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'-■*■/■) In the House op Representatives,} Thursday, January 19, 1865, j Eesolved, That a committee of three members be appointed to revise the report on the Gettysburg Cemetery, and superintend the publication of ten thousand copies, nine thousand five hundred for the use of this House, and five hundred for the use of the Governor. Ordered, That Messrs. Lee, Nelson and Slack be the said committee. In the Senate, March 14, 1865, Resolved, That five thousand copies of the report of the committee on the Gettysburg Cemetery be printed for the use of the Senate, and five hun- dred copies for the use of David Wills, State Agent at Gettysburg. REPORT In thb House op Representatives,) Habeisbueg, March 23, 1865. f Mr. Lee, from the commtttee appointed under the following resolution, passed January 19, 1865, to wit : " Resolved, That a committee of three members be appointed to revise the report of the Gettysburg Cemetery, and superintend the publication of ten thousand copies, nine thousand five hundred for the use of this House, and five hundred for the use of the Grovemor," made report : That they have subjected said r&port to a thorough revision, and have made such alterations as, in their judgment, were necessary to perfect the work, and have made such arrangements as will secure to each member his due proportion, at as early a day as the nature of the work will permit it to be issued. EDWARD a LEE, W. M. NELSON, ALFRED SLACK, Committee. SOLDIERS' NATIONAL CEMETERY. EEPORT OF COMMITTEE On Soldiers' National Cemetery) made January 7, 1S64. Mr. Lee, from tlie special committee, to whom was referred so much of the Govomor's annual message to the Legislature of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, re&d January 7, 1864-, as relates to the Gettysburg Cemetery, made report : That they visited the grounds recently purchased by the State of Penn- sylvania 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' con- flict at Gettysburg, and found in progress active and judicious efforts, under comj)etent and constant supervision, to have all the bodies of the Union soldiers, known and unknown, transferred to this, their final resting place. In view of the general interest manifested for this institution, your com- mittee felt that they were charged with the responsible duty of preparing a detailed history of this cemetery and its purposes. The interventk)n of obvious difficulties to the completion of this work, by your committee, in a satiefaotory manner, suggested the propriety of in- voking the services of David Wnxs, Eeq., of Gettysburg, Commissioner for Pennsylvania, who, having in his possesion all the facts necessary to an adequate deecription of the time, place and circumstances connected with this laudable enterprise, coupled with an intense and ardent devotion to its every detail, kindlj consented to relieve their labors, by furnishing the fol- lowing repiete and deeply interesting history of the Soldiers' Natiohal CEMETaaY, which^ tojgether with the act of incorporation, approved by the Governor on the twenty- fifth day of March, A. D. one thousand eight hun- dred and sixty-four, your committ.ee desire to present as embodying tJieir report. AH of which is respectftilly submitted, (Signed) EDWARD G. LEE, L. b: LABAR, T. J. BOYEn, laAIAH WHITE, H. B. BOWMAN. SOLDIERS' NATIONAL CEMETERY. REPORT OF DAYID WILLS, [Made to the Committee oi ihe Legislature of the Session or 1864.] To the Honor able, the Gommitlee of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, on the Soldiers^ National Cemetery, at Gettysburg : Gentlemen : — In obedience to your request, I have the honor to submit the following report on the subject of the Soldiers' National Cemetery, at Gettysburg : The design of locating a place for the decent interment of the remains of our soldiers who fell in defence of the Union, in the battle of Gettysburg, was originated soon after that bloody conflict, in July last ; but was not con- summated by the purchase of the grounds for the purpose until A ugust. A persistent effort was made by persons here, to have the soldiers buried in grounds controlled by the local cemetery association of this place. The plan proposed having the burials made at a stipulated price, to be paid the cemetery association. Failing in this project, these persons endeavored to connect the two cemeteries, so that they should both be in one enclosure, and all under the control, supervision, and management of the local ceme- tery association. As the agent of His Excellency, the Governor of Penn- sylvania, I was in communication, by letter, and personally, f©r some time, with the representatives and citizens of other States, in reference to this proposed plan, and all were of the decided opinion that the Soldiers' Ceme- tery should be entirely distinct and disconnected from the local cemetery ; that, to ensure success in obtaining concert of action among all the States, it must be made an independent cemetery, and the control and management of it be retained by the States interested. This whole matter was very thoroughly and impartially canvassed and discussed, and this conclusion arrived at and adopted. The grounds were subsequently laid out, and the burials made in view of the National character of the project. His Excellency, Gov. Curtin, having authorized me to buy grounds, and invite the other States interested to unite in the removal of the dead, and improving the grounds, I immediately endeavored to purchase land on Cemetery Hill, and, after much difficulty, succeeded in buying five different lots lying on Cemetery Hill, on the west side of the Baltimore turnpike, 8 SOLDIERS' NATIONAL CEMETERY. • adjoiniag the local cemetery on the north and west. It is the ground od which the ceutre of our line of battle rested July 2d and 3d, and one of the most prominent and important positions on the whole battle field. The lots were purchased for different prices per acre, according to their location, but all at a very reasonable market price. Two lots were bought at the rate of $225 per acre ; one for $200 per acre ; one for $150 per acre, and one for $135 per acre. The whole embraces about seventeen acres, and for the exact area and amount in each purchase, I refer you to the deeds on file la the Auditor General's office. The cemetery having assumed a National character, by being independent of any local controlling influences, the Governors of all the States having soldiers lying on this battle field, after much correspondence and conference through commissioners sent here for the purpose, committed their States to the project. I then made arrangements with Mr. William Saunders, an eminent landscape gardener, to lay out the grounds in State lots, appor- tioned in size according to the number of marked graves each State had on this battle field. This number was obtained by having a thorough search made for all the graves, and a complete list of the names accurately taken. The grounds were accordingly very neatly and appropriately laid out, and I refer you to the map of them. To preserve their identity, I deemed it very important to have the re- movals of the dead made as soon as possible. The marks at the graves were but temporary ; in many instances, a small rough board, on which the name was feintly written with a lead pencil. This would necessarily be effaced by the action of the weather, and the boards were also liable to be thrown down and lost. The graves which were unmarked were in many instances level with the surface of the earth, and the grass and weeds were growing over them ; and in the forests, the fall of the leaves in the autumn would cover them so that they might be entirely lost. I, therefore, issued proposals for giving out the contract for disinterring, removing and burying in the National Cemetery, all the Union dead on this battle field. Thirty- four bids v/ere handed in, varying, in amount, from $1 59 to $8. I awarded the work to F. W. Bieskobler, the lowest bidder, for $1 59 per body. His duties are fully set forth in the specifications, which are embodied in the contract. I take pleasure in saying, that the work under this contract has been done with great care and to my entire satisfaction. This is owing in port to the great care and attention bestowed by Mr. Samuel Weaver, whom I employed to superintend the exhuming of the bodies. Through his un- tiring and faithful efforts, the bodies in many unmarked graves have been identified in various ways. Sometimes by letters, by papers, receipts, cer- tificates, diaries, memorandum books, photographs, marks on the clothing, belts, or cartridge boxes, &c., have the names of the soldiers been dis- SOLDIERS' NATIONAL CEMETEHY. 9 covered. Money, and other valuables, have frequently been found, which, where the residence of the friends is known, have been immediately sent to them. Those not returned to the friends are carefully packed up and marked, and every effort will be made to find the friends of the deceased and place these articles in their possession. Words would fail to describe the grateful relief that this work has brought to many a sorrowing household ! A father, a brother, a son has been lost on this battle field, sujjjjosed to be killed, but no tidings whatever have the bereaved friends of him. Suddenly, in the progress of this work, his remains are discovered by sure marks, letters probably, photographs, &c., and they are deposited in a coffin with care, and buried in this very appropriate place, on the battle field where he fell, the SoLDiEfis' National Cemetery. There his grave will be properly cared for and permanently marked. The friends, who have probably written me several letters of inquiry, are immediately informed of the di^overy. What a relief from agonizing hope and despair such certain information brings ! After purchasing the grounds, I made application to the Secretary of War for coffins for the burial of these dead, and he at once approved of the ap- plication, and directed the Quartermaster General to furnish the number required for the purpose. These cemetery grounds were solemnly dedicated to their present sacred purpose, by appropriate and imposing ceremonies, on Thursday, the 19th of November last. The public prints of that week contained full accounts of the proceedings. I refer you, also, to the accompanying proceedings, embraced in thi^ volume. 1 requested the Governors of the several States, having lots in the ceme- tery, to appoint commissioners to assemble at Harrisburg, on the 17th of December last, to adopt some uniform plan for the action of the Legisla- tures of the different States, Twelve States were represented, and the other five signified, in advance, their assent to any reasonable action of the convention. I herewith refer you to the report of the proceedings of the convention. The estimated expenses of finishing the cemetery, are $63,500, and it is proposed to divide this sum among the different States having lots in the cemetery, in the ratio of their representation in Congress. The Legislatures of the other States are acting in this matter, and making the appropriations in the proportions as above indicated. Besides making this appropriation, an additional duty devolves upon the Legislature of Penn- sylvania. For the management and care of the grounds, and the completion of the work, it is necessary to have a corporate body, and the State of Penn- sylvania is requested, through her Legislature, to establish, by her letters patent, this corporation of " The Soldiers' National Cemetery, This should be done without delay. It will necessarily require some time for the board of managers to meet and organize, and in the meantime the work which 10 SOLDIERS' NATIONAL CEMETERY. should be progressiug is delayed. It is especially desirable that the Legis- lature act u[)on this matter at once, so that the organization may be per- fected. Upon this board of managers, composed of one from each State having soldier- dead here, will devolve the completion of the project, and the future care of the grounds, I herewith submit a list of the names of the soldiers buried in the Penn- sylvania lot. The whole number is five hundred and one (501.) The total number buried in the cemetery, is thirty-five hundred and twelve (3,512.) I also submit a list giving the number buried in each State lot, and in the grounds set apart for the Regulars and the Unknown. I also submit, herewith, for your satisfaction, the following interesting re- ports : First — that of Mr. William Saunders, the designer of the grounds. Second — the report of Samuel Weaver, the superintendent of the exhuming of the bodies^ Third — the report of Joseph S. Townsend, the superinten- dent of interments in the cemetery, and the surveyor. I also transmit the names of persons upon whose bodies articles were found, referred to in Mr Weaver's report, containing a description of the articles obtained. All of which is respectfully submitted. DAVID WILLS. Agent for A. G. Curtin, Governor of Penn^a. Gettysburg, March 21, 1864-. SOLDIERS' NATIONAL CEMETERY. 11 SUPPLEMENTAL REPORT OF DAVID WILLS, [Made to the Committee of the Legislature of 1865.] To the Honorable, the Committee of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, a2)pointed to revise the report of the Cer, was $28,045 95, and the amount expended to the sau^e date, was §23,851 09. A detailed report of the receipts and expenditures was made by the Board, and a copy thereof sent to each of the Governors of the several States, represented in the Cemetery. I refer you to this report, on file in the Executive Chamber, for further details. I herewith furnish you with a complete list of the names of the dead, buried in the Soldiers' National Cemetery, so far as the bodies were iden- tified After a laborious correspondence, and through the aid of the differ- ent members of the Board, I have made many corrections in the spelling of the names, and in the number of the regiment and letter of the company of the deceased soldier ; but there are doubtless still some inaccuracies in the list. I respectfully suggest that you have this whole list printed in your report. These men came here from the east and from the west, stood side by side, and fought and fell in one common cause and for one common couutiy, irrespective of State organizations or geographical lines, and their dust is now in common, mouldering together on this National Battle Field. Then let their names all be published together in your report, and make one record. Well was it said by the lamented Everett, as he stood over these honored graves, "All time is the millenium of their glory." Their names and the record of their deeds, will make one of the brightest pages of the history of this great struggle ; and they are worthy of all being written in letters of gold. DAYID WILLS, Commissioner for Pennsylvania. Gettysburg, March 6, 1865. SOLDIERS' NATIONAL CEMETERY. 13 MEMBERS Of the Board of Managers of the Soldiers' National Cemetery, /or 1865 B. W. NoRRis, Maine. Ira Perley, New Hampshire. Paul Dillingham, Vermont. Henry Edwards, Massachusetts. John R. Bartlett, Rhode Island. A. G. Hammond, Connecticut. B. H. M'Citrdy, New York. Levi Scobey, New Jersey. David Wills, Pennsylvania. William Townsend, Delaware. B. Deford, Maryland. C. D. Hubbard, West Virginia. Gordon Lofland, Ohio. J. G. Stephenson, Indiana. / C. E. Carr, Illinois. T. W. Ferry, Michigan. W. Y. Selleok, Wisconsin. Alexander Ramsey, Minnesota. OFFICERS. President, David Wills. Secretary, John R. Bartlett. Treasurer, S. R. Russell. 14 SOLDIERS' NATIONAL CEMETERY. • SPECIFICATIONS For proposals invited to he handed in at my office in Gettysburg, up to the 22d inst. , at 12 o^clock, noon, for the two contracts referred to in the adver- tisement of this date, {Oct. 15, 1863.) First. — For the exhuming and removal to the Soldiers' J^ational Ceme- tery, of the dead of the Union army, buried on the Gettysburg battle fi^ld, and at the several hospitals in the vicinity : — The party taking this contract shall receive the coffins at the railroad sta- tion, in Gettysburg, and only take them to the field as fast as used each day. He shall go upon the premises where the dead are buried, under the direc- tion of the perpon having the superintendence — doing as little damage as possible — and where an enclosure is thrown open, he shall re- place it. He shall open up the grave or trench where the dead are buried, and carefully take out the remains and place them in a coffin, and screw down the lid tight, and nail the head-board, where the grave has been marked, carefully on the lid of the coffin. He shall then re-place all blankets, &c., that may have been taken out of the grave and not put around the body, back in the grave, and close it up, neatly leveling it over. He shall transport the remains thus secured to the grounds selected for their burial, on the south side of the borough of Gettysburg, and deposit them at f:uch a place on the grounds as may be designated by the person having th? superintendence of the removals and re-interments. He shall remove as many bodies to the grounds per day as shall be order- ed by the person in charge, not exceeding one hundred bodies per day. He shall exhume all bodies designated by the person in charge, and none others ; and when ordered, he shall open up graves and trenches for per- sonal inspection of the remains, for the purpose of ascertaining whether they are bodies of Union soldiers, and close them over again when ordered to do so. He shall stipulate the price per body, at which he will contract to per- form the work as above set fortk Payment will be made on Saturday evening of every week for the full amount of the work done. Bonds will be required in the sum of three thousand dollars for the fUtth- ful performance of the contract, with two or more sureties, to be approved by David Wills. He will commence the work on the t6th of October, inst, privilege being reserved to order a postponement of the time to a day not later than Nov. SOLDIERS' NATIONAL CEMETERY. 15 1st, next. The right is also reserved to order a total suspension of the work at the time of the consecration of the grounds, and on Thanksgiving day. Second. — For the digging of the graves in the cemetery, putting in the bodies, building a stone foundation for the headstones, and burying the bodies : — The graves shall be dug where designated by the superintendent in charge. . They shall be dug in trenches, and the coffins placed in them side by side, of the number in each trench designated by the plot of the grounds. They shall be three feet in depth from the surface of the ground, and of the length of the coffin. At the head of each trench, there shall be an offset dug in the earth of the width of twenty inches, and of the depth of two feet from the surface of the ground. On this offset a stone wall, of dry masonry, shall be substantially built of stone found on the ground, at such places as may be designated by the person in charge, eighteen inches in height, or within six inches of the surface of the ground. The coffins shall then be placed in the grave, side by side, as ordered by the superintendent — the head-board of each one nailed upright against the head of the coffin, and of sufficient height above the ground not to con- ceal the lettering when the grave is filled up. The grave must then be filled up a sufficient height, in the opinion of the superintendent, to prevent settling below the surface. He shall bury as many per day as may be brought to the cemetery, not to exceed one hundred bodies ; and no bodies shall be left unburied over night. The work shall be commenced on the 26th of October, inst., privilege be- ing reserved to order a postponement of the time to a day not later than November 1st, next. The right is also reserved to order a total suspension of the work at the time of the consecration of the grounds, and on Thanks- giving day. The person proposing to take this contract shall stipulate the price per body at which he will contract to perform the work as above set forth. — Payment will be made on Saturday evening of every week, for the full amount of the work done. Bonds will be required in the sum of three thousand dollars for the faith- ful performance of the contract, with two or more sureties, to be approved of by David Wills. DAYID WILLS, Ageni for A. Q. Cubtin, Gov. of Fenn'a, Gettysburg, October 15, 1863. Note. — The two contracts above referred to were united in one, at $1 59 for the whole. 16 SOLDIEKS' NATIONAL CEMETERY. SOLDIERS' NATIONAL CEMETERY. ii| Haerisburg, December 17, 1863. The Commissioners appointed by the Governors of the dififerent States, which have soldiers buried in the Soldiers' National Cemetery, at Gettys- burg, Pa., met at the Jones House, in llarrisburg, Pa., at 3 o'clock, P. M., on the 17th of December, 1863. The following named Commissioners were present, viz : Hon. B. W. NoRRis, of Maine. Hon. L. B. Mason, of New Hampshire. Mr. Henry Edwards, of Massachusetts. Mr. Alfred Coit, of Connecticut. Hon. Levi Scobey, of New Jersey. Mr. David Wills, of Pennsylvania. Col. James Worrall, of Pennsylvania. CoL John S. Berry, of Maryland. Mr. L. W. Brown, of Ohio. Col. Gordon Lofland, of Ohio. Col. John G. Stephenson, of Indiana. Mr. W. y. Selleck, of Wisconsin. On motion of Col. Lofland, of Ohio, Mr. David Wills, of Pennsylvania, was elected Chairman of the Convention. On motion of Col. Stephenson, of Indiana, Mr. W. Y. Selleck, of Wis- consin, was elected Secretary of the Convention. Aft«r some discussion by the members of the Convention, Col. Stephenson, of Indiana, moved that a committee of four, of which the President of this Convention be one, be appointed for the purpose of preparing and putting in appropriate shape the details of the plan in reference to the Soldiers' Na- tional CExMetery, at Gettysburg, Pa., to be presented to the Convention for their action, which was carried. The committee was appointed as follows : Chairman, Col. John G. Stephenson, of Indiana; Mr. Henry Edwards, of Massachusetts, Hon. Levi Scobey, of New Jersey, Mr. David Wills, of Pennsylvania. On motion of Mr. Alfred Coit, of Connecticut, the Convention took a re- cess to await the action of the com.mittee. The Convention met again at 5 o'clock, P. M., to hear the report of the committee. SOLDIERS' NATIONAL CEMETERY. 17 The committee made the following report : Whereas, In accordance with an invitation from David Wills, Esq., agent for Ilis Excellency, A. G. Curtin, Governor of Pennsylvania, the Governors of the several States appointed Commissioners, who met at Har- risburg, December 17, 1S63, to represent the States in convention, for the purpose of making arrangements for finishing the Soldiers' National Cemetery ; therefore, be it Eesolved, By the said commissioners, in convention assembled, that the following be submitted to the different States interested in the " Soldiers' National Cemetery," through their respective Governors : First. That the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania shall hold the title to the land which she has purchased at Gettysburg for the Soldiers' National Cemetery, in trust for States having soldiers buried in said cemetery, in perpetuity, for the purpose to which it is now applied. Second That the Legislature of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania be requested to create a corporation, to be managed by trustees, one to be ap- pointed by each of the Governors of the States of Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York, New Jer- sey, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Delaware, West Virginia, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, and of such other States as may hereafter desire to be represented in this corporation, which trustees shall at their first meeting, be divided into three classes. The term of office of the first class to expire on the first day of January, 1865, The second class on the first day of January, 1866. The third class on the first day of Janu- ary, 1867. The vacancies thus occurring to be filled by the several Gov- ernors, and the persons thus appointed to fill such vacancies, to hold their office for the term of three years. This corporation to have exclusive con- trol of the Soldiers' National Cemetery. Third. The following is the estimated expense of finishing the cemetery : Enclosing grounds $15,000 00 Burial expenses and superintending 6, 000 00 Headstones 10,000 00 Laying out grounds and planting trees 5, 000 00 Lodge 2, 500 00 Monument 25,000 00 Total 63,500 00 Fourth. That the several States be asked to appropriate a sum of money, to be determined by a division of the estimated expenses according to rep- resentation in Congress, to be expended in defraying the cost of removing 2 18 SOLDIERS' NATIONAL CEMETERY. and re-intcrring the deatl, and finishing the cemetery, under directions of the cemetery corporation. Fifth. When the cemetery shall have been finished, the grounds are to b« kept in order, the Iiouse and enclosure in repair, out of a fund created by annual appropriations made by the States which may be represented in the cemetery corporation, in proportion to their representation in Congress. On motion of Col. Berry, of Maryland, the report of the committee was accepted, and the committee discharged. It was moved by Col. Beery, of Maryland, that the report of the com- mittee be considered seriatim, which was concurred in, and the report was then adopted in detail. Letters from the Governors of the following Sti^tes were received by Mr. Wills, chairman of the convention, which were not represented by commis- sioners, expressing their disposition to approve any reasonable action of the convention in reference to the completion of the cemetery at Gettys- burg, Pa., viz : Hon. Horatio Seymour, of New York. Hon. Austin Blair, of Michigan. Hon. James Y. Smith, of Rhode Island. Hon. "William Cannon, of Delaware. Hon. Henry G. Swift, of Minnesota On motion of Mr. Scobey, of New Jersey, the following committee was appointed by the chairman, with the view to procure designs of a monu- ment to be erected in the cemetery : Hon. Levi Scobey, of New Jersey. Hon. B. W. MoREis, of Maine. Mr. D. W. Brown, of Ohio. Col. J. G. STErnENEON, of Indiana. Col. John S. Berry, of Maryland. On motion of Mr. Alfred Coit, of Connecticut, the plans and designs of the Soldiers' National Cemetery, as laid out and designed by Mr. William Saunders, w^ere adopted by the convention. A motion was made by Mr. Coit, of Connecticut, returning thanks to Mr. William Saunders, for the designs and drawings furnished gratui- tously for the Soldiers' National Cemetery, at Gettysburg, Pa. ; which ■was unanimously adopted. Mr. Brown, of Ohio, offered the following, which was adopted : ReHolced, That Mr. William Saunders be authorized to furnish forty photographs of the plan of the Soldiers' National Cemetery, for the use of the States having soldiers buried therein. DAVID WILLS, President. W. Y. Selleck, Secretary. LIST OF NAMES <0F SOLDIERS BURIED IN THE SOLDIERS' NATIONAL CEMETERY, GETTYSBURG, FA. PENNSYLVANIA; Section A. No. of grave. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14. 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 Names. Robert Lockhart Theodore Say lor Lieut. J. D. Gordon.... Alexander Creighton... Serg. R. H, Cowpland. J. J. Finnefrock. Samuel Finnefrock. Corp. C. Walters Unknown Unknown '^;'. Corp. J. S. Gutelius.... Nathan H Unknown Comp'y. C. B. P. C. F. E Northorp Unknown Unknown William H. Harman Unknown Corp. James Logan Robert M'Guire Serg. Daniel Harrington..... D. A. F. G. F. F. Regiment. 29th Regiment, P. V. 72d Regiment, P. V. 56th Regiment, P. Y. 148th Regiment, P. V. 12Ist Regiment, P. Y. W2d Regiment, P. Y. 149th Regiment, P. Y. 149th Regiment, P. Y. 150th Regiment, P. Y. 149th Regiment, P. Y. 149th Regiment, P. Y. 150th Regiment, P. Y. 149th Regiment, P. Y. 149th Regiment, P. Y. 149th Regiment, P. Y. 149th Regiment, P. Y. 53d Regiment, P. Y. 53d Regiment, P. Y. 20 SOLDIERS' NATIONAL CEMETERY. Pennsylvauia. — Section A — Continued. No. of grave. 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34. 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 Names. Comp' J. C. Herbster Franklin Myera Thomas Hand Josiah Butterworth Thomas Burns Thomas M. Savage Color Serg. John Greenwood. J. Bainbridge G. Deisroth Corp. Abraham Crawley Serg. John Wogan James M'Intyre James Clary James Coyle James Rice William Kiker John Hope Nelson Reaser Robert Lesher Washington Lininger William Conley Lieut. G. H. Finch Isaac B. Dorman John Stockton Robert W. Bell Unknown JohnE. White C. D. K. E.. B. H. L. F. F. A. G. G. G. G. G. K. H. B. D. B. E.. A. L. L. B. Regiment. 69th Regiment, P. Y. 99th Regiment, P. Y. 99th Regiment, P. Y. 1 14th Regiment, P. Y. 2d Regiment, P. R. C, 2d Regiment, P. R. C. 109th Regiment, P. Y. 147th Regiment, P. Y. 147th Regiment, P. Y. 68th Regiment, P. Y. 69th Regiment, P. Y. 69th Regiment, P. Y. 69th Regiment, P. Y. 69th Regiment, P. Y. 69th Regiment, P. Y. ^d Regiment, P. Y. 71st Regiment, P. Y. 151st Regiment, P. Y. 71st Regiment, P. Y. 145th Regiment, P. Y. 140th Regiment, P. Y. 145th Regiment, P. Y. 145th Regiment, P. Y. 71st Regiment, P. Y. 56th Regiment, P. Y. 149th Regiment, P. Y. D 53d Regiment, P. Y. SOLDIERS' NATIONAL CEMETERY. U Pennsylvania. — Section A — Continued. Names. Matthew Smith Lieut. Michael Mullia Samuel W. Barnet J. Rich Frederick GiDhouse. R. J. Akan John M'Casland Harrison Loag John Kunkle John Weidner Thomas B. M'Cullough Jeremiah Dermandy William Munsen Charles Carmer Corp. Martin Berry Absalom Link Serg. J. Hunter Lawrence Bennet J. Rhodes Unknown, George Howard Serg. Francis M. Burley Corp. George W. lugraham. Corp. David Stoup John Devon William Callan J. Hayman Comp'y, G. G. H. H. L. D. L. E B L. G. A. D. G. B. B.. C. L. A. A. E. F. C. A. RegimcHt. 1st Reg't California brig. 69th Regiment, P. Y. 140th Regiment, P. Y. 106th Regiment, P. Y. 145th Regiment, P. Y. 72d Regiment, P. Y. 148th Regiment, P. Y. 148th Regiment, P. Y. 68th Regiment, P. Y. 148th Regiment, P. Y. 19th Regiment, P. Y. 1st Penn'a Artillery. 57th Regiment, P. Y. 140th Regiment, P. Y. 64th Artillery. 57th Regiment, P. Y. 141st Regiment, P. Y. 105th Regiment, P. Y. illth Regiment, P. Y. 110th Regiment, P. Y. 68th Regiment, P. Y. 63d Regiment, P. Y. 26th Regiment, P. Y. 26th Regiment, P. Y. 26th Regiment, P. Y. SOLDIERS' NATIONAL CEMETERY. Pennsylvaiiia.-T— Section A — Contin ued. No. of giavo. 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84. 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 Names. William 11. Kaichenbecher. ... Corp. W. Gordon Jolin C. Downing J. J. Wood. ^Scrg. Vondcrfocr A. Delinger Joseph A. Furgeson Benjamin Ilassiler James Kay G. W. Stalker Lieut. P. Morris C. D. Coyle Stephen Kelly T. P. Swoop Unknown D. Hauna Patrick Fury Benjamin Slavach Corp. Uriah M'Cracken James Irving , John Reimel Fritz Smittle Emil Preifer Couip'y. Regiment. K.. I... C I... H., K.. A.. D. E . I.. D., D. E H A F G.. G.. H. H. E.. 141st Regiment, P. V. 26th Regiment, P. V. 57tb Regiment, P. V. 1 14th Regiment, P. V. 71st Regiment, P. V. 71st Regiment, P. Y. 139th Regiment, P. V. 93d Regiment, P. Y. 91st Regiment, P. V. S3d Regiment, P. Y. 62d Regiment, P. Y. 83d Regiment, P. Y. 91st Regiment, P. Y. 1 1 1th Regiment, P. V. 26th Regiment, P. V. 29th Regiment, P. Y. 115th Regiment, P. Y. 153d Regiment, P. Y. 153d Regiment, P. Y. 73d Regiment, P. Y. 153d Regiment, P. Y. "r4th Regiment, P. Y. 27th Regiment, P. Y. SOLDIERS' NATIONAL CEMETERY. ^ Pennsylvania. — Section B. No. of grave. Names. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 I 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 Capt. A. J. Sofield Uuknown Unknown Unknown George Seip; Unknown Unknown Corporal Unknown Unknown D. G Unknown Unknown Unknown Unknown ... David C. Kline..... Sergt. Philip Peckens Robert Morrison Corp. Samuel Hayburn... Samuel R. Garvin John M'Hugh Ira Corbin H. S. Thomas S. Taylor S. Shoemaker. Corp. William H. Myers. Major "W. G. Lowry James Hill Comp'y H. P. A. B., E. K. D. L. G. E. Regiment. 149th Regiment, P. V. 149th Regiment, P. V. 149th Regiment, P. V. 149th Regiment, P. V. 148th Regiment, P. V. 149th Regiment, P. V. 149th Regiment, P. V. 149th Regiment, P. V. 149th Regiment, P. V. 149th Regiment, P. V. 149th Regiment, P. V. 14-9th Regiment, P. V. 149th Regiment, P. V. 149th Regiment, P. Y. 149th Regiment, P. Y. 14l3t Regiment, P. Y, 69th Regiment, P. Y. 106th Regiment, P. Y. 72d Regiment, P. Y. 72d Regiment, P. Y. 145th Regiment, P. Y. 145th Regiment, P. Y. 145th Regiment, P. Y. 62d Regiment, P. Y. 26th Regiment, P. Y. 142d Regiment, P. Y. 24 SOLDIERS' NATIONAL CEMETERY. Pennsylvania. — Section B — Continued. No. of grave. 