Revised report of the Select committee relative to the Soldiers' national cemetery, together with the accompanying documents, as reported to the House ... of the commonwealth of Pennsylvania ...
Publisher: Scholarly Publishing Office, University of Michigan Library
Published: December 20, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 222
ISBN-13: 9781425518455
Subjects: History / United States / General
First sentence: Mr. LEE, from the special committee, to whom was referred so much of the Governor's annual message to the Legislature of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, read January 7, 1864, as relates to the Gettysburg Cemetery, made report: That they visited the grounds recently purchased by the State of Pennsylvania for the purpose of establishing a National Cemetery, in which to re-inter the bodies of our soldiers, who fell in the memorable three days' conflict at Gettysburg, and found in progress active and judicious efforts, under competent and constant supervision, to have all the bodies of the Union soldiers, known and unknown, transferred to this, their final resting place.