERS' NATIONAL MONUMENT, AND
THE OTHER PROCEEDINGS UPON THAT OCCASION.
HAEEISBUKG:
SINGERLY & MYE'RS, STATE PRINTERS,
1867.
INTRODUCTION.
[EXTEACT FEOM GOVEENOE CUETIN'S ANNUAL MES-
SAGE, JANUAEY 7, 1864.]
After the battle of Gettysburg', in which loyal volunteers from
eighteen States, including Pennsylvania, were engaged, it ap-
peared to me proper that all those States should unite in estab-
lishing a Cemetery, on the spot in which then? soldiers who had
fallen in that conflict, should be honorably interred. I accord-
ingly appointed David Wills, Esq., of Gettysburg, my agent,
and through him, a site was purchased at a cost of $2,475 87, and
the conveyances made to the Commonwealth. On communicat-
ing with the authorities of the other States, they all readily agreed
to become parties to the arrangement, and on the 19th day of No-
vember last, the Cemetery was dedicated, with appropriate cere-
monies, in the presence of the President of the United States, the
Governors of the States concerned, and other high officers, State
and National. On the 19th day of December, on the invitation
of Mr. Wills, commissioners representing, the States interested
in the Cemetery, met in Harrisburg, and agreed upon a plan for
its improvement and care in the future, and the apportionment of
the sum of money required, to the several States, which is here-
with communicated. The expenses attending' the establishment
of this Cemeter3T, including the cost of the site and of removing
the bodies of the slain, have thus far amounted to $5,209 38, and
an appropriation will be required to pay these expenses, and to
meet our portion of those attending its future maintenance. It
will appear by the proceedings of the commissioners, that their
due proportion of the expenses already incurred, are to be refunded
by the States on whose account they were made. It is just to say,
that Mr. Wills has discharged his delicate and important duties
with fidelity and to my entire satisfaction.
REPORT OF DAVID WELLS,
[MADE TO THE COMMITTEE OF THE LEGISLATURE OF THE SESSION OF 1864.]
To the Honorable, the Committee of the House of Representatives of
the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, on the Soldiers'' National
Cemetery at Gettysburg:
Gentlemen : — In obedience to your request, I have the honor
to submit the following report on the subject of the Soldiers'
National Cemetery, at Gettysburg:
The design of locating a place for the decent interment of the
remains of our soldiers who fell in defence of the Union, in the
battle of Gettysburg, was originated soon after that bloody con-
flict, in July last ; but was not consummated by the purchase of
the grounds for the purpose until August. A persistent effort
was made by persons here, to have the soldiers buried in grounds
controlled by the local cemetery association of this place. The
plan proposed having the burials made at a stipulated price, to be
paid the cemetery association. Failing in this project, these per-
sons endeavored to connect the two cemeteries, so that they should
both be in one enclosure, and all under the control, supervision
and management of the local cemetery association. As the agent
of his Excellency, the Governor of Pennsylvania, I was in com-
munication, by letter, and personally, for some time, with the rep-
resentatives and citizens of other States, in reference to this pro-
posed plan, and all were of the decided opinion that the Soldiers'
Cemetery should be entirely distinct and disconnected from the
local cemetery; that, to ensure success in obtaining concert of
action among all the States, it must be made an independent
cemetery, and the control and management of it be retained by
the States interested. This whole matter was very thoroughly
and impartially canvassed and discussed, and this conclusion ar-
rived at and adopted. The grounds were subsequently laid out,
6 SOLDIERS' NATIONAL CEMETERY.
and the burials made in view of the National character of the
project.
His Excellency, Gov. CuETEsr, having authorized me to buy
grounds, and invite the other States interested to unite in the re-
moval of the dead, and improving the grounds, I immediately
endeavored to purchase land on Cemetery Hill, and, after much
difficulty, succeeded in buying five different lots lying on Ceme-
tery Hill, on the west side of the Baltimore turnpike, adjoining
the local cemetery on the north and west. It is the ground on
which the centre of our line of battle rested July 2d and 3d, and
one of the most prominent and important positions on the whole
battle field. The lots were purchased for different prices per acre,
according to their location, but all at a very reasonable market
price. Two lots were bought at the rate of $225 per acre ; one
for $200 per acre; one for $150 per acre, and one for $135 per
acre. The whole embraces about seventeen acres, and for the
exact area and amount in each purchase, I refer you to the deeds
on file in the Auditor General's office.
The Cemetery having assumed a National character, by being
independent of any local controlling influences, the Governors of
all the States having soldiers lying on this battle field, after much
correspondence and conference through commissioners sent here
for the purpose, committed their States to the project. I then
made arrangements with Mr. William Saunders, an eminent
landscape gardener, to lay out the grounds in State lots, appor-
tioned in size according to the number of marked graves each
State had on this battle field. This number was obtained by hav-
ing a thorough search made for all the graves, and a complete list
of the names accurately taken. The grounds were accordingly
very neatly and appropriately laid out, and I refer you to the map
of them.
To x>reserve their identity, I deemed it very important to have
the removals of the dead made as soon as possible. The marks
at the graves were but temporary ; in many instances, a small
rough board, on which the name was feintly written with a lead
pencil. This would necessarily be effaced by the action of the
weather, and the boards were also liable to be thrown down and
lost. The graves which were unmarked were in many instances
level with the surface of the earth, and the grass and weeds were
SOLDIERS' NATIONAL CEMETERY. 7
growing over them ; and in the forests, the fall of the leaves in
the autumn would cover them so that they might be entirely lost.
I, therefore, issued proposals for giving out the contract for disin-
terring, removing and burying in the National Cemetery, all the
Union dead on this battle field. Thirty-four bids were handed in,
varying, in amount, from $1 59 to $8. I awarded the work to F.
W. Bieseckek, the lowest bidder, for $1 59 per body. His duties
are fully set forth in the specifications, which are embodied in the
contract. I take pleasure in saying, that the work under this
contract has been done with great care and to my entire satisfac-
tion. This is owing in part to the great care and attention be-
stowed by Mr. Samuel Weaver, whom I employed to superin-
tend the exhuming of the bodies. Through his untiring and
faithful efforts, the bodies in many unmarked graves have been
identified in various ways. Sometimes by letters, by papers, re-
ceipts, certificates, diaries, memorandum books, photographs,
marks on the clothing, belts, or cartridge boxes, &c, have the
names of the soldiers been discovered. Money, and other valua-
bles, have frequently been found, which, where the residence of
the friends is known, have been immediately sent to them. Those
not returned to the friends are carefully packed up and marked,
and every effort will be made to find the friends of the deceased
and place these articles in their possession. Words would fail to
describe the grateful relief that this work has brought to many a
sorrowing household ! A father, a brother, a son has been lost on
this battle field, supposed to be killed, but no tidings whatever
have the bereaved friends of him. Suddenly, in the progress of
this work, his remains are discovered by sure marks, letters pro-
bably, photographs, &c, and they are deposited in a coffin with
care, and buried in this very appropriate place, on the battle field
where he fell, the Soldiers' National Cemetery. There his
grave will be properly cared for and permanently marked. The
friends, who have probably written me several letters of inquiry,
are immediately informed of the discovery. What a relief from
agonizing hope and despair such certain information brings !
After purchasing the grounds, I made application to the Secre-
tary of War for cofiins for the burial of these dead, and he at once
approved of the application, and directed the Quartermaster Gen-
eral to furnish the number required for the purpose.
8 SOLDIERS' NATIONAL CEMETEEY.
These Cemetery grounds were solemnly dedicated to their pre-
sent sacred purpose, by appropriate and imposing ceremonies, on
Thursday, the 19th of November last. The public prints of that
week contained full accounts of the proceedings. I refer you,
also, to the accompanying proceedings embraced in this volume.
I requested the Governors of the several States, having lots in
the Cemetery, to appoint commissioners to assemble at Harris-
burg, on the 17th of December last, to adopt some uniform plan
for the action of the Legislatures of the different States. Twelve
States were represented, and the other five signified, in advance,
their assent to any reasonable action of the convention. I here-
with refer you to the report of the proceedings of the convention.
The estimated expenses of finishing the Cemetery, are $63,500, and
it is proposed to divide this sum among the different States hav-
ing lots in the Cemetery, in the ratio of their representation in
Congress.
The Legislatures of the other States are acting in this matter,
and making the appropriations in the proportions as above indi-
cated. Besides making this appropriation, an additional duty de-
volves upon the Legislature of Pennsylvania. For the manage-
ment and care of the grounds, and the completion of the work,
it is necessary to .have a corporate body, and the State of Penn-
sylvania is requested, through her Legislature, to establish, by her
letters patent, this corporation of "The Soldiers' National
Cemetery. This should be done without delay. It will neces-
sarily require some time for the board of managers to meet and
organize, and in the meantime the work which should be pro-
gressing is delayed. It is especially desirable that the Legislature
act upon this matter at once, so that the organization may be per-
fected. Upon this board of managers, composed of one from each
State having soldier-dead here, will devolve the completion of the
project, and the future care of the grounds.
I herewith submit a list of the names of the soldiers buried in
the Pennsylvania lot. The whole number is five hundred and
thirty-four (534.) The total number buried in the Cemetery, is
thirty-five hundred and sixty-four (3,564.) I also submit a list
giving the number buried in each State lot, and in the ground set
apart for the Eegulars and the Unknown.
I also submit, herewith, for your satisfaction, the following in-
SOLDIERS' NATIONAL CEMETERY. 9
teresting reports : First — that of Mr. William Saunders, the de-
signer of the grounds. Second — the report of Samuel Weaver,
the superintendent of the exhuming of the bodies. Third — the
report of Joseph S. Townsend, the superintendent of interments
in the Cemetery, and the surveyor. I also transmit the names of
persons upon whose bodies articles were found, referred to in Mr.
Weaver's report, containing a description of the articles obtained.
All of which is respectfully submitted.
DAVID WILLS,
Agent for A. G. Curtin, Governor of Penrta.
Gettysburg, March 21, 1864.
10 SOLDIEES' NATIONAL CEMETERY.
SUPPLEMENTAL REPORT OF DAVID WILLS,
[MADE TO THE COMMITTEE OP THE LEGISLATURE OF 1S65.]
To the Honorable, the Committee of the House of Representatives of
the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, appointed to revise the report
of the Committee relative to the Soldiers' National Cemetery,
made March 31, 1864 :
-3
Gentlemen : — At your suggestion, I take pleasure in submit-
ting the following additional facts in reference to the Soldiers'
National Cemetery :
In the month of April last, (1864,) the commissioners (one from
each State) met and organized, in accordance with the provisions
of the act of Assembly of this Commonwealth, incorporating the
Soldiers' National Cemetery, and elected David Wills, of
Pennsylvania, President, and John E. Baetlett, of Ehode Is-
land, Secretary.
Arrangements were then made for commencing the work of en-
closing the grounds, and an Executive Committee was appointed,
to whom was referred the details of the work. *
The Board met again in June, and a large number of designs
for a monument, to be erected in the Cemetery, was submitted to
them. These designs were obtained from the best artists in the
country, by a committee appointed for that purpose, who adver-
tised for them through the press. After mature deliberation, the
board adopted the design proposed by J. G. Batterson, of Hart*
ford, Connecticut. I herewith submit a lithograph, together with
an artistic description of the adopted design. The board has not
yet entered into a contract for the construction of this monument,
but expect to do so during this year.
The enclosure around the Cemetery grounds is nearly completed.
It consists of a well built stone wall, surmounted with heavy dress-
ed capping stone. This wall extends along the south, west and
SOLDIERS' NATIONAL CEMETERY. 11
north sides of the grounds. The division fence between the Sol-
diers' National Cemetery and the local cemetery, is of iron,
and is already put up complete. The front fence and gate way is
of ornamental iron work, and ready to put up, as soon as the
weather will admit of it. The gate lodge is also built.
The grounds have been graded and prepared for the planting
of the trees, in part, this spring. They cannot all be planted, until
the work of constructing the monument and headstones is finished.
A contract has been entered into for putting up the headstones,
and the work has been commenced. It is a large contract, cost-
ing over $20,000 00, and will take a year to complete. When
finished, it will make a most permanent and durable piece of work.
The report of William Saunders, accompanying my report-made
to the committee last winter, explains the manner of putting up
these headstones.
The amount of money drawn from the different States, up to
the 30th of last November, was $28,045 95, and the amount ex-
pended to the same date, was $23,851 09. A detailed report of
the receipts and expenditures was made by the Board, and a copy
thereof sent to each of the Governors of the several States, repre-
sented in the Cemetery. I refer you to this report, on file in the
Executive Chamber, for further details.
I herewith furnish you with a complete list of the names of the
dead, buried in the Soldiers' National Cemetery, so far as the
bodies were identified. After a laborious correspondence, and
through the aid of the different members of the Board, I have
made many corrections in the spelling of the names, and in the
number of the regiment and letter of the company of the deceased
soldier; but there are doubtless still some inaccuracies in the
list. I respectfully suggest that you have this whole list printed
in your report. These men came here from the east and from the
west, stood side by side, and fought and fell in one common cause
and for one common country, irrespective of State organizations
or geographical lines, and their dust is now in common, mould-
ering together on this National Battle Field. Then let their names
all be published together in your report, and make one record. —
Well was it said by the lamented Everett, as he stood over these
honored graves, "All time is the millenium of their glory." Their
12 SOLDIERS' NATIONAL CEMETERY.
names and the record of their deeds, will make one of the
brightest pages of the history of this great struggle ; and they
are worthy of all being written in letters of gold.
DAVID WILLS,
Commissioner for Pennsylvania,
Gettysburg, March 6, 1865.
SOLDIEES' NATIONAL CEMETERY. 13
MEMBERS
Of the Board of Managers of the Soldiers' National Ceme-
tery, for 16G5.
Stephen Coburn, Maine.
Ira Perley, New Hampshire.
Paul Dillingham, Vermont.
Henry Edwards, Massachusetts.
John E. Bartlett, Ehode Island.
A. G. Hammond, Connecticut.
E. H. M' Curdy, New York.
Levi Scobey, New Jersey.
David Wells, Pennsylvania.
William Townsend, Delaware.
B. Deford, Maryland.
C. D. Hubbard, West Virginia.
Gordon Lofland, Ohio.
James Blake, Indiana.
C. E. Carr, Illinois.
T. W. Ferry, Michigan.
W. Y. Selleck, Wisconsin.
Alexander Eamsey, Minnesota,
OFFICERS.
President — David Wills, Pennsylvania.
Secretary — John E. Bartlett, Ehode Island*
Treasurer— S. E. Eussell, Pennsylvania*
14 SOLDIERS' NATIONAL CEMETERY.
SPECIFICATIONS
For proposals invited to be handed in at my office, in Gettysburg, up
to the 22d inst, at 12 tfclocli, noon, for the two contracts referred
to in the advertisement of this date, (Oct. 15, 1863J
First. — For the exhuming and removal to the Soldiers' Na-
tional Cemetery, of the dead of the Union army, buried on the
Gettysburg battle field, and at the several hospitals in the vicinity :
The party taking this contract shall receive the coffins at the
railroad station, in Gettysburg, and only take them to the field as
fast as used each day.
He shall go upon the premises where the dead are buried, under
the direction of the person having the superintendence — doing as
little damage as possible — and where an enclosure is thrown open,
he shall re-place it. He shall open up the grave or trench where
the dead are buried, and carefully take out the remains and
place them in a coffin, and screw down the lid tight, and nail the
head-board, where the grave has been maiked, carefully on the
lid of the cotfiD. He shall then re-place all blankets, &c, that
may have been taken out of the grave and not put around the body,
back in the grave, and close it up, neatly leveling it over.
He shall transport the remains thus secured to the grounds se-
lected for their burial, on the south side of the borough of Get-
tysburg, and deposit them at such a place on the grounds as may
be designated by the person having the superintendence of the
removals and re-interments.
He shall remove as many bodies to the grounds per day as shall
be ordered by the person in charge, not exceeding one hundred
bodies per day.
He shall exhume all bodies designated by the person in charge,
and none others ; and when ordered, he shall open up the graves
and trenches for personal inspection of the remains, for the pur-
pose of ascertaining whether they are bodies of Union soldiers,
and close them over again when ordered to do so.
SOLDIEES' 5TATIOXAL CEMETERY. 15
He shall stipulate the price per body, at which he will contract
to perform the work as above set forth. Payment will be made
on Saturday evening of every week for the full amount of the
work done.
Bonds will be required in the sum of three thousand dollars, for
the faithful performance of the contract, with two or more sure-
ties, to be approved by David Wiles.
He will commence the work on the 26th of October, inst., pri-
vilege being reserved to order a postponement of the time to a
day not later than Nov. 1st, next. The right is also reserved to
order a total suspension of the work at the time of the consecra-
tion of the grounds, and on Thanksgiving day.
Second. — For the digging of the graves in the Cemetery, putting
in the bodies, building a stone foundation for the headstones, and
burying the bodies : —
The graves shall be dug where designated by the superintend-
ent in charge. They shall be dug in trenches, and the coffins
placed in them side by side, of the number in each trench desig-
nated by the plot of the grounds. They shall be three feet in
depth from the surface of the ground, and of the length of the
coffin. At the head of each trench there shall be an offset dug
in the earth of the width of twenty inches, and of the depth of
, two feet from the surface of the ground. On this offset a stone
wall, of dry masonry, shall be substantially built of stone found
on the ground, at such places as may be designated by the person
in charge, eighteen inches in height, or within six inches of the
surface of the ground.
The coffins shall then be placed in the grave, side by side, as
ordered by the superintendent — the head board of each one nailed
upright against the head of the coffin, and of sufficient height
above the ground not to conceal the lettering when the grave is
rilled up. The grave must then be filled up a sufficient height, in
the opinion of the superintendent, to prevent settling below the
surface.
He shall bury as many per day as may be brought to the Ceme-
tery, not to exceed one hundred bodies ; and no bodies shall be
left unburied over night.
The work shall be commenced on the 26th of October, inst.,
privilege being reserved to order a postponement of the time to
16 SOLDIERS' NATIONAL CEMETEEY.
a day not later than November 1st, next. The right is also re-
served to order a total suspension of the work at the time of the
consecration of the grounds, and on Thanksgiving day.
The person proposing to take this contract shall stipulate the
price per body at which he will contract to perform the work as
above set forth. Payment will be made on Saturday evening of
every week, for the full amount of the work done.
Bonds will be required in the sum of three thousand dollars for
the faithful performance of the contract, with two or more sure-
ties, to be approved of by David Wills.
DAVID WILLS,
Agent for A. G. Cubtin, Gov. of Penn'a.
Gettysburg, October 15, 1863.
Note. — The two contracts above referred to were united in one,
at $1 59 for the whole.
SOLDIERS' NATIONAL CEMETERY. 17
SOLDIERS' NATIONAL CEMETERY.
Harrisburg, December 17, 1863.
Tlie Commissioners appointed by the Governors of the different
states, which have soldiers buried in the Soldiers' National
Cemetery,, at Gettysburg, Pa., met at the Jones House, in Har-
risburg, Pa., at 3 o'clock, P. M., on the 17th of December, 1863.
The following named Commissioners were present, viz :
Hon. B. W. Norris, of Maine. •
Hon. L. B. Mason, of New Hampshire.
Mr. Henry Edwards, of Massachusetts.
Mr. Alfred Coit, of Connecticut.
Hon. 'Levi Scobey, of New Jersey.
Mr. David Wills, of Pennsylvania.
Col. James Worrall, of Pennsylvania.
Col. John S. Berry, of Maryland.
Mr. L. W. Brown, of Ohio.
Col. Gordon Lofland, of Ohio.
Col. John G. Stephenson, of Indiana.
Mr. W. Y. Selleck:, of Wisconsin.
On motion of Col. Lofland, of Ohio, Mr. David Wills, of
Pennsylvania, was elected Chairman of the Convention.
On motion of Col. Stephenson, of Indiana, Mr. W. Y. Selleck,
of Wisconsin, was elected Secretary of the Convention.
After some discussion by the members of the Convention, Col.
Stephenson, of Indiana, moved that a committee of four, of
which the President of this Convention be one, be appointed for
the purpose of preparing and putting in appropriate shape the
details of the plan in reference to the Soldiers' National Ceme-
tery, at Gettysburg, Pa., to be presented to the Convention for
their action, which was carried. The committee was appointed
as follows :
2
18 SOLDIEES' NATIONAL CEMETERY.
Chairman, Col. John G. Stephenson, of Indiana; Mr. Henry
Edwards, of Massachusetts, Hon. Levi Scobey, of New Jersey,
Mr. David Wills, of Pennsylvania.
On motion of Mr. Alfred Ooit, of Connecticut, the Conven-
tion took a recess to await the action of the committee.
The Convention met again at 5 o'clock, P. M., to hear the re-
port of the committee.
The committee made the following report :
Whereas, In accordance with an invitation from David Wills,
Esq., agent for His Excellency, A. G. Ourtin, Governor of Penn-
sylvania, the Governors of the several States appointed Commis-
sioners, who met at Harrisburg, December 17, 1863, to represent
the States in Convention, for the purpose of making arrangements
lor finishing the Soldiers' Rational Cemetery ; therefore, be it
Resolved, By the said Commissioners, in Convention assembled,
that the following be submitted to the different States interested in
the " Soldiers' National Cemetery," through their respective
Governors :
First. That the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania shall hold the
title to the land which she has purchased at Gettysburg for the
Soldiers' National Cemetery, in trust for States having sol-
diers buried in said Cemetery, in perpetuity, for the purpose to
which it is now applied.
Second. That the Legislature of the Commonwealth of Penn-
sylvania be requested to ereate a corporation, to be managed by
trustees, one to be appointed by each of the Governors of the
States of Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Ehode
Island, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Mary*
land, Delaware, West Virginia, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan,
Wisconsin, Minnesota, and of such other States as may hereafter
desire to be represented in this corporation, which trustees shall,
at their first meeting, be divided into three classes. The term of
office of the first class to expire on the first day of January, 186a.
The second class on the first day of January, 1866. The third
class on the first day of January, 1867. The vacancies thus oc-
curring to be filled by the several Governors, and the persons thus
appointed to fill such vacancies, to hold their office for the term
SOLDIERS' NATIONAL CEMETERY. 10
of three years. This corporation to have exclusive control of the
Soldiers' National Cemetery.
Third. The following is the estimated expense of finishing the
Cemetery :
Enclosing grounds $15,000 00
Burial expenses and superintending (5,000 00
Headstones 10,000 00
Laying out grounds and planting trees 5,000 00
Lodge 2,500 00
Monument 25,000 00
Total 03,500 00
Fourth. That the several States be asked to appropriate a sum
of money, to be determined by a division of the estimated ex-
penses according to representation in Congress, to be expended in
defraying the cost of removing and re-interring the dead, and
finishing the Cemetery, under the directions of the Cemetery cor-
poration.
. Fifth. When the Cemetery shall have been finished, the grounds
are to be kept in order, the house and enclosure in repair, out of
a fund created by annual appropriations made by the States which
may be represented in the Cemetery corporation, in proportion to
their representation in Congress.
On motion of Col. Berry, of Maryland., the report of the com-
mittee was accepted, and the committee discharged.
It was moved by Col. Berry, of Maryland, that the report of
the committee be considered seriatim, which was concurred in,
and report was then adopted in detail.
Letters from the Governors of the following States were re-
ceived by Mr. Wills, Chairman of the Convention, which were
not represented by Commissioners, expressing their disposition to
approve any reasonable action of the Convention in reference to
the completion of the Cemetery, at Gettysburg, Pa., viz :
Hon. Horatio Seymour, of New York.
Hon. Austin Blair, of Michigan.
Hon. James Y. Smith, of Ehode Island.
Hon. William Cannon, of Delaware.
Hon. Henry G. Swift, of Minnesota.
20 SOLDIERS' NATIONAL CEMETERY.
On motion of Mr. Scobey, of New Jersey, the following com-
mittee was appointed by the Chairman, with the view to procure
designs of a monument to be erected in the Cemetery :
Hon Levi Scobey, of New Jersey.
Hon. B. W. Morris, of Maine.
Mr. D. W. Brown, of Ohio.
Col. J. G. Stephenson, of Indiana.
Col. John S. Berry, of Maryland.
On motion of Mr. Alfred Coit, of Connecticut, the plans and
designs of the Soldiers' National Cemetery, as laid out and
designed by Mr. William Saunders, were adopted by the Con-
vention.
A motion was made by Mr. Coit, of Connecticut, returning
thanks to Mr. William Saunders, for the designs and drawings
furnished gratuitously for the Soldiers' National Cemetery, at
Gettysburg, Pa. ; which was unanimously adopted.
Mr. Brown, of Ohio, offered the following, which was adopted :
Resolved, That Mr. William Saunders be authorized to furnish
forty photographs of the plan of the Soldiers' National Ceme-
tery, for the use of the States having soldiers buried therein.
DAVID WILLS, President,
W. Y. Selleck, Secretary.
LIST OF NAMES
OP SOLDIERS BURIED IN THE SOLDIERS' NATIONAL CEMETERY,
GETTYSBURG, PA.
PENNSYLVANIA.
Section A.
No. of
.grave.
1
2
o
O
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
Names.
Robert Loekhart
Theodore Saylor
Lieut. J. D. Gordon. .
Alexander Creighton .
Serg. R. H. Oowpland
J. J. Finnefroek.
Samuel Finnefroek.
Corp. 0. Walters
Unknown
Unknown
Corp. J. S. Gutelius . .
Nathan H
Unknown
F. E. Northrop
Unknown
Unknown.
William H. Harinan .
Unknown
Comp.
K.
C .
B.
F .
C .
D
A
F
I..
Regiment.
29th Regiment, P. V.
72d Regiment, P. V.
56th Regiment, P. V.
148th Regiment, P. V.
121st Regiment, P. V.
142d Regiment, P. V.
149th Regiment, P. V.
149th Regiment, P. V.
150th Regiment, P. V.
149th Regiment, P.V.
149th Regiment, P. V.
150th Regiment, P. V.
149th Regiment, P. V.
149th Regiment, P. V.
149th Regiment, P. V.
22
SOLDIERS' NATIONAL CEMETERY.
Pennsylvania. — Section A — Continued.
No. of
grave.
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
26
27
28
2p
30
31
32
33
34
35
36
37
38
39
40
41
42
Names.
Corp. James Logan
Bobert M'Guire
Berg. Daniel Harrington. .
0. Herbster
Franklin Myers
Thomas Hand
Josiah Butterworth
Thomas Burns
Thomas M. Savage
Col. Serg. Jno. Greenwood,
J. Bainbridge
G. Deisroth
Corp. Abraham Crawley. .
Serg. John Wogan
James M'Intyre
James Clary
James Coyle
James Bice
William Kiker
John Hope
Nelson Eeaser
Bobert Lesher
Washington Lininger
William Conly
Lieut. G. H. Finch
Comp.
G
F.
F.
0
D
K
E.
B
H
I.
F
F
A
G
G.
G
G
G.
K
H.
D
B
Regiment.
E
149th Begiment, P. Y.
53d Begiment, P. Y.
53d Begiment, P. Y.
69th Begiment, P. Y.
99th Begiment, P. Y.
99th Begiment, P. Y.
114th Begiment, P. Y.
2d Begiment, P. B, C.
2d Begiment, P. E. CL
109th Begiment, P. Y.
147th Begiment, P. Y.
147th Begiment, P. Y.
68th Begiment, P. Y.
69th Begiment, P. Y.
69th Begiment, P. Y.
69th Begiment, P. Y.
69th Begiment, P. Y.
09th Begiment, P. V.
72d Begiment, P. Y.
71st Begiment, P. Y.
151st Begiment, P. V.
71st Begiment, P. Y.
145th Begiment, P. Y.
140th Begiment, P. Y.
145th Begiment, P. V.
SOLDIERS' NATIONAL CEMETERY.
2?>
Pennsylvania. — Section A — Continued.
Names.
Isaac E. Dorman
John Stockton
Eobert W.Bell
Unknown
John E. White
Matthew Smith
Lieut. Michael Mullin
Samuel W. Barnett
J. Rich
Frederick Gillhouse.
R. J. Akan
John M'Casland
Harrison Long
John Kunkle
t
John Weidner
Thomas B. M'Oullough. . .
Jeremiah Dermandy
William Munsen
Charles Caririer
Corp. Martin Berry
Absalom Link
Serg. J. Hunter
Lawrence Bennet
J. Rhodes
Unknown.
Comp.
A..
I...
I...
B ..
D..
G..
G..
H..
H..
I.
D
I.
E
B
I.
G
A
D
G
B
B
C
Regiment.
145th Regiment, P. V.
71st Regiment, P. Y.
56th Regiment, P. Y.
149th Regiment, P. Y.
53d Regiment, P. Y.
1st Reg. California brig.
69th Regiment, P. Y.
140th Regiment, P. Y.
106th Regiment, P. Y.
145th Regiment, P. Y.
72d Regiment, P. Y.
148th Regiment, P. Y.
148th Regiment, P. Y.
68th Regiment, P. Y.
148th Regiment, P. Y.
19th Regiment, P. Y.
1st Penn'a Artillery.
57th Regiment, P. Y:
140th Regiment, P. Y.
64th Artillery.
57th Regiment, P. Y.
141st Regiment, P. Y.
105th Regiment, P. Y.
24
SOLDIERS' NATIONAL CEMETERY.
Pennsylvania. — Section A — Continued.
No. of
grave.
69
70
71
72
73
74
75
76
77
78
79
80
81
82
83
84
85
86
87
88
89
90
90
92
93
Names.
George Howard
Serg. Francis M. Burley. .
Corp. Geo. W. Ingraham. .
Cor}). David Stoup
John Devon
William Callan
J. Hayinan
Win. H. Knichenbecher . .
Corp. W. (Gordon
Comp.
John 0. Downing.
J.J.Wood
Serg. Yonderfeer
A. Delinger
Joseph A. Furgeson.
Benjamin Hassiler . .
James Kay
G.W. Stalker
Lieut. P. Morris
CD. Coyle
Stephen Kelley
T. P. Swoop
Unknown
D. Hanna
Patrick Fury
Benjamin Slavach. .
I...
A..
A..
E..
F..
0..
A..
K..
I...
0 ..
I...
H..
K..
A..
D..
E ..
I...
D..
D...
E ..
H..
Regiment.
A..
F ...
111th Eegiment, P. V.
110th Eegiment, P. V.
68th Regiment, P. V.
63d Regiment, P. V.
26th Regiment, P. V.
26th Regiment, P. Y.
26th Regiment, P. V.
141st Regiment, P. Y.
26th Regiment, P. Y.
57th Regiment, P. Y.
114th Regiment, P. Y.
71st Regiment, P Y.
71st Regiment, P. Y.
139th Regiment, P. Y.
93d Regiment, P. Y.
91ft Regiment, P. Y.
83d Regiment, P. Y.
62d Regiment, P. Y.
83d Regiment, P. Y.
91st Regiment, P. Y.
111th Regiment, P. Y.
26th Regiment, P. Y.
29th Regiment, P. Y.
115th Regiment, P. Y.
I53d Regiment, P. Y.
SOLDIERS' NATIONAL CEMETERY.
25
Pennsylvania. — Section A — Continued.
No. of
grave.
Names.
Comp.
Regiment.
94
95
Corp. Uriah M'Cracken. . .
James Irving
G...
G...
H...
H...
E ...
153d Eegiment, P. V.
73d Eegiment, P. V.
9G
Joliri Beimel
153d Eegiment, P. V.
97
Fritz Smittle
74th Eegiment, P. V.
98
Emil Preifer
27th Eegiment, P. V.
Section B.
:no. of
grave.
Names.
Comp. Regiment.
1
2
Capt. A. J. Sofield
Unknown
A...
149th Eegiment, P. V.
149th Eegiment, P. Y.
3
Unknown
149th Eegiment, P. Y.
4
Unknown
149th Eegiment, P. Y.
149th Eegiment, P. Y.
5
George Seip
6
Unknown
149 th Eegiment, P. Y.
7
Unknown Corporal
149th Eegiment, P. Y.
8
Unknown
149th Eegiment, P. V.
Unknown
149th Eegiment, P. V.
149th Eegiment, P. V.
10
D. G
11
Unknown
149th Eegiment, P. Y.
12
Tin known
149th Eegiment, P. V.
13
Unknown
149th Eegiment, P. Y.
149th Eegiment, P. Y.
14
Unknown
15
David 0. Kline
H...
F ...
A...
149th Eegiment, P. V.
1
17
Serg. Philip Peckens
Eobert Morrison
141st Eegiment, P. Y.
69th Eegiment, P. Y.
26
SOLDIERS' NATIONAL CEMETERY.
Pennsylvania. — Section B — Continued.
No. of
grave.
Names.
Comp.
Regiment.
18
Corp. Samuel Hay burn...
B...
106th Eegiment, P. Y.
19
Samuel E. Garvin
E...
72d Eegiment, P. V.
20
John M'Hngh
K...
D...
72d Eegiment, P. Y.
21
Ira Corbin
145th Eegiment, P. Y.
145th Eegiment, P. Y.
99
I
23
S. Tavlor
G...
145th Eegiment, P. Y.
24
S. Shoemaker.
25
Corp. William H. Myers. .
E ...
62d Eegiment, P. Y.
26
26th Eegiment, P. Y.
27
James Hill
T
142d Eegiment, P. Y.
,28
Thomas D. Allen
A...
157th Eegiment, P. Y.
29
D...
81st Eegiment, P. Y.
30
Charles M'Carty
K...
72d Eegiment, P. Y.
31
Joseph ISTewton
D...
81st Eegiment, P. Y.
32
Alexander Mills
E...
72d Eegiment, P. Y.
33
D. A. Ammerman
B...
148th Eegiment, P. Y.
34
James S. Lynn
G...
140th Eegiment, P. Y.
OK
do
William Van Buskirk ....
K...
142d Eegiment, P. Y.
36
Henry A. Oomwell
A...
121st Eegiment, P. Y.
37
George Young
F ...
150th Eegiment, P. Y.
38
Albert Dustiin
75th Eegiment, P. Y.
39
Serg. Almond M. Chesbro,
G...
53d Eegiment, P. Y.
40
Joseph Kile
G...
53d Eegiment, P. Y.
145th Eegiment, P. Y.
41
E.A.Allen
I
42
Bichard Miller
0...
140th Eegiment, P. Y.
SOLDIERS' NATIONAL CEMETERY.
27
Pennsylvania. — Section B — Continued.
No. of
grave.
Names.
Comp.
Regiment.
43
M. Charrity
A...
D...
71st Regiment, P. V.
44
Louis Dille
140th Regiment, P. V.
141st Regiment, P. V.
45
Ethiel A. Wood
B...
46
Serg. Maj. Joseph G. Fell,
141st Regiment, P. V.
47
Robert Michaels
A ...
145th Regiment, P. Y.
48
Peter Hilt
G...
H...
68th Regiment, P. Y.
49
Ord. Sergt. Herriek
110th Regiment, P. Y.
50
J. W. Guthrie
B ...
105th Regiment, P. Y.
51
Moses Miller
B ...
K...
C ...
110th Regiment, P. Y.
52
George Rowand
26th Regiment, P. Y.
53
George Osman T .
148th Regiment, P. Y.
54
Sergt. Peter Hilgers
D...
73d Regiment, P. Y.
55
Frederick Heinley
K...
74th Regiment, P. Y.
56
W. Cragle
D...
143d Regiment, P. Y.
57
Corp. B.F.Ulrich. .,
B ...
153d Regiment, P. Y.
58
Charles Clyde
I....
150th Regiment, P. Y.
59
Jacob Mauch
I....
G...
150th Regiment, P. Y.
60
Corp. William Holmes . . .
150th Regiment, P. Y.
61
William S. Stamm
G...
150th Regiment, P. Y.
62
J. Joues _....
A...
B...
142d Regiment, P. Y.
63
Samuel Kramer
142d Regiment, P. Y.
64
John W. Crusan
B...
56th Regiment, P. Y.
65
Solomon Shirk
B...
E...
10th Regiment, P. 7Y.
m
James Lukens
150th Regiment, P. Y.
67
M.Kelley
E...
106th Regiment, P. Y.
28
SOLDIERS' NATIONAL CEMETERY.
Pennsylvania. — -Section B — Continued.
No. of
grave.
68
69
70
71
72
73
74
75
76
77
78
79
80
81
82
83
84
85
86
87
88
89
90
91
92
Names.
Serg. John O. Lorner
John Harrington
James Keatings
Isaac Jenkins . .
J. Euppins
William Beaumont
James Ainsley
J. KBurr
James W. Taft
Joseph Montange
Alfred Boyden
Unknown.
Charles E. Webster
J. H. Bendools . _
Alonzo M'Call
O. Serg. J. W. Molineaux,
Unknown.
Unknown.
James S. Butter
Unknown P. V.
B. E. True......
Unknown.
Unknown.
1st Serg. T. J. Belton . . .
Comp.
G...
K...
H...
G...
B...
A...
H...
D.
D.
A.
0.
Unknown.
B
B
B
B
B.
Regiment.
69th Eegiment, P. V.
69th Eegiment, P. V.
90th Regiment, P. V.
107th Eegiment, P. V.
107th Eegiment, P. V.
88th Eegiment, P. V.
107th Eegiment, P. V.
147th Eegiment, P. V.
142cl Eegiment, P. V.
143d Eegiment, P. V.
149th Eegiment, P. V.
26th Eegiment, P. V.
68th Eegiment, P. V.
10th Eegiment, P. E. C.
91st Eegiment, P. V.
1st Eegiment, P. E. C.
83d Eegiment, P. V
Bucktail Eegiment.
SOLDIERS' NATIONAL CEMETERY.
29
Pennsylvania — Section B — Continued,
No. of
grave.
Names.
Comp.
Regiment.
93
94
Unknown,
James Wallace
G...
29th Eegiment, P. V.
Section 0.
No. of
scrave.
Names.
Comp.
Regiment.
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
34
15
16
17
18
19
20
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
H. M. Kinsel..
Charles T. Gardner
Hiram Woodruff
P. O'Brian
John Hurley *
George Dunkinfield
William Evans
David Stainbrook.
H.
H.
G.
A.
H.
I..
I..
E .
149th Eegiment, P. V.
149th Eegiment, P. V.
149th Eegiment, P. V.
149th Eegiment, P. Y.
149th Eegiment, P. V.
149th Eegiment, P. Y.
149th Eegiment, P. Y.
149th Eegiment, P. V.
149th Eegiment, P. V.
149th Eegiment, P. V.
149th Eegiment, P. V.
149th Eegiment, P. Y.
110th Eegiment, P. V.
111th Eegiment, P. Y.
1st Bucktail Eegiment.
69th Eegiment, P. Y.
69th Eegiment, P. Y.
72d Eegiment, P. V.
71st Eegiment, P. Y.
71st Eegiment, P. Y.
m
SOLDIERS' NATIONAL CEMETERY.
Pennsylvania. — Section C — Continued.
No. of
grave.
Names.
Comp.
l\egiment.
21
22
23
24
25
26
27
28
29
50
31
32 1
OO
34
35
36
37
38
39
40
41
42
43
44
45
William W. Clark . . j A .
William Brown D .
Robert L. Piatt.
D. Bumgardner.
George Hiies
Serg. John Loughery . . .
G. T. Bishop
Corp. Robert Thompson . .
Serg. J. Myers
Joseph Sherran
J. Simonson
Gideon F. Borger
Gotfried Hamman
William L. Miller
2d Lt. John O'H. Woods,
Serg. William Reynolds .
Amos P. Sweet
Serg. Lorenzo Hodges. . .
1st Lieut. F. Keimpel . . .
Unknown.
James O'JSTeil
Lieut. William H. Smith. .
Unknown — Orel. Sergeant.
Serg. James M. Shea
C ..
A..
6 ..
E ..
I...
I...
G..
F ...
[...
EL.
F. Gallagher
E ..
D..
I...
EL.
G..
E ..
B ..
B ..
B..
B ..
I 72d Regiment, P. V.
I 71st Regiment, P. Y.
| 149th Regiment, P. Y.
| 141st Regiment, P. Y.
i 68th Regiment, P. Y.
j 26th Regiment, P. V.
| 141st Regiment, P. Y.
I 83d Regiment, P. Y.
j 62d Regiment, P. Y.
62d Regiment, P. Y.
28th Regiment, P. Y.
153d Regiment, P. Y.
74th Regiment, P. Y.
153d Regiment, P. Y.
11th Regiment, P. R. C
142d Regiment, P. V.
150th Regiment, P. V.
150th Regiment, P. V.
27th Regiment, P. V.
69th Regiment, P. Y.
106th Regiment, P. V-
69th Regiment, P. Y
69th Regiment, P/Y
SOLDIERS' NATIONAL CEMETERY.
31
Pennsylvania. — Section G — Continued.
Regiment.
Names.
Comp.
John Heneison
Serg. E. ST. Somercanrp . . .
Unknown.
William Douglass
George W. Wilson
Patrick J. O'Connor
E. Berlin
Unknown.
Kobert Griffin
Unknown.
Unknown, (with two gold
Unknown.
Unknown — Corporal.
Unknown.
L. F
Unknown.
Unknown.
Unknown — Sergeant.
Ord. Serg. M. G. Isefct . . .
Unknown.
Unknown.
Unknown.
Unknown.
Unknown.
Unknown Ord. Serg., (with
C.
I..
B.
I..
D.
G...
A...
ear rin
153d Eeginient, P. V.
29th Eeginient, P. V.
155th Eeginient, P. Y.
155th Eeginient, P. V.
91st Eeginient, P. V.
83d Eeginient, P. K
83d Eeginient, P. V.
gs-)
E
53d Eeginient, P. V.
C
knife
53d Eeginient, P. V
and screw driver.)
m
SOLDIERS' NATIONAL CEMETERY.
Pennsylvania. — Section C — Continued.
No. of
grave.
71
72
73
74
75
76
77
78
79
80
81
82
83
84
85
86
87
88
89
90
Names.
Unknown, (with medal, hy
Unknown, (with knife and
John K. Inery
Isaac Eaton
Patrick Hunt.
William Danchy
Thomas Shields
John Lusk
J. Kleppinger
Lieut. Wni. H. Beaver. .
J. Quinn
William Thomas
D. Hemphill
H. Purdy
James E. Beals
F. Bordenstedt
William J. Strause
Serg. James Parks
James Kelly
Jacob Frey
Comp.
inn bo
penci
0...
D...
F...
H...
H...
I....
D...
D...
H...
E...
E...
0 ...
H...
A...
H...
0...
0...
c...
Regiment.
ok, &c.
1.)
2d Eegiinent, P. E. 0.
10th Eegiment, P. E. C.
99th Eegiment, P. V.
1st Eegiment, P. E. C.
99th Eegiment, P. Y.
1st Eegiment, P. E. C.
153d Eegiment, P. V.
153d Eegiment, P. V.
99th Eegiment, P. Y.
110th Eegiment, P. Y.
72d Eegiment, P. Y.
Hampton's Battery.
148th Eegiment, P. Y.
69th Eegiment, P. Y.
151st Eegiment, P. Y.
139th Eegiment, P. Y.
69th Eegiment, P. Y.
105th Eegiment, P. Y.
SOLDIERS' NATIONAL CEMETERY.
33
Pennsylvania — Section D.
Names.
Unknown
Unknown
Calvin Potter „
Unknown
Unknown
Corp. Samuel M. Caldwell,
Frederick Shoner
Serg. Jeremiah Boyle.. .
George Herpich.
Corp. James M'Manus. .
James Gallagher
Serg. J. Gallagher
S. S.Odare
Corp. William Shultz
William Simpson
Anthony Stark.
Charles Trisket
Charles F. Loby
Unknown, (with 3 ambrot
Unknown.
Unknown.
Unknown.
Unknown.
G.H.Allen
Comp.
Regiment.
H.
Charles M. Connel.
3
D...
E...
H...
H.._
D...
H...
D...
F ...
I...
D...
G..
G...
I...
ypes.)
C.
R..
149th Eegiment, P. V.
149th Eegiment, P. V.
149th Eegiment, P. V.
149th Eegiment, P. V.
149th Eegiment, P. V.
118th Eegiment, P. V.
72d Eegiment, P. V.
69th Eegiment, P. V.
71st Eegiment, P. V.
69th Eegiment, P. Y
71st Eegiment, P. V.
69th Eegiment, P. V.
71st Eegiment, P. V.
71st Eegiment, P. V.
145th Eegiment, P. V.
106th Eegiment, P. V.
140th Eegiment, P. V.
118th Eegiment, P. V.
59th Eegiment, P. V.
11th Eegiment, P. V.
34
SOLDIEES' NATIONAL CEMETEKY.
Pennsylvania. — Section D — Continued.
No. of
grave.
27
29
30
31
32
33
34
35
36
37
38
39
40
41
42
43
44
45
46
47
48
49
50
Names.
Jolm Aker.
Unknown
Jacob Keirsh
Unknown, (with silver wat
J. Graves
Comp.
ch.)
C.
Unknown, (with an order,
signed John Kramer,) . .
Unknown, (with rings, pnrs'e,pinb
Unknown, (with books, and. 2 lette
Unknown, (with $5 in Confedera
Unknown, (with inkstand, cross,
Kegiment.
George Moyer
Oordillo Collins
A. J. Bittinger
Milton Campbell
Samuel Zeckman
A. S. Davis
George Stewart
Serg. Eob't Sensenmyer . .
F. Smith.., r.r--...
Unknown.
James Binker
Henry W. Beegel
James S. Puryne
O. S. Campbell
J. Watson
F ...
D ...
C...
C ...
E...
G...
E ...
E...
I
B ...
H...
K
i:
26th Eegiment, P. V.
Hampton's Battery.,
1st Eegiment, P. V.
6th Eegiment, P. V.
ox, &c.)
rs from Mary Ann.)
te money.)
book, &c.)
2d Eegiment, P. E. C.
1st Eegiment, P. E. C.
11th Eegiment, P. E. C.
11th Eegiment, P. E. 0.
6th Eegiment, P. E. a
1st Penn'a Eifles.
2d Eegiment, P. E. C.
2d Eegiment, P. E. C.
20th Eegiment, P. V.
106th Eegiment, P. V.
110th Eegiment, P. V.
Battery F, 1st Artillery.
111st Eegiment, P. V.
29th Eegiment, P. V.
SOLDIERS' NATIONAL CEMETERY.
35
Pennsylvania. — Section D — Co ntiniied.
Names.
Thomas Acton
James Morrow . ,
Corp. James D. Butcher . .
John Riehandson
Charles Miller
G. B. Wireman
Corp. John S. Pomeroy.
T.Miller
S.D. Campbell
John Metz '.
E. T. Green
S. BT. Warner
A. P. M'Clarey
N. P. Govan
Elisha Bond
I. Beider
KM'Witkin
Corp. Hugh Farley
H.H.Hay
Mager Sorber
Mark Beary
John Harvey
Joseph Werst
John Boyer, (with ambroty
S.M. Little
Comp.
B.
I..
D.
B.
B .
E.
A...
A...
E...
H...
B ...
C ...
Regiment.
F ...
A...
H...
A...
B...
D...
A...
C ...
pe and
F...
29th Regiment, P. V.
29th Regiment, P. V
28th Regiment, P. V.
111th Regiment, P. V.
111th Regiment, P. V.
107th Regiment, P. V.
Bat. G, 1st Art, P. R.a
142d Regiment, P. V.
68th Regiment, P. V.
14th Regiment, P. V.
83d Regiment, P. V.
63d Regiment, P. Y.
150th Regiment, P. V.
27th Regiment, P. Y.
1st Regiment, P Y.
loth Regiment, P. V.
57th Regiment, P. V.
145th Regiment, P. Y.
143d Regiment, P. V.
1st Regiment, P. V.
69th Regiment, P. Y.
153d Regiment, P. V.
letter.)
62d Regiment, P. V.
30
SOLDIERS' NATIONAL CEMETERY.
Pennsylvania. — Section D — Continued.
No. of
grave.
Names.
Comp.
Regiment,
76
77
William H. Dunn
J. A. Walker
F...
D...
H...
A...
L ...
L...
I....
I....
B...
D...
62d Eegiment, P. Y.
62d Eegiment, P. V.
62d Eegiment, P. V.
62d Eegiment, P. V.
62d Eegiment, P. V.
62d Eegiment, P. Y.
62d Eegiment, P. V.
140th Eegiment, P. Y.
78
79
T. E. Woods. .
80
John Mathers
81
George M'Tntosh
82
83
Serg. J. S. Osborn
E. M'Mahon
84
John Buckley
140th Eegiment, P. V.
85
John Long ..........
62d Eegiment, P. V.
No. of
grave.
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
Section E.
Names.
Eeuben Miller
Jsfcob Christ
Eobert Johnson
Auton Frank.
John W. Buchanan.
K". Townsend
W. H. Burrel
William Orr
Serg. K. Doty
David Winning
Jacob Harvey
William Crawford. .
Comp.
D..
G-.
A..
C.
F ..
Regiment.
F .
D
M
C.
1st Eegiment, P. V.
56th Eegiment, P. Y.
28th Eegiment, P. V.
1st Eegiment, P. R. Co
1st Eegiment, P. E. 0,
148th Eegiment, P. Y.
62d Eegiment, P. Y.
105th Eegiment, P. V.
18th Cavalry.
18th Cavalry.
18th Cavalry.
SOLDIERS' NATIONAL CEMETERY.
37
Pennsylvania. — Section E — Continued.
Names.
W. K Williams
K...
I
Jacob Zimmerman
A. H. Fish
I....
A. Lees „ .
A...
Wilson Miller
J. Stroble
I
Comp.
C. B. Ling
B...
Wendell Dorn
I....
Unknown
Samuel Dearmott
C...
John Stot+arcL. .
A...
Francis Merrian Hansel . .
E ...
Orel Serg. Joseph EL Core,
A...
J. D. Campbell ..........
0
T. J. Carpenter
K...
Tobias Jones, (removed) . .
B...
Unknown.
Jesse Coburn. . . «
0
John W. M'Kimiev -
K...
Grd. Serg. H. M'Carty. . . .
K...
Unknown.
Unknown Zouave.
Unknown.
Unknown Zouave.
Unknown.
Regiment.
143d Eeghnent, P. V.
151st Eegiment, P. V.
150th Eegiment, P. V
150th Eegiment, P. V
90th Eegiment, P. V.
11th Eegiment, P. V.
56th Eegiment, P. V.
139th Eegiment, P. V
148th Eegiment, P. V
62d Eegiment, P. Y.
110th Eegiment, P. V
140th Eegiment, P. Y
110th Eegiment, P. Y
140th Eegiment, P. Y
140th Eegiment, P. Y
153d Eegiment, P. Y.
142d Eegiment, P. Y.
1st Eegiment, P. E. C.
114th Eegiment, P. Y.
SOLDIERS' NATIONAL CEMETERY,,
Pennsylvania. — Section E — Continued,
No. of
grave.
38
39
40
41
42
43
44
45
46
47
48
49
50
51
52
53
54
55
56
57
58
59
60
61
62
Names.
Unknown.
John Walker 1
Unknown.
William Growl
Eobert Eobinson
Guy South wick
J. G. Coyle, with diary & 86,
F. Hubbard, with ainbrotyp e.
Unknown.
William Vosburg
Unknown P. V.
G. Wm.
Comp.
Regiment.
0 ..
K..
L ..
L ..
0 ..
Unknown.
Serg. George O. Fell.. . .
Supposed P. V.
Supposed P. V.
Supposed Serg., (with letter
Supposed P. V.
Supposed P. V.
Supposed P. Y;
Unknown Ord. Sergeant.
Supposed P. V.
Supposed P. V.
Supposed P. V.
Supposed P, Yh
A
B ..
s.)
110th Regiment, P. V.
141st Eegiment, P. V.
4th Eegiment, Cavalry.
16th Eegiment, Cav.
75th Eegiment, P. V.
[Cavalry-
2dDiv. 2d Cor., Buford's
With knife and comb.
143d Eegiment, P. V.
SOLDIERS' NATIONAL CEMETEEY.
39
Pennsylvania. — Section E — Continued.
Names.
Coinp.
Regiment.
Supposed P. Y.
Supposed P. Y.
Unknown P. Y.
Corp., unknown P. Y.
Serg., unknown P. Y.
Unknown P. Y.
Unknown P. Y.
Unknown, (with shawl pin.)
Unknown.
Unknown.
Sergeant, supposed P. Y.
Supposed P. Y.
Supposed P. Y.
Supposed P. Y.
Supposed P. Y.
Supposed P. Y.
Supposed P. Y.
Supposed P. Y.
2d Lieut. John F. Cox. . .
I....
57th Begiment, P. Y.
Sectio
5fF.
No. of
grave.
Names.
Comp.
Regiment.
1
2
3
4
Unknown.
Unknown P. Y.
Supposed P. Y.
Supposed P. Y.
40
SOLDIERS' NATIONAL CEMETERY.
Pennsylvania. — Section F — Continued.
No. of
grave
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
26
27
28
29
Names.
Supposed P. V.
Supposed P. V.
Supposed P. V.
— Barr
Unlmowu Zouave.
Unknown Zouave.
Unknown Zouave.
Unknown Zouave, (burned
Unknown Zouave, (burned
Unknown Zouave, (burned
Unknown Zouave.
—— ■ — — Oxford.
William M'Grew
Unknown Sergeant, P. V.
Charles Martin
Unknown P. V„
A. K. Coolbaugh .
Comp.
Regiment.
B.
n dest ruction of Sherfy's bam.)
it ruction of Sherfy's barn.)
t dest ruction of Sherfy's barn.)
Joshua M. Hider
Unknown Sergeant, P. V.
Matthew Johnston
Unknown Zouave, P. V.
G. M. S., with knife and c
Jo.Conner, Garner or Carver
John M'Nutt
Francis A. Osborne
K...
C ...
C ...
I....
H...
omb.
C...
G...
E ...
105th Eegiment, P. V.
1st Eegiment, P. E. C.
107th Eegiment, P. V.
141st Eegiment, P. V.
106th Eegiment, P. V.
11th Eegiment, P. V.