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 Names. Comp'y. Regiment. Thomas D. Allen Patrick Hayes Charles M'Carty Joseph Newton Alexander Mills D. A. Ammerman James S. Lynn , William Van Buskirk Henry A. Comwell George Young Albert Dustun Scrgt. Almond M. Chesbro, .. Joseph Kile E. A. Allen Richard Miller , M. Charrity Louis Dille Ethiel A. Wood Serg, Major Joseph G. Fell.. Robert Michaels Peter Hilt Ord. Sergt. Herrlck J. W. Guthrie Moses Miller George Rowand George Osman Sergt. Pete^ Hilgers A. D. K. D. E. B. G. K. A. F. A.. G.. H. B.. B.. K.. C. D.. 157th Regiment, P. Y. 81st Regiment, P. Y. 72d Regiment, P. Y 81st Regiment, P. Y. 72d Regiment, P. Y. 148th Regiment, P. Y. 140th Regiment, P. Y. 142d Regiment, P. Y. 121st Regiment, P. Y. 150th Regiment, P. Y. 75th Regiment, P. Y. 53d Regiment, P. Y. 53d Regiment, P. Y. 145th Regiment, P. Y. 140th Regiment, P. Y. 71st Regiment, P. Y. 140tb Regiment, P. Y. 141st Regiment, P. Y. 141st Regiment, P. Y. 145th Regiment, P. Y. 68th Regiment, P. Y. 1 10th Regiment, P. Y. 105th Regiment, P. Y. 110th Regiment, P. Y. 26th Regiment, P. Y. 148th Regiment, P. Y. 73d Regiment, P. Y. SOLDIERS' NATIONAL CEMETERY. •25 Pennsylvania. — Section B — Continued. Names. 1 Comp'y. Regiment. Frederick Heinley W. Cragle Corp. B. F. Ulrich Charles Clyde Jacob Mauch Corp. William Holmes. William S. Stamm J. Jones Samuel Cramer John W. Crusan , Solomon Shirk James Lukens M. Kelley Serg. John O. Lorner.. John Harrington James Keatings Isaac Jenkins J. R,uppins , William Beaumont , James Amsley , J. N. Burr , James W. Taft Joseph Montange Alfred Boyden Unknown. Charles E. Webster.... J. H. Rendools K.. D.. B.. L.. L.. G.. G.. A., B.. B.. B.. B.. E.. G. K. H. G.. B.. A. H. D .... D A C. 74th Regiment, P. Y. 14.3d Regiment, P. Y. 153d Regiment, P. Y. 150th Regiment, P. Y. 150th Regiment, P. Y. 150th Regiment, P. Y. 150th Regiment, P. Y. M2d Regiment, P. Y. 142d Regiment, P. Y. 56th Regiment, P. Y. 107th Regiment, P. Y. 150th Regiment, P. Y. 106th Regiment, P. Y. 69th Regiment, P. Y. 69th Regiment, P. Y. 90th Regiment, P. Y. 107th Regiment, P. Y. 107th Regiment, P. Y. 88th Regiment, P. Y. 107th Regiment, P. Y. 14.7th Regiment, P. Y. 14.2d Regiment, P. V. 143d Regiment, P. Y. 149th Regiment, P. Y. 26th Regiment, P. Y. 68th Regiment, P. Y, 26 SOLDIERS' NATIONAL CEMETERY. Pennsyhania S ection B — Continued. Ho. of grave. Names. Coinp'y. Kegiment. 82 Alonzo M'Call B 10th Regiment, P. R. C. 83 Ord. Serg. J. W. Molineaux. . B 9 Ist Regiment, P. V. 84 Unknown. 85 Unknown. ■ 86 James S Rutter B 1st Regiment, P. R. C. 87 Unknown P. V. 88 B. E. True B 83d Regiment, P. V. 89 Unknown. 90 Unknown. 91 1st Serg. T. J. Belton B ., Bucktail Regiment. 92 Unknown. 93 Unknown. 94 James Wallace G 26 th Regiment, P. Y. Section C. Ko. of I grave. Names. 1 2 3 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Unknown . Unknown.. Unknown,. UnknoAvn.. Unknown., Unknown., Unknown. Unknown. Unknown. Unknown. Unknown, Comp'y, Regiment. 149th Regiment, P. V. 149th Regiment, P. V. 149th Regiment, P. Y. 149th Regiment, P. Y. 149th Regiment, P. Y. 149th Regiment, P. Y. 149th Regiment, P. Y. 149th Regiment, P. Y. 149th Regiment, P. Y. 149th Regiment, P, Y. 149th Regiment, P. Y. SOLDIERS' NATIONAL CEMETERY. 27 PemisylvaniaH — Section C — Continued. Names. Qomp'y, Eegiment. Unknown H. M. Kinsel Charles T. Gardner Hiram Woodruff P. O'Brian.. John Hurley George Dunkinfield William Evans David Stainbrook William W. Clark William Brown , Robert K Piatt D. Bumgardner , George Hiles , Serg. John Loughery G. T. Bishop , Corp. Robert Thompson., Serg. J. Myers , Joseph Sherran , J. Simonson Gideon F. Borger Gotfried Hamman William L. Miller 2d Lt. John 0*H. Woods Serg. William Reynolds. Amos P. Sweet Serg. Lorenzo Hodges.... II , H.. .., G.... A H.... I I E.... A D C .... A C E I I G F .... I H.... E. D. I. H G. 14.9th Regiment, P. V. 110th Regiment, P. V. 111th Regiment, P. V. 1st Bucktail Regiraent. 69th Regiment, P. Y. - 69th Regiment, P. Y. 72d Regiment, P. Y. 71st Regiment, P. Y. 71st Regiment, P. Y. 72d Regiment, P. Y. 71st Regiment, P. Y. 149th Regiment, P. Y. 141st Regiment, P. Y. 68th Regiment, P. Y. 26th Regiment, P. Y. 141st Regiment, P. Y. 83d Regiment, P. Y. 62d Regiment, P. Y. 6 2d Regiment, P. Y. 28th Regiment, P. Y. 153d Regiment, P. Y. 74th Regiment, P. Y. 153d Regiment, P. Y. 11th Regiment, P. R. C. 142d Regiment, P. Y. 150th Regiment, P. Y. 150th Regiment, P. Y. 28 SOLDIERS' NATIONAL CEMETERY. Pennsylvania. — Section C — Continued. No. of grave. Names. Comp'y. Ilcgimcnt. 39 Ist Lieut. F. Keimpel E 27th Regiment, l\ V. 40 Unknown. 41 James O'Neil B B 69th Regiment, P. Y. 106th Regiment, P. V. 42 Lieut. William H. Smith • 43 Unknown — Orderly Sergeant. 44 Serg. James M. Shea B B 69th Regiment, P. V. 45 F. Gallagher 69th Regiment, P. V. 153d Regiment, P. V. 46 John Heneison C...... 47 Serg. E. N. Somercamp I 29th Regiment, P. Y. 48 Unknown, 49 William Douglass B I .. .. 155th Regiment, P. Y. 50 George W. Wilson 155th Regiment, P. Y. 51 Patrick J. O'Connor D 91st Regiment, P. Y. 52 E. Berlin G 83d Regiment, P. Y. 53 Unknown. 54 Robert Griffin A 83d Regiment, P. Y. 55 Unknown. 56 Unknown, (with two gold ear rings.) 57 Unknown. 58 Unknown — Corporal. 59 Unknown. 60 L. F E 53d Regiment, P. Y. 61 Unknown. 62 Unknown. 63 Unknown — Sergeant. 64 Ord. Serg. M. G. Isett C .... 53d Regiment, P. Y. 65 Unknown. SOLDIERS' NATIONAL CEMETERY. 29 Pennsylvania. — Section C — Continued. Names. Comp'y. Unknown. Unknown. Unknown. Unknown. Unknown Ord. Sergeant, (with knife L^nknown, (with medal, hymn book. Unknown, (with knife and pencil.) John K. Inery Isaac Eaton Patrick Hunt William Danchy Thomas Shields John Lusk J. Kleppinger Lieut. William H. Beaver. J. Quinn William Thomas D. Hemphill H. Purdy James E. Beals F. Bordenstedt William J. Strause Serg, James Parks James Kelly Jacob Frey C. D.. F.. H.. H.. L.. D.. D.. H.. E.. E.. C. H.. A.. H.. C. C C Regiment. and screw driver.) &c. 2d Regiment, P. R. C. 10th Regiment, P. R. C. 99th Regiment, P. V. 1st Regiment, P. R, C. 99th Regiment, P. Y. 1st Regiment, P. R. C 153d Regiment, P. Y. 153d Regiment, P. Y. 99th Regiment, P. Y. 110th Regiment, P. Y. 72d Regiment, P. Y. Hampton's Battery. 148th Regiment, P. Y. 69th Regiment, P. Y. 151st Regiment, P. Y. 139th Regiment, P. Y. 69th Regiment, P. Y. 105th Regiment, P. Y. 30 SOLDIERS' NATIONAL CEMETERY. Pennsylvania. — Sexjtion D. No. of grave. Names. n. 1 Unknown 2 Unknown 3 Calvin Potter 4 Unknown 5 Unknown 6 Corp. Samuel M. Caldwell. 7 Frederick Shoner 8 Serg. Jeremiah Boyle 9 George Herpich 10 I Corp. James M'Manus 11 James Gallagher 12 Serg. J. Gallagher 13 S. S. Odare 14 Corp. William Shultz 15 William Simpson 16 Anthony Stark 17 Charles Trisket 18 Charles F. Loby 19 Unknown, (with three ambrotjyp 20 Unknown. 21 Unknown. 22 Unknown. 23 Unknown. 24 G. R Allen 25 Charles M. Connel 26 John Aker. 27 Unknown Comp'y, D E H H D.. .. H D F I D G G I es.) Regiment. 14.9th Regiment, P. Y. 14.9th Regiment, P. V. 149th Regiment, P. V. 149th Regiment, P. V. 149th Regiment, P. V. 118th Regiment, P. V. 72d Regiment, P. V. 69th Regiment, P. Y. 71st Regiment, P. Y. 69th Regiment, P. Y. 71st Regiment, P. Y. 69th Regiment, P. Y. 71st Regiment, P. Y. 71st Regiment, P. Y. 145th Regiment, P. Y. I06th Regiment, P. Y. 140th Regiment, P. Y. 118th Regiment, P. Y. 59th Regiment, P. Y. 1 1th Regiment, P. Y. 26th Regiment, P. Y. SOLDIERS' NATIONAL CEMETERY 31 Pennsylvania. — Section D — Continued. Names. Comp'y. Jacob Keirsh Unknown, (with silver watch.) J. Graves Unknown, (with an order, sign- ed John Kramer,) Unknown, (with rings, purse. C. Regiment. pin bo Unknown, (with books, and two let Unknown, (with $5 in Confede rate mo Unknown, (with inkstand, cro ss, boo George Moyer P. Cordillo Collins D A. J. Bittinger C, Milton Campbell C, Samuel Zeckman. E. A. S. Davis G George Stewart B, Serg. Robert Sensenmyer E. F. Smith.. Unknown. James Binker j B ! 106th Regiment, P. Y. Henry W. Beegel H ' llOth Regiment, P, V. James S. Puryne ! Battery F, 1st Artillery. O. S. Campbell f K 111th Regiment, P. V. J. Watson ! 1 29th Regiment, P, Y. Thomas Acton j B ' 29th Regiment, P. Y. James Morrow I 1 29th Regiment, P. Y. i Corp. James D. Butcher i D '■ 28th Regiment, P. Y. John Richardson i B 111th Regiment, P. Y. Hampton's Battery. 1st Regiment, P. Y. 6th Regiment, P. Y. X, &c.) ters from Mary Ann.) ney.) k, &c. 2d Regiment, P. R. C. 1st Regiment, P. R. C. 11th Regiment, P. R. C. nth Regiment, P. R. C. 6th Regiment, P. R. C- : 1st Penn'a Rifles, i 2d Regiment, P. R. C. j 2d Regiment, P. R. C. i I j 20th Regiment, P. Y. 3*2 SOLDIERS' NATIONAL CEMETERY. Pennsylvania. — Section D — Continued. Ho. of grave. 55 56 57 58 59 . 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 7-i 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 Names. Corap'y. Charles Miller G. B. Wireman Corp. Jolm S. Pomeroy. T. Miller S. D. Campbell John Metz E. T. Green S. N. Warner A. P. M'Clarey N. P. Govan Elisha Bond... I. Beider N. M'Witkin Corp. Hugh Farley H. H. Hay Mager Sorber Mark Beary John Harvey Joseph Werst John Boyer, (with ambrotype S. M. Little William H. Dunn J. A. Walker Richard Loudman T. R. Woods , John Mathers George M'Intosh B.. E.. A.. A... E... H.. B... C. Regiment. F... A... H... A... B... D... A... C... and let F... F... D... H., A... L... L... 11 1th Regiment, P. V. 107th Regiment, P. V. Battery G, 1st Art,, P. R.C. 142d Regiment, P. V. 68th Regiment, P. V. Mth Regiment, P. Y. 83d Regiment, P. Y. 63d Regiment, P. Y. 150th Regiment, P. Y. 27th Regiment, P. Y. 1st Regiment, P. Y. 15th Regiment, P. Y. 57th Regiment, P. Y. 14.5th Regiment, P. Y. 143d Regiment, P. Y. 1st Regiment, P. Y. 69th Regiment, P. Y. 153d Regiment, P. Y. ter.) 62d Regiment, P. Y. 62d Regiment, P. Y. 6 2d Regiment, P. Y. 62d Regiment, P. Y. 62d Regiment, P. Y. 62d Regiment, P. Y, 6 2d Regiment, P. Y. SOLDIERS' NATIONAL CEMETERY. Pennsylvania, — Section D — Continued. 33 No. of grave. Names. Comp'y. Regiment, 82 83 Serg. J. S. OHborn E. M'Mahon I I B D b2d Regiment, P. V. 14.0th Regiment, P. V. 140th Regiment, P. V. 62d Regiment, P. V. 84 John Bucklev 85 John Long Section E. Names. Reuben Miller Jacob Christ Robert Johnson Auton Frank, John W. Buchanan. N. Townsend W. H. Burrel William Orr Serg. K. Doty David Winning Jacob Harvey William Crawford... W. N. Williams Jacob Zimmerman.. A. H. Fish A. Lees Wilson Miller J. Stroble C. B. Ling Wendle Dorn Comp'y, K. D. G. A. C. F.. L., F.. D. M. C, K., L. L., A. I B... .. I Regimeot, 1st Regiment, P. V. 56th Regiment, P. V. 28th Regiment, P. V. Ist Regiment, P. R. 0. 1st Regiment, P. R. C. 148th Regiment, P. V. 62d Regiment, P. V. 105th Regiment, P. V. 18th Cavalry. 18th Cavah-y. 18th Cavalry. 143d Regiment, P. Y. 151st Regiment, P. V. 150th Regiment, P. T. 150th Regiment, P. V. 90th Regiment, P. V. 11th Regiment, P. V. 56th Regiment, P. V. 139th Regiment, P, Y. 34 No. of grave. SOLDIERS' NATIONAL CEMETERY. Pennsylvania. — Section E — Continued. Names. Comp'y. 21 Unknown 22 Samuel Dearmott 23 John Stottard 24 Francis Merrian Hansel 25 Ord. Serg. Joseph H. Core... 26 J. D. Campbell 27 T. J. Carpenter 28 Tobias Jones, (removed) 29 Unknovfn. 30 Jesse Coburn 31 John W. M'Kinney 32 Ord. Serg. H. M'Carty 33 Unknown. 31. Unknown Zouave. 35 Unknown. 36 Unknown Zouave. 37 Unknown. 38 Unknown. 39 John Walker 40 Unknown. 41 William Crowl 42 Robert Robinson 43 Guy Sonthwick 44 John G.Coyle, with diary & $6, 45 F. Hubbard, with ambrotype.. 46 Unknown, 47 William Vosburg C. A. E. A. C. K. B. 0. K. K. K. L. L. C Regiment. 148th Regiment, P. Y. 62d Regiment, P. V. 110th Regiment, P. V. 140th Regiment, P. V. 110th Regiment, P. V. 140th Regiment, P. V. 140th Regiment, P. V, 153d Regiment, P. V. 142d Regiment, P. V. 1st Regiment, P. R. C 114th Regiment, P. Y. 110th Regiment, P. Y. 141st Regiment, P. T»- 4th Regiment, Cavalry. 16th Regiment, Cavalry. 75th Regiment, P. Y. [Cavalry. 2d Di V. 2d Corps, ( Buford's) SOLDIERS' NATIONAL CEMETERY. 35 Pennaylvania. — Section E — Continued. Names. Unknown P. V. G. Wm. - — Unknown. Serg. George O. Fell Supposed P. V. Supposed P. V. Supposed Serg., (with letters.) Supposed P. V. Supposed P. V. Supposed P. V. Unknown Ord. Sergeant, Supposed P. Y. Supposed P. Y. Supposed P. Y. Supposed P. Y. Supposed P. Y. Supposed P. Y. Unknown P. Y. Corp., unknown, P. Y. Serg., unknown, P. Y. Unknown P. Y. Unknown P. Y. Unknown, (with awawl pin.) Unknown. Unknown. Sergeant, supposed P. Y. Supposed P. Y. CJomp'y B. Regiraeat. With knife and eomb. 143d Regiment, P. Y. 36 SOLDIERS' NATIONAL CEMETERY. Pennsylvania. — Section E — Continited. Vo. of graye. Names. Comp'y. Regiment. 75 Supposed P. V. 76 Supposed P. V. 77 Supposed P. V. 78 Supposed P. V. 79 Supposed P. V. 80 81 Supposed P. V. 2d Lieut. John P. Cox I 57th Regiment, P. V. • Section F. Vo. of grave. Namea. Comp'y. Regiment. 1 Unknown. 2 Unknown P. V. 3 Supposed P. Y. 4 Supposed Y. Y. 5 Supposed P. Y. - 6 Supposed P. Y. 7 Supposed P. Y. 8 ■ Barr B 105th Regiment, P. Y. 9 Unknown Zouave. 10 Unknown Zouave. 11 Unknown Zouave. 12 Unknown Zouave, (burned in destruc tion of Sherfy's barn. ) 13 Unknown Zouave, (burned in destrue tion of Sherfy's barn ) 14 Unknown Zouave, (burned in destruc tion of Sherfy's barn.) 15 Unknown Zouave. 16 Oxford.* 17 William M'Grew K 1st Regiment, P. E. C, J SOLDIERS' NATIONAL CEMETERY. S7 PennBylvania. — Section F — Continued. Names. Comp'y. Regiment. Unknown Sergeant, P. V. Charles Martin Unknown, P. V. A. K. Coolbaugh' Joshua M. Rider Unknown Sergeant, P. V Matthew Johnston Unknown Zouave, P. V. G. M. S. , with knife and comb. Jos. Conner, Carner or Carver, John M'Nutt Francis A. Osborne Unknown. Unknown. George Cogswell John Bunn William Kelley Unknown P. V. , with knife and Supposed P. V. S. Brookmeyer. J. Little Unknown P. V. Unknown, 2 knives and comb. Corp. Peter M'Mahon Charles Kelly, with letter, &c. E. H. Brown Supposed P. V. H, A C A spoon. B. E. K. 107th Regiment, P. V. 14.1st Regiment, P. V. 106th Regiment, P. T. 1 1th Regiment, P. V. 148th Regiment, P. T. 140th Regiment, P. Y. 16th Cavalry. 156th Regiment, P. Y.. 26th Regiment, P. V- 126th Regiment, P. Y;. 26th Regiment, P. V. 26th Regiment, P. Y. 26th Regiment, P. Y. 38 SOLDIERS' NATIONAL CEMETERY. PenDsylvania. — Sbotioi^ F — Continued. No. of giavc. UTamoe. Comp'y. Regiment. 4d Soppoeed P. V. 46 John Zouwoll, letter. 47 Suppoeod P. V. 4£ William M'NelL I ■ 26th Regiment, P. Y. 49 SuppoGod P. V. »0 Supposed P. V. U Corp. SftHMiel Fitzinger ^ B 106th Regiment, P. Y. h2 Suppoeed P. V. ^ n. C. Tafel I 6 2d Regiment, P. Y. 64. Supposed P. V. bo David W. Boyd G 140th Regiment, P. Y. rge black whiskers.) 56 Soppoeed P. v., (small man with la 97 Suppoeed P. V. 58 Supposed P. y. &e Suppoeed P. Y. * 60 Supix)8ed P. Y. 61 Harry EvaniR -.,. B 88th Regiment, P. Y. 02 Supposed P. Y. 63 Supposed P. Y. 64 Suppoeed P. Y. 65 Suppoeed P. Y. &6 G. Mickle c 72d Regiment, P. Y. 67 Supposed P. Y. 68 Suppoeed P. Y. 69 Unknown. 70 Unknown. 71 Unknown. 1 . SOLDIERS' NATIONAL CEMETERY. 3,9 Pennsylvania. — Section F — Continued. No. of grave. Nanjes. • Comp'y. Regiment. 72 Unknown. 73 Unknown. 74 Unknown. 75 S. B. Stewart F ^d Regiment, P. R. C- 76 Wel^'h 77 Unknown. 78 Walter S. Briggs, Adjutant... 27tli Regiment, P. V. Total, 526. AINE. Seotion a. No. of grave. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Karnes. Corp. Frank. Deverenx.. ...... Unknown George D. Marston Unknown — Supposed. E. Bishop. W. H. Lowe Alfred P. Watterman Serg. Alex. W. Lord Serg. William E. Barrows .... Unknown Serg, Chandler F. Perry Louira A. Kelley CJomp'y. K. Regiment. 16th Regiment, M. Y. 16th Regiment, M. Y. 16th Regiment, M. Y. 16th Regiment, M. Y. 19th Regiment, M. Y. 19th Regiment, M. Y. 19th Regiment, M. Y. 19th Regiment, M. Y. 19th Regiment, M. Y. 19th Regiment, M. Y. 19th Regiment, M. Y. 40 SOLDIERS' NATIONAL CEMETERY. Maine. — Section A — Continued. Ko. of grave. 13 U 15 16 17 18 Names. Uaknown Charles W. Collins.... Corp. Austin Hanson. Isaiah Y. Eaton Frank. Fairbrother... Robert T. Newell Comp'y. A. P. D. G. D. Regiment. 19th Regiment, M. Y. 19th Regiment, M. T. 17th Regiment, M. Y. 4th Regiment, M. Y. 16th Regiment, M. Y. 19th Regiment, M. Y. Section B. ^gS;/. K-- Comp'y. Regiment. 1 Samuel L. Dwelley D B K K K H H C G E D I B C D E D 17th Regiment, M. Y. 19th Regiment, M. Y. o Frank. Coffin 3 James T. Neal 19th Regiment, M. Y. 4 Loring C. Oliver 19th Regiment, M. Y. 19th Regiment, M. Y. 5 Samuel B. Shea 6 Corp. Ilollis F, Arnold 19th Regiment, M. Y. 7 '8 Sergt. Jesse A. Dorman George E. Hodgdon 19th Regiment, M. Y. 19th Regiment, M. Y. 19th Regiment, M. Y. 19th Regiment, M. Y. 19th Regiment, M. Y. 19th Regiment, M. Y. 17th Regiment, M. Y. 17th Regiment M Y 9 Charles J. Carroll 10 Ruel Nickerson 11 Uenshai C. Thomas 12 John F. Carey 13 Moses D. Emery 14 Fessenden M. Mills 15 Joseph A. Roach 3d Regiment, M. Y. 3d Regiment, M. Y. 4th Regiment, M. Y. 16 Allen n. Sprague 17 John S. Gray SOLDIERS' NATIONAL CEMETERY. 41 Maine. — Section C. Namee. Comp'y. Eegiment. George F. Johnson. ickels Corp. George W. Jones Eben S. Allen, Ord. Sergt. . Ira L. Martin John F. Shuman Unknown.. Corp. Bernard Hogan Lieut. George M. Bragg.... 1st Sergt. Thomas T. Rideout, James Robbius Sergt. Enoch C. Dow Sergt. W. S. Jordon Frank B. Curtis Elfin J. Foss Lieut. W. L. Kendall K. G. B., D. H. K. D. F.. F.. D. E. G. F. F. G. 4th Regiment, M. V. 7th Regiment, M. V. 3d Regiment, M. V. nth Regiment, M. Y. 4th Regiment, M. V. 3d Regiment, M. V. 17th Regiment, M. V, 4th Regiment, M. V. 19th Regiment, M. V. I9th Regiment, M. V. 19th Regiment, M. V. 20th Regiment, M. Y. 20th Regiment, M. Y. 20th Regiment, M. Y. 20th Regiment, M. Y. Section D. No. of grave. Names. Comp'y. Eegiment. 1 Samuel 0. Hatch K H F B H E H B 17th Regiment, M. Y. " o 3 1st Sergt. Isaac N. Lathrop... Benjamin W Grant 20th Regiment, M. Y. 20th Regiment, M. Y. 4 Corp Samuel C Davis 17th Regiment, M. Y. 5 Royal Rand 17th Regiment, M. Y. 6 Charles E. Herriman 19th Regiment, M. Y. 7 George H. Willey 19th Regiment, M. Y. 8 Wm. H. Huntingdon 16th Regiment, M. Y. 4.2 SOLDIERS' NATIONAL CEMETERY. Maine. — Siction D — Continued. No. of grave. 9 10 11 12 13 14 Names. Harrison Pullen Edward Cunningham.. M. Quint Alsburj Luce Corp. Eben Farrington. Unknown , Comp'y. G. L. B. F., H. Regiment. 16th Regiment, M. V. 1st Cavalry. 17th Regiment, M. V. 3d Regiment, M. V. 3d Regiment, M. Y. 20th Regiment, M. V. Section E. No. of grave. Names. Comp'y. Regiment. 1 Unknown 20th Regiment, M. V. 20th Regiment, M. V. 20th Regiment, M. V. Goodwin S. Ireland fl 3 Unknown 4 Orrin Walker K 20th Regiment, M. V. . 20th Regiment, M. V. 20th Regiment, M. V. 20th Regiment, M. V. 20th Regiment, M. Y. 20th Regiment, M. Y. 20th Regiment, M. Y. 20th Regiment, M. Y. 20th Regiment, M. Y. 20th Regiment, M. Y. 20th Regiment, M. Y, 5 Unknown ..»^ 6 Unknown 7 Unknown 9 Corp. Wm. S. Hodgdon Corp. Mellville 0. Day F G H 10 11 1st Serg. Charles W. Steel. ... Unknown 12 Unknown 13 Unknown 14. Unknown SOLDIERS' NATIONAL CEMETERY. 43 Maine, — Section F. liames. Capt. G. D. Smith Joseph D. Simpson Moses Davis Samuel C. Brookings , Corp. W. K Ord. Serg. Geo. S. Noyes. Unknown , Michael Rariden Sullivan Luce , W. H. Smith , Wm. H. Day R. Finch , Crosby R, Brookings , Comp'y L. A. H K. K. Regiment. 19th Regiment, M. Y. 20th Regiment, M. Y. 20th Regiment, M. Y. 19th Regiment, M. V. 20th Regiment, M. V. 20th Regiment, M. Y. 20th Regiment, M. Y. 4th Regiment, M. Y. 5th Battery, M, Y. 7th Regiment, M. Y. 17th Regiment, M. Y. 17th Regiment, M. V. 4th Regiment, M. Y. Sbotion G. Karnes. Albion B. Mills Corp. John Merrlam Abijah Crosby Corp. Richard Sculley Corp. A. H. Cole John W. Jones Serg. Major Henry S. Small. Corp. J. L. Little Calvin H. Burdin Capt. John C. Keen Comp'y. E D. C K. B. A. L. K. Eegimeot. 16th Regiment, M. Y. 19th Regiment, M. V, 19th Regiment, M. Y. 7th Regiment, M. Y. 3d Regiment, M. Y, 3d Regiment, M. Y. 3d Regiment, M. Y. 3d Regiment, M, Y. 3d Regiment, M. Y. 3d Regiment, P. Y. 44 SOLDIERS' NATIONAL CEMETERY. Maine.-^SECTiON G — Conlinued. No. of grave. Names. Comp'y. Regiment. 11 Sorg NelsoD W. Jones I 3d Regiment, M. V. 12 J. Bartlett. Total, 104. NEW HAMPSHIRE. Section A. No. of grave. Names. Comp'y. Regiment. 1 j William H. Spring., 2 I Charles A. Moore... 3 j E. J. Plummer , 4 I Stephen 11. Palmer. 5 Charles Y. Buzzell., 6 Roland Taylor , 7 S. R. Green , 8 John Henderson...., 9 Serg. G. A. Jones. . 10 George S.Vittum.. 11 I Lieut. K Dascomb. 12 Charles W. Taylor. 13 14 15 16 17 Cornelius Cleary.... James S. Hawkins . John Totten Joseph M. Chesley. Unknown A. C A. L. E. G. A. F. E. F. G. D. C. A. E. IS ' Unknown. 2d Regiment, N. H. V. 2d Regiment, N. H. V. 2d Regiment, N. H. V. 2d Regiment, N. H. V. 12th Regiment, N. H. V. 5th Regiment, N. H. V. 5th Regiment, N. H. V. 2d Regiment, N. H. V. 2d Regiment, N. H. V, 2d Regiment, N. H. V. 2d Regiment, N. H. V. 2d Regiment, N. H. V. 2d Regiment, N. H. V. 12th Regiment, N. H. V. 2d Regiment, N. H. V. 2d Regiment, N. H. V. 2d Regiment, N. H. V. SOLDIERS' NATIONAL CEMETERY. 45 New Hampshire. — Section B. No. of grave. 1 2 3 4. 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14. 15 16 Namea. Unknown. Unknown. Unknown. Unknown. Unknown, Unknown. Unknown, (with red chin whi Unknown Unknown. Unknown Unknown Unknown. Unknown. Unknown. Unknown. Unknown. Comp'y, skers). Regiment. 2d Regiment, N. H. V. 2d Regiment, N. H. V. 2d Regiment, N. H. V, 2d Regiment, N. H. V. Section C. No. of grave. Names. Unknown. Unknown. Unknown. Unknown Unknown Unknown John Taylor Kendall H. Cofren. Comp'y. E. Regiment. 2d Regiment, N. H. V. 2d Regiment, N. H. V. 2d Regiment, N. H. V. 12th Regiment, N. H. V. 2d Regiment, N. H. V. 4b SOLDIERS' NATIONAL CEMETERY. New Hampshire. — Sbction C — Continued, No. of grave. Names. Comp'y. Regiment. 9 Josenh I^ond Jr »« E E H E 5th Regiment, N. H. V. 10 Oscar D Allen 5th Regiment, N. H. V. , 12th Regiment, N. H. V. 11 12 13 Sujiposed. Supposed. Charlee T. Kelley 14 15 Unknown. Bartlett Brown » Total, 49. VERMONT. Section A. No. of grave. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Names. Unknown Joseph Ashley Charles W. Ross. Corp. Charles E. Mead. Unknown Unknown ...,^ Unknown Martin J. Cook Joseph M. Martin William E. Green Unknown , Unknown Comp'y. C. G. G. D. D. G. Regiment. V. M. M.- 16th Regiment, V. V. 14th Regiment, Y. V. 14th Regiment, Y. Y. 14th Regiment, Y. Y. 14th Regiment, Y. Y. 14th Regiment, Y. Y. 16th Regiment, Y. Y. 16th Regiment, Y. Y. 14th Regiment, Y. Y. 14th Regiment, Y. Y. 14th Regiment, Y. Y. SOLDIERS' NATIONAL CEMETERY. Vermont. — Section A — Continued. 47 Names. Djer Rogers Unknown Albert A. Walker Corp. Charles Morse, Jr.... Garrett L. Roseboom Ira Emery, Jr., (removed) . William 0. Doubleday Andrew E. Osgood Corp. George L. Baldwin... G. F. Simmons Sylvanus A. Winship Sergt. Moses P. Baldwin.... Sergt, Major Henry H. Smith, Corp. Ira E. Sperry John L. Marshall Sergt. Thomas Blake Corp. Michael M'Enerny Comp'y, Regiment. D. D. A. D. A. H. H. F.. L. K. A. A. 14th Regiment, V. V. 14th Regiment, V. V. 14th Regiment, V. V. 16th Regiment, V. V. 14th Regiment, V. V. 16th Regiment, V. V. 14th Regiment, V. V. 13th Regiment, V. V. 14th Regiment, V. V. 13th Regiment, V. V. 16th Regiment, V. V. 16th Regiment, V. V. 13th Regiment, V. V. 1st Cavalry. 4th Regiment, V. V. 13th Regiment, V. V. 13th Regiment, V. V. Section B. No. of grave. Names. Comp'y. Hegiment. 1 2 3 Lieut. William H. Hamilton.. William G. Jeffrey W. Fletcher I A D D E E C E 14th Regiment, V. V. 1st Regiment, V. V. 13th Regiment, V. V. 13th Regiment, V. V. 13th Regiment, V. Y. 14th Regiment, V. V. 4 5 William March Orson S. Carr 6 Pliny F. White 7 Antoine Ash 2d Regiment, V. V. 8 Charles W. Whitney 13th Regiment, V. V. 48 SOLDIERS' NATIONAL CEMETERY. Vermont. — Section B — Continued. No. of gravo. 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 Names. Comp'y. Benjamin N. Wright lieeter L. Baird, (with $3 35,) Richard C. Archer L. H. B. Corp. Henry C. White E Zenal C. Lamb John Dyer Unknown Unknown. Unknown , Corporal Warren. Rufus D. Thompson , Supposed, Charles Curley. Joel J. Smith , Unknown , Unknown Unknown Unknown. Unknown. Willard M. Pierce Regiment. 13th Regiment, V. V. 14th Regiment, V. V. 14th Regiment, V. V. 16th Regiment, V. V. 16th Regiment, V. V. 16th Regiment, V. V. 1st Cavalry. 1st Cavalry. 1st Cavalry. 1st Cavalry. 1st Musician. 1st Cavalry. 1st Cavalry. 1st Cavalry. 1st Cavalry. 16th Regiment, V. V, SiiCTION C. No. of grave. Names. Comp'y. Regiment. . 1 2 Unknown. Unknown M M 3 Unknown M M. 4 Edmond P. Davis H A l^h Regiment, V. V. 16th Regiment, V. V. 5 Phillip Howard Total, 61. SOLDIERS' NATIONAL CEMETERY. 49 MASSACHUSETTS. Section A. Ko. of 1 2 ' 3 4. 5 6 7 8 9 ro II 12 13 14 15 16 17 IS 19 20 21 22 23 24. 25 Names. Arthur Murphy. John W. Verity Edward Frothingham . .. John Crasson Henry C. Burrili Thomas Kelly George Lucas Alios Kraft. , T. R. Gallivan...., .,. M. Kinarch E. Barry Serg. George Joeckel Patrick 0'Ke,efe .„., Thomas Downey Corp. James SomerFille. William Inch Augustus Deitling Sergt. George F. Case. . Clemens Wiessensee I Patrick Quinlia G. C. Plant •. I Hugh Blain ; Patrick Manning j John M'CIarenoe j Johu Dippolt Comp'y. Regiment. H. A. D. C, F. H. G. B. F., E. B D. C. A. B. F. A. H. D. F. B. 9th Battery. 5th Battery. 5th Battery. 9th Battery. 20th Regiment, M. T. 20th Regiment, M. V. 20th Regiment, M..V. 20th Regiment, M. V. 20th Regiment, M. V. 20th Regiment, M. T. 2Qth Regiment, M. Y. 20th Regiment, M. V. 20th Regiment, M. V. 20th Regiment. M. V. 20th Regiment, M. Y. 20th Regiment, M. Y-. 20th Regiment, M. Y. 20ch Regiment, M. T. 20th Regiment, M. Y. 20th Regiment, M. Y. 20th Regiment, M. Y. 20th Regiment, M. Y. 20th Regiment, M. Y. 20th Regiment, M. Y. 20th Regiment, M. Y. 50 SOLDIERS' NATIONAL CEMETERY. Massachusetts. — Section A-^Gontinued. No. of grave. 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 Naraes. Hiram B. Howard Eugene M'Laughlin Corp. John Burke , Alexander Aiken James Lane George P. Fales, of Boston.. George S. Wise Michael Laughlin Edwin Field John M. Brock Frank A. Gould Corp. Prince A. Dunton John Flye Sergt. Edgar A. Fiske Comp'y.l Regiment. D j 20th Regiment, M. Y. F 20th Regiment, M. Y. K 20th Regiment, M. Y. D 20th Regiment, M. Y. F 20th Regiment, M. Y. D Excelsior, of N. Y D 13th Regiment, M. Y. K 13th Regiment, M. Y. B I3th Regiment, M. Y. H I3th Regiment, M. Y. K 13th Regiment, M. Y. H 13th Regiment, M. Y. K 13th Regiment, M. Y. E 13th Regiment, M. Y. Section B. No. of grave. Names. Comp'y, Regiment. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Charles Trajnor. . . William T. Bullard. John Joy ,...,, Philo H. Peck. . ... Stephen Cclj Richard Sea vers.... George Bailey Andrew Nelson John Deer , L. A. H. G. L. L. L., D. D. Corp. Gordon S. Wilson i G 2d Regiment, M. Y. 2d Regiment, M. Y. 2d Regiment, M. Y. 2d Regiment, M. Y. 2d Regiment, M. Y. 2d Regiment, M. Y. 2d Regiment, M. Y. 2d Regiment, M. Y. 2d Regiment, M. Y. 2d Regiment, M. Y. SOLDIERS' NATIONAL CEMETERY. 51 Massachusetts. — Section B — Continued. Names. Joseph Furbur ,. Rupert J. Saddler, Col. Corp., Frederick Maynard Patrick Hoey Sergt. Leavitt C Durgin Corp. William Marshall.. Corp. Ruel Whittier James T. Edmands , John E. Farrington Peter Conlan Sidney S. Prouty F. Goetz ., Corp. Theodore S. Butters . David B. Brown ! William H. Ela James A. Chase ■ Charles Keirnan And. Moore Lieut. Henry Hartley ' Frederick S. Kettel George Golden ...i David H. Eaton i Jacob Kesland Sergt. Edward J. M'Ginnis....! J. Matthews ( Sergt. William Kelren i i Corp. Henry Evans ; Comp'y. Regiment. G D D A A C B...... I H B A C I I D C F F E E B B B C B I E I A I 2d Regiment, M. V. 2d Regiment, M. Y. 2d Regiment, M. Y. 2d Regiment, M. Y. 2d Regiment, M. Y. 2d Regiment, M. Y, 2d Regiment, M. Y. 2d Regiment, M. Y. 2d Regiment, M. Y. 2d Regiment, M. Y. 2d Regiment, M. Y. 2d Regiment, M. Y. 2d Regiment, M. Y. 2d Regiment, M. Y. 2d Regiment, M. Y. 2d Regiment, M. Y. 2d Regiment, M. Y. 1st Regiment, M. Y. 1st Regiment, M. Y. 1st Regiment, M. Y. 1st Regiment, M. Y. 1st Regiment, M. Y. 1st Regiment, M. Y. 1st Regiment, M. Y. 1st Regiment, M. Y. 1st Regiment, M. Y. 1st Regiment, M. Y. i-2 SOLDIERS' NATIONAL CEMETERY. Massachnsetts. — Section C. No. of grave. 3 4 5 . 7 8 Names. Comp'7. 1 fJ. L. Johnson i K. Joseph Marshall 1 K., James E. Butler ' D. Michael Doherty j A. Lucius Staples | A. t ■ ■ Corp. Edwin F. Trufant ! F.. 1 Corp. C. R. T. Knowlton j H. Sergt. William Sawtell E. Regiment. 9 J. S.Rice j K. 10 Sumner A. Davis ! K. i I 11 i FiancisT. Flint ! H. 12 John Brodie. IS I4r 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 '22 23 Sergt. William Carr | I George F. Lewis j H { ! Hardy P. Murray ! K i Corp. T. H. Fenelon William D. Hudson . G. H. Barney Clark ! G Sergt. James M. Haskell... Alvin W. Lamb , William F. Baldwin Henry T. Wade Corp. William L. Gillman. •24 j Daniel Stoddard 25 Corp. Nathaniel Mavo I ■26 j T. J. Healey 27 ' James H. Leaver.d A. A. B.. E.. K. F. F.. G. L. 11th Regiment, M. V. 11th Regiment, M. Y. 11th Regiment, M. Y. 11th Regiment, M. Y. 11th Regiment, M. Y. 11th Regiment, M. Y. 11th Regiment, M. Y. 11th Regiment, M. Y. llth Regiment, M. Y. 1 1th Regiment, M. Y. llth Regiment, M. Y. 12th Regiment, M. Y. 12th Regiment, M. Y. 12th Regiment, M. Y. 32d Regiment, M. Y. 32d Regiment, M. Y. 32d Regiment, M. Y. 32d Regiment, M. Y. 32d Regimen^, M. Y. 32d Regiment, M. Y. 32d Regiment, M. Y. 32d Hegimcnt, M. Y, 32d Regiment. M. Y. 32d Regiment, M. Y, 32d Regiment, M. Y 32d Regiment, M. Y, » SOLDIERS' NATIONAL CEMETERY. 5B Massachusetts. — Section C — Continued. Names. Comp'y. Sergt. Go rham Coffin .....' A. Sergt. Joseph Ford i K. Edward Roche | E., Corp. Thomas W. Tuttle i L. Jeremiah Wells | H. Charles Gurnej E. E. Bassamunson B. Elisha Covin B. Regiment. 19th Regiment, M. V. 19th Regiment, M. Y. 19th Regiment, M. V. 19th Regiment, M. Y. 19th Regiment, M. Y. 37th Regiment, M. A'. 37th Regiment, M. Y. 37th Regiment, M. Y. Section D. Names. Comp'y. Regiment. Sergt. HenrvC. Ball 1 F. John Marsh i B. i Michael Flinn j G. 0. Stevens { D. Geo. W. Cross j E. Joseph Bardsley I I.. Francis Santum | I.. Francis A. Lewis ! A. George E. Burns George L. Bass Sergt. Edward B. Rollins. John Grady N. B. BicknelL... Pierce Harvey G. Lambert Calvin S. Field G. B. A. L. C. 15th Regiment, M. M . 15th Regiment, M. Y. I5th Regiment, M. Y. 15th Regiment, M. Y. 15th Regiment, M. \. 15th Regiment, M. Y. 15th Regiment, M Y. 15th Regiment, M Y. 15th Regiment, M. Y. 15th Regiment, M. Y. 15th Regiment, M. Y. 1 5th Regiment, M. Y. 11th Regiment, M. Y. 15th Regiment, M. Y. 15th Regiment, :\i. T. 22d. Regiment, M. Y. >4. SOLDIERS' NATIONAL CEMETERY. Massachnsetts. — Section D — Continued. Ho. of grave. 17 18 19 20 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 Names. John Hickey John Caswell Sergt. Edward Mooney Joseph Beal C. H. Pierce Unknown. Geo. Hills, of New Bedford, Corp. Patrick Scannell Sergt. Alonzo J. Babcock... Corp. Jules B. Allen : D Calvin Hov/e I. CoBap'y. Regiment. c 28th Regiment, M. V. G 28th Regiment, M. V. D 28th Regiment, M. V. I 33d Regiment, M. V. E 33d Regiment, M. T. E. Howe H. Jeremiah Danforth C. Charles A. Trask K. I Charles H. Wellington K. Daniel Holland D. P. W. Price C. George Lawtou j H. J. Coakley i A. 19th Regiment, M. V. 2d Regiment, M. V. 33d Regiment, M. Y. 33d Regiment, M. V. 33d Regiment, M. V. 19th Regiment, M. Y. 13th Regiment, M. V. 13th Regiment, M. V. 19 th Regiment, M. T. 2Sth Regiment, M. V. 16th Regiment, M. Y. 19tb Regiment, M. Y. Section E. No. of j:rave. Names. ' Comp'y. Regiment. 1 o G. P. Roundey, Massachusetts. J. B. Nincent Q 22d Rep-iment M Y 3 4 Unknown. James Crampton K K 3d Regiment, M. V. 22d Regiment, M. T. 5 John F. Moore SOLDIERS' NATIONAL CEMETERY. 55 Massaclrasetts. — Section E — Continued. No. of grave. 6 7 8 Names. C. H. Reed John T. Bixby, S. Hifideman... 9 i G. F. Leonard. Comp'y, Regiment. H 15th Regiment, M. V. H. 15th Regiment, M. V. I5th Regiment, M. V. 13th Regiment, M. V. Section P. No. of grave. Names. Comp'y. Regiment. 1 1st Lieut. Sumner Paine 20th Regiment, M. Y. 37th Regiment, M. V. 19 th Regiment, M. V. 2 3 ] Lieut. J. H. Parkins B.... . Lieut. Sherman S. Robinson..! Total, 158. 58 SOLDIERS' NATIONAL CEMETERY- RHODE ISLAND. Section A. No. of graTO. Names. Battery. Regiment. 1 Ira Bennett* B B A E B A E E A Co C. 1st Regiment, R. I. Art. 2 3 David B. King John Zimmila Ibt Regiment, R. I. Art. 1st Regiment, R. I. Art. 1st Regiment, R. I. Art. 1st Regiment, R. I. Art. 1st Regiment, R. I. Art. 1st Regiment, R. I. Art, 1st Regiment, R. I. Art, 1st Regiment, R. I. Art. 2d Regiment, R. L Y. 4. Ernest Simpson 5 John Greene 6 John Higgins ...».....••• 7 8 Alviu Hiltonf Francis H Martial 9 10 Patrick Lonnegan Charles Powers Section B. No. of grave. Names. Battery. Regiment. 1 William Bear^ E 1st Regiment, R. I Art 2 Corp. Henry H. Ballot B 1st Regiment, R. I. Art. Total, 12. • Temporarily transferred from the 19th Maine Regiment of Infantry. t Was temporarily attached to this Battery, from liOth Regiment, Indiana Volunteers. t Was temporarily attached to this Battery, from 90th FennsyWania Volunteers. SOLDIERS' NATIONAL CEMETERY. 57 CONNECTICUT. Section A. Ko. of ©rave. Names. ! Comp'y. Regiment. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Corp. William E, Wilson. Corp. Joseph Puffer William D. Marsh Moses Gr. Clement S. Carter Edward B. Farr Michael Confrey John D. Perry Bernard Mulvey Frank J. Benson Joseph Whitlock 27th Regiment, C. V. 14th Regiment, C. Y. 14th Regiment, C. V. t 14th Regiment, C. V. 15th Regiment, C. Y. 27th Regiment, C. Y. 27th Regiment, C. Y. F j 20th Regiment, C. Y. 1 20th Regiment, C. Y. C 17th Regiment, C. Y. C I 17th Regiment, C. Y. Section B No. of grave. Names. Comp'y. Regiment. 