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moved in action. Within its limits earthworks and 

 structures of all kinds existing during the battle, so 

 far as they remained at the time of the park crea- 

 tion, are maintained. Both within the grounds, and 

 so far as possible without them, points have been 

 marked which help to disclose the strategy and ac- 

 tion of battle. 



LOGICAL REORGANIZATION DEMANDED 



Because they are federal, historical and unin- 

 dustrial, National Military Parks group naturally 

 with National Monuments, which, as a system, they 

 preceded by sixteen years. National Military Parks 

 preserve battle-fields of the Civil War and a historic 

 memorial of before the Civil War which is not a bat- 

 tle-field; and National Monuments preserve (besides 

 much else) battle-fields and historical memorials not 

 of the Civil War. The difficult distinction was not 

 intentional on the part of a casual and careless Con- 

 gress. Lincoln's Birthplace, which is not a battle- 

 field, is absurdly a National Military Park, while 

 Fort Wood in New York Harbor, out of which rises 

 the Statue of Liberty, a military reservation, is a 

 National Monument! 



A logical reclassification would group histori- 

 cal reservations of every kind since the coming of 

 the white man together under the title of National 

 Historical (instead of merely Military) National 

 Parks, leaving only the scientific reservations (ar- 