148th Eegiment, P. V.
140th Eegiment, P. V.
16th Cavalry.
SOLDIERS' NATIONAL CEMETERY.
41
Pennsylvania. — Section F — Continued.
Names.
Unknown.
Unknown.
George Cogswell
John Bunn
William Kelley
Unknown P. V., with knife
Supposed P. V.
S. Brookmeyer.
J. Little
Unknown P. V.
Unknown, 2 knives and co
Corp. Peter M'Mahon
Okas. Kelly, with letter, &c.
E. H. Brown
Supposed P. V.
Supposed P. V.
John Zouwell, letter.
Supposed P. V.
William M'Neil
Supposed P. Y.
Supposed P. V.
Corp. Samuel Fitzinger. . .
Supposed P. V.
H. C.Tafel
Supposed P. Y.
Comp.
A.
C .
A.
and
sp
B ..
mb.
E..
K..
I.
Regiment.
156th Eegiment, P. V.
26th Eegiment, P/Y.
126th Eegiment, P. Y.
oon.
26th Eegiment, P. Y.
26th Eegiment, P. Y.
26th Eegiment, P. V.
26th Eegiment, P. V.
106th'Eeginieut, P. V
62d Eegiment, P. V.
42
SOLDIERS' NATIONAL CEMETERY.
Pennsylvania. — Section F — Continued.
No. of
grave.
55
56
57
58
59
60
61
62
63
64
65
66
67
68
69
70,
71
72
73
74
75
76
77
78
79
Names.
Comp.
David W. Boyd
Supposed P. V., (small man
Supposed P. Y.
Supposed P. V.
Supposed P. V.
Supposed P. V.
Harry Evans
Supposed P. V.
Supposed P. V.
Supposed P. V.
Supposed P. V.
G. Mickle
Supposed P. V.
Supposed P. V.
Unknown.
Unknown.
Unknown.
Unknown.
Unknown.
Unknown.
Unknown.
S. B. Stewart
Welsh.
Unknown.
Walter S. Briggs, Adjutant,
G.
with 1
140th Eegiment, P. V.
arge black whiskers.)
B..
C
Regiment.
88th Regiment, P. V.
72d Eegiment, P. V.
F..
2d Eegiment, P. E. 0.
27th Eegiment, P. V.
SOLDIERS' NATIONAL CEMETERY.
43
Pennsylvania. — Section F — Continued.
No. of
grave.
Names.
Comp.
Regiment.
80
W. D. Millard
¥ ...
149th Eegiment, P. V.
21st Cavalry.
81
Section G.
No. of
grave.
Names.
Comp.
Regiment.
1
Samuel James
B ...
D...
106th Eegiment, P. V.
12th Eegiment, P. V.
2
A. F. Strock
3
4
5
Unknown.
Unknown.
Unknown.
Total, 534.
MAINE.
Section A.
No. of
grave.
Names.
Corp. Frank. Devereux.
Unknown
George D. Marston
Unknown — Supposed.. .
E. Bishop.
W. H. Lowe
Alfred P. Watterman.. .
Comp.
K..
I...
E
D
Regiment.
16th Eegiment, M. V.
16th Eegiment, M. V.
16th Eegiment, M.Y.
16th Eegiment, M. V.
19th Eegiment, M. V.
19th Eegiment, M. V.
44
SOLDIERS' NATIONAL CEMETERY.
Maine. — Section A — Continued
No. of
grave.
Names.
Comp.
Regiment.
8
9
10
Serg. William E. Barrows,
Unknown
c...
I
19th Eegiment, M. V.
19th Eegiment, M. V.
19th Eegiment, M. V.
19th Eegiment, M. V.
19th Eegiment, M. V.
19th Eegiment, M. V.,
11
12
13
Serg. Chandler F. Perry . .
Louira A. Kelley
Unknown
I....
D...
14
15
16
Charles W. Collins
Isaiah V. Eaton
A...
F ...
D...
G...
D...
19th Eegiment, M. V.,
17th Eegiment, M. V.
4th Eegiment, M. V.
16th Eegiment, M. V.
19th Eegiment, M. V.
17
18
Frank. Fairbrother
Eobert T. Newell.
Section B.
No. of
grave.
Names.
Comp.
Regiment.
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
Samuel L. Dwelley
Frank. Coffin
James T. Neal
Loring C. Oliver.
Samuel B. Shea
Corp. Hollis F. Arnold. .
Sergt. Jesse A. Dorman.
George E. Hodgdon
Charles J. Carroll
Euel Nickerson
Henshai C. Thomas
D..
B..
K..
K..
K..
EL.
H..
C ..
G..
E ..
D..
17th Eegiment, M. V.
19th Eegiment, M. V.
19th Eegiment, M. V.
19th Eegiment, M. V.
19th Eegiment, M. V.
19th Eegiment, M. V.
19th Eegiment, M. V.
19th Eegiment, M. V.
19th Eegiment, M. V.
19th Eegiment, M. V.
19th Eegiment, M. V.
SOLDIERS' NATIONAL CEMETERY.
45
Maine. — Section B — Continued.
No. of
grave.
Names.
•
Comp.
Regiment.
12
John F. Carey
I....
19th Regiment, M. V.
13
Moses D. Emery
B ...
17th Regiment, M. V.
14
Fessenden M. Mills
0...
17th Regiment, M. V.
15
Joseph A. Roach
D...
E ...
3d Regiment, M. Y.
16
Allen H. Sprague
3d Regiment, M. V.
17
John S. Gray
D ...
4th Regiment, M. V.
Section 0.
No. of
grave.
Names.
Comp.
Regiment.
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
George F. Johnson..
ickels.. . .
Corp. George W. Jones . . .
Eben S. Allen, Ord. Sergt.,
Ira L. Martin
John F. Shnman
Unknown
Corp. Bernard Hogan
Lieut. George M. Bragg . .
1st Sergt. Thos. T. Rideout,
James Robbins
Sergt. Enoch C. Dow. . .
Sergt. W. S. Jordon
Frank. B. Curtis
Elfin J. Foss
Lieut. W. L. Kendall...
K..
G..
B..
D..
H..
K..
D..
F ..
F ..
D..
E..
G..
F..
F..
G..
4th Regiment, M. V.
7th Regiment, M. V.
3d Regiment, M. V.
11th Regiment, M. Y.
4th Regiment, M. Y.
3d Regiment, M. Y.
17th Regiment, M. Y.
4th Regiment, M. Y.
19th Regiment, M. Y.
19th Regiment, M. Y.
19th Regiment, M. Y.
20th Regiment, M. Y.
20th Regiment, M. Y.
20th Regiment, M. Y.
20th Regiment, M. Y.
46
SOLDIERS' NATIONAL CEMETERY.
Maine. — Section D.
No. of
grave.
Names.
Comp.
Regiment.
1
Saniuel 0. Hatch
K...
17th Regiment, M. V.
1st Serg. Isaac IsT. Lathrop
H...
20th Regiment, M. V.
3
Benjamin W. Grant
F ...
20th Regiment, M. V.
4
Corp. Samuel 0. Davis
B...
17th Regiment, M. V.
5
Royal Rand
H...
17th Regiment, M. V.
19th Regiment, M. V.
6
Charles E. Herriman
E...
7
H...
19th Regiment, M V.
8
Wm. H. Huntingdon
B...
16th Regiment, M. V.
9
Harrison Pullen
G...
L....
16th Regiment, M. V.
10
1st Cavalry.
11
M. Quint
B...
F ...
17th Regiment, M. V.
12
Alshurv Luce
3d Regiment, M. V.
13
Corp. Eben Farrington . . .
H...
3d Regiment, M. V.
14
Unknown
20th Regiment, M. V.
Section E.
No. of
grave.
Names.
Comp.
Regiment.
1
Unknown
20th Regiment, M. V.
2
3
Goodwin S. Ireland
Unknown
H...
20th Regiment, M V.
20th Regiment, M. V.
4
Orrin Walker
K...
20th Regiment, M. V.
5
Unknown
20th Regiment, M. V.
6
Unknown
20th Regiment, M. V.
20th Regiment, M. V.
7
Unknown
8
Corp. Wm. S. Hodgdon. . .
F...
20th Regiment, M. V.
SOLDIERS' NATIONAL CEMETERY.
47
Maine. — Section E — Continued.
No. of
grave.
Names.
Comp.
Regiment.
9
10
11
Corp. Mellville C. Day
1st Serg. Charles W. Steel-
Unknown
G...
H...
20th Eegiment, M. V.
20th Eegiment, M. V.
20th Eegiinent, M. V.
12
Unknown
to '
20th Eegiment, M. V.
20th Eegiment, M. V.
13
Unknown
14
Unknown
20th Eegiment, M. V.
Section F.
No. of
grave.
Names.
Comp. : Regiment.
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
Oapt, G. D.Smith
Joseph D. Simpson
Moses Davis
Samuel C. Brookings
Corp. W. K
Ord. Serg. Geo. "S. Noyes . .
Unknown
I
A...
C...
H...
K...
19th Eegiment, M. V.
20th Eegiment, M. V.
20th Eegiment, M. V.
19th Eegiment, M. V.
20th Eegiment, M. V.
20th Eegiment, M. V.
20th Eegiment, M. V.
8
Michael Eariden
K...
4th Eegiment, M. V.
9
Sullivan Luce.
5th Battery.
10
W. H. Smith
K...
F....
E....
G...
7th Eegiment, M. V.
17th Eegiment, M. V.
17th Eegiment, M. V.
4th Eegiment, M. V.
11
12
13
Wm. H. Day
E. Finch
SOLDIERS' NATIONAL CEMETERY.
Maine. — Section G.
No. of
grave.
Names.
Comp.
Regiment.
1
Albion B. Mills
E....
D...
16th Eegiment, M. Y.
2
Corp. John Merriam
19th Eegiment, M. Y.
3
Abijah Crosby
C .
19th Eegiment, M. Y.
7th Eegiment, M. Y.
4
Corp. Eichard Sculley
K...
5
Corp. A. H. Cole
3d Eegiment, M. Y.
3d Eegiment, M. Y.
C
John W. Jones
B....
7
Serg. Maj. Henry S. Small,
3d Eegiment, M. Y.
8
Corp. J. L. Little
A...
3d Eegiment, M. Y.
9
Calvin H. Burdin
I....
3d Eegiment, M. Y.
10
Capt. John C. Keen
K...
3d Eegiment, M. V.
11
Serg. Nelson W. Jones
I....
3d Eegiment, M. Y.
12
J. Bartlett.
Total, 104.
NEW HAMPSHIRE.
Section A.
No. of
grave.
Names.
Comp.
Regiment.
1
2
3
William H. Spring
Charles A. Moore
E. J. Plummer
A...
a...
A...
I.
E...
2d Eegiment, It. H. Y.
2d Eegiment, K H. Y.
2d Eegiment, ,S- H. Y.
2d Eegiment, IS". H. Y.
2d Eegiment, N. H. Y.
f
4
5
Stephen H. Palmer
Charles Y. Buzzell
SOLDIERS' NATIONAL CEMETERY.
49
New Hampshire. — Section A — Continued.
No. of
grave.
Names.
Comp.
Regiment.
6
Eoland Taylor .
G...
A...
F ...
E ...
F ...
G...
D...
5th Eegiment, N. H. V.
5th Eegiment, K H. V.
7
S. E. Green..
8
John Henderson
2d Eegiment, 1ST. H. V.
9
10
11
12
13
Serg. G. A. Jones
George S. Vittum
Lieut. E. Dascomb
Charles W. Taylor
Cornelius Cleary .........
2d Eegiment, N". H. V.
2d Eegiment, HT. H. V.
2d Eegiment, N. H. V.
2d Eegiment, K H. V.
2d Eegiment, K H. V.
14
15
James S. Hawkins
John Totten
C ...
A...
E ...
12th Eegiment, N. H. V.
2d Eegiment, N". H. V.
2d Eegiment, N. H. V.
2d Eegiment, K H. V.
1G
17
Joseph M. Chesley
Unknown
18
Unknown.
Sectio
nB.
No. of
grave.
Names.
Comp.
Regiment.
1
Unknown.
2
Unknown.
3
Unknown.
4
Unknown.
5
Unknown.
6
Unknown.
' 7
Unknown, with red chin wh
iskers.
2d Eegiment, N". H. T.
8
Unknown
2d Eegiment, gf. H. V.
9
Unknown.
SOLDIERS' NATIONAL CEMETERY.
New Hampshire.— Section B — Continued.
No. of
grave.
Names.
Comp.
Regiment.
10
Unknown _....
2d Eegiment, N. H. V.
2d Eegiment, N. H. V.
11
Unknown . = ..
12
Unknown.
13
Unknown.
14
Unknown.
15
Unknown.
16
Unknown.
Section 0.
No. of
grave.
Names.
Comp.
Regiment.
1
2
3
4
Unknown.
Unknown.
Unknown.
Unknown ...
2d Eegiment, JT. H. Y.
2d Eegiment, 1ST. H. V.
5
Unknown
6
Unknown
2d Eegiment, K". H. V.
7
John Taylor
E ...
12th Eegiment, ET. H. V.
2d Eegiment, JS". H. T.
5th Eegiment, X. H. Y.
5th Eegiment, X. H. Y.
12th Eegiment, 2JT. H. T.
8
Kendall H. Oofren
9
Joseph Bond, Jr
E ...
E ...
H...
E ...
<-
10
Oscar D. Allen
11
12
13
14
15
Supposed.
Supposed.
Charles T. Kelley
Unknown.
Bartlett Brown
Total, 49.
SOLDIERS' NATIONAL CEMETERY.
31
VERMONT
Section A.
No. of
grave.
1
2
3
4
5
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
Names.
Unknown . .
Joseph Ashley
Charles W. Eoss
Corp. Charles E. Mead. . . .
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Martin J. Cook ..........
Joseph M, Martin. .......
William E. Green
Unknown »
Unknown
Dyer Eogers i
Unknown
Albert A, Walker
Corp. Charles Morse, Jr . . .
Garrett L. Eoseboom
Ira Emery, Jr., (removed).
William O. Donbleday
Andrew E. Osgood
Corp. George L. Baldwin . .
G. E. Simmons ,
Sylvanus A. Winship
Comp.
c ...
G...
G...
D..
G..
D
Regiment.
V. M. M.
16th Eegiment,
14th Eegiment,
14th Eegiment,
14th Eegiment,
14th Eegiment,
14th Eegiment,
16th Eegiment,
16th Eegiment,
14th Eegiment,
14th Eegiment,
14th Eegiment,
14th Eegiment,
14th Eegiment,
14th Eegiment,
D...
A...
D . . . I 14th Eegiment,
16th Eegiment,
A.
16th Eegiment,
H . . . 14th Eegiment,
H..
C
13th Eegiment,
14th Eegiment,
13th Eegiment,
16th Eegiment,
Y. V.
V. V.
Y. Y.
Y. Y.
Y.V.
Y.V.
Y.V.
V. Y.
Y. Y.
Y.V,
V. V.
Y.V.
Y. V.
Y.V.
V. V.
Y.V.
V. V.
V. V.
Y.V.
V. V.
V. Y.
Y.V
SOLDIERS' NATIONAL CEMETERY.
Vermont,— Section A—Continued.
No. of
grave.
Nainea.
Comp.
Regiment.
24
Serg. Moses P. Baldwin . . .
0 ....
16th Eegiment, V. V.
25
Serg. Maj. Henry H. Smith,
13th Eegiment, V. T.
26
Corp. Ira E. Sperry .......
L ...
1st Cavalry.
27
John L. Marshall ........
K...
4th Eegiment, V. V.
28
Serg. Thomas Blake. .....
A...
13th Eegiment, V. V.
29
Corp. Michael M'Enemy. J A . . .
13th Eegiment, V. V.
Section B.
No. of
grave.
<Uomp.
Regiments
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
Lieut. Wm. H. Hamilton .
William G. Jeffrey ......
W. Fletcher... .........
William March .........
Orson S. Carr. ..........
Pliny F.White.........
Antoine Ash
Charles W. Whitney
Benjamin IS". Wright ... .
L. L. Baird, (with $3 35).
Eichard C. Archer
Corp. Henry C. White. . .
Zenal C. Lamb .....
John Dyer .........
Unknown .....
Unknown.
D
I)
E
E
C
E
I.
H
B
E
C
f D
14th Eegiment, V, V.
1st Regiment,, V. V,
13th Eegiment, V. Y.
13th Eegiment, Y Y.
13th Eegiment, Y. V.
14th Eegiment, Y. Y,
2d Eegiment, Y. Y.
. 13th Eegiment, Y, V.
13th Reg
sent, Y. Y.
14th Eegiment, Y. Y.
14th Eegiment, Y. Y,
16th Eegiment, Y. Y.
16th Eegiment, Y, Y.
16th Regiment, Y. Y.
1st Cavalry.
SOLDIERS' NATIONAL CEMETERY.
53
Vermont. — Section B — Continued.
No. of
grave.
Names.
Comp.
Regiment.
17
Unknown
1st Cavalry.
1st Cavalry.
1st Cavalry.
1st Musician.
1st Cavalry.
1st Cavalry.
1st Cavalry.
18
Corp. _ Warren .....
19
20
21
Eufus D. Thompson.
Supposed, Charles Curley,
Joel J. Smith. ........
L ...
C ...
22
Unknown .... ..
23
Unknown ...„.._........
24
Unknown ..... .......
1st Cavalry.
25
26
27
Unknown.
Unknown.
Willard M. Pierce
I
16th Eegiment, V. V.
Section C.
No. of
grave.
Names.
Comp.
Regiment.
1
2
Unknown.
Unknown .......
M.M.
3
Unknown
M. M.
4
5
Edmond P. Davis. .......
Philip Howard
H...
A...
16th Eegiment, V. V.
16th Eegiment, V. V.
Total, 61.
54
SOLDIERS* NATIONAL CEMETERY.
MASSACHUSETTS.
Section A.
No. of
grave.
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
Names.
Arthur Murphy.
John W. Verity
Edward Frothinghain
John Orasson
Henry C. Burrill .......
Thomas Kelly. . .......
George Lucas .........
Alios Kraft .......
T.E. Gallivan.........
M. Kinarch
E. Barry
Serg. George Joekel. _ . .
Patrick O'Keefe .......
Thomas Downey .......
Corp. James Somerville.
William Inch
Augustus Deitling
Serg. George F. Cake . .
Clemens Wiessensee . . .
Patrick Quinlin. ......
G.C. Plant..
Hugh Blain
Patrick Manning
Comp.
H
A
D
C
F
H
G.
B
F
E ,
E
D
C
A
B
F
A
H
D
Regiment.
9th Battery.
5th Battery.
5th Battery.
9th Battery.
20th Eegiment, M. V.
20th Eegiment, M. V.
20th Eegiment, M. V.
20th Eegiment, M. V.
20th Eegiment, M. V.
20th Eegiment, M. Y.
20th Eegiment, M. V..
20th Eegiment, M. V.
20th Eegiment, M. V.
20th Eegiment, M. V.
20th Eegiment, M. V.
20fch Eegiment, M. V.
20th Eegiment, M. Y.
20th Eegiment, M. V.
20th Eegiment, M. V.
20th Eegiment, M. V.
20th Eegiment, M. V.
20th Eegiment, M. V.
20th Eegiment, M. V.
SOLDIERS1 NATIONAL CEMETERY.
55
Massachusetts. — Section A — Continued.
Names.
John M' Clarence
John Dippolt
Hiram B. Howard
Eugene M'Laughlin
Corp. John Burke
Alexander Aiken
James Lane
Geo. F. Fales, of Boston.
George S. Wise
Michael Laughlin
Edwin Field
John M. Brock
Frank A. Gould
Corp. Prince A. Dunton.
John Flye
Serg. Edgar A. Fiske
Comp.
F ...
B ...
D...
F ...
K...
D...
F ...
D...
D...
K...
B ...
H...
K..
H..
K..
E ..
Regiment.
20fch Eegiment, M. V.
20th Eegiment, M. V.
20th Eegiment, M. V.
20th Eegiment, M. V.
20th Eegiment, M. V.
20th Eegiment, M. V.
20th Eegiment, M. V.
Excelsior, of N". Y.
13th Eegiment, M. V.
13th Eegiment, M. V.
13th Eegiment, M. V.
13th Eegiment, M. Y.
13th Eegiment, M. V.
13th Eegiment, M V.
13th Eegiment, M. V.
13th Eegiment, M. V.
Section B.
Names.
Charles Traynor...
William T. Bullard.
John Joy
PhiloH. Peck
Stephen Cody
Eichard Sea vers . . .
Comp.
I...
A.
H.
G.
I..
I..
Regiment.
2d Eegiment, M. V.
2d Eegiment, M. V.
2d Eegiment, M. V.
2d Eegiment, M. V.
2d Eegiment, M. V.
2d Eegiment, M. V.
56
SOLDIERS' NATIONAL CEMETERY.
Massachusetts. — Section B — Continued.
No. of
grave
Names.
Comp,
I....
Regiment.
7
George Bailey
2d Eegiment, M. V.
8
Andrew Nelson
D...
D...
G...
2d Eegiment, M. V.
9
John Deer
2d Eegiment, M. V.
10
Corp. Gordon S. Wilson . .
2d Eegiment, M. V.
11
Joseph Furbur
G...
2d Eegiment, M. V.
12
Bup. J. Saddler, Gol. Corp.
D ...
2d Eegiment, M. V.
13
Frederick Maynard
D...
2d Eegiment, M. V.
14
Patrick Hoey
A...
2d Eegiment, M. V.
15
Serg. Leavitt 0. Durgin. .
A...
2d Eegiment, M. V.
16
Corp. William Marshall . . .
C...
2d Eegiment, M. V.
17
Corp. Enel Whittier
B....
2d Eegiment, M. Y.
18
James T. Edmands
I....
2d Eegiment, M. V.
19
John E. Farrington
H...
2d Eegiment, M. V.
20
Peter Conlan
B ...
A...
2d Eegiinent, M. Y.
21
Sidney S. Prouty
2d Eegiment, M. Y.
22
F. Goetz
C...
2d Eegiment, M. Y.
2d Eegiment, M. Y.
23
Gorp. Theodore S. Butters,
I....
24
David B. Brown
I....
2d Eegiment, M. Y.
25
William H. Ela
D...
p....
F...
F...
E ...
2d Eegiment, M. Y.
26
James A. Chase
2d Eegiment, M. Y.
27
Charles Keirnan
2d Eegiment, M. Y.
28
And. Moore
1st Eegiment, M. V.
29
Lieut; Henry Hartley
1st Eegiment, M. Y.
3@
Frederick S. Kettel
E...
1st Eegiment, M. Y.
31
George Golden
B...
1st Eegiment, M. Y.
SOLDIERS' NATIONAL CEMETERY.
57
Massachusetts. — Section B — Continued.
Names.
Comp.
Regiment.
David H. Eaton
Jacob Kesland
Serg. Edward J. M'Ginnis,
J. Matthews
Berg. William Kelreu
Corp. Henry Evans
B
B
C
B
E.
A
1st Eegiment, M. V.
1st Eegiment, M. V.
1st Eegiment, M. Y.
1st Eegiment, M. V.
1st Eegiment, M. V.
1st Eegiment, M. Y.
Section 0.
No. of
grave.
Names.
Comp.
Regiment.
1
J. L. Johnson
K...
K...
11th Eegiment, M. V.
2
Joseph Marshall
11th Eegiment, M. V.
3
James E. Butler
D...
A...
11th Eegiment, M. V.
4
Michael Doherty
11th Eegiment, M. V.
5
Lucius Staples
A...
11th Eegiment, M. V.
11th Eegiment, M. V.
6
Corp. Edwin F. Trufant . .
F...
7
Corp. C. E. T. Knowlton . .
H...
11th Eegiment, M. V.
8
Serg. William Sawtell.
E...
11th Eegiment, M. V.
9
J. S. Eice
K...
K...
11th Eegiment, M. V.
10
Sumner A. Davis
11th Eegiment, M. V.
11
Francis T. Flint
H...
11th Eegiment, M. V.
12
John Brodie.
13
Serg. William Carr
I....
12th Eegiment, M. Y.
14
George F. Lewis
H...
K...
12th Eegiment, M. Y.
15
Hardy P. Murray
12th Eegiment, M. Y.
1G
Corp. T. H. Fenelon
G...
32d Eegiment, M. Y.
58
SOLDIERS' NATIONAL CEMETERY.
Massachusetts. — Section 0 — Continued.
No. of
grave.
Names.
Comp.
Regiment.
17
Wm. D. Hudson
H...
32d Eegiment, M. Y.
32d Eegiment, M. V.
18
Barney Clark
G...
A...
19
Serg. James M. Haskell . .
32d Regiment, M. V.
20
Alvin W. Lamb
A...
32d Eegiment, M. Y.
32d Eegiment, M. Y.
21
William F. Baldwin
B ...
22
Henry T. Wade
E ...
32d Eegiment, M. Y.
32d Eegiment, M. Y.
23
Corp. Wm. L. Gillman
K...
24
Daniel Stoddard
F ...
32d Eegiment, M. Y.
25
Corp. Nathaniel Mayo
F ...
32d Eegiment, M. Y.
26
T. J. Healey
G...
32d Eegiment, M. Y.
27
James H. Leavens
I....
32d Eegiment, M. Y.
28
Serg. Gorham Coffin
A...
19th Eegiment, M. Y.
29
Serg. Joseph Ford
K...
19th Eegiment, M. Y.
30
Edward Roche
E ...
I
19th Eegiment, M. Y.
31
Corp. Thomas W. Tuttle. .
19th Eegiment, M. Y.
32
Jeremiah Wells
H...
19th Eegiment, M. Y.
33
Charles Gurney
E ...
37th Eegiment, M. Y.
34
E. Bassamunson
B ...
37th Eegiment, M. Y.
37th Eegiment, M. Y.
35
Elisha Covill
E ...
Section D.
No. of
grave.
Names.
Comp.
Regiment.
1
Serg. Henry C. Ball
F ...
15th Eegiment, M. Y.
2
John Marsh
B ...
G...
15th Eegiment, M. Y.
3
Michael Flinn
15th Eegiment, M. Y.
SOLDIERS' NATIONAL CEMETERY.
*
Massachusetts. — Section D — Continued.
5!)
Names.
Conip.
Regiment.
O. Stevens
George W. Oro^s
Joseph Bardsley
Francis Santuin
Frances A. Lewis
George E. Burns
George L. Bass
Serg. Edward B. Eollins . .
John Grady
KB.Bicknell
Pierce Harvey
G. Lambert
Oalvin S. Field
John Hickey
John Caswell
Serg. Edward Mooney
Joseph Beal
0. H. Pierce
Unknown.
Geo. Hills, of New Bedford.
Corp. Patrick Scannell
Serg. Alonzo J. Babcock. .
Corp. Jules B. Allen
Oalvin Howe
E. Howe.
D
E
I.
I.
A
G
B
A
I.
0
F
B
0
G
D
I.
E
B ..
H..
D..
I...
H..
15th Eegiment, M. V.
15th Eegiment, M. V.
15th Eegiment, M. V.
15th Eegiment, M. Y.
15th Eegiment, M. V.
15th Eegiment, M. V.
15th Eegiment, M. Y.
15th Eegiment, M. Y.
I 15th Eegiment, M. Y.
11th EegimeDt, M. Y.
15th Eegiment, M. Y.
15th Eegiment, M. Y.
22d Eegiment, M. Y.
28th Eegiment, M. Y.
28th Eegiment, M. Y.
28th Eegiment, M. Y.
33d Eegiment, M. Y.
33d Eegiment, M. Y.
19th Eegiment, M. Y.
2d Eegiment, M. Y.
33d Eegiment, M. Y.
33d Eegiment, M. Y.
33d Eegiment, M. Y.
60
SOLDIERS5 NATIONAL CEMETERY.
i
Massachusetts. — Section D — Continued.
No. of
grave.
Names.
Cornp.
Regiment.
29
Jeremiah Danforth
c ...
K...
K...
D...
C...
H...
A...
19th Eegiment, M. V.
30
Charles A. Trask
13th Eegiment, M. V.
31
32
Charles H. Wellington . . .
Daniel Holland
13th Eegiment, M. Y.
19th Eegiment, M. V.
33
P. W. Price
28th Eeginient, M. Y.
34
George Lawton
16th Eegiment, M. Y.
19th Eegiment, M. Y.
35
J. Coakley
Section E.
No. of
grave.
Names.
Comp.
Regiment.
1
2
G. P. Eoundey, Massach'ts
J. B. Mncent
G...
K...
K...
H...
H...
22d Eegiment, M. Y.
3d Eegiment, M. Y.
22d Eegiment, M. Y.
15th Eegiment, M. Y.
15th Eegiment, M. Y.
15th Eegiment, M. Y.
3
4
5
Unknown.
James Crampton
John F. Moore
6
C. H. Eeed
7
John T. Bixby
8
S. Hindeman
9
G. F. Leonard
13th Eegiment, M. V.
Section F.
No. of
grave.
Names.
Comp.
Regiment.
1
2
3
1st Lieut. Sumner Paine. .
Lieut. J. H. Parkins
Lt. Sherman S. Eobinson,
E ...
20th Eegiment, M. Y.
37th Eegiment, M. Y.
19th Eegiment, M. Y.
Total, 158.
SOLDIERS' NATIONAL CEMETERY.
61
RHODE ISLAND.
Section A.
No. of
grave.
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
Names.
Ira Bennett *
David B. King
John Zimmila
Ernest Simpson
John Greene
John Higgins ......
Alvin Hiltonf
Francis H. Martini.
Patrick Lonnegan . .
Charles Powers.
Battery.;
Regiment.
B.
B .
A.
E .
B.
A.
E.
E...
A...
Co.C
1st Regiment, E. I. Art,
1st Regiment, R. I. Art.
1st Regiment, R. I. Art,
1st Regiment, R. I. Art.
1st Regiment, R. I. Art.
1st Regiment, R. I. Art.
1st Regiment, R. I. Art.
1st Regiment, E. I. Art.
1st Regiment, R. I. Art.
2d Regiment, E» I. V.
Section B.
No. of
grave.
Names.
Battery.
Regiment.
1
William Beard
E...
B...
1st Regiment, E. I. Art.
1st Regiment, R. I. Art.
2
Corp. Henry H. Ballon . . .
Total, 12.
* Temporarily transferred from the 19th Maine Regiment of Infantry.
t Was temporarily attached to this Battery, from 20th Regiment, Indiana Volunteers,
I Was temporarily attached to this Battery, from 99th Pennsylvania Volunteers.
62
SOLDIERS' NATIONAL CEMETERY.
CONNECTICUT
Section A,
No. of
grave.
Names.
Comp.
Regiment.
1
2
3
4
5
Corp. William E. Wilson . .
Corp. Joseph Puffer
William D. Marsh
Moses G. Clement
S. Carter
D...
I
G...
G...
A...
F ...
F ...
F ...
I....
0 ...
0 ...
27th Eegiment, 0. Y.
14th Eegiment, 0. Y.
14th Eegiment, 0. Y,
14th Eegiment, C. Y.
15th Eegiment, 0. Y.
27th Eegiment, 0. Y.
27th Eegiment, C. Y.
20th Eegiment, 0. Y.
20th Eegiment, 0. Y.
17th Eesciment, C. Y.
G
Edward B. Farr
7
Michael Confrey
8
John D. Perry
9
10
Bernard Mulvey .
Frank J. Benson
11
Joseph Whitlock
17th Eegiment, 0. Y.
Section B.
No. of
grave.
Names.
Comp.
Regiment.
1
2
3
4
5
6
Alfred H. Dibble....
Iselson Hodge
James Cassidy
Corp. Joel 0. Dickerman . .
Charles H. Eoberts ...
Daniel H. Prudy
G...
I....
C ...
I....
F ...
C ...
E ...
D...
F ...
14th Eegiment, 0. Y.
14th Eegiment, C. Y.
20th Eegiment, C. Y.
20th Eegiment, C. Y.
20th Eegiment, C. Y.
17th Eegiment, 0. Y.
17th Eegiment, C. Y.
7
James Flvnn
8
9
10
Oorp. Williams
John W. Metcalf
William Cannells.
20th Eegiment, C. V.
17th Eegiment, C. Y.
SOLDIERS' NATIONAL CEMETERY.
r>s
Connecticut — Section 0.
No. of
grave.
Names.
Cotnp.
Regiment.
1
Patrick Dunn
D...
27th Regiment, 0. V.
Total, 22.
NEW YORK
Section A.
No. of
grave.
Names.
Comp.
1
L. Vangorder .....
E...
E...
K...
D...
F ...
2
G. H. Babcock
3
Easter
4
E. B. Miller
5
William Millard
6
Unknown
7
Unknown
8
Unknown
.
9
Unknown
10
Unknown
11
Unknown
12
Unknown
13
Unknown
14
15
George A. Atkin ....
Unknown „
D...
16
Regiment.
20th Eeg't, N. Y. S. M.
20th Eeg't, F* Y. S. M.
14th Eeg't, K Y. S. M.
146th Eeg't, K. Y. Y.
14th Eeg't, K Y. S. M.
14th Eeg't, N. Y. S. M.
14th Eeg't, K Y. S. M.
14th Eeg't, N. Y. S. M.
14th Eeg't, X. Y. S. M.
14th Eeg't, N. Y. S. M.
14th Eeg't, OS", Y. S. M.
14th Eeg't, N. Y. S, M.
14th Eeg't, N. Y. S. M.
14th Eeg't, M, Y. S. M.
147th Eeg't, N. Y. V.
147th Eeg'fc N. Y. V.
64
SOLDIERS' NATIONAL CEMETERY.
New York. — Section A — Continued.
No. of
grave.
17
18
.19
20
21
22
23
24
25
26
27
28
29
30
31
32
33
34
35
36
37
38
39
40
41
Names.
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
John Wood
Unknown
Serg. Lawrence Hennessy,
Unknown
Unknown
Henry Kellog
Joseph Pliarett
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
J. A. Oasad
Unknown
Yenerabie Wesley
Ira Martin, Jr
John Mckels
William Besimer
Corp. William Miller...
Unknown.
John Barrey
Serg. Benj. F. Elliott...
L. W. M'Olelland. .....
Comp.
B .
F
G
E
B
K
B
D
Kegiment.
B
F
D
147th Eeg't, K Y. Y.
147th Eeg't, IS. Y. Y.
147th Eeg't, 1ST. Y. Y.
76th Eeg't, N. Y. Y.
147th Eeg't, K Y. Y.
94th Eeg't, IS. Y. Y.
157th Eeg't, K Y. Y.
157th Eeg't, JT. Y. Y.
157th Eeg't; K Y. Y.
157th Eeg't, K. Y. Y.
157th Eeg't, N. Y. Y.
157th Eeg't, IST. Y. Y.
157th Eeg't, Ni, Y. Y.
157th Eeg't, K Y. Y.
137th Eeg't, N. Y. Y.
K Y. Y.
137th Eeg't, !N\ Y. Y.
137th Eeg't, K Y. Y.
149th Eeg't, K Y. Y.
137th Eeg't, N. Y. M.
137th Eeg't, K Y. M.
1st N Y. Artillery
2d Eeg't, K Y. S. M.
20th Eeg't, N. Y. S. M.
SOLDIERS' NATIONAL CEMETERY.
65
New York. — Section A — Continued.
Names.
Comp.
Regiment.
Thomas James
I. Heimbacker ...»
E. Snyder .
John K. Philips
Marx Englert L
Unknown, _ . _ .
H. Burch
Unknown .
Ed. Stone, Jr., color bearer,
Francis W. Howard. .
Lieut, Julius Ferretzy.
Chester Smith
Eowland L. Ormsby
James F. Joloph ....„,„..
Ei chard Oorcoran. .......
Frederick Eempmir.
Patrick Martin
John O'Brian ........
Corp. George Dalgleish . .
Corp. Peter Junk
L. A. Godfrey ..... . .
W. A.G. ..
Z. C. Wiggins ...
Elias Gage
Arzy West. .......... . . -
A.
B
E
F
I.
K
J)
D
D
A
G
G
G
B
D
C
K
E
A
D
B
H
42d Eeg't, K". Y. V.
39th Eeg't, N". Y. V.
125th Eeg't, N". Y. V.
126th Eeg't, N. Y. V.
108th Eeg't, K Y. V.
111th Eeg't, K Y. V.
111th Eeg't, N. Y. Y.
111th Eeg't, K Y. Y.
64th Eeg't, K. Y. Y.
64th Eeg't, N. Y. Y.
119th Eeg't, N. Y. V.
44th Eeg't, K Y. V.
64th Eeg't, K Y. Y.
66th Eeg't, Vtl Y. Y.
2d Eeg't, K Y. Y.
52d Eeg't, N. Y. Y.
61st Eeg't, K. Y. V.
63d Eeg't, STJ Y. Y.
2d Eeg't. K. Y. Y.
119th Eeg't, N. Y. Y.
9th Eeg't, ST. Y. Cav.
125th Eeg't, ST. Y. Y.
136th Eeg't, K". Y. Y.
136th Eeg't, N. Y. Y.
136th Eeg't, tit. Y. V.
5
SOLDIEES' NATIONAL CEMETERY.
New York. — Section A — Continued.
No. of
grave.
67
68
69
70
71
72
73
74
75
76
77
78
79
80
81
82
83
84
85
86
87
88
89
90
91
Names.
John Salsbury
Serg. Piatt
Mike Cady, Color Sergeant,
Lieut. Ool. Max A. Thonian,
Corp. George S. Smith.
Myron H. Yan Winkle
H. Williams.
Serg, J. B. Wilson „
Serg. James M, Martin . . -
George Shaffer
J. D. Slattery
E.A.Potter
A. Krappinan ■.
Thomas Sebring
1st Lt. Theo. 0. Pausch. . j
Conrad Schuler
Jacob Yan Pelk
2d Lieut. C. A. Foss
John C. Curren
Edwin A. Hess
Corp. Henry Burk
Eldridge G. Thompson . . .
Daniel O'Hara
C. J. Crandell
A. B. Usher
Comp.
E
G
E .
F
C
H
A
K
I.
A
I.
T> ..
B ..
C ..
E ..
F ..
B ..
G..
G..
K..
D..
Regiment.
64th Eeg't, K Y. Y.
86th Eeg't, K Y. S. M.
42d Eeg't, N. Y. Y.
59th Eeg't, K Y. Y.
64th Eeg't, N. Y. Y.
111th Eeg't, m Y. T.
2d Eeg't, & Y. Y.
2d Eeg't, X. Y. S. M.
59th Eeg't, $. Y. S. M,
39th Eeg't, y, Y. S. M.
40th Eeg't, X. Y. Y.
40th Eeg't, K Y. Y.
40th Eeg't, X. Y. Y.
126th Eeg't, X. Y. V.
39th Eeg't, X. Y. Y.
2d Excelsior.
11th Eeg't, K Y. V.
12th Eeg't, K Y. Y.
4th Excelsior.
5th Excelsior
5th Excelsior.
86th Eeg't, X. Y. Y.
40th Eeg't, X. Y. Y.
125th Eeg't, K Y. V,
125th Eeg't, K Y. V.
SOLDIERS' STATION AL CEMETERY.
"67
New York. — Section A — Continued.
"No. of
grave.
92
93
94
95
97
98
99
100
iei
102
103
104
105
108
107
108
109
no
in
112
113
114
115
116
Names.
Cemp.
Regiment.
-*fo
Stephen Baldwin
Serg. I. L. Decker
Philip Banseli ..*....
DavM Knapp .....».__-_
Unknown.
John G. Bigg
Unknown.
Frederick Feight ......
E. Bryant..., ...... .
Unknown.
J. Dore . . . .
H. Moore .............
Thomas Gannon ....
Samuel Stills . .
Frederick W entz
Color Corp. Albert Miracle,
Henry Rhoades. .......
Serg. Lewis Bishop
Jeremiah Barry .......
B .
F .
B .
F ..
K..
B ..
H..
William Weight.
Horace Anguish . . .
Corp. J. B. Thomas
Thurston Thomas. .
Samuel Hague ....
Philip Baney .
F ..
I..
H.
B .
C .
E .
K.
I..
E .
D.
B .
E .
122d Reg't, K Y. V.
70th Reg't, N. Y. V.
10th Reg't, N". Y. C.
111th Reg't, K Y. V.
5th K Yr. Lid. Bakery.
140th Reg?t, ST. Y. V.
137th Reg't, Bf. Y. V.
137th Reg't, K Y. V,
149th Reg't, N. Y. Y.
6th K Y. Cavalry.
40th Reg't, ET. Y. V.
41st Reg't, N. Y. V,
154th Reg't, 1ST. Y. Y.
108th Reg't, N. Y. V.
154th Reg't, K Y..T.
134th Reg't, N. Y. V.
84th Reg't, K. Y. V.
157th Reg't, K". Y. Y.
134th Reg't, K Y; T.
134th Reg't, ^. Y. Y.
119th Reg't, K. Y. V.
134th Reg't, K Y. Y.
68
SOLDIERS7 NATIONAL CffitfEXBRT,
New York. — SBOTrcw A—C(mtiirme3,
No. of
graye.
117
118
119
120
121
122
123
124
125
126
127
128
129
130
131
132
133
134
135
136
137
138
139
140
141
Naraesv
GfoWpy
P. O.Wilber ......
Th addons Reynolds .
Lewis Frento
Charles F. Webber
Henry Miller. ... .
George A. Douglass . . -
Serg, F. Leafflecl .......
Albert D„ Wilson. .....
Serg. W. Shea-. ........
J. Lohross ............
Mortinior Garrison .....
Corp. Geo. W, Forrester
Unknown.
Unknown,
Unknown .............
Unknown, with Testament,
P. Lappen
Mar. E, Hiseox, 2d Serg . .
John Bell . ...........
W.W.Scott....
D. Welch.
W. Pooke. .
1st Serg. Thos. J. Curtis
Serg. H. Eoberts
Chauncey Snell.
I....
G ...
A...
B ...
F...
D...
E ...
C.
154th
76th ]
147th
14th :
157th
104th
104th
126th
14th ]
Beg.% JJfr Y. Y.
Eeg't, X, Y. V.
leg% Jfj, Y.. V.
Begt, K Y, S. I
Eeg't, IS. Y. V.
Reg't, K Y, S. 1
Eeg't, N. Y. Y.
Eeg't, K f J V.
Eeg't, N, Y. V.
Eeg't, KIV,
Eeg't, K Y. V.
le&% m. Y. V.
H.
D.
E .
C.
E.
G.
A.
C.
F .
134th Eegt, K. Y. V.
134th Eeg?tyK Y,V,
2d Eeg't, Uf Y. V.
125th Eeg't, K-Y.V.
123d Eeg't, pi, Y. V.
145th Eeg't, N, Y. V.
147th Eeg't, K Y. V.
76th Eeg't, K. Y. V.
104th Eeg't, K Y. V.
104th Eeg't, JST, Y. V.
147th Eeg't, Kf Y. V.
SOLDIERS* NATIONAL CEMETERY.
69
New York.— Section A — Continued.
No. of
grave.
Names.
Camp.
w
Regiment.
142
Elias Hannis. i -. -, -, . ,i- - - *
c...
c ...
147th Eeg't, IS: Y. V.
143
Unknown .
144
Lieut. Theodore BInme. : .
2d K Y. Battery.
Section B.
No. of
1
2
3
4
5
II
12
.13
i4
15
16
17
Nao2.es.
William Cranston.
Unknown .
Unknown ...
Unknown ........
Unknown
Serg. Carey ..__..
Unknown
Am^sa Topping . .
Unknown
Unknown ..„._...
Unknown .....
Corp. Philander Stone. . .
Unknown . . — ..
Sergt, Amos Hummiston.
Charnburg. ......
Unknown . ......
Edward Van Dyke.
Levi Carpenter
Harris Henschell. ------
Conip.
P
D
Regiment.
K
€...
0.
D
E
76th Eeg't, K Y. V.
76th Eeg't, K". Y. V.
76thEeg%K Y. i.
76th Eeg't, K Y. Y.
76th Eeg't, K Y. Y.
9th Eeg't, K Y. V.
157th Eeg't, K Y. V.
157ih Eeg't, it. Y. V.
157th Eeg't; H. Y. V.
157th Eeg't, K Y. V.
157th Eeg't, IS. Y. V.
157th Eeg't, K Y. V.
157th Eeg't, ft Y. V.
154th Eeg't, tf. Y. V.
134th Eeg't, 8*. Y. V.
134th Eeg't, K Y. V.
134th Eeg't, N. Y. V.
164th Eeg't, K Y. V.
140th Eeg't, IS. Y. V.
zmi
SOLDIERS' NATIONAL' CEMETESY.
New York.— Section B — Continued.
N& of
gra^e.
Names.
Camp.
20
21
22
23
24
25
26
27
28
29
30
31
32
33
34
35
36
37
38
39
40
41
42
43
44
Jolm P. Van Altype . .
John P. Wing. . . . .
G. Ulmer ... .
Corp. W. Foster
Sergt. 0. Gray
P. Ayres
James H. Mullin .
John Oarnine ........
Benjamin Clark ......
Sergt. Henry Johnson.
Hannibal Dorset
Hugh Murphy
Peter Brentzel ........
Unknown.
Lieut. E. P. Holmes. . .
Unknown.
A. M'Gillora .........
G. Bemis .. .
Albert Bruner ........
Franklin Cole
John F„ Fanssen ......
Unknown .
Daniel Mahoney
John Burns
William M. Stewart...
A...
A...
B...._
C...
I
K...
B...
E...
K...
E...
F...
G...
I..-.
G...
G...
K...
G
K
B
I.
0.
150th Eeg't, H". Y„ Y.
150th Eeg't, N. Y. V.
149th Eeg't, S. Y. Y„.
137th Eeg't, ST. Y. Y.
60th Eeg't, ¥. Y. Y.
60th Eeg't, N. Y. Y..
127th Eeg't, K". Y. V.
137th Eeg't, 1ST. Y. V.
137th Eeg't, Jf. Y. Y.
137th Eeg't, 1S.Y. Y.
60th Eeg't, K Y. V..
42d Eeg't, H". Y. V.
42d Eeg't, 2$. Y. V.
126th Eeg't, N. Y. V.
111th Eeg't, K Y. T.
111th Eeg't„K Y. Y.
2d K Y. Battery.
61st Eeg't, K Y. V.
2d Eeg't, K Y. Y.
K. Y. Artillerist.
69th Eeg't, K.Y V..
59th Eeg't, K Y. V.
2d Eeg't, H". Y„ $.. 1L
SOLDIERS' NATIONAL CEMETERY.
New York. — Section B — Continued.
71
Names.
Daniel L. Confer
John Stowell
0. 0. Elwell
James Doran
Sergt. William Hoover
David Eeed
William Bryan
O. Sergt. Sigm. Webb.
Thomas J. Boyd
John King
J. B. Morse
T. Harrigan
Timothy Kelly
Benjamin F. Atkins
William Peisdale
Simon Freer
Frank Staley
W. M. M'Aboy
J. Galliger
J. J.Oohniff
David Maywood
Sergt. Thomas King . . .
Sergt. Ira Penoyar
John J. Dunning
J. K. Saulspaugh
Comp.
H..
K..
H..
E ..
G..
A..
K..
H..
K..
E ..
A..
D._
F ..
0 ..
F ..
A..
G..
I...
K..
E ...
E ...
D..
D...
E ...
Regiment.
136th Eeg't, M Y. V.
136th Keg't, % Y. V.
136th Eeg't, if. Y. V.
136th Eeg't, H"! Y. Y.
136th Eeg't, K Y. V.
59th Eeg't, K Y. V.
42d Eeg't, K Y. V.
52d Eeg't, IS". Y. V.
2d Eeg't, N". Y. S. M.
2d Eeg't, if. Y. S. M.
124th Eeg't, N. Y. V.
40th Eeg't, N Y. V.
40th Eeg't, K Y. Y.
40th Eeg't, K. Y. V.
68th Eeg't, N"! Y. V.
40th Eeg't, W. Y. V.
40th Eeg't, N. Y. V.
4th Eeg't, X. Y. Ex.
4th Eeg't, #. Y. Ex.
4th Eeg't, N". Y. Ex.
5th Eeg't, W. Y. Ex.
2d Eeg't, K". Y. Ex.
111th Eeg't, if. Y. Ex.
111th Eeg't, ST. Y. Ex.
126th Eeg't, U. Y. Ex.
72
SOLDIERS' NATIONAL CEMETERY.
New York. — Section B — Continued.
No. of
grave.
Names.
Comp.
Regiment,
70
71
72
73
74
75
76
77
78
79
80
81
82
83
84
85
86
87
88
89
90
91
92
93
94
P.D'Vos
B. Conrad
Ambrose Paine
George Nicholson
Dennis M'Carthy
John Norton
William Marks
Unknown.
Unknown.
Unknown.
Unknown.
1st Lieut. M. Stanley .
T. Wood
W. H. Keyes._.
J. Kough
Serg. S. A. Smith
W. Johnson
G. W. Strong.
J. Bowie
James E. Homan .
Bernard Germann .
Daniel V. Hull . . .
Albert Hatch
William Schumne.
J. E. Jayner
E ..
K.
0 .
E ;
111th Eeg't, K Y. Ex.
125th Eeg't, N". Y. Ex.
42d Eeg't, N. Y. Ex.
126th Eeg't, N. Y. Ex.
122d Eeg't, K Y. Ex.
60th Eeg't, K. Y. V.
140th Eeg't, E\ Y. V.
E
O
G
G
B
B
G
H
D
G
E
D
E
60th Eeg't, N. Y. V.
150th Eeg't, 1ST. Y. V..
78th Eeg't, K". Y. V.
102d Eeg't, 1ST. Y. V.
337th Eeg't, N. Y. V,
60th Eeg't, N. Y. V.
137th Eeg't, K Y. V.
102d Eeg't, N. Y. V.
124th Eeg't, N. Y. V.
119th Eeg'fc, K Y. V.
136th Eeg't, N. Y. V
157th Eeg't, 1ST. Y. V.
54th Eeg't, N. Y. V.
157th Eeg't, K Y. V.
SOLDIERS' NATIONAL CEMETERY.
New York. — Section B — Continued.
No. of
grave.
95
96
97
98
99
100
101
102
103
104
105
106
107
108
109
110
111
112
113
114
115
116
117
118
119
Names.
Sergt. J. 0. Weisensal.
G. M. Beagles
Lieut. L. Dietrick
John Cassidy
Morgan L. Allen
H. F.Morton
George W. Lampheart. . . .
Corp. Ellas A. Norris .
Francis A. Chapman
Corp. William M'Kendry,
D. Lines
Sergt. John Stratton . . .
John Kurk
Charles A. Hyde
P. Sheets
W. S. Besey
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown.
Unknown.
Unknown.
Chamberlain.
d ngton
Oomp.
E ...
H._
D
C
F
E
B
K
G
Frank Dieeenroth.
John Hofer.
A
H
B
G
C
Regiment.
A.
45th Eeg't, TSf. Y. V.
134th Eeg't, N. Y. V.
58th Eeg't, N. Y. V.
108th Eeg't, ST. Y. V.
147th Eeg't, S", Y. V.
147th Eeg't, N". Y. V.
76th Eeg't, #. Y. V.
126th Eeg't, iki Y. V.
76th Eeg't, K Y. Y.
94th Eeg't, m Y. V.
76th Eeg't, W. Y. S. M.
94th Eeg't, N. Y. V.
97th Eeg't, N. Y. V.
76th Eeg't, N Y. V.
147th Eeg't, N". Y. V.
104th Eeg't, W. Y. V.
134th Eeg't, ¥. Y. V.
134th Eeg't, Bf. Y. V.
K. Y. Y.
108th Eeg't, Nl Y. V
74
SOLDIERS' SATIO^AL CEMETERY.
New York. — Section B — Continued.
No. of
grave.
Names.
Comp.
Regiment.
120
121
122
123
124
125
126
127
128
129
130
131
132
133
134
135
136
137
138
George Clark
Patrick Burns
N". A. Thayer
Serg. M. Buckingham
Samuel G. Spencer. . .
John M. Dawson
Unknown.
Unknown.
James Montgomery. .
Dennis Brady
Supposed Excelsior.
Eobert Shields
John Allen
Unknown.
John Zubber
Sanford Webb
Unknown.
Unknown.
Lieut. Charles Clark .
B ..
H..
K..
C ..
D..
H..
E .
C .
c .
B .
G.
B .
65th Eeg't, K Y. Y.
9th Eeg't, N. Y. S. M.
123d Eeg't, K Y. S. M.
104th Eeg't, N . Y. S. M.
76th Eeg't, K". Y. S. M.
76th Eeg't, N". Y. S. M.
1st JJ, Y. Excelsior.
15th I. B.
140th Eeg't, K Y. Y.
140th Eeg't, IS". Y. Y.
140th Eeg't, % Y. Y.
140th Eeg't, S". Y. Y.
9th Eeg't, K". Y. S. M.
Section C.
No. of
grave.
Names.
Comp.
Regiment.
1
o
Unknown
Unknown
K Y. Y.
N. Y. Y.
3
Unknown
ST. Y. Y.
SOLDIERS' NATIONAL CEMETERY.
v>
New York. — Section C — Continued.
No. of
grave.
Names.
Comp.
Regiment.
4
Tin known . ;^ ,
157th Eeg't, BT. Y. T.
5
Unknown
157th Eeg't, JT. Y. V.
6
Unknown
157th Eeg't, N. Y. V.
7
8
9
Sergeant, unknown
Orderly Serg't, unknown
Levi Busk
A...
G...
D...
A...
H...
H...
F ...
D...
D...
K...
0 ...
K...
F ...
G...
E ...
E ...
G...
E ...
N". Y. V.
1ST. Y. Y.
150th Eeg't, JT. Y. V.
150th Eeg't, H". Y. V.
Bfi. Y. V.
137th Eeg't, 1ST. Y. Y.
10
B. 0. Blunt
11
12
Chase Wingate
George Mabee
13
14
Unknown.
A. Wallace
111th Eeg't, K Y. V.