1 o 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Alfred H. Dibble Nelson Hodge James Cassidy Corp. Joel C. Dickerman Charles H. Roberts Daniel H. Prudy , James Flynn Corp. Williams ..., G I 14th Regiment, C. Y. John W. Metcalf. . William Cannells. L. C. L. P. C. E. D. F. 14th Regiment, C. Y. 20th Regiment, C. Y. 20th Regiment, C. Y. 20th Regiment, C. Y. 17th Regiment, C. Y. 17th Regiment, C. Y. 20th Regiment, C. Y. 17th Regiment, C. Y. §8 SOLDIERS' NATIONAL CEMETERY. Connecticut. — Section C. No. of grave. Names. Comp'y. Regiment. 1 Patrick Dnnn..... D 27th Regiment, C V. Total, 22. NEW YORK. Section A. No. of grave. Names. Comp'y. 1 L Vaufforder E E K D F rt G H Babcock 3 — - Easter ». ^i.. .... 4 E B Miller 5 William Millard 6 Unknown 7 Unknown 8 Unknown 9 Unknown 10 Unknown 1 11 Unknown 12 Unknown 13 Unknown U George A. Atkin D 15 Unknown 16 Unknown 17 Unknown 18 Unknown 19 Unknown Regiment. 20th Reg^ent, N. Y. S. M. 20th Regiment, N. Y. S. M. Mth Regiment, N. Y. S. M. 146th Regiment, N. Y. T. 14th Regiment, N. Y. S. M. I4th Regiment, N. Y. S. M. 14th Regiment, N. Y. S. M. 14th Regiment, N. Y. S. M. 14th Regiment, N. Y. S. M. Uth Regiment, N. Y. S. M. 14th Regiment, N. Y. S. M. 14th Regiment, N. Y. S. M. Uth Regiment, N.Y.S.M. 14th Regiment, N. Y. S. M. 147th Regiment, N. Y. T. 147th Regiment, N. Y. T, 147th Regiment, N. Y. T. 147th Regiment, N. Y. V. 147th Regiment, N. Y. T il SOLDIERS' NATIONAL CEMETERY. 59 New Tork. — Section A — Continued. No. of grave. 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34. 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 Names. Comp'y.l Regiment. John Wood B I Unknown I ••• Sei'gt. Lawrence Hennessy ... F Unknown Unknown » Henry Kellog Joseph Pharett Unknown Unknown Unknown Unknown J. A. Casad Unknown , Venerable Wesley Ira Martin, Jr John Nickels William Besimer Corp. William Miller Unknown John Barrey. Sergt. Benjamin F. Elliott. L. W. M'Clelland Thomas James I. Heimbacker R. Snyder John K. Philips Marx Englert B. F. D. A. B. E. F. L. 76th Regiment, N. Y. V. 147th Regiment, N. Y. V. 94th Regiment, N. Y. V. 157th Regiment, N. Y. V. 157th Regiment, N. Y. V. 157th Regiment, N. Y. V. 157th Regiment, N. Y. V. 157th Regiment, N. Y. V. 157th Regiment, N. Y. V. 157th Regiment, N. Y. V. 157th Regiment, N. Y. Y. 137th Regiment, N. Y. V. N. Y. V. i37th Regiment, N. Y. V. 137th Regiment, N. Y. V. 149th Regiment, N. Y. V. 137th Regiment, N. Y. M. 1 137th Regiment, N. Y. M. i I ! 1st N. Y. Artillery. 1 2d Regiment, N. Y. S. M. ,! 20th Regiment, N. Y. S. M. J 42d Regiment, N. Y. V. .1 39th Regiment, N. Y. V. 125th Regiment, N. Y. T. 126th Regiment, N. Y. T. I08th Regiment, N. Y. T. 80 SOLDIERS' NATIONAL CEMETERY. New York. — Section A — Continued. Kq. of , «rave. j +7 I 48 4.'? I 50 i 51 i 52 I 53 I 54- ■ 55 1 56 I I 58 I 59 I i 60 I I bl I i b2 I I t)3 64. ^5 1)6 67 I 68 69 70 j 71 72 73 Natnee. Uiikuown H. Burcb Unknown Edmund Stone, Jr., color bearer Francis W. Howard Lieut. Julius Ferretzy Chester Smith , Rowland L. Ormsby James F. Joloph Richard Corcoran Frederick Ilempmir Patrick Martin John O'Brian Corp. Gt'orge Dalgleish Corp. Peter Junk L. A. Godfrey W. A. G Z. C. Wiggins Eiias Gage A rzy West John Salsbury Sergt. Piatt Mike Caddy, Color Sergeant. Lieut. Col. Max. A. Thoman Corp. George S. Smith Myron H. Van Winkle H. Williams Comp'y K. D. D. D. A. G. G. G. B. D. C. K. E. A. D. B.. H. E., G. E. F.. Regiment. 111th Regiment, N. Y. T. 111th Regiment, N. Y. T. 111th Regiment, N. Y. T. 64th Regiment, N. Y. T. 64th Regiment, N. Y. T. 119th Regiment, N. Y. J. 44th Regiment, N. Y. T. b4th Regiment, N. Y. Y. 66th Regiment, N. Y. T. 2d Regiment, N. Y. V. 52d Regiment, N. Y. Y. 61st Regiment, N. Y. T. 63d Regiment, N. Y. T. 2d Regiment, N. Y. Y. 119th Regiment, N. Y. T. 9th Regiment, N. Y. Cav. 125th Regiment, N. Y. T. 136th Regiment, N. Y. T. 136tb Regiment, N. Y. T. 136th Regiment, N. Y. T. 64th Regiment, N. Y. T. 86th Regiment, N. Y. S. M. 42d Regiment, N. Y. T. 59th Regiment, N. Y. T. 64th Regiment, N. Y. T. 111th Regiment, N. Y. T. 2d Regiment, N. Y. Y.^ SOLDIERS* NATIONAL CEMETERY 61 New York. — Section A — Goniinued. No. of grave. Names. j Comp'y, 74. 75 76 . 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100 Sergt. J. B. Wilson ! Sergt. James M. Martin j George Shaffer J. D. Slattery E. A. Potter A. Krappman Thomas Sebring 1st Lieut. Theodore C. Pausch, Conrad Schuler Jacob Van Pelk 2d Lieut. C. A. Foss John C. Curren Edwin A. Hess Corp. Henry Burk Eldridge Or. Thompson Daniel O'Hara C. J. Crandell A. B. Usher Stephen Baldwin , Sergt. I. L. Decker Philip Bansell ■ David Knapp Unknown. John G. Bigg Unknown. Frederick Feight E. Bi-vant , C. H. A. K. L. Regiraect. 2d Regiment, N. Y. S. M. 59th Regiment, N. Y. S. M, 39th Regiment, N. T. S. M . 40th Regiment, N. Y. T. 40th Regiment, N. Y. V. A 40th Regiment, N. Y. T 1 126th Regiment, X. Y. T. 39th Regiment, N. Y. T. D i 2d Excelsior, B 11th Regiment, N. Y. Y. C I 12th Regiment, N, Y. Y. E.. 'F.. B. G. G. K. 4th Excelsior. 5th Excelsior. 5th Excelsior. 86t.h Regiment, N. Y. T. 40th Regiment, N. Y. V. 125th Regiment, N. Y. V D i 125th Regiment, N. Y. V 122d Regiment, N. Y. Y. 70th Regiment, X. Y. V. 10th Regiment; N. Y. C. llUh Regiment. N. Y V 5th N. Y. Ind . Batt-t-rv p 140th Regiment, N. Y. Y K I 137th Regiment, X. T. Y 62 SOLDIERS' NATIONAL CEMETERY. New York. — Section A — Continued. No. of grave. 101 102 103 104 105 106 107 108 109 110 111 112 113 114 115 116 117 118 119 120 121 122 123 124 125 I 126 j 127 ! JNames. Unknown J. Dore H. Moore Thomas Gannon Samuel Stills Frederick Wentz , Color Corp. Albert Miracle. .. Henry Rhoades Sergt. Lewis Bishop Jeremiah Barry William Weight Horace Anguish , Corp. J. B. Thomas ;. Thurston Thomas Samuel Hague Philip Daney P. C. Wilber Thaddeus Reynolds Lewis Frento , Charles F Webber , Henry Miller George A. Douglass Sergt. F. Leaffled Albert D. Wilson Sergt. W. Shea J. Loh russ Mortimer Garrison Comp'y, B. H. Regiment. F., L. H. B. C. B.. K. L. E. D. B. E. E. L. G. A. B. F. D. E. I.. B. 137th Regiment, N. Y. Y. 119th Regiment, N. Y. Y. 6th N. Y. Cavalry. 40th Regiment, N. Y. V. 41st Regiment, N. Y. Y. ]f)4th Regiment, N. Y. Y. 108th Regiment, N. Y. Y. I54:th Regiment, N. Y. Y. 134th Regiment, N. Y. Y. 84th Regiment, N. Y. Y. 157th Rfigiment, N. Y. Y. 134th Regiment, N. Y. Y. 134-th Regiment, N. Y. Y. 119th Regiment, N. Y. Y. ]34th Regiment, X. Y. Y. 134th Regiment, N. Y. Y. 154th Regiment, N. Y. Y. 76th Regiment, N. Y. Y. 14th Regiment, N. Y. S. M. 147th Regiment, N. Y. Y. 14th Regiment, N. Y, S. M. 104th Regiment, N. Y. Y. 157th Regiment, N. Y. Y. 104th Regiment, N. Y. Y. 104th Regiment, N. Y. Y. 126th Regiment, N. Y. Y. SOLDIERS' NATIONAL CEMETERY. 68 New York. — Section A — Continued. Names. Corp. George W. Forrester... Unknown. Unknown. Unknown Unknown, with Testament P. Lappen Marshall E. Hiseox, 2d Sergt., John Bell W. W. Scott D Welch W. Pooke 1st Sergt. Thomas J. Curtis... Sergt. H. Roberts Chauncey Snell Elias Hannis Unknown Lieut. Theodore Blume Comp'y. Regiment. C 1-tth Regiment, N. Y. V. H. D. E. C. E. G. A. C. F. C. C. 134th Regiment, N. Y. T. 134th Regiment, N. Y. V. 2d Regiment, N. Y. Y. 125th Regiment, N. Y. T. 123d Regiment, N. Y. V. 145th Regiment, N. Y. Y. 147th Regiment, N. Y. Y. 76th Regiment, N. Y. V. 104th Regiment, N. Y. Y. 104th Regiment, N. Y. Y. 147th Regiment, N. Y. Y. 147th Regiment, N. Y. Y. 2d N. Y. Battery. Section B. Names. William Cranston. Unknown Unknown Unknown Unknown Sergt. Carey Unknown. Comp'y. F. Regiment. 76th Regiment, N. Y. Y. 76th Regiment, N. Y. Y. 76th Regiment, N. Y. V. 76th Regiment, N. Y. Y. 76th Regiment, N. Y. Y. 9th Regiment, N. Y. Y. 157th Regiment, N. Y.,Y. 6i SOLDIERS' NATIONAL CEMETERY. ITew York Section B — Continued. No. of grave. 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 18 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 Names. Amasa Topping Unknown Unknown Unknown Corp. Philander Stone.... Unknown Sergt. Amos Hummiston Chamburg ;... Comp'y. D. K. Unknown Edward Van Dyke Levi Carpenter Harris Henschell John P. Yan Altype , John P. Wing , G. Ulmer Corp W. Foster Sergt. C. Gray P. Ayres James n. Mullin j John Gamine \ E. Benjamin Clark ! K Sergt. Henry Johnson j B Hannibal Dorset F Hugh Murphy j G ! Peter Brentzel i L Unknown. Lieut. R. P. Holmes Regiment. 157th Regiment, N. Y. T. 157th Regiment, N. Y. T. 157th Regiment, N. Y. V. 157th Regiment, N. Y. V. 157th Regiment, N. Y. V. 157th Regiment, N. Y. V. 154th Regiment, N. Y. T, 134th Regiment, N. Y. V. i34th Regiment, N. Y. V. 134th Regiment, N. Y. T. 164th Regiment, N. Y. Y. 140th Regiment, N. Y. T. 150th Regiment, N. Y. T. l*50th Regiment, N. Y. V. 149th Regiment, N. Y. V. 137th Regiment, N. Y. V. 60th Regiment, N. Y. T. 60th Regiment, N. Y. Y. 127th Regiment, N. Y. V. 137th Regiment, N. Y. Y. 137th Regiment, N. Y. A\ 137th Regiment, N. Y. V. 60th Regiment, N. Y. Y. 42d Regiment, N. Y. Y. 42d Regiment, N. Y. Y. G I 126th Regiment, N. Y. V. SOLDIERS' NATIONAL CEMETERY. 65 New York. — Section B — Continued. No. of grave. 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 \ 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 Names. 'Comp'y. Unknown. A. M'Gillora G. Bemis Albert Bruner Franklin Cole John F. Fanssen Unknown . Daniel Mahoney, John Bnrns William M. Stewart Daniel L, Confer John Stowell C. C. Elwell James Doran Sergt. William Hoover. David Reed William Bryan O. Sergt. Sigm. Webb.. Thomas J. Boyd John King J. B. Morse T. Harrigan Timothy Kelly Benjamin P. Atkins William Peisdale Simon Freer Frank Staley , G. K, G. K. B.. L., C. H. K. H. E.. G. A. K. H.... K.. .. E A.... D F C F A.... Regiment. I nth Regiment, N. Y. Y. 111th Regiment, N. Y. Y. 2d N. Y. Battery. 61st Regiment, N. Y. Y. 2d Regiment, N. Y. V. N. Y. Artillerist. 69th Regiment, N. Y. T. 59th Regiment, N. Y. Y. 2d Regiment, N. Y. S. M. 136th Regiment, N. Y. T. 136th Regiment, N. Y. T. 136th Regiment, N. Y. T. 136th Regiment, N. Y. Y. 136th Regiment, N. Y. T. 59th Regiment, N. Y. Y. 42d Regiment, N. Y. T. 52d Regiment, N. Y. Y. 2d Regimeat, N. Y. S. M. 2d Regiment, N. Y. S. M. 124th Regiment, N. Y. Y. 40th Regiment, N. Y. Y. 40th Regiment, N. Y. T. ^ 40th Regiment, N. Y. Y. 68th Regiment, N. Y. Y. 40th Regiment, N. Y. Y. 40th Regiment, N. Y. Y 66 SOLDIERS' NATIONAL CEMETERY. New York. — Section B — Continued. Wo. of grave. Names. 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 1^ 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 Comp'y. W. M. M'Aboy G. J. Galliger I... J. J. ConniCf K. David Maywood E . Sergt. Thomas King E.. Sergt. Ira Penoyar D. John J. Dunning D. J. K. Saulspaugh E.. P. D'Yos E.. B. Conrad Ambrose Paine George Nicholson K. Dennis M'Cartby K. John Norton C. William Marks E. Unknown. Unknown, Unknown. Unknown. 1st Lieut. M. Stanley E. T. Wood j C W. 11. Keyes I G J. Kough G. Sergt. S. A. Smith B. W. Johnson , B G. W. Strong j G. J. Bowie I,. Regiment. 4th Regiment, N. Y. Ex. 4th Regiment, N. Y. Ex. 4th Regiment, N. Y. Ex. • 5th Regiment, N. Y. Ex. 2d Regiment, N. Y. Ex. 111th Regiment, N. Y. Ex, 11 1th Regiment, N. Y. Ex. 126th Regiment, N. Y. Ex. 1 1 1th Regiment, N. Y. Ex, 125th Regiment, N. Y. Ex. 42d Regiment, N. Y. Ex. 126th Regiment, N. Y. Ex. 122d Regiment, N. Y. Ex, 60th Regiment, N. Y. Y. 140th Regiment, N. Y T. 60th Regiment, N. Y. T. 150th Regiment, N. Y. T. 78th Regiment, N. Y. Y. 102d Regiment, N. Y. T. 137tli Regiment, N. Y. Y. 60th Regiment, N. Y. V. 137th Regiment, N. Y. Y. 102d Regiment, N. Y. T. SOLDIERS' NATIONAL CEMETERY. 67 New York. — Section B. — Continued. Names. James E. Homan Bernard Germann Daniel Y. Hull Albert Hdtch William Schumne , J. E. Jayner Sergt. J. C. Weisensal .... G. M. Reagles Lieut. L. Dietrick John Cassidj Morgan L. Allen H. F. Morton George W. Lampheart.... Corp. Elias A. Norris Francis A. Chapman Corp. William M'Kendrj D. Lynes Sergt. John Stratton John Kurk Charles A. Hyde P. Sheets W. S. Besey Unknown Unknown Unknown. Unknown. Unknown. Comp'y. Regiment. H. D., G.. B . D. E , E., II D.. C. F . E.. B.. K. G. I.. A H B. G. C. 124th Regiment, N. Y. V. n9th Regiment, N. Y. V. 136th Regiment, N. Y. Y. 157th Regiment, N. Y. Y. 54th Regiment, N. Y. Y. 157th Regiment, N. Y. Y. 45th Regiment, N. Y. V. 134th Regiment, N. Y. Y. .58th Regiment, N. Y. Y. 108th Regiment, N. Y. Y, 147th Regiment, N. Y. Y. 147th Regiment, N. Y. Y. 76th Regiment, N. Y. Y. 126th Regiment, N. Y. Y. 76th Regiment, N. Y. Y. 94th Regiment, N. Y. V. 76th Regiment, K Y. S. M. 94th Regiment, N. Y. Y. 97th Regiment, N. Y. Y. 76th Regiment, N. Y. V. 147th Regiment, N. Y. Y. 104th Regiment, N. Y. Y. 134th Regiment, N. Y. Y. 134th Regiment, N. Y. Y. 68-'» SOLDIERS' NATIONAL CEMETERY. Hew York. — Section B — Continued. No. of grave. 116 117 118 119 120 121 122 123 124 125 126 127 128 129 130 131 132 133 134 135 136 137 138 Namee. - Chamberlain. -d ngton. Frank Deieenroth John Hofer. George Clark Patrick Burns N. A. Thayer Sergt. M. Buckingham. Samuel G. Spencer John M. Dawson Unknown. Unknown. James Montgomery . ... Dennis Brady Supposed Excelsior. Robert Shields John Allen Unknown. JohnZubber SanfordWebb Unknown. Unknown. Lieut. Charles Clark .., Comp'y. Regiment. B.. H, K. C. D. H. E. C. C. B. G. B. N. Y. V. 108th Regiment, N. Y. V. 65th Regiment, N. Y. T. 9th Regiment, N. Y. S. M. 123d Regiment, N. Y. S. M. 104th Regiment, N.Y.S. M. 76th Regiment, N. Y. S. M. 76th Regiment, N. Y. 6. M. 1st N. Y. Excelsior. 15th I. B. 140th Regiment, N. Y. V. 140th Regiment, N. Y, T. 140th Regiment, N. Y, V. 140th Regiment, N. Y. V. 9th Regiment, N. Y. S. M. SOLDIERS' NATIONAL CEMETERY. 69 New York. — Skotion C. Names- Comp'y. Regiment. Unkuown Unknown Unknown .' Unknown Unknown Unknown Sergeant, unknown Orderly Sergeant, unknown. Levi Rush B. C. Blunt Cbase Wingate George Mabee Unknown. A. Wallace W. Brown J. Morgan James Cullen John Smith Thomas Barren John Enosense Sergt. M. Dicker Sergt. L. H. Dicker James Gallagher J. L. Halleck T. D. Hawkin H. W. Roberts Corp. George Blackall A. G. D. A. H. H. F. D. D.. K.. C. K., P.. G.. E.. E,. G.. N. Y. V. N. Y. Y. N. Y. Y. 157th Regiment, N. Y. T. 157th Regiment, N. Y. V. 117th Regiment, N. Y. Y. N. Y. Y. N. Y. Y. 150th Regiment, N. Y. V. 150th Regiment, N. Y. Y. N. Y. Y. 137th Regiment, N. Y. Y. 11 1th Regiment, N. Y. V. 11 1th Regiment, N. Y. V. 111th Regiment, N. Y. Y. 42d Regiment, N. Y. Y. 42d Regiment, N. Y. Y. 42d Regiment, N. Y. Y. 59th Regiment, N. Y. "^ 20th Regiment, N. Y. S. M. 20th Regiment, N. Y. S. M. 2d Regiment, N. Y. S. M. 20th Regiment, N. Y. S. M. 111th Regiment, N Y. Y. 111th Regiment, N. Y. Y. 136th Regiment, N. Y. Y. SOLDIERS' NATIONAL CEMETERY. New York. — Section C — Continued. No. of grave. 28 29 SO 31 32 33 34. 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 (2 53 54 Names. Comp'y William Whitmore E. John Cripps A. Unknown. Corp. A. G. M'Afee D. M'Gill I A William H. Cross. Conrad. . .. 2d Lieut. Frank K. Garland. Corp. Amos Cogswell John H. Philips Unknown Unknown. Sergt. P. Rinboldt August EKenberger Sergt. John Larkins Peter West William L. Stuart John Bloekman James Partington John Carrigan Ira W. Ross Walter Qloobson William Morgan G. Huskej Wilson M. Molloy Lieut. George Dennen George Andrews G. C. A. F. E. Regiment. B H E K K I H I B K K 111th Regiment, N. Y. V. 111th Regiment, N. Y. V. 111th Regiment, N. Y. V. 10th Battalion N. Y. 61st Regiment, N. Y. V. 2d Regiment, N. Y. Y. 7l8t Regiment, N. Y. V. 71st Regiment, N. Y. V. 95th Regiment, N. Y. V. N. Y. V. 39th Regiment, N. Y. V. 59th Regiment, N. Y. V. 2d Regiment, N. Y. V. 42d Regiment, N. Y. V. 80th Regiment, N. Y. Y. 86th Regiment, N. Y. Y. 124th Regiment, N. Y. V. 186th Regiment, N. Y. V. 86th Regiment, N. Y. Y. 40th Regiment, N. Y. Y. 126th Regiment, N. Y. Y. 3d N. Y. Excelsior. 4th N. Y. Excelsior. 4th N. Y. Excelsior. 4th N. Y. Excelsior. SOLDIERS' NATIONAL CEMETERY. 71 New Tork. — Section C — Continued. J^'ames. Alfred O. Armes 1st Sergt. George E. Smith.... Daniel Cauty Corp. J. A. Thompson James Higgins Jacob Raish J. P. M'Cormick William N. Norris Unknown Joseph Laroost Ezra Hyde Unknown. P. Tillbury Capt. J. N. "Warner, removed, Charles Rosebill John Paugh Henry Miller M. A. Culver Peter Linek ;. George Rodeloff. J. F. Chace Benjamin Bice Corp. Peter Berer Ord. Sergt. Augustus Willman, Thomas Haley George Conner Broughton Hough Comp'y. Regiment. H. G. C. H. B. B. K. H. L. B. C. K. E. D. A. K.. F. E. D. K. 2d N. Y. Excelsior. 120th Regiment, N. Y. T. 2d N. Y. Excelsior. 4th N. Y. Battery. 1st N, Y. Excelsior. 125th Regiment, N. Y. T- 10th Regiment, N. Y. V. 44th Regiment, N. Y. V. 64th Regiment, N. Y. V. 140th Regiment, N. Y. Y. 146th Regiment, N. Y. T. 137th Regiment, -N. Y. Y. 86th Regiment, N. Y. V. 119th Regiment, N. Y. V. 154th Regiment, N. Y. V. 141st Regiment, N. Y. V. 157th Regiment, N. Y. Y. 134th Regiment, N. Y. V. 119th Regiment, N. Y. V. 154th Regiment, N. Y. V. 134th Regiment, N. Y. V. 134th Regiment, N. Y. V. 54th Regiment, N. Y. Y. 157th Regiment, N. Y. V. 157th Regiment, N. Y. V 157th Regiment, N. Y. V. 72 SOLDIERS' NATIONAL CEMETERY. New York. — Section C — Continued. Ko. of grave. Names. 82 George Halbring 83 Henry Limerick 84 Corp. Jerry Johnson 85 J. B. Church 86 C. E. Day 87 Sergt. A. W. Swart 88 J. Glair, Jr 89 John Glair 90 Horace Burgess 91 Sergt. F. E. Munsun 92 James Mahoney 93 Sergt. Henry Sanders 94 *J, M. Bouren 95 Unknown 96 Unknown. 97 Unknown 98 Unknown 99 Unknown 100 C. W. Radeu 101 Unknown. 102 John Fitzner 103 Henry J. Davis 104 Edward Beren 105 J. O'Brien 106 D. Hammond 107 Lafayette Burns 108 Unknown. Comp'y. Regiment. G.. F.. C F.. D.. L.. D.. B.. D.. D„ B.. C. C. B. F. B. I. A. 119th Regiment, N. Y. Y. 136th Regiment, N. Y. Y. 157th Regiment, N. Y. T. 147th Regiment, N. Y. Y. 94th Regiment, N. Y. V. 20th Regiment, N. Y. S. M. 94th Regiment, N. Y. V. 104th Regiment, N. Y. Y. 104th Regiment, N. Y. Y. 97th Regiment, N. Y. Y. 147th Regiment, N. Y. T. 94th Regiment, N. Y. Y. 154th Regiment, N. Y. Y. 154th Regiment, N. Y. Y. 154th Regiment, N. Y. Y. 154th Regiment, N. Y. Y. 134th Regiment, N. Y. Y. 1st N. Y. Artillery. 108th Regiment, N. Y. Y. 125th Regiment, N. Y. Y. 125th Regiment, N. Y. Y. 2d N. Y. Excelsior. N. Y. V. 2d N. Y. Excelsior. SOLDIERS' NATIONAL CEMETERY. 73 New York. — Section C — Coritinued. lio. of grave. Names. 109 110 111 112 ^113 114. 115 116 117 118 119 120 121 122 123 124 125 126 127 128 129 130 131 132 Comp'y. Regiment. Corp. D. Casey William Raymond ;.... Asa Pettingill Jo. Stowtenger James Pfeiffer Unknown. Unknown. James Gray Edward Peto R. Eliot Ord. Serg't Thomas Deviue... Unknown. Unknown. Unknown, supposed Excelsior. K. E. Claflin, Testament Unknown, Letters Unknown.....^ Unknown Unknown Unknown....; Ord. Serg't Edward F^ Krause, Unknown. Unknown. Unknown. K D K. 122d Regiment, N. Y. V. 126th Regiment, N. Y. T. 147th Regiment, N. Y. V. 147th Regiment, N. Y. T. 145th Regiment, N. Y. T. Cowan's Battery. 1st N. Y. Battery. 2d Regiment, N. Y. S. M. 2d Regiment, N. Y. S. M. N. Y. V. N. Y. V. N. Y. Excelsior. N. Y. Excelsior. N. Y. Excelsior. N. Y. Excelsior. 19th Regiment, N. Y. V. 74 SOLDIERS' NATIONAL CEMETERY. New York. — Section D. Jfo. of grave. Names. 1 Frederick D. Clark 2 Unknown 3 William C. Mari^h , 4 Loren Eaton 5 Frederick Phelps , 6 William Murphy , 7 Michael Moloy. .. , 8 E. B. Roberts , 9 Unknown Cavalryman. 10 Unknown Cavalryman. 11 Ord. Serg't James P. Cush... 12 Unknown , 13 N. Southerd M John Capper 15 Patrick M'Marra 16 Frederick Tybal 17 Serg't Darvoe , 18 H. Wood 19 Unknown 20 Unknown 21 James H. Griswald 22 J. J. Beck 23 Henry C. Bunnell 24 Serg't Patrick Farrington 25 Corp. Albert H. Edson , 26 Unknown, Cavalryman. 27 Patrick M'Donald Comp'y K. H. D. C. I.. C. B., B. K. E. E. K. B. E. D. D. G. A. Regiment. 78th Regiment, N. Y. T. N. Y. y. 78th Regiment, N. Y. T. 149th Regiment, N. Y. T. 137th Regiment, N. Y. V. 60th Regiment, N. Y. V. 149th Regiment, N. Y. T. 14th Regiment, N. Y. V. 59th Regiment, N. Y. T. N. Y. V. 20th Regiment, N. Y. S. M. 2d Regiment, N. Y. S. M. 43d Regiment, N. Y. S. M. 42d Regiment, IT. Y. S. M. 1st N. Y. Battery. 111th Regiment, N. Y. V. N. Y. V. N. Y. V. 111th Regiment, N. Y. T. 45th Regiment, N. Y. V. 1st N. Y. Excelsior 2d Regiment, N. Y. S. M. 8th N. Y. Cavalry. N. Y. V SOLDIERS' NATIONAL CEMETERY. 75 New York. — Section D — Continued. Names. Wm. Kreis Casr)er Bonnell Elista Allen Wessel Whitbeck Serg't Edwin G. Aylesworth. . Unknown George M'Connell Francis Chapman Serg't James Harrigan Thomas Hurley David R. Johnson Philip Martyler George Shumdeher Serg't L. Stone J. W. Cresler Unknown Unknown F. Piatt Patrick Lynch Serg't J. Murphy W. M. Brown Corp. Samuel Lambert H. Rose Josepl^ Battel J. D. B Corp. N. W. Winship Jabez Fisk Comp'y L. C A. E. G L. K. E. G. L. B. G. K. E. D. B. G. F F. A. L. K. K. Regiment. 52d Regiment, N Y. V. 66th Regiment, N. Y. Y. 59th Regiment, N. Y. V. 111th Regiment, N. Y. V. 147th Regiment, K Y. Y. 20th Regiment, N. Y. V. 14.th Regiment, N. Y. S. M. 76th Regiment, N. Y. S. M. 136th Regiment, N. Y; S.M. 2d Regiment, N. Y. S. M; 2d Regiment, N. Y. S. M. 39th Regiment, N. Y. V. 39th Regiment, N. Y. T. 42d Regiment, N. Y. Y. 1st N. Y. Excelsior. 1st N. Y. Excelsior. 1st N. Y. Excelsior, 72d Regiment, N. Y. S. M. 4th N. Y. Excelsior. 4th N. Y, Excelsior. 4th N. Y. Excelsior. 1st N. Y, Excelsior. 111th Regiment, N. Y. V. 2d N. Y. Excelsior. 129th Regiment, N. Y. T. 86th Regiment, N. Y. T. 86th Regiment, N. Y. V. 76 SOLDIERS' NATIONAL CEMETERY. New York. — Section D — Continued. Vo. of graye. Names. Comp'y. Regiment. 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 Matthew Bryan C Serg't C Farnsborth.... William M'Cort E. Whitmore , William Danice John Furgeson Serg't Carlton Sanders John Cain C. H. Carpenter Unknown. Unknown. H. M'Dowell J. Walton James Ivers , Jacob Eiser Heyden Unknown. Unknown. J. Finlin Unknown Zouave Unknown Zouave Serg't Unknown Unknown Unknown Robert Blair Unknown, (with Prayer Book Daniel Cas'ey * .. .., G. C. E. E. H. K. L. C. H. A. A. D of Fr. D 2d Regiment, N. Y. V. 126th Regiment, N. Y. V. 39th Regiment, N. Y. T. 111th Regiment, N. Y. V. 39th Regiment, N. Y. V. 39th Regiment, N. Y. V. 120th Regiment, N. Y. T. 122d Regiment, N. Y. V. 44th Regiment, N. Y. T. 60th Regiment, N. Y. T. 14th Regiment, N.Y. S. M. 14th Regiment, N. Y. S. U. 134th Regiment, N. Y. Y. 147th Regiment, 'N. Y. Y. 15th Indep't N. Y. Battery. 14th Regiment, Brooklyn. 14th Regiment, Brooklyn. N. Y. Excelsior. N. Y. Excelsior. N. Y. Excelsior. 140th Regiment, N. Y. T. Deisenroth.) 44th Regiment, N. Y. T. SOLDIERS' NATIONAL CEMETERY. 77 New York. — Section D — Continued. Names. Comp'y, Regiment. Josephus Simmons James Look Charles Speisberger Philip Beckner Justice Eisenberg David Nash George Lervj Serg't Sidney S. Skinner..., Jesse White Corp. William C. Crafts.... George Strobridge Ross Thomas Corp. Goodman George Nole , Leander T. Burnham R. M'EUigot F. Griswald Peter Beers John M. Irons E, Strong Unknown. Unknown. Unknown. Joseph Sneebacker Unknown, (with ambrotype an Unknown Cayalryman. Unknown. E.. A D. D. D. F. F. D. G. A. E., E. H. E.. E. C. C. B. E. K. 44th Regiment, N. Y. V. 44th Regiment. N. Y. Y. 140th Regiment, N.'Y. Y. 140th Regiment, N. Y. Y. 140th Regiment, N. Y. Y. 44th Regiment, N. Y. Y. 44th Regiment, N. Y. Y. 44th Regiment, N. Y. Y. 44th Regiment, N. Y. T. 44th Regiment, N. Y. Y. 140th Regiment, N. Y. T. 140th Regiment, N. Y. T. 44th Regiment, N. Y. T. 44th Regiment, N. Y. Y. 44th Regiment, N. Y. T. 44th Regiment, N. Y. Y. 44th Regiment, N. Y. Y. 44th Regiment, N. Y. Y. 44th Regiment, N. Y. Y. 34th Regiment, N. Y. Y. F d paper 146th Regiment, N. Y. Y. s.) 78 SOLDIERS' NATIONAL CEMETERY. New York, — Section D — Continued. Xo. of grave. Names. Coinp'y, Regiment. 109 110 111 ;ii2 113 lU 115 116 117 ^118 119 120 121 122 123 124 125 426 127 H. Martin Roe K 11. W. D J. C. K Charles Johnrid Unknown Cavalry Serg.eant Unknown. Unknown. Unknown. Unknown. W. L. Bort J. C. Kent W. W. Clark T. Manly D. Smith George S. Moss 111th Regiment, N. Y. V. lllth Regiment, N. Y. V. N. Y. V. 5th N. Y. Excelsior. William Wyer ^, F. M. Stowell .'., H. Dale Unknown Cavalryman. 157th Regiment, N. Y. T. 136th Regiment, N. Y. V. 60th Regiment, N. Y. Y. 63d Regiment, N. Y. V. 57th Regiment, N. Y. V. 125th Regiment, N. Y. V. 119th Regiment, N. Y. T. N. Y. Excelsior. 135th N. Y. Excelsior. Section E. No. of grave. 1 3 Names. Comp'y. James Gray Unknown Unknown. Unknown, (with knife, inksta C. Regiment. 2d Regiment, N. Y. S. M. 2d Regiment, N. Y. S. M. nd, medal, purse and 75 cents.) SOLDIERS' NATIONAL CEMETERY. 73 New York — SECTION E — Continued. Names. Nicholas Paquet Charles Root. John P. Conn Frederick Blackstein.... A. R. Townsend Chai'Ies Manning H. W-. Nichols E. Van Tassel P. Stevenson... P. M'Donald Corp. W. W. Rand Corp. L. Yinning Serg't Charles P. Fox.. Mahlon J. Pardee Oliver English P. A. Archibald Serg't J. W. Brockham. William W. Wheeler.... Richard W. Rush A. Stanton Peter Hill Dean Swift Serg't Daniel Corbett . . Serg't Hiram G. Hilts.. P. Fanning W. P. Huntington James W. Wickham Comp'y, E. A L. C. F, C. A. I.. E. A. A. F. A. C. C. F. A. C. A. A. B.. C. C. C, E., Regiment. 49th Regiment, N. Y. V. Battery L, 1st Artillerj. 40th Regiment, N. Y. V. 60th Regiment, N. Y. V. 137th Regiment, N. Y. V. 137th Regiment, N. Y. V. 60th Regiment, N. Y. Y. 60th Regiment, N. Y. Y. 60th Regiment, N. Y. Y. 102d Regiment, N. Y. Y. 137th Regiment, N. Y. Y. 137th Regiment, N. Y. Y. 137th Regiment, N. Y. Y. 137th Regiment, N. Y. Y. 137th Regiment, N. Y. Y. 137th Regiment, N. Y. Y. 137th Regiment, N. Y. Y. 137th Regiment, N. Y. Y. 137th Regiment, N. Y. Y. 137th Regiment, N. Y. Y. 137th Regiment, N. Y. Y. 60th Regiment, N. Y. Y. 122d Regiment, N. Y. Y. 122d Regiment, N. Y. Y. 123d Regiment, N. Y. T. 122d Regiment, N. Y. Y. to SOLDIERS' NATIONAL CEMETERY. New York. — Section E — Continued. JTo. of frave. 82 S3 84 35 36 37 38 S9 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 &0 il &2 &3 54 55 §6 il §8 Names. J. Vandyke R. Gandley G. Christanna Daniel Cook, U. S. Ambulance Serg't F. Jell R. T. Myres Felix M'Cram Josephus Gee A. J. Chafee William J. Sutliff. John Jolloff Elisha Loomis Michael Burns James Giles Serg't S. Lasaga John Sloven Heinrich Droeber John Riley H. Hawkins Jacob Dilber Joseph Cotrell Orin Shepherd Lieut. A. Wagner P. Newman .... John M. Wastrant A. S. Van Volkenburg Tyler J. Snyder Comp'y. K B A driver, I K K G E B F.... C C I A I C B Regiment. G , A. A. F. K. G. G. G. 107th Regiment, N. Y. T. 44th Regiment, N. Y. T. 120th Regiment, N. Y. T. 95th Regiment, N. Y. V. 111th Regiment, N. Y. T. 42d Regiment, N. Y. V. 137th Regiment, N. Y. T. 44th Regiment, N. Y. V. 137th Regiment, N. Y. Y. Excelsior ^Brigade. 137th Regiment, N. Y. T. 140th Regiment, N. Y. T. 104th Regiment, N. Y. T. 147th Regiment, N. Y. T. 61st Regiment, N. Y. T. 119th Regiment, N. Y. T. 145th Regiment, N. Y. Y. 94th Regiment, N. Y. T. 119th Regiment, N. Y. T. 43d Regiment, N. Y. Y. 60th Regiment, N. Y. T. 39th Regiment, N. Y. T. 73d Regiment, N. Y. V. 111th Regiment, N. Y. T. 64th Regiment, N. Y. T. 126th Regiment, N. Y. T. SOLDIERS' NATIONAL CEMETERY. New York. — Section E. 81 Names. Comp'y, Regiment. 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 Unknown, (on cap) Hendrick Hayman J- Clegg Corp. A. Ralph J. E. Bailey F. Sweney Thomas Smith..... Serg't S. Yandei'pool Unknown Captain Unknown , 1st Lieut. J. Ross Horner. . H. Bermao: , Unknown. Delmot, ($2 75, diary and D. I.., C. L. D. K. L. K. E., ambrotype) Unknown Corporal Solomon Lesser, ($36, &c.,)..., Corp. Bollinger i. Klebenspies Corp. Conrad Waelde. Albert Spitz Eiershan Corp. Woell J. Smith C. A. Caldwell.., H. C. Rosegrant. Timothy Kearns., P. Owens E.. E.. E. E.. E.. K. H. B. B. E. B. A. A. 157th Regiment, N. Y. Y. 39th Regiment, N. Y. Y. Excelsior. 62d Regiment, N. Y. Y. 111th Regiment, N. Y. Y. 40th Regiment, N. Y. Y. 1st N. Y. Excelsior. 125th Regiment, N. Y. Y. N. Y. Y. N. Y. Excelsior. 20th Regiment, N. Y. Y. 41st Regiment, N. Y. Y. 41st Regiment^ N. Y. Y. 41st Regiment, N. Y. Y. 41st Regiment, N. Y. Y. 41st Regiment, N. Y. Y. 41st Rfegiment, N. Y. Y. 41st Regiment, N. Y. Y. 41st Regiment, N. Y. Y. 41st Regiment, N. Y. Y. 41st Regiment, N. Y. Y. 4th N. Y. Battery^ 64th Regiment, N. Y. Y. 1st Regiment, N. Y. Y. Ist N. Y. Excelsior. 61st Regiment, N. Y. V. 82 SOLDIERS' NATIONAL CEMETERY. New York. — Section E — Continued. No. of grave. 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100 101 102 103 104 105 106 107 108 109 110 111 112 Names. G. W. Secose Unknown P, Trainer Jo II Kenton John Smith Serg't William H. Ambler... John Lanegar 1st Serg't Selden D. Wales .. Adjutant Gaulk J. B. Cowill John P. Wells William Franklin A. N. Post John Fi rrj 1st Sergeant — unknown James M'Bride Unknown. Patrick KeHney Charles Hogan Henry Hitchcock George Clax ' Amos Otis Serg't Samuel Fuller Unknown E. Develin J. Kaetchner Unknown Zouave. Comp'y F Beginient. 4th N. Y. Cavalry. 4th N. Y. Cavalry. 4th N. Y. Cavalry . 4th N. Y. Cavalry. ' 57th Regiment, N. Y. Y. 57th Regiment, N. Y. V. 5th N. Y. Cavalry. 5th N. Y. Cavalry. 5th N. Y. Cavalry. E ! 108th N. Y. Cavalry. E. H. A. L. B. A. C. K. G. 104th N. Y. Cavalry. 136th N. Y. Cavalry. 43d N. Y. Cavalry. 88th Regiment, N. Y. V. j 116th Regiment, N. Y. YJ 88th Regiment, N. Y. V. 63d Regiment, N. Y. V. 63d Regiment, N. Y. V. 1st Ind't N Y. Battery. 1 nth Regiment, N. Y. V. 146th Regiment, N. Y. V. 105th Regiment, N. Y. Y. Excelsior. 4th Regiment, N. Y. V. | Excelsior. SOLDIERS' NATIONAL CEMETERY. 83 New York. — Section E — Continued. No. of grave. Names. Comp'y. Regiment. 113 Corp. Richard Sheridan E 2d Regiment N Y S ^ 114 D. C, (with bible.) 115 Unknown. 116 Unknown. 117 Unknown Excelsior. Excelsior. Excelsior. Excelsior. 118 Unknown 119 Unknown 120 Unknown Section F. Names. Comp'y. Regiment. Capt. J. S. Corbin ... Cicero Tolls A. D. Tice Unknown Unknown Unknown Unknown , Unknown , Unknown , Serg't Frederick Derbin. Thomas, Dawson Alfred Trudell Fred. Hei Elbert Traver . Unknown F. A. E. L. A. A. E. 20th Regiment, N. Y. V. 134th Regiment, N. Y. V. 20th Regiment, N. Y. V. 147th Regiment, N. Y. V. 147th Regiment, N. Y. V. 147th Regiment, N. Y. V. 76 th Regiment, N. Y. V. 76th Regiment, N. Y. V. 76th Regiment, N. Y. V. 78th Regiment, N. Y. V. 78th Regiment, N. Y. V. 78th Regiment, N. Y. V. N. Y. Y. 44th Regiment, N. Y. V. N. Y. V. 84 SOLDIERS' NATIONAL CEMETERY. Kew York. — Section F — Continuei. No. of grave. 1 Names. Comp'y. Regiment. 16 William Lacy i H 4th N. Y. Excelsior. 17 J. Simond D K 4th N. Y. Excelsior. 18 Serg't T. Lallj 4th N. Y. Excelsior 19 Unknown Excelsior. 20 Unknown Excelsior 21 Unknown Excelsior 22 Unknown Cavalry. 23 Unknown. 24 Unknown Cavalry. 2d Excelsior. 25 David Holland, (with medal,) F 26 Unknown Excelsior 27 Michael Flanegan B'. 1st N. Y. Excelsior. 28 Ord. Serg't Patrick Sullivan... K 4th N. Y. Excelsior. 29 K. H. P 126th Regiment, N. Y. V. N. Y. V. 30 Unknown 31 Unknown, (withrina:,) N. Y. V. 32 Charles W. Gaylord B 126th Regiment, N. Y. V. Excelsior 33 Unknown U Charles Welden, (with diary,) D 111th Regiment, N. Y. Y. 85 Unknown Corporal N. Y. Y. S6 Unknown Cavalry. 37 Unknown. 38 Unknown. V 39 Lieut. A. W. Estes H ... 2d N. Y. Excelsior. 40 Unknown 41 Unknown 1st Division 5th Corps 1st Division 5th Corps. 42 Unknown SOLDIERS' NATIONAL CEMETERY. 85 New York. — Section F — Gontiwued. No. of grave. Names. Comp'y. Regiment. 43 Unknown, 44 Unknown. 45 Unknown. 46 Unknown. 47 Unknown (with knife) N. Y. V. 48 Unknown E 5th Corps. 49 Unknown. 50 John Kapp K ^Ist Excelsior. 51 Michael Ryan C 1st Excelsior. 52 Unknown. 53 Unknown. 54 Charles M'Kenney B 1st Excelsior. 55 Unknown. 56 Unknown. 57 Unknown 2d Brig. 2d Div. 5th Corps. 58 Unknown Corporal, (with pip e.) 55 Unknown. 60 James Brady 2d Excelsior 61 Unknown. 62 Unknown. 63 Unknown. 64 Unknown N. Y. V. Qb Unknown N. Y. V. 66 Charles Gorman E 2d Excelsior. 67 Unknown 2d Excelsior. 68 Patrick Olvany A 2d Excelsior. 69 'Alonzo Henstreat, (with pock et book and 50 cents.) 86 SOLDIERS' NATIONAL CEMETERY. New Tork. — Section F — Continued. No. of grave. Names. 70 71 7-2 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 Supposed George W. Douglass Supposed , Supposed Supposed Supposed , Supposed Supposed Supposed Supposed Supposed Unknown Unknown Unknown Orderly Sergeant.. Unknown, (with auibrotype). Supposed Supposed Supposed Jacob Jones, (with letter.) Unknown. Unknown. Unknown Unknown William M'Clellan Unknown. P. J. Hopkins Unknown. Comp'y, Regiment. B. G. H. N. Y. 1st Excelsior. N. Y. N. Y. N. Y. N. Y. N. Y. N. Y. V. N. Y. V. N. Y. Y. N. Y. V. N. Y. Y. N. Y. V. Excelsior. 5th Corps, N. Y. V. Excelsior. Excelsior. 11th Corps. Artillerist. 88th Regiment, N. Y. V. 126th Regiment, N. Y. V. SOLDIERS' NATIONAL CEMETERY. 87 New York. — Section F — Continued. No. of grave. Names. Comp'y. Regiment. 97 Unknown Corporal 126th Regiment, N. Y. V. 157th Regiment, N. Y. V. 157th Regiment, N. Y. V. Excelsior. 98 99 Lieut. R. D. Lower Unknown Corporal I 100 Supposed , 101 Unknown Excelsior. 102 Unknown Excelsior. 103 104 G. M'Cleary ^ Unknown F 4th Excelsior. Excelsior. 10.^ Unknown Excelsior. 106 Edmund Holmes F D 4th Excelsior. 107 T. Tetworth 4th Excelsior. 108 Adam Shaw 4th Excelsior. 109 Supposed Excelsior. 110 Supposed Excelsior. 