The Soldier's National Cemetery

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Stock #:326124
Type: Postcard
Era: Divided Back
City: Gettysburg
State: Pennsylvania (PA)
County: Adams
Publisher: W.H. Tipton
Size: 3.5" x 5.5" (9 x 14 cm)

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The Soldier's National Cemetery covers seventeen acres of ground on the highest point of Cemetery Hill. The dead lie in sections, each representing one of the eighteen Northern States to which the solders belong. There are also three sections of unknown dead and one of the US Regular Army. In all twenty-two sections. No fairer resting place for a nation's heroes could be conceived. Here lie the bodies of 3,000 slain, of whom 979 are unknown

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