Gettysburg Peter J. Durow
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The battle of Gettysburg, which took place on July 1-3, 1863, was the bloodiest battle ever fought on US soil. * Among numerous head-stones or monuments on Cemetery Hill, marred or destroyed by the enemy's concentrated fire, was one, somewhat conspicuous, of a Federal officer killed before Richmond in 1862. On the 4th of July 1865, the Gettysburg National Cemetery, on the same height with the original burial-ground, was consecrated, and the corner-stone laid of a commemorative pile.
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