111th Eeg't, N. Y. V.
15
W. Brown
16
J. Morgan
111th Eeg't, IS. Y. V.
17
James Oullen
42d Eeg't, N. Y. V.
18
John Smith
42d Eeg't, 1ST. Y. Y.
42d Eeg't, N. Y. V.
59th Eeg't, N. Y. Y.
19
Thomas Barren
20
John Enosense .'
21
Serg. M. Dicker
20th Eeg't, N. Y. S. M.
22
23
24
Serg. L. H. Dicker
James Gallagher
J. L. Halleck
20th Eeg't, N. Y. S. M.
2d Eeg't, 1ST. Y. S. M.
20th Eeg't, N. Y. S. M.
111th Eeg't, W. Y. V.
111th Eeg't, ST. Y. Y.
25
26
T. D. Hawkin
H. W. Eoberts
27
28
Corp. George Blackall
William Whitmore
136th Eeg't, N. Y. Y.
111th Eeg't, tf. Y. Y.
76
SOLDIERS' NATIONAL CEMETERY.
New York. — Section 0 — Continued.
No. of
grave.
Names.
Comp.
Regiment.
29
John Oripps
A...
111th Eeg't, '&. Y. V.
30
Unknown.
31
Corp. A. G. M'Afee
111th Eeg't, j$. Y. V.
32
D.M'Gill
A...
G...
10th Battalion m Y.
33
William H. Cross
61st Eeg't, W. Y. V.
34
Conrad
C ...
A...
2d Eeg't, N". Y. Y.
35
2d Lt. Frank K. Garland. .
71st Eeg't, K Y. V.
36
Corp. Amos Cogswell
F ...
71st Eeg't, N. Y. T.
37
John H. Philips
E ...
95th Eeg't, IS: Y. V.
u. y. y.
38
Unknown
39
Unknown.
40
Serg. P. Einboldt
B ...
39th Eeg't, K Y. Y.
41
August Ellenberger
H...
59th Eeg't, ft! Y. Y.
42
Serg. John Larkins
E ...
2d Eeg't, W. Y. Y.
43
Peter West
K...
K...
42d Eeg't, N. Y. Y.
44
William L. Stuart
80th Eeg't, K Y. Y.
45
John Blockman
I....
H...
86th Eeg't, N. Y. Y.
46
James Partington
124th Eeg't, Wi Y. Y.
47
John Oarrigan
I
186th Eeg't, N. Y. Y.
48
Ira W. Ross
B ...
K...
K...
86th Eeg't, m Y. Y.
49
Walter Gloobson
40th Eeg't, K Y. Y.
50
William Morgan
126th Eeg't, IS. Y. V.
51
G Huskey
3d N". Y. Excelsior.
52
Wilson M. Molloy
C ...
4th 1ST. Y. Excelsior.
53
Lieut. George Dennen .
o...!
4th N. Y. Excelsior.
SOLDIERS' NATIONAL CEMETERY.
i i
New York. — Section C — Continued.
Names.
George Andrews.
Alfred G. Armes
1st. Serg. Geo. E. Smith . .
Daniel Oauty
Corp. J. A. Thompson
James Higgins ...
Jacob Baish
J. F. M'Oormick
William H. Norris
Unknown
Joseph Laroost
Ezra Hyde.
Unknown.
P. Tilbury
Oapt. J. N. Warner, rem'd,
Charles Eosebill
John Paugh „
Henry Miller
M. A. Culver
Peter Linck
George EodelofY .....
J. F. Chace
Benjamin Bice
Corp. Peter Berrer
Ord. Serg. Aug. Wilman. .
Comp.
B ..
H..
G..
C ..
Regiment.
I....
I
D...
C ...
H.
B .
B .
K.
H.
B
C
K
E
D
A
K.
F
4th H. Y. Excelsior.
2d N. Y. Excelsior.
120th Eeg't, HP. Y. V,
2d Hi Y. Excelsior.
4th H. Y. Battery.
1st N. Y. Excelsior.
125th Eeg't, H. Y. V.
10th Eeg't, H. Y. V.
44th Eeg't, 1ST. Y. V.
64th Eeg't, m Y. V.
140th Eeg't, H. Y. V.
146th Eeg't, H. Y. V.
137th Eeg't, 1ST. Y. V.
86th Eeg't, X. Y. V.
119th Eeg't, M Y. V.
154th Eeg't, H. Y. V.
141st Eeg't, H. Y. V.
157th Eeg't, Ml Y. V.
134th Eeg't, F. Y. V.
119th Eeg't, K Y. V.
154th Eeg't, H. Y. V.
134th Eeg't, H. Y. V,
134th Eeg't, H. Y. V.
54th Eeg't. 1ST. Y. V.
SOLDIERS' NATIONAL CEMETERY.
New York.— Section C^-Contimied.
No. of
grave.
79
80
81
82
83
84
85
SO
87
88
89
90
91
92
93
94
95
96
Names.
Thomas Haley ,
George Conner . -_
Broughton Hough . . ,
George Halbring . . .
Henry Limerick ....
Corp. Jerry Johnson
J. B. Church
0. E, Day
Serg. A. W. Swart . .
J. Glair, Jr. ........
John Glair
Horace Burgess.
Serg. F. E. Munsun
James Mahoney
Serg. Henry Sanders.
J. M. Bouren
Unknown
Unknown.
97 Unknown
98
99
100
101
102
103
Unknown
Unknown ......
0. W. Eadeu . . .
Unknown,
John Fitzner . . .
Hem^ J. Davis.
Comp.
E ...
D...
K...
G..
F ...
C ..
F ..
D..
I...
D..
B ..
D..
D ..
B ..
C ..
c ..
Regiment.
B .
F .
B .
157th Eeg't, m Y. V.
157th Eeg't, m. Y. Y.
157th Eeg't, K. Y. V,
119th Eeg't, Hi Y. V.
136th Eeg't, Wt. Y. Y.
157th Eeg't, JSi Y. Y.
147th Eeg't, m Y. Y.
94th Eeg't, K. Y. Y.
20th Eeg't, EI Y. S. M.
94th Eeg't, m Y. Y.
104th Eeg't, K Y. Y.
104th Eeg't, M Y. Y.
97th Eeg't, K Y. Y.
147th Eeg't, BT. Y. V,
94th Eeg't, Ni Y. Y.
154th Eeg't, Mi K V.
154th Eeg't, K Y. Y.
154th Eeg't, $T. Y. Y.
154th Eeg't, m Y. Y.
134th Eeg't, N. Y. Y.
1st N. Y. Artillery.
108th Eeg't, N. Y. Y.
125th Eeg't, IK Y. V.
SOLDIERS' NATIONAL CEMETERY.
'79
New York. — Section C— Continued.
Names.
Edward Bereri
J. O'Brien
D. Hammond
Lafayette Burns
Unknown.
Corp. D. Casey
William Eaymond . .
Asa Pettingill.
Jo. Stowtenger
Comp.
James Pfeiffer
Unknown.
Unknown.
James Gray
Edward Peto
E. Eliot
Ord. Serg. Thos. Devine . .
Unknown.
Unknown.
Unknown, supposed Ex.
K. E. Clafiin, Testament. .
Unknown, letters
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
I...
A..
I...
G..
B..
F ..
G ..
E ..
Regiment.
K.
125th Eeg't, JS". Y. V.
2d ET. Y. Excelsior.
K. Y. V.
2d N. Y. Excelsior.
122d Eeg't, H"'. Y. V.
126th Eeg't, K Y. V,
147th Eeg't, N. Y. V.
147th Eeg't, m Y. V,
145th Eeg't, tf. Y. V.
Cowan's Battery.
1st Mi Y. Battery,
2d Eeg't, M Y. S. M.
2d Eeg't, N. Y. S. M.
N. Y. V.
N. Y. V.
K. Y. Excelsior.
N. Y. Excelsior.
IS". Y. Excelsior.
K, Y. Excelsior.
80
SOLDIERS' NATIONAL CEMETERY.
New York. — Section 0 — Continued.
No. of
grave.
Names.
Comp.
Regiment.
129
Ord. Serg. Edw. F. Krause,
K...
19th Eeg't, m Y. Y.
130
Unknown.
131
Unknown.
132
Unknown.
Section D.
No. of
grave.
Names.
Comp.
Regiment.
1
2
Frederick D. Clark
Unknown
K...
78th Eeg't, N. Y. Y.
S". Y. Y.
3
4
William 0. Marsh. .......
Loren Eaton
H...
D ...
C ...
I
c ...
B ...
B...
78th Eeg't, 1ST. Y. Y.
149th Eeg't, Sfc Y. V.
5
6
7
Frederick Phelps
William Murphy
Michael Moloy
137th Eeg't, E". Y. Y.
60th Eeg't, mi Y. Y.
149th Eeg't, If. Y. Y.
8
E. B. Roberts
14th Eeg't, ft Y. Y.
59th Eeg't, W. Y. V.
N. Y. Y.
9
10
11
12
Unknown Cavalryman.
Unknown Cavalryman.
Ord. Sergt. James P. Cush,
Unknown
13
N. Southerd
K...
E ...
E ...
K...
B ...
20th Eeg't, N. Y. S. M.
14
John Capper
2d Eeg't, K Y. S. M.
15
Patrick M'Marra
43d Eeg't, N. Y. S. M.
16
Frederick Tybal
42d Eeg't, N. Y. S. M.
1st £L Y. Battery.
17
Sergt. Darvoe
18
H.Wood
111th Eeg't, ft Y. Y.
soldiers' national cemetery.
81
New York. — Sectiox B — Continued.
No. of
grave.
Names.
Comp.
Regiment.
19
Unknown
K". Y. V.
20
Unknown
H". Y. V.
21
James H. Griswald ......
E ...
11 1th Eeg't, K. Y. V.
22
J. J. Beck
B...
B ...
45th Eeg't, W: Y. V.
23
Henry C. Bunnell
1st 1ST. Y. Excelsior.
24
Serg. Patrick Farrington,
G...
2d Eeg't, ft. Y. S. M.
25
Corp. Albert H. Edson . . .
A ...
8th K Y. Cavalry.
26
Unknown Cavalryman.
27
Patrick M'Bonald. .......
. . . —
H". Y. V.
28
Wm. Kreis
I
52d Eeg't, k Y. Y.
29
Casper Bonn ell.
C ...
66th"Eeg't, tf. Y. V.
59th Eeg't, Hf. Y. V.
30
Elisha Allen
A...
E ...
31
Wessel Whitbeck
o ' ...
111th Eeg't, W. Y. Y.
32
Serg. Edw. G, Aylesworth,
G ...
147th Eeg't, K Y. V.
33
20th Eeg't, & Y. V.
34 George M'Oonnell
I....
14th Eeg't, S". Y. S. M.
35 Francis Chapman
K...
76th Eeg't, K Y. S. M.
36 j Serg. James Harrigan. . . .
E...
136th Eeg't, N.Y.S.I
37
38
Thomas Hurley
G...
I....
2d Eegt, K Y. S. M.
David B. Johnson
2d Eeg't, K Y. S. M.
39 I Philip Martyler .L
......
39th Eeg't, K Y. Y.
40 ! George Shumdeher
B ...
39th Eeg't, K Y. V.
41 Sergt. L. Stone
G...
42d Eeg't, N. Y. V.
42
43
J. W. Cresler
K...
1st N. Y. Excelsior.
1st X. Y. Excelsior.
82
SOLDIERS' NATIONAL CEMETERY.
New York. — Section D— Continued,
No. of
grave.
44
45
46
47
48
49
50
51
52
53
54
55
56
57
•58
S9
60
61
62
63
64
65
m
67
68
Names.
Unknown
F. Piatt
Patrick Lynch
Serg. J. Murphy
W. M.Brown
Corp. Samuel Lambert .
H. Eose
Joseph Battel
J.D.B
Corp. N. W. Winship . . .
Jabez Fisk
Matthew Bryan
Serg. 0. Farnsborth.
William M'Oort
E. Whitmore
William Danice
John Furgeson
Serg. Carlton Sanders.
John Cain
C. H. Carpenter
Unknown.
Unknown.
H. M'Dowell
J.Walton
James Ivers
Comp.
E ...
D..
B ..
G..
F ._
F ._,
A..
I...
K..
K._
C ..
G..
C ..
E ..
E .
H.
K.
I..
C .
H.
A.
Regiment.
1st N". Y. Excelsior.
72d Eeg't, U. Y. S. M.
4th N. Y. Excelsior.
4th N. Y. Excelsior.
4th IS". Y. Excelsior.
1st BT. Y. Excelsior.
111th Eeg't, N. Y. V.
2d K Y. Excelsior.
129th Eeg't, K Y. V.
86th Eeg't, K Y. V.
86th Eeg't, K Y. V.
2d Eeg't, K Y. Y.
126th Eeg't, IS". Y. V.
39th Eeg't, K. Y. V.
111th Eeg't, K Y. Y.
39th Eeg't, N". Y. Y.
39th Eeg't, K. Y. Y.
120th Eeg't, K Y. V.
122d Eeg't, N. Y. V.
44th Eeg't, K Y. V.
60th Eeg't, K. Y. V.
14th Eeg't, N. Y. S. M.
14th Eeg't, 1", Y. S. M
SOLDIERS' NATIONAL CEMETERY.
83
New York.—SECTION D— Continued.
No. of
grave.
Names.
Comp.
Regiment.
69
Jacob Eiser . „ . . . ,
A...
134th Reg't, IK. Y. V.
70
— — Heyden : . .
147th Reg't, K T. V.
71
Unknown,
72
Unknown.
73
<L Finlin. .._..„..„..
15th Indep't N. Y. Bat.
14th Reg't, Brooklyn.
14th Reg't, Brooklyn.
74
Unknown Zouave. .......
75
Unknown Zouave Serg .
76
Unknowi? ..„» .......
JS. Y. Excelsior.
77
Unknown ...............
N". Y. Excelsior,
78
Unknown ...........
U. Y. Excelsior,
79
Robert Blair .........
D ...
ok of
140th Reg't, K Y. V.
SO
Unknown, (with Prayer Bo
Fr. Deisenroth.)
81
Daniel Casey ........
D...
44th Reg't, K Y. V.
82
Josephus Simmons .......
E ...
44th Reg't, N. Y. V.
83
James Look
A...
44th Reg't, $L Y. V.
84
diaries Speisberger.
D...
140th Reg't, N". Y. V.
85
Philip Beekner ..........
D...
140th Reg't, ST. Y. V.
86
Jastice Eisenberg. ....
D....
140th Reg't, K Y. V.
87
David Nash »
F ...
F ...
44th Reg't, K Y. V.
88
George Lervy
44th Reg't, ffi, Y. V.
89
Serg. Sidney S. Skinner . .
D ...
44th Reg't, 1ST. Y. V.
90
Jesse White .........
G...
A...
44th Reg't, X. Y. V.
91
Corp. William 0. Crafts . .
44th Reg't, K Y, V.
92
George Strobridge
E...
140th Reg't, m Y. V.
93
Ross Thomas. .......
E....
140th Reg't, If. Y. V.
SOLDIERS' RATIONAL CEMETERY,
New York.— Section D— Continued
No. of
grave.
Names.
COEflp.
94
Corp. Good mam „
H...
95
George Kole „ . . .
E ...
90
Leander T, Bnrnhani . .
E ...
97
K. M'Elligot ,.
C ...
C ...
B ...
E...
K...
98
IP. Griswald L . . .
99
Peter Beers
100
John M. Irons ._.__.„....
101
102
Unknown,
103
Unknown,
104
Unknown,
'
105
Joseph Sneebeeker
P...
106
Unknown, with anibrotype
and pa
107
Unknown Cavalryman,
108
Unknown.
109
Martin Boe
K...
110
H. W.D..
111
J. C.K
. o _ o a ■>
112
Charles Johnrid .........
H...
113
Unknown Cavalry Se-rgt.
114
Unknown.
115
Unknown.
116
Unknown.
117
Unknown.
118
W. L. Bort.. ........
B ...
Regiment.
44th Beg't, K Y. Y.
44th Beg't, K". Y. TJ
44th Beg't, 1ST. Y. Y.
44th Beg't, Iff. Y. Y.
44th Beg't, 1ST. Y. V.
44th Beg't, IS. Y. Y.
44th Beg't, N. Y. V.
34th Beg't, N. Y. V.
146th Beg't, K Y. V„
111th Beg't, Bi Y. V.
111th Beg't, N. Y. Y,
N". Y. Y.
5th N, Y. Excelsior,
157th Beg't, BT. Y. V.
SOLDIERS' NATIONAL CEMETERY.
85
New York. — Section D — Continued.
No. of
grave.
Names.
Comp.
Regiment.
119
J. 0. Kent
K...
B ...
A...
136th Eeg't, BT. Y. V.
120
W. W. Clark
<50th Eeg't, W. Y. V.
121
T. Manly .... _
63d Eeg't, BT. Y. Y.
122
D. Sinith._
I....
57th Eeg't, H". Y. Y.
123
George S. Moss
C ...
125th Eeg't, IS. Y. V.
124
William Wyer . . ...J
A...
119th Eeg't, X. Y. V.
125
¥. M, Stowell....
D ...
I. Y. Excelsior.
126
H.Dale..... ._
C ...
135th 1ST. Y. Excelsior.
127
Unknown Cavalryman.
Section E.
No. of
grave.
Names.
Comp.
Regiment.
1
James Gray. . ....
c ...
2d Eeg't, K Y. S. M.
2
Unknown ..
2d Eeg't, N. Y. S. M
medal, purse and 75 cts.)
49th Eeg't, BR Y. Y.
3
4
5
Unknown.
Unknown, (with knife, ink
Mcholas Paqoet.
stand,
E ...
6
7
Charles Eoot.
John P. Conn
Battery L, 1st Artillery.
40th Eeg't, X. Y. V.
60th Eeg't, IS. Y. V.
137th Eeg't, US'. Y. Y.
137th Eeg't, K. Y. V.
8
9
10
11
Frederick Blackstein
A. R Townsend
Charles Manning
BLW. Nichols
A...
I
0 ...
E ...
0...
A...
12
13
E. Yan Tassel
P- Stevenson ........
60th Eeg't, BE. Y. V.
60th Eeg't BT. Y. V.
86
SOLDIERS' NATIONAL CEMETEKY-
New York. — Section E — Continued-
No. of
grave.
Names.
Comp.
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
26
27
28
29
SO
31
32
oo
OO
34
35
36
37
38
P. M'Donald ....
Corp- W. W- Band ......
Corp- L, Vinning .
Sergt. Charles F. Fox . . ,
Malilon J- Pardee.
Oliver English
F. A. Archibald .....
Sergt. J. W. Broekham. .
William W. Wheeler.
Richard W- Ensh. ......
A- Stanton ... .......
Peter Hill
Dean Swift. ............
Sergt. Daniel Corbett . . .
Sergt. Hiram G. Hilts. . .
P. Fanning ......
W» P* Huntingdon ......
James W. Wickham ....
J. Vandyke . ........
E. Gandley . ... ......
G. Christanna
Daniel Cook, U. S- Ambul
Sergt. F. Jell...... ....
E. T. Myers
Felix M'Crani
35egim©nt.
E..,
A..
A..
F ..
A..
C -.
c ..
e .,
A..
A..
B..
O ..
O J.
c ..
M...
K..
I...
K„.
K..
Eeg%. m Yi V-
102d Eeg't, $- Y. V.
137th Eeg't, IS". Y. f -
137th Eeg't, if. Y.. V-
137th Eeg't, S". Y. V.
13.7th Eeg't, $T. Y. V~
137th Eeg't, IT. Y. V-
137th Eeg?t, E". Y. V..
137th Eegrt, JTi Y. V.
137th Eeg't, IS". Y. V.
137th Eeg't, H". Y. V-
137th Eeg't, N.Y.V.
137th Eeg't, K- T. V..
60th Eeg't, USTv Y. V.
122d Eeg't, K. Y.V~
122d Eeg't, W*. Yi V..
123d Eeg't, N. Y. V.
122d Eeg't, BDl Y. V-
107th Eeg't, 5T- Y. V.
44th Eeg't, K". Y. V-
120th Eeg't, 3ST. Y. V.
river.
95th Eeg't, HI Yi V~
111th Eeg't, H. Yi V-
42d Eeg't, K . Y. Y.
SOLDIERS' NATIONAL CEMETERY.
87
New York. — Section E — Continued.
Names.
Comp.
Regiment.
Josepkus Gee
A. J. Chafee
William J. Sutliff.
Jokn Jolloff
Eliska Looniis
Mickael Burns
James Giles
Serg. S. Lasage
John Sloven
Heinrick Droeber .
Jokn Eiley. ......
H. Hawkins
Jacob Dilber
Josepk Ootrell
Orin Skepkercl
Lieut. A. Wagner,
P. Newman
Jokn M. Wastrant
A. S. Yan Volkenburg
Tyler J. Snyder
Unknown, (on cap) ....
Hendrick Haynian
J. Clegg
Corp. A. Ealpk
J. E. Bailey
G..
E ..
B..
F ..
0 ..
0 ..
I...
A..
I...
C ..
B ..
G
A
A
F
K
G
G
G
D
I.
C
I.
137th Eeg't, K Y. V.
44tk Eeg't, IS'. Y. Y.
137tk Eeg't, N. Y. V.
Excelsior Brigade.
137tk Eeg't, H1. Y. Y.
140tk Eeg't, K. Y Y.
104tk Eeg't, k. Y. Y.
147tk Eeg't, N. Y. Y.
61st Eeg't, 1ST. Y. Y.
119tk Eeg't, #. Y. Y.
145th Eeg't, K Y. Y.
94tk Eeg't, K Y. Y.
119th Eeg't, 35". Y. V.
43d Eeg't, SF. Y. Y.
60tk Eeg't, ST. Y. Y.
39tk Eeg't, W. Y. Y.
73d Eeg't, JT. Y. Y.
111th Eeg't, IT. Y. V.
64th Eeg't, K Y. Y.
126th Eeg't, K Y. Y.
157th Eeg't, K Y. Y.
39th Eeg't, k Y. Y.
Excelsior.
62d Eeg't, If. Y. Y.
111th Eeg't, K Y. Y.
88
SOLDIERS' NATIONAL CEMETERY.
New York. — Section E — Continued,
No. of
gra^e.
64
65
66
67
68
69
70
71
72
73
74
75
76
77
78
79
80
81
82
83
84
85
86
87
88
Names.
F. Sweney
Thomas Smith
Serg. S. Vanderpool
Unknown Captain
Unknown
1st Lieut. J. Eoss Horner. .
H. Berman
Unknown. [ambrotype.
— -Delxnot, $2 75, diary &
Unknown Corporal
Solomon Lesser, ($36, &c.,)
Corporal Bollinger. . . .
Klebenspies
Corporal Conrad Waelde.
Albert Spitz
Eiershan
Corporal Woell . .
J. Smith ;
C. A. Caldwell . .
EL C. Eosegrant.
Timothy Kearns.
P. Owens
G. W. Secose
Unknown
P. Trainer
Comp.
Regiment.
D.
K.
I..
K
E
E
E
E
E
E
K
H
B
B
E
B
A
A
F
D
40th Eeg't, K Y. V.
1st 1ST. Y. Excelsior.
125th Eeg't, BF. Y. V.
X. Y. Y.
ET. Y. Excelsior.
20th Eeg't, K Y. V.
41st Eeg't, K Y. V.
41st Eeg't, K". Y. V.
41st Eeg't, N. Y. V.
41st Eeg't, K Y. Y.
41st Eeg't, E". Y. Y.
41st Eeg't, K Y. V.
41st Eeg't, K". Y. V.
41st Eeg't, IS. Y. V.
41st Eeg't, 1ST. Y. V.
41st Eeg't, IS, Y. V.
4th K Y. Battery.
64th Eeg't, 3ST. Y. V.
1st Eeg't, K Y. V.
1st 1ST. Y. Excelsior.
61st Eeg't, K Y. V.
4th N. Y. Cavalry.
4th K Y. Cavalry.
4th K Y. Cavalry.
SOLDIERS' NATIONAL CEMETERY.
89
New York. — Section E — Continued.
Names.
John Kenton 0
Comp.
John Smith
Serg. William H. Ambler.
John Lanegar
1st Serg. Seklen D. Wales,
Adjutant Gaulk
J. B. Oowill
John P. Wells
William Franklin
A. K Post...
John Ferry
1st Sergeant — unknown
James M'Bride .
Unknown.
Patrick Kenney
Charles Hogan
Henrv Hitchcock
George Clax
Amos Otis
Serg. Samuel Fuller
Unknown
E. Develin
J. Baetchner
Unknown Zouave.
Corporal Eichard Sheridan,; E . .
D..
D..
D..
A..
E .
E .
H.
A.
I..
A...
B ...
A...
C ..
K..
G..
A.
Regiment.
4th tf. Y. Cavalry.
57th Beg't, Kl Y. V.
57th Beg't, 1ST. Y. V.
5th K. Y. Cavalry.
5th K. Y. Cavalry.
5th N. Y. Cavalry.
108th K. Y. Cavalry.
104th K". Y. Cavalry.
13Gth X. Y. Cavalry.
43d K Y. Cavalry.
88th Beg't, X. Y. V.
HGth Beg't, K Y. V.
88th Beg't, K". Y. V.
63d Beg't, K Y. Y.
63d Beg't, K". Y. V.
1st Ind't 1ST. Y. Battery
111th Beg't, X. Y. Y.
146th Beg't, K Y. V.
105th Beg't, N. Y. Y.
Excelsior.
4th Beg't, 1ST. Y. Y.
Excelsior.
2d Beg't, N. Y. S. M.
SOLDIERS' NATIONAL CEMETEEY.
New York. — Section E — Continued.
No. of
grave.
Names.
Conip.
Regiment.
114
115
116
117
D. C, (with Bible.)
Unknown.
Unknown.
Unkuown
Excelsior.
118
Unknown
Excelsior.
119
Unknown '
Excelsior.
120
Unknown '
Excelsior.
Section F.
No. of
crave.
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
Names.
Capt. J. S. Corbin
Oicero Tolls
A. D. Tice
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Comp.
Regiment.
F . . . 20th Eeg't, K Y. V.
A..
E ..
134th Eeg't, 1ST. Y. V.
Serg. Frederick Derbin... I.
Thomas Dawson A
Alfred Trudell A
Fred. Hei-
Elbert Traver.
Unknown
William Lacy
E
H
20th Eeg't, N. Y. V.
147th Eeg't, K Y. Y.
147th Eeg't, X. Y. V.
147th Eeg't, K Y. V.
76th Eeg't, N. Y. Y.
76th Eeg't, K Y. V.
76th Eeg't, N. Y. V.
78th Eeg't, K Y. V.
78th Eeg't, ST. Y. V.
78th Eeg't, ;NT. Y. V.
K Y. Y.
44th Eeg't, K Y. V.
N". Y. Y.
4th K". Y. Excelsior.
SOLDIERS' NATIONAL CEMETERY.
01
New York. — Section F — Continued.
No. of
grave.
Names.
Comp.
Regiment.
17
J. Siinond
D...
K...
4th IT: Y. Excelsior.
18
Serg. T. Lally
4th N". Y. Excelsior.
19
Unknown
Excelsior.
20
Unknown '
Excelsior.
21
1
Unknown !
Excelsior.
22
Unknown ' : '
Cavalry.
23
Unknown.
24
Unknown
Cavalry.
25
David Holland, with medal,
F ...
2d Excelsior.
26
Unknown
Excelsior.
27
Michael Flanegan
B ...
1st N. Y. Excelsior.
28
Ord. Serg. Patrick Sullivan,
K...
4th ]*r. Y. Excelsior.
29
K. H.P
126th Eeg't, K Y. V.
30
Unknown .
K. Y. Y.
31
Unknown, (with ring,)
K". Y. Y.
32
Charles W. Gaylord
B ...
126th Eeg't, K". Y. V.
33
Unknown
Excelsior.
34
Chas. Welden, (with diary,)
D...
111th Eeg't, 2JT. Y. Y.
35
Unknown Corporal
TSt. Y. Y.
30
Cavalry.
37
Unknown.
38
Unknown.
39
Lieut. A. W. Estes
H...
2d H". Y. Excelsior.
40
Unknown
Excelsior.
41
1st Division 5th Corps.
92
SOLDIERS' NATIONAL, CEMETERY.
New York. — Section F — Continued.
No. of
grave.
Names.
Comp.
Regiment.
*
42
Unknown
1st Division 5th Corps.
43
Unknown.
44
Unknown.
45
Unknown.
46
Unknown.
47
Unknown, (with knife) .
]ST. Y. V.
48
Unknown
E ...
5th Corps.
49
Unknown.
50
John Kapp
K...
1st Excelsior.
51
Michael Evan
C ...
1st Excelsior.
52
Unknown.
53
Unknown.
54
Charles M'Kenney
B ...
1st Excelsior.
55
Unknown.
56
Unknown.
57
Unknown .
2d Brig. 2d Div. 5th Cor.
58
Unknown Corporal, (with p
ipe.)
59
Unknown.
60
James Brady
"
2d Excelsior.
61
Unknown.
/
62
UnknowiJ.
63
Unknown.
64
Unknown
W, Y. V.
65
Unknown
N. Y. Y.
66
Charles Gorman
E ...
2d Excelsior.
SOLDIERS' NATIONAL CEMETERY.
93
New York. — Section F — Continued.
No. of
grave.
Names.
Comp.
Regiment.
67
G8
69
70
71
72
73
74
75
76
77
78
79
80
81
82
83
84
85
86
87
88
89
90
91
Unknown .
Patrick Olvany
Alonzo Henstreat, (with po
Supposed
George W. Douglass . . .
Supposed . .
Supposed
Supposed
Supposed , . i
Supposed
Supposed
Supposed
Supposed
Supposed
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown Orderly Sergt.
Unknown, with ambrotype
Supposed
Supposed
Supposed
Jacob Jones, (with letter.)
Unknown.
Unknown.
Unknown .............
A...
cket b
E .
2d Excelsior.
2d Excelsior,
ook and 50 cents.)
N. Y.
1st Excelsior,
K. Y.
W. Y.
K.Y.
K". Y.
SF. Y.
N. Y. V.
J K Y. V.
J K Y. V.
K Y. V.
K Y. V.
K Y. V.
Excelsior.
5tli Corps.
ST. Y. V.
Excelsior,
Excelsior.
lltli Corps
94
SOLDIERS^ NATIONAL CEMETERY,
New York,— Section F — Continued*
75m. of
grave.
Names.
92
93
94
95
96
97
98
99
100
101
102
103
104
105
106
107
108
109
110
111
112
113
114
115
Unknown . .....
William M'Clellan ......
Unknown.
P. J. Hopkins
Unknown.
Unknown Corporal .....
Lieut. Ei. D. Lower
Unknown ...
Supposed ....
Unknown
Unknown
G. M'Oleary..
Unknown ...........
Unknown
Edmund Holmes
T. Tetworth
Adam Shaw
Supposed
Supposed
William H.Bell........
Corp. James M. Delaney,
Corp. Andrew De Wit. .
Supposed
Theo. Bogart, with medal
and breastpin
Comp.
Regiment,
G...
H
P
F ...
D ...
P
I.
H
I..
Artillerist.
88th Eeg't, N. Y. V.
126th Eeg't, j& Y. V.
126th Eeg't, m Y. V.
157th Eeg't, N. Y. Y.
157th Eeg't, N. Y. Y.
Excelsior.
Excelsior.
Excelsior.
4th Excelsior,
Excelsior.
Excelsior..
4th Excelsior-
4th Excelsior.
4th Excelsior.
Excelsior.
Excelsior.
120th Eeg't, N. Y. V.
120th Eeg't, N. Y. Y.
120th Eeg't, K, Y. Y.
ST. Y. V.
120th Eeg't, N. Y. Y.
soldiers' national cemetery.
95
New York. — Section G.
Names.
Comp.
Regiment.
2d Lieut. F. F ...
Supposed, with ambrotype,
Supposed
Supposed
Daniel Smith
Supposed, with watch chain
Corporal Gilbert Myer. . . .
Supposed
Theodore Van Deborgert. .
R. M. W ...........
Supposed
Supposed
Supposed
Supposed
Supposed ,.
Supposed
E
Supposed
Supposed
Supposed
Supposed
Supposed
W. H. Ackernian . .
Supposed
Supposed \
Corporal, supposed.
I..
I.
I.
K. Y. V.
K Y. V.
K Y. V.
120th Reg't, K. Y. V.
120th Eeg't, $, Y. V.
3d Excelsior.
120th Reg% K Y. V.
Excelsior.
120th Reg't, K Y. V.
Supposed X. Y. Y.
Excelsior.
Excelsior.
Excelsior.
Excelsior-
Excelsior.
Excelsior.
Excelsior.
Excelsior.
Excelsior.
Excelsior.
Excelsior.
1st Excelsior.
Excelsior.
Excelsior.
Excelsior.
96
SOLDIERS' NATIONAL CEMETERY.
New York. — Section G— Continued.
No. of
grave.
26
27
28
29
30
31
32
33
34
35
36
37
38
39
40
41
42
43
44
45
46
47
48
49
50
■ Names.
Supposed
Supposed
Supposed
Supposed : . •:
Supposed
Supposed
Corporal Lewis Solomon.
Supposed
Supposed
Ord. Serg. P. Earrel
Eufus Thomson
Seth Harpell .
Henry Wilson
Alexander Gacon ......
W. H. Piper
Comp.
Regiment.
Sergeant Bie-
Charles Gorman
Serg. Washington Knight,
George Buggins .........
Michael Eiley
Elbert Brown. .........
John Carey
Unknown.
Unknown.
Unknown, (2 knives trad: co'mb) .
Excelsior.
Excelsior.
Excelsior.
Excelsior.
K Y. V.
k y. v.
1st Eeg't, K. Y. Y.
H> Y. Y.
kl Y. V.
4th Excelsior,
120th Eeg't, ST; Y. V.
5th Excelsior.
126th Eeg't, ft! Y. V.
5th !N". Y. Excelsior.
1st N". Y. Excelsior.
1st N. Y. Excelsior.
2d 1ST. Y. Excelsior.
5th K Y. Excelsior.
1st K". Y. Excelsior.
42d Eeg't, X. Y. Y.
111th Eeg't, S". Y. Y.
D..
C ..
C ..
E ..
B ..
H..
A..
B::
C ..
I...
G..
G..
H..
5th Eeg't, K Y. Y.
K Y. Y.
SOLDIERS' NATIONAL CEMETERY.
97
New York. — Section G — Continued.
Names.
Unknown .
Unknown
Unknown J.
Unknown
Unknown
O. W. Hotchkiss, breastpin,
William Shuly, ambrotype,
Supposed
Supposed
Just, Warner, with snuffbox
Supposed
Unknown Corporal
Unknown.
Unknown, supposed
Serg. John Knox
John ISTolan .
Serg. J. H. Mead
Supposed
Supposed
Geo. Washington Sprague,
Serg. L. H. Lee
Corp. Luke Kelly. ....
Thomas Murphy
Henry Irvin „
Henry Diemer ...........
Comp.
F .
K
K
G
B
F
F
F
F
Regiment.
K Y. V.
N. Y. V.
H". Y. Y.
5T. Y. Y.
ET, Y. Y.
120th Eeg't, W, Y. Y.
JSfi Y. Y.
B\ Y. Y.
K Y. Y.
120th Eeg't, 1ST. Y. V.
1ST, Y. Y.
Excelsior.
H\ Y. V.
5th N. Y. Excelsior.
1st W. Y. Excelsior.
K Y. Y.
Excelsior.
Excelsior.
2d Eeg't, H". Y. Y.
2d Eeg't, K Y. V.
2d Eeg't, BT. Y. S. M.
2d Eeg't, IT. Y. S. M.
2d Eeg't, K Y. S. M.
2d Eeg't, N. Y. S. M.
98
SOLDIERS' NATIONAL CEMETERY.
New York. — Section G— Continued.
No. of
grave.
76
77
78
79
80
81
82
83
84
85
86
87
90
91
Names.
Supposed
H. Thompson
Adam 0. Oadmus
Jacob Frey
M. Stout
Charles Jones
Sergt. James Melchen .
Thomas Hunt
Supposed
Robert Laning
John Sloat. . i
Sergt. George Baker . . .
Supposed
Joshua Pursel
Daniel Day ,
Charles T. Harris
Comp.
I..
I..
B .
F .
C.
H..
H.
K.
E.
A.
C.
B ..
G.
Regiment.
K Y. S. M.
111th Eeg't, HL Y. V.
126th Eeg't, m Y. T.
149th Eeg't, m Y. T.
136th Eeg't, M Y. Y.
9th Eeg't, H. Y. Cav.
2d Eeg't, m Y. S. M.
2d Eeg't, aSG. Y. S. M.
3ST, Y. V.
86th Eeg't, M, Y. V.
126th Eeg't, JS". Y. Y.
40th Eeg't, dSi Y. V.
ST. Y. V.
126th Eeg't, m Y. f J
126th Eeg't, K Y. Y.
126th Eeg't, N. Y. V.
Total, 867.
SOLDIERS' NATIONAL CEMETERY.
99
NEW JERSEY.
Section A.
No. of 1
grave. Names.
i Comp.
-t-
Regiment.
1 2d Li. Rich. H. Townsend
— tftk>
12th Regiment, N. J. V.
2 1st Serg. T. Sutphin. . .
. E ...
5th Regiment, K J. V.
3
I. L. T.
4
L. Kreisel
Battery A, 1st N. J. V.
Battery A, 1st K". J. V.
12th Regiment, K. J. Y.
5
G. Cutter
6
Isaac H. Copeland
' E ...
7
John Albright.
8
Joseph Spacious ....
12th Regiment, K J. V.
12th Regiment, K J. V.
9
George Martin
1
! A...
10
O.S.Piatt 1
b;v.
12th Regiment, I.j.t.
11
Unknown.
12
Daniel Hierman .
H
12th Regiment, N. X Y.
13
Unknown.
14
George W. Adams ...
F ...|
12th Regiment, N". J. V.
15
William Redrow.
12th Regiment, 1ST. J. V.
16
William Spencer.
■17
Unknown,
18
Unknown,
19
Jacob Sheik
I....
4th Regiment, fe. J. V.
20
— — — - Creamer. . .
12th Regiment, K £fc Y.
5th Regiment, N, J. V.
21
J. W. Button. . .
K..J
22
R. S, Price .
Bat. B., 1st IST. J. Art.
11th Regiment, R.J. Y.
23
Swart Perew .
G...
100
SOLDIERS' NATIONAL CEMETERY,
New Jersey. — Section B„
No. of
grave.
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
Names.
Patrick Kyan ... .
Sergeant John M'lver. . . ,
Thomas Van Oleaf
B. 0. Jackson
John Eue :
James Fletcher. ...._.„..
Michael Goff . .............
Joseph Burroughs .......
Henry Elberson
Sergt. Samuel Stockton . .
William Preser .......
Henry Danmiig
Charles B. Yearkes ......
Daniel Shuk . . r ....... .
J. Parliament
John Smith, with pocket b
W. T.Hawkins
■ Biley
J.B. .............. ..-.-
J. H., with comb
H.B
Unknown,with Testament.
Comp.
A.
B .
F .
B .
B .
G.
G.
B .
G.
K.
G..
B ..
0.
ook,15
H...
E ...
F ...
F ...
F ...
Keariment.
5 th Begiment, B. J. Y-
5th Begiment, H". J. Y..
8th Begiment, £L J. Y.
11th Begiment, 1ST. J. V.
11th Begiment, IS. J. V.
7th Begiment, 1ST. J. Y.
11th Begiment^K J. Y,
8th Begiment, IS.. J. V.
N. J. V.
5th Begiment, N". J. V,
Egg Harbor City Gav.
13th Begiment, 2J. J. Y.
Gth Begiment, 35T. J. Y,
3d Begiment, N. J. Y.
13th Begiment, 33* J. V,
cents* &c
12th Begiment, H". J. V,
2d Begiment, IS. J. V.
7th Begiment, IS,. J. Y.
7th Begiment, 1ST. J. V.
7th Begiment, 1ST. J. Y.
SOLDIERS' NATIONAL CEMETERY.
lUi
New Jersey. — Section C.
Names.
Cornp.
Regiment.
W. A.E .
Unknown, with knife. . .
Unknown
Unknown L
John Eyan. „
J.F I
Unknown, with blanket s
Unknown.
Unknown.
Unknown.
Unknown.
Unknown.
Unknown.
Unknown,
Unknown.
Unknown.
Unknown.
Thomas Flanagen ,
M. V.
George W. Berry
I..
0 ..
A..
hawL
G
A
B
7th Eeginient, ST. J. V.
7th Regiment, N. J. V.
K J. Y
7th Eegiment, K J. V.
5th Eegiment, N. J. V.
7th Eegiment, 5T. J. V.
7th Eegiment, K J. V.
7th Eegiment, N". J. V.
7th Eegiment, F. J. V.
Section D.
No. of
grave.
Names.
Comp.
Regiment.
1
Unknown
7th Eegiment, K. J. V.
2
! Unknown, with needle case
102
SOLDIERS* NATIONAL CEMETERT,
New Jersey.— Section D — Continued
No. of
graye.
3
4
5
6
7
10
11
~12
Names.
Unknown
Supposed
Supposed
Corp. William H. Eay.
Serg. James B. Eister .
E. Baner
Supposed
Supposed
J. WIS ..
Unknown.
P. Weene
Compv
E
0
H
P
H.
Regiment.
K. J. V.
W. J. V.
K. J. V.
12th Eegiment, N. J. V.
11th Eegiment, H. J. V.
11th Eegiment, JS". J. V.
K. J. V.
K J. V.
7th Eegiment. 1ST. J. Y,
0th Eegiment, .N . J. V.
Total, 78.
DELAWARE
Section A.
NWof
graye.
Names.
Comp.
Regiment.
Corp. William Strong
Serg. Thomas Seymore. . .
William Dorsey
John B. Sheets
T. P. Carey
John S. Black
Serg. Michael Cavanagh. .
D.
B.
D.
D.
E .
K.
G.
2d Eegiment, D. V.
1st Eegiment^ D. Y.
1st Eegiment, D. V..
1st Eegiment, B. Y.
1st Eegiment, D. Y.
1st Eegiment, D. Y.
2d Eegiment, D. Y.
SOLDIERS NATIONAL CEMETERY.
103
Delaware.— Section B.
No. ©f
grave.
Names.
Comp.
Regiment.
1
Peter Boster
A...
A...
B ...
E ...
A...
E ...
2d Begiment, D. T.
2
Jacob Stiles
2d Begiment, D. V.
1st Begiment, D. V.
2d Begiment, D. V.
1st Begiment, D. V.
3
4
5
Serg. Jacob Boyd
A. Huhn ^
6
Lient. George G-. Plank . . .
2d Begiment, D. V.
Section C.
No. of
grave.
Names.
James Dougherty.
Stephen Carey
Comp.
I..
A.
Regiment.
1st Begiment, D. Y.
2d Begiment,, D. V.
Total, 15.
MARYLAND.
Section A.
No. of
grave.
Names.
Comp.
Regiment.
1
Southey Stirling
K...
B ...
B ...
0 ...
1st Begiment, Md. V.
1st E. Shore Md. V.
1st Begiment, Md. Y.
1st Begiment, P. H. B.
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
Unknown.
William P. Jones
Edward Pritchaifd
Unknown.
Unknown.
Unknown.
H.Miller
104
SOLDIERS' NATIONAL CEMETERY.
Maryland. — Section B.
No. of
grave.
Names.
Comp.
Regiment.
1
Wm. H. Eaton
E...
H...
I....
B ...
E ...
D...
1st E. Shore Md. V.
2
G. H. Barger
1st Beginient, Md. V.
3
4
A. Saterfield
Joseph Bailey
1st E. Shore Md. V.
1st Beginient, Md. V.
5
Teter French
1st Beginient, P. H. B.
6
7
Unknown.
Stephen Ford
1st Beginient, Md. V.
Section 0.
No. of
grave.
Names.
G. W. Lowry
John Conner
David Krebs
M. F. Knott
Frank Baxter
John W. Stockman
Comp.
K.
F .
G.
F .
D.
Regiment.
1st Beginient, P. H. B.
1st Beginient, P. H. B.
1st Beginient, P. H. B„
1st Beginient, Md. V.
1st Beginient, Md. V.
1st Brigade.
Section D.
No. of
grave.
Names.
Comp.
1 Unknown, killed at Hanov er, Pa
Total, 22.
Regiment.
SOLDIERS' NATIONAL CEMETERY.
105
WEST VIRGINIA.
Section A.
No. of
grave.
Names.
Corup.
Simon Maine F
John Brown
Aaron Austin
Theodore Stewart
George Berger
Martin L. Scott
Capt. William BT. Harris.
E .
C .
c .
B .
E .
Regiment.
7th Eegiment, Va. V.
7th Eegiment, Va. V.
7th Eegiment, Ya. V.
7th Eegiment, Ya. Y.
7th Eegiment, Ya. Y.
7th Eegiment, Ya. Y.
1st Cavalry.
Section B.
No. of
grave.
Names.
Comp.
F ...
L...
C ...
E ...
Regiment.
1
2
3
4
Sergt. Garret Selby
Sergt. George Collins
Charles Lacey
William Bailey
1st Eegiment, Ya. Cav.
1st Eegiment, Ya. Cav.
1st Artillery.
1st Cavalry
Total, 11.
106
SOLDIERS' NATIONAL CEMETERY.
OHIO.
Section A.
No. of
grave.
Names.
COHip.
1
Enoch M. Detty
G...
2
2d Lt. Geo. W. M'Gary. . .
3
William Folk
D ...
4
Martin Jacob
D...
i
John Wiser
D...
6
Richard Bradler
D ...
7
E. A. Ham
H...
8
Busk
H...
9
J. Warner
H...
10
Elmer L. Ross
0...
11
Francis H. Blough
C ...
12
Unknown.
13
Unknown.
14
Unknown.
15
John M'Oleary
D...
16
George K. Wilson
B ...
17
Orville A. Warren
K...
18
Ozro Moore
I....
19
William Brown
B ...
20
Serg. John K. Barclay
C ...
21
Frank Shaffer
D...
22
Danford Parker
K...
23
Jeremiah ST. Crabaugh . . .
C ...
Regiment.
73d Regiment, O. Y.
82d Regiment, O. V.
82cl Regiment, O. V.
82d Regiment, O. V.
82d Regiment, 0. V.
82d Regiment, O. Y.
82d Regiment, O. Y.
82d Regiment, O. Y.
82d Regiment, O. Y.
82d Regiment, O. V.
82d Regiment, O. V.
66th Regiment, O. Y.
8th Regiment, O. Y.
8th Regiment, O. Y.
8th Regiment, O. Y.
8th Regiment, O. V.
8th Regiment, O. Y.
8th Regiment, O. Y.
8th Regiment, O. V.
75th Regiment, O. Y.
SOLDIERS' NATIONAL CEMETERY.
107
Ohio. — Section A — Continued.
No. of
grave.
24
25
26
27
Names.
John Edmunds
Frederick Meyer. . .
A. Houck
Joseph Klinefelter.
Comp.
H
F ..
F ..
Regiment.
1st Begiinent, O. Y.
Battery 1st, O. Y.
82d Begiment, O. V.
55th Begiment, O. V.
Section B.
No. of
grave.
Names.
Comp.
Regiment.
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
Edward T. Lovett .
William Williams .
Henry Ophir
William Aekerman
John B. Meyer
Sergt. Caleb Dewees.
Ai Maddox . „
Ozias C. Ford
William Whitby
Joseph B. Blake
Andrew Miller
William M'Olue
Corp. James H. Lee. .
William E. Haynes . .
Allen Yaple
A. M.Campbell
Henry Stark
James W. Harl
I...
I...
E ..
D..
C ..
F ..
G..
A..
H..
I...
I...
B..
H..
B ..
A..
E ..
I...
A..
25th Begiment, O. V.
73d Begiment, O. Y.
55th Begiment, O. V.
72d Begiment, O. V.
55th Begiment, O. V.
73d Begiment, O. V.
73d Begiment, O. Y.
55th Begiment, O. Y.
73d Begiment, O. Y.
73d Begiment, O. Y.
73d Begiment, O. Y.
13th Begiment, O. V.
73d Begiment, O. Y,
73d Begiment, O. Y.
73d Begiment, O. Y.
185th Begiment, O. V.
4th Begiment, O. Y.
4th Begiment, O. V.
.106
.SOLDIERS' NATIONAL CEMETERY.
Ohio. — Section B — Continued.
No. of
grave.
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
26
Names.
Bernard M'Guire
John M'Kellips
George H. Martin
Serg. Philip Tracey
Color Corp. Win. Welch .
Samuel Mowery
Corp. Edward G. Eanney .
Unknown
Comp.
B
0
G
G
I.
r>
Regiment.
8th Eegiinent, O. V.
8th Eegiment, O. V.
4th Eegiment, O. V.
8th Eegiment, O. V.
30th Eegiment, O. V.
107th Eegiment, O. V.
61st Eegiment, O. V.
1st Ohio Battery.
Section 0.
No. of
grave.
Names.
Comp.
Regiment.
1
Anthony Mervale
G...
5th Eegiment, O. V.
2
J. Senard
D...
5th Eegriment, O. V.
3
Charles Ehinehart
Battery 1, 1st Artillery.
4
George Nixon
B ...
F ...
73d Eegiment, 0. V.
5
August Eaber
107th Eegiment, 0. V.
73d Eegiment, 0. V.
107th Eegiment, 0. V.
6
Elisha L. Leake
G...
A...
K...
7
Lucas Struble
8
John Davis
75th Eegiment, 0. V.
9
Thomas Gilleran
F ...
61st Eegiment, 0. V.
73d Eegiment, 0. V.
10
Corp. George B. Greiner. .
G...
11
Jacob Swackhamer
G...
73d Eegiment, 0. V.
12
Isaac J. Sperry
G...
C ...
F ...
73d Eegiment, 0. V.
13
Jacob Mitchell
55th Eegiment, 0. V.
14
Chauncey Haskell
82d Eegiment, 0. V.
15
William E. Pollock
C ...
55th Eegiment, 0. V.
SOLDIERS' NATIONAL CEMETERY.
100
Ohio. — Section 0 — Continued.
No. of
grave.
Names.
Comp.
Regiment.
16
Benjamin F. Hartley
E ...
75th Regiment, 0. V.
17
Sergt. Thomas H. Eice . . .
B ...
73d Regiment, 0. V.
18
Joseph Barrett
G ...
73d Regiment, O. V.
107th Regiment, O. V.
19
Andrew Samiller
A...
20
William R. Call.
B ...
A...
H...
73d Regiment, 0. V.
21
Isaac Richards
82d Regiment, 0. V.
22
Adam Snyder
107th Regiment, 0. V.
23
Corp. Jas. H. Goodspeed. .
D ...
75th Regiment, 0. V.
24
William Miller
G...
H...
25th Regiment, 0. V.
25
Nathan Heald
73d Regiment, (X V.
Section D.
Names.
Sergt. Charles Ladd .
Caspar Bohrer
Jacob Hoff.
Joseph W. Cunningham.
John Aigle
Baits Beverly
George Richards
Sergt. Philip Shiplin
Samuel L. Conner
Joseph Gasler
William M'Vey
Asa Hines .............
Comp.
E .
G.
E
I.
K
C
D
F
E
K
H
Regiment.
25th Regiment, O. V,
107th Regiment, O. V.
107th Regiment, O. V,
25th Regiment, O. V.
107th Regiment, O. V.
107th Regiment, O. V,
75th Regiment, O. V.
75th Regiment, O. V.
82d Regiment, O. V.
107th Regiment, O. T.
73d Regiment, O. V.
11th Corps.
110
SOLDIERS^ NATIONAL CEMETERY,
Ohio. — Section D — Continued.
No. of
grave.
Names.
Comp.
Regiment,
13
Serg. W. Norton Williams,
0...
108th Regiment, 0. V.
14
David W. Oallins ....
G...
4th Eegiment, 0. V.
15
William Bain. .
G...
4th Eegiment, 0. V.
16
Lieut. Addison Edgar ....
G...
4th Regiment, 0. V.
17
Andrew Myers
E ...
4th Regiment, 0. Y.
18
1st Lt. George Hay ward. .
29th Regiment, O.Y.
19
G...
74th Regiment, 0. V.
20
G...
75th Regiment, 0. V.
21
Ira L. Brighain . . . .
H...
8th Regiment, 0. Y.
82d Regiment, 0. V.
22
G. Walker
F ...
H...
23
John Glouchlen. ... . .
25th Regiment, 0. V.
Section E»
No. of
grave.
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
Names.
Thomas t)urm , ......
B. F» Pontious .
George IL Thompson .
B. F. Sherman . „
Corp. John Debolt. . .
Haskell Farr ......
Corp. William Myers
J. Lareden. ..,,..„'..,...
Perry Taylor
T.M'Oain
George Case .............
Comp.
K
D..
G..
G..
B ..
G..
A..
E..
G..
E..
0 ..
Regiment.
25th Regiment, O. V.
29th Regiment, O. V.
5th Regiment, O. V.
61st Regiment, O. V.
4th Regiment, 0. V.
55th Regiment, O. Y>
8th Regiment, 0. Y.
75th Regiment, O. Y>
75th Regiment, O. V.
29th Regiment, O. V.
5th Regiment, O. Y.
SOLDIERS' NATIONAL CEMETERY.
Ill
Ohio. — Section E — Continued.
No. of
grave.
Names.
Comp.
Regiment. J
12
13
Corp. Isaac Johnson
Asa 0. Davis
K...
G...
I
D...
0 ...
H...
G ...
G ...
G...
K...
H...
1st Artillery.
4th Eegiment, 0. V.
14
15
William Overholt.
Lewis Davis
73d Eegiment, 0. V.
75th Regiment, 0. Y.
16
17
1st Sergt. John W. Pierce,
Hiram Hughes
25th Eegiment, 0. V.
25th Eegiment, 0. V.
18
to .... - -
Wesley Rakes
75th Eegiment, 0. V.