111 William H. Bell P I H 120th Regiment, N, Y. V. 120th Regiment, N. Y. Y. 120th Regiment, N. Y. V. N. Y. V. 112 113 114 Corp. James M. Delanej Corp. Andrew De Wit > Supposed 115 Theodore Bogart, (with medal and breastpin) I 120th Regiment, N. Y. Y. Section [ G. Jfo. of grave. Names. Comp'y. Regiment. 1 2d Lieut. F F N. Y. Y. 2 Supposed (with ambrotype).. N. Y. Y. 3 Supposed N. Y. Y. 4 Supposed 120th Regiment, N. Y. Y. 5 Daniel Smith E 120th Regiment, N. Y. Y. 88 SOLDIERS' NATIONAL CEMETERY. New York. — Section G — Continued. No. of grave. Names. 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14. 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 80 31 32 Supposed, (with watch chain). Corp. Gilbert Myer ,.. Supposed Theodore Van Deborgert R. M. W Supposed Supposed « Supposed Supposed Supposed Supposed Supposed Supposed Supposed Supposed Supposed W. H. Ackerman Supposed Supposed Corporal, supposed Supposed Supposed Supposed Supposed Supposed Supposed Corp. Lewis Solomon Coinp'y. B. Begiment. 3d Excelsior. 120th Regiment, N. Y. V. Excelsior. 120th Regiment, N. Y. V. Supposed N. Y. V. Excelsior. Excelsior. Excelsior. Excelsior. Excelsior. Excelsior. ^ j^ Excelsior. Excelsior. Excelsior. Excelsior. Excelsior. 1st Excelsior. Excelsior. Excelsior. Excelsior. Excelsior. Excelsior. Excelsior. Excelsior. N. Y. Y. N. Y. V. 1st Regiment, N. Y. Y. SOLDIERS' NATIONAL CEMETERY. 89 K'ew York. — Section G — Continued. Names. Supposed , Supposed , Orderly Sergeant P. Farrel. Rufus Thomson , Seth Harpell Henry Wilson Alexander Gacon W. H. Piper... Sergeant Bie Charles Gorman Sergeant Washington Knight, George Buggins Michael Riley Elbert Brown John Carey Unknown. Unknown. Unknown, (2 knives and comb,) Unknown Unknown Unknown Unknown Unknown O. W. Hotchkiss, (breast pin,) William Shuly, (ambrotype,).. Supposed Supposed Comp'y. D .. C... C... E... B... H... A... E... C... I.... G... G... H.. F. Regiment. N. Y. V. N. Y. V. ^th Eycelsior. 120th Regiment, N. Y. V. 5th Excelsior. 126th Regiment, N. Y. V. 5th N. Y. Excelsior. 1st N. Y. Excelsior. 1st N Y. Excelsior, 2d N. Y. Excelsior. 5th N. Y. Excelsior. 1st N. Y. Excelsior. 42d Regiment, N. Y. Y. lUth Regiment, N. Y. Y. 5th Regiment, N. Y. V. N. Y. V. N. Y. V. N. Y. Y. N. Y. Y. N. Y. V. N. Y. V. 120th Regiment, N. Y. Y. N. Y. V. N. Y. Y. N. Y. V, 80 SOLDIERS' NATIONAL CEMETERY. If ew York. — Section G — Continued. No. of grave. 60 61 62 63 64. 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79. 80 81 82 83 84. 85 86 Names. Comp'y. Regiment. Justus Warner, (with snuff box,) I. Supposed Unknown Corporal Unknown. Unknown, supposed Scrg't John Knox John Nolan Serg't J. n. Mead Supposed Supposed George "Washington Sprague.. Serg't L. H. Lee Corp. Luke Kelly Thomas Murphy Henry Irvin Henry Piemer •. I F Supposed H. Thompson Adam C. Cadmus Jacob Frey M. Stout Charles Jones Serg't James Melchen, Thomas Hunt Supposed , Robert Laning , John Sloat L. L. B. F.. C H. H. 120th Regiment, N. Y. V. N. Y. Y. Excelsior. N. Y. Y. 5th N. Y. Excelsior. 1st N. Y. Excelsior. N. Y. Y. Excelsior. Excelsior. 2d Regiment, N. Y. Y. 2d Regiment, N. Y. Y. 2d Regiment, N. Y. S. M. 2d Regiment, N. Y. S. M. 2d Regiment, N. Y. S. M. 2d Regiment, N. Y. S. M. N. Y. S. M. 111th Regiment, N. Y. Y. 126th Regiment, N. Y. Y. 149th Regiment, N. Y. Y. 136th Regiment, N. Y. Y. 9th Regiment, N. Y. Cav. 2d Regiment, N. Y. S. M. 2d Regiment, N. Y. S. M. N. Y. Y. 86th Regiment, N. Y. Y. 126th Regiment, N. Y. Y. SOLDIERS' NATIONAL CEMETERY. 91 New York. — Section G — Continued. No. of grave. 87 88 89 90 Names. Serg't George Baker. Supposed Joshua Pursel Daniel Day Comp'y, A. Repriment. 40th Regiment, N. Y. V. N. Y. V. 126th Regiment, N. Y. V. 126th Regiment, N. Y. Y. Total, 866. NEW JERSEY. Section A. No. of grave. Names. Comp'y, Regiment. 1 2d Lt. Richard H. Townsend, 2 1st Serg't T. Sutphin 3 I. L. T. 4 L. Kreisel 5 G. Cutter 6 Isaac H. Copeland 7 John Albright. 8 Joseph Spacious 9 George Martin 10 O. S. Piatt 11 Unknown. 12 Daniel Hierman 13 Unkrfown. 14 George W. Adams 15 .William Redrew E. E. A. B. H. F. 12th Regiment, N. J. V. 5th Regiment, N. J. Y. Battery A, 1st N. J. Y. Battery A, 1st N. J. Y. 12th Regiment, N. J. Y. 12th Regiment, N. J. Y. 12th Regiment, N. J. Y. 12th Regiment, N. J. Y. 12th Regiment, N. J. Y. 12th Regiment, N. J. Y. 12th Regiment, N. J. Y. 92 SOLDIERS' NATIONAL CEMETERY. New Jersey. — Section A — Continued. Ko. of grave. 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 Names. Comp'y. William Spencer. Unknown. Unknown. Jacob Sheik Creamer . J. W. Button. R. S. Price... Swart Perew. K. G. Regiment. 4th Regiment, N. J. V. 12th Regiment, N. J. V. 5th Regiment, N. J. V. Battery B, 1st N. J. Artil. 11th Regiment, N. J. V. Section B. No. of grave. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 Names. Patrick Ryan Sergeant John M'lver Thomas Van Cleaf. B. C. Jackson John Rue , James Fletcher , Michael Goff. Joseph Burroughs , Henry Elberson , Serg't Samuel Stockton , William Preser Henry Dammig ., , Charles B. Yearkes Daniel Shuk J. Parliament Comp'y A. B.. F B. B.. G. G B , G, K. Regiment. 5th Regiment, N. J. V. 5th Regiment, N. J. V. 8th Regiment, N. J. V. 11th Regiment, N. J. V. 11th Regiment, N. J. Y. 7th Regiment, N. J. Y. 1 1th Regiment, N. J. Y. 8th Regiment, N. J. Y. N. J. Y. 5th Regiment, N. J. Y. Egg Harbor City Cavalry. 13th Regiment, N. J. Y. 6th Regiment, N. J. Y. 3d Regiment, N. J, Y. 13th Regiment, N. J. Y. SOLDIERS' NATIONAL CEMETERY. 93 New Jersey.— Section B— Continued. No. of] grave. ! Names. 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 No. of grave. 1 2 3 4> 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 John Smith, (with pocket book, W. T. Hawkins Rilej J. B J, H., (with comb) H. R renown, (with Testament). Regiment. ts, &c.) 12th Regiment, N. J. V. 2d Regiment, N. J. V. 7th Regiment, N. J. Y. 7th Regiment, N. J. Y. 7th Regiment, N. J. Y. Section C. Names. W. A. E Unknown, (with knife) Unknown Unknown John Ryan J. F Unknown, (with blanket shaw Unknown. Unknown. Unknown. Unknown, Unknown. Unjinown. Unknown. Unkndjfei. Unknown. Unknown. Comp'y. Regiment. c, A, I) 7th Regiment, N. J. V. 7th Regiment, N. J. Y. N. J. Y. 7th Regiment, N. J. Y. 5th Regiment, N. J. Y. 7th Regiment, N. J. Y. 94 SOLDIERS' NATIONAL CEMETERY. New Jersey. — Section C — Continued. No. of grave. Names. 18 Thomas Flanagea 19 M. Y 20 George W. Berry . Comp'y. G. A. B. Regiment. 7th Regiment, N. J. V. 7th Regiment, N. J. V. 7th Regiment, N. J. Y. Section D. No. of grave . Names. 1 Unknown 2 Unknown, (with needle case. ) 3 Unknown 4 Supposed 5 Supposed 6 Corp. William H. Ray 7 Serg't James B. Rister... ...... 8 E. Baner 9 Supposed 10 Supposed ,., 11 J. M'N 12 Unknown. 13 P. Weene..... Total, 78. Comp'y. F C, H F. H. Regiment. 7th Regiment, N. J. Y. N. J. Y. N. J. Y. N. J. Y. r2th Regiment, N. J. Y. 11th Regiment, N. J. Y. 11th Regiment, N. J. Y. N. J. Y. N. J. Y. 7th Regiment, N. J. Y. 6th Regiment, N. J. Y. 1 SOLDIERS' NATIONAL CEMETERY. 95 DELAWARE. Section A, ^mvl ^^"^^«- Comp'y. Regiment. 1 Corp. William Strong D B D , D E K G 2d Regiment, D. Y. Ist Regiment, D. Y. 1st Regiment, D. Y. 1st Regiment, D. Y. 1st Regiment, D. Y. 1st Regiment, D. Y. 2d Regiment, D. Y. 2 3 Serg't Thomas Seymore William Dorsey 4 John B. Sheets 5 6 T. P. Carey John S. Black 7 Serg't Michael Cavanagh Section B. No. of grave. Names. Comp'y. Regiment. 1 Peter Boster A A B E A E 2d Regiment, D. Y. 2d Regiment, D. Y. 1st Regiment, D. Y. 2d Regiment, D. Y. 1st Regiment, D. Y. 2d Regiment, D. Y. 2 Jacob Stiles 3 4 Downey Serg't Jacob Boyd 5 A. Huhn 6 Lieut. George G. Plank Section C. No. of grave. Names. Comp'y. Regiment. 1 James Dougherty I A 1st Regiment, D. Y. 2d Regiment, D. Y. 2 Stephen Carey Total, 15. # 96 SOLDIERS' NATIONAL CEMETERY. MARYLAND. Section A. No. of grave. Names. Comp'y. Regiment. 1 Southey Stirling K B B C 1st Regiment, Md. V. 1st E. Shore Md. V. 2 3 Unknown. Wm P Jones 4 Edward Pritchard 1st Regiment, Md. Y, 1st Regiment, P. H. B. 5 6 7 8 Unknown. Unknown. Unknown. H. Miller Section B. No. of grave. Names. Comp'y- Regiment. 1 Wm H. Eaton E H I B E D 1st E. Shore Md. V. Q- H Barger 1st Regiment, Md. Y. 1st E Shore Md Y 3 A Saterfield V 4, Joseph Bailey 1st Regiment, Md. Y. 1st Regiment, P. H. B. 1st Regiment, Md. Y. 5 Teter French 6 7 Unknown. Stephen Ford "... Section C. No. of grave. Names. Comp'y. Regiment. 1 G. W. Lowry K F M. 1st Regiment, P. H. B. 1st Regiment, P. H. B. 1st. RpD-impnt. P TT T? 2 3 John Conner D avid Krebs m ° SOLDIERS' NATIONAL CEMETERY. 97 Maryland. — Section C — Continued. No of grave. Names. Comp'y. Regiment. 4 M F Knott F D 1st Regiment, Md. V. 1st Regiment, Md. V. 1st Brigade. 5 Frank Baxter € John W. Stockman Section D. No. of grave. Names. Comp'y. Regiment. 1 Unknown, (killed at Hanover, Pa) • Total, 22. WEST VIRGINIA. Section A. No. of grave. Names. Comp'y. Regiment. 1 Simon Maine F 7th Regiment, Va. V. 7th Regiment, Va. V. 7th Regiment, Va. V. 7th Regiment, Va. V. 7th Regiment, Va. V. 7th Regiment, Va. V. 1st Cavalry. 2 John Brown 3 Aaron Austin E C C B E 4> Theodore Stewart 5 Gfeorge Berger. . .. 6 Martin L. Scott ^ 7 Capt. William N. Harris Section B. No. of grav-e. Names. Comp'y. Regiment. 1 Sero-'t Garret Seiby F L C E 1st Regiment, Va. Cavalry. 1st Regiment, Va. Cavalry. 1st Artillery. 2 Serg't George Collins 3 Charles Lacey 4 William Bailey 1st Cavalry. Total, 11. 7 98 SOLDIERS' NATIONAL CEMETERY. OHIO. Section A. No. of grave. Names. Enoch M. Detty 2d Lieut. George W. M'Gaiy, William Folk Martin Jacob John Wiser , Richard Bradler .^.».. B. A. Hain Busk J. Warner Elmer L. Ross Francis H. Blough Unknown. Unknown. Unknown. John M'CIearj.. George K. Wilson. Orrille A. Warren Ozro Moore William Brown Serg't John K. Barclay Frank Shaffer Danford Parker Jeremiah N. Crabaugh John Edmunds Comp'y. Regiment. 1 2 3 4- f> o 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 G. D D D D H.... H.... H.. .. C C \ D. B. K. L. B. C D. K. C. H. 73d Regiment, O. V. 82d Regiment, 0. V. 82d Regiment, 0. V. 82d Regiment, 0. V. 82d Regiment, O. V, 82d Regimei^t, 0. Y 82d Regiment, O. Y. 82d Regiment, 0. Y. 82d Regiment, 0. Y. 82d Regiment, 0. Y. 82d Regiment, O. Y. 66th Regiment, 0. Y. 8th Regiment, 0. Y. 8th Regiment, O. Y. 8th Regiment, 0. Y. 8th Regiment, O. Y. 8th Regiment, 0. Y. 8th Regiment, 0. Y. 8th Regiment, 0. Y. 75th Regiment, 0. Y. 1st Regiment, 0. Y. SOLDIERS' NATIONAL CEMETERY. 99 Ohio. — Section A'— Continued. JSTames. Cotnp'y. Frederick Meyet ... A. Houck Joseph Klinefelter Regiment. Battery 1st, O. V. 82d Regiment, O. Y. 55th Regiment, O. V. SECTION B. Names. Edward T. Lorett.... William Williams Henry Ophir William Ackerman. . . John R. Meyer Serg't Caleb Dewees. Ai Maddox Ozias C. Ford William Whitby Joseph R. Blake Andrew Miller William M'Clue , Corp. James H. Lee.. William E. Haynes. .. Allen Yaple ,. A. M. Campbell Henry Stark James W. Harl Bernard M'Guire John M'Kellips.' George H. Martin Comp'y. L.. L.. E.. D.. C. F.. G.. A. H. L.. L.. B.. H. B.. A.. E.. L.. A.. B,. C G.. Regiment. 25th Regiment, 0. V. 73d Regiment, O. Y. 55th Regiment, ^ t 72d Regiment, O. V. 55th Regiment, 0. Y. 73d Regiment, O. Y. 73d Regiment, 0. Y. 55th Regiment, O. Y. 73d Regiment, O. Y. 73d Regiment, 0. Y. 73d Regiment, 0. Y. 13th Regiment, O. Y. 73 d Regiment, 0. Y. 73d Regiment, 0. Y. 73d Regiment, O. Y. 185th Regiment, O. Y, 4th Regiment, O. Y. 4th Regiment, 0. Y. 8th Regiment, 0. Y. 8th Regiment, 0. Y. -ith Regiment, 0. Y. 100 SOLDIERS' NATIONAL CEMETERY. Ohio. — Section B — Continued. Ko. of grave. 22 23 24. 25 26 Names. Serg't Philip Tracey Color Corp'l William Welch. Samuel Mowery Corp. Edward G. Ranney.... Unknown Comp'y, I D. Regiment. 8th Regiment, 0. T.' 30th Regiment, 0. V. 107th Regiment, 0. V. 6l8t Regiment, 0. V. 1st Ohio Battery. No. of grave. 1 2 3 4- 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14. 15 16 17 18 19 Skction C. Names. Anthony Mervale. J. Senard Charles Rhinehart George Nixon August Raber Elisha L. Leake Lucas Struble John Davis Thomas Gilleran Corp. George B. Greiner. Jacob Swackhamer Isaac J. Sperry Jacob Mitchell Chauncey Haskell William E. Pollock Benjamin F. Hartley Serg't Thomas H. Rice. . Joseph Barrett Andrew Samiller Comp'y, B.. F.. G.. A. K. F.. G., G., G., C. F.. C. E.. B. G. A. Begiment. 5th Regiment, 0. V. 5th Regiment, 0. V. Battery I, 1st Artillery. 73d Regiment, 0. V. 107th Regiment, 0. V. 73d Regiment, 0. V. 107th Regiment, 0. V. 75tb Regiment, 0. V. 61st Regiment, 0. Y. 73d Regiment, O. V. 73d Regiment, O. V. 73d Regiment, 0. V. 55th Regiment, 0. V. 82d Regiment, 0. Y. 55th Regiment, 0. Y. 75th Regiment, 0. Y. 73d Regiment, O. Y. 73d Regiment, 0. Y. 107th Regiment, 0. Y. SOLDIERS' NATIONAL CEMETERY. 101 Ohio. — Section C — Continued. No. of grave. Names. Comp'y. Regiment. 20 William R. Call B A H D G H 73d Regiment, 0. V. 21 Isaac Richards 82d Regiment, 0. V. 22 Adam Snyder 107th Regiment, 0. V. 75th Regiment, 0. V. 25th Regiment, 0. V. 73d Regiment, 0. V. 23 24 25 Corp. James H. Goodspeed... William Miller Nathan Heald Section D. Namea. Comp'y. Regiment. Serg't Charles Ladd Caspar Bohrer Jacob Hoff. Joseph W. Cunningham John Aigle Baits Beverly George Richards , Serg't Philip Shiplin Samuel L. Conner Joseph Gasler William M'Yey Asa Hines Serg. William Norton Williams David W. Callins William Bain Lieut. Addison Edgar Andrew Myers 1st Lieut. George Hay ward... E. G. E., L. K. C, D. P. E. K. H. C. G. G. G. G. E. 25th Regiment, 0. V. 107th Regiment, O. Y. 107th Regiment, 0. V. 25th Regiment, O. V. 107th Regiment, 0. V. 107th Regiment, O. V. 75th Regiment, 0. V. 75th Regiment, 0. V. 82d Regiment, 0. T. 107th Regiment, O. Y. 73d Regiment, 0. Y. 11th Corps. 108th Regiment, O. Y. 4th Regiment, 0. Y. 4th Regiment, O. Y. 4th Regiment, 0. Y. 4th Regiment, O. Y. 29th Regiment, 0. Y. 102 SOLDIERS' NATIONAL CEMETERY. Ohio. — Section D — Continued. No. of grave. Names. 19 20 21 22 23 Jeremiah Myers. John Owens Ira L. Brigham. , G. Walker John Glouchlen.. Comp'y. Segiment. G 74th Regiment, 0. Y. G j 75th Regiment, 0. V. H 8th Regiment, 0. V. P I 82d Regiment, O. V. H 25th Regiment, O. V. Section B. No. of grave. Names. Comp'y, Regiment. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 Thomas Durm , B. F. Pontious , George H Thompson. B. F. Sherman , Corp. John Debolt Haskell Farr , Corp. William Myers., J. Laveden , Perry Taylor T. M'Cain George Case Corp. Isaac Johnson Asa O. Davis William Overholt Lewis Davis 1st Serg't John W. Pierce Hiram Hughes Wesley Rakes Samuel P. Baughman K. D. G. G. B., G. A. E. G. E. C. K. G. L. D. C. H. G. C. 25th Regiment, 0. V. 29th Regiment, 0. V. 5tb Regiment, O. V. 61st Regiment, 0. V. 4th Regiment, O. V. 55th Regiment, 0. V. 8th Regiment, 0. V. 75th Regiment, O. Y. 75th Regiment, 0. Y.' 29th Regiment, O. Y. 5th Regiment, 0. Y. 1st Artillery. 4th Regiment, 0. Y. 73d Regiment, 0. Y. 75th Regiment, 0. Y. 25th Regiment, 0. Y. 25th Regiment, O. Y. 75th Regiment, "O. T. 75th Regiment, 0. Y SOLDIERS' NATIONAL CEMETERY. 103 Ohio. — Section E — Continued. No. of grave. Names. Comp'y. Regiment, 20 Joseph Juchem G K H 107th Regiment, 0. V. 107th Regiment, 0. V. 1st Regiment, 0. V. 21 Jacob Bise 22 H. Schram Section F. No. of grave. Names. Serg't Jasper C. Briggs. Serg't John C. Kisska... Andrew J. Dildine Jacob I. Ranch Josiah D. Johnson Serg't Isaac Willis Daniel Palmer James Ray.. Comp'y, A. A. A. F., G. D. G., Regiment. 73d Regiment, O. V. 8th Regiment, O. V. 8th Regiment, O. V. 8th Regiment, 0. V. i9th Regiment, O. V. 73d Regiment, 0. V. 73d Regiment, O. Y. 73d Regiment, 0. Y. Total, 131. INDIANA. Section A. No. of p-ave. Names. Comp'y. Regiment. 1 Lieut. R. Jones B 19th Regiment, L Y. 19th Regiment, I. Y. 19th Regiment, I. Y. ^ 19th Regiment, I. Y. 2 Serg't Dougherty • 3 James Sticklep C C C C 4 W. Hoover (or Houer) § Alexander Burk 19th Regiment, L Y. 6 R. Clark 19th Regiment, I. Y. 104. SOLDIERS' NATIONAL CEMETERY. Indiana. — Section A — Continued. No. of grave. Names. 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14. A. Sulgroof Unknown. Peter L. Faust... Wm. Simmons. .. Serg't Ferguson. Wesley Smith.... Amos D. Ashe.. John Sager Comp'y A. A- A. Regiment. 19th Regiment, I. V. 19th Regiment, I. V. 19th Regiment, 1. V. 19th Regiment, I. Y. 20th Regiment, I. V. 20th Regiment, L Y. 20th Regiment, I. Y. Section B. No. of grave. Names. 1 F. H. K 2 Joshua Richmond. 3 George Sylvester. 4 Unknown ;. 5 Unknown 6 Unknown 7 Unknown 8 Unknown 9 Unknown 10 Unknown 11 Unknown 12 Unknown 13 Unknown Comp'y. H. B. Regiment. 6th Regiment. I. Y. 20th Regiment, I. Y. 20th Regiment, I. Y. 20th Regiment, I. Y. 20th Regiment, I. Y. 20th Regiment, I. Y. 20th Regiment, I. Y. 20th Regiment, I. Y. 20th Regiment, I. Y. 20th Regiment, L Y. 20th Regiment, I. Y. 20th Regiment, I. Y. 20th Regiment, I. Y. SOLDIERS' NATIONAL CEMETERY. 105 Indiana Section C. Names. Comp'y, P. Umphill J, Gilmore B. Stallup J. Gardner Silas Upham John E. Weaver Serg't A. C. Lamb. . . Serg't G. H. Redrick. P. A. Bussard J, Williams C. Showalter E. Holt D. L. H. K. G. A. E. F. K. B. A. G. Regiment. 27th Regiment, I. V. 27th Regiment, I. V. 27th Regiment, I. T. 27th Regiment, I. Y. 19th Regiment, I. Y. 3d Regiment, Ind. Cav. 120th Regiment, I. Y. 20th Regiment, I. Y. 20th Regiment, I. Y. 20th Regiment, I. V. 27th Regiment, I. V. 27th Regiment, I. V. Section D. Names. John Shehan, (Orderly for Ge A. G. Wright C. B. Wishmyep L. C. Antrim D. C. Calvin John Tice .. Ord. Serg't B. Tumey Levi Bulla James W. Whitlow Jesse Smith George Bales T Hunt Comp'y. n. Gibb A.. A.. C... C... A... D.,. C... B... D... A.. A.. Regiment. ons.) 20th Regiment, I. Y. 27th Regiment, I. Y. 27th Regiment, I. Y. 27th Regiment, I. Y. 20th Regiment, I. Y. 27th Regiment, I. Y. 20th Regiment, I. Y. 19th Regiment, I. Y. 3d Regiment Cavalry. 27th Regiment, I. Y. 27th Regiment, I. Y. 106 SOLDIERS' NATIONAL CEMETERY. Indiana. — Section E. Ne. of grave. Names. Comp'y. Regiment. 1 J. K. Fletcher F C D K E D H E K F G 27th Regiment, I. V. 27th Regiment, I. V. 27th Regiment, I. V. 27th Regiment, I. V. 27th Regiment, L V. 2 3 Jesse Wills Samuel R. Lewis 4 John D. Noble 5 James Chapman ,. 6 J. D. Lynn 27th Regiment, I. V. 27th Regiment, I. V. 7 Thomas J. Lett 3 9 10 W. H. Wilson Unknown E. M'Knight 27th Regiment, I. V. 27th Regiment, L V. 27th Regiment, I. V. 27th Regiment, I. V. 11 D. T. David Section F. No. of grave. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Names. Serg't Jeremiah Davis Unknown. F. W R. Pavy J. Robinson F. W. Smith .y.. H. Ambrose A. J. Crabb Serg't George W. Batchelor. Wm. Tillottson Comp'y H. B. K. K. H, D. H. I . Regiment. 20th Regiment, L V. 14th Regiment, I. V. 3d Regiment, I. V. 7th Regiment, I. V. 27th Regiment, I. V. 20th Regiment, I. V. 20th Regiment, I. Y. 27th Regiment, I. V. 14th Regiment, I. V SOLDIERS' NATIONAL CEMETERY. 107 Indiana. — Section G. No. of grave. Names. Comp'y. Regiment. 1 Corp. H. S B L 14t,h Rfifrinifint, T V 2 3 Unknown, (with letter.) A. Lister F B 27th Regiment. I. V. 19th Regiment, I. T. 4 5 6 7 8 Supposed. Supposed. Supposed. Supposed. Thomas J>Wasson Total, 80. ILLINOIS. Section A. No. of grave. Names. J. Wallikeck John Ellis Charles Wm, Miner. David Dieffenbaugh Corp. John Ackerman Supposed, (comb and very light 1 2 3 4 5 Total, 6. Comp'y. H.... G K hair).. Regiment. 82d Regiment, 111. T 12th Regiment, 111. T. 8th Regiment, 111. Car. 82d Regiment, 111. Y. 8th Regiment, 111. V. lOS SOLDIERS' NATIONAL CEMETERY. MICHIGAN. Section A. No. of grave. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 J] 12 13 14 15 lb 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24. Names. George Colburn Edward B. Harrison Erson H. Smith Silas E. Thurston Serg't George Pettinger. Charles B. Burgess , Lieut. G. A. Dickey James O'Neil R. K. Horman .. Corp. Otis Southworth .. Charles Phelps Corp. P. P. Worden Corp. Wm. A. Prjor Charles A. Rouse Charks A. Thurlach Charles W. Gregory , James H. Pendleton George Purdy Joseph Brink , Serg?t Nicholas Gosha. ... Edwin Beebe , A. R. Evans James T. Bedell, George W. Lundy. Comp'y, G. K. A. G. G. A. G. H. H. C. B.. C. D. D. A. H. H. H. H. P. E.. A. P. Regiment. 24th Regiment, M. Y. 24.th Regiment, M. V. 3d Regiment, M. V. 3d Regiment, M. V. 24th Regiment, M. V. 3d Regiment, M. V. 24'th Regiment, M. Y 3d Regiment, M. Y. 24th Regiment, M. Y. 24th Regiment, M. Y. 4th Regiment, M. Y. 4th Regiment, M. Y. 4th Regiment, M. Y. 4th Regiment, M. Y. 4th Regiment, M. Y. 4th Regiment, M. Y. 4th Regiment, M. Y. 4th Regiment, M. Y. 4th Regiment, M. Y. 7th Regiment, M. Y. 7th Regiment, M. Y. 5th Cavalry.^ 7th Michigan Cavalry. 7th Michigan Cavalry. SOLDIERS' NATIONAL CEMETERY. 109 Michigan.— Section B. Names. John Durre A. Jenks Corp W, H. Luce William H. Cole , Herson Blood E. B. Browning Corp. J. T. Fails Serg't George Kline Serg't John Powell Corp. Norman King. ., , Ellis Comstoek A. Hoisington Corp. Charles H. Ladd H. B. Fountain Corp. Jerome Shook Corp. A. Benson. Robert Sligh Oliver N. Culver Serg't Reuben Power 1st Serg't Daniel A. Yodria Thomas Shanahan D. C. Laird C. Pease Comp'y. D A.... .G G I G G B H.... D D F A.... F B A.... K K K A.... H... A.... C Regiment. 24th Regiment, M. V. 24th Regiment, M. V. 24th Regiment, M. V. 5th Regiment, M. Y. 3d Regiment, M. Y. 24th Regiment, M. Y. 24th Regiment, M. Y. 24th Regiment, M. Y,, 24th Regiment, M. Y. 4th Regiment, M. Y. 4th Regiment, M. Y. 24th Regiment, M. Y. 24th Regiment, M. Y. 4th Regiment, M. Y. 5th Regiment, M. Y. 4th Regiment, M. Y. 3d Regiment, M. Y. 3d Regiment, M. Y. 3d Regiment, M. Y. 5th Regiment, M. Y. 1st Cavalry, 4th Regiment, M. Y. 4th Regime nt, M. Y. no SOLDIERS' NATIONAL CEMETERY. Michigan — Section C. No. of grave. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 2C 21 22 Names. S. Bisonette Corp. Charles A. Turner Charles Jelioke 1st Serg't James Hazzard '. .. Serg't John Sholes Wm. Fnderwood , ■ Almas. 1st Serg't Thomas J. Divit..., John Lavaby John Roberts Frank Barbour Samuel Christopher Andrew R. Evans Nelson A. Allen Charles Masters Corp. Horace Barse Frank Anderson Unknown — Supposed Serg't Charles E. Miner L. Gibbs J. Falketts W. B. Hunt Comp'y, A., B.. K.. C. G., F.. D. A. C. A. D. A. A. A. E. D. C. H. L. Regiment. 4th Regiment, M. V. 5th Regiment, M. V. 5th Regiment, M. Y. 5th Regiment, M. Y. 7th Regiment, M. Y. 7th Regiment, M. Y. 5th Michigan Cavalry. 5th Michigan Cava., 5th Regiment, M. Y. 5th Michigan Cavalry. 5th Regiment, M. Y. 5th Michigan Cavalry. 5th Michigan Cavalry. 5th Michigan Cavalry. 5th Michigan Cavalry. 5th Regiment, M. Y. 3d or 5th Michigan Car. 7th Michigan Cavalry. 5th Michigan Cavalry. 5th Michigan Cavalry. 16th Regiment, M. Y. Section D. No. of grave. Names. Comp'y, 1 Henry Butler 2 Serg't Charles Ballard. Regiment. 5th Regiment, M. Y. 5th Michigan Cavalry. SOLDIERS' NATIONAL CEMETERY. Ill Michigan. — Section D — Continued. No. of grare. 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 24 Names. Christopher Miller Edward A. Warner Serg't Henry Bicker Richard Alwayra , Henry Riolo D. M. Merefield Francis R. Kent J. M. Skinner Artemus Clark , Corp, Delos Harris John M, Brown Corp. Wm. A. Cole , James M. Pierce George Lawrence John Roberts 2d Serg't R. B. Godfrey. J. K. Beagle Isaac H. Scott Serg't Henry Raw Comp'y. E., L. P.. E P.. P., G., G. G. C. K. G. A C. C. B.. L. K. L. Regiment. 5th Michigan Cavalry. 5th Michigan Cavalry. 5th Michigan Cavalry. 5th Regiment, M. Y. 5th Michigan Cavalry. 5th Michigan Cavalry. 5th Michigan Cavalry. 5th Michigan Cavalry. 5th Michigan Oav*.. r 7th Michigan Cavalry. 3d Michigan Cavalry. 5th Michigan Cavalry. 3d Regiment, M. Y. 5th Regiment, M. Y, 5th Regiment, M. Y. 7th Regiment, M. Y. 16th Regiment, M. Y. 16th Regiment, M. Y. 16th Regiment, M Y. Section B. No. of grave. Names. Comp'y. Regiment. 1 Mason Palmer B C E C A 24th Regiment, M. Y. 2 3 Luther Franklin Richard Aylward 5th Regiment, M. Y. 5th Regiment, M. Y. 5th Regiment, M. Y. 4 Peter E. Roy 5 1st Lieut. John P. Thelan.... 5th Regiment, M. Y. 112 SOLDIERS' NATIONAL CEMETERY. Micliigan. — Section E — Continued. No. of grave. 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 U 15 16 17 18 19 20 Names. 1st Serg't James Hazzard . D. Zimmerman G. W. Stevens Serg't E. Trip J. Geiner G. W. Ervey Serg't Hiram Hopkins , Serg't D. 0. Kimbal Serg't Joseph Mallenbre... C. H. Wilson , R. Moody , Serg't Fred. Sheets J. Bags , J. Hart Edward Burton Comp'y, C. D. D. H G. H. L. B. B.. H. K. D. I. G. K. Regiment. , 5th Regiment, M. V. 4th Regiment, M. V. 16th Regiment, M. Y. 4th Regiment, M. V. 16th Regiment, M. V. 16th Regiment, M. V. 7th Regiment, M. V. 4th Regiment, M. V. 4th Regiment, M. V. 4th Regiment, M. V. 4th Regiment, M. V. 4th Regiment, M. V. 16th Regiment, M. Y. 16th Regiment, M. V. 16th Regiment, M. T. Section F. No. of grave. Names. Comp'y. Regiment. 1 C. W. Martin C G A G A L L E E 16th Regiment, M. V. 7th Regiment, M. V. 5th Cavalry. 7th Cavalry. 7th Cavalry. 1st Cavalry. 7th Cavalry. - 5th Cavalry. 5th Cavalry. 2 C. H. Hulmer 3 Peter La Valley 4 Thomas Motley 5 Nelson Walters 6 Philip Wilcox 7 Robert Hasty 8 George Ketchler 9 Philip Hill SOLDIERS' NATIONAL CEMETERY. 113 Michigan. — Section F — Continued, Ifo. of grave. Names. Comp'y. Regiment. 10 W. A. Crowell G 1 5th Cavalry. G 1 5th Cavalry. G 5th Cavalry. 1 1 5th Cavalry. ! 1 5th Davnlrv 11 Miles A. Webster 12 A S Norris 13 John Nothing 14. Moses Cole 15 John G. Folkerts K D A B 5th Regiment, M. V. 16th Regiment, M. V. 16th Regiment, M. V. 16th Regiment, M. V. 16 J. Mason. 17 Corp. J. M. Weston 18 Emery Tuttle Section G. Names. Comp'y. Carlisle Bennett Corp. Reuben Hone S. G. Harris J. S. Rider W. Williams J. M'Nish Col. Serg't E. Moore Corp. Albert Smith Capt. Peter Generous .... Chester W. Alex Joseph Sutter Serg't Alexander Moore. 2d Lieut. Albert Slafter. . John W. Barber Serg't J. M. Stevens. Regiment. 8 1st Cavalry. C 5th Regiment, M. Y. B I 7th Regiment, M. V. B I 24th Regiment, M. V I B I 24th Regiment, M. V. F 24th Regiment, M. T. E I Tth Cavalry. D §th Regiment, M. V. B 5th Regiment, M. Y. D 5th Regiment, M. ¥. E 5th Regiment, M. V. 7th Regiment, M. V. E 7th Regiment, M. Y. 1st Artillery, E 16th Regiment, M. Y. 114 SOLDIERS' NATIONAL CEMETERY. Michigan. — Section G — Continued. No. of grave. Names. Comp'y. Regiment. 16 J R Hall D 16th Regiment, M. Y. 16th Regiment, M. V. 17 Corp. Beck I Section H. No. of grave. 1 2 3 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14. 15 16 Names. Lieut. B. Brown Lieut. W. Jewett Corp. Charles M'Brahmie. Orin D. Wade J. Hyde Asher D. Ashley Corp. Charles Thayer George H. Miller John Dover Charles Sits William Brennan Joseph Tucker Lieut. M'llhenny , Corp. Josiah G. Bond Serg't H. H. Barret Corp. H. Hart , Comp'y, E. K. D. D. D. F. L. K. L. B. I.. Regiment. 16th Regiment, M. V. 16th Regiment, M. V. 16th Regiment, M. V. 3d Regiment, M. V. 4th Regiment, M. V. 5th Regiment, M. V. 5th Regiment, M. Y. 5th Regiment, M. Y. 5th Regiment, M. Y, Ist Cavalry. 5th Cavalry. 5th Regiment, M. Y. 1st Cavalry. 16th Regiment, M. Y. 15th Regiment, M. Y. 6th Cavalry. Section I. No. of grave. Names. Comp'y. Regiment. •l C. J. Pattin E K 24th Regiment, M. Y. 4th Regiment, M. Y. 2 L. W. Lampman SOLDIERS' NATIONAL CEMETERY. 115 Micliigaii. — Section I — Continued. No. of gi'ave. Names. Comp'y. Regiment. 3 4 Unknown. Corp. Thomas Sugget G D D C A F 20th Regiment, M. V. 24th Regiment, M. V. 24.th Regiment, M. V. 5th Regiment, M. V. 5 Charles Ruff. 6 Corp. David Rounds 7 8 Serg't W. H. Jackson, Detroit. Corp. R. Howe 9 Charles Crouse 6th Cavalry. 10 Corp. Wm. C. Harlan 5th Regiment, M. Y. * 11 Maj. Noah H Ferry, (removed) 5th Cavalry. Total, 172. WISCONSIN. Section A. No. of grave. Names. Comp'y. Regiment. 1 Unknown. 2 Unknown. 3 Unknown. 4 Corp. Edward H. Heath H 2d Regiment, W. V. 5 Unknown. 6 Unknown. 7 Unknown. 8 Lieut. William S. Winnegan.. H 2d Regiment, W. Y. 9 Unknown. 10 Unknown. 11 Unknown. 12 Unknown. 116 SOLDIERS' NATIONAL CEMETERY. Wisconsin. — Section A — Continued. No. of grave. Names. Comp'y. Regimeot. 13 Unknown. 14 Unknown. 15 Unknown. 16 Lieut. Charles Broket I 26th Regiment, W. V. 26th Regiment, W. V. 6th Regiment, W. Y. 6th Regiment, W. Y. 17 Christian Stier P 18 Corn. .Tames Kellv B 19 Corp. William E. Evans B ' 20 Serg't George W. Sain C 7th Regiment, W. Y. 21 Unknown. 22 Unknown. 23 \ Unknown. Section B. No. of grave. Names. Comp'y. Regiment. 1 Unknown. 2 Unknown. • 3 Marcellus Chase A 7th Regiment, W. Y. 4- Unknown. 5 Unknown. 6 Corp. John T. Christie F D 2d Regiment, W. Y. 7th Regiment, W. Y. 6th Regiment, W. Y. 7 Corp. Frank M. Bull 8 Edward Leaman E 9 1st Serg't Fred'k A. Nichols.. A 2d Regiment, W. Y. 10 Corp. John M'Donald A .... 2d Regiment, W. Y. 11 Charles Branstetter A 2d Regiment, W. Y. 12 1st Serg't James Gow c i 2d Regiment, W. Y. SOLDIERS' NATIONAL CEMETERY. 117 Wisconsin. — Section B — Continued. Names. Henry R. M'Collum ., Hanford C. Tapper...., Serg't William Gallup, Henry Anderson Peter Kraescher Peter Kuhn Joseph Balmes Mathias Seheivester. .. Leion Stedoman Comp'y. H. G. D. B., C. G. C. E.. C. Regiment. 2d Regiment, W. Y. 2d Regiment, W. Y. 6th Regiment, W, Y. 6th Regiment, W. Y. 26th Regiment, W. Y. 26th Regiment, W. Y. 26th Regiment, W. Y. 26th Regiment, W. Y. 6th Regiment, W. Y. Section C. Names. Corp. Abraham Fletcher... Corp. William H. Bamum. George H. Hawes John B. Straight William Rampthen Silas Ca8t, 6th Regiment, medal. MINNESOTA. Solomon Moore, Company I, 1st Regiment, diary and letters U. S. REGULARS. C. Schmidt, Company E, 4th U. S. A., pipe. M. Kennedy, Company, D, lOth Infantry, knife. S. Cornell, Company A, 2d Bat. 7th Infantry, two pictures, two knives, two gun wrenches. Peter G. Febery, Company G, 6th U. S. Cavalry, diary, letter and hand- kerchief, &c. UNKNOWN. Unknown, two rings and small book cut of wood. Unknown, jet heart. Unknown, ring. Unknown, knife with three white sets on handle. Unknown, gun wrench. Henry Dieman, gun wiper. Unknown, knife, fork and spoon. Unknown, knife, fork and spoon. Unknown, gun wrench. Unknown, knife. Luke Kelly, medal and small bag. Unknown, large diary and papers. G. Turner, Bible, Testament and needle case. SOLDIERS' NATIONAL CEMETERY. 139 Unknown, knife, postage stamps, pocket book and water purifier. Unknown, pocket book, fifty-one cents, knif6, two bones and comb. John Boyer, ambrotype and letter. Unknown, knife and comb. Unknown, glass inkstand and spoon. Unknown, twenty cents. William Vasberg, small vice, comb and pencil. Unknown, two ambrotypes. Unknown, gun wrench. William 8helpy, two handkerchiefs, letters and comb. Unknown, two purses, gun wrench, gun pivot. T. D. Allen, diary, glass and letters. Unknown, piece plaid blanket — colors, white, blue and green. Sullivan Syes, purse, ring aud comb. Unknown, twenty cents. Unknown, knit woollen cap for head, with tassel. Unknown, two knives and comb. Unknown, two knives and comb. Corporal W. K., glass, comb and knife. Unknown, handkerchief and gun wrench. Unknown, Testament. Unknown, letter, Testament and pocket book. Unknown, knife. Orderly Sergeant, knife and gun wrench. G. M. S., knife, comb and four slides. Unknown, needle case and pencil. Unknown, black thread, ring, pin cushion and pipe. Unknown, knife, gun wrench, comb and glass, J. K. Beagle, knife and comb. Unknown, knife. G. W. Penn, marked on knife. Unknown, handkerchief. Unknown, tooth brush, &c. Unknown, pipe, tooth brush and pencil. Unknown, three pipes. Unknown, glass, comb and sundries. Unknown, two cents, and parts of five and ten cent notes. Unknown, pipe. Unknown, table knife. Unknown, pocket knife. R. B. Claffen, N. Y., Testament. Unknown, shawl pin. 140 SOLDIERS' NATIONAL CEMETERY. Unknown, pocket book, $1, pin cushin, gun wrench, knife, &c. Unknown, needle case. Samuel Ault, inkstand, keys and cross. Unknown, inkstand and tooth brush. Unknown, hand- vice. Unknown, match box. Charles Sets, pocket book, and hair of father, mother, sister and brother. Unknown, knife, handkerchief and pencil. Unknown, pipe. Corporal Samuel Fitzinger, Pa., corps badge off cap. Unknown, two combs and ambrotype. Unknown, snuff box. Unknown, handkerchief and comb. Henry Irvin, pipe. Unknown, ring and small candlestick. George M'Cleary, N. Y., flag breast pin. Unknown, with inkstand. Unknown, diary. Timothy Kears, book, "Key of Heaven." Unknown, gun wrench. Unknown, plate with V. M. M. Unknown, ambrotype of woman. Unknown, German Testament from Catharine Detaupafer. Unknown, ambrotype, knife, two pipes, keys, inkstand, &c. Unknown, hymn book, medal and gun wiper. Uoknown, letter from Carrisa Smith. Corp. J. J. Bond, needle case, comb and letter. Unknown, book, " Morning Exercises." Unknown, with likeness on which is marked Charles Keller, July 4, 1859. Unknown, ring, three buttons, with hooks, and water purifier. Unknown, ornamental affair, consisting of a cross, figure of the Saviour, Virgin Mary, Apostles, &c. Unknown, snuff box. Unknown, handkerchief. Unknown, ambrotype. Unknown, knife. Unknown, gun wrench. Serg. S. Yandertool, N. Y., letters. Unknown, two rings. Unknown, gold ring and steel watch keys. B. W. Laigh, $10, "Reb" money. Unknown, $25. SOLDIERS' NATIONAL CEMETERY. 