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 On November 19, 1863, President Abraham Lincoln spoke the following
words at the dedication of the Soldiers' National Cemetery at Gettysburg,
Pennsylvania:
"Four score and seven years ago, our fathers brought forth
upon this continent a new nation, conceived in Liberty and dedicated to the proposition
that all men are created equal. Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing
whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We
are met on a great battlefield of that war. We are met to dedicate a portion of it as
the final resting place of those who here gave their lives that that nation might
live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this. But in a
larger sense we cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate, we cannot hallow this
ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here have consecrated it far
above our power to add or detract. The world will little note nor long remember what
we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us, the living,
rather to be dedicated here to the unfinished work they have thus far so nobly carried
on. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us -
that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to the cause for which they here
gave the last full measure of devotion - that we here highly resolve that the dead shall
not have died in vain; that the nation shall, under God, have a new birth of freedom,
and that the government of the people, by the people, and for the people, shall not perish
from the earth."
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These pages contain a roll of soldiers buried at the Soldiers'
National Cemetery at Gettysburg according to a report of 1865. There is a listing of
soldiers by state. Some of the dead are listed with items found with them. Some
of the soldiers are listed with identifying features. I am not sure how many of these
soldiers - if any - have since been identified and/or moved. Some are marked removed as it
had occurred before the report was written. If you have questions about any of these
men, contact the National Cemetery at Gettysburg.
Should you have any questions on the
Confederate dead from Gettysburg, please contact the cemetery or the United
Daughters of the Confederacy for where they are buried. According to the
historian at Gettysburg National Military Park, "The majority of southern
dead remained in the hasty and scattered field burials until 1877 when ladies'
memorial societies in South and North Carolina undertook efforts to have the
bodies removed. South Carolina soldiers from the Charleston area that could be
located were removed to a cemetery at Charleston, South Carolina. A large number
of North Carolina soldiers were taken to Oakwood Cemetery in North
Carolina. The remainder were removed and shipped to Hollywood Cemetery in
Richmond, Virginia in 1878-79."
Number of Soldiers at Gettysburg Buried at the National
Cemetery
- Maine ~ 104
- New Hampshire ~ 49
- Vermont ~ 61
- Massachusetts ~ 159
- Rhode Island ~ 12
- Connecticut ~ 22
- New York ~ 866
- New Jersey ~ 78
- Pennsylvania ~ 526
- Delaware ~ 15
- Maryland ~ 22
- West Virginia ~ 11
- Ohio ~ 131
- Indiana ~ 80
- Illinois ~ 6
- Michigan ~ 171
- Wisconsin ~ 73
- Minnesota ~ 52
- US Regulars ~ 138
- Unknown, Lot North ~ 411
- Unknown, Lot South ~ 425
- Unknown, Lot Inner Circle
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143
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