19
20
Samuel P. Bauglmian. . . .
Joseph Juchem
75th Eegiment, 0. V.
107th Eegiment, 0. Y.
21
Jacob Bise.
107th Eegiment, O. Y.
22
H. Schram
1st Eegiment, 0. Y.
Section F.
Names.
Sergt. -Jasper 0. Briggs
Sergt. John 0. Kisska.
Andrew J. Dildine
Jacob I. Eanch .......
Josiah D. Johnson
Sergt. Isaac Willis
Daniel Palmer
James Bay.
Comp.
G ..
A..
A..
A..
F ..
G..
D ..
G..
Regiment.
73d Eegiment, O. V.
8th Eegiment, O. Y.
8th Regiment, O. Y.
8th Eegiment, O. Y.
29th Eegiment, O. Y.
73d Eegiment, O. Y.
73d Eegiment, O. Y.
73d Eegiment, O. Y.
Total, 131.
112
SOLDIERS' NATIONAL CEMETERY.
INDIANA.
Section A.
No. of
grave.
Names.
Comp.
Regiment.
1
Lieut. R. Jones
B ...
19th Eegiment, I. V.
19th Eegiment, I. Y.
2
Serg. Dougherty
3
James Sticklep
0 ...
0 ...
0 ...
c ...
F ...
0 ...
E ...
19th Eegiment, I. V.
4
o
W. Hoover, (or Houer) . . .
Alexander Burk
19th Eegiment, I. Y.
19th Eegiment, I. Y.
19th Eegiment, I. Y.
6
E. Clark
7
A% Sulgroof .'.
19th Eegiment, I. Y.
8
9
Unknown.
Peter L. Faust
19th Eegiment, I. Y.
19th Eegiment, I. Y.
19th Eegiment, I. Y.
10
Wm. Simmons
11
Sere\ Ferguson
12
Wesley Smith
A...
A...
A...
20th Eegiment, I. V.
13
Amos D. Ashe
20th Eegiment, I. V.
14
John Sager
20th Eegiment, I. Y.
Section B.
No. of
grave.
Names.
Comp.
Regiment.
1
2
3
F.H.K.....
Joshua Eichmond
George Sylvester
H...
B....
6th Eegiment, I. Y.
20th Eegiment, I. V.
20th Eegiment, I. Y.
4
.Unknown
20th Eegiment, I. Y.
5
Unknown
20th Eegiment, I. Y.
20th Eegiment, I. Y.
6
SOLDIERS' NATIONAL CEMETERY.
113
Indiana.— Section B — Continued.
Uo. of
grave.
Names.
Oomp.
Regiment.
7
Unknown ,_..„„..„..
20th Eegiment, I. V.
8
Unknown ...„„
20th Eegiment, I. V.
9
Unknown ...._.„........
A...
20th Eegiment, I. V.
10
Unknown ...............
20th Eegiment, I. V.
20th Eegiment, I. V.
20th Eegiment, I. V.
20th Eegiment, I. V.
11
Unknown
12
Unknown - ._..__ - . ..
13
Unknown .».„.. ...
Section 0.
No. of
grave.
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
Names.
P* Umphill „.„...- ...
J. Gilinore ........
E. Stallup. ... .
J. Gardner ....
Silas Upham
John E. Weaver . . .
Sererfc. A. 0. Lamb.
Serg. G. H. Eedrick.
P. A, Bassard.
J. Williams . . .
C Showalter . .
E. Holt......
Comp.
D
I.
H
K
G
A
E
F
K
B
A
G
Regiment.
27th Eegiment, I. V.
27th Eegiment, I. V.
27th Eegiment, I. V.
27th Eegiment, I. V.
19th Eegiment, L V,
3d Eegiment, Ind. Gar,
120th Eegiment, I. V.
20th Eegiment, I. V„
20th Eegiment, I. V.
20th Eegiment^ I. V.
27th Eegiment, I. V.
27th Eegiment, I. V
114
SOLDIERS' NATIONAL CEMETERY,
Indiana. — Section D.
No. of
grave.
Names.
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
John Shehan, (Orderly for
A. G. Wright... .......
0. E. Wishmyer
L. 0. Antrim
D. C. Calvin ......
John Tice
Orel. Sergt. E. Tumey. .
Levi Bulla
James W. Whitlow
Jesse Smith
Comp.
George Bales.
T. Hunt
Gen.G
A..
A..
C ..
0 .,
A..
D ..
0 ..
B ..
D ..
A..
A..
Regiment.
ibbons.
20th Eeginient7 1. V.
27th Eegiment, I. Y,
27th Eegiment, I. V.
27th Eegiment, I. V.
20th Eegiment, I. Y.
27th Eegiment, I. Y.
20th Eegiment, I. Y.
19th Eegiment, I. Y.
3d Eegiment Cavalry,
27th Eegiment, I. Y.
27th Eegiment, I. Y.
Section E.
No. of
grave.
Names.
Comp.
Regiment.
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
J. K. Fletcher . . .
Jesse Wills
Samuel E. Lewis
John D. Noble . .
James Chapman.
J. D. Lynn
Thomas J. Lett. .
W. H. Wilson . . .
Unknown
E. M'Knight
D. T. David.
F .
0 .
D.
K.
Eli
D.
H.
E .
K.
F .
G.
27th Eegiment, I. Y.
27th Eegiment, I. Y.
27th Eegiment, I. V.
27th Eegiment, I. V.
27th Eegiment, I. Y.
27th Eegiment, I. Y.
27th Eegiment, I. V.
27th Eegiment, I. V.
27th Eegiment, I. Y.
27th Eegiment, I. Y.
27th Eegiment, I. Y.
SOLDIERS' NATIONAL CEMETERY.
115
Indiana.— Section F.
Names.
Serg. Jeremiah Davis . . .
Unknown,
F. W. ....
R. Pavy ...... .....
J, Eobinson
F.W.Smith.... ........
H. Ambrose .. ...........
A. J. Crabb .... ....
Serg. Geo. W. Batclielor.
Wm. Tillottson ....
Comp.
H..
K
K
H
D
H
I.
Regiment.
20th Eegiment, I. V.
14th Eegiment, I. V.
3d Eegiment, I. V.
7th Eegiment, I. V.
27th Eegiment, I. V,
20th Eegiment, I, V.
20th Eegiment, I. V.
27th Eegiment, I. V.
14th Eegiment, l^V.
Section G,
Corp.. EUS.B........
Unknown, with letter,
A. Lister. ...........
Supposed
Supposed.
Supposed.
Supposed.
Thomas J, Wasson, . .
Comp.
F
B
Regiment.
14th Eegiment, I. V.
27th Eegiment, I. Y.
19th Eegiment, I. V.
Total, 80.
116
SOLDIERS' NATIONAL CEMETERY,
ILLINOIS
Section A.
No. of
grave.
Names.
J. Wallikeck
John Ellis... . .....
Charles Wm, Miner.
David Dieffenbaugh. . . .
Corp. John Ackerman.
Comp.
Regiment.
H
G
K.
Supposed, comb & very light hair
82d Beginient, 111. V.
12th Eegiment, 111. V.
8th Eegiment, HI. Cav,
82d Eegiment, 111. V.
8th Eegiment, HI. Y..
Total, 6.
MICHIGAN
Section A.
Not of
grave.
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
Names.
George Colburn ........
Edward B. Harrison
Erson H. SnriMi
Silas E. Thurston
Serg. George Pettinger. .
Charles B. Burgess
Lieut. G. A. Dickey
James O'Neil.
E. K. Horman .
Corp. Otis Southworth. .
Comp.
Regiment.
G . . . 24th Eegiment, M. V.
K . . . 24th Eegiment, M. V.
A . . . 3d Eegiment, M. V.
G ... 3d Eegiment, M. Y.
G . . . 24th Eegiment, M. T.
A . . . 3d Eegiment, M. V.
G . . - 24th Eegiment, M. V.
H . . . 3d Eegiment, M. V.
H . . . 24th Eegiment, M. Y.
C . . . 24th Eegiment, M. Y.
SOLDIERS1 NATIONAL CEMETERY.
117
Mchigaja. — Section A — Continued.
No. of
grave.
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
Names.
Charles Phelps
Corp. F. P. Worden. .
Corp. Wm. A. Pryor .
Charles A. Bouse
Charles A. Thurlach .
Charles W. Gregory .
James H. Pendleton. .
George Purely ...
Joseph Brink
Sergt. Mcholas Gosha.
Edwin Beebe
A. E. Evans
James T. Bedell
George W. Lundy
Comp.
B
C.
D
D
A
H
H
H
H
F
E
A
F
Regiment.
4th Regiment, M. V.
4th Regiment, M. V.
4th Regiment, M. V.
4th Regiment, M. V.
4th Regiment, M. V.
4th Regiment, M. Y.
4th Regiment, M. Y.
4th Regiment, M. Y.
4th Regiment, M. Y.
7th Regiment, M. Y.
7th Regiment, M. Y.
5th Cavalry.
7th Michigan Cavalry.
7th Michigan Cavalry.
Section B.
No. of
grave.
Names.
Comp.
Regiment.
1
John Durre
D.._
A...
G...
G...
I
G...
G...
B ...
24th Regiment, M. Y.
2
A. Jenks
24th Regiment, M. V.
3
4
Corp. W. H. Luce
William H. Cole....
24th Regiment, M. Y.
5th Regiment, M. Y.
5
43
Herson Blood
E. B. Browning
3d Regiment, M. Y.
24th Regiment, M. V.
7
Corp. J. T. Falls
24th Regiment, M. Y.
24th Regiment, M. Y.
8
Sergt. George Kline
118
SOLDIERS' NATIONAL CEMETERY.
Michigan. — Section B — Contiwued.
■ — #H
Nov of
grave.
Names.
C&mp.
Regiment.
9
10
11
Serg. John Powell ...
Corp. Norinan King. . .
Ellis Comstock
H...
D...
D...
F ...
A...
F ...
B ...
A...
K...
K...
K...
A...
H...
A...
C ...
24th Eegiment, M. Y,
4th Eegiment, M. V.
4th Eegiment, M.'Y.
24th Eegiment; M. Y,
24th Eegiment, M. Y..
4th Eegiment,. M. Y.
12
A. Hoisington
13
14
Corp. Charles H. Ladd.
H. B. Fountain
15
16
Corp. Jerome Shook
Corp. A. Benson
5th Eegiment, M. Y.
4th Eegiment, M. Y„
17
Eobert Sligh
3d Eegiment, M. Y.
3d Eegiment, M. Y.
3d Eegiment, M. Y..
5th Eegiment,. M. Y.
1st Cavalry.
4th Eegiment, M. Y.
18
Oliver N. Culver
19
20
21
22
Serg. Eeuben Power
1st Serg. Daniel A. Yodria,
Thomas Shanahan ...__..
D. C. Laird
23
C. Pease
4th Eegiment, M. Y.
Section 0.
Nd» of
grave.
Names.
Camp,
Regiment.
1
S. Bisonette
A...
B ...
K...
0 ...
G...
F ...
4th Eegiment, M, Y.
5th Eegiment, M. Y.
5th Eegiment, M. Y*
5th Eegiment, M. Y.
7th Eegiment, M. Y.
7th Eegiment, M. V.
2
3
Corp. Charles A. Turner . .
Charles Jelioke. . = .
4
5
6
7
1st Serg. James Hazzard. .
Serg. John Sholes
Win. Underwood
— Almas.
SOLDIERS' NATIONAL CEMETERY.
119
Michigan. — Section C — Continued.
No. of
grave.
Names.
Comp.
Regiment.
8
1st Sergt. Thomas J. Divit
D...
5th Michigan Cavalry.
9
John Lavaby
A...
5th Michigan Cavalry.
5th Regiment, M. V.
10
John Roberts
C ...
A...
• 11
Frank Barbour
O 7
5th Michigan Cavalry.
5th Regiment, M. Y.
12
Samuel Christopher
D ...
13
Andrew R. Evans
A...
5th Michigan Cavalry.
14
Nelson A. Allen
A...
5th Michigan Cavalry.
5th Michigan Cavalry.
5th Michigan Cavalry.
15
Charles Masters
A...
16
Corp. Horace Barse
E ...
17
Frank Anderson
D...
5th Regiment, M. V-
18
Unknown — Supposed ....
3d or 5th Michigan Cav.
7th Michigan Cavalry.
19
Sergt. Charles E. Miner
20
L. Gibbs
C ...
5th Michigan Cavalry.
21
J. Falketts
H...
5th Michigan Cavalry.
22
W. B. Hunt
I....
16th Regiment, M. Y.
Section D.
No. ®f
grave.
Names.
Comp.
Regiment.
1
Henry Butler
I
5th Regiment, M. Y.
2
Sergt. Charles Ballard.
E ...
5th Michigan Cavalry.
3
Christopher Miller
E ...
5th Michigan Cavalry.
4
Edward A. Warner
I. ...
5th Michigan Cavalry.
5
Sergt. Henry Bicker
F ...
5th Michigan Cavalry.
6
Richard Alwayra
E ...
5th Regiment, M. Y.
7
Henry Riolo
F ...
5th Michigan Cavalry.
120
SOLDIEES7 NATIONAL CEMETEKY.
Michigan.— Section D — Continued.
No. of
grawe.
Names.
Comp.
Eegiment.
8
D. M. Merefield
F ...
G...
G...
G...
0 ...
K...
G...
A...
C...
C ...
B ...
I....
K...
I
5th Michigan Cavalry.
5th Michigan Cavalry.
5th Michigan Cavalry.
5th Michigan Cavalry.'
7th Michigan Cavalry.
3d Michigan Cavalry.
5th Michigan Cavalry.
3d Eegiment, M. Y.
5th Eegiment, M. Y.
5th Eegiment, M. Y.
7th Eegiment, M. Y.
16th Eegiment, M. V.
16th Eegiment, M. V.
16th Eegiment, M. V.
9
Francis E. Kent ......
10
J. M. Skinner ...........
11
Artemus Clark ....
12
13
Corp. Delos Harris.
John M. Brown
14
15
Corp. Wm. A. Cole
James M. Pierce
16
17
George Lawrence. .......
John Eoberts ............
18
19
2d Serg. E. B. Godfrey.. . .
J. K. Beagle .
20
Isaac H. Scott
21
Serg. Henry Eaw
Section E.
No. of
grave.
Names.
Comp.
Eegiment.
1
Mason Palmer
B ...
24th Eegiment, M. Y.
5th Eegiment, M. Y.
2
Luther Franklin
C ...
3
Eichard Aylward
E ...
5th Eegiment, M. V.
4
Peter E. Eoy
C ...
5th Eegiment, M. V.
5th Eegiment, M. Y
5
1st Lieut. John P. Thelan,
A...
6
1st Serg. James Hazzard. .
C ...
5th Eegiment, M. Y.
7
D. Zimmerman
D...
D...
4th Eegiment, M. Y.
8
G.W.Stevens .../.
16th Eegiment, M.V.
soldiers' national cemetery.
121
Michigan — Section E — Con tinned.
No. of
grave.
Names.
Comp.
Regiment.
9
Sergt. E. Trip
H...
G...
H...
I....
B ...
B ...
H...
K...
D...
I....
G ...
K...
4th Eegiment, M. V.
10
J. Geiner
16th Eegiment, M. V.
11
G. W. Ervey
16th Eegiment, M. V.
12
13
14
15
Sergt. Hiram Hopkins . . .
Sergt. D. C. Kimbal
Sergt. Joseph Mallenbre. .
C. H.Wilson
7th Eegiment, M. V.
4th Eegiment, M. V.
4th Eegiment, M. V.
4th Eegiment, M. V.
16
E. Moody
4th Eegiment, M. V.
17
18
Sergt. Fred. Sheets
J. Bags
4th Eegiment, M. V.
16th Eegiment, M. V.
19
20
J. Hart
16th Eegiment, M. V.
Edward Burton
16th Eegiment, M. V.
Section F.
No. of
grave.
Names.
Comp.
Regiment.
1
C.W.Martin
c ...
G...
A...
G...
A...
L ...
I....
E ...
E ...
G...
16th Eegiment, M. V.
7th Eegiment, M. V.
5th Cavalry.
'2
C. H. Hulmer
3
Peter La Valley
4
Thomas Motley
7th Cavalry.
5
Kelson Walters
7th Cavalry.
6
Philip Wilcox
1st Cavalry.
7
Eohert Hastv
7th Cavalry.
5th Cavalry.
5th Cavalry.
5th Cavalry.
8
9
George Ketchler
Philip HiU
10
W. A. Crowell ;•
122
SOLDIERS' NATIONAL CEMETERY.
Michigan. — Section F — Continued.
No. of
grave.
Names.
Comp.
Regiment.
11
12
Miles A. Webster
A. S. Morris
G...
G...
I
I
K...
D ...
A...
B ...
5th Cavalry.
5th Cavalry.
5th Cavalry.
5th Cavalry.
5 th Eegiment, M. V.
16th Eegiment, M. V.
13
John Nothing
14
Moses Cole
15
16
John G. Folkerts
J. Mason
17
IS
Corp. J. M. Weston
Emery Tuttle
16th Eegiment, M. V.
16th Eegiment, M. V.
Section G.
No. of
grave.
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
Names.
Carlisle Bennett
I
Corp. Eenben Hone
C ...
S. G. Harris
B ...
J. S. Eider
B ...
W. Williams
B ...
J. M'Msh
F ...
Col. Serg. E. Moore
E ...
Corp. Albert Smith
D ...
Capt. Peter Generous
B ...
Chester W. Alex
D ...
Joseph Sutter
E ...
Serg. Alexander Moore
2d Lieut. Albert Slafter . . .
E ...
John W. Barber
Comp.
Regiment.
1st Cavalry.
5th Eegiment, M. V.
7th Eegiment, M. V.
24th Eegiment, M. V.
24th Eegiment, M. V.
24th Eegiment, M. V.
7th Cavalry.
5th Eegiment, M. V.
5th Eegiment, M. V.
5th Eegiment, M. V.
5th Eegiment, M. V.
7th Eegiment, M. V.
7th Eegiment, M. V.
1st Artillery.
SOLDIERS' NATIONAL CEMETERY.
123
Michigan. — Section G — Continued.
No. of
grave.
Names.
Comp.
Regiment.
15
16
Sergt. J. M. Stevens
J. R.Hall
E ...
D...
I
16th Regiment, M. V.
16th Regiment, M. V.
17
Corp. Beck
16th Regiment, M. V.
Section H.
Names.
Comp.
Regiment.
Lient. B. Brown
Lieut. W. Jewett
Corp. Charles M'Brahmie,
Orin D. Wade
J.Hyde
Asher D. Artley
Corp. Charles Thayer
George H. Miller
John Dover
Charles Sits
William Brennan
Joseph Tucker
Lieut. M'llhenny
Corp- Josiah G. Bond
Sergt. H. H. Rarret
Corp. H. Hart
E .
K.
D.
D.
D.
F .
I..
K
L
B
I.
F
B
C
16th Regiment, M. V.
16th Regiment, M. V.
16th Regiment, ML V.
3d Regiment, M. V.
4th Regiment, M. Y.
5th Regiment, M. T.
5th Regiment, M. V.
5th Regiment, M. V.
5th Regiment, M. V.
1st Cavalry.
5th Cavalry.
5th Regiment, M. V.
1st Cavalry.
16th Regiment, M. V.
15th Regiment, M. V.
6th Cavalry.
124
soldiers' national cemetery.
Michigan. — Section I.
No. of
grave.
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
Names.
0. J. Pattin
L. W, Lampinan
Unknown.
Corp. Thomas Sugget
Charles Buff
Corp. David Rounds
Serg. W. H. Jackson, Detr
Corp. R. Howe
Charles Grouse
Corp. Win. C. Harlan .
Comp.
E ...
K...
G...
D...
D...
oit.
C ...
A...
F ...
Maj. Noah H. Ferry, (remolved.)
Regiment.
24th Regiment, M. Y.
4th Regiment, M. V.
20th Regiment, M. V.
24th Regiment, M. V.
24th Regiment, M. V.
5th Regiment, M. V.
6th Cavalry.
5th Regiment, M. V.
5th Cavalry.
Total, 172.
WISCONSIN.
Section A.
No. of
grave.
Names.
Comp.
Regiment.
1
Unknown.
2
Unknown.
3
Unknown.
4
Corp. Edward H. Heath . .
H...
2d Regiment, W. V.
5
Unknown.
6
Unknown.
7
Unknown.
8
Lieut. Wm. S. Winnegan. .
H...
2d Regiment, W. V.
SOLDIERS' NATIONAL CEMETERY.
125
Wisconsin. — Se ction A — Continued.
No. of
grave.
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
28
Names.
Unknown.
Unknown.
Unknown.
Unknown.
Unknown.
Unknown.
Unknown.
Lieut. Charles Broket . . „
Christian Stier
Corp. James Kelly
Corp. William E. Evans .
Sergt. George W. Sain . .
Unknown.
Unknown.
Unknown.
Comp.
Regiment.
I.
F
B
B
C.
26th Eegiment, W. V.
26th Eegiment, W. V.
6th Eegiment, W. V.
6th Eegiment, W. V.
7th Eegiment, W. Y.
Section B.
No. of
grave.
Names.
Comp.
Regiment.
1
Unknown.
2
Unknown.
3
Marcellus Chase .........
A...
7th Eegiment, W. V.
4
Unknown.
5
Unknown.
6
Corp. John T. Christie . . .
F ...
2d Eegiment, W. V.
7
Corp. Frank M. Bull
D...
7th Eegiment, W. V.
126
SOLDIERS' national cemetbet.
Wisconsin. — Section B — Continued.
No. of
grave.
Names.
Comp.
Regiment.
8
Edward Learaan
E ...
A...
6th Regiment, W, V.
2d Regiment, W. V.
9
1st Berg. Fred. A. Nichols,
10
Corp. John M'Donald
A...
2d Regiment, W. V.
11
Charles Branstetter
A...
2d Regiment, W. Y.
12
1st Serg. James Gow
0 ...
2d Regiment, W. Y.
13
Henry E. M'Collmn.
H...
2d Regiment, W. V.
14
Hanford C. Tupper
G...
2d Regiment, W. V.
15
Serg. William Gallup
D...
6th Regiment, W. V.
16
Henry Anderson
B...
6th Regiment, W. V.
17
Peter Kraescher
0 ...
G...
0 ...
26th Regiment, W. V.
18
Peter Kuhn
26th Regiment, W. Y.
19
Joseph Balmes ..........
26th Regiment, W. Y.
20
Mathias Scheivester
E ...
26th Regiment, W. Y.
21
Leion Stedoman
0 ...
6th Regiment, W. Y.
Section 0.
No. of
grave.
Names.
Comp.
Regiment.
1
Corp. Abraham Fletcher. .
K...
6th Regiment, W. Y.
2
Corp. "William H. Barnum,
K...
7th Regiment, W. Y.
3
George H. Hawes. .
B ...
7th Regiment, W. Y.
7th Regiment, W. Y.
4
John B. Straight
E...
5
William Rampthen
K...
2d Regiment, W. Y.
6
Silas Castor
B ...
F ...-
7th Regiment, W. Y.
7 •
Philip Bennetts
7th Regiment, W. Y.
7th Regiment, W. Y.
8
John W. Scott
D...
soldiers' national cemetery.
127
Wisconsin. — Section C — Continued.
No. of
grave.
9
10
11
12
IS
14
15
16
17
18
19
Names.
Comp.
William D. M'Kinney.
A. Fowler
Corp. Ernst Slmhart . .
William Wagner
Thomas Barton
Philonas Kinsman
Lewis H. Eggleson . . .
Corp. John Krauss
Frank King
James O. Perrine
Frantz Benda ........
K...
A...
K...
F ...
F ...
K...
H...
A...
E ...
I
F ...
Regiment.
7th Eegimeiit, W. V.
7th Begiment, W. V.
2d Eegiment, W. V.
3d Eegiment, W. V.
3d Eegiment, W. Y.
7th Eegiment, W. V.
6th Eegiment, W. V.
26tti Eegiment, W. V.
6th Eegiment, W. V.
2d Eegiment, W. V.
26th Eegiment, W. V.
Section D.
No. of
grave.
Names.
Comp.
Regiment.
1
1st Lieut. Martin Young. .
A...
26th Eegiment, W. V.
2
Sergt. Spencer M. Train. .
C ...
2d Eegiment, W. Y.
o
O
Uriah Palmer
A...
E ...
6th Eegiment, W. Y.
4
Ord. Sergt. W. S. Bouse . .
2d Eegiment, W. Y.
5
1st Sergt. Andrew Miller. .
I....
6th Begiment, W. Y.
6
1st Serg. Albert E. Tarbor,
K...
6th Eegiment, W. Y.
7
2d Lt. Orin D. Chapman. .
C...
6th Eegiment, W. Y.
8
Fritz Zilsdorf
G...
F ...
26th Begiment, W. V.
9
Charles Hasse
6th Eegiment, W. Y.
2d Eegiment, W. Y.
10
Lt. Col. George H. Stevens,
Total, 73.
128
soldiers' national cemetery.
MINNESOTA.
Section A.
No. of
grave.
Names.
Comp.
Regiment.
1
Joseph Y. Sisler
G...
D...
D...
G...
I....
B ...
A...
ill'..
Kill
F ...
F ...
F...
1st Eegiment, Minn. Y.
1st Eegiment, Minn. V.
1st Eegiment, Minn. Y.
1st Eegiment, Minn. Y.
1st Eegiment, Minn. Y.
1st Eegiment, Minn. Y.
1st Eegiment, Minn. Y.
1st Eegiment, Minn. Y.
1st Eegiment, Minn. Y.
2
3
4
5
6
Alonzo C. Hay den .......
George W. Grands
Oapt. Nathan S. Messick. .
Corp. Wm. N. Peck
Charles H. Gove
7
8
9
Freder Glave
Corp. Wilber F. Wellman,
Israel Durr
10
11
Serg. Philip Hamlin
Unknown
1st Eegiment, Minn. Y.
1st Eegiment, Minn. Y.
1st Eegiment, Minn. V.
1st Eegiment, Minn. Y.
1st Eegiment, Minn. Y.
12
Unknown
13
Unknown
14
Unknown
15
Unknown
1st Eegiment, Minn. Y.
1st Eegiment, Minn. Y.
16
Unknown
17
J. H. Prime
D...
1st Eegiment, Minn. Y.
18
1st Eegiment, Minn. Y»
Section B.
No. of
grave.
Names.
Comp.
Regiment.
Supposed
Supposed
Supposed
1st Eegiment, Minn. Y.
1st Eegiment, Minn. Y.
1st Eegiment, Minn. Y.
SOLDIERS' NATIONAL CEMETERY.
129
Minnesota. — Section B — Con tinned.
£S£
Comp.
Regiment.
4
5
Sergt. Frederick Diehr . . .
John Ellsworth
H...
C ...
1st Eegiment, Minn. Y.
1st Eegiment, Minn. Y.
1st Eegiment, Minn. Y.
1st Eegiment, Minn. V.
1st Eegiment, Minn. Y.
1st Eegiment, Minn. Y.
1st Eegiment, Minn. V.
1st Eegiment, Minn. Y.
1st Eegiment, Minn. Y.
1st Eegiment, Minn. Y.
1st Eegiment, Minn. Y.
1st Eegiment, Minn. Y.
1st Eegiment, Minn. Y.
1st Eegiment, Minn. Y.
0
7
8
9
10
11
12
Clark Brandt
Corp. Timothy Crowley . .
Corp. Peter Marks
Capt. Joseph Periam
Charles Baker .......
Bvron Welch .
Unknown
A...
A...
A ...
K...
D...
I....
13
Unknown -
14
15
Lieut. Waldo Farcer
W. Moore ... .........
I....
16
Henry Nickels
A...
E .
i
17 1
John M'Kenzie
Section C.
No. of
grave.
1
o
3
4
5
6
7
8
Names.
Edward P. Hale
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Sergt. Wade Luf kin
Serst. Oscar Woodward . .
Comp.
I.
c
I.
Regiment.
1st Eegiment, Minn. Y
Minn. Y.
Minn. Y.
Minn. Y.
Minn. Y.
Minn. Y.
1st Eegiment, Minn. Y.
1 st Eegiment, Minn. Y.
130
SOLDIERS' NATIONAL CEMETERY.
Minnesota.— Section 0 — Continued.
No. of
grave.
Names.
Comp.
Regiment.
9
Unknown ... ^ ^ ......... .
Minn. V.
10
Unknown
Minn. V.
11
Unknown Orderly Serg't. -
Minn. Y.
Section D.
No. of
grave.
Names.
Comp.
Regiment.
1
Edwin Pari
I
1st Regiment, Minn. V.
2
Corp. Phineas L. Dunham,
G...
1st Regiment, Minn. V.
3
Ervine Lawrence
D...
1st Regiment, Minn. V.
4
Corp. L. J. Squires
F ...
1st Regiment, Minn. V.
5
Corp. Peter Welm
E ...
1st Regiment, Minn. V.
6
Hans Simonson
A...
1st Regiment, Minn. T.
Total, 52.
UNITED STATES INFANTRY.
Section A.
No. of
grave.
Names.
Comp.
Regiment.
1
T. E. Sheets
G...
B ...
B ...
B ...
B ...
B ...
14th Regiment, U. S. I.
2d Battalion, U. S. I.
2
Unknown
3
Unknown
2d Battalion, U. S. I.
4
5
Unknown
Unknown
2d Battalion, U. S. I.
2d Battalion, U. S. I.
6
Unknown
2d Battalion. U. S. I.
SOLDIERS' NATIONAL CEMETERY.
131
TJ. S. Infantry. — Section A — Continued.
No. of
grave.
Names.
Comp.
Regiment.
7
Unknown
B...
B ...
B ...
2d Battalion, U S 1.
8
Unknown
2d Battalion, U. S. I
9
Unknown Sergeant . .
2d Battalion, U S. I.
10
Sergt. D. W. Clock
11th U. S. I.
11
Unknown
B ...
H...
2d Battalion, U. S. I.
12
Christian Engers
4th Battalion, U. S. I.
13
Peter M'Manimus
H...
4th Battalion, U. S. I
14
Corp. Barrington . . . _ ;
B ...
4th Battalion, U. S. I.
15
Peter Robinson
F ...
H...
H...
K...
4th Battalion, U. S. T.
16
Roger M'Denald
4th Battalion, U. S. I.
17
Christian Aibett
4th Battalion, U. S. I.
18
Sergt. John Reilly . . „
4th Battalion, U. S. J.
19
Unknown
2d Battalion, U. S. I.
20
W. Mare
4th Battalion, U. S. 1.
-21
Unknown
A...
A...
B ...
Battalion, U. S. I.
22
T. H. Mulligan
14th Battalion, U. S. L
23
John Creridon
11th Regiment, U. S. I.
6th Regiment, U. S. I.
24
Ransom B. Russell
F ...
25
D ...
17th Regiment, U. S. I.
26
William Curtis
A ...
A...
7th Regiment, U. S. J
27
John Keenan ...
7th Regiment, U. S. I.
28
Corp. John Fallbright. . . .
B ...
2d Regiment, U. S. 1.
29
William D. Hammond . . .
F ...
14th Regiment, U. S. I.
30
Sergt. S. B. Blanchard . . .
B ...
17th Regiment, U S. I.
31
C. H. Whitney
C...
17th Regiment, U. S. I.
132
SOLDIERS' NATIONAL CEMETEEY.
U. S. Infantry.— Section A — Continued.
N6. of
grave.
NameSi
Comp.
Regiment.
32
William Duffy
D...
17th Regiment,
11th Regiment,
U.
U.
s.
L
33
I.
34
Thomas Murry .....
J f ...
14th Regiment,
u.
s.
L
35
Charles Horton .... ...
.. G...
11th Regiment,
X7i
s.
I.
36
.. E ...
14th Regiment,
u.
s.
L
37
Lieut. Roekford
11th Regiment,
11th Regiment,
u.
u.
s.
s.
T.
38
Capt. Thomas O'Barre. .
I.
Section B.
No. of
grave.
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
Names.
Thomas Whitford
Amest Fassette
Unknown :
John Porter
Martin Slograt
Thomas Padgett
Joseph W. Erwin
William Patton ...
James Murphy . .
John Marklein
William Becker
Serg. Charles Giles
Serg. Judas Thetart. . .
Pla} ford Woods ......
Comp.
!
.Bat.F
\ A...
J A...
JBat.C.
.Bat. A.
. Bat, I.
Regiment.
15 I Wm, Byrne
.A.
Bat.A,
Bat.H.
K.. .
B . . .
I
B ...
1) ...
IT. S'. Artillery,
4th IT. S. Artillery.
XL S. Infantry.
5th U. S. Artillery.-
IT. S. Artillery.
1st XL S. Artillery*.
4th IT. S. Artillery,
4th XT: S. Artillery.
4th IT. S. Artillery.
1st IT. S. Artillery.
4th Regiment, XT. S. 11
11th Regiment, Vi S. L
ffih Regiment, IT. S, I.
14th Regiment, IT. S-. I.
1 7th Regiment,. IT- S. I,
30L1>IEES' NATIONAL CEMETERY.
to-
TJ. S. Infantry. — Section B — Continued.
No. of
grave.
16
17
18
19
20
21
■22
23
:24
25
26
21
28
29
30
31
32
33
55
36
37
Names.
Benjamin Way .......
John Willis c
Corp. Mills Jamson
Corp. Frank Berehard.
J. Reenian . . _ . .......
John Pine . .......
John Hare
M. Carroll
G. Moran
Sullivan ......
Unknown.
Lieut. Win. Chamberlain,
Patrick Tighe ...........
L. Griswold
E. Brower . .
■Comp.
A.
K.
G.
G.
G.
I..
I..
Regiment.
O. F. Drake, detailed from
16th Reg. Mich. Vols . . .
G. H. White . . . . .
Sergt. J. Gray
Sergt. Henry Lye.
Benjamin Hamlet
Eli S. B. Vincent .
I....
Bat.D,
Bat.D,
Bat.D.
G...
D...
G...
A....
G...
Charles Thatcher j E
14th Eegiment, U. S. I.
2d Regiment, U. S. I.
2d Bat., 14th U. S. 1.
14th Eegiment, U. S. I.
6th Regiment, U. S. I.
3d Regiment, U. S. I.
2d Regiment, U. S. I.
14th Regiment, TJ. S. I.
12th Regiment, U. S. I.
5th Corps, TJ. S. I.
1st Bat., 7th Keg- , U.S. I.
3d U. S. Artillery.
5th U. S. Artillery.
5th U. S. Artillery.
5th U. S. Artillery.
2d U. S. S. S.
2d U. S. S. S.
1st U. S. S. S.
1st U. S. S. S. .
1st U. S. S. S.
1st U. S. S. S.
134
SOLDIERS' NATIONAL CEMETERY,
U. S. Infantry.- — Section 0.
No. of
grave.
Nanies,
Comp.
Regiment.
1
Levi G. Strickland
c ...
11th Eegiment, U. S. I.
2
James Agin
D...
14th Eegiinent, U. S. I.
3
Unknown.
4
Unknown.
5
Unknown.
G
Unknown.
7
Charles Wilson
G...
11th Eegiment, U. S. I.
8
Charles Schmidt . .
E ...
14th Eegiment, U. S. I.
9
D A M'Kean
11th Eegiment, U. S. I.
10
Unknown.
11
Unknown.
12
Unknown.
13
Unknown.
14
M. Kennedy
D...
10th Eegiment, U. S. L
15
W. E. Davis
H...
A...
A...
10th Eegiment, U. S. I.
16
S. Coriell
2d Battery, 17th U. S. I.
17
Julius Fergeson
7th Eegiment, U. S. I.
18
B. M. M.
19
Unknown..
20
E. M. Williams
I....
3d Eegiment, U. S. I.
21
Casper Kupferly .........
G...
3d Eegiment, U. S. I.
22
.Robert Furlong;
C ...
3d Eegiment, U. S. I.
23
Unknown.
• 24
W. F. M
7th Eegiment, U. S. I.
25
Daniel Kinnev
C ...
1st Battery, 12th U. S. I
SOLDIERS' NATIONAL CEMETERY.
135
U. S. Infantry. — Section 0 — Continued.
No. of
grave.
Names.
Oomp.
Regiment.
26
27
Sergt. EL Rogers
Robert Morrison .........
D...
Bat.O.
Bat. I.
12th Eegiment, U. S. I.
4d Eegiment, U. S. I.
28
29
Unknown, on cap
Unknown
U- S. Infantry.
6th Eegiment, U. S. Oa.
6th Eegiment, U. S. Oa.
30
Unknown _ .
31
Unknown
6th Regiment, U. S. Oa.
6th Eegiment, U. S. Oa.
6th Eegiment, U. S. Oa.
32
33
1st Lieut. Christian Balder,
Unknown .
34
J. Moles
0 ...
Bat.D.
Bat.D.
12th Eegiment, U. S. I.
4th U. S. Artillery.
4th U. S. Artillery.
35
C. T. Bidder
36
E. Dennis
Section D.
No. of
sxave.
10
Naro.es.
Comp.
Silas A. Miller
H. Gaertner.
Unknown
William Reynolds
0 ...
Augustus ISTelson
E ...
William S. Mottern
H...
John Pattinson
Unknown, with diary and
handkerchief
Unknown
Unknown
Regiment.
12th Regiment, U. S. I.
6th Regiment, U. S. Oa.
6th Regiment, U. S. Oa.
6th Regiment, U. S.% Oa,
6th Regiment, U. S. Oa.
6th Regiment, U. S. Oa.
6th Regiment, U. S. Oa.
6th Regiment, U. S. Oa.
6th Regiment, U. S. Oa.
136
SOLDIEBS* NATIONAL OEMETEEr.
U. S. Infantry.— Section D — Continued.
No. of
grave.
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
6
24
25
26
27
Names.
Comp.
Unknown
Charles Bodman
0. F. Srnetzer
J. Conway
James Stanton
D. Wallace
George Smith
C. Miller ,
P. M'Grinity .
F. Rovey
Serg. Alfred E. Cook
Unknown
2d Lieut. GU W. Sheldon. .
William H. Woodruff.
George Van Buskirk
Edmund W. Howard .....
Unknown
1st Lt. Wesley F. Miller,*
G...
G...
P ...
H...
Bat. I,
I....
E ...
I. .....
G...
C ...
I..
G.
C.
Regiment.
6th Regiment, U. S. Ca.
11th Regiment, U. S. I.
6th Regiment, U. S. I,
11th Regiment, U. 8. I,
11th Regiment, U. S. L
5th U. S. Artillery.
7th Regiment, U. S. I.
7th Regiment, U. S. I.
1st U. S. Artillery.
14th Regiment, U. S. I.
11th Regiment, U. S. I.
U. S. I.
U. S. S. 8.
1st U. S. S. S.
11th Regiment, U. S. I.
14th Regiment, U. S. I.
13thEeg.,2dDiv.,U.S.I.
7th Regiment, U. S. I.
*Son of Gov. Miller, of Minnesota, removed to Harrisburg,
Total, 138.
SOLDIERS' NATIONAL CEMETERY.
List of Dead whose Residences are Unknown, and who are Buried in the
Unknown Lots.
No. of
grave.
30
18
41
18
37
43
2
24
12
22
4
44
22
35
38
29
34
35
23
27
2
Names.
Section.
J. H., on bone ring j 0
Jeremiah Chadwick | F
Orderly Sergt. Michael ... F . .
Hooker, on cap G . .
Hutchkins ; G . .
I
Unknown, with gold watchj G . .
Serg. 0. M. Hall, paper on
coat, child's likeness, &o.,1 H . .
M. Eiggs i H._
William Martin
G. W. Miley
Corp. I. Hilton
Unknown, " 4 F," on belt,
E. Gilbert
H. Irwin
I. D. H
John Morrison
S. J. Braddock
Isaac Cavalry
Cyrus A. Drot
W. M'
Oley P. Thompson
H. E. Clark
H.
A.
B .
C .
F .
F .
F .
G.
G.
G .
L .
L .
K.
K.
South.
South.
South.
South.
South.
South.
South.
North.
North.
North.
North.
North.
North.
North.
North.
North.
North.
138
SOLDIEES' NATIONAL CEMETERY.
List of Names of Soldiers Buried in Evergreen Cemetery, Gettysburg, Pa.
Names.
Regiment.
Edward Stinson
Aaron A. Clark
Lieut. Herman Donarth . . .
George Kelley
Samuel Blew
Cornelius S. Baley
John E. Dougall
0. P. Le Clear
liobert C. Burns
Henry Comstock
Albert E. Dixon
John B. Owen
L. Willie Hobart
James H. Bump
8. Potter
Serg. A. E. Banta.
Corp. Wentworth E. Dudley
Arthur M' Alpine
Jeremiah Bigelow
Benjamin Van Wirt
Capt. J. K. Backus
Edward Grinnell
Capt. A. J. Sofield
James M'Cleary
A. P. Alcorn
E
G
K
K
E
K
A
Bat, B.
Bat. B.
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111th New York Vol.
157th New York Vol.
111th New York Vol.
149th Eegiment, P. V.
1st Penn'a Artillery.
1st Penu'a Artillery.
SOLDIERS' NATIONAL CEMETERY.
139
Evergreen Cemetery — Con tinned.
Names.
Company.
Regiment.
Evan Edwards, Phila.
Sidney E. Breidninger
E
15th Eegiment, P. V.
Charles Gibbs
K
62d Eegiment, P. V.
140th Eegiment, P. V.
Corp. L. S. Greenlee
A
Jacob F. Strottse
C
K
143d Eegiment, P. V.
George W. Wood . „
26th Eegiment, P. V.
Robert Otterson
F
62d Eegiment, P. V.
George Stuart
C
72d Eegiment, P. Y.
A. Graw
F
68th Eegiment, P. Y.
62d Eegiment, P. Y.
Sergt. William Shaffer ....
Corp. J. M. Young
I
83d Eegiment, P. Y.
Hiram H. Hartman
F
1st Eegiment, Maryland V.
Serg. Alpheas M' Vickers . .
E
7th Eegiment, Virginia Y.
George W. Stuart
H
55th Eegiment, Ohio Y.
Lewis A. Sanford
C
73d Eegiment, Ohio Y.
Corp. William Gridley ....
D
8th Eegiment, Ohio Y.
Lieut. S. H. Shoub
I
4th Eegiment, Ohio Y.
Corp. J. S. Allison ......
K
75th Eegiment, Ohio Y.
Mathias Frev
Cleveland, Ohio.
E. Welsh
I
E
14th Eegiment, Indiana Y.
Sergt. William Park
3d Eegiment, Indiana Cav.
Marcus A. Past
D
1st Eegiment, Minn. Y.
W. K. Allen
1st Eegiment, Minn. Y.
Lieut. A. J. Barber
11th U. S. Infantry.
Sergt. Frank Littinger ....
K
3d Eegiment, U. S. I.
140
SOLDIERS' NATIONAL CEMETERY.
Evergreen Cemetery. — Continued.
Names.
Company.
Regiment.
Joseph A. Campbell Bat. C.J 4th. U. S. Artillery.
Charles Long F
Unknown
Unknown.
!
Unknown.
J. S. Hopping.
i
Unknown.
3d Regiment, U. S. I.
134th.
Matthew M'Grow
E
1st X. Y. Excelsior.
Serg. Jeremiah Gallagher,
D
COtli Regiment, P. V.
Thomas C. Diver
I
G
G9th Eegiment, P. V.
Charles Ausrust
2d Regiment, Del, V.
Unknown.
Unknown.
Unknown.
Unknown.
Unknown.
.
Total, 66.
List of Karnes of Soldiers Buried in the United Presbyterian Burying Ground,
Gettysburg, Pa.
Names.
Company.
Regiment.
William W. Story ! F ■ 3d Regiment, Ind. Cav.
Ebenezer H. James ! A 1 122d Regiment, P. V.
Total, 2.
SOLDIERS' NATIONAL CEMETERY.
141
List of Men Buried at York, Pa,, who Died at the U, S. A, General Hospital, York,
Pa., from Wounds Eeceiyed at the Battle of Gettysburg.
Names.
Sergt. Vincent A. Keiflin* K
D. L. Wade* . '
Sergt. James M. Ooroden,
D. Zinunerman „ . ...
Sergt Samuel Lamb .....
Charles 0. Holmes
Henry Brehl
Michael Donovan J D
Franklin A. Rollins J D
August Stein
Comp.
B .
C .
K.
A.
Regiment.
Michael Hagden ......... B . . .
Thomas A. Reedy* A . . .
Sergt, Winslow A. Morril, A . . .
Thomas Moriartz B . . .
Ira Hunt , I .
William H. Dinsmore. ... F ...
Charles Groesot B . . .
Corp. Henry J. Smith* . . J G . . .
William H. Heise B . . .
George Werner A . . .
105th Regiment, P. V.
2d Regiment, Mass. V.
149th Regiment, P. v.
9th Eeg't, K Y. S. M.
3d Ind. Cavalry.
149th Eeg't, 1ST. Y. V.
44th Eeg't, K Y. Y.
12th Regiment, IT. S. L
1st Regiment, Minn, V.
1st IT. S. Artillery.
6th Regiment, Wia. V.
73d Regiment, Ohio Y.
16th Eeg't, Maine Y.
22d Regiment, Mass. V.
27th Regiment, Ind. Y.
140th Regiment, P. Y.
83d Regiment, P. Y.
12th Eeg't, TS. H. Y.
107th Eeg't, Ohio V.
12th Regiment, IT. &. I.
William Patent A . . . 107th Regiment, P. Y.
Sylvester L. Brown ' 5th Maine Battery.
William H. Batcheldor ... I lGt.h Eeg't, Maine Y.
Corp. Emet Kneirin. . E . ..! 143d Regiment, P. Y.
i * Removed,
142
SOLDIERS' NATIONAL CEMETERY.
York Hospital — Continued.
No. of
grave.
Names.
Comp.
Regiment.
25
20
27
28
Michael Vogelbach ......
John Cooley -
Serg. Charles Herbstritt . .
Job B. Flagg
F ...
B ...
D...
B ...
G-V--
A...
E ...
D...
5th Eegiment, Ohio V.
2.d Eegiment, U. S. I.
74th Eegiment, Va. V.
19th Eegiment, Me. V.
29
30
Corp. Simeon Cooper
Adam Eckler.
111th Eeg't, N. Y. V.
74th Eegiment, P. V,
136th Eeg't, K Y. V.
151st Eegiment, P. V.
31
32
Nicholas Conner*
Ephraini Gnyer „
• Removed.
SOLDIERS' national gemetery.
143
SYNOPSIS
Maine
New Hampshire
Vermont
Massachusetts
Khode Island
Connecticut
New York
New Jersey
Pennsylvania
Delaware
Maryland
West Virginia
Ohio
Indiana
Illinois
Michigan
Wisconsin
Minnesota
U. S. Regulars
Unknown — Lot North
Do Lot South.
Do Lot Inner circle
104
49
61
159
12
22
867
78
534
15
22
11
131
73
52
138
411
425
143
Total buried in the Soldiers' National Cemetery, 3,564
144 SOLDIERS5 NATIONAL CEMETERY.
LIST OF ARTICLES
TAKEN PROM THE BODIES OP THE SOLDIERS REMOVED TO THE SOLDIERS' NATIONAL
CEMETERY, BY WHICH MANY UNKNOWN WERE RECOGNIZED, AND WHICH ARE IN POS-
SESSION OF THE CEMETERY ASSOCIATION AT GETTYSBURG, PENN'A.
MAINE.
William S. Hodgdon, Company F, 20th Eegiment, letter and
iish hook.
Unknown, 20th Eegiment, Testament, and letter signed Anna
Grove.
Eichard Shuley, Company K, 7th Eegiment, bugle off cap.
M. Davis, Company G, 20th Eegiment, Thanksgiving' book.
E. Cunningham, Co. L, 1st Eegiment, $3 95, comb and postage
stamps.
S. E. White, Company C, 20th Eegiment, stencil plate and two
cents.
Capt. G. 1), Smith, Co. I, 19th Eegiment, gold plate with artifi-
cial tooth.
J. I). Sampson, Company 0, 20th Eegiment, gold ring.
Gordin Ireland, Co. F, 20th Eegiment, Testament, purse, glass,
.and letters.
Hugh 0. W. Hall, Company B, 17th Eegiment, pencil.
NEW HAMPSHIRE.
Joseph Bond, 5th Eegiment, comb.
VERMONT.
M. M'Kartney, Company A, 13th Eegiment, gun wiper,
M. P. Baldwin, Company C, 10th Eegiment.
0. Whiting, Company E, 13th Eegiment, two rings.
L. L. Baird, Company H, 14th Eegiment, $3 35 and two combs.
E. Archer. Company B, 14th Eegiment, ring.
CONNECTICUT.
James Monterth, Testament.
William Cannell, letters, $8 rebel money, diary, &c.
SOLDIERS' NATIONAL CEMETERY. 145
NEW YORK.
R. Burinan, Company E, 41st Regiment, comb.
Sergeant Hiram Hilts, Company C, 122d Regiment, diary, like-
ness, &c.
A. Stanton, Company C, 137tli Regiment, ring and Testament.
Charles Manning, Co. C, 137th Regiment, knife, comb and gun
wiper. •
Theodore Bogart, Company 1, 120th Regiment, medal, breastpin,
comb and pencil.
P. Fanning, Company C, 122 d Regiment, match and tobacco
box.
H. W. Mchols, Company F, 137th Regiment, letters off cap,
knife.
Theophilus Bascarick, Testament.
Unknown, supposed New York, ambrotype of mother and two
daughters.
Albert D. Traver, Company E, 44th Regiment, S. M., diary, Tes-
tament and pencil.
E. Yan Tassel, Company A, 60th Regiment, ring and glass.
Unknown, Company D, 137th Regiment, letters cut off cap.
G. W. Sprague, the grape shot that killed him, two knives, two
rings and comb.
Frank Deisenroth, Company A, 108th Regiment, book, "Path
to Pardon."
Amos Otis, Company K, 146th Regiment, diary.
Alonzo Henstreat, pocket book, small Bible, and fifty cents.
Charles Weden, Company D, 111th Regiment, diary, letter, &c.
P. M'Donald, Company F, 137th Regiment, twenty-seven cents,
piece of silver, ''quarter."
Unknown, Excelsior, knife and spoon.
Lieut. Charles Clark, Company B, 9th Regiment, S. M., two
cents.
Tyler J. Snyder, order for $20 on U. S. Treasury, $7 15 in green-
backs.
George W. Lecase, Company F, 4th Excelsior, knife.
Corp. Andrew DeWitt, Company H, 120th Regiment, bullet
moulds and screw driver.
10
146 SOLDIERS' NATIONAL CEMETERY.
2d Lieut. John F. Box, Company I, 57th Beginient, letter arid
Testament.
George W. Douglass, Company 1, 1st Excelsior, pipe.
Solomon Lisser, $30 in gold, $6 in greenbacks, and certificates
of deposit for $300 in German Savings Bank, New York.
J. Smith, 4th New York Battery, comb.
James Gray, Company C, 2d Eegiment, S. M.-, ring.
James W. Wickham, Company E, 122d Eegiment, diary and
Testament.
O. W. Hotchkiss, Company F, 120th Eegiment, breast-pin.
Corp. Delmont, supposed New York, $2 75, diary, like-
ness and inkstand.
Justus Warner, snuff box.
F. Sweeney, Company D, 40th Eegiment, gun pivot.
Charles Hagan, Company A, 63d Eegiment, forty cents.
David Holland, Company F, 22d Excelsior, M'Clellan pin, medal
an<i diary.
Serg. Bel , (balance obliterated,) Company A, 1st Eegiment,
pipe, comb, &c.
W. H. Piper, Company H, 1st Excelsior, comb and gun wiper.
Albert Brown, Company G, 111th Eegiment, spoon and "11" off
cap.
Jacob Jones, letter.
Corp. Walde, Company K, 4th Eegiment, $12 85, comb and
knife.
J. E, Bail, or Bailey, Company 1, 111th Eegiment, ring.
John M'Kenney, Excelsior, water purifier.
PENNSYLVANIA.
Sergeant E. N. Somercamp, Company I, 29th Eegiment, like-
ness, letter and diary.
Sanford Boy den, Company A, 149th Eegiment, letter.
Charles Webster, letter.
Matthew Johnson, diary, express receipt and comb.
Samuel Finnifrock, letter.
J. J. Finnifrock, letter.
Corporal W. H. Burrill, Company F, 149th Eegiment, Bible.
Lieut, William H. Beaver, Company D, loth or 150th Eegiment,
shoulder straps and paper.
SOLDIERS' NATIONAL CEMETERY. 147
B. E. True, glass, &c.
G. EL Allen, Company 0, 57th Regiment, Testament and letter.
James Morrow, Company I, 29th Regiment, pipe.
Unknown, diary, with name Agnes Jones, Pittsburg, Pa.
John Harvey, Company A, 69th Regiment, medal and comb.
James Kelley, Company K, 69th Regiment, ambrotype, sixty
cents, comb, medal.
T. Miller, Company G, 1st Cavalry, diary.
William Crowl. Company K, 1st Regiment, needle case, pencil,
&c.
J. Kleppinger, Company D, 153d Regiment, comb and bullet.
Peter M'Mahon, Company E, 26th Regiment, name on envelope.
Thomas Shields, Company H, 99th Regiment, medal.
Patrick O'Conner, CompanyD, 91st Regiment, $1 50, gun wrench,
•cross, medal, gimblet, &c.
Isaac Eaton, Company D, 10th P. R. C, ring with two red sets.
John O'Conner, Company G, 69th Regiment, medal.
Milton Campbell, Company C, 11th P. R. €., ring.
Tobias Jones, (removed,) letter, diary, &c.
John C. Coyle, $6, diary, &c, (sent to wife.)
John Aker, pipe.
Charles M'Connell, Company K, 11th Regiment, handkerchief,
diary and letter.
Henry Adams, 83d Regiment, book and glass.
William Orr, Company I, 62d Regiment, watch case.
George M'Intosh, Company L, 62d Regiment, book cut out oi
wood, and letter A.
