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The Ever Green Cemetery Association of Gettysburg was chartered in 1853. [1] It remains a private cemetery to this day. Philadelphia architect Stephen Decatur Button designed the cemetery's gatehouse in mid-1855, [ 2 ] and its cornerstone was laid by Reverend Samuel Simon Schmucker on September 1. [ 3 ]
The Ever Green Cemetery Association of Gettysburg was established at a November 29, 1853 meeting. [7] The association managed the property and oversaw selection of its caretakers. By April 3, 1854, 118 lots had been sold, and the association members' first payments were due. [8] The first interment took place on October 29. [9]
Gettysburg National Cemetery is a United States national cemetery in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, created for Union casualties from the Battle of Gettysburg in the American Civil War. The Battle of Gettysburg, which was fought between July 1 to 3, 1863, resulted in the largest number of casualties of any Civil War battle but also was considered ...
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There are three monuments to this battery at Gettysburg. [9] The main monument is on Wheatfield Road in Trostle's field at the spot where the left gun was in position beside the road. The second monument is of an ammunition chest, it was placed at the gateway leading into the field, the regiment's second position.
Emmor Cope (1834-1927) was an American Civil War officer of the Union Army noted for the "Map of the Battlefield of Gettysburg from the original survey made August to October, 1863", [5] which he researched by horseback as a sergeant [6] after being ordered back to Gettysburg by Maj. Gen. George G. Meade. [7]
Massachusetts approved appropriations to the Gettysburg Soldiers' National Monument Association on March 14, 1865; [6] and in May, David Wills invited veterans organizations for the extensive July 4 cornerstone ceremony [7] (lithographs of the "design proposed by J. G. Batterson" [5]: 10 were available by July 19, 1865.) [8] The monument structure was built at Batterson's works at Westerly ...
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