Gettysburg day 2

Gettysburg Day 2
We spent the better part of the morning getting ready to leave Gettysburg and visiting the National Cemetery there. Located near some of the most strenuous fighting on Cemetery Hill and Cemetery Ridge it is where some 3200 Union soldiers are buried. They were interned here after their hasty burials on the fields where they fell and are placed according to the regiments that they fought in. Her you see the rows of grave markers that list the names of men from PA, NY, Vermont, Michigan, Delaware etc. There are some 411 Unknown soldiers who are given numbers and listed with the Unknown.
The main memorial which was dedicated here by Lincoln and where his famous Gettysburg Address was given is located in the center of this semi circle of gravesites. Also buried here are any of the widows of soldiers who died at Gettysburg and wanted to be unturned here.
After that we went to downtown Gettysburg and looked at the home where Lincoln stayed the night prior to his speech and the railway station that he came in on.
So that ends our visit to this most historic site and we left on Hwy 116 and 16 following the path of Lee’s retreat where he passed over the Potomac River some 13 days later.
1 The Cemetery hill battlefield
2 The Natl War Memorial
3 The Unknown Soldiers
4 The States represented
4 Federalist Architecture