FARK AND CEMETERY. 
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idea and of the details of construction as they pro- 
gressed to the present time. The Gettysburg Battle- 
field Memorial Commission, incorporated in 1864, 
carried on the work until it was taken over by the 
government in 1893. 
The details of the surveys, the laying out of the 
roads and avenues and their construction, besides 
many more of the important features of reconstruct- 
ing the park on the lines that existed at the time of 
the battle are presented with more official detail, of 
course, in the reports of the Gettysburg National 
Military Park Commission, 1893-1904, issued in 1905 
from the Government Printing Office at Washington. 
This volume, besides the yearly reports for the time 
of Telford roadways, 1314 miles of avenue fencing, 
12)4 miles of post and rail fencing, 13 miles of gutter 
paving. Five and one-quarter miles of stone walls 
had been rebuilt at locations where stone walls ex- 
isted at the time of the battle. Three hundred and 
twenty-five guns had been mounted ; 462 tablets, etc., 
erected, and 17,100 trees planted. Since the date of 
the report much further work has been accomplished, 
the tablets, etc., being now over 500 ; and the number 
of guns has been increased. 
The Antietam Battlefield. 
Considerable work has been accomplished by the 
commission to preserve for the future the war-time 
GENERAL, VIEW OF NATIONAL CEMETERY IN NATIONAL MILITARY PARK, GETTYSBURG. 
National Monument in Center of Circle. 
stated, contains some 238 full page half-tones of 
road construction, finished roads, important scenes 
and sites, monuments and other features of the special 
work of making a national military park which will 
appeal to future generations for its diversity of detail, 
historical accuracy, and vast educational and recre- 
ative value. 
Among the innumerable items of interest the statis- 
tics of the park present may be mentioned 
the expenditures : The states themselves, through 
the first commission, expended in lands, monu- 
ments, construction, expenses, etc., $846,675.56. 
The United States Government, since 1893, 
has spent $848,922.50, and at the close of 1905 
owned 1,686.95 acres. The report of the government 
inspecting officer at the close of 1904, showed that 
since July, 1893, there had been constructed 20 miles’^"' 
conditions appertaining to the field of Antietam, and 
during the past few years a considerable number of 
fine memorials have been erected, many of them of 
special merit. 
The roads are likewise being improved and tablets 
erected to mark the location and movements of the 
troops engaged. The battle of Antietam was an- 
other of the great battles of the Civil War, and its 
National Cemetery contains some 4,734 dead. It was 
originally laid out under a board of trustees appointed 
by act of the Legislature of Maryland, and other 
northern states joined in the work, appropriating 
some $70,000 for the purchase of land and the re- 
interment of the bodies. In 1877 the cemetery was 
transferred to the government, to which the monu- 
ments are also turned over as they are erected by 
the organizations doing honor to the brave dead. 