141 Thomas Shanahik, rosary. Unknown, gold ear rings. Unknown, ambrotype of young lady and letter. Unknown, match box, spoon and Minnie ball. Unknown, ring. Unknown, bone ring, marked I. H. Unknown, silver watch. Unknown, gold watch. Unknown, purse, $5 30, knife and tobacco box. Unknown, pocket book and seven cents. Unknown, razor and brush. Unknown, pipe, Unknown, book, ambrotype and pipe. Unknown, handkerchief, which was spread over his face: Unknown, pipe. Unknown, pipe stem. V. aknown, (supposed Minnesota,) Bible, Unknown, sick list. Unknown, two gun wrenches. Unknown, pipe. Unknown, three ambrotypes, Charles Kelley, Pa , letter, Testament, knife, keys, fifteen eents. Unknown, snuff box. Unknown, Testament. Melville C. Day, diary, letters, &c. Edmond F. Grouse. Unknown, watch chain, gun wiper, salve box and keys. Unknown, comb, John , pipe. Corporal W. W. W,, from old Cemetery, pipe. Unknown, pipe. Joseph Wentworth, letter. Byron Welch, paper, diary and pencil. Unknown, knife. Unknown, knife. James Wallace, Pa., purse and twenty-five cents. Unknown, inkstand, knife, letter and seventy-five cents. A. Calhoun, diary. Unknown Corporal, ambrotype of female. Unknown, "Soldier's Pocket Book." Unknown, pipe. Sergeant L. H, Lee, two combs, diary, and bullet that killed Mm. 142 SOLDIERS' NATIONAL CEMETERY. LIST OF REGIMENTS, IN THE DIFFERENT CORPS OF THE ARMY OF THE POTOMAC, IN THE BATTLE OF GETTYSBURG. MAINE. Regiment. Corps. Regiment. Corps. Regiment. Corps. Sd 3d 6th 7th 6th 17th 19th 3d 4,th 3d 6th 2d 5th 6th 16th 1st 20th 5th NEW HAMP8HIEB. Regiment. Corps. Regiment. Corps. Regiment. Corps. 2d 3d 5th 2d 12th 3d VERMONT. Regiment. Corps. 1 Regiment. Corps. Regiment. Corps. 2(1 6th i 6th Ist 1 12th 6th 14th 1st 3d 6th 2d 15th 1st 4th 6th 1st 16tb 1st 5tb 6th 13th 1st 19th 2d MASSACHUSETTS CONNECTICUT. Regiment. Corps. Regiment. Corps. Regiment. Corps. 5th 12th 2d 17th 27th 11th 2d 20th 12th Mth SOLDIERS' NATIONAL CEMETERY. 143 NEW YORK. Regiment. Corps. Regiment. Corps. Regiment. Corps. 9th 1st 64th 2d 108th 111th 119th 120th 121st I22d 123d 124th 125th 126th 137th 140th 145th 146th 147th 149th 150th 153d 1.54th 157th 2d 14th 1st 65th 6th 2d 2d 20th 1st 66th 67th 11th 30th 1st 6th 11th 2d/ 3d 33d 6th 68th 6th 39th 2d 69th 70th 71st 6th 40th 3d 3d 12th 41st nth 3d 3d 42d 2d 72d 3d 3d 2d 43d 6th 73d 2d 44th 5th nth 6th 2d 74th 3d 1st 12th 45th 76th 77th 78th 82d 2d 49th 52d 6th.. 12th 2d 12th 5th 54th 11th 1st 57th 2d 86th 3d 12th §8th 11th 88th 2d 12th 2d 94th 1st nth , 60th 12th 95th 97th 104th 107th 1st nth 2d 1st nth 62d 6th 1st 2d 12th PENNSYLVANIA. 1 Regiment. 1 Corps. Regiment. 1 Corps. Regiment. Corps. P. R. V. C. nth 5th Ist 6th 3d 75th nth 114th 3d 81st 82d 2d 1 n5th 116th 118th n9th 1.2lst 134th 139th 140th 141st I42d 143d 146th 147th 148th 149th 150th 151st 154th 155th 3d 23d 6th ! 2d , 26th 83d 5th 5th 27th nth 12th 12th 12th 84th 3d 6th 28th 88th 1st 1st 1st 29th 90th nth 46th 91st... 93d 5th 6th 49th!!! 53d 57th 61st 6th 6th 2d 2d 95th 6th 3d 3d .!'.'...! ' 96th 6th 1st 6th . 1 98th 1 99th 6th 1st 62d . 5th . .. 3d 5th 63d 3d i I02d 1 105th i 106th 107th 109th 110th inth 6th 3d 12th 68th 3d 2d 69th 2d 2d 1st 71st 2d 1st 1st 72d 2d 12th 3d 1st 73d nth nth 74th nth 12th 5th 144 SOLDIERS' NATIONAL CEMETERY. NEW JERSEY. Regiment. l8t.. 2d.. 3d.. 6th. Corps. Regiment. 7th... 8th... 5th... 11th. Corps. Regiment. 12th. 13th. 15th. Corps. DELAWARE. Regiment. Corps. Regiment. Corps. Regiment. Corps. 1st 2d 2d 2d MARYLAND. Regiment. l3t. — Si..- Corps. 12th. Regiment. 3d. Corps. 12th. Regiment. Corps. 7th Regiment, 2d Corps. VIHGINIA. OHIO. Regiment. Corps. Regiment. Corps. Regiment. Corps. 5th 12th 12th 2d 23d Uth 75th 82d 11th 7th 29th 61st rith Uth 12th 11th . 4th 107th Uth 8th 2d 66th 82d Regiment, 11th Corps. ILLINOIS. INDIANA. Regiment. Corps. Regiment. Corps. Regiment. Corps. 7th 1st 19th 1st 1st 27thr 12th 14th 2d 20th SOLDIERS' NATIONAL CEMETERY. MICHIGAN. 145 Regiment. Corps. Regiment. Corps. Regiment. Corps, Ist 5th 3d 4th 5th 16th 24th 5th. ........ 5ih 7th 12th ; 1st ,,... WISCONSIN. Regiment. Corps. Regiment. Corps. Regiment. Corps. 2d 1st 5th 6th 7th 11th.. .^^.... Sd 12th 6th 1st 26th... 1st Regiment, 2d Corps. MINNESOTA. UNITED STATES. Regiment. Corps. Regiment. Corps. Regiment. Corps. 2d sharps., 1st. ...do... 3d 4th Inft'ry. 6th... .do... 7th.. ..do... 10th.. .do... 5th llthlnft'y. 12th. ..do.. . 14th... do... 17th... do... 5th... 3d 5th 5th 2d Infant'y 3d do... 5th 5th 5th 5th!]!.'..'.... 5th 5th.. ...... CAYALRY CORPS. Maine. — 1st Regiment. Vermont. — 1st Regiment. Massachusetts. — 1st Regiment. Rhode Island. — 1st Regiment. New York.— 2d, 4th, 5th, 6th, 8th, 9th and 10th Regiments. New Jersey. — 1st Regiment. . Pennsylvania— 1st, 2d, 3d, 4th, 6th, 8th, 16th, 17th and 18th Regiments. Virginia. — Ist and 3d Regiments. Ohio. — 6th Regiment. liroiANA. — 3d Regiment. Illinois. — 8th and 12th Regiments, MjcniGAN.— Ist, 5th, 6th and 7th Regiments. Wisconsin. — 1st Regiment. United States.— 1st, 2d, 5th and 6th Regiments. 10 146 SOLDIERS' NATIONAL CEMETERY. ARTILLERY RESERVE CORPS. Massaohusetts. — 5th and 9th Regiments. New York. — 1st Regiment, B and O, 7th Independent, 15th Indepen- dent, 30th Independent, 32d Independent and let Independent. New Jeesey. — Ist Regiment, (A.) Pennsylvania. — 1st Regiment, (C,) 4th Regiment, Independent. Maryland. — Ist and 6th Regiments. ViBGiNTA. — 1st Regiment. Ohio. — 1st Regiment, (H.) United States. — Ist Regiment, (H,) Sd Regim«iit, (K,) 4rth Regiment, (C) 4th Regiment, (K.) SOLDIERS' NATIONAL CEMETERY. 147 REMARKS QN" THE DESIGN FOR THE SOLDIERS' NATIONAL CEMETERY, GETTYS- BURG, PENNSYLVANIA. In constructing a design for the Cemetery, the following considerations and details suggested themselves, as objects of paramount importance : First, — The great disparity that exists, with reference to the space re- quired for the interments of each State, necessitates a discrimination as to position and extent, while the peculiar solemnity of the interest attached by each State to each interment, allows of no distinction. Therefore, the ar- rangement must be of a kind that will obviate criticism as to position, and at the same time possess other equally important requirements and rela- tians to the general design, (a) Second. — The principal expression of the improvement should be that pro- duced by simple grandeur and propriety. (6) Third. — To arrange the roads, walks, trees and shrubs, so as to answer every purpose required by utility, and realize a pleasing landscape and pleasure ground effect, at the same time paying due regard to economy of ocinstruction, as well as to the future cost of maintenance and keeping the grounds, (c) Fourth. — To select an appropriate site for the monument, (d) (a) In order to secure the conditions embraced in the first of the above propositions, a semi-circular arrangement was adopted for the interments. By referring to the plan, the propriety of this mode will, I think, be con- ceded without further explanation. The ground apptopriated to each State, is part, as it were, of a common centre ; the position or each lot, and indeed ai each interment, is relatively of equal importance, the only difference being that of extent, as determined by the number of interments belonging to each State. The coffins are deposited side by side, in parallel trenches, A space of twelve feet is allowed to each parallel, about five feet of which forms a grass path between each row of interments. The configuration of the ground surface is singularly appropriate at the point selected, falling away in a gradual and regular slope in every direction, from the centre to ttxQ circumference, a feature alike pleasing and desirable. In order to secure regularity, the head-stones are precisely alike throughout the entire area of lots, and are constructed so as not to detract fi*om the effect and prominence of the monument. The head-stones form a continuous line of granite blocks, rising nine inches above the ground, and showing a face or width of ten inches on their upper surface. The name, company and regiment being 148 SOLDIERS' NATIONAL CEMETERY. carved in the granite, opposite each interment, thus securing a simple and expressive arrangement, combined with great permanence and durability. (h) The prevailing expression of the Cemetery should be that of simple grandeur. Simplicity is that elcmeat of beauty in a scene that leads gradu- ally from one object to another, in easy harmony, avoiding abrupt contrasts and unexpected features. Grandeur, in this application, is closely allied to solemnity. Solemnity is an attribute of the sublime. The sublime in scenery may be defined as continuity of extent, the repetition of objects in themselves simple and common place. We do not apply this epithet to the scanty tricklings of the brook, but rather to the collected waters of the ocean. To produce an expression of grandeur, we must avoid intricacy and great variety of parts, more particularly must we refrain from introducing any intermixture or meretricious display of ornament. (c) The disposition of trees and shrubs is such as will ultimately produce a considerable degree of landscape effect. Ample spaces of lawn are pro- vided ; these will form vistas, as seen from the drive, showing the monument and other prominent points. Any abridgment of these lawns by planting further than is shown in the design, will tend to destroy the massive effect of the groupings, and in time would render the whole confused and intri- cate. As the trees spread and extend, the quiet beauty produced by these open spaces of lawn will yearly become more striking; ; designs of this character require time for their development, and their ultimate harmony should not be impaired or sacrificed to immediate and temporary interest. Fuiiher, to secure proper breadth of scene, few walks or roads are intro- duced. A main roadway or drive of sufficient width courses round the grounds ; a few paths or walks are also provided for facilitating the inspeo- tion of the interment lots. Roads and walks are exclusively objects of utility ; their introduction can only be justified by direct necessity. (d) The centre of the semi-circle is reserved for the monument. An irregularly shaped belting of dwarf shrubbery borders partially isolate it from the lots. It may be suggested that the style of the monument should be in keeping with the surrounding improvements, showing no effort to an exhibition of cost or ostentatious display on the one hand, and no apparent desire to avoid reasonable expense on the other. The gateway and gatehouse should also be designed in the same spirit, massive, solid, substantial and tasteful. With regard to the future keeping of the ground, the walks should be smooth, hai'd and clean, the grass kept short, and Tuaintained as clean and neat as the best pleasure ground in the country. No efforttehould be want- ing to attain excellence in this respect. WILLIAM SAUNDERS. Dep't op Agriculture, Washington, D. G. SOLDIERS' NATIONAL CEMETERY. 149 REPORT OF SAMUEL WEAYER. Gettysburg, March 19, 1864. To David Wills, Esq., Agent for A. G. Curtin, Gov. of Penix'a: Sir : — I herewith submit the following brief report of the results of my labors as the Superintendent of the exhuming of the bodies of the Union soldiers that fell on the battle field of Gett3'-sburg : The contractor commenced the work of exhuming on Tuesday, the 27th of October last, and finished yesterday. The work has been protracted much beyond our original anticipations, by reason of the ground being frozen for a long time during the winter, thus entirely suspending the work, and also by the number of bodies exceeding our first calculations. The number taken up and removed to the Soldierb' NatioiJal Cemetery is thirty-three hundred and fifty-four, (3,351-,) iind to these add the numb:? of the Massachusetts soldiers taken up by the authorities of the city of Bos- ton, by special contract, amounting to one hundred and fifty-eight, (158,) makes the total number of removals thirty-five hundred and twelve (3,512) bodies. Of these, nine hundred and seventy-nine were bodies nameless, and without any marks or surroundings to designate the State from which they volunteered. ' The rest were, in most instances, marked with boards, on which the name, company, and regiment, were written in pencil, or cut, by their comrades who buried them. In some instances, the regiment to which the soldier belonged was discovered, and sometimes only the State from which he volunteered ; and in these cases they were buried in their appropriate State lot. There was not a grave permitted to be opened or a body searched unless I was present. I was inflexible in enforcing this rule, and here can say, with the greatest satisfaction to myself and to the friends of the soldiers, that I saw every body taken out of its temporary resting place, and all the pockets carefully searched ; and where the grave was not marked, I ex- amined all the clothing and everything about the body to find the name. I then saw the body, with all the hair and all the particles of bone, carefully placed in the coffin, and if there was a head-board, I required it to be at once nailed to the coffin. At the same time I wr. x the name, company, and regiment, of the soldier on the coffin, and numuerod the coffin, and en- 150 SOLDIERS' NATIONAL CEMETERY. tered in my book the same endorsement. This book was returned to your office every evening, to copy and compare witli the daily return made by the Superintendent of the interments in the Cemetery. In these scrutiniz- ing searches, the names of a number of lost soldiers were found. They were discovered in various ways. Sometimes by the pocket diaries, by letters, by names in Bible, or Testament, by photographs, names in pocket- books, descriptive list, express receipts, medals, names on some part of the clothing, or on belt, or cartridge-box, &c., &c. There were some articles of value found on the bodies ; some money, watches, jewelry, &c. I took all relics, as well as articles of value, from the bodies, packed them up and labelled them, so that the friends can get them. There are many things, valueless to others, which would be of great interest to the friends. I herewith submit a list of names of persons and articles found upon them, and you will, no doubt, take means to get infor- mation to the friends, by advertisement or otherwise, so that they may give notice where, and to whom, these things shall be forwarded. I have two hundred and eighty-seven such packages. Before we commenced our work, the battle field had been overrun by thousands of sorrowing friends in search of lost ones, and many of the graves opened and but partially or carelessly closed. Many of the under- takers who were removing bodies, also performed their work in the most careless manner, invariably leaving the graves open, and often leaving par- ticles of the bones and hair lying scattered around. These things are fre- quently to be seen on every part of the battle field ; and persons going over it might attribute such work lo the contractors, but there cannot be on© instance pointed out of such kind of work done by them. Every particle of the body was gathered up by them, and the grave neatly closed over and levelled. The bodies were found in various stages of decomposition. On the battle field of the first day, the rebels obtained possession before our men were buried, and left most of them unburied from Wednesday until Monday following, when our men buried them. After this length of time, they could not be identified. The consequence was, that but few on the battle field of July 1st, were marked. They were generally covered witba small portion of earth dug up from along side of the body. This left them much exposed to the heat, air, and rains, and they decomposed rapidly, so that when these' bodies were taken up, there was nothing remaining but the dry skeleton. Where bodies were in heavy clay soil, or in marshy places, they were in a good state of preservation. Where they were in -sandy, porous soil, they were entirely decomposed. Frequently our men were buried in trenches— a shallow ditch — in which they were laid side by side. In several instances the numbers in a trench amounted to sixty or seventy bodies. SOLDIERS' NATIONAL CEMETERY. 151 In searching for the remains of our fallen heroes, we examined more than three thousand rebel graves. They were frequently buried in trenches, and there are instances t- CO to ooo*^p5Cn jt*cotc Baltimore Turnpike. tii£tstia8ssnss:ss?r ? - 5 1 ? H 3 i s = - 1 i M -Ml I g ; ? 5 ? i 2 i s i I 3 s . - = - 2 8 5 - : 2 " '' ' ? ? p 1 - £ 5 s " SOLDIERS' NATIONAL CEMETERY. 153 DESCRIPTION OF THE GETTYSBURG MONUMENT. The design of the Gettysburg monument is adapted for execution either in m«,rble, or in granite and bronze, as may be deemed expedient, the mate- rial being of course controlled entirely by the amount appropriated. The wiiole rendering of the design is intended to be purely historical, telling its own story, with such simplicity that any discerning mind will readily eom- prehend its meaning and purpose. The superstructure is sixty feet high, and consists of a massive pedestal, tw^ity-five feet square at the base, and is crowned with a colossal statue, repr^enting the genius ob liberty. Standing upon a three-quarter globe, 8iie raises with her right hand the victor's wreath of laurel, while with her left she gathers up the folds of our national flag under which the victory has been won. Projecting from the angles of the pedestal are four buttresses, support- ing an equal number of allegorical statues representing, respectively, wak, HISTORY, PEACE and PLENTY. War is personified by a statue of the American soldier, who, resting from the conflict, relates to History the story of the battle which this monument is intended to commemorate. HiaroRY, in listening attitfude, records with stylus and tablet, the achieve- ments of the field, and the names of the honored dead. Peace is symbolized by a statue of the American mechanic, characterized hy appropriate accessories. Plenty is represented by a female figure, with a sheaf of wheat and fruits of the earth, typifying peace and abundance as the soldiers' crowning tri- umph. The panels of the main die between the statues are to have inscribed upon them such inscriptions as may hereafter be determined. The main die of the pedestal is octagonal in form, panelled upon each face. The cornice and plinth above are also octagonal, and are heavily moulded. Upon tfc'.s plinth rests an octagonal moulded base bearing upon its face, in high relief, the National arms. The upper die and cap are circular in form, the die being encircled by star* equal in number with the States whose sons contributed their lives as the price of the victory won at Gettysburg. 1&* SOLDIEES' NATIONAL CEMETERY. AN ACT TO mCOEPOBATE THE SOLDIERS' NATIONAL CEMETERY. "Wheeeas, The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania has purchased eeVenteen acres df land on Cemetery Hill, on the Gettysburg battle field, in the county of Adams, for a Cemetery for the burial of the remains of the soldiers who fell in the battle of Gettysburg, and the skirmishes incident thereto, in de- fence of the Union, or died thereafter from wounds received in that battle and the skirmishes ; therefore. Section 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Bepresentatives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That the titles to the said lands por- ciiased, as set forth in the foregoing preamble, are hereby ratified and con- firmed, and shall vest and remain in said Commonwealth, in fee simple, fn trust for all the States having soldiers buried in said grounds ; and the said grounds shall be devoted in perpetuity to the purpose for which they were purchased, namely : for the burial and place of final rest of the remains of the soldiers who fell in defence of the Union, in the battle of Gettysburg ; and, also, the remains of the soldiers who fell at other points north of the Potomac river, in the several encounters with the enemy during the invasion of Lee, in the summer of one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, or died thereafter in consequence of wounds received in said battle and durhrg said invasion. Section 2. That B. W. Norris, of the State of Maine, , of the State of New Hampshire, Paul Dillingham, of the State of Vermont, Henry Edwards, of the State of Massachusetts, John R. Bartlett, of the State of Rhode Island, Alfrel Ooit, of the State of Connecticut, Edward Cooper, of the State o New York, , of the State of Ifew Jersey, David Wills, of the State of Pennsylvania, Benjamin Deford, of the State of Maryland, John R. Latimer, of the State of Delaware, , of the State of West Yirginia, Gordon Lofland, of the State of Ohio, John G. Stephenson, of the State of Indiana, Clark E. Carr, of the State of Illinois, W. Y. Selleok, of the State of Wisconsin, Thomas White Ferry, of the State of Michigan, , of the State of Minnesota, being one Commissioner from each State, having soldiers buried in said Cemetery, be and they and their successors are hereby created a body politic in law, under the name, style and title of the Soldiers' National Cemetery, and by L SOLDIERS' NATIONAL CEMETERY. 155 that name, style and title shall have perpetual succession, and be able and capable in law to have and use a common seal, to sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, in all courts of law and equity, and to do all such other things as are incident to a corporation. Section 3. The care and management of the grounds referred to in th« preamble and first section of this act, are hereby entrusted solely to the commissioners named in the second section of the same, and those hereafter appointed to represent the States therein named, and their successors in office ; the said commissioners shall constitute a board of managers, whose duty it shall be, out of funds that may be in the hands of the treasurer of the corporation, by State appropriations, or otherwise, to remove the FMnains of all the soldiers referred to in the first section of this act, thaA have not already been removed to the Cemetery, and have them properly interred therein ; and, also, to lay out, fence and ornament, to divide and arrange into suitable plots and burial lots, establish carriage-ways, avenues and foot- ways, erect buildings, and a monument, or monuments, and suitable marks to designate the graves, and generally to do all other things in their judgment necessary and proper to be done to adapt the ground and premises to the uses for which it has been purchased and set apart. Section 4. The business of the corporation shall be conducted by the commissioners aforesaid, and their successors in office ; the said commis- sioners shall meet within sixty days after the passage of this act, and organ- ize by electing one of their number president ; they shall also appoint a secretary and treasurer, and shall have power to employ such other officers and agents as may be needful ; they shall require of the treasurer to enter into bonds, to the corporation, in double the probable amount of money that may be in his hands at any one time during his term of office, with two or more sufficient sureties, conditioned for the faithful discharge of his duties, and the correct accounting for and paying over of the money; which said bond or bonds, shall be approved by the court of common pleas of Adams county, and recorded in the office of the recorder of deeds, in and for said county ; the term of office of the officers of the board of commission- ers aforesaid shall expire on the first day of January, of each and every year, or as soon thereafter as their successors may be duly chosen and quali- fied to act. Section 5. At the first meeting of the commissioners heretofore named, they shall be divided, by lot, into three classes, and the term of office of ths first class shall expire on the first day of January, Anno Domini one thou- sand eight hundred and sixty-five ; the second class, on the first day of Jan- uary, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and sixty-six, and the third class on the first day of January, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven ; the vacancies thus occurring shall be filled by the Gk>v- 156 SOLDIERS' NATIONAL CEMETERY. emors of the States which the said commissioners represented ; and the per- sons thus appointed to fill such vacancies, shall hold their oflSce, as commis- sioners aforepaid, for the term of three years. In case of the neglect, or failure, of the Governor of any State, having burial lots in the Cemetery, to fill such vacancy, the board of commissioners may supply the place by appointing a citizen of the particular State which is not represented iu the board by reason of such vacancy ; any vacancies not yet filled, or hereafter occurring, in the board of commissioners, by death, resignation, or other- wise, shall be filled, by appointment, for the unexpired term, by the Gov- ernor of the State which the person represented, or in case of failure by such Governor to make said appointment, then the place shall be supplied as last above indicated ; such other States of the Union, not having burial lots in said Cemetery, but that may at any time hereafter desire to be re- presented in this corporation, shall have the privilege of nominating a Com- missioner to represent them severally in the board of commissioners, and thereafter pay their proportionate share of the expense of maintaining said Cemetery. Section 6. The board of commissioners shall annually, at the end of each fiscal year, make a report of the condition and ruanagement of the Cemetery; which report shall contain a detailed statement of the receipts and expenditures of the corporation, and a copy thereof shall be forwarded to the Governor of each State represented in the corporation. The expenses incident to the removal of the dead, the enclosing and ornamenting the Cemetery, and all the work connected therewith, and its future maintenance, shall be apportioned among the States connecting themselves with the cor- poration, according to their population, as indicated by their representation in the House of Representatives of the United States. Section 7. The board of commissioners shall adopt such by-laws, rules, and regulations, as they may deem necessary for their meetings and gov- ernment, and for the government of their officers, agents and employees, and for the care and protection of the cemetery grounds, and the property of the corporation : Provided, Said by-laws, rules, and regulations, be not inconsistent with the Constitution and laws of the United States, the Con- stitution and laws of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, and this act of incorporation. Section 8. The board of commissioners shall have no power to appropri- ate any of the funds of the corporation as a compensation for their services as commissioners. Section 9. The grounds and property of said Cemetery shall be forever free from the levy of any State, county, or municipal taxes ; and the Com- monwealth of Pennsylvania hereby releases, and exempts, the corporation created by this act of Assembly, from the payment of any enrolment tax, or SOLDIERS' NATIONAL GEMSTERY. 157 any tax, or taxes, -whatever, that might be imposed bj existing laws ; all the laws of this Commonwealth now in force, or which may hereafter be enacted, for the protection of cemeteries, burial grounds, and places of sepul- ture, shall apply with full force and eifecttothe Soldiers' National Cemb- TERY, hereby incorporated, immediately from and after the passage of this act. Section 10. The corporation of the Soldiers' National Cemetery shall have power to receive appropriations from the United States, and from the State Legislatures, and also devises, and bequests, gifts, annuities, and all other kinds of property, real and personal, for the purposes of the burial of the dead, enclosing and ornamenting the grounds, and maintaining the same, and erecting a monument, or monuments, therein. HENRY C. JOHNSON, Speaker of the House of Representatives^ JOHN P. PENNEY, Speaker of the Senate. Approved — The twenty-fifth day of March, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and sixty-four. A. G. CURTIN. k CORRESPONDENCE, ADDRESSES AND CEREMONIES, AT ffHE ©[^^TTQ® AS GETTYSBUBG, NOVEMBER 19i 1863, SOLDIERS' NATIONAL CEMETERY. 161 THE NATIONAL CEMETERY. A few days after the terrific battle of Gettysburg, His Excellency, A. G. CuRTiN, Governor of the State of Pennsylvania, hastened to the relief of the sick and wounded soldiers, visited the battle field, and the numerous hospitals in and around Gettysburg, for the purpose of perfecting the ar- rangements for alleviating the sufferings and ministering to the wants of the wounded and dying. His official duties soon requiring his return to Har- risburg, he authorized and appointed David Wills, Esq., of Gettysburg, to act as his special agent in this matter. In traversing the battle field, the feelings were shocked and the heart sickened at the sights that presented themselves at every step. The re- mains of our brave soldiers, from the necessary haste with which they were interred, in many instances were but partially covered with earth, and, in- deed, in some instances were left wholly unburied. Other sights, too shock- ing to be described, were occasionally seen. These appearances presented themselves promiscuously over the fields of arable land for miles around, wtich would, of necessity, be farmed over in a short time. The graves, where marked at all, were only temporarily so, and the marks were liable to be obliterated by the action of the weather. Such was the spectacle witnessed on going over the battle field — a field made glorious by victory achieved through the sacrifice of the lives of the thousands of brave men, whose bodies and graves were in such exposed condition. And this, too, cm Pennsylvania soil I Humanity shuddered at the sight, and called aloud for a remedy. The idea, accordingly, suggested itself of taking measures to gather these remains together, and bury them decently and in order in a cemetery. Mr. Wills submitted the proposition and plan for this purpose, by letter July 24th, 1863, to His Excellency, Governor Curtin; and the Governor, with that profound sympathy, and that care and anxiety for the soldier which have always characterized him, approved of the design, and directed a correspondence to be entered into at once by Mr. Wills with the Governors of the other States having soldiers dead on the battle field of Gettysburg. The Governors of the different States, with great promptness, seconded the project, and the details of the arrang-oment were subsequently agreed upon. Grounds favorably situated were selected by the Agent, and Governor Curtin directed him to purchase them for the State of Pennsyl- 11 162 SOLDIERS' NATIONAL CEMETERY. vania, for the specific purpose of the burial of the soldiers who fell in fence of the Union in the battle of Gettysburg, and that lots in this Ceme terj should be gratuitously tendered to each State having such dead on the field. The expenses of the removal of the dead, of the laying out, orna- menting, and enclosing the grounds, and erecting a lodge for the keeper, and of constructing a suitable monument to the memory of the dead, to be borne by the several States, and assessed in proportion to their population, as indicated by their represeatation in Congress. The Governor of Pennsyl- vania stipulated that the State of Pennsylvania would subsequently keep the grounds in order, and the buildings and fences in repair. Seventeen acres of land on Cemetery Hill, at the apex of the triangular line of battle of the Union army, were purchased by Pennsylvania for this purpose. There were stone fences upon these grounds, which had been ad- vantageously used by the infantry. On the elevated portions of the ground many batteries of artillery had been planted, which not only commanded the view of the whole line of battle of the Union army, but were brought to bear almost incessantly, with great effect, upon every position of the Rebel lines. We refer the reader to the excellent map of this battle field and its hospitals, in the front of this pamphlet. It was prepared by the Rev. Andrew B. Cross, who is one of the most active and zealous members of the Christian Commission, and who labored faithfully for months in the hospitals at Gettysburg, ministering to the temporal and spiritual wants of the wounded and dying soldiers. This map gives the locality of ibe Na- tional Cemetery, as well as many other points of interest connected with the battle field. The Cemetery grounds were plotted and laid out in the original and ap- propiate style indicated by the plate accompanying this description, by the celebrated rural architect, Mr. William Saunders. Such was the origin of this final resting place for the remains of our de- parted heroes, who nobly laid down their lives a sacrifice on their country's altar, for the sake of Universal Freedom and the preservation of the Union. Who can estimate the importance to us and all posterity of their valor and heroism ? Their remains, above all others, deserve the highest honor that a grateful people can bestow on them. Their deeds will live in history long after their bodies have mouldered into dust ; and the place where they now lie will be honored, protected, and preserved as a sad, but sacred memento of their brave conduct. The design contemplates the erection of a monument to the memory of the dead ; and the situation which seems to meet with the greatest favor is in the centre of the semi-circle of graves. It has been suggested, that each State having dead here should contribute a slab or stone tablet, to bo placed in the monument, with the names engraved upon it of those whose gravee SOLDIERS' NATIONAL CEMETERY. 