W. K. Williams, Co. K, 143d Regiment, diary, needle case, comb
and handkerchief.
John Long, Company D, 62d Regiment, cornb, &c.
William Kelly, Company A, 121st Regiment, Testament, fifty-
five cents, comb, pencil, medal.
John M'Kutt, Company G, 140th Regiment, key, two watch
keys.
M. Townsend, Company C, 1st Regiment, case knife, tooth brush.
NEW JERSEY.
J. M., Company F, 7th Regiment, comb.
J. Parliament, Company C, 13th Regiment, comb.
148 SOLDIERS' NATIONAL CEMETERY.
W. F. Harkins, Company H, 12th Beginient, Testament.
Thomas Flanagan, Company G, 7th Eegiment, medal and comb.
J. F., 7th Eeginient, knife, fork and spoon.
John Smith, purse, fifteen cents, knife and comb.
Biley, Company E, 7th Eegiment, letter and needle case,
W. A. E., Company I, 7th Eegiment, table spoon.
MARYLAND,
David Krebs, Co. G, 1st P. H. B., twenty-five cents, tassel,
smoker, &c.
WEST VIRGINIA.
Capt. W. N. Harris, 1st Cavalry, shoulder straps.
William Bailey, 1st Cavalry, letters, comb, &c.
George Berger, Company G, 7th Infantry, comb and glass,
L. Lacey, Battery 0, 1st Va., glass and comb.
Martin L. Scott, Company B, 7th Infantry, silver watch.
P. Stewart, Company C, 7th Cavalry, pencil.
OHIO.
Lewis Davis, Company D, 75th Eegiment, Testament and let-
ters.
John 0. Owens, Company C, 75th Eegiment, book.
B. F. Pontious, Company D, 25th Eegiment* letter, ring, diary,
book and glass.
Louis A. Sanford, Company H, 73d Eegiment, Testament and
letters.
Samuel Baughman, Company C, 75 Eegiment, pencil.
J. D. Johnson, Company F, 29th Eegiment, knife.
Asa O. Davis, Company G, 4th Eegiment, gun wrench, comb
and ring.
Thomas Doman, Company K, 25th Eegiment, $4 and gold
locket.
Jacob Bies, Company K, 107th Eegiment, handkerchief. •
A. Myers, Company G, 4th Eegiment, Testament.
Daniel Palmer, Company D, 107th Eegiment, ambrotype and
Testament.
B. F. Sherman, Company G, 61st Eegiment, match box.
Serg. John Pierce, Company C, 25th Eegiment, pipe.
SOLDIERS' NATIONAL CEMETERY. 149
INDIANA.
Levi Bulla, Company G, 20th Begiment, medal.
Win. Tillottson, letter.
ILLINOIS.
Unknown eavalrynian, very light hair.
MICHIGAN.
Peter Le Valley, letter and anibrotype. (Sent to wife.)
Win. Brennan, Company B, 3d Cavalry, hair.
James F. Bedel, Company F,7th Begiment, muster roll list, and
certificate for back pay from April to July, diary, &c.
Scott, Company K, lGth Begiment, needle case, comb
and letters.
WISCONSIN.
Philip Bennets, Company F, 7th Begiment, glass, photograph,
pencil, diary, letters and knife.
F. C- Seibentral, Company D, 6th Begiment, medal.
MINNESOTA.
Solomon Moore, Company 1, 1st Begiment, diary and letters.
U. S. REGULARS.
C. Schmidt, Company E, 4th U. S. A., pipe.
M. Kennedy, Company D, 10th Infantry, knife.
S. Cornell, Company A, 2d Bat. 7th Infantry, two pictures, two
knives, two gun wrenches.
Peter G. Febery, Company G, 6th XL S. Cavalry, diary < letter
and handkerchief, &c.
UNKNOWN.
Unknown, two rings and small book cut of wood.
Unknown, jet heart.
Unknown, ring.
Unknown, knife with three white sets on handle.
Unknown, gun wrench. --
Henry Dieman, gun wiper.
150 SOLDIERS' XATIOKAL CEMETERY
Unknown, knife, fork and spoon.
Unknown, knife, fork and spoon.
Unknown, gun wrench.
Unknown, knife.
Luke Kelly, medal and small bag.
Unknown-, large diary and papers.
G. Turner, Bible, Testament and needle case.
Unknown, knife, postage stamps, pocket book and water puri-
fier.
Unknown, pocket book, fifty-one cents, knife, two bones and.
comb.
Jolm Boyer, ambrotype and letter.
Unknown, knife and comb.
Unknown, glass inkstand and spoon.
Unknown, twenty cents.
William Yasberg, small vice, comb and pencil.
Unknown, two ambiotypes.
Unknown, gun wrench-.
William Sheley, two handkerchiefs, letters and comb;
Unknown, two purses, gun wrench, gun pivot.
T. D. Allen, diary, glass and letters.
Unknown, piece plaid blanket — colors, white, blue and green-
Sullivan Syes, purse, ring and comb.
Unknown, twenty cents.
Unknown, knit woollen cap for head, with tassel.
Unknown, two knives and coml>.
Unknown, two knives and comb.
Corporal, W. K., glass, comb and knife.
Unknown, handkerchief and gun wrench.
Unknown,, Testament.
Unknown, letter, Testament and pocket book.,.
Unknown, knife.
Orderly Sergeant, knife and gun wrench.
G. M. S., knife, comb and four slides.
Unknown, needle case and pencil.
Unknown, black thread, ring, pin cushion and pipe-
Unknown, knife, gun wrench, comb and glass*.
J. K. Beagle, knife and comb.
SOLDIERS' NATIONAL CEMETERY. 151
Unknown, knife,
G. W. Penn, marked on knife.
Unknown, handkerchief.
Unknown, tooth brush, &c.
Unknown, pipe, tooth brush and pencil.
Unknown, three pipes.
Unknown, glass, comb and sundries.
Unknown, two cents, and parts of five and ten cent notes.
Unknown, pipe.
•Unknown, table knife.
Unknown, pocket knife.
K. E. Claffen, 1ST. Y., Testament.
Unknown, shawl pin.
Unknown, pocket book, $l,pin cushion, gun wrench, knife, &c.
Unknown, needle case.
Samuel Ault, inkstand, keys, and .cross.
Unknown, inkstand and tooth brush.
Unknown, hand vice.
Unknown, match box.
Charles Sets, pocket book, and hair of father, mother, sister and
brother.
Unknown, knife, handkerchief and pencil.
Unknown, pipe.
Corporal Samuel Fitzinger, Pa., corps badge off cap,.
Unknown, two combs and ambrotype.
Unknown, snuffbox.
Unknown, hankerchief and comb.
Henry Irvin, pipe.
Unkown, ring and small candlestick.
George M'Cleary, 1ST. Y., flag breast pin.
Unknown, with inkstand.
Unknown, diary.
Timothy Kears, book, "Key of Heaven."
Unknown, gun wrench.
Unknown, plate with V. M. N".
Unknown, ambrotype of woman.
Unknown, German Testament from Catharine Detaupafer.
Unknown, ambrotype, knife, two pipes, keys, inkstand, &c.
152 SOLDIERS' NATIONAL CEMETERY.
Unknown, hymn book, medal and gun wiper.
Unknown, letter from Oarrisa Smith.
Corp. J. J. Bond, needle case, comb and letter.
Unknown, book, "Morning Exercises."
Unknown, with likeness on which is marked Charles Keller,
July 4, 1859.
Unknown, ring, three buttons, with hooks, and water purifier.
Unknown, ornamental affair, consisting of a cross, figure of the
Saviour, Virgin Mary, Apostles, &c.
Unknown, snuffbox.
Unknown, handkerchief.
Unknown, ambrotype.
Unknown, knife.
Unknown, gun wrench.
Serg. S. Vandertool, K". Y., letters.
Unknown, two rings.
Unknown, gold ring and steel watch keys.
B. W.Laigh, $10, "Beb" money.
Unknown, $25.
Thomas Shanahik, rosary.
Unknown, gold ear rings.
Unknown, anibrotype of young lady, and letter.
Unknown, match box, spoon and Minnie ball.
Unknown, ring.
Unknown, bone ring marked I. H.
Unknown, silver watch.
Unknown, gold watch.
Unknown, purse, $5 30, knife and tobacco box.
Unknown, pocket book and seven cents.
Unknown, razor and brush.
Unknown, pipe.
Unknown, book, ambrotype and pipe.
Unknown, handkerchief, which was spread over his face
Unknown, pipe.
Unknown, pipe stem.
Unknown, (supposed Minnesota,) Bible.
Unknown, sick list.
Unknown, two gun wrenches.
SOLDIEES' NATIONAL CEMETERY. 153
Unknown, pipe.
Unknown, three anibrotypes.
Charles Kelley, Pa, letter, Testament, knife, keys, fifteen cents.
Unknown, sniiif box.
Unknown, Testament.
Melville 0. Day, diary, letters, &c.
Edmond F. Grouse.
Unknown, watch chain, gun wiper, salve box and keys.
Unknown, comb.
John , pipe.
Corporal W. W. W., from old Cemetery, pipe.
Unknown, pipe.
Joseph Wentworth, letter.
Byron Welch, j>aper, diary and pencil.
Unknown, knife.
Unknown, knife.
James Wallace, Pa., purse and twenty-five cents.
Unknown, inkstand, knife, letter and seventy-five cents.
A. Calhoun, diary.
Unknown Corporal, ambrotype of female.
Unknown, "Soldier's Pocket Book."
Unknown, pipe.
Sergeant L. H. Lee, two combs, diary, and bullet that killed him,
154
SOLDIERS' NATIONAL CEMETERY.
LIST OF REGIMENTS,
IN THE DIFFERENT CORPS OF THE ARMY OF THE POTOMAC, IN
THE BATTLE OE GETTYSBURG.
MAINE.
Regiment.
Corps.
Regiment.
Corps.
Regiment.
Corps.
3d
3d
6th
6th
17th
3d
4th
6th
7th
6th ,
19th
2d
5th
16th
1st
5th
NEW HAMPSHIRE.
Regiment.
Corps.
2d,
3d,
Regiment.
Corps.
5th.
2d
Regiment.
12th.,
Corps.
3d.
VERMONT.
Regiment.
Corps.
J
Regiment.
Corps.
Regiment.
Corps.
2d
.. 6th
.. 6th
..! 6th.....
..| 6th
6th
6th
14th
1st
3d
1st
2d
14th
16th...'..
19th
1st
4th
12th
1st
1st
5th
13th
1st
2d
MASSACHUSETTS.
Regiment.
Corps.
Regiment.
Corps.
Regiment.
Corps.
1st
1st
12th
1st
20th
2d
2d
12th
13th
1st
22d
5th
7th
6th
15th
2d
28th
2d
9th
5th
16th
3d
32d
5th
10th
6th
18th
5th
33d
11th
11th
3d
19th
2d
37th
6th
CONNECTICUT.
Regiment.
Corps.
Regiment.
Corps.
Regiment.
Corps.
5th
12th
17th
11th
20th
12th
14th
2d
27th
soldiers' national oemeter-
155
NEW YORK.
Regiment.
Carps.
Regiment.
Corps.
Regimont.
Corps.
9th
1st
64th
2d
108th
2d u..
14th
1st
65th
6th
111th
2d
20th
1st
66th ..
2d
119th
11th
30th
1st
67th.....
6th"
120th
121st
3d
33d
6th
68th
11th
6th
39th
2d. .
69th ..
2d
122d
6th
40th
3d
70th
3d
123d
12th....
41st
nth
71st
72d
73d
3d
3d
124th
3d
42d
2d
125th
126th
2d
43d
6th
3d
2d
44th
5th
74th
3d
137th.....
140th
12th
45th
11th
6th
2d
11th
2d
nth
2d
12th
2d
6th
2d
76th
1st
2d
49th
77th
6th
145th
12th
52d
78th
12th
146th
5th
54th
82d
2d
147th
1st
57th
86th
88th
3d
149th
12th
58th
2d
150th
12th
59th
94th
1st
153d
11th
60th
95th
1st
154th
11th
61st
97th
1st
157th
11th
62d
104th.. .
1st
63d
107th
12th
::::::::::::::::::::
PENNSYLVANIA.
Regiment.
Corps.
Regiment.
Corps.
Regiment.
Corps.
P. R. V. C
5th
75th
81st
82d
84th
88th
90th
91st
93d
95th
96th
9Sth
99th
102d
105th
106th
107th
109th
110th
111th
114th
nth
115th
3d
11th ,
1st
6th
2d
116th
118th
2d
23d
6th
5th
5th
26th
3d
119th
121st
6th
27th
nth
3d
1st
28th
12th
1st
134th
nth
29th
12th
1st
139th
6th
46th...
12th
5th
140th
2d
49th
6th
6th
141st
3d
53d
2d
1st ...
6th
142d
1st
56th
6th
143d
1st
57th
3d
6th
146th
5th
61st
6th
5th
147th
12th
62d
6th
14Sth
2d
63d
3d
3d
149th
1st .*...
68th
3d
2d
150th
1st
69th
2d
1st
151st
1st
71st
2d
12th
154th
11th
72d
2d
11th .
3d.
155th
5th
73d
12th
74th
11th
3d
NEW JERSEY.
Regiment.
Corps.
Regiment.
Corps.
Regiment.
Corps.
1st
7th
12th
2d
8th..
3d
5th
6th
156
SOLDIERS' NATIONAL CEMETERY.
DELAWARE.
Regiment.
1st.
Regiment.
Corps.
Regiment.
Corps.
Regiment.
Corps.
1st
2d
2d
2d
MARYLAND.
Corps.
12th.
Regiment.
3d,
Corps.
12th..
Regiment.
Corps.
7th Regiment, 2d Corps.
VIRGINIA.
OHIO.
Regiment.
Corps.
Regiment.
Corps.
Regiment.
Corps.
5th
12th
12th
2d
2d
J 23d
11th
75th
11th
7th
..j 29th
12th
82d
11th
4th
..! 61st
11th
107th
11th. .
8th
..! 66th
12th
82d Regiment, 11th Corps.
ILLINOIS.
INDIANA.
Regiment.
Corps.
Regiment.
Corps.
Regiment.
Corps.
7th
1st
19th
1st
27th
12th
14th
2d
20th
1st
MICHIGAN.
Regiment.
Corps.
Regiment.
Corps.
Regiment.
Corps.
1st
5th
4th
5th
16th ..
5th
5th
3d
7th
12th
24th
1st
WISCONSIN.
Regiment.
Corps.
Regiment.
Corps.
Regiment.
Corps.
2d..
1st
5th
6th
7th
11th
3d
12th i 6th
1st
SOLDIERS' NATIONAL CEMETERY.
157
1st Regiment, 2d Corps.
MINNESOTA.
UNITED STATES.
Regiment.
Corps.
Regiment.
Corps.
Regiment, i Corps.
2d Sharp S
3d
4th Infantry.
6th do
10th.. ..do
5th
I
3d
5th
5th
5th
12th.. ..do 5th...
2d Infantry ...
3d do
5th
14th.. ..do 1 5th
5th
17th. ...do | 5th
CAVALKY CORPS.
Maine. — 1st Regiinent.
Vermont. — 1st Eegiinent.
Massachusetts. — 1st Regiment.
Rhode Island. — 1st Regiment.
New York.— 2d, 4th, 5th, 6th, 8th, 9th and lOtli Regiments.
New Jersey. — 1st Regiment.
Pennsylvania.— 1st, 2d, 3d, 4th, 6th, 8th, 16th, 17th and 18th
Regiments.
Virginia — 1st and 3d Regiments.
Ohio — 6th Regiment.
Indiana. — 3d Regiment.
Illinois. — 8th and 12th Regiments.
Michigan — 1st, 5th, 6th and 7th Regiments.
Wisconsin. — 1st Regiment.
United States. — 1st, 2d, 5th and 6th Regiments.
ARTILLERY RESERVE CORPS.
Massachusetts. — 5th and. 9th Regiments.
New York. — 1st Regiment, B and G, 7th Independent, 15th
Independent, 30th Independent, 32d Independent and 1st Inde
pendent.
New Jersey. — 1st Regiment, (A.)
Pennsylvania. — 1st Regiment, (0,) 4th Regiment, Indepen-
dent.
Maryland. — 1st and 6th Regiments.
Virginia, — 1st Regiment.
Ohio. — 1st Regiment, (H.)
United States. — 1st Regiment, (H,) 3d Regiment, (K,) 4th
Regiment, (0,) 4th Regiment, (K.)
158 SOLDIERS' NATIONAL CEMETERY,
REMARKS
OX THE DESIGN FOE THE SOLDIERS' NATIONAL CEMETERY, GET-
TYSBURG, PENNSYLVANIA.
In constructing a design for the Gemete^y, the following con-
siderations and details suggested themselves, as objects of para-
mount importance :
First. — The great disparity that exists, with reference to the
space required for the interments of each State, necessitates a
discrimination as to position and extent, while the peculiar sol-
emnity of the interest attached by each State to each interment,
allows of no distinction. Therefore, the arrangement must be of a
kind that will obviate criticism as to position, and at the same
time possess other equally important requirements and relations
to the general design, (a)
Second. — The principal expression of the improvement should
be that produced by simple grandeur and propriety. (&)
Third. — To arrange the roads, walks, trees and shrubs, so as to
answer every purpose required by utility, and realize a pleasing
landscape and pleasure ground effect, at the same time paying
due regard to economy of construction, as well as to the future
cost of maintenance and keexung the grounds, (c)
Fourth. — To select an appropriate site for the monument, (d)
(a) In order to secure the conditions embraced in the first of the
above propositions, a semi-circular arrangement was adopted for
the interments. By referring to the plan, the propriety of this
mode will, I think, be conceded without further explanation. The
ground appropriated to each State, is part, as it were, of a common
centre ; the position of each lot, and indeed of each interment, is
relatively of equal importance, the only difference being that of
extent, as determined by the number of interments belonging to
each State. The coffins are deposited side by side, in parallel
trenches. A space of twelve feet is allowed to each parallel,
about five feet of which forms a grass path between each row
of interments. The configuration of the ground surface is singu-
larly appropriate at the points selected, falling away in a gradual
SOLDIERS' NATIONAL CEMETERY. 159
and regular slope in every direction, from the centre to the cir-
cumference, a feature alike pleasing and desirable. Tu order to
secure regularity, the head-stones are precisely alike throughout
the entire area of lots, and are constructed so as not to detract
from the effect and prominence of the monument. The head-
stones form a continuous line of granite blocks, rising nine inches
above the ground, and showing a face or width of ten inches on
their upper surface. The name, company and regiment being-
carved in the granite, opposite each interment, thus securing a
simple and expressive arrangement, combined with great perma-
nence and durability.
(b) The prevailing expression of the Cemetery should be that
of simple grandeur. Simplicity is that element of beauty in a
scene that leads gradually from one object to another, in easy
harmony, avoiding abrupt contrasts and unexpected features.
Grandeur, in this application, is closely allied to solemnity. Sol-
emnity is an attribute of the sublime. The sublime in scenery
may be defined as continuity of extent, the repetition of objects
in themselves simple and common place. We do not apply this
epithet to the scanty tricklings of the brook, but rather to the
collected waters of the ocean. To produce an expression of gran-
deur, we must avoid intricacy and great variety of parts, more
particularly must we refrain from introducing any intermixture
or meretricious display of ornament.
(c) The disposition of trees and shrubs is such that will ulti-
mately produce a considerable degree of landscape effect. Ample
spaces of lawn are provided ; these will form vistas, as seen from
the drive, showing the monument and other prominent points. Any
abridgment of these lawns by planting further than is shown in
the design, will tend to destroy the massive effect of the group-
ings, and in time would render the whole confused and intricate.
As the trees spread and extend, the quiet beauty produced by
these open spaces of lawn will yearly become more striking ; de-
signs of this character require time for their development, and
their ultimate harmony should not be impaired or sacrificed to
immediate and temporary interest. Further, to secure proper
hreadtli of scene, few walks or roads are introduced. A main road-
way or drive of sufficient width courses round the grounds ; a few
paths or walks are also provided for facilitating the inspection of
160 SOLDIERS' NATIONAL CEMETERY.
tlie interment lots. Eoads and walks are exclusively objects of
utility; their introduction can only be justified by direct necessity.
(d) The centre of the semi-circle is reserved for the monument.
An irregularly shaped belting of dwarf shrubbery borders partially
isolate it from the lots. It may be suggested that the style of
the monument should be in keeping with the surrounding im-
provements, showing no effort to an exhibition of cost or ostenta-
tious display on the one hand, and no apparent desire to avoid
reasonable expense on the other.
The gateway and gatehouse should also be designed in the same
spirit, massive, solid, substantial and tasteful.
With regard to the future keeping of the ground, the walks
should be smooth, hard and clean, the grass kept short, and main-
tained as clean and neat as the best pleasure ground in the country.
No effort should be wanting to attain excellence in this respect.
WILLIAM SAUNDEES.
Dfp't of Agriculture, Washington, D. C.
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SOLDIERS' NATIONAL CEMETERY. 161
REPORT OP SAMUEL WEAVER.
Gettysburg, March 19. 1864.
To David Wills, Esq.,
Agent for A. G. Curtin, Gov. ofPenn'a:
Sir: — Therewith submit the following brief report of the results
of my labors as the Superinteud ent of the exhuming of the bodies
of the Union soldiers that fell on the battle field of Gettysburg:
The contractor commenced the work of exhuming on Tuesday,
the 27th of October last, and finished yesterday. The work has
been protracted much beyond our original anticipations, by reason
of the ground being frozen for a long time during the winter, thus
entirely suspending the work, and also by the number of bodies
exceeding our first calculations.
The number taken up and removed to the Soldiers' National
OEMETERYis thirty-three hundred and fifty-four (3,354,) and to these
add the number of Massachusetts soldiers taken up by the authori-
ties of the city of Boston, by special contract, amounting to one
hundred and fifty-eight, (158,) makes the total number of removals
thirty-five hundred and twelve (3,512) bodies. Of these, nine
hundred and seventy-nine were bodies nameless, and without any
marks or surroundings to designate the State from which they
volunteered. The rest were, in most instances, marked with
boards, on which the name, company, and regiment, were written
in pencil, or cut, by their comrades who buried them. In some
instances, the regiment to which the soldier belonged was dis-
covered, and sometimes only the State from which he volunteered;
and in these cases they were buried in their appropriate State
lot.
There was not a grave permitted to be opened or a body searched
unless I was present. I was inflexible in enforcing this rule, and
here can say, with the greatest satisfaction to myself and to the
friends of the soldiers, that I saw every body taken out of its tem-
porary resting place, and all the pockets carefully searched ; and
11
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THE OKOUHOS
AND
DESIGN FOR THE IMPROVEMENT
OF THE
SOLDIER'S NATIONAL CEMETERY,
GETTYSBURG, PA.
18 S3.
WILLIAM SAUNDERS,
Landscape Gardener, Germantown, Penn.
1. UNE
2. ILLINOIS.
3. VIRGINIA.
4. DELAWARE.
5. RHODE ISLAND.
6. NEW HAMPSHESE.
7. VEBMONT.
8. NEW JERSEY.
9. WISCONSIN.
10. CONNECTICUT.
11. MINNESOTA.
12. MARYLAND.
13. U. S. REGULARS.
14. UNKNOWN.
16. MICHIGAN.
17. NEW YORK.
18. PENNSYLVANIA
19. MASSACHUSETTS.
20. OHIO.
21. INDIASA.
22. UNKNOWN.
23. MONUMENT
24. GATE-HOUSE.
25. FLAGSTAFF. ETC.
SOLDIERS' national cemetery. 161
REPORT OP SAMUEL WEAVER.
Gettysburg, March 19, 1864.
To David Wills, Esq.,
Agent for A. G. Curtin, Gov. ofPemCa:
Sir: — Therewith submit the following brief report of the results
of my labors as the Superintendent of the exhuming of the bodies
of the Union soldiers that fell on the battle field of Gettysburg :
The contractor commenced the work of exhuming on Tuesday,
the 27th of October last, and finished yesterday. The work has
been protracted much beyond our original anticipations, by reason
of the ground being frozen for a long time during the winter, thus
entirely suspending the work, and also by the number of bodies
exceeding our first calculations.
The number taken up and removed to the Soldiers' National
Cemetery is thirty- three hundred and fifty-four (3,354,) and to these
add the number of Massachusetts soldiers taken up by the authori-
ties of the city of Boston, by special contract, amounting to one
hundred and fifty-eight, (158,) makes the total number of removals,
thirty-five hundred and twelve (3,512) bodies. Of these, nine
hundred and seventy-nine were bodies nameless, and without any
marks or surroundings to designate the State from which they
volunteered. The rest were, in most instances, marked with
boards, on which the name, company, and regiment, were written
in pencil, or cut, by their comrades who buried them. In some
instances, the regiment to which the soldier belonged was dis-
covered, and sometimes only the State from which he volunteered;
and in these cases they were buried in their appropriate State
lot,
There was not a grave permitted to be opened or a body searched
unless I was present. I was inflexible in enforcing this rule, and
here can say, with the greatest satisfaction to myself and to the
friends of the soldiers, that I saw every body taken out of its tem-
porary resting place, and all the pockets carefully searched j and
ll
162 SOLDIERS' NATION AIj CEMETERY.
where the grave was not marked, I examined all the clothing and
everything about the body to find the name. I then saw the body,
with all the hair and all the particles of bone, carefully placed in the
coffin, arid if there was a head-board, I required it to beat once nailed
to the coffin. At the same time I wrote the name, company, and
regiment, of the soldier, on the coffin, and numbered the coffin, and
entered in my book the same endorsement. This book was re-
turned to your office every evening, to copy and compare with
the daily return inade by the Superintendent of the interments in
the Cemetery. In these scrutinizing searches, the names of a
number of lost soldiers were found. They were discovered in
various ways. Sometimes by the pocket diaries, by letters, by
names in Bible, or Testament, by photographs, names in pocket-
books, descriptive list, express receipts, medals, names on some
part of the clothing, or on belt, or cartridge-box, &c, &c.
There were some articles of value found on the bodies ; some
money, watches, jewelry, &c. I took all relics, as well as articles
of value, from the bodies, packed them up and labelled them,
so that the friends can get them. There are many things, valueless
to others, which would be of great interest to the friends. I here-
with submit a list of names of persons and articles found upon
them, and you will, no doubt, take means to get information to
the friends, by advertisement or otherwise, so that they may
give notice where, and to whom, these things shall be forwarded.
I have two hundred and eighty-seven such packages.
Before we commenced our work, the battle field had been over-
run by thousands of sorrowing friends in search of lost ones,
and many of the graves opened and but partially or carelessly
closed. Many of the undertakers who were removing bodies, also
performed their work in the most careless manner, invariably
leaving the graves open, and often leaving particles of the bones
and hair lying scattered around. These things are frequently
to be sesn on every part of the battle field ; and persons going
over it might attribute such work to the contractors, but there
cannot be one instance pointed out of such kind of work done by
them. Every particle of the body was gathered up by them, and
the grave neatly closed over and levelled.
The bodies were found in various stages of decomposition. On
the battle field of the first day, the rebels obtained possession
SOLDIERS' NATIONAL CEMETERY. 163
before oiir men were buried, and left most of them unburied from
Wednesday until Monday following, when our men buried them.
After this length of time, they could not be identified. The con-
sequence was, that but few on the battle field of July 1st, were
marked. They were generally covered with a small portion of
earth dug up from along side of the body. This left them much
exposed to the heat, air, and rains, and they decomposed rapidly,
so that when these bodies were taken up, there was nothing re-
maining but the dry skeleton.
Where bodies were in heavy clay soil, or in marshy places, they
were in a good state of preservation. Where they were in sandy,
porous soil, they were entirely decomposed. Frequently our men
were buried in trenches — a shallow ditch — in which they were
laid side by side. In several instances the numbers in a trench
amounted to sixty or seventy bodies.
In searching for the remains of our fallen heroes, we examined
more than three thousand rebel graves. They were frequently
buried in trenches, and there are instances of more than one hun-
dred and fifty in a trench. In one place it is asserted by a reliable
farmer who saw them buried, that there are over two hundred in
one trench. I have been making a careful estimate, from time to
time, as I went over the field, of the rebel bodies buried on
this battle field and at the hospitals, and I place the number at
not less than seven thousand bodies.
It may be asked how we could distinguish the bodies of our own
men from those of the rebels. This was generally very easily
done. In the first place, as a general rule, the rebels never went
into battle with the United States coat on. - They sometime^ stole
the pantaloons from our dead and wore them, but not the coat.
The rebel clothing is made of cotton, and is of a grey or brown
color. Occasionally I found one with a blue cotton jean round-
about on. The clothing of our men is of wool, and blue ; so that
the body having a coat of our uniform on was a pretty sure indi-
cation that he was a Union soldier. But if the body wereVithout
a coat, then there were other infallible marks. The shoes of the
rebels were differently made from those of our soldiers. If these
failed, then the underclothing was the next part examined. The
ebel cotton undershirt gave proof of the army to whic h he be-
164 SOLDIERS5 NATIONAL CEMETERY.
longed. In no instance was a body allowed to be removed which
had any portion of the rebel clothing on it. Taking all these
things together, we never have had much trouble in deciding, with
infallible accuracy, whether the body was that of a Union soldier
or a rebel. And I here most conscientiously assert, that I firmly
believe that there has not been a single mistake made in the re-
moval of the soldiers to the Cemetery by taking the body of a
rebel for a Union soldier.
All which is respectfully submitted.
SAMUEL WEAVER.
SOLDIERS' NATIONAL CEMETERY. 165
REPORT OF JAMES S. TOWNSEND.
To David Wills, Esq.,
Agent for A. G. Curtin, Governor of Pennsylvania :
Sir : — The interments of all the Union soldiers on the battle
field of Gettysburg, in the Soldiers' National Cemetery,
'have been completed in a very satisfactory manner, and accord-
ing to the terms and specifications of the contract. There has
been much delay, for weeks at a time, during the winter, in prose-
cuting the work, on account of the ground being frozen too hard
to dig. Then, occasionally, the wet weather and the snows would
stop the work, so that it has been protracted much beyond the
time we at first anticipated having it completed.
I surveyed and laid out the grounds as designed by Mr. Wm.
Saunders, and have since superintended the burials, personally
measuring the depths of every grave and the proper distance for
each coffin. I, also, took the name, comj>any, and regiment of
each body, as soon as placed in the ground, personally superin-
tending the proper marking of the grave, with the appropriate
head-board.
The graves are all numbered, and the list of interments of each
day was returned to your office for comparison with the list of
those taken up in the field, and to be registered daily in a per-
manent register. The total number of burials in the Cemetery is
thirty-five hundred and twelve.
I herewith refer you to the registers you have made in your
office, for the number buried in each State lot, and in the lots set
apart for the United States Eegulars, and the Unknown.
All which is respectfully submitted.
JAS. S. TOWNSEND,
$ivrveyer and Sup't of Burials.
168 SOLDIERS' NATIONAL CEMETERY.
DESCRIPTION OF THE GETTYSBURG MONUMENT,
The design of the Gettysburg monument Is adapted for execu-
tion either in marble, or in granite and bronze, as may be deemed
expedient, the material being of course controlled entirely by the
amount appropriated. The whole rendering of the design is in-
tended to be purely historical, telling its own story, with such sim-
plicity that any discerning mind will readily comprehend its mean-
ing and purpose.
The superstructure is sixty feet high, and consists of a massive
pedestal, twenty-five feet square at the base, and is crowned with
a eolossal statue, representing the genius of liberty. Standing
upon a three-quarter globe, she raises with her right hand the
victor's reath of laurel, while with her left she gathers up the folds
of our national flag under which the victory has been won.
Projecting from the angles of the pedestal are four buttresses,,
supporting an equal number of allegorical statues, representing,
respectively, war, history, peace and plenty.
War is personified by a statue of the American soldier, whot
resting from the conflict, relates to History the story of the battle
which this monument is intended to commemorate.
History, in listening attitude, records with stylus and tablet,,
the achievements of the field, and the names of the honored dead.
Peace is symbolized by a statue of the American mechanic,
characterized by appropriate accessories.
Plenty is represented by a female figure, with a sheaf of wheat
and fruits of the earth, typifying peace and abundance as the sol-
dier's crowning triumph.
The panels of the main die between the statues are to have in-
scribed upon them such inscriptions asmiay hereafter be deter-
mined.
The main die of the pedestal is octagonal inform, panelled upon
each face. The cornice and plinth above are also octagonal.,
and are heavily moulded. Upon this plinth rests an octagonal
SOLDIERS' NATIONAL CEMETERY. 1G7
moulded base bearing upon its face, in high relief, the National
arms.
The upper die and cap are circular in form, the die being en-
circled by stars equal in number with the States whose sons con-
tributed their lives as the price of the victory won at Gettysburg.
168 SOLDIERS' NATIONAL CEMETERY.,
AN ACT
TO INCORPORATE THE SOLDIERS' NATIONAL CEMETERY.
Whereas, The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania has purchased
seventeen acres of land on Cemetery Hill, on the Gettysburg battle
field, in the county of Adams, for a Cemetery for the burial of the
remains of the soldiers who fell in the battle of Gettysburg, and
the skirmishes incident thereto, in defence of the Union, or died
thereafter from wounds received in that battle and the skirmishes;
therefore,
Section 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in General Assembly
met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That
the titles to the said lands purchased, as set forth in the foregoing
preamble, are hereby ratified and confirmed, and shall vest and re-
main in said Commonwealth, in fee simple, in trust for all the States
having soldiers buried in said grounds ; and the said grounds shall
be devoted in perpetuity to the purpose for which they were pur-
chased, namely : for the burial and place of final rest of the re-
mains of the soldiers who fell in the defence of the Union, in the
battle of Gettysburg ; and, also, the remains of the soldiers who
fell at other points north of the Potomac river, in the several en-
counters with the enemy during the invasion of Lee, in the sum-
mer of one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, or died there-
after, in consequence of wounds received in said battle and during
said invasion.
Section 2. That B. W. Norris, of the State of Maine, , of
the State of New Hampshire, Paul Dillingham, of the State of
Vermont, Henry Edwards, of the State of Massachusetts, John
E. Bartlett, of the State of Ehode Island, Alfred Coit, of the
State of Connecticut, Edward Cooper, of the State of New York,
, of the State of New Jersey, David Wells, of the State
of Pennsylvania, Benjamin Deford, of the State of Maryland,
John G. Latimer, of the State of Delaware, , of the
State of West Virginia, Gordon Lofland, of the State of Ohio,
John B. Stephenson, of the State of Indiana, Clark E. Carr,
SOLDIERS' NATIONAL CEMETERY. 169
of the State of Illinois, W. Y. Selleck, of the State of Wiscon-
sin, Thomas White Ferry, of. the State of Michigan, ,
of the State of Minnesota, being one Commissioner from each
State, having soldiers buried in said Cemetery, be and they and their
successors are hereby created a body politic inlaw, under the name,
style and title of the Soldiers' National Cemetery, and by
that name, style and title shall have perpetual succession, and be
able and capable in law to have and use a common seal, to sue,
and be sued, plead and to be impleaded, in all courts of law and
equity, and to do all such other things as , are incident to a cor-
poration.
Section 3. The care and management of the grounds referred
to in the preamble and first section of the act, are hereby entrusted
solely to the commissioners named in the second section of the
same, and those hereafter appointed to represent the States therein
named, and their successors in office ; the said commissioners shall
constitute a board of managers, whose duty it shall be, out of funds
that may be in the hands of the treasurer of the corporation, by
State appropriations, or otherwise, to remove the remains of all
the soldiers referred to in the first section of this act, that have not
already been removed to the Cemetery, and have them properly
interred therein ; and, also, to lay out, fence and ornament, to
divide and arrange into suitable plots, and burial lots, establish
carriage-ways, avenues and foot-ways, erect buildings, and a mon-
ument or monuments, and suitable marks to designate the graves,
and generally to do all other things in their judgment necessary
and proper to be done to adapt the ground and premises to the
uses for which it has been purchased and set apart.
Section 4. The business of the corporation shall be conducted
by the commissioners aforesaid, and their successors in office ; the
said commissioners shall meet within sixty days after the passage
of this act, and organize by electing one of their number president ;
they shall also appoint a secretary and treasurer, and shall have
power to employ such other officers and agents as may be needful ;
they shall require of the treasurer to enter into bonds, to the cor-
poration, in double the probable amount of money that may be
in his hands at any one time during his term of office, with two or
more sufficient sureties, conditioned for the faithful discharge of
his duties, and the correct accounting for and paying over of the
170 SOLDIERS' NATIONAL CEMETERY.
money ; which said bond or bonds, shall be approved by the court
of common pleas of Adams county, and recorded in the office of
the recorder of deeds, in and for said county ; the term of office of
the officers of the board of commissioners aforesaid shall expire on
the first day of January, of each and every year, or as soon there-
after as their successors may be duly chosen and qualified to act.
Section 5. At the first meeting of the commissioners hereto-
fore named, they shall be divided, by lot, into three classes, and
the term of office of the first class shall expire on the first day of
January, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and sixty-five;
the second class, on the first day of January, Anno Domini one
thousand eight hundred and sixty-six, and the third class on the
first day of January, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred
and sixty-seven ; the vacancies thus occurring shall be filled by
the Governors of the States which the said commissioners repre-
sented ; and the persons thus appointed to fill such vacancies, shall
hold their office, as commissioners aforesaid, for the term of three
years. In case of the neglect, or failure, of the Governor of any
State, having burial lots in the Cemetery, to fill such vacancy,
the board of commissioners may supply the place by appointing a
citizen of the particular State which is not represented in the board
by reason of such vacancy ; any vacancies not yet filled, or here-
after occurring, in the board of commissioners, by death, resigna-
tion, or otherwise, shall be filled, by appointment, for the unex-
pired term, by the Governor of the State which the person rep-
resented, or in case of failure by such Governor to make said
appointment, then the place shall be supplied as last above indi-
cated ; such other States of tlie Union, not having burial lots in said
Cemetery, but that may at any time hereafter desire to be repre-
sented in this corporation, shall have the privilege of nominating
a Commissioner to represent them severally in the board of com-
missioners, and thereafter pay their proportionate share of the ex-
pense of maintaining said Cemetery.
Section 6. The board of commissioners shall annually, at the
end of each fiscal year, make a report of the condition and man-
agement of the Cemetery ; which report shall contain a detailed
statement of the receipts and expenditures of the corporation,
and a copy thereof shall be forwarded to the Governor of each
State represented in the corporation. The expenses incident to
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the removal of the dead, the enclosing and ornamenting the Ceme-
tery, and all the work connected therewith, and its future main-
tenance, shall be apportioned among the States connecting them-
selves with the corporation, according to their population, as
indicated by their representation iu the House of Eepresentatives
of the United States.
Section 7. The board of commissioners shall adopt such by-
laws, rules and regulations, as they may deem necessary for their
meetings and government, and for the government of their officers,
agents and employees, and for the care and protection of the ceme-
tery grounds, and the property of the corporation : Provided, Said
by-laws, rules and regulations, be not inconsistent with the Consti-
tution and laws of the United States, the Constitution and laws
of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, and this act of incorpora-
tion.
Section 8. The board of commissioners shall have no power
to appropriate any of the funds of the corporation as a compensa-
tion for their services as commissioners.
Section 9. The grounds and property of said Cemetery shall
be forever free from the levy of any State, county, or municipal
taxes ; and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania hereby releases,
and exempts, the corporation created by this act of Assembly,
from the payment of any enrolment tax, or any tax, or taxes
whatever, that might be imposed by existing laws ; all the laws
of this Commonwealth now iu force, or which may hereafter be
enacted, for the protection of cemeteries, burial grounds, and
places of sepulture, shall apply with full force and effect to the
Soldiers' National Cemetery, hereby incorporated, immedi-
ately from and after the passage of this act.
Section 10. The corporation of the Soldiers' National Ce-
metery shall have power to receive appropriations from the United
States, and from the State Legislatures, and also devises and be-
quests, gifts, annuities, and all other kinds of property, real and
personal, for the purposes of the burial of the dead, enclosing and
ornamenting the grounds, the maintaining the same, and erecting
a monument, or monuments, therein.
Approved March 25, 1804.
CORRESPONDENCE,
ADDRESSES AND CEREMONIES,
CONSECRATION
Gettysburg, November 19, 1863,
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THE NATIONAL CEMETERY.
A few days after the terrific battle of Gettysburg, His Excel-
lency, A. G. Curtin, Governor of the State of Pennsylvania, has-
tened to the relief of the sick and wounded soldiers, visited the
battle field, and the numerous hospitals in and around Gettysburg,
for the purpose of perfecting the arrangements for alleviating the
sufferings and ministering to the wants of the wounded and dying.
His official duties soon requiring his return to Harrisburg, he au-
thorized and appointed David Wills, Esq., of Gettysburg, to act
as his special agent in this matter.
In traversing the battle field, the feelings were shocked and the
heart sickened at the sights that presented themselves at every step.
The remains of our brave soldiers, from the necessary haste with
which they were interred, in many instances were but partially
covered with earth, and, indeed, in some instances were left wholly
unburied. Other sights, too shocking to be described, were occa-
sionally seen. These appearances presented themselves promis-
cuously over the fields of arable land for miles around, which
would, of necessity, be farmed over in a short time. The graves,
where marked at all, were only temporarily so, and the marks were
liable to be obliterated by the action of the weather. Such was
the spectacle witnessed on going over the battle field — a field made
glorious by victory achieved through the sacrifice of the lives of
the thousands of brave men, whose bodies and graves were in such
exposed Condition. And this, too, on Pennsylvania soil! Hu-
manity shuddered at the sight, and called aloud for a remedy.
The idea, accordingly, suggested itself of taking measures to
gather these remains together, and bury them decently and in
order in a cemetery. Mr. Wills submitted the proposition and
plan -for this purpose, by letter July 24th, 1863, to his Excel-
lency, Governor Curtin ; and the Governor, with that profound
sympathy, and that care and anxiety for the soldier, which have
always characterized him, approved of the design, and directed a
correspondence to be entered into at once by Mr. Wills with the
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Governors of the other States having soldiers dead on the battle
field of Gettysburg. The Governors of the different States, with
great promptness, seconded the project, and the details of the ar-
rangement were subsequently agreed upon. Grounds favorably
situated were selected by the Agent, and Governor Curtin directed
him to purchase them for the State of Pennsylvania, for the spe-
cific purpose of the burial of the soldiers who fell in defence of the
Union, in the battle of Gettysburg, and that lots in this Cemetery
should be gratuitously tendered to each State having such dead
on the field. The expenses of the removal of the dead, of the lay-
ing out, ornamenting, and enclosing the grounds, and erecting a
lodge for the keeper, and of constructing a suitable monument to
the memory of the dead, to be borne by the several States, and as-
sessed in proportion to the population, as indicated by their repre-
sentation in Congress. The Governor of Pennsylvania stipulated
that the State of Pennsylvania would subsequently keep the grounds
in order, and the building and fences in repair.
Seventeen acres of land on Cemetery Hill, at the apex of the
triangular line of battle of the Union army, were purchased by
Pennsylvania for this purpose. There were stone fences upon these
grounds, which had been advantageously used by the infantry.
On the elevated portions of the ground many batteries of artillery
had been planted, which not only commanded the view of the whole
line of battle of the Union army, but were brought to bear almost
incessantly, with great effect, upon every position of the Eebel lines.
We refer the reader to the excellent map of this battle field and its
hospitals, in the front of this pamphlet. It was prepared by the
Eev. Andrew B. Cross, who is one of the most active and zealous
members of the Christian Commission, and who labored faithfully
for months in the hospitals at Gettysburg, ministering to the tem-
poral and spiritual wants of the wounded and dying soldiers. This
map gives the locality of the National Cemetery, as well as many
other points of interest connected with the battle field.
The Cemetery grounds were plotted and laid out in the original
and appropriate style indicated by the plate accompanying this
description, by the celebrated rural architect, Mr. William Saun-
ders.
Such was the origin of this final resting place for the remains of
our departed heroes, who nobly laid down their lives a sacrifice
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on their country's altar, for tlie sake of Universal Freedom and the
preservation of the Union. Who can estimate the importance to
us and all prosterity of their valor and heroism ? Their remains,
above all others, deserve the highest honor that a grateful people
can bestow on them. Their deeds will live in history long after
their bodies have mouldered into dust; and the place where they
now lie will be honored, protected, and preserved as a sad, but
sacred memento of their brave conduct.
The design contemplates the erection of a monument to the mem-
ory of the dead ; and the situation which seems to meet with the
greatest favor is in the centre of the semi-circle of graves. It has
been suggested, that each State having dead here should contribute
a slab or stone tablet, to be placed in the monument, with the
names engraved upon it of those whose graves are not identified,
and who consequently are interred in the lots set apart for the un-
known.
The grounds are laid off in lots for each State, proportioned in
size to the number of marked graves on the Gettysburg battle field.
There is also a lot set apart for the burial of the remains of those
who belonged to the regular service. The graves of about one-
third of the dead were unmarked ; but these bodies are deposited
in prominent and honorable positions at each end of the semi-cir-
cular arrangement of the lots. The grounds naturally have a gra-
dual slope in every direction from the centre of the semi-circle to
the circumference. Each lot is laid off in sections, with a space of
four feet for a walk between each section! The outer section is
letter A, and so on in alphabetical order. As the observer stands
in the centre of the semi-circle, facing the circumference, the burials
are commenced at the right hand of the section in each lot, and the
graves are numbered from one up numerically. A register is made
of the nnrnber, name, regiment and company of the occupant of
each grave. Two feet space is allotted to each, and they are laid
with their heads toward the centre of the semi-circle. At the head
of the graves there is a stone wall, built up from the bottom as a
foundation for the headstones, which are to be placed along the
whole length of each section, and on which, opposite each grave,
will be engraved the name, regiment and company of the deceased.
These headstones will be all alike in size, the design being wholly
adapted to a symmetrical order, and one which combines simplicity
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and durability. No other marks will be permitted to be erected.
There will be about twenty-nine hundred burials in the Cemetery.
An application was made by Mr. Wills to Hon E. M. Stanton,
Secretary of War, for coffins for the interment of the dead, and th«
Quartermaster General was promptly ordered to furnish them.
The Secretary of War, also, with a liberal considerateness, afforded
many facilities for the proper and honorable solemnization of the
exercises of the 19th of November. The removals and burials are
made with the greatest care, and under the strictest supervision.
Every precaution is taken to identify the unmarked graves, and
and also to prevent the marked graves from losing their identity,
by the defacement of the original temporary boards, on which the
names were written or cut by comrades in arms. The graves being-
all numbered, the numbers are registered every evening in a record
book, with the name, company and regiment. This register will
designate the graves, should the temporary marks become defaced
by the action of the weather, or be otherwise lost before the' per-
manent headstones are put in place. After the burials are all
made, the graves are all permanently marked, and the style of
monument determined upon, a map will be prepared and litho-
graphed, showing the number of each grave in each section, and
a key be published with the map, giving the full inscription on the
headstone, corresponding with the number.
A few of the States sent agents to Gettysburg to superintend
the removal and burial of their dead, while the most of them en-
trusted the arrangements for that purpose to the Agent of the State
of Pennsylvania. The Boston city authorities, in concert with
the Governor of Massachusetts, sent an efficient committee to
Gettysburg, who made the removals of the Massachusetts dead by
their own special arrangemeut.
The consecration of these Cemetery grounds was, in due time,
suggested by Governor Curtin. The name of Hon. Edward
Everett was submitted to the Governors of all the States inter-
ested, as the orator to deliver the address on that occasion, and
they unanimously concurred in him as the person eminently suit-
able for the purpose. A letter of invitation was accordingly ad-
dressed to him, inviting him to deliver the oration. He accepted
the duty, and the 19th of November was fixed upon as the day.
Hon. W. M. Lamon, the United States Marshal for the District of
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Colombia, was selected as the Chief Marshal of the civic procession,
and to Major General D. ST. Couch, commanding the Department
of the Susquehanna, were committed the arrangements for the
military. To all of these gentlemen great credit is due, for the
admirable manner in which they discharged the duties of the po-
sition assigned them. Birgfield's Brigade Band, of Philadelphia,
was invited to furnish the music for the ceremonial of consecration,
which was done gratuitously, and in a very acceptable manner.
The Presidential party was accompanied by the Marine Band, from
the Navy Yard at Washington, and the military detachment was
attended by the Brass Band from Fort M' Henry, Baltimore.
The public generally were invited to be present and participate
in these solemn exercises, and special invitations were sent to the
President and Vice President of the United States, and the
members of the Cabinet — to Major General Geoese G. Meade,
commanding the army of the Potomac, and, through him, to the
officers and privates of that army which had fought so valiantly,
and gained such a memorable victory on the Gettysburg battle
field — and to Lieutenant General Wixeield Scott and Admiral
Charles Stewart, the distinguished and time honored represen-
tatives of the Army and Navy. The President of the United
States was present, and participated in these solemnities, deliv-
ering a brief dedicatory address. The occasion was further made
memorable by the presence of large representations from the army
and navy, of the Secretary of State of the United States, the Min-
isters of France and Italy, the French Admiral, and other distin-
guished foreigners, and several members of Congress, also, of the
Governors of a large number of the States interested, with their
staffs, and, in some instances, large delegations, besides a vast
concourse of citizens from air the States.
Letters were received, in reply to the invitations addressed to
them, from Major General Meade, Lieutenant General Scott, Ad-
miral Charles Stewart, and the Secretary of the Treasury, Hon.
S. P. Chase, regretting their inability to be present, and expres-
sive of their appoval of the project.
One of the most sad and impressive features of the solemnities
of the 19th of November was the presence, in the procession and
on the grounds, of a delegation of about fifty wounded soldiers of
the army of the Potomac, from the York hospital. These men had
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been wounded in the battle of Gettysburg, and were present in a
delegation to pay this just tribute to the remains of their fallen
comrades. During the exercises, their bronzed cheeks were fre-
quently suffused with tears, indicative of their heartfelt sympathy
in the solemn scene before them. From none others could tears
of unfeigned grief fall upon these graves with so much sad appre-
ciation. These scarred veterans came and dropped the tear of sor-
row on the last resting plase of those companions by whose sides
they so nobly fought, and, lingering over the graves after the
crowd had dispersed, slowly went away, strengthened in their
faith in a nation's gratitude.
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CORRESPONDENCE.
Gettysburg, August 17, 1863.
To his Excellency, A. G. Curtin,
Governor of Pennsylvania:
Sir : — By virtue of the authority reposed in me by your Excel-
lency, I have invited the co-operation of the several loyal States
having soldier-dead on the battle field around this place, in the noble
project of removing their remains from their present exposed and
imperfectly buried condition, on the fields for miles around, to
a, cemetery.
The chief executives of fifteen out of the seventeen States have
already responded, in most instances, pledging their States to unite
in the movement ; in a few instances, highly approving of the
project, and stipulating to urge upon the Legislatures to make ap-
propriations to defray their proportionate share of expense.
I have, also, at your request, selected and purchased the grounds
for this Cemetery, the land to be paid for by, and the title to be
made to, the State of Pennsylvania, and to be held in perpetuity,
devoted to the object for which it was purchased.
The grounds embrace about seventeen acres on Cemetery Hill,
fronting on the Baltimore turnpike, and extending to the Taney-
town road. It is the ground which formed the apex of our triangu-
lar line of battle, and the key to our line of defences. It embraces
the highest point on Cemetery Hill, and overlooks the whole bat-
tle field. It is the spot which should be specially consecrated to
this sacred purpose. It is here that such immense quantities of
our artillery were massed, and during Thursday and Friday of the
battle, from this most important point on the field, dealt out
death and destruction to the Eebel army in every direction of their
advance.
I have been in conference, at different times, with agents sent
here by the Governors of several of the States, and we have ar-
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ranged details for carrying ont tills sacred work. I herewith en-
close yon a copy of the proposed arrangements of details, a copy
of which I have also sent the chief executive of each State hav-
ing dead here.
I have, also, at your suggestion, cordially tendered to each State
the privilege, if they desire, of joining in the title to the land.
I think it would be showing only a proper respect for the health
of this community not to commence the exhuming of the dead,
and removal to the Cemetery, until the month of November ;. and
in the meantime the grounds should be artistically laid out, and
consecrated by appropriate ceremonies.
I am, with great respect,
Your Excellency's obedient servant,
DAVID WILLS.
Pennsylvania, Executive Chamber, >
Haeeisbueg^ August 31, 1863. £
Deae Sie : — Yours of the 26th instant was duly received, and
ought to have been answered sooner, but you know how I am
pressed.
I am much pleased with the details for the Cemetery which you
have so thoughtfully suggested, and will be glad, so far as is in my
power, to hasten their consummation on the part of Pennsylvania.
It is of course probable that our sister States, joining- with us in
this hallowed undertaking, may desire to make some alterations and
modifications of your proposed plan of purchasing and managing
these sacred grounds, and it is my wish that you give to their views
the most careful and respectful consideration, Pennsylvania will
be so highly honored by the possession within her limits of this
Soldiers' mausoleum, and so much distinguished among the other
States by their contributions in aid of so glorious a monument to
patriotism and humanity, that it becomes her duty, as it is her
melancholy pleasure, to yield, in every reasonable way, to the
wishes, and suggestions, of the States who join with her in dedi-
cating a portion of her territory to the solemn uses of a National
sepulchre.
The proper consecration of the grounds must claim our early
attention; and, as soon as we can do so, our fellow-purchasers
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should !>e invited to join with us in the performance of suitable
ceremonies on the occasion.
I am, very respectfully,
Your obedient servant,
A. G. CURTIN.
David Wills, Esq.
Gettysburg, Pa., September 23, 1863.
Hon. Edward Everett ;
Sir: — The several States having soldiers ia the army of the
Potomac, who fell at the battle of Gettysburg, in July last, gal-
lantly lighting for the Union, have made arrangements here for
the exhuming of all their dead, and their removal and decent burial
in a Cemetery selected for that purpose, on a prominent part of
the battle field.
