Nov 14, 2022 · The Gettysburg National Cemetery is the final resting place for over 6,000 United States soldiers and veterans. Of these, over 3,500 were among the United States soldiers who died at the Battle of Gettysburg.

Gettysburg National Cemetery is a United States national cemetery in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, created for Union casualties from the Battle of Gettysburg in the American Civil War.

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The Gettysburg National Cemetery is famous throughout the world today as the site of Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address, delivered at the cemetery’s dedication ceremony four and a half months after the battle.

Established just months following the battle, the Gettysburg National Cemetery marks the “final resting place for those who here gave their lives..." At the cemetery's dedication, President Lincoln delivered his immortal Gettysburg Address, Nov. 19, 1863.

About the Soldiers' National Cemetery. Three days of fighting at Gettysburg took a horrible toll on both armies: roughly 10,000 soldiers killed or mortally wounded, 30,000 injured, and 10,000 captured or missing. After the battle, bodies lay scattered throughout Gettysburg’s farmlands.

Of the 3,354 bodies buried in the Soldiers’ National Cemetery, 979 are unknown. Now, the cemetery serves as the final resting place 6,000 individuals who “gave the last full measure of devotion” in not only the Civil War but five additional American conflicts.

Tour map of the National Cemetery on the Gettysburg battlefield, showing monument locations with links to individual monument pages

Sep 23, 2022 · The Gettysburg National Cemetery is famous throughout the world today as the site of Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address, delivered at the cemetery’s dedication ceremony four and a half months after the battle.

Established just months following the battle, the Gettysburg National Cemetery marks the “final resting place for those who here gave their lives.” At the cemetery’s dedication, President Lincoln delivered his immortal Gettysburg Address, Nov. 19, 1863.