163 are not identified, and who consequently are interred in the lots set apart for the unknown. The grounds are laid off in lots for each state, proportioned in size to the number of marked graves on the Gettysburg battle field. There is also a lot set apart for the burial of the remains of those who belonged to the regular service. The graves of about one-third of the dead were unmarked ; but these bodies are deposited in prominent and honorable positions at each end of the semi-circular arrangement of the lots. The grounds naturally have a gradual slope in every direction from the centreof the semi-circle to the circumference. Each lot is laid off in sections, with a space of four feet for a walk between each section. The outer section is lettered A, and so on in alphabetical order. As the observer stands in the centre of the semi-circle, facing the circumference, the burials are commenced at the right hand of the section in each lot, and the graves are numbered from one up numerically. A register is made of the number, name, regiment and com- pany of the occupant of each grave Two feet space is allotted to each, and they are laid with the heads toward the centre of the semi-circle. At the head of the graves there is a stone wall, built up from the bottom as a foundation for the headstones, which are to be placed along the whole length of each section, and on which, opposite each grave, will be engraved the name, regiment and company of the deceased. These headstones will be all alike in size, the design being wholly adapted to a symmetrical order, and one which combines simplicity and durability. No other marks will be permitted to be erected. There will be about twenty-nine hundred burials in the Cemetery. An application was made by Mr. Wills to Hon E. M. Stanton, Secre- tary of War, for coffins for the interment of the dead, and the Quartermas- ter General was promptly ordered to furnish them. The Secretary of War, also, with a liberal considerateness, afforded many facilities for the proper and honorable solemnization of the exercises of the 19th of November. The removals and burials are made with the greatest care, and under the strictest supervision. Every precaution is taken to identify the unmarked graves, and also to prevent the marked graves from losing their identity, by the defacement of the original temporary boards, on which the names were written or cut by comrades in arms. The graves being all numbered, the numbers are registered every evening in a record book, with the name, company and regiment. This register will designate the graves, should the temporary marks become defaced by the action of the weather, or be other- wise lost, before the permanent headstones are put in place. After the burials are all made, the graves all permanently marked, and the style of monument determined upon, a map will be prepared and lithographed, show- ing the number of each grave in each section, and a key be published with 164 SOLDIERS' NATIONAL CEMETERY. II the map, giving the full inscription on the headstone, corresponding with the number. A few of the States sent agents to Gettysburg to superintend the remova and burial of their dead, while most of them entrusted the arrangements for that purpose to the Agent of the State of Pennsylvania. The Boston city authorities, in concert with the Governor of Massachusetts, sent an efficient committee to Gettysburg, who made the removals of the Massachu- setts dead by their own special arrangement. The consecration of these Cemetery grounds was, in due time, suggested by Governor Curtin. The name of Hon. Edward Everett was submitted to the Governors of all the States interested, as the orator to deliver the address on that occasion, and they unanimously concurred in him as the per- son eminently suitable for the purpose. A letter of invitation was accord- ingly addressed to him, inviting him to deliver the oration. He accepted the duty, and the 19th of November was fixed upon as the day. Hon. W. ,"2, LaMON, the United States Marshal for the District of Columbia, wo." selected as the Chief Marshal of the civic procession, and to Major General D. N. Couch, commanding the Department of the Susquehanna, were com- mitted the arrangements for the military. To all of these gentlemen great credit is due, for the admirable manner in which they discharged the duties of the positions assigned them. Birgfield's Brigade Band, of Philadelphia, was invited to furnish the music for the ceremonial of consecration, vAich was done gratuitously, and in a very acceptable manner. The Presidential party was accompanied by the Marine Band, from the Navy Yard at Wash- ington, and the military detachment was attended by the Brass Band from Fort M'Henry, Baltimore. The public generally were invited to be present and participate in these solemn exercises, and special invitations were sent to the President and Vice President of the United States, and the members of the Cabinet — to Major General George G. Meade, commanding the army of the Potomac, and, through him, to the officers and privates of that army which had fought so valiantly, and gained such a memorable victory on the Gettysburg battle field — and to Lieutenant General Winfield Scott and Admiral Charles Stewart, the distinguished aua time honored representatives of the Army and Navy. The President of the United States was present, and partici- pated in these solemnities, delivering a brief dedicatory address. The oc- casion was further made memorable by the presence of large representations from the army and navy, of the Secretary of State of the United States, the Ministers of France and Italy, the French Admiral, and other distinguished foreigners, and several members of Congress, also, of the Governors of a large number of the States interested, with their staflfs, and, in some in- SOLDIERS' NATIONAL CEMETERY. 165 stances, large delegations, besides a vast concourse of citizens from all the States. Letters were received, in reply to the invitations addressed to them, from Major General Meade, Lieutenant General Scott, Admiral Charles Stewabt, and the Secretary of the Treasury, Hon. S. P. Chase, regretting their ina- bility to be present, and expressive of their approval of the project. One of the most sad and impressive features of the solemnities of the 19th of November was the presence, in the procession and on the grounds, of a delegation of about fifty wounded soldiers of the army of the Poto- mac, from the York hospital. These men had been wounded in the battle of Gettysburg, an(^ were present in a delegation to pay this just tribute to the remains of their fallen comrades. During the exercises, their bronzed cheeks were frequently suffused with tears, indicative of their heartfelt sym- pathy in the solemn scene before them. From none others could tears of unfeigned grief fall upon these graves with so much sad appreciation. — These scarred vaterans came and dropped the tear of sorrow on the last resting place of those companions by whose sides they so nobly fought, and, lingering over the graves after the crowd had dispersed, slowly went away, strengthened in their faith in a nation's gratitude. 166 SOLDIERS' NATIONAL CEMETERY. CORRESPONDENCE. Gettysburg, Avgust 17, 1863. To His Excellency, A. G. Curtin, Governor of Pennsylvania : Sir : — By virtue of the authority reposed in me by your Excellency, I have invited the cooperation of the several loyal States having soldier-dead on the battle field around this place, in the noble project of removing their remains from their present exposed and imperfectly buried condition, on the fields for miles around, to a cemetery. The chief executives of fifteen out of the seventeen States have already responded, in most instances, pledging their States to unite in the move- ment ; in a few instances, highly approving of the project, and stipulating to urge upon the Legislatures to make appropriations to defray their pro- portionate share of expense. I have, also, at your request, selected and purchased the grounds for this Cemetery, the land to be paid for by, and the title to be made to, the State of Pennsylvania, and to be held in perpetuity, devoted to the object for which it was purchased. The grounds embrace about seventeen acres on Cemetery Hill, fronting on the Baltimore turnpike, and extending to the Taneytown road. It is the ground which formed the apex of our triangular line of battle, and the key to our line of defences. It embraces the highest point on Cemetery Hill, and overlooks the whole battle field. It is the spot which should be spe- cially consecrated to this sacred purpose. It was here that such immense quantities of our artillery were massed, and during^Thursday and Friday of the battle, from this most important point on the field, dealt out death and destruction to the Rebel army in every direction of their advance. I have been in conference, at different times, with agents sent here by the Governors of several of the States, and we have arranged details for carrying out this sacred work. I herewith enclose you a copy of the pro- posed arrangement of details, a copy of which I have also sent the chief executive of each State having dead here. I have, also, at your suggestion, cordially tendered to each State the privilege, if they desire, of joining in the title to the land. < SOLDIERS' NATIONAL CEMETERY. 167 I think it would be showing only a proper respect for the health of this community not to commence the exhuming of the dead, and removal to the Cemetery, until the month of November ; and in the meantime the grounds should be artistically laid out, and consecrated by appropriate ceremonies. I am, with great respect, Your Excellency's obedient servant, DAVID WILLS. Pennsylvania, P^xecutive Chamber, ) Harrisburq, August 31, 1863. \ Dear Sir- — Yours of the 26th instant was duly received, and ought to have been answered sooner, but you know how I am pressed. I am much pleased with the details for the Cemetery which you have so thoughtfully suggested, and will be glad, so far as is in my power, to hasten their consummation on the part of Pennsylvania. It is of course probable that our sister States, joining with us in this hal- lowed undertaking, may desire to make some alterations and modifications of your proposed plan of purchasing and managing these sacred grounds, and it is my wish that you give to their views the most careful and respect- ful consideration. Pennsylvania will be so highly honored by the posses- sion within her limits of this Soldiers' mausoleum, and so much distinguished among the other States by their contributions in aid of so glorious a monu- ment to patriotism and humanity, that it becomes her duty, as it is her mel- ancholy pleasure, to yield, in every reasonable way, to the wishes, and sug- gestions, of the States who join with her in dedicating a portion of her territory to the solemn uses of a National sepulchre. The proper consecration of the grouuds must claim our early attention; and, as soon as we can do so, our fellow- purchasers should be invited to join with us in the performance of suitable ceremonies on the occasion. I am, verf respectfully, Your obedient servant, A. G. CURTIN. David Wills, Esq. Gettysburg, Pa., Sex)temhe.r 1Z, 1863. Hon. Edward Everett : Sir : — The several States having soldiers in the army of the Potomac, who fell at the battle of Gettysburg, in July last, gallantly fighting for the Union, have made arrange luents here for the exhuming of all their dead, 168 SOLDIERS' NATIONAL CEMETERY. and their removal and decent burial in a Cemetery selected for that pur- pose, on a prominent part of the battle field. The design is to bury all in common, marking with headstones, with the proper inscription, the known dead, and to erect a suitable monument to the memory of all these" brave men, who have thus sacrificed their lives on the altar of their country. The burial ground will be consecrated to this sacred and holy purpose on Thursday, the 23d day of October next, with appropriate ceremonies; and the several States interested, have united in the selection of you to deliver the oration on that solemn occasion. I am therefore instructed, by the Governors of the different States interested in this project, to invite you cordially to join with them in the ceremonies, and to deliver the oration for the occasion. Hoping to have an early, and favorable reply from you, I remain, sir, your most obedient servant, DAVID WILLS, Agent /or the Governor of Pennsylvania. Boston, September 26, 1863. My Dear Sir : — I have received your favor of the 23d instant, invittng me, on behalf of the Governors of the States interested in the preparation of a Cemetery for the soldiers who fell in the great battles of July last, to deliver an address at the consecration. I feel much complimented by this request, and would cheerfully undertake the performance of a duty at once so interesting and honorable. It is, however, wholly out of my power to make the requisite preparation by the 23d of October. I am under engage- ments which will occupy all my time from Monday next to the 12th of Oc- tober, and, indeed, it is dou-btful whether, during the whole month of Octo- ber, I shall have a day at my command. The occasion is one of great importance, not to be dismissed with a few sentimental or patriotic commonplaces. It will demand as full a narrative of the events of the three important day^ as the limits of the hour will admii, and some appropriate discussion of the political character of the great struggle, of which the battle of Gettysburg is one of the most momen- tous incidents. As it will take me two days to reach Gettysburg, and it v/ill be highly desirable that I should have at least one day to survey the battle field, I cannot safely name an earlier time than the l9th of Novem- ber. SOLDIERS' NATIONAL CEMETERY. 169 Should such a postponement of the day first proposed be advisable, it will give me great pleasure to accept the invitation. I remain, dear sir, with much respect. Very truly yours, EDWARD EVERETT. David Wills, Esq., Agent for tJj£ National Cemetery. Note — In compliance with Mr. Everett's suggestions, as expressed in the foregoing let- ter, Thursday, the 19th of November, was appointed for the ceremonial of the consecration. Gettysburg, November 25, 1863. Hon. Edward Everett : Dear Sir : — On behalf of the Governors of the several States interested in the National Cemetery, I request of you for publication a copy of your Address delivered at the consecration of the grounds on Thursday, the 19th of this month, the proceeds of the sale to be added to the fund for the erec- tion of a monument to the memory of the heroes whose remains are de- posited in the Cemetery. In performing this official duty, allow me as a citizen of Gettysburg, and in behalf of my fellow citizens, to express our peculiar satisfaction at that part of your Address, which is devoted to a narrative of the all-important events, that have at once raised this place into permanent importance and celebrity. Knowing as we do that you used great diligence and care to procure as accurate an account as possible of the movements of the two armies in this vicinity, and their positions in the battle on the different days, we regard that portion of your Address as very important and valuable. Whilst its delivery commanded the closest attention of the vast assembly wfco listened to it — thus giving evidence of their intense interest and entire appreciation — this portion of the Oration, preserved in an authentic form, will descend to posterity as a production of permanent historical value. Allow me, also, to express my gratification at the tribute paid by you to Major General Reynolds, in ascribing "to his forethought and self-sacrifice the triumph of the two succeeding days." In that well-deserved tribute the historian, who shall do justice to the battle of Gettysburg, will undoubt- edly concur, pointing to him as the individual to whom our glorious soccess was in a great degree due. He was in the advance on the extreme left of the army of the Potomac, and in command of the First Army Corps. CJn Wednesday morning, July 1st, when pressing his corps forward to meet and retard the progress of the enemy, whose position and movements were be- 170 SOLDIERS' NATIONAL CEMETERY. gmuing to be developed to him, he told one of his aides, as they approached Gettysburg and examined the face of the country, that Cemetery Hill must be held for our army at all hazards ; that he would advance his corps rapidly to Seminary Ridge, west of the town, and temporarily occupy that position ; that he would there engage the enemy, who was advancing, and delay his further progress, so as to give time for the whole of the army of the Po- tomac to concentrate on Cemetery Hill and the ridges running out either way from it ; that, if pressed too hard, he would gradually fall back, con- testing the ground step by step, and, if necessary to delay the enemy, would tight from house to house, through the town. He fell, the victim of a rebel sharpshooter, so soon in the action of Wednesday morning, as he was car- rying out these designs, that but few persons are cognizant of his real plans. When the facts are fully made known, history and an impartial world will accord to him the highest praise. His great foresight and brave conduct on that occasion will forever endear him to those who love to worship at the shrine of true patriotism. He was truly a soldier — always with his men in the camp and in the field, sharing their hardships, toils and dangers. He loved his profession, and devoted himself exclusively to it ; and in the vigor of manhood he nobly laid down his life, a sacrifice on his country's altar, on the soil of his native State, at the head of his brave corps, that the rest of the army of the Potomac might the more successfully reach the position of his own selection for its defence. This place of his choice proved to be the true position on which to meet and check the onward march of the rebellious invaders. Not doubting that you will take an interest in this confirmation of the estimate placed by you on General TcEynolds's services, I remain, dear sir, Yours, with great respect, DAVID WILLS. Boston, December 14, 1863. My Dear Sir : — I have this day received your letter of the 25th of No- vember, requesting, on behalf of the Governors of the several States inter- ested in the National Cemetery, a copy, for publication in a permanent form, of the Address delivered by me at the consecration. I shall have great pleasure in complying with this request, the rather as it is proposed that the proceeds of the publication shall be added to the fund for the erection of a monument to the memory of the brave men whose remains are depos- ited in the Cemetery. SOLDIERS' NATIONAL CEMETERY. 171 You will be pleased to accept my thanks for the obliging manner in which you speak of the historical portion of my Address. It was, of course, impossible to compress within so small a compass a narrative of the three eventful days, which should do exact justice to every incident or every in- dividual. On some points, as in most narratives of battles, the printed accounts, and even the official reports, differ. In revising my Address for publication in this form, I shall correct one or two slight errors of the first draught, and take advantage of sources of information not originally acces- sible. I am much gratified with your concurrence with me in the estimate I had formed of the character of General Reynolds, and of his very important services in determining the entire fortunes of this ever memorable battle. I remain, dear sir, with great regard, Yery truly yours, EDWARD EVERETT. David Wills, Esq., Agent for the National Cemetery. Head- Quarters Army op the Potomac,") November 13, 1863. \ David Wills, Esq., Agent for the Governor of Pennsylvania, etc. : Sir; — I have the honor to acknowledge the invitation which, on behalf of the Governor of Pennsylvania and other States interested, you extend to me. and the officers and men of my command, to be present on the 19th in- stant at the consecration of the burial place of those who fell on the field of Gettysburg. It seems almost unnecessary for me to say that none can have a deeper interest in your good work than comrades in arms, bound in close ties of long association and mutual confidence and support with those to whom you are paying this last tribute of respect ; nor could the presence of any be more appropriate than that of those who stood side by side in the struggle, shared the peril, and the vacant places in whose ranks bear sad testimony to the loss they have sustained. But this army has duties to perform which will not admit of its being represented on the occasion ; and it only remains for me in its name, with deep and grateful feelings, to thank you and those you represent for your tender care of its heroic dead, and for your patriotic 172 SOLDIERS' NATIONAL CEMETERY. zeal, which, ia honoring the martyr, gives a fresh incentive to all who do battle for the maintenance of the integrity of the government. I am, very respectfully. Your obedient servant, GEORGE G. MEADE, Major General Gommanding. New York, November 19, 1863. David Wills, Esq., Agent, etc.: Deae Sir : — 1 have had the honor to receive your invitation, on the part of the Governors of the loyal States, to be present at the consecration of the Military Cemetery at Gettysburg this day. Besides the determination, on account of infirmities, never again to par- ticipate in any public meeting or entertainment, I was too sick at the time to do more than write a short telegram in reply to His Excellency, Governor CURTIN. Having long lived with, and participated in the hardships and dangers of, our soldiers, I can never fail to honor " the brave who eink to rest, By all their country's wishes blest." None deserve this tribute from their countrymen, more than those who have fallen in defence of the Constitution, and the Union of the thirty-four "United States. I remain yours. Most respectfully, WINFIELD SCOTT. BoRDENTOWN, N. J., J^ove77iber 21, 1S63. My Dear Sir: — I regret extremely, that, in consequence of the invitation you did me the honor to send me, remaining for several days among the advertised letters in the Philadelphia post office, I was not able to accept the same by appeai'ing in person at the interesting consecration of the Na- tional Cemetery, at Gettysburg, on the nineteenth of this month. On an occasion so solemn, awakening every patriotic emotion of the hu- man heart, I cannot but deplore that I was not able to be present, to shed a tear over the remains of these gallant men, who gave back their lives to their God, in defence of their country. SOLDIERS' NATIONAL CEMETERY. 173 Accept for yourself, my dear sir, and be pleased to present to the com- mittee, my thanks for your kind invitation, and believe me, with great re- spect, Your obedient servant, CHARLES Stewart. To David Wills, Esq , Agent, etc. Treasury Department, November 16, 1863. Dear Sir : — It disappoints me greatly to find that imperative public du- ties make it impossible for me to be present at the consecration of the grounds, selected as the last resting place of the soldiers, who fell in battle for their country at Gettysburg. It consoles me to think what tears of mingled grief and triumph will fall upon their graves, and what benedic- . .' ;ns of the country, saved by their heroism, will make their memories sacred among men. Very respectfully yours, S. P. CHASE. David Wills, Esq., Agent for the Governors of the States. In the afternoon of the 18th, the President and the distinguished person- ages accompanying him, arrived at Gettysburg, by a special train. In the course of the evening, the President and Secretary of State were serenaded, and the following remarks were made by Mr Seward, in response to the call : — Fellow Citizens: — I am now sixty years old and upwards ; I have been in public life practically forty years of that time, and yet this is the first time that ever any people, or community, so near to the border of Mary- land, was found willing to listen to my voice ; and the reason was that I saw, forty years ago, that slavery was opening before this people a grave- yard that was to be filled with brothers falling in mutual political combat. I knew that the cause that was harrying the Union into this dreadful strife was slavery ; and when, during all the intervening period, I elevated my voice, it was to warn the people to remove that cause while they could, by constitutional means, and so avert the catastrophe of civil war which has fallen upon the nation. I am thankful that you are willing to hear me at last. I thank my God that I believe this strife is going to end in the re- moval of that evil, which ought to have been removed by deliberate conn- 174. SOLDIERS' NATIONAL CEMETERY. oils and peaceful means. (Good.) I thank my God for the hope that this is the last fratricidal war which will fall upon the country which is vouch- safed to us by Heaven, — the richest, the broadest, the most beautiful, the most magnificent, and capable of a great destiny, that has ever been given to any part of the human race. (Applause.) And I thank him for the hope that when that cause is removed, simply by the operation of abolish- ing it, as the origin and agent of the treason that is without justification, and without parallel, we shall thenceforth be united, be only one country, having only one hope, one ambition and one destiny. (Applause.) To- morrow, at least, we shall feci that we are not enemies, but that we are friends and brothers, that this Union is a reality, and we shall mourn together for the evil wrought by this rebellion. We are now near the graves of the misguided, whom we have consigned to their last resting place, with pity for their errors, and with the same heart full of grief with which we mourn over a brother by whose hand, raised in defence of his government, that misguided brother perished. When we part to-morrow night, let us remember that we owe it to our country and to mankind that this war shall have for its conclusion the estab- lishing of the principle of democratic government — the simple principle that whatever party, whatever portion of the community, prevails by constitu- tional suffrage in an election, that party is to be respected and maintained in power until it shall give place, on another trial and another verdict, to a different portion of the people. If you do not do this, you are drifting at once and irresistibly to the very verge of universal, cheerless and hopeless anarchy. But with that principle this government of ours — the purest, tbe best, the wisest, and the happiest in the world — must be, and, so far as we are concerned, practically will be, inimortal. (Cheers.) Fellow citizens, good-night. ^ SOLDIERS' NATIONAL CEMETERY. 175 ORDER OF PROCESSION FOR THE CONSECRATION OF THE NATIONAL CEMETERY AT GETTYSBURG, PA. ON THE 19th OF NOVEMBER, 1863. Military, under command of Major General Couch. Major General Meade and Staff, and the Officers and Soldiers of the Army of the Potomac. Officers of the Navy and Marine Corps of the United States. Aids. Chief Marshal. Aids, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES. Members of the Cabinet. Assistant Secretaries of the several Executive Departments. General-in chief of the Army, and Staff. Lieutenant General Scott and Rear- Admiral Stewart. Judges of the United States Supreme Court. Hon. EDWAaD Everett, Orator of the Day, and the Chaplain. Governors of the States, and their Staffs. Commissioners of the States on the Inauguration of the Cemetery. Bearers with the Flags of the States. Tice President of the United States and Speaker of the House of Rep- resentatives. Members of the two houses of Congress. Officers of the two houses of Congress. Mayors of Cities. Gettysburg Committee of Arrangements. Officers and members of the United States Sanitary Commission. Committees of different Religious Bodies. United States Military Telegraphic Corps. Officers and representatives of Adams Express Company. Officers of different Telegraph Companies. Hospital Corps of the Army. Soldiers' Relief Association? Knights Templar. Masonic Fraternity. 176 SOLDIERS' NATIONAL CEMETERY. Independent Order of Odd Fellows. Other Benevolent Associations. Literary, Scientific and Industrial Associations. The Press. Officers and Members of Loyal Leagues. Fire Companies. Citizens of the State of Pennsylvania. Citizens of other States. Citizens of the District of Columbia. Citizens of the several Territories. SOLDIERS' NATIONAL CEMETERY. 177 PROGRAMME OF ARRANGEMENTS, AND ORDER OF EXERCISES FOR THE CONSECRATION OP THE NATIONAL CEMETERY, AT GETTYSBURG, ON THE IQtH OF NOVEMBER, 1863. The military will form in Gettysburg at nine o'clock, A. M., on Carlisle street, north of the square, its right resting on the square, opposite M'Clel- lan's hotel, under the direction of Major General Couch. The State Marshals and Chief Marshal's aids will assemble in the public square at the same hour. All civic bodies, except the citizens of States, will assemble, according to the foregoing printed programme, on York street, at the same hour. The delegation of Pennsylvania citizens will form on Chambersburg street, its right resting on the square ; and the other citizen delegations, in their order, will form on the same sireet, in rear of the Pennsylvania delegation. The Marshals of the States are charged with the duty of forming their several delegations so that they will assume their appropriate positions when the main procession moves. The head of the column will move at precisely ten o'clock, A. M. The route will be up Baltimore street to the Emmitsburg road, thence to the junction of the Taney town road, thence, by the latter road, to the Cemetery, where the military will form in line, as the General in command may order, for the purpose of saluting the President of the United States. The military will then close up and occupy the space on the left of the stand. The civic procession will advance and occupy the area in front of the stand, the military leaving sufficient space between them and the line of graves for the civic procession to pass. The ladies will occupy the right of the stand, and it is desirable that they be upon the ground as early as ten o'clock, A. M. The exercises will take place as soon as the military and civic bodies are in position, as follows : Music, by Birgfield's Band, Prayer, by Rev. T. H. Stockton, D. D, Music, by the Marine Band. Oration, by Hon. Edward Everett. 12 178 SOLDIERS' NATIONAL CEMETERT. Music, nymn composed by B. B. FRBNcn, Esq. Dedicatory Remarks, by the President op the United States. Dirge, sung by Choir selected for the occasion. Benediction, by Rev. H. L. Baugher, D. D. After the benediction the procession will be dismissed, and the State Marshals and special aids to the Chief Marshal, will form on Baltimore street, and return to the court house in Gettysburg, where a meeting of the Marshals will be held. An appropriate salute will be fired in Gettysburg on the day of the cele- bration, under the direction of Major General Couch. SOLDIEKS' NATIONAL CEMETERY. 