Identifier: gettysburglincol01burr (find matches)
Title: Gettysburg and Lincoln;
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: Burrage, Henry S. (Henry Sweetser), 1837-1926
Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Soldiers' National Cemetery (Gettysburg, Pa.) Gettysburg, Battle of, Gettysburg, Pa., 1863
Publisher: New York and London, G. P. Putnam's sons
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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gade,and stating its numbers and losses so far as isascertainable. Nine itinerary tablets, at this time, had alsobeen erected on East Cemetery Hill, along theBaltimore pike, describing the movements andpositions of the Union army, and each of thecommands composing it, on each day from June29 to July 7, 1863. On Seminary Ridge ten Confederate tabletsalso were now erected, recording the movementsof the Confederate army and its several corps,divisions, and brigades on each day from June26th, when the last of the Army of NorthernVirginia crossed the Potomac into Maryland,until after the close of the battle and the retreatfrom Gettysburg, July 5, 1863. Buford Avenue, extending from Reynolds Ave-nue northwestward to the Mummasburg roadalong the line of the Union cavalry, which threat-ened the left flank of the Confederate infantry onthe forenoon of July ist, and Stone Avenue, whichruns along the line of the Bucktail Brigade fromthe Chambersburg pike to Reynolds woods, werecompleted in 1903.
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Slocum Statue, National Park Commission i8i An equestrian statue of Maj.-Gen. Henry W.Slocum, erected by the State of New York, wasdedicated September 19, 1903. Additional purchases of land amounting to onehundred and ninety-four acres were made in1904, and the total area of lands at Gettysburgthen in possession of the United States Govern-ment was thirteen hundred and eighty acres, orabout two and a half square miles. In this year, eighty-one hundred trees werepurchased by the Commission, and these, underthe direction of S. B. Detwiler, field assistant ofthe United States Bureau of Forestry, wereplanted on Seminary Ridge, on United Statesland south of the McMillan woods, and southerlyalong the border of West Confederate Avenue tothe Wheatfield road, a distance of nearly twomiles; and on the Masonheimer land, south ofUnited States Avenue. By an act passed February 18, 1903, and asupplemental act approved March 12, 1905,Congress directed the Commission, subject to thesupervision of the

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