The design is to bury all in common, marked with headstones,
with the proper inscription, the known dead, and to erect a suita-
ble monument to the memory of all these brave men, who have
thus sacrificed their lives on the altar of their country.
The burial ground will be consecrated to this sacred and holy
purpose on Thursday, the 23d day of October next, with appro-
priate ceremonies ; and the several States interested, have united
in the selection of you to deliver the oration on that solemn occa-
sion'. I am therefore instructed, by the Governors of the different
States interested in this project, to invite you cordially to join
with them in the ceremonies, and to deliver the oration for the
occasion.
Hoping to have an early, and favorable reply from you,
I remain, sir, your most obedient servant,
DAVID WILLS,
Agent for the Governor of Pennsylvania.
Boston, September 26, 1863.
My Dear Sir : — I have received your favor of the 23d instant,
inviting me, on behalf of the Governors of the States interested
in the preparation of a Cemetery for the soldiers who fell in the
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great "battles of July last, to deliver an address at the consecra-
tion. I feel much complimented by this request, and would cheer-
fully undertake the performance of a duty at once so interesting
and honorable. It is, however, wholly out of my power to make
the requisite preparation by the 23d of October. I am under en-
gagements which wiU occupy all my time from Monday next to
the 12th of October, and, indeed, it is doubtful whether, during
the whole month of October, I shall have a day at my command.
The occasion is one of great importance, not to be dismissed
with a few sentimental or patriotic commonplaces. It will demand
as full a narrative of the events of the three important days as the
limits of the hour will admit, and some appropriate discussion of
the political character of the great struggle, of which the battle
of Gettysburg is one of the most momentous incidents. As it will
take me two days to reach Gettysburg, and it will be highly desirable
that I should have at least one day to survey the battle field, I
cannot safely name an earlier time than the 19th of November. •
Should such a postponement of the day first proposed be ad-
visable, it will give me great pleasure to accept the invitation.
I remain, dear sir, with much respect,
Very truly yours,
EDWAED EVERETT.
David Wills, Esq.,
Agent for the National Cemetery.
Note. — In compliance with Mr. Everett's suggestions, as expressed in the forego-
ing letter, Thursday, the 19th of November, was appointed for the ceremonial of the
consecration.
Gettysburg, November 25, 1863.
Hon. Edward Everett :
Dear Sir : — On behalf of the Governors of the several States
interested in the National Cemetery, I request of you for publi-
cation a copy of your Address delivered at the consecration of
the grounds on Thursday, the 19th of this month, the proceeds
of the sale to be added to the fund for the erection of a monu-
ment to the memory of the heroes whose remains are deposited
in the Cemetery.
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In performing this official duty, allow uie as a citizen of Get-
tysburg, and in behalf of my fellow citizens, to express our pecu-
liar satisfaction at that part of your Address, which is devoted to
a narrative of the all-important events, that have at once raised
this place into permanent importance and celebrity. Knowing
as we do that you used great diligence and care to procure as ac-
curate an account as possible of the movements of the two armies
in this vicinity, and their positions in the battle on the .different
days, we regard that portion of your Address as very important
and valuable. Whilst its delivery commanded the closest atten -
tion of the vast assembly who listened to it — thus giving evidence
of their intense interest and entire appreciation — this portion of
the Oration, preserved in an authentic form, will descend to pros-
terity as a production of permanent historical value.
Allow me, also, to express my gratification at the tribute paid
by you to Major General Reynolds, in ascribing "to his fore-
thought and self-sacrifice the triumph of the two succeeding days."
In that well-deserved tribute the historian, who shall do justice to
the battle of Gettysburg, will undoubtedly concur, pointing to
him as the individual to whom our glorious success was in a great
degree due. He was in the advance on the extreme left of the
army of the Potomac, and in command of the First Army Corps.
On Wednesday morning, July 1st, when pressing his corps forward
to meet and retard the progress of the enemy, whose position and
movements were beginning to be developed to him, he told one
of his aides, as they approached Gettysburg and examined the
face of the country, that Cemetery Hill must be held for our army
at all hazards ; that he would advance his corps rapidly to Semi-
nary Ridge, west of the town, and temporarily occupy that posi-
tion; that he would there engage the enemy, who was .advancing,
and delay his further progress, so as to give time for the whole
of the army of the Potomac to concentrate on Cemetery Hill
and the ridges running out either way from it ; that, if pressed
too hard, he would gradually fall back, contesting the ground step
by step, and, if necessary to delay the enemy, would fight from
house to house, through the town. He fell, the victim of a rebel
sharpshooter, so soon in the action of Wednesday morning, as
he was carrying out these designs, that but few persons are
cognizant of his real plans. When the facts are fully made known,
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history and an impartial world will accord to hint the highest
praise. His great foresight and brave conduct on that occasion
will forever endear him to those who love to worship at the shrine
of true patriotism. He was truely a soldier — always with his men
in the camp and in the field, sharing their hardships, toils and
dangers. He loved his profession, and devoted himself exclu-
sively to it ; and in the vigor of manhood he nobly laid down his
life, a sacrifice on his country's altar, on the soil of his native
State, at the head of his brave corps, that the rest of the army of
the Potomac might the more successfully reach the position of
his own selection for its defence. This place of his choice proved
to be the true position on which to meet and check the onward
march of the rebellious invaders.
Not doubting that you will take an interest in this confirmation
of the estimate placed by you on General Beynolds's services,
I remain, dear sir,
Yours, with great respect,
DAVID WILLS.
Boston, December 14, 18G3.
My Dear Sir : — I have this day received your letter of the 25th
of November, requesting, on behalf of the Governors of the sev-
eral States interested in the National Cemetery, a copy, for publi-
cation in a permanent form, of the address delivered by me at the
consecration. I shall have great pleasure in complying with this
request, the rather as it is proposed that the proceeds of the publi-
cation shall be added to the fund for the erection of a monument
to the raeniqry of the brave men whose remains are deposited in
the Cemetery.
You will be pleased to accept my thanks for the obliging manner
in which you spea"k of the historical portion of my Address. It
was, of course, impossible to compress within so small a compass
a narrative of the three eventful days, which should do exact jus-
tice to every incident or every individual. On some points, as in
most narratives of battles, the printed accounts, and even the offi-
cial reports, differ. In revising my address for publication in this
form, I shall correct one or two slight errors of the first draught'
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and take advantage of sources of information not originally acces-
sible.
I am much gratified with your concurrence with me in the esti-
mate I had formed of the character of General Reynolds, and of
his very important services in determining the entire fortunes of
this ever memorable battle.
I remain, dear sir, with great regard,
Very truly yours,
EDWARD EVERETT.
David Wills, Esq.,
Agent for the National Cemetery.
Head- Quarters Army oe the PotoMxVC, \
November 13, 1863. J
David Wtills, Esq.,
Agent for the Governor of Pennsylvania, etc.:
Sir: — I have the honor to acknowledge the invitation which,
on behalf of the Governor of Pennsylvania and other States in-
terested, you extend to me and the officers and men of my com-
mand, to he present on the 19th instant, at the consecration of the
burial place of those who fell on the field of Gettysburg.
It seems almost unnecessary for me to say that none can have
a deeper interest in your good work than comrades in arms,
bound in close ties of long association and mutual confidence and
support with those to whom you are paying this last tribute of
respect ; nor could the jjresence of any be more appropriate than
that of those who stood side by side in the struggle, shared the
peril, and the vacant places in whose ranks bear sad testimony to
the loss they have sustained. But this army has duties to per-
form which will not admit of its being represented on the occa-
sion; and it only remains for me in its name, with deep and grate-
ful feelings, to thank you and those you represent, for your tender
care of its heroic dead, and for your patriotic zeal, which, in hon-
oring the martyr, gives a fresh incentive to all who do battle for
the maintenance of the integrity of the government.
I am, very respectfully,
Your obedient servant,
GEORGE G. MEADE,
Major General Commanding.
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New York, November 19, 1863.
David Wills, Esq., Agent, etc.:
Dear Sir: — I have had the honor to receive your invitation,
on the part of the Governors of the loyal States, to be present at
the consecration of the Military Cemetery at Gettysburg this day.
Resides the determination, on account of infirmities, never again
to participate in any public meeting or entertainment, I was too
sick at the time to do more than write a short telegram in reply to
His Excellency, Governor Curtix.
Having long lived with, and participated in the hardships and
dangers of our soldiers, I can never fail to honor
"the brave who sink to rest,
By all their country's wishes blest."
None deserve this tribute from their countrymen, more than
those who have fallen in defence of the Constitution, and the
Union of the thirty-four United States.
I remain yours,
Most respectfully,
WINFIELD SCOTT.
Bordentown, 1ST. J., November 21, 1803.
My Dear Sir : — I regret extremely, that, in consequence of the
invitation you did me the honor to send me, remaining for several
days among the advertised letters in the Philadelphia post office, I
was not able to accept the same by appearing in person at the in-
teresting- consecration of the National Cemetery, at Gettysburg,
on the nineteenth of this month.
On an occasion so solemn, awakening every patriotic emotion
of the human heart, I cannot but deplore that I was not able to
be present, to shed a tear over the remains of those gallant men,
who gave back their lives to their God, in defence Of their country.
Accept for yourself, my dear sir, and be pleased to present to
the committee, my thanks for your kind invitation, and believe
me, with great respect,
Tour obedient servant,
CHABLES STEWART.
To David Wills, Esq, Agent, etc.
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Treasury Department, November 16, 1883.
Bear Sir : — It disappoints me greatly to find that imperative
public duties make it impossible for me to be present at the con-
secration of the grounds, selected as the last resting- place of the
soldiers, who fell in battle for their country at Gettysburg. It con-
soles me to think what tears of mingled grief and triumph will
fall upon their graves, and what benedictions of the country, saved
by their heroism, will make their memories sacred among men.
Very respectfully yours,
S. P. CHASE.
David Wills, Esq.,
Agent for the Governors of tlie Slates.
In the afternoon of the 18th, the President and the distinguish-
ed personages accompanying him, arrived at Gettysburg by a
special train. In the course of the evening, the President and
Secretary of State were serenaded, and the following remarks
were made by Mr. Seward, in response to the call : —
Fellow Citizens : — I am now sixty years old and upwards ;
I have been in public life practically forty years of that time, and
yet this is the first time that ever any people, or community, so
near to the border of Maryland, was found willing to listen to my
voice ; and the reason was that I saw, forty years ago, that sla-
very was opening before this people a graveyard that was to be
filled with brothers, falling in mutual political combat. I knew
that the cause that was hurrying the Union into this dreadful
strife was slavery ; and when, during all the intervening period, I
elevated my voice, it was to warn the people to remove that cause
while they could, by constitutional means, and so avert the catas-
trophe of civil war which has fallen upon the nation. I am thank-
ful that you are willing to hear me at last. I thank my God that
I believe this strife is going to end in the removal of that evil,
which ought to have been removed by deliberate councils and
peaceful means. (Good.) I thank my God for the hope that this
is the last fratricidal war which will fall upon the country which
is vouchsafed to us by Heaven, — the richest, the broadest, the
most beautiful, the most magnificent, and capable of a great des-
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tiny, that lias ever been given to any part of the human race.
(Applause.) And I thanls him for the hope that when that cause
is removed, simply by the operation of abolishing it, as the origin
and agent of the treason that is without justification, and with-
out parallel, we shall thenceforth be united, be only one country,
having only one hope, one ambition and one destiny. (Applause.)
To-morrow, at least, we shall feel that we are not enemies, but
that we are friends and brothers, that this Union is a reality, and
we shall mourn together for the evil wrought by this rebellion.
We are now near the graves of the misguided, whom we have
consigned to their last resting place, with pity for their errors, and
with the same heart full of grief with which we mourn over a
brother by whose hand, raised in defence of his government, that
misguided brother perished.
When we part to-morrow night, let us remember that we owe
it to our country and to mankind that this war shall have for its
conclusion the establishing of the principle of democratic govern-
ment— the simple principle that whatever party, whatever portion
of the community, prevails by constitutional suffrage in an elec-
tion, that party is to be respected and maintained in power until
it shall give place, on another trial and another verdict, to a dif-
ferent portion of the people. If you do not do this, you are drift-
ing at once and irresistibly to the very verge of universal, cheerless
and hopless anarchy. But with that principle this government of
ours — th e purest, the best, the wisest, and the happiest in the world —
must be, and, so far as we are concerned, practically will be, im-
mortal. (Cheers.) Fellow citizens, Good-night.
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ORDER OF PROCESSION
FOR THE
CONSECRATION OF THE NATIONAL CEMETERY AT GETTYSBURG, PA.
ON THE 19TH OF NOVEMBER, 18G3.
Military, under command of Major General Couch.
Major General Meade and Staff, and the Officers and Soldiers of
the Army of the Potomac.
Officers of the Navy and Marine Corps of the United States.
Aids. Chief Marshal. Aids.
PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES.
Members of the Cabinet.
Assistant Secretaries of the several Executive Departments.
General-in-chief of the Army, and Staff.
Lieutenant General Scott and Bear- Admiral Stewart.
Judges of the United States Supreme Court.
Hon. Edward Everett, Orator of the day, and the Chaplain.
Governors of the States, and their staffs.
Commissioners of the States on the Inauguration of the Cemetery.
Bearers with the Flags of the States.
VrcE President of the United States and Speaker of the House
of Representatives.
Members of the two houses of Congress.
Officers of the two houses of Congress.
Mayors of Cities.
Gettysburg Committee of Arrangements.
Officers and members of the United States Sanitary Commission.
Committees of different Religious Bodies.
United States Military Telegraphic Corps.
Officers and representatives of Adams Express Company.
Officers of different Telegraph Companies.
Hospital Corps of the Army.
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Soldiers' Belief Associations.
Knights Templar.
Masonic Fraternity.
Independent Order of Odd Fellows.
Other Benevolent Associations.
Literary, Scientific and Industrial Associations.
The Press.
Officers and Members of Loyal Leagues.
Fire Companies.
Citizens of the State of Pennsylvania.
Citizens of other States.
Citizens of the District of Columbia.
Citizens of the several Territories.
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PROGRAMME OF ARRANGEMENTS,
&KD ORDER OP EXERCISES FOR THE CONSECRATION OF THE NA-
TIONAL CEMETERY, AT GETTYSBURG, ON THE 19TH OF NOVEM-
BER, 186-3.
The military will form in Gettysburg at nine o'clock, A. M., on
-Carlisle street, north of the square, its right resting- on the square,
opposite M'Olellan's hotel, under the direction of Major General
Couch.
The State Marshals and Chief Marshal's aids will assemble in
the public square at the same hour.
All civic bodies, except the citizens of States, will assemble,
according to the foregoing printed programme, on York street, at
the same time.
The delegation of Pennsylvania citizens will form on Chambers-
burg street, its right resting on the square; and the other citizen
delegations, in their order, will form on the same street, in the
rear of the Pennsylvania delegation.
The Marshals of the States are charged with the duty of form-
ing their several delegations so that they will assume their appro-
priate positions when the main procession moves.
The head of the column will move at precisely ten o'clock,
A. M.
The route will be up Baltimore street to the Emmitsburg road;
thence to the junction of the Tanneytown road; thence, by the lat-
ter road, to the Cemetery, where the military will form in line, as
the General in command may order, for the purpose of saluting
the President of the United States.
The military will then close up and occupy the space on the
left of the stand.
The civic procession will advance and occupy the area in front
of the stand, the military leaving sufficient space between them
and the line of graves for the civic procession to pass.
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The ladies will occupy the right of the stand, and it is desirable
that they be upon the ground as early as ten o'clock, A. M.
The exercises will take place as soon as the military and civic
bodies are in position, as follows :
Music, by Birgfield's Band.
Prayer, by Eev. T. H. Stockton, D. D.
Music, by the Marine Band.
Oration, by Hon. Edward Everett.
Music, Hymn composed by B. B. French, Esq.
Dedicatory Remarks, by the President of the United States.
Dirge, sung by Ohoir selected for the occasion.
Benediction, by Eev. H. L. Batjgher, D. D.
After the benediction the procession will be dismissed, and the
State Marshals and special aids to the Chief Marshal, will form on
Baltimore street, and return to the court house in Gettysburg, where
a meeting of the Marshals will be held.
An appropriate salute will be fired in Gettysburg on the day of
the celebration, under the direction of Major General Couch,
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PRAYER OF REV. DR. STOCKTON.
O God our Father, for the sake of Thy Son our Saviour, inspire
us with Thy Spirit, and sanctify us to the right fulfilment of the
duties of this occasion.
We come to dedicate this new historic centre as a National
Cemetery. If all departments of the one government which Thou
hast ordained over our Union, and of the many governments which
Thou has subordinated to our Union, be here represented — if all
classes, relations, and interests of our blended brotherhood of
people stand severally and thoroughly apparent in Thy presence —
we trust that it is because Thou hast called us, that Thy blessing
awaits us, and that Thy designs may be embodied in practical re-
sults of incalculable and imperishable good.
And, so, with Thy holy Apostle, and with the Church of all
lands and ages, we unite in the ascription, "Blessed be God, even
the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies, and
the God of all comfort, who comforteth us in all our tribulation,
that we may be able to comfort them which are in any trouble, by
the comfort wherewith we ourselves are comforted of God."
In emulation of all angels, in fellowship with all saints, and in
sympathy with all sufferers, in remembrance of Thy works, in reve-
rence of Thy ways, and in accordance with Thy word, we laud
and magnify Thine infinite perfections, Thy creative glory, Thy
redeeming grace, Thy providential goodness, and the progressively
rich and fairer developments of Thy supreme, universal and ever-
lasting administration.
In behalf of all humanity, whose ideal is divine, whose first
memory is Thine image lost, and whose last hope is Thine image
restored, and especially of our own nation, whose history has been
so favored, whose position is so peerless, whose mission is so sub-
lime, and whose future is so attractive, we thank Thee for the un-
speakable patience of Thy compassion and the exceeding greatness
of Thy loving kindness. In contemplation of E len, Calvary, and
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Heaven, of Christ in the Garden, on the Cross, and on the Throne ;
nay, more, of Christ as coming again in all-subduing power and
glory, we gratefully prolong our homage. By this Altar of Sac-
rifice ; on this Field of Deliverence, on this Mount of Salvation,
within the fiery and bloody line of these "munitions of rocks," look-
ing back to the dark days of fear and trembling, and to the rapture
of relief that came after, we multiply our thanksgivings, and con-
fess our obligations to renew and perfect our personal and social
consecration to Thy service and glory.
Oh, had it not been for God ! For lo ! our enemies, they came un-
resisted, multitudinous, mighty, flushed with victory, and sure of
success. They exulted on our mountains, they revelled in our
valleys ; they feasted, they rested ; they slept, they awaked, they
grew stronger, prouder, bolder, every day ; they spread abroad, they
concentrated here ; they looked beyond this horizan to the stores of
wealth, to the haunts of pleasure, and to the seats of power in, our
capitol and chief cities. They prepared to cast a chain of Slavery
around the form of Freedom, binding life and death together for-
ever. Their premature triumph was the mockery of God and man.
One more victory, and all was theirs! But behind these hills
was heard the feebler march of a smaller, but still pursuing host.
Onward they hurried, day and night, for God and their country.
Foot-sore, wayworn, hungry, thirsty, faint — but not in heart — they
came to dare all, to bear all, and to do all that is possible to heroes.
And Thou didst sustain them 1 At first they met the blast on the
plain, and bent before it like the trees in a storm. But then, led
by Thy hand to these hills, they took their stand upon the rocks
and remained as firm and immovable as they. In vain were they
assaulted. All art, all violence, all desperation, failed to dislodge
them. Baffled, bruised, broken, their enemies recoiled, retired, and
disappeared. Glory to God for this rescue ! But oh, the slain !
In the freshness and fulness of their young and manly life, with
such sweet memories of father and mother, brother and sister, wife
and children, maiden and friends, they died for us. From the coasts
beneath the Eastern star, from the shores of Northern lakes and
rivers, from the flowers of western prairies, and from the homes
of the Midway and Border, they came here to die for us and for man-
kind. Alas, how little we can do for them! We come with the
humility of prayer, with the pathetic eloquence of venerable wisdom ,
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with the tender beauty of poetry, with the plaintive harmony of
music, with the honest tribute of our Chief Magistrate, and with
all this honorable attendance ; but our best hope is in thy blessing,
O Lord, our God ! O Father, bless us ! Bless the bereaved, whether
present or absent ; bless our sick and wounded soldiers and sailors ;
bless all our rulers and people ; bless our army and navy : bless
the efforts for the suppression of the rebellion ; and bless all the
associations of this day and place and scene forever. As the trees
are not dead though their foliage is gone, so our heroes are not
dead, though their forms have fallen. In their proper personality
they are all with Thee. And the spirit of their example is here. It
tills the air : it fills our hearts. And, long as time shall last, it will
hover in the skies and rest on this landscape ; and the pilgrims of
our own land, and from all lands, will thrill with its inspiration,
and increase and confirm their devotion to liberty, religion, and
God.
Our Father, who art in Heaven, Hallowed be Thy name. Thy
kingdom come. Thy will be done on earth as it is in Heaven.
Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our debts, as
we forgive our debtors. Lead us not into temptation, but deliver
us from evil. For Thine is the kingdom, the power, and the glory,
forever. Amen.
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ADDRESS OF HON. EDWARD EVERETT.
Standing beneath this serene sky, overlooking these broad fields
now reposing from the labors of the waning year, the mighty Al-
leghenies dimly towering before us, the graves of our brethern
beneath our feet, it is with hesitation that I raise my poor voice
to break the eloquent silence of God and Nature. But the duty
to which you have called me must be performed ; — grant me, I
pray you, your indulgence and your sympathy.
It was appointed by law in Athens, that the obsequies of the
citizens who fell in battle should be performed at the public ex-
pense, and in the most honorable manner. Their bones were
carefully gathered up from the funeral pyre, where their bodies
were consumed, and brought home to the city. There, for three
days before the interment, they lay in state, beneath tents of honor,
to receive the votive offerings of friends and relatives, — flowers,
weapons, precious ornaments, painted vases, (wonders of art,
which after two thousand years adorn the museums of modern
Europe,) — the last tributes of surviving affection. Ten coffins of
funeral cypress received the honorable deposit, one for each of the
tribes of the city, and an eleventh in memory of the unrecognized,
but not therefore unhonored, dead, and of those whose remains
could not be recovered. On the fourth day the mournful proces-
sion was formed ; mothers, wives, sisters, daughters led the way,
and to them it was permitted by the simplicity of ancient manners
to utter aloud their lamentations for the beloved and the lost ;
the male relatives and friends of the deseased followed; citizens
and strangers closed the train. Thus marshalled, they moved to
the place of interment in that famous Oeramicus, the most beau-
tiful suburb of Athens, which had been adorned by Oimon, the son
of Miltiades, with walks and fountains and columns, — whose groves
were filled with altars, shrines, and temples, — whose gardens were
kept forever green by the streams from the neighboring hills, and
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shaded with the trees sacred to Minerva and coeval with the foun-
dation of the city, — whose circuit enclosed
"the olive Grove of Academe,
Plato's retirement, where the Attic bird
Trilled his thick-warbled note the summer long,"—
whose pathways gleamed with the monuments of the illustrious
dead, the work of the most consummate masters that ever gave
life to marble. There, beneath the overarching plane-trees, upon a
lofty stage erected for the purpose, it was ordained that a funeral
oration should be pronounced by some citizen of Athens, in the
presence of the assembled multitude.
Such were the tokens of respect required to be paid at Athens
to the memory of those who had fallen in the cause of their country.
For those alone who fell at Marathon a special honor was reserved.
As the battle fought upon that immortal field was distinguished
from all others in Grecian history for its influence over the for-
tunes of Hellas, — as it depended upon the event of that day
whether Greece should live, a glory and a light to all coming time,
or should expire, like the meteor of a moment; so the honors
awarded to its martyr-heroes were such as were bestowed by Athens
on no other occasion. They alone of all her sons were entombed
upon the spot which they had forever rendered famous. Their
names were inscribed upon ten pillars, erected upon the monu-
mental tumulus which covered their ashes, (where after six hun-
dred years, they were read by the traveler Pausanias,) and al-
though the columns, beneath the hand of time and barbaric vio-
lence, have long since disappeared, the venerable mound still
jnarkes the spot where they fought and fell, —
"That battle-field where Persia's victim horde
First bowed beneath the brunt of Hellas' sword."
And shall I, fellow citizens, who, after an interval of twenty-
three centuries, a youthful pilgrim from the world unknown to
ancient Greece, have wandered over that illustrious plain, ready
-to put off the shoes from off my feet, as one that stands on holy
ground, — who have gazed with respectful emotion on the mound
which still protects the dust of those who rolled back the tide of
Persian invasion, and rescued the land of popular liberty, of let-
ters and of arts, from the ruthless foe, — stand unmoved over the
graves of our dear brethern, who so lately, on three of those all-
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important days which decide a nation's history,— days on whose
issue it depended whether this august republican Union, founded
by some of the wisest statesmen that ever lived, cemented with
the blood of some of the purest patriots that ever died, should
perish or endure, — rolled back the tide of an invasion, not less
unprovoked, not less ruthless, than that which came to plant the
dark banner of Asiatic despotism and slavery on the free soil of
Greece ? Heaven forbid ! And could I prove so insensible to
every prompting of patriotic duty and affection, not only would
you, fellow citizens, gathered many of you from distant States,
who have come to take part in these pious offices of gratitude —
you, respected fathers, brethern, matrons, sisters, wjio surround
me — cry out for shame, but the forms of brave and patriotic men,
who fill these honored graves, would heave with indignation be-
neath the sod.
We have assembled, Mends, fellow citizens, at the invitation of
the Executive of the great central State of Pennsylvania, seconded
by the Governors of seventeen other loyal States of the Union, to
pay the last tribute of respect to the brave men, who, in the hard-
fought battles of the first, second and third days of July last, laid
down their lives for the country on these hill sides and the plains
before us, and whose remains have been gathered into the Cemetery
which we consecrate this day. As my eye ranges over the fields
whose sods were so lately moistened by the blood of gallant and
loyal men, I feel, as never before, how truely it was said of old,
that it is sweet and becoming to die for one's country. I feel, as
never before, how justly, from the dawn of history to the present
time, men have paid the homage of their gratitude and admira-
tion to the memory of those who nobly sacrificed their lives, that
their fellow men may live in safety and in honor. And if this
tribute were ever due, when, to whom, could it be more justly
paid than to those whose last resting place we this day commend
to the blessing of Heaven and of men ?
For consider, my friends, what would have been the consequence
to the country, to yourselves, and to all you hold dear, if those
who sleep beneath our feet, and their gallant comrades who sur-
vive to serve their country on other fields of danger, had failed in
their duty on those memorable days. Consider what, at this mo-
ment, would be the condition of the United States, if that noble
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army of the Potomac, instead of gallantly and for the second
time beating back the tide of invasion from Maryland and Penn-
sylvania, had been itself driven from these well contested heights,
thrown back in confusion on Baltimore, or trampled down, dis
comfitted, scattered to the four winds. What, in that sad event,
would not have been the fate of the Monumental city, of Harris-
burg, of Philadelphia, of Washington, the capital of the Union,
each and every one of which would have lain at the mercy of the
enemy, accordingly as it might have pleased him, spurred by pas-
sion, flushed with victory, and confident of continued success, to
direct his course ?
For this we must bear in mind, it is one of the great lessons of
the war, indeed of every war, that it is impossible for a people
without military organization, inhabiting the cities, towns, and
villages of an open country, including, of course, the natural pro-
portion of non-combatants of either sex, and of every age, to
withstand the inroad of a veteran army. What defence can be
made by the inhabitants of a village mostly built of wood, of
cities unprotected by walls, nay, by a population of men, however
high toned and resolute, whose aged parents demand their care,
whose wives and children are clustering about them, against the
charge of the war-horse whose neck is clothed with thunder —
against flying artillery and batteries of rifled canon planted on
every commanding eminence — against the onset of trained vet-
erans led by skilful chiefs? No, my friends, ariny must be met by
army, battery by battery, squadron by squadron; and the shock
of organized thousands must be encountered by the firm breasts
and valiant arms of other thousands, as well organized and as
skilfully led. It is no reproach, therefore, to the unarmed popu-
lation of the country to say, that we owe it to the brave men who
sleep in their beds of honor before us, and to their gallant surviv-
ing associates, not merely that your fertile fields, my friends of
Pennsylvania and Maryland, were redeemed from the presence of
the invader, but that your beautiful capitals were not given up to
threatened plunder, perhaps laid in ashes, Washington seized by
the enemy, and a blow struck at the heart of the nation.
Who that hears me has forgotten the thrill of joy that ran through
the country on the 4th of July — auspicious day for the glorious
tidings, and rendered still more so by the simultaneous fall of
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Vicksbiirg — when the telegraph flashed through the land the as-
surance from the President of the United States that the army of
the Potomac, under General Meade, had again smitten the in-
vader? Sure I am, that, with the ascriptions of praise that rose
to Heaven from twenty millions of freemen, with the acknow-
ledgments that breathed from patriotic lips throughout the length
and breadth of America, to the surviving officers and men who had
rendered the country this inestimable service, there beat in every
loyal bosom a throb of tender and sorrowful gratitude to the
martyrs who had fallen on the sternly contested field. Let a na-
tion's fervent thanks make some amends for the toils and suffer-
ings of those who survive. Would that the heartfelt tribute could
penetrate these honored graves !
In order that we may comprehend, to their full extent, our ob-
ligations to the martyrs and surviving heroes of the army of the
Potomac, let us contemplate for a few moments the train of events,
which culminated in the battles of the first days of July. Of this
stupendous rebellion, planned, as its originators boast, more than
thirty years ago, matured and prepared for during an entire gene-
ration, finally commenced because, for the first time since the
adoption of the Constitution, an election of President had been
effected without the votes of the South, (which retained, however,
the control of the two other branches of the government,) the occu-
pation of the national capital, with the seizure of the public ar-
chives and of the treaties with foreign powers, was an essential
feature. This was, in substance, within my personal knowledge,
admitted, in the winter of 1860-61, by one of the most influential
leaders of the rebellion ; and it was fondly thought that this object
could be effected by a bold and sudden movement on the 4th of
March, 1861. There is abundant proof, also, that a darker project
was contemplated, if not by the responsible chiefs of the rebellion,
yet by nameless ruffians, willing to play a subsidary and murderous
part in the treasonable drama. It was accordingly maintained by
the Eebel emissaries in England, in the circles to which they found
access, that the new American Minister ought not, when he ar-
rived, to be received as the envoy of the United States, inasmuch
as before that time Washington would be captured, and the capi-
tal of the nation and the archives and muniments of the govern-
ment would be in possession of the Confederates. In full accord-
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ance also with this threat, it was declared, by the Eebel Secretary
of War, at Montgomery, in the presence of his Chief and of his
colleagues, and of five thousand hearers, while the tidings of the
assault on Sumter were traveling over the wires on the fatal 12th
of April, 1861, that before the end of May "the flag which then
flaunted the breeze," as he expressed it, "would float over the dome
of the Capitol at Washington."
At the time this threat was made, the rebellion was confined to
the cotton-growing States, and it was well understood by them,
that the only hope of drawing any of the other slaveholding States
into the conspiracy, was in bringing about a conflict of arms, and
"firing the heart of the South" by the effusion of blood. This
was declared by the Charleston press, to be the object for which
Sumter was to be assaulted ; and the emissaries sent from Eich-
mond. to urge on the unhallowed work, gave the promise, that,
with the first drop of blood that should be shed, Virginia would
place herself by the side of South Carolina.
In pursuance of this orignal plan of the leaders of the rebellion,
the capture of Washington has been continually had in view,
not merely for the sake of its public buildings, as the capital of
the Confederacy, but as the necessary preliminary to the absorption
of the border States, and for the moral effect in the eyes of Europe
of possessing the metropolis of the Union.
I allude to these facts, not perhaps enough borne in mind, as a
sufficient refutation of the pretence, on the part of the Eebels, that
the war is one of self-defence, waged for the right of self-govern-
ment. It is in reality, a war originally levied by ambitious men
in the cotton-growing States, for the purpose of drawing the slave-
holding border States into the vortex of the conspiracy, first by
sympathy — which, in the case of South-Eastern Virginia, North
Carolina, part of Tennessee and Arkansas, succeeded — and then
by force and for the purpose of subjugating Maryland, West Vir-
ginia, Kentucky, Eastern Tennessee and Missouri ; and it is a most
extraordinary fact, considering the clamors of the Eebel chiefs on
the subject of invasion, that not a soldier of the United States
has entered the States last named, except to defend their Union-
loving inhabitants from the armies and guerillas of the Eebels.
In conformity with these designs on the city of Washington, and
notwithstanding the disastrous results of the invasion of 1862, it
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was determined by the Rebel Government last summer to resume
the offensive in that direction. Unable to force the passage of the
Rappahannock, where General Hooker, notwithstanding the re-
verse at Chancellorsville, in May, was strongly posted, the Con-
federate general resorted to strategy. He had two objects in view.
The first was by a rapid movement northward, and by manoeuver-
ing with a portion of his army on the east side of the Blue Ridge,
to tempt Hooker from his base of operations, thus leading him to
uncover the approaches to Washington, to throw it open to a raid
by Stuart's cavalry, and to enable Lee himself to cross the Po-
tomac in the neighborhood of Poolesville and thus fall upon the
capital. This plan of operations was wholly frustrated. The de-
sign of the Rebel general was promptly discovered by General
Hooker, and, moving with great rapidity from Fredericksburg, he
preserved unbroken the inner line, and stationed the various corps
of his army at all the points protecting the approach to Washing-
ton, from Oentreville up to Leesburg. From this vantage-ground
the Rebel general in vain attempted to draw him. In the mean
time, by the vigorous operations of Pleasanton's cavalry, the
cavalry of Stuart, though greatly superior in numbers, was so
crippled as to be disabled from performing the part assigned it in
the campaign. In this manner, General Lee's first object, namely,
the defeat of Hooker's army on the south of the Potomac and
a direct march on Washington, was baffled.
The second part of the Confederate plan, which is supposed to
have been undertaken in opposition to the views of General Lee,
was to turn the demonstration northward into a real invasion of
Maryland and Pennsylvania, in the hope, that, in this way, Gen-
eral Hooker would be drawn to a distance from the capital, and
that some opportunity would occur of taking him at disadvantage,
and, after defeating his army, of making a descent upon Baltimore
and Washington. This part of General Lee's plan, which was
substantially the repetition of that of 1862, was not less signally
defeated, with what honor to the arms of the Union the heights
on which we are this day assembled will forever attest.
Much time had been uselessly consumed by the Rebel general
in his unavailing attempts to out-manoeuvre General Hooker.
Although General Lee broke up from Fredericksburg on the 3d of
SOLDIERS' NATIONAL CEMETERY. 205
June, it was not till the 24th that the main body of his army en-
tered Maryland. Instead of crossing the Potomac, as he had in-
tended, east of the BlueKidge, he was corbelled to doit at Shep-
herdstown and Williamsport, thus materially deranging his entire
plan of campaign north of the river. Stuart, who had been
sent with his cavalry to the east of the Blue Bidge, to guard the
passes of the mountains, to mask the movements of Lee, and to
harass the Union general in crossing the river, having been severely
handled by Pleasonton at Beverly Ford, Aldie, and Upperville,
instead of being able to retard General Hooker's advance, was
driven himself away from his connection with the army of Lee,
, and cut off for a fortnight from all communication with it — a cir-
cumstance to which General Lee, in his report, alludes more than
once, with evident displeasure. Let us now rapidly glance at the
incidents of the eventful campaign.
A detachment from Swell's corps, under Jenkins, had pene-
trated, on the 15th of June, as far as Chambersburg. This move-
ment was intended at first merely as a demonstration, and as a
marauding expedition for supplies. It had, however, the salutary
effect of alarming the country ; and vigorous preparations were
made, not only by the General Government, but here in Pennsyl-
vania and in the sister States, to repel the inroad. After two days
passed at Chambersburg, Jenkins, anxious for his communications
with Ewell, fell back with his plunder to Hagerstown. Here he
remained for several days, and then having swept the recesses of
the Cumberland valley, came down upon the eastern flank of the
South mountain, and pushed his marauding parties as far as
Waynesboro'. On the 22d, the remain der of Swell's corps crossed
the river and moved up the valley. They were followed on the
24th by Longstreet and Hill, who crossed at Williamsport and
Shepherdstown, and pushed up the valley, encamped at Chambers-
burg on the 27th. In this way the whole rebel army, estimated
at 90,000 infantry, upwards of 10,000 cavalry, and 4,000 or 5,000
artillery, making a total of 105,000 of all arms, was concentrated
in Pennsylvania.
Up to this time no report of Hooker's movements had been
received by General Lee, who, having been deprived of his cavalry,
had no means of obtaining information. Eightly judging, however,
that no time would be lost by the Union army in the pursuit, in
206 SOLDIERS5 NATIONAL CEMETERY.
order to detain it on the eastern side of the mountains in Mary-
land and Pennsylvania, and thus preserve his communication by
the way of Willianisport, he had, before his own arrival at Cham-
bersburg, directed Ewell to send detachments from his corps to
Carlisle and York. The latter detachment, under Early, passed
through this place on the 26th of June. You need not, fellow
citizens of Gettysburg, that I should re-call to you those moments
of alarm and distress, precursors as they were of the more trying
scenes which were so soon to follow.
As soon as Gen. Hooker preceived that the advance of the
Confederates into the Cumberland valley was not a mere feint to
draw him away from Washington, he moved rapidly in pursuit.
Attempts, as we have seen, were made to harass and retard his
passage across the Potomac. These attempts were not only alto-
gether unsuccessful, but were so unskilfully made as to place the
entire Federal army between the Cavalry of Stuart and the army
of Lee. While the latter was massed in the Cumberland valley,
Stuart was east of the mountains, with Hooker's army between,
and Gregg's cavalry in close pursuit. Stuart was accordingly
compelled to force a march northward, which was destitute of
strategical character, and which deprived his chief of all means
of obtaining intelligence.
Not a moment had been lost by General Hooker in the pur-
suit of Lee. The day after the Eebel army entered Maryland,
the Union army crossed the Potomac at Edward's Ferry, and by
the 28th of June lay between Harper's Ferry and Frederick. The
force of the enemy on that day was partly at Chambersburg, and
partly moving on the Cashtown road in the direction of Get-
tysburg, while the detachments from Ewell's corps, of which men-
tion has been made, had reached the Susquehanna opposite Har-
risburg and Columbia. That a great battle must soon be fought,
no one could doubt ; but in the apparent and perhaps real absence
of plan on the part of Lee, it was impossible to foretell the pre-
cise scene of the encounter. Wherever fought, consequences the
most momentous hung upon the result.
In this critical and anxious state of affairs, General Hooker
was relieved, and General Meade was summoned to the chief
command of the army. It appears to my unmilitary judgment to
SOLDIERS' NATIONAL CEMETERY. 207
reflect the highest credit upon him, upon his predecessor, and
upon the corps commanders of the army of the Potomac, that a
change could take place in the chief command of so large a force
on the eve of a general battle — the various corps necessarily-
moving on lines somewhat divergent, and all in ignorance of the
enemy's intended point of concentration — and that not an hour's
hesitation should ensue in the advance of any portion of the en-
tire army.
Having assumed the chief command on the 28th, General Meade
directed his left wing, under Beynolds, upon Emmitsburg, and
his right upon New Windsor, leaving General French with 11,000
men to protect the Baltimore and Ohio railroad, and convoy the
public property from Harper's Ferry to Washington. Buford's
cavalry was then at this place, and Kilpatrick's at Hanover,
where he encountered and defeated the rear of Stuart's cavalry,
who was roving the country in search of the main army of Lee.
On the Eebel side, Hill had reached Fayetteville on the Cash-
town road on the 28th, and was followed on the same road by
Longstreet on the 29th. The eastern side of the mountain, as
seen from Gettysburg, was lighted up at night by the camp-fires
of the enemy's advance, and the country swarmed with his foraging
parties. It was now too evident to be questioned, that the thun-
der-cloud, so long gathering blackness, would soon burst on some
part of the devoted vicinity of Gettysburg.
The 30th of June was a day of important preparation. At
half-past eleven o'clock in the morning, General Bueord passed
through Gettysburg, upon a reconnoissance in force, with his
cavalry, upon the Ohambersburg road. The information obtained
by him was immediately communicated to General Beynolds,
who was, in consequence, directed to occupy Gettysburg. That
gallant officer accordingly, with the First Corps, marched from
Emmitsburg to within six or seven miles of this place, and en-
canped on the right bank of Marsh's creek. Our right wing,
meantime, was moved to Manchester. On the same day the corps
of Hill and Loncstreet were pushed still further forward on
the Ohambersburg road, and distributed in the vicinity of Marsh's
creek, while a reconnoissance was made by the Confederate Gene-
ral Pettigrew up to a very short distance from this place. Thus
208 SOLDIERS' NATIONAL CEMETERY.
at nightfall, on the 30th of June, the greater part of the Rebel
force was concentrated in the immediate vicinity of two corps of
the Union army, the former refreshed by two days passed in com-
parative repose and deliberate preparation for the encounter, the
latter separated by a march of one or two days from their support-
ing corps, and doubtful at what precise point they were to expect
an attack.
And now the momentous day, a day to be forever remembered
in the annals of the country, arrived. Early in the morning, on
the 1st of July, the conflict began. I need not say that it would
be impossible for me to comprise, within the limits of the hour,
such a narrative as would do anything like full justice to the all-
important events of these three great days, or to the merit of the
brave officers and men, of every rank, of every arm of the service,
and of every loyal State, who bore their part in the tremendous
struggle— alike those who nobly sacrificed their lives for their
country, and those who survived, many of them scarred with
honorable wounds, the objects of our admiration and gratitude. — ■
The astonishingly minute, accurate, and graphic accounts con-
tained in the journals of the day, prepared from personal observa-
tion by reporters who witnessed the scenes, and often shared the
perils which they describe, and the highly valuable "notes" of Pro-
fessor Jacobs, of the University in this place, to which I am
greatly indebted, will abundantly supply the deficiency of my
necessarily too condensed statement.*
*Besides the sources of information mentioned in the test, I have been kindly favored
with a memorandum of the operations of the three days, drawn up for me by direction
of Major General Meade, (anticipating the promulgation of his official report,) by one
of his aids, Colonel Theodore Lyman, from whom, also, I have received other impor-
tant communications relative to the campaign. I have received very valuable docu-
ments relative to the battle from Major General Halleck, Commander-in-Chief of the
army, and have been much assisted in drawing up the sketch of the campaign, by the
detailed reports, kindly transmitted to me in manuscript from the Adjutant General's
office, of the movements of every corps of the army, for each day, after the breaking
up from Fredericksburg commenced. I have derived much assistance from Colonel
John B. Bachelder's oral explanations of his beautiful and minute drawing (about
to be engraved) of the field ,of the three days' struggle. With the information derived
from these sources, I have compared the statements in General Lee's official report of
the campaign, dated 31st July, 1863, a well-written article, purporting to be an account
of the three days' battle, in the Richmond Miqiiirer of the 22d of July, and the article
on "The Battle of Gettysburg and the Campaign of Pennsylvania," by an officer, ap-
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General Eeynolds, on arriving at Gettysburg', in the morning of
the 1st, found Bufoed with his cavalry warmly engaged with the
enemy, whom he held most gallantly in check. Hastening him-
self to the front, General Eeyxolds directed his men to be moved
over the fields from the Emmitsburg road, in front of M'Millan's
and Dr. Schmuckee's, under cover of the Seminary Eidge.—
Without a moment's hesitation, he attacked the enemy, at the same
time sending orders to the Eleventh Corps (General Howard's) to
advance as promptly as possible. General Eeyxolds immediately
found himself engaged with a force* which greatly outnumbered
his own, and had scarcely made his dispositions for the action
when he fell mortally wounded, at the head of his advance. —
The command of the First Corps devolved on General Dotjbleday,
and that of the field on General Howard, who arrived at 11.30,
with Schuez's and Baelow's divisions of the Eleventh Corps,
the latter of whom received a severe wound. Thus strengthened,
the advantage of the battle was for some time on our side. The
attacks of the Eebels were vigorously repulsed by Wadswoeth's
division of the First Corps, and a large number of prisoners, in-
cluding General Aechee, were captured. At length, however,
the continued reinforcement of the Confederates from the main
body in the neighborhood, and by the division of Eodes andEAELY,
coming down by separate lines from Heidlersberg and taking post
on our extreme right, turned the fortunes of the day. Our army,
value of the information contained in this last essay may be seen by comparing the
remark under date 27th June, that "private property is to be rigidly protected," with the
statement in the next sentence but one, that "all the cattle and farm horses having been
seized by Ewell, farm labor had come to a complete stand still." He, also, under
date of 4th July, speaks of Lee's retreat being encumbered by "Ewell's immense
train of plunder.'" This writer informs us, that, on the evening of the 4th of July, he
heard "reports coming in from the different Generals, that the enemy [Meade's army]
was retiring, and had been doing so all day long." At a consultation at head-quarters
on the 6th, between Generals Lee, Longstreet, Hill, and Wilcox, this writer was
told by some one, whose name he prudently leaves in blank, that the army had no in-
tention, at present, of retreating for good, and that some of the enemy's dispatches had
been intercepted, in which the following words occur: "The noble, but unfortunate
army of the Potomac has again been obliged to retreat before superior numbers!" He
does not appear to be aware, that in recording these wretched expedients, resorted to in
order to keep up the spirits of Lee's army, he furnishes the most camplete refutation
of his own account of its good condition. I much regret that General Meade's official
report was not published in season to enable me to take fuU advantage of it, in prepar-
ing the brief sketch of the battles of the three days contained in the address. It reached
me but the morning before it was sent to the press.
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210 SOLDIERS' NATIONAL CEMETERY.
after contesting' the ground for five hours, was obliged to yield to
the enemy, whose force outnumbered them two to one ; and to-
ward the close of the afternoon General Howard deemed it pru-
dent to withdraw the two corps to the heights where we are now
assembled. The greater part of the First Corps passed through
the outskirts of the town, and reached the hill without serious
loss or molestation. The Eleventh Corps and portions of the First,
not being aware that the enemy had already entered the town
from the north, attempted to force their way through Washington
and Baltimore streets, which, in the crowd and confusion of the
scene, they did with a heavy loss in prisoners. v
General Howard was not unprepared for this turn in the for-
tunes of the day. He had, in the course of the morning, caused
Cemetery Hill to be occupied by General Steinwehr, with the
Second division of the Eleventh Corps. About the time of the
withdrawal of our troops to the hill, General Hancock arrived,
having been sent by General Meade, on hearing of the death of
Eeynolds, to. assume the command of the field till he himself
could reach the front. In conjunction with General Howard,
General Hancock immediately proceeded to post the troops and
to repel an attack on our right flank. This attack was feebly made
and promptly repulsed. At nightfall, our troops on the hill, who
had so gallantly sustained themselves during the toil and peril of
the day, were cheered by the arrival of General SloCitm with the
Twelfth Corps and of General Sickles with a part of the Third.
Such was the fortunes of the first day, commencing with de-
cided success to our arms, followed by a check, but ending in the
occupation of this all-important position. To you, fellow citizens
of Gettysburg, I need not attempt to portray the anxieties of the
ensuing night. Witnessing, as you had done with sorrow, the
withdrawal of our army through your streets, with a considerable
loss of prisoners — mourning as you did over the brave men who
had fallen — shocked with the wide spread desolation around you,'
of which the wanton burning of the Harmon House had given
the signal — ignorant of the near approach of General Meade,
you passed the weary hours of the night in painful expectation.
Long before the dawn of the 2d of July, the new Commander-
in-Chief had reached the ever-memorable field of service and glory.
Having received intelligence of the events in progress, and in-
SOLDIERS' NATIONAL CEMETERY. 211
formed by the reports of Generals Hancock and Howard, of the
favorable 'eharacter of the positions, he determined to give battle
to the enemy at this point. He accordingly directed the remain-
ing corps of the army to concentrate at Gettysburg with all pos-
sible expedition, and breaking up his head-quarters at Taney-
town at ten P. M., he arrived at the front at one o'clock in the
morning of the 2d of July. Few were the moments given to sleep,
during the rapid watches of that brief midsummer's night, by officers
or men, though half of our troops were exhausted by the conflict
of the (lay, and the residue wearied by the forced marches which
had brought them to the rescue. The full moon, veiled by thin
clouds, shone down that night on a strangely unwonted scene.
The silence of the grave-yard was broken by the heavy tramp of
armed men, by the neigh of the war-horse, the harsh rattle of the
wheels of the artillery hurrying to their stations, and all the in-
describable tumult of preparation. The various corps of the army,
as they arrived, were moved to their positions, on the spot where
we are assembled and the ridges that extend south-east and south-
west j batteries were planted and breastworks thrown up. The
Second and Fifth Qorps, with the rest of the Thud, had reached
the ground by seven o'clock A. M. ; but it was not till two o'clock
in the afternoon that Sedgwick arrived with the Sixth Corps.
He had marched thirty-four miles since nine o'clock on the even-
ing before. It was only on his arrival that the Union army ap-
proached an equality of numbers with' that of the Rebels, who
were posted upon the opposite and parallel ridge, distant from a
mile to a mile and a half, overlapping our position on either wing,
and probably exceeding by ten thousand the arrny of General
Meade.*
And here I cannot but remark on the providential inaction of
the Eebel army. Had the contest been renewed by it at day-
light on the 2d of July, with the First and Eleventh Corps ex-
hausted by the battle and the retreat, the Third and Twelfth weary
from their forced march, and the Second, Fifth and Sixth not yet
*ln the Address as originally prepared, judging from the best sources of information
then within my reach, I assumed the equality of the two armies on the 2d and 3d of
July. Subsequent inquiry has led me to think that I underrated somewhat the strength
of Lee's force at Gettysburg, and I have corrected the text accordingly. General
Halleck, however, in his official report accompanying the President's messages, states
the armies to have been equal.
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arrived, nothing but a miracle conlcl have saved the army from a
great disaster. Instead of this, the day dawned, the sirn rose, the
cool hours of the morning passed, the forenoon and a considerable
part of the afternoon wore away, without the slightest aggressive
movement on the part of the enemy. Thus time was given for
half of our forces to arrive and take their place in the lines, while
the rest of the army enjoyed a much needed half day's repose.
At length, between three and four o'clock in the afternoon, the
work of death began. A signal gun from the hostile batteries was
followed by a tremendous cannonade along the Rebel lines, and
this by a heavy advance of infantry, brigade after brigade, com-
mencing on the enemy's right against the left of our army, and
so onward to the left centre, A forward movement of General
Sickles, to gain a commanding position from which to repel the
Bebel attack, drew upon him a destructive fire from the enemy's
batteries, and a furious assault from Loxgstreet's and Hill's
advancing troops. After a brave resistance on the part of his corps
he was forced back, himself falling severely wounded. This was
the critical moment of the second day ; but the Fifth and part of
the Sixth Corps, with portions of the First and Second, were
promptly brought to the support of the Third. The struggle was
fierce and murderous, but by sunset our success was decisive, and
the enemy was driven, back in confusion. The most important
service was rendered towards the close of the day, in the memo-
rable advance between Bound Top and Little Bound Top, by Gen-
eral Crawford's division of the Fifth Corps, consisting of two
brigades of the Pennsylvania Beserves, of which one company
was from this town and neighborhood. The Bebel force was driven
back with great loss in killed and prisoners. At eight o'clock in
the evening a desperate attempt was made by the enemy to storm
the position of the Eleventh Corps on Cemetery Hill ; but here,
too, after a terrible conflict, he was repulsed with immense loss.
Ewell, on our extreme right, which had been weakened by the
withdrawal of the troops sent over to support our left, had suc-
ceeded in gaining a foothold within a portion of our lines, near
Spangler's spring. This was the only advantage obtained by the
Bebels to compensate them for the disasters of the day, and of
this, as we shall see, they were soon deprived.
Such was the result of the second act of this eventful drama, —
SOLDIERS' NATIONAL CEMETERY. 21 3
a day hard fought, and at one moment anxious, but, with the ex-
ception of the slight reverse just named, crowned with dearly
earned but uniform success to our arms, auspicious of a glorious
termination of the final struggle. On these good omens the night
fell.
In the course of the night, General Geary returned to his po-
sition on the right, from which he had hastened the day before to
strengthen the Third Corps, He immediately engaged the enemy,
and, after a sharp and decisive action, drove them out of our lines,
recovering the ground which had been lost on the preceding day.
A spirited contest was kept up all the morning on this part of the
line : but General Geary, reinforced by Wheaton's brigade of
the Sixth Corps, maintained his position, and inflicted very severe
losses on the'Bebels.
Such was the cheering commencement of the third day's work,
and with it ended all serious attempts of the enemy on our right.
As on the preceding day, his efforts were now mainly directed
against our left centre and left wing. From eleven till half-past
one o'clock, all was still — a solemn pause of preparation, as if both
armies were nerving themselves for the supreme effort. At length
the awful silence, more terrible than the wildest tumult of battle,
was broken by the roar of two hundred and fifty pieces of artil-
lery from the opposite ridges, joining in a eannonade of unsurpassed
violence — the Rebel batteries along two-thirds of their line pouring
their fire upon Cemetery Hill, and the centre and left wing of our
army. Having attempted in this way for two hours, but without
success, to shake the steadiness of our lines, the enemy rallied
his forces for a last grand assault. Their attack was principally
directed against the position of our Second Corps. Successive
lines of Rebel infantry moved forward with equal spirit and steadi-
ness from their cover on the wooded erest of Seminary Eidge,
crossing the intervening plain, and, supported right and left by
their choicest brigades, charged furiously up to our batteries.