179 PRATER OF REV. DR. STOCKTON. God our Father, for the sake of Thy Son our Saviour, inspire us with Thj Spirit, and sanctify us to the right fulfilment of the duties of this oc- casion. We come to dedicate this new historic centre as a National Cemetery. If all departments of the one government which Thou hast ordained over our Union, and of the many governments which Thou has subordinated to our Union, be here represented — if all classes, relations, and interests of our blended brotherhood of people stand severally and thoroughly apparent in Thy presence — we trust that it is because Thou hast called us, that Thy blessing awaits us, and that Thy designs may be embodied in practical re- sults of incalculable and imperishable good. And, so, with Thy holy Apostle, and with the Church of all lands and ages, we unite in the ascription, "Blessed be God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies, and the God of all comfort, who comforteth us in all our tribulation, that we may be able to comfort them which are in any trouble, by the comfort wherewith we ourselves are com- forted of God." In emulation of all angels, in fellowship with all saints, and in sympathy with all sufferers, in remembrance of Thy works, in reverence of Thy ways, and in accordance with Thy word, we laud and magnify Thine infinite per- fections, Thy creative glory. Thy redeeming grace, Thy providential good- ness, and the progressively richer and fairer developments of Thy supreme, universal and everlasting administration. In behalf of all humanity, whose ideal is divine, whose first memory is Thine image lost, and whose last hope is Thine image restored, and espe- cially of our own nation, whose history has been so favored, whose position is so peerless, whose mission is so sublime, and whose future is so attrac- tive, we thank Thee for the unspeakable patience of Thy compassion and the exceeding greatness of Thy loving kindness. In contemplation of Eden, Calvary, and Heaven, of Christ in the Garden, on the Cross, and on the Throne; nay, more, of Christ as coming again in all- subduing power and glory, we gratefully prolong our homage. By this Altar of Sacrifice; on this Field of Deliverance, on this Mount of Salvation, within the fiery and bloody line of these "munitions of rocks," looking back to the dark days of 180 SOLDIERS' NATIONAL CEMETERY. fear and trembling, and to the rapture of relief that came after, we multiply our thanksgivings, and confess our obligations to renew and perfect our personal and social consecration to Thy service and glory. Ob, had it not been for God I Forlo I our enemies, they came unresisted, multitudinous, mighty, flushed with victory, .and sure of success. They ex- ulted on our mountains, they revelled in our valleys ; they feasted, they rested ; they slept, they awaked, they grew stronger, prouder, bolder, every day ; they spread abroad, they concentrated here ; they looked beyond this borizan to the stores of wealth, to the haunts of pleasure, and to the seats of power in our capital and chief cities. They prepared to cast a chain of Slavery around the form of Freedom, binding life and death together for- ever. Their premature triumph was the mockery of God and man. Ono more victory, and all v/as theirs 1 But behind these hills was heard the feebler march of a smaller, but still pursuing host. Onward they hur- ried, day and night, for God and their country. Foot-sore, wayworn, hun- gvj, thirsty, faint — but not in heart — they came to dare all, to bear all, and to do all that is possible to heroes. And Thou didst sustain them ! At first they met the blast on the plain, and bent before it like the trees in a storm. But then, led by Thy hand to these hills, they took their stand upon the rocks and remained as firm and immovable as they. In vain were they assaulted. All art, all violence, all desperation, failed to dislodge them. — Baffled, bruised, broken, their enemies recoiled, retired, and disappeared. Glory to God for this rescue I But oh, the slain 1 In the freshness and fulness of their young and manly life, with such sweet memories of father and mother, brother and sister, wife and children, maiden and friends, they died for us. From the coasts beneath the Eastern star, from the shores of Northern lakes and rivers, from the flowers of Western prairies, and from the homes of the Midway and Border, they came here to die for us and for mankind. Alas, how little we can do for them ! We come with the humility of prayer, with the pathetic eloquence of venerable wisdom, with the tender beauty of poetry, with the plaintive harmony of music, with the honest tribute of our Chief Magistrate, and with all this honorable attend- ance ; but our best hope is in thy blessing, Lord, our God 1 Father, bless us I Bless the bereaved, whether present or absent ; bless our sick and wounded soldiers and sailors ; bless all our rulers and people ; bless our army and navy ; bless the efforts for the suppression of the rebellion ; and bless all the associations of this day and place and scene forever. As the trees are not dead, though their foliage is gone, so our heroes are not dead, though their forms have fallen. In their proper personality they are all with Thee. And the spirit of their example is here. It fills the air ; it fills our hearts. And, long as time shall last, it will hover in the skies and J rest on this landscape ; and the pilgrims of our own land, and from all lands, ' 1 SOLDIERS' NATIONAL CEMETERY. 181 f will thrill with its inspiration, and increase and confirm their devotion to Miberty, religion, and God. Our Father, who art in Heaven, Hallowed be thy name, Thy kingdom cotne. Thy will be done on earth as it is in Heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors. Lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. For Thine is the king- dom, the power, and the glory, forever. Amen. 182 SOLDIERS' NATIONAL CBMETERT. ADDRESS OF HON. EDWARD EYERETT. Standing beneath this serene sky, overlooking these broad fields now re- posing from the labors of the waning year, the mighty Alleghenies dimly towering before us, the graves of our bretheru beneath our feet, it is with hesitation that I raise my poor voice to break the eloquent silence of Q-od and Nature. But the duty to which you have called me must be perform- ed ; — grant me, I pray you, your indulgence and your sympathy. It was appointed by lawin Athens, that the obsequies of the citizens who fell in battle should be performed at the public expense, and in the most honorable manner. Their bones were carefully gathered up from the fime- i&\ pyre, where their bodies were consumed, and brought home to the city. There, for three days before the interment, they lay in state, beneath tents of honor, to receive the votive offerings of friends and relatives, — flowers, weapons, precious ornaments, painted vases, (wonders of art, which after two thousand years adorn the museums of modern Europe,) — the last tri- butes of surviving affection. Ten coffins of funeral cypress received the honorable deposit, one for each of the tribes of the city, and an eleventh in memory of the unrecognized, but not therefore unhonored, dead, and of those whose remains could not be recovered. On the fourth day the mourn- ful procession was formed ; mothers, wives, sisters, daughters led the way, and to them it was permitted by the simplicity of ancient manners to utter aloud their lamentations for the beloved and the lost ; the male relatives and friends of the deceased followed ; citizens and strangers closed the train. Thus marshalled, they moved to the place of interment in that famous Cera- micus, the most beautiful suburb of Athens, which had been adorned by Cimon, the son of Miltiades, with walks and fountains and columns, — whose groves were filled with altars, shrines, and temples, — whose gardens were kept forever green by the streams from the neighboring hills, and shaded with the trees sacred to Minerva and coeval with the foundation of the city, — whose circuit enclosed « the olive Grove of Academe, Plato's retirement, where the Attic hird Trilled his thick-warbled note the summer long," — whose pathways gleamed with the monuments of the illustrious dead, the work of the most consummate masters that ever gave life to marble. There, SOLDIERS' NATIONAL CEMETERY. 183 beneath the overarching plane-trees, upon a lofty stage erected for the pur- pose, it was ordained that a funeral oration should be pronounced by some citizen of Athens, in the presence of the assembled multitude. Such were the tokens of respect required to be paid at Athens to the memory of those who had fallen in the cause of their country. For those alone who fell at Marathon a special honor was reserved. As the battle fought upon that immortal field was distinguished from all others in Gre- cian history for its influence over the fortunes of Hellas, — as it depended upon the event of that day whether Greece should live, a glory and a light to all coming time, or should expire, like the meteor of a moment ; so the honors awarded to its martyr- heroes were such as were bestowed by Athens on no other occasion. They alone of all her sons were entombed upon the spot which they had forever rendered famous. Their names were inscribed upon ten pillars, erected upon the monumental tumulus which covered their ashes, (where after six hundred years, they were read by the traveler Pau- Banias,) and although the columns, beneath the hand of time and barbaric violence, have long since disappeared, the venerable mound still marks the spot where they fought and fell, — "That battle-field where Persia's victim horde First bowed beneath the brunt of Hellas' sword." And shall I, fellow citizens, who, after an interval of twenty-three centu- ries, a youthful prilgrim from the world unknown to ancient Greece, have wandered over that illustrious plain, ready to put off the shoes from off my feet, as one that stands on holy ground, — who have gazed with respectful emotion on the mound which still protects the dust of those who rolled back the tide of Persian invasion, and rescued the land of popular liberty, of let- ters, and of arts, from the ruthless foe, — stand unmoved over the graves of our dear brethern, who so lately, on three of those all-important days which decide a nation's history, — days on whose issue it depended whether this august republican Union, founded by some of the wisest statesmen that ever lived, cemented with the blood of some of the purest patriots that ever died, should perish or endure, — rolled back the tide of an invasion, not less un- provoked, not less ruthless, than that which came to plant the dark banner of Asiatic despotism and slavery on the free soil of Greece ? Heaven forbidi And could I prove so insensible to every prompting of patriotic duty and affection, not only would you, fellow citizens, gathered many of you from distant States, who have come to take part in these pious offices of grati- tude — you, respected fathers, brethern, matrons, sisters, who surround me — cry out for shame, but the forms of brave and patriotic men who fill these honored graves would heave with indignation beneath the sod. We have assembled, friends, fellow citizens, at the invitation of the Ex- ecutive of the great central State of Pennsylvania, seconded by the Gov- 184. SOLDIERS' NATIONAL CEMETERY. ei'nors of Beventeen other loyal States of the Union, to pay the last tribut* of respect to the brave men, who, in the hard fought battles of the first, sec- ond and third days of July last, laid down their lives for the country on these hill sides and the plains before us, and whose remains have been gath- ered into the Cemetery which we consecrate this day. As my eye ranges over the fields whose sods were so lately moistened by the blood of gallant and loyal men, I feel, as never before, how truly it was said of old, that it is sweet and becoming to die for one's country. I feel as never before, how justly, from the dawn of history to the present time, men have paid the hojuage of their gratitude and admiration to the memory of those who nobly sacrificed their lives, that their fellow men may live in safety and in honor. And if this tribute were ever due, when, to whom, could it be more justly paid than to those whose last resting place we this day commend to the blessing of Heaven and of men ? For consider, my friends, what would have been the consequences to the country, to yourselves, and to all you hold dear, if those who sleep beneath our feet, and their gallant comrades who survive to serve their country on other fields of danger, had failed in their duty on those memorable days. Consider what, at this moment, would be the condition of the United States, if that noble army of the Potomac, instead of gallantly and for the second time beating back the tide of invasion from Maryland and Pennsylvania, had been itself driven from these well contested heights, thrown back in confu- sion on Baltimore, or trampled down, discomfited, scattered to the four winds. What, in that sad event, would not have been the fate of the Monumental city, of Harrisburg, of Philadelphia, of Washington, the capital of the Union, each and every one of which would have lain at the mercy of the enemy, accordingly as it might have pleased him, spurred by passion, flushed with victory, and confident of continued success, to direct his course ? For this we must bear in mind, it is one of the great lessons of the war, indeed of every war, that it is impossible for a i>eople without military or- ganization, inhabiting the cities, towns, and villages of an open country, including, of course, the natural proportion of non-combatants of either sex, and of every age, to withstand the inroad of a veteran army. What de- fence can be made by the inhabitants of villages mostly built of wood, of cities unprotected by walls, nay, by a population of men, however high- toned and resolute, whose aged parents demand their care, whose wives and children are clustering about them, against the charge of the war-horse whose neck is clothed with thunder — against flying artillery and batteries of rifled cannon planted on every commanding eminence — against the onset of trained veterans led by skilful chiefs ? No, my friends, army must be met by army, battery by battery, squadron by squadron ; and the shock of organized thousands must be encountered by the firm breasts and valiant SOLDIERS' NATIONAL CEMETERY. 185 arms of other thousands, as well organized and as skilfully led. It is no reproach, therefore, to the unarmed population of the country to say, that we owe it to the brave men who sleep in their beds of honor before us, and to their gallant surviving associates, not merely that your fertile fields, my friends of Pennsylvania and Maryland, were redeemed from the presence of the invader, but that your beautiful capitals were not given up to threat- ened plunder, perhaps laid in ashes, Washington seized by the enemy, and a blow struck at the heart of the nation. Who that hears me has forgotten the thrill of joy that ran through the country on the ^th of July — auspicious day for the glorious tidings, and rendered still more so by the simultaneous fall of Vicksburg — when the telegraph flashed through the land the assurance from the President of tbe United States that the army of the Potomac, under General Meade, had again smitten the invader ? Sure 1 am, that, with the ascriptions of praise that rose to Heaven from twenty millions of freemen, with the acknowledg- ments that breathed from patriotic lips throughout the length and breadth of America, to the surviving officers and men who had rendered the country this inestimable service, there beat in every loyal bosom a throb of tender and sorrowful gratitude to the martyrs who had fallen on the sternly con- tested field. Let a nation's fervent thanks make some amends for the toils and sufferings of those who survive. Would that the heartfelt tribute could penetrate these honored graves ! In order that we may comprehend, to their full extent, our obligations to the martyrs and surviving heroes of the army of the Potomac, let us con- template for a few moments the train of events, which culminated in the l^attles of the first days of July, Of this stupendous rebellion, planned, as its originators boast, more than thirty years ago, matured and prepared for during an entire generation, finally commenced because, for the first time since the adoption of the Constitution, an election of President had been effected without the votes of the South, (which retained, however, the con- trol of the two other branches of the government,) the occupation of the national capital, with the seizure of the public archives and of the treaties with foreign powers, was an essential feature. This was, in substance, within my personal knowledge, admitted, in the winter of 1860-61, by one of the most influential leaders of the rebellion ; and it was fondly thought that this object could be effected by a bold and sudden movement on the 4th of March, 1861. There is abundant proof, also, that a darker project was contemplated, if not by the responsible chiefs of the rebellion, yet by name- less ruffians, willing to play a subsidary and murderous part in the treason- able drama. It was accordingly maintained by the Rebel emissaries in England, in the circles to which they found access, that the new American Minister ought not, when he arrived, to be received as the envoy of the 186 SOLDIERS' NATIONAL CEMETERY. United States, inasmuch as before that time Washington would be captured, and the capital of the nation and the archives and muniments of the gov- ernment would be in the possession of the Confederates. In full accord- ance also with this threat, it was declared, by the Rebel Secretary of War, at Montgomery, in the presence of his Chief and of his colleagues, and of five thousand hearecs, while the tidings of the assault on Sumter were tra- veling over the wires on that fatal 12th of April, 1861, that before the end of May "the flag which then flaunted the breeze," as he expressed it, "would float over the dome of the Capitol at Washington." At the time this threat was made, the rebellion was confined to the cot- ton-growing States, and it was well understood by them, that the only hope of drawing any of the other slaveholding States into the conspiracy, was in bringing about a conflict of arms, and "firing the heart of the South" by the effusion of blood. This was declared by the Charleston press, to be the object for which Sumter was to be assaulted ; and the emissaries sent from Richmond, to urge on the unhallowed work, gave the promise, that, with the first drop of blood that should be shed, Virginia would place herself by the side of South Carolina. In pursuance of this orignal plan of the leaders of the rebellion, the cap- ture of Washington has been continually had in view, not merely for the sake of its public buildings, as the capital of the Confederacy, but as the necessary preliminary to the absorption of the border States, and for the moral effect in the eyes of Europe of possessing the metropolis of the Union. I allude to these facts, not perhaps enough borne in mind, as a sufficient refutation of the pretence, on the part of the Rebels, that the war is oue of Belf-defence, waged for the right of self-government. It is in reality, a war originally levied by ambitious men in the cotton-growing States, for the purpose of drawing the slaveholding border States into the vortex of the conspiracy, first by sympathy — which, in the case of South-Eastern Virginia, North Carolina, part of Tennessee and Arkansas, succeeded — and then by force and for the purpose of subjugating Maryland, Western Virginia, Ken- tucky, Eastern Tennessee and Missouri ; and it is a most extraordinary fact, considering the clamors of the Rebel chiefs on the subject of invasion, that not a soldier of the United States has entered the States last named, except to defend their Union-loving inhabitants from the armies and gue- rillas of the Rebels. In conformity with these designs on the city of Washington, and notwith- standing the disastrous results of the invasion of 1862, it was determined by the Rebel Government last summer to resume the offensive in that direc- tion. Unable to force the passage of the Rappahannock, where General Hooker, notwithstanding the reverse at Chancellorsville, in May, was strong- ly posted, the Confederate general resorted to strategy. He had two objects SOLDIERS' NATIONAL CEMETERY. 187 in view. The first was by a rapid movement northward, and by manceu- vering with a portion of his army on the east side of the Blue Ridge, to tempt Hooker fi-om his base of operations, thus leading him to uncover the approaches to Washington, to throw it open to a raid by Stuart's cav- alry, and to enable Lee himself to cross the Potomac in the neighborhood of Poolesville and thus fall upon the capital. This plan of operations was wholly frustrated. The design of the Rebel general was promptly discovered by General Hooker, and, moving with great rapidity from Fredericksburg, he preserved unbroken the inner line, and stationed the various corps of his army at all the points protecting the approach to Washington, from Centre- ville up to Leesburg. From this vantage-ground the Rebel general in vain attempted to draw him. In the mean time, by the vigorous operations of Plbasanton's cavalry, the cavalry of Stuart, though greatly superior in nun*- bers, was so crippled as to be disabled from performing the part assigned it in the campaign. In this manner, General Lee's first object, namely, the defeat of Hooker's army on the south of the Potomac and a direct march on Washington, was baflBed. The second part of the Confederate plan, which is supposed to have been, undertaken in opposition to the views of General Lee, was to turn the de- monstration northward into a real invasion of Maryland and Pennsylvania, in the hope, that, in this way. General Hooker would be drawn to a dis- tance from the capital, and that some opportunity would occur of taking him at disadvantage, and, after defeating his army, of making a descent upon Baltimore and Washington. This part of General Lee's plan, which was substantially the repetition of that of 1862, was not less signally defeated, with what honor to the arms of the Union the heights on which we are this day assembled will forever attest. Much time had been uselessly consumed by the Rebel general in his una- vailing attempts to out-manceuvre General Hooker. Although General Lee broke up from Fredericksburg on the 3d of June, it was not till the 24th that the main body of his army entered Maryland. Instead of crossing the Potomac, as he had intended, east of the Blue Ridge, he was compelled to do it at Shepherdstown and Williamsport, thus materially deranging his en- tire plan of campaign north of the river. Stuart, who had been sent with his cavalry to the east of the Blue Ridge, to guard the passes of the moun- tains, to mask the movements of Lee, and to harass the Union general in crossing the river, having been severely handled by Pleasanton at Beverly Ford, Aldie, and Upperville, instead of being able to retard General Hooker's advance, was driven himself away from his connection with the army of Lee, and cut off for a fortnight from all communication with it — a circum- stance to which General Lee, in his report, alludes more than once, with 188 SOLDIERS' NATIONAL CEMETERY. evident displeasnre. Let us now rapidly glance at the incidents of the eventful campaign. A detachment from E-well's corps, under Jenkins, had penetrated, on the loth of June, as far as Chambersburg. This movement was intended at first merely as a demonstration, and as a marauding expedition for supplies. It had, however, the salutary effect of alarming the country ; and vigorous preparations were made, not only by the General Government, but here in Pennsylvania and in the sister States, to repel the inroad. After two days passed at Chambersburg, Jenkins, anxious for his communications with EwELL, fell back with his plunder to Hagerstown. Here he remained for several days, and then having swept the recesses of the Cumberland valley, came down upon the eastern flank of the South mountain, and pushed his marauding parties as far as Waynesboro'. On the 22d, the remainder of Ewell's corps crossed the river and moved up the valley. They were fol- lowed on the 24'th by LoNGSTaEET and Hill, who crossed at Williamsport and Sheperdstown, and pushing up the valley, encamped at Chambers- burg on the 27th. In this way the whole rebel army, estimated at 90,000 •infantry, upwards of 10,000 cavalry, and 4,000 or 5,000 artillery, making a total of 105,000 of all arms, was concentrated in Pennsylvania. Up to this time no report of Hooker's movements had been received by General Lee, who, having been deprived of his cavalry, had no means of obtaining information. Rightly judging, however, that no time would be lost by the Union army in the pursuit, in order to detain it on the eastern side of the mountains in Maryland and Pennsylvania, and thus preserve his communications by the way of Williamsport, he had, before his own arrival at Chambersburg, directed Ewell to send detachments from his corps to Car- lisle and York. The latter detachment, under Early, passed through this place on the 26th of June. You need not, fellow citizens of Gettysburg, that I should recall to you those moments of alarm and distress, precursors as they were of the more trying scenes which were so soon to follow. As soon as Gen. Hooker preceived that the advance of the Confederates into the Cumberland valley was not a mere feint to draw him away from Washington, he moved rapidly in pursuit. Attempts, as we have seen, were made to harass and retard his passage across the Potomac. These attempts were not only altogether unsuccessful, but were so unskilfully made as to place the entire Federal army between the cavalry of Stuart and the army of Lee. While the latter was massed in the Cumberland valley, Stuart was east of the mountains, with Hooker's army between, and Gregg's cavalry in close pursuit. Stuart was accordingly compelled to force a march north- ward, which was destitute of strategical character, and which deprived his chief of all means of obtaining intelligence. SOLDIERS' NATIONAL CEMETERY. 1S9 Not a moment had been lost by General Hooker in the pursuit of Lee. The day after the Rebel army entered Maryland, the Union army crossed the Potomac at Edward's Ferry, and by the 28th of June lay between Har- per's Ferry and Frederick. The force of the enemy on that day was partly at Chambersburg, and partly moving on the Cashtown road in the direction of Gettysburg, while the detachments from Ewell's corps, of which mention has been made, had reached the Susquehanna opposite Harrisburg and Co- lumbia. That a great battle must soon be fought, no one could doubt ; bat in the apparent and perhaps real absence of plan on the part of Lee, it was impossible to foretell the precise scene of the encounter. Wherever fought, consequences the most momentous hung upon the result. In this critical and anxious state of affairs, General Hooker was relieved, and General Meade was summoned to the chief command of the army. It appears to my unmilitary judgment to reflect the highest credit upon him, upon his predecessor, and upon the corps commanders of the army of the Potomac, that a change could take place in the chief command of so large a force on the eve of a general battle — the various corps necessarily moving on lines somewhat divergent, and all in ignorance of the enemy's intended point of concentration — and that not an hour's hesitation should ensue in the advance of any portion of the entire army. Having assumed the chief command on the 28th, General Meade directed his left wing, under Reynolds, upon Emmitsburg, and his right upon New Windsor, leaving General French with 11,000 men to protect the Baltimore and Ohio railroad, and convoy the public property from Harper's Ferry to Washington. Buporx,D's cavalry was then at this place, and Kilpatrick's at Hanover, where he encountered and defeated the rear of SiUAai's cavalry, who was roving the country in search of the main army of Lee. On the Rebel side. Hill had reached Fayetteville on the Cashtown road on the 28th, and was followed on the same road by Longstreet on the 29th. The eastern side of the mountain, as seen from Gettysburg, was lighted up at night by the camp-fires of the enemy's advance, and the country swarmed with his foraging parties. It was now too evident to be questioned, that the thun- der-cloud, so long gathering blackness, would soon burst on some part of the devoted vicinity of Gettysburg. The 30th of June was a day of important preparation. At half-past eleven o'clock in the morning, General Buford passed through Gettysburg, upon a reconnoissance in force, with his cavalry, upon the Chambersburg road. The information obtained by him was immediately communicated to General Reynolds, who was, in consequence, directed to occupy Gettysburg. That gallant officer accordingly, with the First Corps, marched from Em- mitsburg to within six or seven miles of this place, and encamped on the right bank of Marsh's creek. Our right wing, meantime, was moved tc 190 SOLDIERS' NATIONAL CEMETERY. Manchester. Oa the same day the corps of Hill and Longstreet were pushed still further forward on the Chambersburg road, and distributed in the vicinity of Marsh's creek, while a reconnoissanee was made by the Con- federate General Pettigrew up to a very short distance from this place. — Thus at nightfall, on the 30th of June, the greater part of the Rebel force was concentrated in the immediate vicinity of two corps of the Union army, the former refreshed by two days passed in comparative repose and delibe- rate preparation for the encounter, the latter separated by a march of one ov two days from their supporting corps, and doubtful at what precise point they were to expect an attack. And now the momentous day, a day to be forever remembered in the an- nals of the country, arrived. Early in the morning, on the 1st of July, the conflict began. I need not say that it would be impossible for me to com- prise, within the limits of the hour, such a narrative as would do anything like full justice to the all-important events of these three great days, or to the merit of the brave oflBcers and men, of every rank, of every arm of the service, and of every loyal State, who bore their part in the tremendous struggle — alike those who nobly sacrificed their lives for their country, and those who survive, many of them scarred with honorable wounds, the ob- jects of our admiration and gratitude. The astonishingly minute, accurate, and graphic accounts contained in the journals of the day, prepared from personal observation by reporters who witnessed the scenes, and often shared the perils which they describe, and the highly valuable "notes'' of Professor Jacobs, of the University in this place, to which I am greatly indebted, will abundantly supply the deficiency of my necessarily too con- densed statement.* • Besides the sources of information mentioned in the text, I have been kindly favored ■with a memorandum of the operations of the three days, drawn up for me by direction of Major General Meade, Canticipating the promulgation of his official report,) by one of hia aids. Colonel Theodore Lyman, from whom, also, I have received other important com- mnnications relative to the campaign. I have received very valuable documents relative to the battle from Major General Halleck, Commander-in Chief of the army, and have been much assisted in drawing up the sketch of the campaign, by the detailed reports, kindly transmitted to me in manuscript from the Adjutant General's office, of the movements of every corps of the army, for each day, after the breaking up from Fredericksburg com- moDced. I have derived much assistance from Colonel John B. Bachelder's oral explana- tions of his beautiful and minute drawing (about to be engraved) of the field of the three days' struggle. With the information derived from these sources, I have compared the statements in General Lee's oflScial report of the campaign, dated 31st July, 1863, a well- written article, purporting to be an account of the three days' battle, in the Richmond Enquirer of the 22d of July, and the article on "The Battle of Gettysburg and ihe Cam- paign of Pennsylvania," by an oflScer, apparently a colonel in the British army, in Black' vjood'a Magazine for September. The value of the infoi-mation contained in this last essay may be seen by comparing the remark under date 27th June, that "private property is to SOLDIERS' NATIONAL CEMETERY. 191 General Reynolds, on arriving at Gettysburg, in the morning of the 1st, found BuFOBD with his cavalry warmly engaged with the enemy, whom he held most gallantly in check. Hastening himself to the front. General Rey- nolds directed his men to be moved over the fields from the Emmitsburg road, in front of M'Millan's and Dr. Schmucker's, under cover of the Semi- nary Ridge. Without a moment's hesitation, he attacked the enemy, at the same time sending orders to the Eleventh Corps (General Howard's) to advance as promptly as possible. General Reynolds immediately found himself engaged with a force which greatly outnumbered his own, and had scarcely made his dispositions for the action when he fell, mortally wound- ed, at the head of his advance. The command of the First Corps devolved on General Doubleday, and that of the field on General Howard, who ar- rived at 11.30, with Schurz's and Barlow's divisions of the Eleventh Corps, he latter of whom received a severe wound. Thus strengthened, the ad- vantage of the battle was for some time on our side. The attacks of the Rebels were vigorously repulsed by Wadsworth's division of the First Corps, and a large number of prisoners, including General Archer, were captured. At length, however, the continued reinforcement of the Confederates from the main body in the neighborhood, and by the divisions of Rodes and Early, coming down by separate lines from Heidlersberg and taking post on our extreme right, turned the fortunes of the day. Our army, after contesting the ground for five hours, was obliged to yield to the enemy, whose force outnumbered them two to one ; and toward the close of the afternoon Gen- eral Howard deemed it prudent to withdraw the two corps to the heights where we are now assembled. The greater part of the First Corps passed through the outskirts of the town, and reached the hill without serious loss or molestation. The Eleventh Corps and portions of the First, not being be rigidly protected," with the statement in the next sentence but one, that "all the cat- le and farm horses having been seized by Ewell, farm labor had come to a complete stand still." He, also, under date of 4tb July, speaks of Lee's retreat being encumbered by «p^ c- i''^ /A/:! *;■ A Ho Tnh- rs L'^f^i-'r.' m.i SOLDIERS' NATIONAL CEMETERY. 