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PARK AND CEMETERY. 
OUR NATIONAL MILITARY PARKS— GETTYSBURG AND ANTIETAM 
Of all the efforts of Congress to meet the popular 
will in its many appropriations for public matters., 
outside the actual expenditures for maintaining the 
government, none has met with more sympathetic 
approval than the wise, yet liberal sums, provided for 
our battlefield parks. Students of war history never 
had better opportunities of obtaining practical 
knowledge of certain battles of our Civil War than is 
offered in our splendid military parks, wherein every 
facility has been provided for the free movement and 
comfort of the rapidly increasing numbers of visitors 
who annually make a pilgrimage to these really 
wonderful battle parks. 
The literature on this attractive subject is also 
on the increase, and is becoming more interesting 
and authentic as time passes. One of the very recent 
publications of G. P. Putnam’s Sons, from the pen 
of Henry Sweetser Burrage, is entitled “Gettysburg 
and Lincoln,” and it affords some very attractive de- 
tails of the Battle of Gettysburg, the cemetery, and 
the National Park, and it is quite freely illustrated. 
The text in relation to the National Cemetery, situated 
within the park confines, is of unusual interest. It 
gives details of the inception of the idea, the meth- 
ods and means of carrying out the project, and the 
facts connected with its dedication and the part which 
the lamented Lincoln took in its dedication on No- 
vember 19, 1863. The grounds were laid out by the 
late William Saunders, the well-known landscape 
gardener, and comprise some seventeen acres on 
Cemetery Hill, which overlooks the whole battlefield. 
The lots are all arranged in semi-circular style, 
around the national monument, and contain some 
0,555 bodies. This monument, executed by Mr. J. G. 
Batterson, was dedicated July 1, 1869. The main 
portion is sixty feet in height and is surmounted by 
a colossal statue of Liberty. 
Part HI of the book is devoted to the National 
Military Park, and gives a very terse and clear de- 
scription of the history and development of the park 
ENTRANCE TO NATIONAL CEMETERY AT GETTYSBURG. 
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