Our own brave troops of the Second Corps, supported by Double-
day's division and Stannard's brigade of the First, received the
shock with firmness; the ground on both sides was long and fiercely
contested, and was covered with the killed and the wounded ; the
tide of battle flowed and ebbed across the plain, till, after "a de-
termined and gallant struggle," as it is pronounced by general
214 SOLDIERS' NATIONAL CEMETERY.
Lee, the Kebel advance, consisting of two-thirds of Hill's corps,
and the ~whole of Long-street's — including Pickett's division,
the elite of his corps, which had not yet been under fire,' and was
now depended upon to decide the fortune of this last eventful
day — was driven back with prodigious slaughter, discomfitted and
broken. While these events were in progress at our left centre,
the enemy was driven, with a considerable loss of prisoners, from
a strong position on our extreme left, from which he was annoying
our forces on Little Bound Top. In the terrific assault on our
centre, Generals Hancock and Gibbon were wounded. In the
Eebel army, Generals Armistead, Kemper, Pettigrew, and
Trimble were wounded, the first named mortally, the latter also
made prisoner, General Garrett was killed, and thirty-five hun-
dred officers and men made prisoners.
These were the expiring agonies of the three days' conflict, and
with them the battle ceased. It was fought by the Union army
with courage and skill, from the first cavalry skirmish on Wed-
nesday morning, to the fearful route of the enemy on Friday
afternoon, by every arm and every rank of the service, by officers
and men, by cavalry, artillery, and infantry. The superiority of
numbers was with the enemy, who were led by the ablest com-
manders in their service ; and if the Union force had the advantage
of a strong position, the Confederates had that of choosing time
and place, the prestige of former victories over the army of the
Potomac, and of the success of the first day. Victory does not
always fall to the lot of those who deserve it; but that so decisive
a triumph, under circumstances like these, was gained by our troops,
I would ascribe, under Providence, to the spirit of exalted pat-
riotism that animated them, atid the consciousness that they were
fighting in a righteous cause.
All hope of defeating our army, and securing what General
Lee calls "the valuable results" of such an achievement, having
vanished, he thouglit only of rescuing from destruction the re-
mains of his shattered forces. In killed, wounded and missing.,
he had, as far as can be ascertained, suffered a loss of about 37,-
000 men — rather more than a third of the army with which he is
supposed to have marched into Pennsylvania. Perceiving that
Ms only safety was in rapid retreat, he commenced withdrawing
his troops at daybreak on the 4th, throwing up field works in fr©nt
SOLDIERS' NATIONAL CEMETERY. 215
of our left, which, assuming the appearance of a new position,
were intended probably to protect the rear of his army in their
retreat. That day — sad celebration of the 4th of July for an army
of Americans — was passed by him in hurrying off his trains. By
nightfall, the main army was in full retreat upon the Oashtown
and Fairfield roads, and it moved with such precipitation, that,
short as the nights were, by day-light the following morning, not-
withstanding a heavy rain, the rear guard had left its position.
The struggle of the last two days resembled, in many respects,
the battle of Waterloo; and if, in the evening of the third day,
General Meade, like the Duke of Wellington, had had the as-
sistance of a powerful auxiliary army to take up the pursuit, the
route of the Rebels would have been as complete as that of Napo-
leon.
Owing to the circumstances just named, the intentions of the
enemy were not apparent on the 4th. The moment his retreat
was discovered, the following morning, he was pursued by our
cavalry on the Oashtown road and through the Emmitsburg and
Monterey passes, and by Sedgwick's corps on the Fairfield road.
His rear guard was briskly attacked at Fairfield ; a great number
of wagons and ambulances were captured in the passes of the moun-
tains ; the country swarmed with his stragglers, and his wounded
were literally emptied from the vehicles containing them into the
farm houses on the road. General Lee, in his report, makes re-
peated mention of the Union prisoners whom he conveyed into
Virginia, somewhat overstating their number. He states, also,
that "such of his wounded that were in a condition to be removed,"
were forwarded to Williamsport. He does not mention that the
number of his wounded not removed, and left to the Christian
care of the victors, was 7,540, not one Of whom failed of any at-
tention which it was possible, under the circumstances of the case,
to afford them, not one of whom, certainly, has been put upon
Libby prison fare — lingerin g death by starvation. Heaven forbid,
however, that we should claim any merit for the exercise of com-
mon humanity.
Under the protection of the mountain ridge, whose narrow
passes are easily held even by a retreating army, General Lee
reached Williamsport in safety, and took up a strong position
opposite to that place. General Meade necessarily pursued with
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the main army by a flank movement through Middletown, Turner's
Pass having been secured by General French. Passing through
the South mountain, the Union army came up with that of the
Eebels on the 12th, and found it securely posted on the heights
of Marsh run. The position was reconnoitred, and preparations
made for an attack on the 13th. The depth of the river, swollen
by the recent rains, authorized the expectation that the enemy
would be brought to a general engagement the following day.
An advance was accordingly made by General Meade on the
morning of the 14th ; but it was soon found that the Eebels had
escaped in the night, with such haste that Ewell's corps forded
the river where the water was breast-high. The cavalry, which
had rendered the most important service during the three days,
and in harrassing the enemy's retre at, was now sent in pursuit,
and captured two guns and a large number of prisoners. In an
action which took place at Falling Waters, Gen. Pettigrew was
mortally wounded. General Meade, in further pursuit of the
Eebels, crossed the Potomac at Berlin. Thus again covering the
approaches to Washington, he compelled the enemy to pass the
Blue Eidge at one of the upper gags ; and in about six weeks from
the commencement of the campaign, General Lee found himself
again on the south side of the Eappahannock, with the probable
loss of about a third part of his army.
Such, most inadequately recounted, is the history of the ever-
memorable three days, and of the events immediately preceding
and following. It has been pretended, in order to diminish the
magnitude of this disaster to the Eebe] cause, that it was merely
the repulse of an attack on a strongly defended position. The
tremendous losses on both sides are a sufficient answer to this
misrepresentation, and attest the courage and obstinacy with which
the three days' battle was waged. Few of the great conflicts ot>
modern times have cost victors and vanquished so great a sacrifice.
On the Union side there fell, in the whole campaign, of generals
killed, Eeynolds, Weed and Zook, and wounded, Barlow,
Barnes, Butterfield, Doubled ay, Gibbon, Graham, Hancock,
Sickles and Warren ; while of officers below the rank of Gen-
eral, and men, there were 2,834 killed, 13,709 wounded, and 6,643
missing. On the Confederate side, there were killed on the field
or mortally wounded, Generals Armistead, Barksdale, Garnett,
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Pender, Pettigrew and Semmes, and wounded, Hetii, Hood,
Johnson, Kemper, Kimball and Trimble. Of officers below
the rank of general, and men, there were taken prisoners, includ-
ing the wounded, 13,G21, an amount ascertained officially. Of
the wounded in a condition to be removed, of the killed and the
missing, the enemy has made no return. They are estimated,
from the best data which the nature of the case admits, at 23,000.
General Meade also captured 3 cannon, and 41 standards ; and
21,978 small arms were collected on the battle-field.
I must leave to others, who can do it from personal observation,
to describe the mournful spectacle presented by these hill-sides
and planes at the close of the terrible conflict. It was a saying
of the Duke of Wellington, that next to a defeat, the saddest
thing was a victory. The horrors of the battle field, after the
contest is over, the sights and sounds of woe, — let me throw a pall
over the scene, which no words can adequately depict to those
who have not witnessed it, on which no one who has witnessed it,
and who has a heart in his bosom, can bear to dwell. One drop
of balm alone, one drop of heavenly, life-giving balm, mingles in
this bitter cup of misery. Scarcely has the cannon ceased to roar,
when the brethren and sisters of Christian benevolence, ministers
of compassion, angles of pity, hasten to the field and the hos-
pital, to moisten the parched tongue, to bind the ghastly wounds,
to soothe the parting agonies alike of friend and foe, and to catch
the last whispered message of love from dying lips. "Carry this
miniature back to my dear wife, but do not take it from my bosom
till I am gone." "Tell my little sister not to grieve for me ; I am
willing to die for my country." "Oh, that my mother were here !"
When, since Aaron stood between the living and the dead, was
there ever so gracious a ministry as this ? It has been said that
it is a characteristic of Americans to treat woman with a defer-
ence not paid to them in any other country. I will not undertake
to say whether this is so ; but I will say, that since this terrible
war has been waged, the woman of the loyal States, if never be-
fore, have entitled themselves to our highest admiration and grati-
tude,— alike those who at home, often with fingers unused to the
toil, often bowed beneath their own domestic cares, have perform-
ed an amount of daily labor not exceeded by those who work for
their daily bread, and those who, in the hospital and the tents of
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the Sanitary and Christian Commissions, have rendered services
which millions could not buy. Happily, the labor and the service
are their own reward. Thousands of matrons and thousands of
maidens have experienced a delight in their homely toils and ser-
vices, compared with which the pleasures of the ball room and the
opera house are tame and unsatisfactory. This, on earth, is reward
enough, but a richer is in store for them. Yes, brothers, sisters of
charity, while you bind up the wounds of the poor sufferers — the
humblest, perhaps, that have shed their blood for the country —
forget not Who it is that will hereafter say to you, "Inasmuch as
ye have done it unto one of the lea'st of these my brethren, ye
have done it unto me."
And now, friends, fellow citizens, as we stand among these
honored graves, the momentous question presents itself: AYhich
of the two parties to the war is responsible for all this suffering,
for this dreadful sacrifice of life, the lawful and constitutional
government of the United States, or the ambitious men who have
rebelled against it? I say "rebelled" against it, although Earl
Bussell, the British Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, in
his recent temperate and conciliatory speech in Scotland, seems to
intimate that no prejudice ought to attach to that word, inasmuch
as our English forefathers rebelled against Charles I. and James
II. , an d our American fathers rebelled against George III. These,
certainly, are venerable precedents, but they prove only that it is
just and proper to rebel against oppressive governments. They
do not prove that it is just and proper for the son of James II. to
rebel against George L, or his grand-son Charles Edward to
rebel against George II. ; nor, as it seems to me, ought these
dynastic struggles, little better than family quarrels, to be com-
pared with this monstrous conspiracy against the American Union.
These precedents do not prove that it was just and proper for the
"disappointed great men" of the cotton-growing States to rebel
against "the most beneficent government of which history gives
us any account,"' as the Vice President of the Confederacy, in
November, 18(50, charged them with doing. They do not create
a presumption even in favor of the disloyal slaveholders of the
South, who, living under a government of which Mr. Jefferson
Davis, in the session of 1860-61, said that it "was the best govern-
ment ever instituted by man, unexceptionably administered, and
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under which the people have been prosperous beyond comparison
with any other people whose career has been recorded in history,"
rebelled against it because their aspiring politicians, himself among
the rest, were in danger of losing their monopoly of its offices.
What would have been thought by an impartial posterity of the
American rebellion against George III., if the colonists had at
all times been more than equally represented in parliament, and
James Otis, and Patrick Henry, and Washington, and Frank-
lin, and the Adamses, and Hancock, and Jefferson, and men
of their stamp, had for two generations enjoyed the confidence
of the sovereign and administered the government of the empire?
What would have been thought of the rebellion against Charles
I., if Cromwell, and the men of his school, had been the respon-
sible advisers of that prince from his accession to the throne, and
then, on account of a partial change in the ministry, had brought
his head to the block, and involved the country in a desolating
war, for the sake of dismembering it and establishing a new govern-
ment south of the Trent? What would have been thought of the
Whigs of 1688, if they had themselves composed the cabinet of
James II., and been the advisers of the measures and the promo-
ters of the policy which drove him into exile? The puritans of
1640, and the Whigs of 1688, rebelled against arbitrary power in
order to establish constitutional liberty. If they had risen against
Charles and James because those monarchs favored equal rights,
and in order themselves, ''for the first time in the history of the
world," to establish an oligarchy ''founded on the corner-stone of
slavery," they would truly have furnished a precedent for the
Eebels of the South, but their cause would not have been sus-
tained by the eloquence of Pym, or of Somers, nor sealed with
the blood of Hampden or Eussell.
I call the war which the Confederates are waging against the
Union a "rebellion," because it is one, and in grave matters it is
best to call things by their right names. I speak of it as a crime,
because the Constitution of the United States so regards it, and
puts "rebellion" on a par with "invasion." The Constitution
and law not only of England, but of every civilized country, re-
gard them in the same light ; or rather they consider the rebel in
arms as far worse than the alien enemy. To levy war against
the United States is the constitutional definition of treason, and
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that crime is by every civilized government regarded as the highest
which citizen or subject can commit. Not content with the sanc-
tions of human justice, of all the crimes against the law of the
land it is singled out for the denunciations of religion. The lit-
anies of every church in Christendom whose ritual embraces that
office, as far as I am aware, from the metropolitan cathedrals of
Europe to the humblest missionary chapel in the islands of the sea,
concur with the Church of England in imploring the Sovereign
of the Universe, by the most awful adjurations which the heart
of man can conceive or his tongue utter, to deliver us from ''se-
dition, privy conspiracy and rebellion." And reason good; for
while a rebellion against tyranny — a rebellion designed, after
prostrating arbitrary power, to establish free government on the
basis of justice and truth — is an enterprise on which good men and
angels may look with complacency, an unprovoked rebellion of
ambitious men against a beneficent government, for the purpose —
the avowed purpose — of establishing, extending and perpetuating
any form of injustice and wrong, is an imitation on earth of that
first foul revolt of "the Infernal Serpent," against which the Su-
preme Majesty of Heaven sent forth the armed myriads of his
angels, and clothed the right arm of his Son with the three-bolted
thunders of omnipotence.
Lord Bacon, in "the true marshalling of the sovereign degrees
of honor," assigns the first place to "the Conditores Imperiorum,
founders of States and Commonwealths ;" and, truly, to build up
from the discordant elements of our nature, the passions, the in-
terests and the opinions of the individual man, the rivalries of
family, clan and tribe, the influences of climate and geographical
position, the accidents of peace and war, accumulated for ages —
to build up from these oftentimes warring elements a well-com-
pacted, prosperous and powerful State, if it were to be accom-
plished by one effort or in one generation, would require a more
than mortal skill. To contribute in some notable degree to this,
the greatest work of man, by wise and patriotic council in peace
and loyal heroism in war, is as high as human merit can well rise,
and far more than to any of those to whom Bacon assigns the
highest place of honor, whose names can hardly be repeated with-
out a wondering smile — Romulus, Cyrus, Cesar, Ottoman,
Ismael — is it due to our Washington, as the founder of the Ameri-
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can Union. But if to achieve or help to achieve this greatest
work of man's wisdom and virtne gives title to a place among
the chief benefactors, rightful heirs of the benedictions, of man-
kind, by equal reason shall the bold, bad men who seek to undo
the noble work, JSversores Imperiorum, destroyers of States, who
for base and selfish ends rebel against beneficent governments,
seek to overturn wise constitutions, to lay powerful republican
Unions at the foot of foreign thrones, to bring on civil and foreign
war, anarchy at home, dictation abroad, desolation, ruin — by equal
reason, I say, yes, a thousandfold stronger shall they inherit the
execrations of the ages.
But to hide the deformity of the crime under the cloak of that
sophistry which strives to make the worse appear the better reason,
we are told by the leaders of the Eebellion that in our complex
system of government the separate States are "sovereigns," and
that the central power is only an "agency" established by these
sovereigns to manage certain little affairs — such, forsooth, as Peace,
War, Army, Navy, Finance, Territory, and Eelations with the na-
tive tribes — which they could not so conveniently administer them-
selves. It happens, unfortunately for this theory, that the Federal
Constitution (which has been adopted by the people of every
State of the Union as much as their own State constitutions have
been adopted, and is declared to be paramount to them) nowhere
recognizes the States as "sovereigns" — in fact, that, by their names,
it does not recognize them at all ; while the authority established
by that instrument is recognized, in its text, not as an ''agency,"
but as "the Government of the United States." By that Consti-
tution, moreover, which purports in its preamble to be ordained
and established by "the People of the United States," it is ex-
pressly provided, that "the members of the State legislatures, and
all executive and judicial officers, shall be bound by oath or affir-
mation to support the Constitution." Now it is a common thing,
under all governments, for an agent to be bound by oath to be
faithful to his sovereign ; but I never heard before of sovereigns
being bound by oath to be faithful to their agency.
Certainly, I do not deny that the separate States are clothed
with sovereign powers for the administration of local affairs. It
is one of the most beautiful features of our mixed system of gov-
ernment ; but it is equally true, that, in adopting the Federal Con-
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stitution, the States abdicated, by express renunciation, all the
most important functions of national sovereignty, and, by one
comprehensive, self-denying clause, gave up all right to contra-
vene the Constitution of the United States. Specifically, and by-
enumeration, they renounced all the niost important prerogatives of
independent States for peace and for war, — the right to keep trpops
or slnps of war in time of peace, or to engage in war unless ac-
tually invaded ; to enter into compact with another State or a for-
eign power ; to lay any duty on tonnage, or any impost on exports
or imports, without the consent of Congress ; to enter into any
treaty, alliance, or confederation ; to grant letters of marque and
reprisal, and to emit bills of credit — while all these powers and
many others are expressly vested in the General Government. To
ascribe to political communities, thus limited in their jurisdiction —
who cannot even establish a post office on their own soil — the
character of independent sovereignty, and to reduce a national
organization, clothed with all the transcendent powers of govern-
ment, to the name and condition of an "agency" of the States,
proves nothing but that the logic of secession is on a par with its
loyalty a,nd patrotisin.
Oh, but ' 'the reserved rights ! " And what of the reserved rights ?
The tenth amendment of the Constitution, supposed to provide
for "reserved rights," is constantly misquoted. By that amend-
ment, "the powers not delegated to the United States by the Con-
stitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the
States respectively, or to the people." The "powers" reserved
must of course be such as coukl have been, but were not delegated
to the United States, — could have been, but were not prohibited
to the States ; but to speak of the right of an individual State to
secede, as a poiver that could have been, though it was not dele-
gated to the United States, is simple nonsense.
But waiving this obvious absurdity, can it need a serious argu-
ment to prove that there can be no State right to enter into a new
confederation reserved under a constitution which expressly pro-
hibits a State to "enter into any treaty, alliance, or confedera-
tion," or any "agreement or compact with another State or a for-
eign power !" To say that the State may, by enacting the per-
liminary farce of secession, acquire the right to do the prohibited
things — to say, for instance, that though the States, in forming
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the Constitution, delegated to the United States and prohibited
to themselves the power of declaring war, there was by implica-
tion reserved to each State the right of seceding and then declar-
ing war ; that, though they expressly prohibited to the Spates and
delegated to the United States the entire treaty-making power,
they reserved by implication (for an express reservation is not
pretended) to the individual States, to Florida, for instance, the
right to secede, and then to make a treaty with Spain retroeeding
that Spanish colony, and thus surrendering to a foreign power the
key to the Gulf of Mexico, — to maintain propositions like these,
with whatever affected seriousness it is done, appears to me egre-
gious trifling.
Pardon me, my friends, for dwelling on these wretched* sophis-
tries. But it is these which conducted the armed hosts of rebel-
lion to your doors on the terrible and glorious days of July, and
which have brought upon the whole land the scourge of an aggres-
sive and wicked war — a war which can have no other termination
compatible with the permanent safety and welfare of the country,
but the complete destruction of the military power of the enemy.
I have, on other occasions, attempted to show that to yield to his
demands and acknowledge his independence, thus resolving the
Union at once into two hostile governments, with a certainty of
further disintegration, would annihilate the strength and the in-
fluence of the country as a member of the family of nations;
afford to foreign powers the opportunity and the temptation for hu-
miliating and disasterous interference in our affairs: wrest from
the Middle and Western States some of their great natural out-
lets to the sea, and of their most important lines of internal com-
munication ; deprive the commerce and navigation of the country
of two-thirds of our sea coast and of the fortresses which protect
it ; not only so, but would enable each individual State — some of
them with a white population equal to a good sized Northern
county — or rather the dominant party in each State, to cede its
territory, its harbors, its fortresses, the mouths of its rivers, to any
foreign power. It cannot be that the people of the loyal States —
that twenty-two millions of brave and prosperous freemen — will,
for the temptation of a brief truce in an eternal border war, con-
sent to this hideous national suicide.
Do not think that I exaggerate the consequences of yielding to
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the demands of the leaders of the rebellion. I understate theni.
They require of us not only all the sacrifices I have named, not
only the cession to them, a foreign and hostile power, of all the
territory of the United States at present occupied by the Eebel
forces, but the abandonment to them of the vast regions we have
rescued from their grasp — of Maryland, of a part of Eastern Vir-
ginia; and the whole of Western Virginia ; the sea coast of North
and South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida ; Kentucky, Tennessee,
and Missouri ; Arkansas, and the larger portion of Mississippi,
Louisiana, and Texas — in most of which, with the exception of
lawless guerillas, there is not a Eebel in arms, in all of which the
great majority of the people are loyal to the Union. We must give
back, too, the helpless colored population, thousands of whom are
perilling their lives in the ranks of our armies, to a bondage ren-
dered tenfold more bitter by the momentary enjoyment of free-
dom. Finally, we must surrender every man in the Southern
country, white or black, who has moved a finger or spoken a word
for the restoration of the Union, to a reign of terror as remorseless
as that of Eobespierre, which has been the chief instrument by
which the Eebellion has been organized and sustained, and which
has already filled the prisons of the South with noble men, whose
only crime is that they are not the worst of criminals. The South
is full of such men. I do not believe there has been a day since
the election of President Lentcolx, when, if an ordinance of seces-
sion could have been fairly submitted, after a free discussion, to
the mass of the people in any single Southern State, a majority
of ballots would have been given in its favor. No, not in South
Carolina. It is not possible that the majority of the people, even
of that State, if permitted, without fear or favor, to give a ballot
on the question, would have abandoned a leader like Petigetj,
and all the memories of the Gadsdens, the Eutledges, and the
Coteswoteh Pestcejseys of the revolutionary and constitutional
age, to follow the agitators of the present day.
ISTor must we be deterred from the vigorous prosecution of the
war by the suggestion, continually thrown out by the Eebels and
those who sympathize with them, that, however it might have
been at an earlier stage, there has tyeen engendered by the opera-
tions of the war a state of exasperation and bitterness which, in-
dependent of all "reference to the original nature of the matters
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in controversy, will forever prevent the restoration of the Union,
and the return of harmony between the two great sections of the
country. This opinion I take to be entirely without foundation.
No man can deplore more than I do the miseries of every kind
unavoidably incident to war. Who could stand on this spot and
call to mind the scenes of the first day of July with any other
feeling *? A sad foreboding of what would ensue, if war should
break out .between North and South, has haunted me through life,
and led me, perhaps too long, to tread in the path of hopeless
compromise, in the fond endeavor to concilitate those who were
predetermined not to be concilitated. But it is not true, as is pre-
tended by the Eebels and their sympathizers, that the war has
been carried on by the United States without entire regard to
those temperaments which are enjoined by the law of nations,
by our modern civilization, and by the spirit of Christianity. It
would be quite easy to point out, in the recent military history of
the leading European powers, acts of violence and cruelty, in the
prosecution of their wars, to which no parallel can be found among
us. In fact, when we consider the peculiar bitterness with which
civil wars are almost invariably waged, we may justly boast
of the manner in which the United States have carried on the
contest. It is of course impossible to prevent the lawless acts of
stragglers and deserters, or the occasional unwarrantable proceed-
ings of subordinates on distant stations; but I do not believe
there is, in all history, the record of a civil war of such gigantic
dimensions where so little has been done in the spirit of vindic-
tiveness as in this war, by the government and commanders
of the United States ; and this notwithstanding the provocation
given by the Rebel Government by assuming the responsibility of
wretches like Quantrell, refusing quarter to colored troops and
scourging and selling into slavery free colored men from the North
who fall into their hands, by covering the sea with pirates, refus-
ing a just exchange of prisoners, while they crowded their armies
with paroled prisoners not exchanged, and starving prisoners of
war to death.
In the next place, if there are any present who believe that, in
addition to the effect of the military operations of the war, the
confiscation acts and emancipation proclamations have embittered
the Rebels beyond the possibility of reconciliation, I would re-
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quest them to reflect that the tone of the Rebel leaders and Rebel
press was just as bitter in the first months of the war, nay, before
a gun was fired, as it is now. There were sjjeeches made in Con-
gress in the very last session before the outbreak of the Rebellion,
so ferocious as to show that their authors were under the influence
of a real frenzy. At the present day, if there is any discrimina-
tion made by the Confederate press in the affected scorn, hatred
and contumely with which every shade of opinion and sentiment
in the loyal States is treated, the bitterest contempt is bestowed
upon those at the North who still speak the language of compro-
mise, and who condemn those measures of the administration which
are alleged to have rendered the return of peace hopeless.
jSTo, my friends, that gracious Providence which overrules all
things for the best, ''from seeming evil still educing good," has
so constituted our natures, that the violent excitement of the pas-
sions in one direction is generally followed by a reaction in an
opposite direction, and the sooner for the violence. If it were not
so — if injuries inflicted and retaliated of necessity led to new
retaliations, with forever accumulating compound interest of re-
venge, then the world, thousands of years ago, would have been
turned into an earthly hell, and the nations of the earth would
have been resolved into clans of furies and demons, each forever
warring with his neighbor. But it is not so ; all history teaches
a different lesson. The Wars of the Roses in England lasted an
entire generation, from the battle of St. Albans in 1455, to that of
Bosworth Field, in 1485. Speaking of the former, Hume says : —
"This was the first blood spilt in that fatal quarrel, which was not
finished in less than a course of thirty years ; which was signalized
by twelve pitched battles ; which opened a scene of extraordinary
fierceness and cruelty ; is computed to have cost the lives of eighty
princes of the blood ; and almost entirely annihilated the ancient
nobility of England. The strong attachments which, at that time,
men of the same kindred bore to each other, and the vindictive
spirit which was considered a point of honor, rendered the great
families implacable in their resentments, and widened every mo-
ment the breach between the parties." Such was the state of
things in England under which an entire generation grew up ;
but when Henry VII., in whom the titles of the two Houses were
united, went up to London after the battle of Bosworth Field, to
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mount the throne, he was everywhere received with joyous accla-
mations, "as one ordained and sent from Heaven to put an end to
the dissensions," which had so long afflicted the country.
The great rebellion of England of the seventeenth century,
after long and angry premonitions, may be said to have begun
with the calling of the Long Parliament in 1640, and to have ended
with the return of Charles II., in 1660 — twenty years of discord,
conflict and civil war ; of confiscation, plunder, havoc ; a proud
hereditary peerage trampled in the dust ; a national church over-
turned, its clergy beggared, its most eminent prelate put to death ;
a military despotism established in the ruins of a monarchy which
had subsisted seven hundred years, and the legitimate sovereign
brought to the block ; the great families which adhered to the king
proscribed, impoverished, ruined ; prisoners of war — a fate Worse
than starvation in Libby — sold to slavery in the West Indies; in
a word, everything that can embitter and madden contending
factions. Such was the state of things for twenty years ; and yet,
by no gentle transition, but suddenly, and "when the restoration
of affairs appeared most hopeless," the son of the beheaded sov-
ereign was brought back to his father's blood-stained throne, with
such "unexpressible and universal joy," as led the merry monarch
to exclaim, "he doubted it had been his own fault he had been
absent so long, for he saw nobody who did not protest he had
ever wished for his return." "In this wonderful manner," says
Clarendon, "and with this incredible expedition did God put an
end to a rebellion that had raged near twenty years, and had been
carried on with all the horrid circumstances of murder, devasta-
tion and parracide that lire and sword, in the hands of the most
wicked men in the world," (it is a royalist that is speaking,) "could
be instruments of, almost to the desolation of the two kingdoms,
and the exceeding defacing and deforming of the third. , . . . By
these remarkable steps did the merciful hand of God, in this short
space of time, uot only bind up and heal all those wounds, but
even made the scar as undiscernable as, in respect of the deep-
ness, was possible, which was a glorious addition to the deliver-
ance."
In Germany, the wars of the Eeformation and of Charles V.,
in the sixteenth century, the Thirty Years' war in the seventeenth
century, the Seven Years' war in the eighteenth century, not to
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speak of other less celebrated contests, entailed upon that country
all the miseries of intestine strife for more than three centuries.
At the close of the last named war — which was the shortest of all,
and waged in the most civilized age — "an officer" says Archen-
holz, "rode through seven villages in Hesse, and found in them
but one human being." More than three hundred principalities,
comprehended in the Empire, fermented with the fierce passions
of proud and petty States ; at the commencement of this period
the castles of robber counts frowned upon every hill-top ; a dread-
ful secret tribunal, whose seat no one knew, whose power none
could escape, froze the hearts of men with terror throughout the
land ; religious hatred mingled its bitter poison in the seething
caldron of provincial animosity; but of all these deadly enmities
between the States of Germany scarcely the memory remains.
There are controversies in that country, at the present day, but
they grow mainly out of the rivalry of the two leading powers.
There is no country in the world in which the sentiment of na-
tional brotherhood is stronger.
In Italy, on the breaking up of the Roman Empire, society
might be said to be resolved into its original elements — into hostile
atoms, whose only movement was that of repulsion. Euthless
barbarians had destroyed the old organizations, and covered the
land with a merciless feudalism. As the new civilization grew
up, under the wing of the church, the noble families and the wall-
ed towns fell madly into conflict with each other ; the secular feud
of Pope and Emperor scourged the land; province against pro-
vince, city against city, street against street, waged remorseless
war with each other from father to son, till Dante was able to fill
his imaginary hell with the real demons of Italian history. So
ferocious had the factions become, that the great poet-exile him-
self, the glory of his native city and of his native language, was,
by a decree of the municipality, condemned to be burned alive if
found in the city of Florence. But these deadly feuds and hatred
yielded to political influences, as the hostile cities were grouped
into States under stable governments ; the lingering traditions of
the ancient animosities gradually died away, and now Tuscan and
Lombard, Sardinian and Neapolitan, as if to shame the degene-
rate sons of America, are joining in one cry for a united Italy.
In France, not to go back to the civil wars of the League, in
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the sixteenth century, and of the Fronde, in the seventeenth ; not
to speak of the dreadful scenes throughout the kingdom, which
followed the revocation of the edict of Nantes ; we have, in the
great revolution which commenced at the close of the last cen-
tury, seen the blood-hounds of civil strife let loose as rarely be-
fore in the history of the world. The reign of terror established
at Paris stretched its bloody Briarean arms to every city and vil-
lage in the land, and if the most deadly feuds which ever divided
a people had the .power to cause permanent alienation and hatred,
this surely was the occasion. But far otherwise the fact. In
seven years feom the fall of Bobespierre, the strong arm of the
youthful conqueror brought order out of this chaos of crime and
woe ; Jacobins whose hands were scarcely cleansed from the best
blood of France met the returning emigrants, whose estates they
had confiscated and whose kindred they had dragged to the guil -
lotine, in the Imperial antechambers; and when, after another
turn of the wheel of fortune, Louis XVIII. was restored to his
throne, he took the regicide Fouche, who had voted for his brother's
death, to his cabinet and confidence.
The people of loyal America will never ask you, sir, to take to
your confidence or admit again to a share in the government the
hard-hearted men whose cruel lust of power has brought this deso-
lating war upon the land, but there is no personal bitterness felt
even against them. They may live, if they can bear to live after
wantonly causing the death of so many thousands of their fellow-
men ; they may live in safe obscurity beneath the shelter of the
government they have sought to overthrow, or they may fly to
the protection of the governments of Europe — some of them are
already there, seeking, happily in vain, to obtain the aid of for-
eign powers in furtherance of their own treason. There let them
stay. The humblest dead soldier, that lies cold and stiff in his
grave before us, is an object of envy beneath the clods that cover
him, in comparison with the living man, I care not with what
trumpery credentials he may be furnished, who is willing to grovel
at the foot of a foreign throne for assistance in compassing the
ruin of his country.
But the hour is coming and now is, when the power of the
leaders of the Eebellion to delude and inflame must cease. There
is no bitterness on the part of the masses. The people of the
230 SOLDIERS' NATIONAL CEMETERY.
South are not going to wage an eternal war, for the wretched pre-
text by which this BebeHion is sought to be justified. The bonds
that unite us as one people — a substantial community of origin,
language, belief, and law, (the four great ties that hold the so-
cieties of men together ;) common national and political interests ;
a common history; a common pride in a glorious ancestry; a
common interest in this great heritage of blessings ; the very
geographical features of the country ; the mighty rivers that cross
the lines of climate and thus facilitate the interchange of natural
and industrial products, while the wonder-working arm of the
engineer has levelled the mountain-walls which separate the East
and West, compelling your own Alleghenies, my Maryland and
Pennsylvania friends, to open wide their everlasting doors to the
chariot- wheels of traffic and travel ; these bonds of union are of
perennial force and energy, while the causes of alienation are
imaginary, factitious and transient. The heart of the people,
North and South, is for the Union. Indications, to plain to be
mistaken, announce the fact, both in the East and the West of
the States in rebellion. In North Carolina and Arkansas the fatal
charm at length is broken. At Raleigh and Little Rock the lips
of honest and brave men are unsealed, and an independent press
is unlimbering its artillery. When its rifled cannon shall begin to
roar, the hosts of treasonable sophistry — the mad delusions of the
day — will fly like the Rebel army through the passes of yonder
mountain. The weary masses of the people are yearning to see
the dear old flag again floating upon their capitols, and they sigh
for the return of the peace, prosperity, and happiness, which
they enjoyed under a government whose power was felt only in
its blessings.
And now, friends, fellow citizens of Gettysburg and Pennsyl-
vania, and you from remoter States, let me again, as we part, in-
voke your benediction on these honored graves. You feel, -though
the occasion is mournful, that it is good to be here. You feel that
it was greatly auspicious for the cause of the country, that the
men of the East and the men of the West, the men of nineteen
sister States, stood side by side, on the perilous ridges of the battle.
You now feel it a new bond of union, that they shall lie side by
side, till the clarion, louder than that which marshalled them to
the combat, shall awake their slumbers. God bless the Union ;
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it is dearer to us for the blood of brave men which has been shed
in its defence. The spots on which they stood and fell ; these plea-
sant heights; the fertile plain beneath them ; the thriving village
whose streets so lately rang with the strange din of war; the fields
beyond the ridge, where the noble Beynolds held the advancing
foe at bay, and, while he gave up his own life, assured by his
forethought and self-sacrifice the triumph of the two succeeding
days ; the little streams which wind through the hills, on whose
banks in after-times the wondering ploughman will turn up, with
the rude weapons of savage warfare, the fearful missiles of modern
artillery ; Seminary Eidge, the Peach Orchard, Cemetery, Culp, and
Wolf Hill, Eoimd Top, Little Bound Top, humble names, hence-
forward dear and famous — no lapse of time, no distance of space,
shall cause you to be forgotton. "The whole earth," said Pericles,
as he stood over the remains of his fellow citizens, who had fallen
in the first year of the Peloponnesian war, ':the whole earth is the
sepulchre of illustrious men." All time, he might have added, is
the millenium of their glory. Surely I would do no injustice to
other noble achievements of the war, which have reflected such
honor on both arms of the service, and have entitled the armies
and navy of the United States, their officers and men, to the
warmest thanks and the richest rewards which a grateful people
can pay. But they, I am sure, will join us in saying, as we bid
farewell to the dust of these martyr-heroes, that wheresoever
throughout the civilized world the accounts of this great warfare
are read, and down to the latest period of recorded time, in the
glorious annals of our common country, there will be no brighter
page than that which relates The Battle of Gettysburg.
232 SOLDIERS5 NATIONAL cemetery.
HYMN
COMPOSED BY B. B. FRENCH, ESQ., AT GETTYSBURG.
'Tis holy ground —
This spot, where, in their graves,
We place our country's braves,
Who fell in Freedom's holy cause,
Fighting for liberties and laws ;
Let tears abound.
Here let them rest ;
And summer's heat and winter's cold
Shall glow and freeze above this mould —
A thousand years shall pass away —
A nation still shall mourn this clay,
Which now is blest.
Here, where they fell,
Oft shall the widow's tear be shed,
Oft shall fond parents mourn their dead ;
The orphan here shall kneel and weep,
And maidens, where their lovers sleep,
Their woes shall tell.
Great God in Heaven !
Shall all this sacred blood be shed ?
Shall we thus niourn our glorious dead ?
Oh, shall the end be wrath and woe,
The knell of Freedom's overthrow,
A country riven?
It will not be !
We trust, O God ! thy gracious power
To aid us in our darkest hour.
This be our prayer — "O Father ! save
A people's freedom from its grave.
All praise to Thee !"
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DEDICATORY ADDRESS
PBESIDENT LINCOLN".
Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth upon
this continent a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated
to the proposition that all men are created equal.
Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that
nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long en-
dure. We are met on a great battle field of that war. We are
met to dedicate a portion of it as the final resting-place of those
who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is alto-
gether fitting and proper that we should do this.
But in a larger sense we cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate,
we cannot hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead,
who struggled here have consecrated it far above our power to add
or detract. The world will little note nor long remember what
we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for
us, the living, rather to be dedicated here to the unfinished work
that they have thus far so nobly carried on. It is rather for us to
be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us — that
from these honored dead we take increased devotion to the cause
for which they here gave the last full measure of devotion — that we
here highly resolve that the dead shall not have died in vain ; that
the nation shall, under God, have a new birth of freedom, and that
the government of the people, by the people, and for the people,
shall not perish from the earth.
234 SOLDIERS' NATIONAL CEMETERY.
BENEDICTION
BY
EEV. H. L. BAUGHER, D. D.,
PRESIDENT OF PENNSYLVANIA COLLEGE, GETTYSBURG.
O Thou King of kings and Lord of lords, God of the nations of
the earth, who, by Thy kind providence hast permitted us to en-
gage in these solemn services, grant us thy blessing.
Bless this consecrated ground, and these holy graves. Bless
the President of these United States, and his Cabinet. Bless the
Governors and the Representatives of the States here assembled
with all needed grace to conduct the affairs committed into their
hands, to the glory of thy name, and the greatest good of the
people.
May this great nation be delivered from treason and rebellion
at home, and from the power of enemies abroad. And now may
the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, the love of God our Heavenly
Father, and the fellowship of the Holy Ghost, be with you all.
Amen.
INCIDENTAL TO THE LAYING OP THE
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SOLDIERS5 NATIONAL CEMETERY
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ORDER OF THE PROCESSION
CEREMONIES OF LAYING THE CORNER STONE OF THE MONUMENT
IN THE SOLDIERS' NATIONAL CEMETERY, JULY 4, 1865.
Aids. Chief Marshal, Aids.
Major-General John W. Geary,
Cavalry.
Artillery.
Infantry.
Major-General Meade and Staff,
Escorted by First City Troop of Philadelphia.
Officers and Soldiers of the army of the Potomac.
Ex-Officers and Soldiers of the Army of the Potomac.
Officers and Soldiers of the other Armies of the United States,
Ex-Officers of the other armies of the United States.
Officers and Ex-Officers of the Navy and Marine Corps of the
United States.
Marines.
Soldiers of the War of 1812.
The President.
Lieutenant-General Grant and Staff.
Vice- Admiral Farragitt and Staff.
The Cabinet Ministers.
The Diplomatic Corps.
Ex-Presidents.
Lieutenant- General Scott and Eear- Admiral Stewart.
The Chief Justice and Associate Justices of the Supreme Court of
the United States.
The Orator, Chaplains and Poet.
The Committee of Arrangements.
The Governors of the several States and Territories and their
Staffs.
238 SOLDIERS' NATIONAL CEMETERY.
The Senate of the United States preceded by its Officers.
The House of Eepresentatives of the United States preceded by
its Officers.
The Heads of the Departments of the Several States and Terri-
tories.
The Legislatures of the several States and Territories.
The Board of Managers of the Soldiers' National Cemetery.
The Board of Managers of the Antietam Cemetery.
The Federal Judiciary and the Judiciary of the several States and
Territories.
The Assistant Secretaries of the Departments of the National
Government.
Officers of the Smithsonian Institution.
Committee of Arrangements of the Borough of Gettysburg.
The Press.
Sanitary and Christian Commissions.
Masonic Fraternity.
Knights Templar.
Independent Order of Odd Fellows.
Other Benevolent Associations.
Corporate Authorities of Cities.
Society of the Cincinnati.
The National Union Musical Associations of Baltimore.
The Clergy.
Beligious, Literary, Scientific and Industrial Associations.
Loyal Leagues.
Fire Companies.
Citizens.
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SOLDIERS' NATIONAL CEMETERY. 239
PROGRAMME OF ARRANGEMENT,
AND
ORDER OF EXERCISES
CEREMONIES OF LAYING THE CORNER STONE OF THE MONUMENT
EST THE SOLDIERS' NATIONAL CEMETERY, JULY 4, 1865.
The Marshals and Chief U^arshal's Aids will assemble at the
Court House, at half-past eight o'clock, A. M.
The military will form in Gettysburg at nine o'clock, A. M., on
Carlisle street, its right resting on the railroad.
All civic bodies, except citizens, will assemble according to the
foregoing printed programme, on York street, at the same hour.
All citizens will form on Chambersburg street, with .the right
resting on the square, at the same time.
The head of the column will move at precisely ten o'clock, A. M.s
up Baltimore street to the Cemetery Grounds.
The military will form in line as may be directed, and present
arms, when the President of the United States and all who are to
occupy the stand will pass to the same.
Ladies will occupy the left of the stand, and it is desirable that
they be upon the ground as early as ten o'clock, A. M.
The exercises will take place as soon as the entire procession is
in position on the ground, as follows :
Music — Band.
Prayer by the Eev. Stephen H Tyng, D. D,
Music — " French's Hymn" — Union Musical Association.
Introductory Bemarks by the President of the United
States.
Music — "Hayward'-s^Qde" — Union Musical Association.
Laying of the Corner Stone by the Grand Master of 'the
Grand Lodge of Masons of Pennsylvania.
240 SOLDIERS' KATICXJTAL CEMETERY.
ADDRESS BY THE GOVERNOR OF PENNSYLVANIA.
Music — Band.
Oration by Major-General O. O. Howard,
Music— Band.
Poem by Ool. 0. G. H alpine.
Music — Union Musical Association.
Benediction — By Rev. D. T. Carnahan.
Music — Band.
After the benediction, the procession will be dismissed and the
Marshals and Chief Marshal's Aids will form and return to the
Court House.
Salutes will be fired at sunrise, during the movement of the
procession, at the close of the exercises, and at sunset.
JOHN W. GEARY,
Marshal-in -Chief, and Brevet Major-General Commanding.
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MILITARY PARTICIPATING IN THE CEREMONIES.
CAVALBY.
One Battalion of the 1st Connecticut Cavalry under Command
of Col. B. Ives, and composed of the following companies :
Company A, commanded by Lieut. Ford.
Company C, commanded by Capt. Neville.
Company D, commanded by Capt. Tuttle.
Company E, commanded by Capt. Spellnian.
Company F, commanded by Capt. Phillips.
Company M, commanded by Capt. Thompson.
INFANTRY.
The 50th Regiment of Pennsylvania Veteran Volunteers, under
the following officers :
Colonel — William H. Telford.
Lieutenant Colonel — Samuel K. Schwenk.
Major — George W. Brumm.
Adjutant — Lewis Crater.
Quartermaster — John S. Eckel.
Assistant Surgeon — Frank P. Wilson.
Chaplain — Halleck Armstrong.
Company A — 1st Lieutenant, John A. Herring.
2d " William Blanchford.
Company B — Captain, Frank H. Barnhart.
1st Lieutenant, Alfred J. Stephens,
2d " Lucien Plucker.
Company C — Captain Charles E. Brown.
2d Lieutenant Augustus Mellon.
Company D — 1st Lieutenant William H. Wilcox.
2d , " Hugh Mitchell.
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Company E — 1st Lieutenant Samuel A. Losch.
2d " Frank H. Forbes.
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Company F — Captain Jacob Paulus.
1st Lieutenant Samuel Hess.
2d " Thomas P. Davis.
Company G — Captain Charles Forbes.
1st Lieutenant Henry J. Christ.
2d " A. P. Kinney.
Company H — Captain John A. Snyder.
1st Lieutenant Joseph Y. Kendall.
2d " Henry S. Francis.
Company I — Captain James H. Levan.
Company K — Captain George V. Myers.
2d Lieutenant George W. Merithew.
No:n-Commissioi!Jed Staff.
Sergeant Major — Alexander P. Garret.
Quartermaster Sergeant Clauser.
Commissary Sergeant — Alfred W. Gift.
Hospital Stewart — Alexander Schaeffer.
The following officers accompanied the Eegiment as addition
staff:
Captain Thomas F. Foster, of Co. D., 50th Eegt. Pa. Vet. Vol.,
Assistant Adjutant General, 2d Brigade, 1st Division, 9th Army
Corps.
1st Lieutenant John C. Chance, Quartermaster 9th Eegt., Ve-
teran Eeserve Corps.
The Eegiment was accompanied by the Band of the 9th Eeg't.
Veteran Eeserve Corps, under the leadership of Mr. Joseph Win-
ters; and the Band of the 56th Mass. Vols., under the leadership
of Mr. Markland.
Col. W. H. Telford commands the 2d Brigade, 1st Division, 9th
Army Corps.
Lieutenant-Colonel Samuel K. Schwenk commanded the Eegi-
ment.
Colonel Telford was appointed Chief of Staff toMaj. Gen. Geary,
during the ceremonies of July 4th, IP "5.
Eegiment organized at Harrisburg, September 30th, 1861, under
B. C. Christ.
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Colonel Telford, Lieutenant-Colonel Schwenk and Major Brumm ,
are the only original officers left with, the Eegiment. Kegiment
numbered 700 men.
The Eegiment was in 32 battles, and 16 different States.
AETILLEEY.
The Artillery which participated in the ceremonies was detach-
ments of one gun from each battery of the Horse Artillery Brigade
of the Army of the Potomac, and a section of Battery A, of the
4th U. S. Artillery, which formerly belonged to the Brigade.
The Brigade which these guns represents, has served with the
Cavalry Corps throughout the entire war, and has been with it in
ail its battles and raids. All the guns but one were at the battle
of Gettysburg.
The order of march was as follows :
1. Brevet Brig. Gen. J. M.\Eobertson, Captain 2d U. S. Artillery,
Commanding Brigade.
Brevet Captain J. G. Tumbull, 3d Artillery, Acting Assistant
Adjutant General.
Assistant Surgeon Scheets.
2. Colors and Color Guard.
3. Buglers.
4. Captain M. P. Miller, Battery C. and E., 4th IT. S. Artillery
Commanding Guns.
5. Battery C. and E., 4th U. S. Artillery.
6. Battery C, 3d U. S. Artillery, Lieut. J. E. Kelley.
7. Battery 1, 1st U. S. Artillery, Lieut. E. L. Garvin.
8. Battery L, 5th U. S. Artillery, Lieut. Samuel Peoples.
9. Battery M, 2d U. S. Artillery, Lieut. William Egan.
10. Battery D, 2d U. S. Artillery, Lieut. W. T. Yose.
11. Battery B and L, 2d U. S. Artillery, Lieut M. E. Loucks.
12. Battery A, 2d U. S. Artillery, Lieut. Kinney.
13. Battery A, 4th U. S. Artillery, ) j., R - K-
14. Battery A, 4th U. S. Artillery, J -Lieut' «™s -Krag-
After the procession reached the stand in the Cemetery, and
order had been restored, the Band played a piece of music, which
was followed by devotfonal exercises by the Eev. Stephen H
Tyng, D. D., as follows:
244 SOLDIEES' NATIONAL CEMETEBY,
REMARKS AND PRAYER,
BEV. STEPHEN H TYNG, D. D.
Feiends and Beetheen:
We are assembled on an occasion of great solemnity. We in-
voke the presence and the blessing of the all-seeing God. We
acknowledge Him as the God of onr fathers, and of their chil-
dren— we confess him as the God of our nation and of its posterity —
we acknowledge His power and His wisdom — His mercy and His
providence — as displayed in the whole government of our land.
He has defended us in danger. He has been our shield in the day
of battle. He has given us the victory. He is our strength. He
has become our salvation.
We meet this day under His protection, and with His guidance,
to erect a monument of our gratitude for His Goodness ; and to
the honor of the faithful men whom He has been pleased to make
the glorious agents of our security and success. By their fidelity
unto death, He has restored peace to our nation, given stability to
our government, established union among our people, and renewed
the prosperity and happiness of our homes and our households.
To God we owe the gift of such noble children of our common
country. To them we owe the tribute, under Him, of the highest
earthly honor, and the most abiding and reverend recognition.
We are gathered here this day to proclaim, with humble, but
glad hearts, our common obligations, to Him whose inspiration
gave them fidelity, and to them, whose deeds and sacrifices, we
hold in everlasting remembrance.
We confess Him this day as the Gracious Giver of divine revela-
tion to us, in those Holy Scriptures, which we acknowledge to have
been given by inspiration of God. That sacred book we receive,
as the foundation and rule of all religious truth. The glorious
redemption which it proclaims — the gra/nous promises which it
contains — the immortal hopes which it imparts — the holy rules
which it impresses — the sanctifying power and guidance which it
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exercises, as the infallible word of the living God, we humbly,
gratefully confess — we honor the mighty Saviour whom it an-
nounces— we ask the teaching and guidance of the Holy Spirit,
whom it has promised.
Under this guidance we assemble, with solemn prayer and
harmony, to vindicate the memory, and to declare the honor of our
exalted dead — to testify our unchanging loyality and love, to the
country for which they died — to erect a monument which shall
stand a perpetual witness of their glorious achievements, and of
our fellowship with them, in the great principles of Union, Loy-
alty and Liberty, for which their costly sacrifice was so willingly
and so nobly made.
Let me call you first to a few appropriate utterances from this
Holy word of God: "Eemember the days of old, consider the
years of many generations ; ask thy Father and he will shew thee ;
thy elders and they will tell thee. When the Most High divided
to the nations their inheritance, when he separated the sons of
Adam, he set the bounds of the people, according to the number
of the children of Israel. For the Lord's portion is his people,
Jacob is the lot of his inheritance." Dent. 32 : 7 — 9.
"We have heard with our ears, O God, our fathers have told us,
what work thou didst in their days, in the times of old. How
thou didst drive out the heathen with thy hand, and plantedst
them : how thou didst afflict the people, and cast them out : For
they got not the land in possession, by their own sword, neither
did their own arm save them ; but thy right hand, and thine arm,
and the light of thy countenance, because thou hadst a favor unto
them." Ps. 44 : 1—3.
"Ha,ppy art thou O Israel ; who is like unto thee, O people, saved
by the Lord, the shield of thy help, and who is the sword of thine
excelleney ! And thine enemies shall be found liars unto thee ;
and thou shalt tread upon their high places." Deut. 33 : 29.
"The Eternal God is thy refuge, and underneath are the ever-
lasting arms ; and he shall thrust out the eneiny from before thee,
and shall say, Destroy them." Duet. 33 : 27.
"All the ends of the earth shall remember and turn unto the
Lord ; and all the kindreds of the nations shall worship before
thee. For the kingdom' is the Lord's, and he is the Governor
among the nations. A seed shall serve him ; it shall be accounted
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to the Lord for a generation. They shall come, and shall declare
his righteousness unto a people that shall be born, that he hath
done this." Psa. 22 : 27—31.
"Instead of thy fathers, shall be thy childern whom thou mayest
make princes in all lands. I will make thy name to be remembered
in all generations ; therefore shall the people praise thee forever
and ever." Psa. 45: 16, 17.
"If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget her
cunning ; if I do not remember thee, let my tongue cleave to the
roof of my mouth ; if I prefer not Jerusalem above my chief joy."
Psa. 137: 5, 6.
"Unto the upright there ariseth light in the darkness. Surely
he shall not be moved forever ; the righteous shall be in everlasting
remembrance." P.sa. 112: 4, 6.
"Also the sons of the stranger that join themselves to the Lord
to serve him, and to love the name of the Lord, to be his servants ;
Even them will I bring to my holy mountain, and make them
joyful in my house of prayer. Even unto them will I give in mine
house and within my walls, a place and a name be'tter than of sons
and of daughters ; I will give them an everlasting name that shall
not be cut off." Isaiah 56 : 5 — 7.
"And many that sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake.
And they that be wise, shall shine as the brightness of the firma-
ment; and they that turn many to righteousness as the stars,
forever and ever." Dan. 12 : 2, 3.
"Jesus said, I am the resurrection and the life ; he that believeth
in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live ; and whosoever
liveth and believeth in me, shall never die." St. John 11 : 25, 26.
''Verily, verily I say unto you, the time is coming, and now is,
when the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God, and they
that hear shall live." St John 5 : 25.
"For if we believe that Jesus died, and rose again, even so them
also which sleep in Jesus, will God bring with Him." 1 Thess.
4:14.
"To him that overcometh, will I give to sit with me in my throne,
even as I also overcame, and am set down with my Father in his
throne." Eev. 3: 21.
"These are they which came out of great tribulation, and have
washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the lamb.
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Therefore are they before the throne of God, and serve him day
and night in his temple, and he that sitteth on the throne shall
dwell among them ; and God shall wipe away all tears from their
eyes." Eev. 7 : 14—17.
"And I heard a voice from Heaven saying unto me, Write, blessed
are the dead which die in the Lord from henceforth : Yea, saith
the Spirit, that they may rest from their labors ; and their works
do follow them." Eev. 14: 13.
Under the guidance of these words of God let us unite in
PEAYEE.
O God, whose days are without end, who art from everlasting
and inhabitest eternity, we bow homage before Thy throne.
To Thee belong the kingdom, and the power, and the glory
forever. In thine hand our breath is, and thine are all our ways.
We behold Thee in the glories of thy creation, and adore the
wisdom with which thou hast made them all. The heavens de-
clare Thy glory. The earth is filled with thy goodness. All crea-
tures wait upon Thee, and Thou givest them their meat in due
season.
We acknowledge Thy love in the redemption which Thou hast
revealed to sinful men in Thy Word ; removing their condemna-
tion by a divine sacrifice and ransom ; unfolding to their accept-
ance glorious and sustaining hopes of eternal life ; displaying the
victory of pardoning grace over human sin, and of everlasting life
over mortal death in the triumphant resurrection of Thy dear Son ;
presenting an assurance of glory to all who believe in Him, though
they die, in His ascension to the throne and kingdom, and through
His all-sufficient merit, and His unceasing intercession.