193 on the spot where we are assembled and the ridges that extend south-east and south-west; batteries were planted and breastworks thrown up. The Second and Fifth Corps, with the rest of the Third, had reached the ground bj seven o'clock, A. M. ; but it was not till two o'clock in the afternoon that Sedgwick arrived with the Sixth Corps. He had marched thirty-four miles since nine o'clock on the evening before. It was only on his arrival that the Union ai'my approached an equality of numbers with that of the Rebels, who were posted upon the opposite and parallel ridge, distant from a mile to a mile and a half, overlapping our position on either wing, and probably exceeding by ten thousand the army of General Meade.* And here I cannot but remark on the providential inaction of the Rebel army. Had the contest been renewed by it at daylight on the 2d of July, with the First and Eleventh Corps exhausted by the battle and the retreat, the Third and Twelfth weary from their forced march, and the Second, Fifth and Sixth not yet arrived, nothing but a miracle could have saved the army from a great disaster. Instead of this, the day dawned, the sun rose, the cool hours of the morning passed, the forenoon and a considerable part of the afternoon wore away, without the slightest aggressive movement on the part of the enemy. Thus time was given for half of our forces to arrive and take their place in the lines, while the rest of the army enjoyed a much needed half day's repose. At length, between three and four o'clock in the afternoon, the work of death began. A signal gun from the hostile batteries was followed by a tremendous cannonade along the Rebel lines, and this by a heavy advance of infantry, brigade after brigade, commencing on the enemy's right against the left of our army, and so onward to the left centre. A forward move- ment of General Sickles, to gain a commanding position from which to repel the Rebel attack, drew upon him a destructive fire from the enemy's batte- ries, and a furious assault from Longstreet's and Hill's advancing troops. After a brave resistance on the part of his corps, he was forced back, him- self falling severely wounded. This was the critical moment of the second day ; but the Fifth and part of the Sixth Corps, with portions of the First and Second, were promptly brought to the support of the Third. The strug- gle was fierce and murderous, but by sunset our success was decisive, and the enemy was driven back in confusion. The most important service was rendered towards the close of the day, in the memorable advance between *In the Address as originally prepared, judging from the best sources of information then within my reach, I assumed the equality of the two armies on the 2d and 3d of July. Subsequeut inquiry has led me to think that I underrated somewhat the strength of Lke's force at Gettysburg, and I have corrected the text accordingly. General Halleck, how- ever, in his ofScial report accompanying the President's messages, states the armies to have been equal. 13 194 SOLDIERS' NATIONAL CEMETERY. Round Top tvnd Little Round Top, bj General Crawford's division of the Fifth Corps, consisting of two brigades of the Pennsylvania Reserves, of which one company wss from this town and neighborhood. The Rebel force was driven back with great loss in killed and prisoners. At eight o'clock in the evening a desperate attempt was made by the enemy to storm the position of the Eleventh Corps on Cemetery Hill ; but here, too, after a ter- rible conflict, he was repulsed with immense loss. Ewell, on our extreme right, which had been weakened by the withdrawal of the troops sent over to support our left, had succeeded in gaining a foothold within a portion of our lines, near Spangler's spring. This was the only advantage obtained by the Rebels to compensate them for the disasters of the day^ and of this, as we shall see, they were soon deprived. Such was the result of the second act of this eventful drama, — a day hard fought, and at one moment anxious, but, with the exception of the slight re- verse just named, crowned with dearly earned but uniform success to our arms, auspicious of a glorious termination of the final struggle. On these good omens the night fell. Tn the course of the night, General Geary returned to his position on the right, from which he had hastened the day before to strengthen the Third Corps. He immediately engaged the enemy, and, after a sharp and deci- sive action, drove them out of our lines, recovering the ground which had been lost on the preceding day. A spirited contest was kept up all tbe morning on this pai't of the line ; but General Geary, reinforced by Whea- TOTS's brigade of the Sixth Corps, maintained his position, and inflicted very seYcre losses on the Rebels. Such was the cheering commencement of the third day's work, and with it ended all serious attempts of the enemy on our right. As on the preced- ing day, his efTorts were now mainly directed against our left centre and left wing. From eleven till half-past one o'clock, all was still — a solemn pause of preparation, as if both armies were nerving themselves for tbe aupreme effort. At length the awful silence, more terrible than the wildest tumult of battle, was bi'oken by the roar of two hundred and fifty pieces of artillery from the opposite ridges, joining in a cannonade of unsurpassed violence — the Rebel batteries along two-thirds of their line pouring their fire upon Cemetery Hill, and the centre and left wing of our army. Hav- ing attempted in this way for two hours, but without success, to shake the steadiness of our lines, the enemy rallied his forces for a last grand assa-uli. Their attack was principally directed against the position of our Second Corps. Successive lines of Rebel infantry moved forward with equal spirit and steadiness from their cover on the wooded crest of Seminary Ridge, crossing the intervening plain, and, supported right and left by their choicest brigades, charged furiously up to our batteries. Our own brave troops of SOLDIERS' NATIONAL CEMETERY. 195 the Second Corps, supported by Dodbleday's division and Stannard's bri- gade of the First, received the shock with firmness ; the ground on both sides was long and fiercely contested, and was covered with the killed and the wounded ; the tide of battle flowed and ebbed across the plain, till, after "a determined and gallant struggle," as it is pronounced by General Lee, tlie Rebel advance, consisting of two-thirds of Hill's corps and the whole of Longstreet's — including Pickett's division, the elite of his corps, whicli had not yet been under fire, and was now depended upon to decide the fortune of this last eventful day — was driven back with prodigious slaughter, dis- comfitted and broken. While these events were in progross at our left cen- tre, the enemy was driven, with a considerable loss of prisoners, from a strong position en our extreme left, from which he was annoying our force on Little Round Top. In the terrific assault on our centre. Generals Hancock and Gibbon were wounded. In the Rebel army. Generals Armistead, Kem- per, Pettigrew and Trimble were wounded, the first named mortally, the latter also made prisoner. General Garnett was killed, and thirty-five hun- dred officers and men made prisoners. These were the expiring agonies of the three days' conflict, and with them the battle ceased. It was fought by the Union army with courage and skill, from the first cavalry skirmish on Wednesday morning to the fearful route of the enemy on Friday afternoon, by every arm and every rank of the service, by officers and men, by cavalry, artillery, and infantry. The supe- riority of numbers was with the enemy, who were led by the ablest com- manders in their service ; and if the Union force had the advantage of a strong position, the Confederates had that of choosing time and place, the prestige of former victories over the army of the Potomac, and of the success of the first day. Victory does not always fall to the lot of those who de- serve it ; but that so decisive a triumph, under circumstances like these, was gained by our troops, I would ascribe, under Providence, to the spirit of exalted patriotism that animated them, and the consciousness that tbey were fighting in a righteous cause. All hope of defeating our army, and securing what General Lee calls "the valuable results" of such an achievement, having vanished, he thought only of rescuing from destruction the remains of his shattered forces. In killed, wounded and missing, he had, as far as can be ascertained, sufi"ered a loss of about 37,000 men — rather more than a third of the army with which he is supposed to have marched into Pennsylvania. Perceiving that his only safety was in rapid retreat, he commenced withdrawing his troops at day- break on the 4th, throwing up field works in front of our left, which, assum- ing the appearance of a new position, were intended probably to protect the rear of his army in their retreat. That day — sad celebration of the 4th of July for an army of Americans — was passed by him in" hurrying off his 196 SOLDIERS' NATIONAL CEMETERY. trains. By nightfall, the main army was in full retreat upon the CashtowD and Fairfield roads, and it moved with such ])roeipitation, that, short as the nights were, by day-light the following morning, notwithstanding a heavy rain, the rear guard bad left its position. The struggle of the last two days resembled, in many respects, the battle of Waterloo ; and if, in the evening of the third day, General Meade, like the Duke of Wellington, had had the assistance of a powerful auxiliary army to take up the pursuit, the route of the Rebels woiild have been as complete as that of Napoleon. Owing to the circumstances just named, the intentions of the enemy were not apparent on the 4th. The moment his retreat was discovered, the fol- lowing morning, he was pursued by our cavalry on the Cashtown road and tlirough the Emmitsburg and Monterey passes, and by Sedgwick's corps on the Fairfield road. His rear guard was briskly attacked at Fairfield ; a great number of wagons and ambulances wore captured in the passes of the mountains ; the country swarmed with his stragglers, and bis wounded were literally emptied from the vehicles containing them into the farm houses on the road. General Lee, in his report, makes repeated mention of the Union prisoners whom he conveyed into Virginia, somewhat overstating their number. He states, also, that "such of his wounded as were in a condition to be removed" were forwarded to Williamsport. He does not mention that the number of his wounded 7iot removed, and left to the Christian care of the victors, was 7,540, not one of whom failed of any attention which it was possible, under the circumstances of the case, to afiford them, not one of whom, certainly, has been put upon Libby prison fare — lingering death by starvation. Heaven forbid, however, that we should claim any merit for the exercise of common humanity. Under the protection of the mountain ridge, whose narrow passes are easily held even by a retreating army. General Lee reached Williamsport In safety, and took up a strong position opposite to that place. General Meade necessarily pursued with the main army by a flank movement through Mid- dletown. Turner's Pass, having been secured by General French. Passing through the South mountain, the Union army came up with that of the Rebels on the 12th, and found it securely posted on the heights of Marsh run. The position was reconnoitred, and preparations made for an attack on the 13th. The depth of the river, swollen by the recent rains, authorized the expecta- tion that the enemy would be brought to a general engagement the follow- ing day. An advance was accordingly made by General Meade on the morning of the 14th ; but it was soon found that the Rebels had escaped in the night, with such haste that Ewbll's corps forded the river where the water was breast-high. The cavalry, which had rendered the most impor- tant services during the three days, and in harassing the enemy's retreat, was now sent in pursuit, and captured two guns and a large number of SOLDIERS' NATIONAL CEMETERY. 197 prisoners. In an action wbich took place at Falling Waters, Gen. Pettigrew was mortally wounded. General Meade, in further jiursuit of the Rebels, crossed the Potomac at Berlin. Thus again covering the approaches to Washington, he compelled the enemy to pass the Blue Ridge at one of the npper gaps ; and in about sis weeks from the commencement of the cam- paign, General Lee found himself again on the south side of the RappahanJ^^ nock, with the probable loss of about a third part of his army. Such, most inadequately recounted, is the history of the ever-memorable three days, and of the events immediately preceding and following. It has been pretended, in order to diminish the magnitude of this disaster to the Rebel cause, that it was merely the repulse of an attack on a strongly de- fended position. The tremendous losses on both sides are a sulficient an- swer to this misrepresentation, and attest the courage and obstinacy with which the three days' battle was waged. Few of the great conflicts of modern times have cost victors and vanquished so great a sacrifice. On the Union side there fell, in the whole campaign, of generals killed, Reynolds, Weed and Zook, and wounded, Barlow, Barnes, Butterfield, Doubleday, Gibbon, Graham, Hancock, Sickles and Warren ; while of ofiicers below the rank of General, and men, there were 2,834 killed, 13,709 wounded, and 6,643 missing. On the Confederate side, there were killed on the field or mortally wounded, Generals Armistead, Barksdale, Garnett, Pender, Pettigrew and Semmes, and wounded, Hetk, Hood, Johnson, Kemper, Kim- ball and Trimble. Of officers below the rank of general, and men, there were taken prisoners, including the wounded, 13,621, an amount ascertained officially. Of the wounded in a condition to be removed, of the killed and the missing, the enemy has made no return. They are estimated, from the best data which the nature of the case admits, at 23,000. General Meade also captured 3 cannon, and 41 standards ; and 24,978 small arms were col- lected on the battle-field. I must leave to others, who can do it from personal observation, to de- scribe the mournful spectacle presented by these hill- sides and plains at the close of the terrible conflict. It was a sayingof the Duke of Wellington, that next to a defeat, the saddest thing was a victory. The horrors of the battle field, after the contest is over, the sights and sounds of woe, — let me throw a pall over the scene, which no words can adequately depict to those who have not witnessed it, on which no one who has witnessed it, and who has a heart in his bosom, can bear to dwell. One drop of balm alone, one drop of heavenly, life-giving balm, mingles in this bitter cup of misery. Scarcely has the cannon ceased to roar, when the brethren and sisters of Christian benevolence, ministers of compassion, angles of pity, hasten to the field and the hospital, to moisten the parched tongue, to bind the ghast- ly wounds, to soothe the parting agonies alike of friend and foe, and to im SOLDIERS' NATIONAL CEMETERY. catch the last whispered messages of love from dying lips. " Carry this miniature back to my dear wife, but do not take it from my bosom till I am gone." " Tell my little sister not to grieve for me ; I am willing to die for my country." "Oh, that my mother were herel" When, since AAaoN stood between the living and the dead, was there ever so gracious a ministry as this r It has been said that it is characteristic of Americans to treat women with a deference not paid to them in any other country. I will not undertake to say whether this is so ; but I will say, that, since this terrible war has been waged, the women of the loyal States, if never before, have entitled themselves to our highest admiration and gratitude, — alike those who at home, often with fingers unused to the toil, often bowed beneath their own domestic cares, have performed an amount of daily labor not ex- ceeded by those who work for their daily bread, and those who, in the hos- pital and the tents of the Sanitary ami Christian Commissions, have rendered services which millions could not buy. Happily, the labor and the service are their own reward. Thousands of matrons and thousands of maidens have experienced a delight in these homely toils' and services, compared with which the pleasures of the ball room and the opera house are tame and unsatisfactory. This, on earth, is reward enough, but a richer is in atore for them. Yes, brothers, sisters of charity, while you bind up the wounds of the poor sufferers — the humblest, perhaps, that have shed their hlood for the country — forget not Who it is that will hereafter say to you, •' Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my BREinREN, ye have done it unto me." And now, friends, fellow citizens, as we stand among these honored graves, the momentous question presents itself : Which of the two parties to the war is responsible for all this suffering, for this dreadful sacrifice of life, the lawful and constitutional government of the United States, or the ambitious men who have rebelled against it ? I say "rebelled" against it, although Earl Russell, the British Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Jnhis recent temperate and conciliatory speech in Scotland, seems to inti- mate that no prejudice ought to attach to that word, inasmuch as our Eng- lish forefathers rebelled against Charles I. and James II., and our Amerl- can fathers rebelled against George III. These, certainly, are venerable pre- cedents, but they prove only that it is just and proper to rebel against oppres- aive governments. They do not prove that it was just and proper for the son of James II. to rebel against GEORaE I., or his grandson Charles Edward to rebel against George II.; nor, as at seems to me, ought these dynastic strug- gles, little better than family quarrels, to be compared with this monstrous conspiracy against the American Union. These precedents do not prove that it was just and proper for the "disappointed great men" of the cotton- growing States to rebel against "the most beneficent government of which I SOLDIERS' NATIONAL CEMETERY. 199 history gives us any account," as the Yice President of the Confederacy, tn November, !S60, charged them with doing. They do not create a pre- sumption even in favor of the disloyal slaveholders of the South, who, living undera government of which Mr. Jefferson Davis, in the session of 1860-61, Sftid that it "was the best government ever instituted by man, unexcep- tionably administered, and under which the people have been prosperous beyond comparison with any other people whose career has been recorded in history," rebelled against it because their aspiring politicians, himself affnong the rest, were in danger of losing their monopoly of its offices. — What would have been thought by an impartial posterity of the American rebellion against George III., if the colonists had at all times been more than equally represented in parliament, and James Otis, and Patrick HENay, and Washington, and Franklin, and the Adamses, and Hancc»^But to hide the deformity of the crime under the cloak of that sophistry which strives to make the worse appear the better reason, we are told by SOLDIERS' NATIONAL CEMETERY. 201 the leaders of the Rebellion that in our complex system of government the seperate States are " sovereigns," and that the central power is only an " agency" established by these sovereigns to manage certain little afifairs — such, forsooth, as Peace, War, Army, Navy, Finance, Territory, and Rela- tions with the native tribes — which they could not so conveniently admin- ister themselves. It happens, unfortunately for this theory, that the Fed- eral Constitution (which has been adopted by the people of every State of the Union as much as their own State constitutions have been adopted, and is declared to be paramount to them) nowhere recognizes the States as '* sovereigns" — in fact, that, by their names, it does not recognize them at all ; while the authority established by that instrument is recognized, in its text, not as an " agency," but as " the Government of the United States." By that Constitution, moreover, which purports in its preamble to be or- dained and established by " the People of the United States," it is expressly provided, that " the members of the State legislatures, and all executive and judicial officers, shall be bound by oath or affirmation to support the Constitution." Now it is a common thing, under all governments, for an agent to be bound by oath to be faithful to his sovereign ; but I never heard before of sovereigns being bound by oath to be faithful to their agency. Certainly I do not deny that the separate States are clothed with sove- reign powers for the administration of local affairs. It is one of the most beautiful features of our mixed system of government ; but it is equally true, that, in adopting the Federal Constitution, the States abdicated, by express renunciation, all the most important functions of national sovereign- ty, and, by one comprehensive, self-denying clause, gave up all right to contravene the Constitution of the United States. Specifically, and by enu- meration, they renounced all the most important prerogatives of independ- ent States for peace and for war, — the right to keep troops or ships of war in time of peace, or to engage in war unless actually invaded ; to enter inw) compact with another State or a foreign power ; to lay any duty on ton- nage, or any impost on exports or imports, without the consent of Congress ; to enter into any treaty, alliance, or confederation; to grant letters of marque and reprisal, and to emit bills of credit — while all these powers and many others are exprersly vested in the General Government. To ascribe to political communities, thus limited in their jurisdiction — who cannot even establish a post office on their own soil — the character of independent sove- reignty, and to reduce a national organization, clothed with all the trans- cendent powers of government, to the name and condition of an " agency" of the States, proves nothing but that the logic of secession is on a par with its loyalty and patriotism. Oh, but " the reserved rights ! " And what of the reserved rights ? The tenth amendment of the Constitution, supposed to provide for " reserved 202 SOLDIERS' NATIONAL CEMETERY. rights," is constantly misquoted. By that amendmeat, "the powers oot delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people." The ** powers " reserved must of course be such as could have been, but were not delegated to the United States, — could have been, but were not prohib- ited to the States ; but to speak of the right of an individual State to secede, as a power that could have been, though it was not delegated to the United Slates, is simple nonsense. But waiving this obvious absurdity, can it need a serious argument to prove that there can be no State right to enter into a new confederation re- served under a constitution which expressly prohibits a State to " enter into any treaty, alliance, or confederation," or any "agreement or compact with another State or a foreign power?" To say that the State may, by enacting the preliminary farce of secession, acquire the right to do the pro- hibited things — to say, for instance, that though the States, in forming the Constitution, delegated to the United States and prohibited to themselves the power of declaring war, there was by implication reserved to each State the right of seceding and then declaring war ; that, though they expressly prohibited to the States and delegated to the United States the entire treatp- making power, they reserved by implication (for au'express reservation is not pretended) to the individual States, to Florida, for instance, the rigirt to secede, and then to make a treaty with Spain retroceding that Spanish colony, and thus surrendering to a foreign power the key to the Gulf of Mexico, — to maintain propositions like these, with whatever affected seri- otisness it is done, appears to me egregious trifling. Pardon me, my friends, for dwelling on these wretched sophistries. Bu;fe it is these which conducted the armed hosts of rebellion to your doors on the terrible and glorious days of July, and which have brought upon the whole land the scourge of an aggressive and wicked war — a war which can have no other termination compatible with the permanent safety and wel- fare of the country but the complete destruction of the military power of the enemy. I have, on other occasions, attempted to show that to yield to his demands and acknowledge his independence, thus resolving the Union at once into two hostile governments, with a certainty of further disintegra- tion, would annihilate the strength and the influence of the country as a member of the family of nations ; afford to foreign powers the opportunity aiid the temptation for humiliating and disastrous interference in our affairs ; wrest from the Middle and Western States some of their great natural out- lets to the sea and of their most important lines of internal communication ; deprive the commerce and navigation of the country of two-thirds of our sea coast and of the fortresses which protect it ; not only so, but would eat- able each individual State — some of them with a white population equal to SOLDIERS' NATIONAL CEMETERY. 203 a good sized Northern county — or rather the dominant party in each State, to cede its territory, its harbors, its fortresses, the mouths of its rivers, to any foreign power. It cannot be that the people of the loyal States — that twenty-two millions of brave and prosperous freemen — will, for the temp- tation of a brief truce in an eternal border war, consent to this hideous na- tional suicide. X Do not think that I exaggerate the consequences of yielding to the de- mands of the leaders of the rebellion. I understate them. They require cef us not only all the sacrifices I have named, not only the cession to them, a foreign and hostile power, of all the territory of the United States at present occupied by the Rebel forces, but the abandonment to them of the vast regions we have rescued from their grasp — of Maryland, of a part of Eastern Virginia and the whole of Western Virginia ; the sea coast of North and South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida; Kentucky, Tennessee, and Mis- 8CHiri ; Arkansas, and the larger portion of Mississippi, Louisiana, and Texas — in most of which, with the exception of lawless guerillas, there is not a Rebel in arms, in all of which the great majority of the people are loyal to the Union. "We must give back, too, the helpless colored population, thou- sands of whom are perilling their lives in the ranks of our armies, to a bon- dage rendered tenfold more biiter by the momentary enjoyment of freedom. Finally, we must surrender every man in the Southern country, white or black, who has moved a finger or spoken a word for the restoration of the Union, to a reign of terror as remorseless as that of Robespierre, which has been the chief instrument by which the Rebellion has been organized and sastained, and which has already filled the prisons of the South with noble men, whose only crime is that they are not the worst of criminals. > Th« South is full of such men. I do not believe there has been a day since the election of President Lincoln, when, if an ordinance of secession could have l:>een fairly submitted, after a free discussion, to the mass of the people in any single Southern State, a majority of ballots would have been given in Us favor. No, not in South Carolina. It is not possible that the majority of the people, even of that State, if permitted, without fear or favor, to give a ballot on the question, would have abandoned a leader like Pktigru, and all the memories of the Gadsdens, the Rutledges, and the Coteswoeth PiSCKNEYs of the revolutionary and constitutional age, to follow the agita- tors of the present day. Nor must we be deterred from the vigorous prosecution of the war by the suggestion, continually thrown out by the Rebels and those who sympathize with them, that, however it might have been at an earlier stage, there has been engendered by the operations of the war a state of exasperation and bitterness which, independent of all reference to the original nature of the matters in controversy, will forever prevent the restoration of the Union, S04. SOLDIERS' NATIONAL CEMETERY. and the return of harmony between the two great sections of the country. This opinion I take to be entirely without foundation. No man can deplore more than I do the miseries of every kind unavoida- bly incident to war. Who could stand on this spot and call to mind the scenes of the first days of July with any other feeling ? A sad foreboding of what would ensue, if war should break out between North and South, has haunted me through life, and led me, perhaps too long, to tread in the path dering ploughmen will turn up, with the rude weapons of savage warfare, the fearful missiles of modern artillery; Seminary Ridge, the Peach Orchard, Cemetery, Gulp, and Wolf Hill, Round Top, Little Round Top, humble names, henceforwarded dear and famous — no lapse of time, no distance of space, shall cause you to be forgotten. "The whole earth," said Peeioles, as he stood over the remains of his fellow citizens, who had fallen in the first year of the Peloponnesian war, "the whole earth is the sepulchre of illustrious men." All time, he might have added, is the mil- lennium of their glory. Surely I would do no injustice to the other noble achievements of the war, which have reflected such honor on both arms of the service, and have entitled the armies and the navy of the United States, their ofl&cers and men, to the warmest thanks and the richest rewards which a grateful people can pay. But they, I am sure, will join us in saying, as we bid farewell to the dust of these martyr-heroes, that wheresoever throughout the civilized world the accounts of this great warfare are read, and down to the latest period of recorded time, in the glorious annals of our common country, there will be no brighter page than that which relates The Battles of Gettysburg. U 210 SOLDIERS' NATIONAL CEMETERY HYMN COMPOSED BY B. B. FRENCH, ESQ., AT GETTYSBURG, 'Tis holy ground — This spot, where, in their graves, We place our country's braves. Who fell in Freedom's holy cause. Fighting for liberties and laws ; Let tears abound. Here let them rest ; And summer's heat and winter's cold Shall glow and freeze above this mould — A thousand years shall pass away — A nation still shall mourn this clay, Which now is blest. Here, where they fell. Oft shall the widow's tear be shed. Oft shall fond parents mourn their dead j The orphan here shall kneel and weep, And maidens, where their lovers sleep, Their woes shall tell. Great God in Heaven 1 Shall all this sacred blood be shed ? Shall we thus mourn our glorious dead ? • Oh, shall the end be wrath and woe, The knell of Freedom's overthrow, A country riven ? It will not be I We trust, God ! thy gracious power To aid us in our darkest hour. This be our prayer — " Father I save A people's freedom from its grave. All praise to Thee!" SOLDIERS' NATIONAL CEMETERY. 211 DEDICATORY ADDRESS OB- PRESIDENT LINCOLN. Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth upon this conti- nent a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. Novs^ 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 battle-field 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 can- not 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 that 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. 212 SOLDIERS' NATIONAL CEMETERY. BENEDICTION BY REV. H. L. BAUGHER, D. D., PRESIDENT OP PENNSYLVANIA COLLEGE, GETTYSBURG. O Thou King of kings and Lord of lords, God of the nations of the earth, who, by Thy kind providence hast permitted us to engage in these solemn services, grant us thy blessing. Bless this consecrated ground, and these holy graves. Bless the Presi- dent of these United States, and his Cabinet. Bless the Governors and the Representatives of the States here assembled with all needed grace to conduct the affairs committed into their hands, to the glory of thy name, and the greatest good of the people. May this great nation be delivered from treason and rebellion at home, and from the power of enemies abroad. And now may the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, the love of God our Heavenly Father, and the fellow- ship of the Holy Ghost, be with you all. Amen. I o y •'^c- .0^^^ ^0^ -0' o 0^ > ^A ^ -oo^- oN' ^/V. .nV^' '^f.: ,^^ ■''^. ..> •% .5 -n^. v^'^ '^^ '%