We praise Thee for that Holy Spirit whom Thou hast sent in
His name, and for His sake, to be the Comforter of Thy people,
and to lead them there, whither our Saviour Christ has gone before.
We bless Thee for this new and living way of access for sinners
to Thy throne of grace.
Cheered by this hope which Thy glorious gospel gives, and ador-
ing the grace which has bestowed it upon us, we are gathered
here this day to offer our united praise to Thee for Thy gracious
providence and governii-v-nt over our nation ; and to commemorate
before Thee the glorious and inspiring record of the noble dead,
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by whose energy and faithfulness the security of our country has
been maintained, its peace restored, and its cherished Union and
integrity preserved.
The memories of this day lead us, O God, in every year to Thee.
Wanderers ready to perish, were our fathers, when Thou didst pro-
tect them, in the origin of their history here. Contending for
liberty and life, for themselves and their. children, against oppres-
sion and superior power, were they, in the early struggles of our
nation's childhood, where Thou didst maintain their right, and gave
them the victory.
Thy grace adorned them with the virtues, in the record of which
we rejoice. Thy watchful care and guidance carried them through
a warfare, displaying a patriotism, an earnestness of sincerity, a
devotion to their country's welfare, and a love for the rights and
liberty of man, which have been the highest honor to our nation.
It is Thou, O God, who didst give them wisdom in counsel,
courage in war, endurance in depression and distress, patience
amidst protracted disaster, and final victory over the hosts of their
opposers. It was Thou who didst teach them to establish a na-
tion in peace, and a government in wise, righteous and equitable
operation, over the people whom Thy Providence collected be-
neath it.
In all the past years of this favored nation, Thou hast been our
fathers' God and our God. Thou hast guarded us in foreign wars,
defended us by land and by sea, multiplied upon us the blessings
of civilization and advancement, of religious freedom and truth.
Thou hast given to every class of our people their due measure
of prosperity ; and hast secured for them, under wise and equal
laws, the hopes and rights of all. Thou hast made a little one to
become a strong nation, and hast here poured out the treasures
of Thy mercy, in every varied shape of blessing, upon the mil-
lions who have here fed upon Thy goodness, and acknowledge
Thee as the God of our salvation.
To Thee, O God, we owe these long succeeding years of peace,
prosperity, and social exaltation. To Thee we owe that long suc-
cession of wise and honored men, whom thou hast raised up to be
the rulers of this people. To Thee we owe that ruling in justice,
and in the fear of the Lord, which has sf honorably, and habitu-
ally distinguished our national history.
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The distinction and exaltation which our fathers have attained
for us, among the nations of the earth, by the success of their ad-
ministration, and the fidelity of their personal government, we
acknowledge still to be wholly Thy gift, who rulest as the Gov-
ernor over all the earth, and puttest down one and settest up an-
other.
As we survey the whole history of our nation, in peace and war ;
in its government and its people ; in its intellectual advancement
and social exaltation ; in its religious privileges and material gains ;
in the great principles which it has established ; and in the ex-
ample of power acting in justice and forbearance, which it has
displayed in all relations, and toward all people; we confess, O
God, that all which we have enjoyed and possessed has been Thy
gift ; and not unto us, but unto Thy name, O Lord, our God, be
all the praise.
Each year, O Lord, has justly brought us, on this day, to offer
unto Thee the tribute of our thanksgiving and the homage of our
praise. Generation after generation have thus adored Thee, as
the God who alone has brought salvation unto them.
But we are gathered on a day which calls for very peculiar ac-
knowledgments of our gratitude to Thee; and in a place, and
for an especial occasion, which x^resent new and impressive de-
mands for our humble thanksgiving, our submissive penitents, our
chastened but rejoicing memory, our sympathizing and benevolent
tenderness, our renewed fidelity to our country's welfare, and our
fixed and indomitable purpose to maintain the authority which
Thou hast established for us, and the liberty and order which Thou
hast arranged and appointed.
We are this day, a nation, free, united, independent and at
peace — because Thou, O our gracious God, hast defended us from
a violent and ungodly conspiracy — hast preserved us through a
terrific warfare — hast given us unlimited victory, and hast set up
Thy dominion over us, in overturning the wickedness of man's
rebellion, and taking the violent in their own craftiness ; in break-
ing the oppressor's yoke, in giving liberty to the prisoner, and
freedom to the bruised and suffering slave ; in opening to all the
children of sorrow a door of hope in the midst of trial, and a day
of promise and of glory after a long night of weeping and despair.
O let this day bring this rejoicing nation to the footstool of
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Thy throne. Wide as the triumphs of the assembling people may-
spread, may the higher triumphs of Thy grace and mercy be still
more gracefully acknowledged, and thankfully enumerated and
called to mind.
O God, it is thy patience and bounty which have placed us this
day where we are, and made us what we are. Suffer us not to say
that our wisdom, or the mightiness of our hand, have gained this
triumph ; or that anything in us has deserved its bestowal. In
the very degree in which Thou hast exalted us, enable us to humble
ourselves before Thee ; and while Thou art speaking unto us, in
language of amazing encouragement, may we sincerely speak to
Thee, in the language of self-renouncing penitence, and deeper
earnestness of desire and purpose, in everything to do Thy will.
As we look back this day, over all this conflict ended — this
journey through deep waters completed — we bless Thee anew, O
God, for the great and faithful men whom Thou hast raised up
among us, in civil, military and naval life, mighty in counsel,
triumphant in battle, and glorious in contests on the deep. But
above all, we praise Thee for that beloved and exalted ruler, whom
Thou didst set over us, under whose shadow we rejoiced, whose
example in life was our faithful guide ; whose gentle and forbearing
administration was an honor to humanity, and in whose death,
though it leaves him enshrined in our hearts, in the grateful affec-
tion of millions of Ms fellow-citizens, we have felt bereaved be-
yond the common example of mankind.
With our thanksgiving for all the past, we offer this day, O God,
our earnest prayers for the abiding welfare, prosperity and peace
of our beloved country. We pray Thee to maintain the govern-
ment which Thou hast given us, against all assaults, and to mul-
tiply upon every generation of our people, the social and personal
blessings which it is adapted to bestow and secure. May it ever
be administered in righteousness, and wise and upright rulers be
given to this people. Defend the nation from the violence of re-
bellion, and rescue them from the mutual recriminations of party
spirit. Guard and direct the President of the United States in
the faithful discharge of his responsible duties; and pour Thy
gracious blessings, both spiritual and temporal, for time and for
eternity, upon him and his household.*,, Give to all who are in
office under him, the spirit of wisdom and fidelity, in the execu-
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tion of their various trusts. And ever raise up men fearing God
and working righteousness, to administer the government over
Thy people, in all the branches and relations of its responsibility.
Thus, under the shadow of thy wing, may our land abide and our
people dwell, seeking the good of this nation, and speaking peace
to all the inhabitants thereof.
And now O Lord, who art especially the God of the suffering, of
the widow and the fatherless, we unite to pray for all whom this
bitter warfare hath bereaved, or reduced to condition of want or
suffering. We are assembled to lay the corner-stone of a monu-
ment to soldiers who freely poured forth their blood upon this
spot, in their country's defence. The bodies of many who were
dear and cherished in the households of our nation, lie buried
around us here. While we honor their memory, and would per-
petuate the record of their renown, their widows and their orphans
we commend to Thee. Their many wounded companions, the
charge upon their country's gratitude and kindness, we present,
also, before Thee. Awaken a spirit of liberal kindness and just
remuneration toward them all, among this whole people; and
bless, prosper, and reward every effort which may be made for
their comfort and relief. Spread the influence and power of that
gospel which teaches love to God and love to man, as the duty
and privilege of all who hear it, in every portion of our land, and
make this nation an example and an agent of its influence in
blessing throughout all the earth.
May all the exercises of this day be made to awaken a spirit of
union, loyalty and love, among those who are here assembled,
and all the inhabitants of this land. And may this monument,
and this ground, consecrated by the honored dead, be, in years to
come, a token and a witness to all who shall ever visit this place, of
Thy blessing upon this people, and of all the interests which Thou
hast preserved for them, and an admonition to every coming gene-
ration, that Thy favor is life, and Thy loving kindness is better
than life.
Thus, O God, do we look up unto Thee in praise and prayer,
and ask Thine acceptance and favor in the name of our glorious
Lord and Saviour Jesus ^hrist. Amen.
The National Union Jlusical Association of Baltimore, then
sung " French's Hymn."
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THE PRESIDENT'S LETTER.
His Excellency, Andrew Johnson, President of the United States,
having been prevented from being present, by reason of severe ill-
ness, sent the Marshal of the District of Columbia, Judge Good-
ing, as his special" messenger, who presented the following com-
munication from His Excellency :
Executive Mansion, \
Washington, D. 0., July 3, 1885. S
Mr. David Wills, Chairman, &c, Gettysburg, Pa.:
Dear Sir: — I had promised myself the pleasure of participat-
ing in person in the proceedings at Gettysburg to-morrow. That
pleasure, owing to my indisposition, I am reluctantly compelled to
forego. I should have been pleased, standing on that twice con-
secrated spot, to share with you jTour joy at the return of peace,
to greet with you the surviving heroes of the war who came back
with light hearts, though heavy laden with honors, and with you
to drop grateful tears to the memory of those that will never re-
turn.
Unable to do so in person, I can only send you my greetings,
and assure you of my full sympathy with the purpose and spirit
of your exercises to-morrow. Of all the anniversaries of the Dec-
laration of Independence, none has been more important and sig-
nificant than that upon which you assemble.
Four years of struggle for our nation's life have been crowned
with success ; armed treason is swept from the land ; our ports are
re-opened ; our relations with other nations are of the most satis-
factory character; our internal commerce is free; our soldiers and
sailors resume the peaceful pursuits of civil life ; our flag floats
in every breeze ; and the only barrier to our national progress —
human slavery — is forever at an end. Let us trust that each re-
curring Fourth of July shall find our nation stronger in numbers —
stronger in wealth — stronger in the hLrmony of its citizens —
stronger in its devotion to nationality and freedom.
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As I have often said, I believe that God sent this people on a
mission among the nations of the earth, and that when He founded
our nation He founded it in perpetuity. That faith sustained me
through the struggle that is past. It sustains me now that new
duties are devolved upon me and new dangers threaten us. I feel
that whatever the means He uses the Almighty is determined to
preserve us as a people.
And since I know the love our fellow- citizens bear their coun-
try, and the sacrifices they have made for it, my abiding faith
has become stronger than ever that a "government of the people"
is the strongest as well as the best of governments.
In your joy to-morrow, I trust you will not forget the thousands
of whites, as well as blacks, whom the war has emancipated, who
will hail this Fourth of July with a delight which no previous
Declaration of Independence ever gave them. Controlled so long
by ambitious, selfish leaders, who used them for their own un-
worthy ends, they are now free to serve and cherish the govern-
ment against whose life they, in their blindness, struck. I am
greatly mistaken if in the States lately in rebellion we do not
henceforward have an exhibition of such loyalty and patriotism as
were never seen nor felt there before.
When you have consecrated a National Cemetery, you are to
lay the corner-stone of a- national monument, which, in all human
probability, will rise to the full height and proportion you de-
sign. Noble as this monument of stone may be, it will be but a
faint symbol of the grand monument which, if we do our duty,
we shall raise among the nations of the earth, upon the founda-
tion laid nine and eighty years ago in Philadelphia. Time shall
wear away and crumble this monument, but that, based as it is,
upon the consent, virtue, patriotism and intelligence of the peo-
ple, each year shall make firmer and more imposing.
Your friend and fellow- citizen,
ANDREW JOHNSON.
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The Gettysburg Monumental Ode was then sung by the
National Union Musical Association, in the following words :
This battle-field — our nation's glory, —
Where sweetly sleep our fallen braves,
Proclaims aloud the tragic story —
The story of their hallow'd graves !
Yes ! here on Gettysburg's sad plain,
This monument the tale will tell,
That thousands for their flag was slain —
Whilst fighting for the Union — fell !
Here red artillery's deadly fire
Mow'd squadrons down in dread array ;
Here Meade compelled Lee to retire,
And Howard held his ground that day.
Then let those tatter'd banners wave —
Forever sacred be this ground !
Sing paeans to those warriors brave,
And be their deeds with glory crown'd !
Wives, mothers, sisters, orphans dear,
Shall gather round each clay-cold bed,
And mourn their lov'd ones buried here —
Their husbands, fathers, brothers dead.
Now on this consecrated ground,
Baptiz'd with patriots' sacred blood,
We dedicate each glorious mound
To the Union Battle-Flag and God !
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. LAYING OF THE CORNER-STONE.
The foundation of the Monument was then laid with appropriate
ceremonies, by the Society of Free Masons, under the auspices of
the Grand Lodge of Pennsylvania.
The following is a list of the articles deposited in the Corner-
stone.
UNITED STATES.
Declaration of Independence.
Articles of Confederation.
Constitution of the United States.
Washington's Farewell Address.
Barnes of the Presidents and Vice Presidents of the United
States.
Names of the members and officers of the Senate and House
of Representatives of the United States.
Karnes of the members of the Cabinet.
Names of the Ministers of the United States at foreign courts.
Messages of President Lincoln.
Reports of the Secretary of War and Lieutenant General Grant.
Major General Geo. G. Meade's report of the battle of Gettys-
burg.
Copies of President Lincoln's emancipation proclamations and
last inaugural address.
Coins of the United States.
MAINE.
Copy of the Constitution of the State of Maine.
Messages of the Governors of Maine, from 1861 to 1864.
Adjutant General's reports, 1861 to 1864.
NEW HAMPSHIRE.
Copy of the Constitution of the State of New Hampshire.
Adjutant General's report.
256 SOLDIERS' NATIONAL CEMETERY.
VERMONT.
Messages of the Governors of Vermont, from 1861 to 1864.
Adjutant General's reports, 1861 to 1864.
MASSACHUSETTS.
Copy of the Constitution of the State of Massachusetts.
Messages of Governors of Massachusetts, 1861 to 1864.
Adjutant General's report, 1861 to 1864.
RHODE ISLAND.
Copy of the Constitution of the State of Bhode Island.
Proclamation of His Excellency James Y. Smith, on the death
of President Lincoln.
Eesolutions of the Legislature of Ehode Island in relation to
the re-construction of the States recenty in rebellion.
4
CONNECTICUT.
Copy of the Constitution of the State of Connecticut.
1st. Medallion medal with the State Coat-of-Arms on the one
side, and on the other the number of soldiers furnished for the
war by Connecticut, with the inscription, " In Honor of Soldiers
of Connecticut," who aided in the cause of liberty, 1861 to 1865.
2d. The complete catalogue of the volunteer force of Connecti-
cut, their organization and casualties.
3d. Proclamation of Governor Buckingham, issued in April,
1864.
4th. Messages of Governor Buckingham since May, 1861.
5th. Legislative and State Government statistics for sixteen
years, ending with 1865.
NEW YORK.
Copy of the Constitution of the State of New York,
Copy of His Excellency E. E. Fenton's message, 1865.
Copy of the Adjutant General's reports for 1864 and 1865.
Copy of letters of General Meigs, Quartermaster General, U. S. A.
Copy of act to provide a suitable repository for the records of
the war. I
Eeport of Bureau of Military Eecord, 1865.
SOLDIERS* NATIONAL CBMETEEY. 257
NEW JERSEY.
Oopy of the Constitution of the State of New Jersey;.
List of names of the State officers, members of the Senate and
Assembly.
Messages of the Governor of New Jersey, from 1861 to 1864,
inclusive.
Register of the commanding officers of the New Jersey vol-
unteers.
Report of the Adjutant General, from 1861 to 1865, inclusive.
Report of the Quartermaster General, of New Jersey, from
1861 to 1864, inclusive.
PENNSYLVANIA.
1st. A Oopy of the Constitution of the State of Pennsylvania.
2d. Inaugural address of Governor Andrew G. Curtin, on the
15th of January, 1861.
3d. Special message of Governor Orfrtin to the Legislature.
April 9th, 1861, recommending the establishment of a Military
Bureau at the Capital of the State, and asserting the fidelity of
Pennsylvania to the Constitution and Union.
4th. Proclamation of Governor Curtin, issued April 20th, 1861,
convening the Legislature in extra session.
5th. Message of Governor Curtin to the Legislature at extra
session, on the 30th of April, 1861, recommending, inter alia, the
immediate organization of the Pennsylvania Reserve Volunteer
Corps.
. 6th. Act of the Legislature, approved 15th May, 1861, " to create
a loan and to provide for arming the State," and authorizing
the organization of the Pennsylvania Reserve Volunteer Corps.
7th. Pamphlet, containing the military laws of Pennsylvania,
passed at the sessions of the Legislature of 1861.
8th. Message of Governor Curtin to the Legislature at regular
session, January 8th, 1862.
9th. Message of Governor Curtin to the Legislature at regular
session, January 7th, 1863.
10th. Proceedings of commissioners appointed by the Gover-
nors of the different Stages, which have soldiers buried in the Sol-
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258 SOLDIERS' NATIONAL CEMETERY.
diers' National Cemetery at Gettysburg, at a meeting held in
Harrisburg, Pa., December 17tli, 1863.
11th. Message of Governor Curtin to the Legislature at regular
session, January 7th, 1864.
12th. Pamphlet, containing second inaugural address of Gov-
ernor Curtin, January 19th, 1864, and inaugural ceremonies, as
published by order of the Legislature.
13th. Report of special committee of the Legislature, March
31st, 1881, to whom was referred so much of the Governor's an-
nual message, read January 7th, 1864, as relates to the Gettysburg-
Cemetery, together with the report of David Wills, Esq., of
Gettysburg, Agent for A. G, Curtin, Governor of Pennsylvania,
made to said committee. March 21st, 1864.
14th. Copy of an act of the Legislature of Pennsylvania, to
incorporate the Soldiers' National Cemetery, approved March 25th,
1864.
15th. Copy of an act of the Legislature of Pennsylvania, to
incorporate the Gettysburg Battle-field Memorial Association, ap-
proved May 4th, 1864.
16th. Proclamation of Governor Curtin, issued August 1st, 1864,
convening the Legislature of Pennsylvania in extra session.
17th. Message of Governor Curtin to Legislature at extra ses-
sion, August 9th, 1864.
18th. Message of Governor Curtin to Legislature at regular
session, January 4th, 1865.
19th. Complete file of General Orders, issued from Head- Quar-
ters Pennsylvania Militia, from 1861, to January, 1865, inclusive.
20th. Eeports of Adjutant General, from 1861 to 1864, inclusive.
21st. Eeports of Quartermaster General, from 1861 to 1864, in-
clusive.
22d. Eeports of Commissary General, from 1861 to 1864, inclu-
sive.
23d. Eeports of Surgeon General, from 1861 to 1864, inclusive.
24ik. Specimen of commission, in blank, with an impression
of the Great Seal of the State, issued by Governor Curtin to
officers in service during the rebellion.
The foregoing are contained in a copper box, marked "Penn-
sylvania."
SOLDIERS' NATIONAL CEMETERY. 259
DELAWARE.
Copy of the Constitution of the State of Delaware.
Messages of Governor of Delaware, 1861 to 1864.
Adjutant General's reports, 1861 to 1864.
MARYLAND.
Copy of the Constitution of the State of Maryland.
Messages of Governor of Maryland, 1861 to 1864.
Adjutant General's reports from 1861 to 1864.
WEST VIRGINIA.
Copy of the Constitution of the State of West Virginia.
Acts of the Legislature of the State of West Virginia, since
its formation to 1865.
Message of the Governor of West Virginia.
Reports of the Governor of West Virginia.
OHIO.
Copy of the Constitution of the State of Ohio:
Copy of the military laws of Ohio.
Army Register of Ohio volunteers in the service of the United
States.
Annual report of the Surgeon General of the State of Ohio.
Annual report of the Quartermaster General of Ohio.
Annual report of the Adjutant General of Ohio for 1885.
Annual message of the Governor of Ohio to the fifty-sixth
General Assembly, January, 1865.
Biographical sketches of the fifty-sixth Senate and House of
Representatives of Ohio.
INDIANA.
Copy of the Constitution of the State of Indiana.
Message of the Governor of Indiana, 1861 to 1864
Adjutant General's reports from 1861 to 1864.
i
ILLINOIS.
Copy of the Constitution of the State of Illinois.
Messages of Governor j»f Illinois from 1861 to 1864.
Adjutant General's reports, 1861 to 1864.
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michigan.
Silver inadallion with State Ooat-of-Arins on one side and on
the other the number of soldiers furnished by Michigan for the
war, (91,193,) with this inscription, uIn honor of the 91,193 Michi-
gan soldiers, who aided in perpetuating American liberty, 1861 —
1865."
The names on parchment of the Michigan officers and soldier*
killed at Gettysburg, prepared by Hon. Thomas W. Ferry, Com-
missioner for the State in the board of managers of the Gettys-
burg National Cemetery.
List on parchment of Michigan regiments, companies and bat-
teries sent to the field during the war.
Adjutant General's reports as far as published, 1861, '62 and '63,
full bound in leather ; 2 vols.
Two commissions such as have been issued by this State for
commissioned officers.
Michigan resolutions on the state of the Union, February 2d,
1861.
Proclamation of Governor Blair, April 16th, 1861. First call
for troops.
Governor Blair's message to extra session, May 1861.
An Act to provide a military force, approved May 10th, 1861.
Governor Blair's message to extra session, January 2d, 1862.
Governor Blair's message to regular session, January 7th, 1863.
Governor Blair's message to extra session, January 19th, 1864.
Governor Blair's message to regular session, January 4th,
1865.
Governor Crapo's message to regular session, January 4th,
I6ij5.
Michigan resolutions on the state of the Union, March 18th,
1865.
Proclamation of Governor Crapo, June 14th, 1865. Welconi-
the returning troops — (above documents bound in one volume.)
"Legislative Manual of Michigan," contents as follows: Cal-
endar 1865-6-7. Constitution of the United States.
Constitution of the State of Michigan; counties, cities and
townships in Michigan, with census of 1845-50-54-60 and 64.
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Representative districts of Michigan and the names of mem-
bers of State Senate and House of Representatives for 1865.
Soldiers' vote 1864.
State officers and deputies and State military officers 1865.
Judicial circuits, with names and residences of Judges.
Federal officers of Michigan, 1865,
Governors of Michigan Territory, from 1805, to include 1835.
Governors and Lieutenant Governors of the State of Michigan,
from 1835, to include 1865.
Speakers of the House of Representatives of the Legislature of
Michigan from 1835, to include 1865.
United States Senators from Michigan, from 1836, to include
1865.
Representatives in Congress from Michigan, 1836, to include
1865.
The above are all contained in a small copper box, marked
" State of Michigan, 1865," which is 9 by 5 by 4 inches.
WISCONSIN.
Copy of the Constitution of the State of Wisconsin.
Governor's message and accompanying documents, 1865.
Legislative Manual for 1865.
Copy of the Adjutant General's report of Wisconsin, 1864.
MINNESOTA.
Copy of the Constitution of the State of Minnesota.
Copy of the Roll of Honor of Minnesota troops at the battle
of Gettysburg.
Statement of troops furnished by the State of Minnesota during
the present war.
MISCELLANEOUS.
Copies of charter and proceedings of the board of managers
of the "Soldiers' National Cemetery," at Gettysburg. Pa.
Copy of proceedings at the consecration of the "Soldiers' Na-
tional Cemetery," at Gettysburg,' Pa.
A list of the nani^s of the soldiers buried in the "Soldiers'
National Cemetery.*
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Tabular list of carps and regimental organizations of the Army
of the Potomac, in the battle at Gettysburg.
Colonel Batchelder's drawing of the battle field of Gettysburg.
Copy of the Constitution, of the different States of this Union
not heretofore mentioned, contained in a book, entitled "Ameri-
can Constitutions."
A large Silver Medal of President Lincoln, with appropriate
inscriptions ; presented by Col. John S. Warner, of the war of
1812.
Copy of reports of the United States Christian Commission,
accompanied with its silver badge.
Copy of the report of the United States Sanitary Commission.
Copy of the design of the monument for the "Soldiers' Na-
tional Cemetery," together with an artistic description.
Copy of programme of ceremonies of laying the Corner-Stone,
with a copy of the Masonic ceremonies of the Grand Lodge of
Pennsylvania, A. T. M., together with a full list of the Grand
officers who officiated in laying the Corner-Stone, and a copy of
arrangements of Masonic procession on said occasion.
Copy of Ahimon Kezon.
Proceedings of Grand Lodge and Masonic Eegister.
Copy of music sung by the Union Musical association of Bal-
timore, at the ceremonies of laying the Corner-Stone.
Manuscript list of articles deposited in Corner-Stone.
This ceremony was followed by a piece of music played by one
of the military bands.
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ORATION.
As I stand hear to-day before a peaceful audience, composed as
it is of beautiful ladies, joyous childern, and happy citizens, and
think of my last visit to this place, two years ago, and of the
terrible scenes in which it was my lot to bear apart, I cannot
help exclaiming, "How changed! how changed!"
It is the same rich landscape, broad and beautiful, covered with
every variety of natural objects to please the eye.
The same wooded ridges and cultivated fields ; the same neat
little town clinging to the hill-side; the same broad avenues of
approach; the same ravines and creeks — but, thank God! the
awful magnificence of hosts arrayed against each other in deadly
strife is wanting.
Yonder heights are no longer crowned with hostile cannon ; the
valleys do not reverberate with their fearful roar ; the groves and
the houses do not give back the indescribable peal of the mus-
ketry fire.
And oh ! how like a dream to-day seems that sad spectacle of
broken tombstones, prostrate fences, and the ground strewn with
our wounded and dead companions!
Then follows, after battle, the mingling of friends and ene-
mies, with suffering depicted in all possible modes of portraiture.
The surgeons, with resolute hearts and bloody hands; the pale
faces of relatives searching for dear ones, the busy Sanitary and
Christian workers — all pass before my mind in group after group.
My friends, my companions, my countrymen, suffer me to con-
gratulate you anew to day * this 4th day of July, 1855, that this
sad work is completely d&ne, and that sweet peace has really
dawned upon us.
On the 19th of November, 18G3, this National Cemetery, a pious
tribute to manliness and virtue, was consecrated.
The Hon. Edward Everett delivcrd an address in his own rich
clear, elegant, style, which, having been published, has long
264 SOLDIERS' NATIONAL CEMETERY.
ago become historical, and affords ns a complete and graphic ac-
count of the campaign and battle of Gettysburg. I am deeply
grateful to this noble patriot for his indefatigable industry in se-
eming facts, and for the clear narrative he has left us of this
battle, in which every living loyal soldier who fought here, is now
proud to have borne a part.
He, joining the patriotic band of those that are honored by his
eloquence, has gone to his reward ; and let his memory ever be
mingled with those here, upon whose graves he so earnestly in-
voked your benediction.
Mr. Everett was followed by the few remarkable words of
President Lincoln.
While Mr. Lincoln's name is so near and dear to us, and the
memory of his work and sacrifice so fresh, I deem it not inappro-
priate to repeat his own words :
"Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth upon
this continent a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated
to the proposition that all men are created equal.
"Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that
nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long en-
dure. We are met on a great battle field of that war. We are
met to dedicate a portion of it as the final resting-place of those
who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is alto-
gether fitting and proper that we should do this.
"But in a larger sense we cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate,
we cannot hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead,
who struggled here have consecrated it far above our power to add
or detract. The world will little note nor long remember what
we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for
us, the living, rather to be dedicated here to the unfinished work
that they have thus far so nobly carried on. It is rather for us to
.be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us — that
from these honored dead we take increased devotion to the cause
for which they here gave the last fullf treasure of devotion — that
we here highly resolve that the dead sliull not have died in vain —
that the nation shall, under God, have a new birth of freedom,
and that the government of the people, hj the people, and forth©
people, shall not perish from the earth."
The civil war is ended; the test was complete. He, Abraham
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Lincoln, never forgot his own dedication till the work was fin-
ished.
He did display even increased devotion if it were possible.
The dead did not die in vain, and the nation has experienced
already the new birth of freedom of which he spoke.
Oh that in the last throes of darkness and crime God had seen
it good to have spared us that great heart, out of which proceed-
ed such welcome words of truth and encouragement !
How very much of grateful recollection clusters around the
name of Abraham Lincoln, as we pronounce it here among the
. dead who have died that our nation might not perish from the-
earth !
These grounds have already been consecrated, and are doubly
sacred from the memory of our brethren who lie here, and from
the association with those remarkable men, Mr. Everett and Mr.
Linco ln, who gave tone to the exercises of consecration two years
ago, whose own bodies are now resting beneath the sod, but whose
spirit is still living, and unmistakably animating every true Ameri-
can heart this day.
We have now been called to lay the corner-stone of a monu-
ment.
This monument is not a mere family record, not the simple me-
morial of individual fame, nor the silent tribute to genius.
It is raised to the soldier. It is a memorial of his life and his
noble death.
» It embraces a patriotic brotherhood of heroes in its inscriptions,
and is an unceasing herald of labor, suffering, union, liberty, and
sacrifice.
Let us then, as is proper on such an occasion as this, give a few
thoughts to the American soldier.
We have now embraced under this generic name of soldier, the
dutiful officer, the volunteer soldier, the regular, the colored, and
the conscript; but in my remarks I will present you the private
volunteer as the representative American soldier.
In the early part of .1861, the true citizen heard that traitors at
Washington had formed a conspiracy to overthrow the Govern-
ment, and soon after\ -that the stars and stripes had been fired
upon and had been hauled down at the bidding of an armed ene-
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my in South Carolina; that the Capital of the nation was threat-
ened, and that our new President had called for help.
How quickly the citizen answered the call!
Almost like magic he sprang forth a soldier.
His farm or his bench, his desk or his counter, was left behind,
and you find him marching through the then gloomy, flagless, de-
fiant streets of Baltimore, fully equipped for service, with uniform
gray/blue, red, or green — it then mattered not; with knapsack,
cartridge-box, musket and bayonet, his (outfit was all that was re-
quired.
He was a little awkward, his accoutrements much awry, his will
unsubdued.
He did not keep step to music, nor always lock step with his
companions. He had scarcely ever fired a musket, but he had be-
come a soldier, put on the soldier's garb, set his face towards the
enemy, and, God willing, he purposed never to turn back till the
soldier's work was done.
You meet him at Washington, (on Meridian Hill perhaps;) dis-
cipline and drill seize upon him, restrain his liberty, and mould
his body. Colonels, Captains, Lieutenants, and Sergeants, his
former equals, order him about, and he must obey them. Oh what
days! and oh what nights! Where is home and affection? Where
is the soft bed and the loaded table? Change of climate, change
of food, want of rest, want of all kinds of old things, and an influx
of all sorts of new things, make him sick — yes, really sick in body
and soul.
But, in spite of a few doses of quinine and a wholesome hospital
bed and diet, (as the soldier of '61 remembers them,) his vigorous
constitution and indomitable heart prevail, so that he is soon able
to cross the Long Bridge and invade the sacred red clay of Vir-
ginia, with his companions in arms. Yet, perhaps, should you
now observe him very closely, you will perceive his enthusiasm
increasing faster even than his strength.
He is on the enemy's side of the riveiv now for strict guard
duty ; now lor the lonely picket amid th$> thickets, where men
are killed by ambushed foes.
How the eye and the ear, and may IT *ay it, the heart, are
quickened in these new and trying vigils
Before long, however, the soldier is inured to these things; he
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becomes familiar with every stump, tree, and pathway of approach,
and his trusty gun, and stouter heart, defy any secret foe.
Presently you find him on the road to battle; the hot weather
of July, the usual load, the superadded twenty extra rounds of
cartridges, and three days rations strung- to his neck, and the long
weary march, quite exhaust his strength during the very first day.
He aches to leave the ranks and rest, but no ! no ! He did not
leave home for' the ignominious name of "straggler" and "skul-
ker." Cost what it may, he toils on.
The Acotink, the Cub Eun, the never-to-be-forgotten Bull Bun
are passed. Here, of a sudden, strange and terrible sounds strike
upon his ear, and bear down upon his heart ; the booming of shot-
ted cannon ; the screeching of bursted shell through the heated
air, and the zip, zip, zip, of smaller balls; everything produces a
singular effect upon him. Again, all at once he is thrown, quite
unprepared, upon a new and trying experience; for now he meets
the groaning ambulance and the bloody stretcher. He meets
limping, armless, legless, disfigured, wounded men. To the right
of him and to the left of him are the lifeless forms of the slain.
Suddenly a large iron missile of death strikes close beside him,
and explodes, sending out twenty or more jagged fragments, which
remorselessly maim or kill five or six of his mates, before they
have had the opportunity to strike one blow for their country.
His face is now very pale; and will not the American soldier
flinch and turn back?
There is a stone wall; there is a building; there is a stack of
hay ; it is so easy to hide.
But no! He will not be a coward! "Oh God, support and
strengthen me !" 'Tis all his prayer.
Soon he is at work. Yonder is the foe. "Load and fire;"
''Load and fire."
But the cry comes, "Our flank is turned!" "Our men retreat!"
With tears pouring down his cheek, he slowly yields, and joins
the retreating throng. Without any more nerve and little strength,
he struggles back from a lost field.
x Now he drinks the dregs of suffering. Without blanket for the
night, without food, without hope, it is no wonder that a panic
seizes him, and he runs demoralized away.
This disreputable course, however, is only temporary. The sol-
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dier before long forgets his defeat and his sufferings, brightens
up his armor, and resumes his place on the defensive line.
He submits for weary days to discipline, drill, and hard fare ;
he wades through the snows of winter and the deep mud of a Vir-
ginia spring.
He sleeps upon the ground, upon the deck of transport steamer,
and upon the floor of the platform car. He helps load and unload
stores ; he makes fascines and gabions ; he corduroys quicksands,
and bridges creeks and bogs. Night and day he digs, or watches
in the trenches.
What a world of new experience! What peculiar labor and
suffering he passes through, the soldier alone can tell you.
He now marches hurriedly to his second battle; soon after he
is in a series of them. Fight and fall back ! Fight and fall back !
Oh those days of hopelessness, sorrow, toil, and emaciation. How
vividly the living soldier remembers them, those days when he
cried from the bottom of his heart, " Oh God, how long ! how long !"
Would you have patience to follow him through the comming-
ling of disasters from the battle of Cedar Mountain to the same
old Bull Bun, you would emerge with him from the chaos and be-
hold his glistening bayonet again on the successful field of An-
tietam, where a glimmer of hope lighted up his heart.
Would you go with him to the bloody field of Fredericksburg,
staunch his wounds in the wilderness of Ohancellorsville, and
journey on with him afterwards to this hallowed ground of Get-
tysburg, and could you be enabled to read and record his toils,
his sufferings, and all his thoughts, you might be able to appre-
ciate the true American soldier. You might then recite the first
chapter of the cost of the preservation of the American Union.
In September, 1863, after the battle of Gettysburg, the Govern-
ment sends two army corps to reinforce our brethren in the West.
The soldier is already far from home and friends, but he is sud-
denly apprised that he must go two thousand miles further. He
cannot visit his family to take leave of them. He has scarcely
the opportunity of writing a line of farewell.
The chances of death are multitudinous as they appear before
his imagination, and the hope of returning is very slender.
Yet again the soldier does not faiter. With forty others he
uniin
alter.
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crowds into the close, unventilated freight car, and speeds away,
night and day, without even the luxury of a decent seat.
With all the peculiar discomforts of this journey, the backings
and the waitings at the railroad junctions, the transfers from car
to car, and from train to train ; being confined for days without
the solace and strength derived from his coffee, there is yet some-
thing compensative in the exhilerating influence of change. And
there is added to it, in passing through Ohio and Indiana, a re-
newed inspiration as the people turn out in masses to welcome
him and to bid him God-speed ; as little girls throw wreaths of
flowers round his neck, kiss his bronzed cheek, and strew his car
with other offerings of love and devotion.
Such impressions as were here received were never effaced. —
They touched the rough heart anew with tenderness, and being a
reminder of all the old home affections, only served to deepen his
resolution sooner or later, by the blessing of God, to reach the
goal of his ambition; that is to say, with his compatriots, to se-
cure to his childern, and to other childern, enduring peace, with
liberty and an undivided country.
He passes on through Kentucky, through the battle-fields of
Tennessee, already historical.
The names, Nashville, Stone Eiver, Murfreesboro' and Tulla-
homa, reminded him of past struggles and portended future con-
flicts.
He is deposited at Bridgeport, Alabama, a house-less, cheer-less,
chilly place, on the banks of the Tennessee ; possessing no inter-
est further than that furnished by the railroad bridge destroyed,
and the yet remaining rubbish and filth of an enemy's camp.
Before many days the soldier threads his way up the valley of
the great river which winds and twists amid the rugged mountains,
till he finds himself beneath the rock-crowned steeps of Lookout.
Flash after flash, volume after volume of light-colored smoke,
and peal on peal of cannon, the crashing sound of shot and the
screaming of shell, are the ominous signs of unfriendly welcome
sent forth to meet him from this rocky height.
Yet on he marches, in spite of threatening danger, in spite of
the ambush along his route, until he has joined hands with his
Western brother, who had come from Chattanooga to meet and to
greet him.
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This is where the valley of Lookout joins that of the Tennessee.
i At this place the stories of Eastern and Western hardship, suf-
fering, battling, and danger, are recapitulated and made to blend
into the common history and the common sacrifice of the Ameri-
can soldier.
Were there time, I would gladly take you, step by step, with
the soldier, as he bridges and crosses the broad and rapid river;
as he ascends and storms the height of Mission Ridge; or as he
plants his victorious feet, waves his banner, and flashes his gun
on the top of Lookout Mountain.
I would carry you with him across the death-bearing streams
of Chickamauga. I would have you follow him in his weary,
barefooted, wintry march to the relief of Knoxville and back to
Chattanooga.
From this point of view I would open up the spring campaign,
where the great General initiated his remarkable work of genius
and daring.
I could point you to the soldier pursuing his enemy into the
strongholds of Dalton, behind the stern, impassable features of
Rocky Face.
Resaca, Adairsville, Oassville, Dallas, Xew Hope Church,
Pickett's Mill, Pine Top, Lost Mountain, Kenesaw, Gulp's Farm,
Smyrna, Gamp Ground, Peach Tree Greek, Atlanta, from so
many points of view, and Jonesboro', are names of battle-fields
upon each of which a soldier's memory dwells!
For upwards of a hundred days he scarcely rested from the
He skirmished over rocks, hills and mountains; through mud,
streams and forests.
For hundreds of miles he gave his aid to dig that endless chain
of entrenchments which compassed every one of the enemy's
fortified positions. He companied with those who combatted the
obstinate foe on the front and on the flanks of those mountain
fastnesses which the enemy had deemed impregnable, and he had
a right at least to echo the sentiment of his indefatigable leader,
"Atlanta is ours, and fairly won."
Gould you now have patience to turn back with him and fight
these battles over again, behold his communications cut, his rail-
road destroyed for miles and miles ; enter, the bloody fight of Ala-
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toona, follow him through the forced inarches, via. Eome, Ga.,
away back to Resaca, and through the obstructed gaps of the
mountains into Alabama, you would thank God for giving him a
stout heart and an unflinching faith in a just and noble cause.
Weary and worn, he reposed at Atlanta, on his return, but one
single night, when he commenced the memorable march toward
Savannah.
The soldier has become a veteran ; he can march all day with
his musket, his knapsack, his cartridge-box, his haversack and
canteen upon his person ; his muscles have become large and rigid,
so that what was once extremely difficult he now accomplishes
with graceful ease.
This fact must be borne in mind when studying the soldier's
marches through Georgia and the Caiolinas.
The enemy burned every bridge across stream after stream; the
rivers, bordered with swamps — for example, the Ocmulgee, the
Oconee, and the Ogechee — were defended at every crossing.
That they were passed at all by our forces, is due to the cheerful,
fearless, indomitable private soldier.
Oh that you had seen him, as I have done, wading creeks a half
mile in width, and water waist deep, under fire, pressing on through
wide swamps, with-out one faltering step, charging in line upon
the most formidable works, which were well defended ! You could
then appreciate him and what he has accomplished as I do. You
could then feel the poignant sorrow that I always did feel when
I saw him fall bleeding to the earth.
I must now leave the soldier to tell his own tale amongst the
people, of his bold, bloody, work at M'Allister, against the tor-
pedoes, aba ttis, artillery, and musketry; of his privations at Sa-
vannah; of his struggle through the swamps, quicksands, and
over the broad rivers of the Oarolinas ; of the fights, fires, explo-
sions, doubts, and triumphs suggested by Griswoldville, Elvers'
and Binnaker's bridges, Orangeburg, Congaree creek, Columbia,
Oheraw, Fayetteville, A.verysboro', and Benton ville.
I will leave him to tell how his hopes brightened at the reunion
at Goldsboro'. How his heart throbbed with gratitude and joy as
the wires confirmed the rumored news of Lee's defeat, so soon to
be followed by the capture of the enemy's Capital and of his en-
ti re army. I will leave him to tell to youisel ves and your chiidrei) ,
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how he felt and acted ; how proud was his bearing ; how elastic
his step, as he marched in review before the President of the
United States at; Washington! I would do the soldier injustice
not to say that there was one thing wanting to make his satis-
faction complete, and that was the sight of the tall form of Abra-
ham Lincoln, and the absence of that bitter recollection which he
could not altogether exclude from his heart — that he had died by
the hand of a traitor assassin.
I have given you only glimpses of the American soldier, as I
have seen him. To feel the full force of what he has done and
suffered, you should have accompanied him for the last four years.
You should have stood upon the battle-fields during, and after,
the struggle; and you should have completed your observation in
the army hospitals, and upon the countless grounds peopled with
the dead. The maimed bodies, the multitude of graves, the his-
toric fields, the monumental stones like this we are laying to-day,
after all are only meagre memorials of the soldier's work.
God grant that what he planted, nourished, and has now pre-
served by his blood — I mean American liberty — may be a plant
dear to us as the apple of the eye, and that its growth may not be
hindered till its roots are firmly set in every State of this Union,
and till the full fruition of its blessed fruit is realized by men of
every name, color and description, in this broad land.
Now, as I raise my eyes and behold the place where my friend
and trusted commander, General Reynolds, fell, let me add iny
own testimonial, to that of others, that we lost in him a true pa-
triot, a true man, a complete General, and a thorough soldier.
Upon him, and the others who died here for their country, let
there never cease to descend the most earnest benediction of every
American heart.
Let me congratulate this noble Keystone State that it was able
to furnish such tried and able men as Reynolds who fell, and
Meade who lived to guide us successfully through this wonderful
and hotly contested battle.
In the midst of all conflicts, of all sorrows and triumphs, let
us never, for an instant, forget that there is a God in Heaven
whose arm is strong to help — whose balm is sweet to assauge every
pain — and whose love embraces all joy.
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To Him, then, let us look in gratitude and praise that it has been
/ His will so greatly to bless our nation; and may this Monument
ever remind us and our prosterity, in view of the fact that we pre-
vailed against our enemies, "that righteousness exaltetha nation,
but sin is a reproach to any people."
One of the Military Bands then played a piece of music, which
was followed by the reading of the following original Poem, by
the author:
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POEM,
by chas. g. halpine, ("Miles 0,Rcilly,,,s)
As men beneath some pang of grief
Or sadden joy will dumbly stand,
Finding no words to give relief —
Clear, passion-warm, complete, and brief-
To thoughts with which their souls expand;
So here to-day — these trophies nigh—
Our trembling lips no utterance reach;
The hills around, the graves, the sky —
The silent poem of the eye
Surpasses all the art of speech I
To-day, a Nation meets to build
A Nation's trophy to the dead
Who, living, formed the sword and shield —
The arms she sadly learned to wield
When other hope of peace had fled.
And not alone for those who lie
In honored graves before us blent,
Shall our proud column, broad and high,
Chmb upward to the blessing sky,
But be for all a monument.
An emblem of our grief, as well
For others as for these, we raise ;
For these beneath our feet who dwell,
And all who in the Good Cause fell
On other fields, in other frays.
To all the self-same love we bear
Which here for marbled memory strives;
No soldier for a wreath would care
Which all true comrades might not share —
Brothers in death as in their lives!
On Southern hill-sides, parched and brown,
In tangled swamp, on verdant ridge,
Where pines and broadening oaks look down,
And jasmine weaves its yellow crojpn,
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And trumpet-creepers clothe the hedge;
Along the shores of endless sand,
Beneath the palms of Southern plains,
Sleep everywhere, hand locked in hand,
The brothers of the gallant hand,
Who here poured life through throbbing veins.
Around the closing eyes of all
The same red glories glared and flew —
The hurrying flags, the bugle call,
The whistle of the angry ball,
The elbow- touch of comrades true !
The skirmish-fire — a spattering spray;
The long, sharp growl of fire by file,
The thickening fury of the fray
When opening batteries get in play,
And the lines form o'er many a mile.
The foeman's yell, our answering cheer,
Eed flashes through the gathering smoke,
Swift orders, resonant and clear,
Blithe cries from comrades tried and dear,
The shell-scream and the sabre-stroke ;
The rolling, fire from left to right,
From right to left, we hear it swell ;
The headlong charges, swift and bright,
The thickening tumult of the fight
And bursting thunders of the shell.
Now, deadlier, denser grows the strife,
And here we yield, and there we gain ;
The air with hurtling missiles rife,
Volley for volley, life for life —
No time to heed the cries of pain !
Panting as up the hills we charge,
Or down them as we broken roll,
Life never felt so high, so large.
And never o'er so wide a marge
In triumph swept the kindling soul !
New raptures waken* in the breast
Amid this hell of scene and sound;
The barking batteries never rest,
And broken foot I by horsemen pressed,
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Still stubbornly contest their ground.
Fresh waves of battle rolling in
To take the place of shattered waves ;
Torn lines that grow more bent and thin —
A blinding cloud, a maddening din —
'Twas thus were filled these very graves !
Mght falls at length with pitying veil —
A moonht silence deep and fresh;
These upturned faces stained and pale,
Yainly the chill night dews assail —
For colder than dews their flesh !
And flickering far through brush and wood
Go searching-parties, torch in hand —
"Seize if you can some rest and food,
At dawn the fight will be renewed,
Sleep on your arms!" the hushed command.
They talk in whispers as they lie
In line — these rough and weary men ;
" Dead or but wounded?" then a sigh 5
"No coffee either !" " Guess we'll try
To get those two guns back again."
"We five flags to their one ! oho !"
"That bridge — 'twas hot there as we passed !"
" The colonel dead ! It can't be so ;
Wounded and badly — that I know ;
But he kept saddle to the last."
"Be sure to send it if 1 fall — "
"Any tobacco? Bill have youF
"A brown-haired, blue-eyed, laughing doll — "
" Good-night, boys, and God keep you all!"
"What! sound asleep? Gess I'll sleep too. "
" Yes, just about this hour they pray
For Dad." "Stop talking! pass the word !"
And soon as quiet as the clay
Which thousands will but be next day
The long drawn sighs of sleep are heard.
Oh, men ! to whom this sketch, though rude,
Calls back some scene of pain and pride :
Oh, widow ! hugging close your brood,
Oh, wife ! with happiness renewed.
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Since lie again is at your side ;
This trophy that to-day we raise
Should be a mouument for all ;
Aud on its sides no niggard phrase
Coufine a generous Nation's praise
To those who here have chanced to fall.
But let us all to-day combine
Still other monuments to raise ;
Here for the Dead we build a shrine ;
And now to those Avho, crippled, pine,
Let us give hope of happier days : —
Let homes for these sad wrecks of war
Through all the land with speed arise ;
Tongues cry from every gaping scar,
"Let not our brother's tomb debar •
The wounded living from your eyes."
A noble day, a deed as good, -
A noble scene in which 'tis done,
The Birthday of our Nationhood:
And here again the Nation stood
On this same day — its life rewon !
A bloom of banners in the air,
A double calm of sky and soul ;
Triumphal chant and bugle blare,
And green fields, spreading bright and fair,
While heavenward our Hosannas roll.
Hosannas for a land redeemed,
The bayonet sheathed, the cannon dumb 5
Passed, as some horror we have dreamed,
The fiery meteors that here streamed,
Threatening within our homes to come !
Again our banner floats abroad,
Gone the one stain that on it fell —
And, bettered by His chastening rod,
With streaming eyes uplift to God
We say, "He doeth all things well."
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The following Hymn was then sung to the memory of our fallen
heroes at the Battle of Gettysburg, Pa., July 1st, 2d and 3d, by
the National Union Musical Association of Baltimore :
Hark ! a nation's sighs ascend !
Hark ! a thousand voices blend,
From your thrones of glory bend,
Sons of Liberty !
From each dark empurpled field,
Where your blood the Union sealed,
Spirit-tongues to-day have peal'd,
The Soldier's Eequiem !
Where the smoke of battle curl'd,
Where the bolt of death was harl'd,
Ye out starry flag unfurl'd
Floating o'er the free !
In the dark and trying hour,
Putting forth your steady power,
Caused the Eebel hordes to cower,
Just two years ago !
Flashing sword and burning word,
Southrons felt and Southrons heard —
Plum'd our country's banner -bird,
Just two years ago !
Martyr'd sons of trying days,
While the world resounds your praise,
Hear the songs your childern raise,
Sons of Liberty !
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SPEECH OF A. G. CTJRTTN,
GOVERNOR OF PENNSYLVANIA.
The programme for the exercises of the occasion having been
fulfilled, calls were made by all the people present for Governor
Curtin, who spoke in substance as follows :
Having learned last week that my name occurred on the
programme, for the ceremonies of this occasion, I immediately
asked that it should be omitted. There did not seem to be time
for such preparation as would be proper for a ceremonial like this.
I am deeply grateful for your hearty and enthusiastic request that
I should be heard,. and I will draw upon the inspirations of the
time and the place, the connection between the event of this
Sabbath day of American Freedom, and the hallowed precincts
within which we all stand.
It would seem to be proper for me to express the thanks of the
people of Pennsylvania to the citizens of the United States, who
join with us to-day, and who have hitherto contributed their influ-
ence and means to the erection of this place of sepulture, for the
remains of those who perished in the great battles of Gettysburg,
and who, this day, surround the foundation stone of a monument
to their memory. We thank the citizens of the eighteen States,
who have given valuable and voluntary service, as trustees of the
association, representing their respective States. We thank the
people, who have come up here in multitudes to participate in
these solemnities. We thank that patriotic and benevolent brother-
hood, so well represented here to-day by its chiefs, for their ancient
rites and ceremonies, for theis words of fraternit}^ and love, con-
tributed and pronounced upon the corner-stone of this structure,
which is to be the monument of the devotion and fidelity to coun-
try of their brothers and ours. And we are fortunate in having
here with us, my fellow-citizens, the Great chief who commanded
the historic Army of the Potomac, on the signal day which made
his fame and that of his army, forever illustrious in the annals
of American history ; ai d we exjn'ess with one voice our thanks
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to Mm and his brave companions, so many whom remain to sur-
round him here, and honor us with their presence. But more than
all, my fellow-citizens, let us all unite in our expressions of grati-
tude to the sublime heroism and unselfish patrotism of the private
soldiers of the Republic ; for to them, above all others, we owe
the safety of our Free Government, and the return of the blessings
of peace and tranquility to our distressed country. I could not
but feel the unselfishness of the words of the chosen Orator of
the day ; and the armless sleeve of the maimed General, seemed
of itself eloquent, when he forgot the statesmen and generals of
the war, and gave credit to the private soldier for all the glories,
which now surround the blood-stained, but forever stable Institu-
tions of American liberty.
Our monument should be the choicest work of art on this con-
tinent; it should be made beautiful and strong; this place will
forever be attractive ; the statesman can here meditate on the
sacrifices made for liberty and civilization ; the soldier can study
the faultless plan of battle ; and all can count here, the cost to
this generation of maintaining the principles of Freedom, trans-
mitted to us from our ancestors ; but no work of art can express
our feelings of gratitude for the soldiers of the Republic, living
or dead ; he has his memory enshrined in the hearts of a grateful
people, "there a monument that needs no scroll."
But why should I speak to you to-day? It is but two years
since the death-.struggle of rebellion and treason filled this valley,
now so peaceful, with bloodshed and carnage ; and the thunders
of the artillery of that eventful strife will speak to man for his
freedom and individuality, until time shall be no more.
Stronger than logic, sweeter than poetry, the orators of this
occasion lie in their graves around you; no living lips can reach
your hearts, as does the mute eloquence which comes up from the
graves of the heroic dead. We are all of one family, my fellow-
citizens, the living and the dead ; those who lie around us shed
benefactions upon us by the good they didj let us this day draw
inspiration from their sublime virtues, and strive like them, to be
faithful to the Government they died to save.
We people of Pennsylvania give Praise to God, that it was of
His mysterious Providence, that the blood of the people of eighteen
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States, here represented, should seal a covenant, made in the hour
of the nation's deepest agony, that this Great Republic shall be for-
ever sacred to Union and fraternity, and pray him that the lessons,
of Gettysburg shall sink deeply into the American heart.
The remarks of Governor Curtis; were uttered with a fervor
and earnestness, that fastened the attention of the whole audience,
and from their impassioned effect, the reporters failed to take them
down as fully as delivered.
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BENEDICTION,
EEV. D. T. OARXAHAN.
May the blessing of Almighty God rest upon the exercises of
this day; and upon what has been done, and shall yet be done,
to perpetuate and hallow the memory of the noble deeds and he-
roic virtues of our patriot-soldiers who here offered up their lives
upon the altar of their country, in defence of the dearest rights
of man, and to preserve and perpetuate our national Union and
integrity.
May the Divine blessing rest upon our land and nation, upon
our rulers, and upon the people, upon our army and navy, and
upon all our public interests, and issue in a greater degree of
prosperity and happiness than we have yet enjoyed.
May the God of our fathers, who hath given us the victory over
armed and organized rebellion, be our God forever and ever — our
Guide, our Rock, our Refuge, and our Glory.
The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, the love of God, and the
communion of the Holy Ghost, be with you all now and forever.
Amen.
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