Lincoln Comes to Gettysburg: The Creation of the Soldiers’ National Cemetery (Bradley M. Gottfried, Linda L. Gottfried - AG) Section - Gettysburg Monuments Why did men vie for

Why did men vie for the honor of carrying these banners when death or serious injury was almost always the inevitable result

some immortal and some unknown

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Across the Confederacy

Cited in four Supreme Court decisions arising from the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq

Lincoln Comes to Gettysburg: The Creation of the Soldiers’ National Cemetery (Bradley M. Gottfried, Linda L. Gottfried - AG) Section - Gettysburg Monuments Why did men vie forLincoln Comes to Gettysburg: The Creation of the Soldiers National Cemetery and Lincolns Gettysburg Address (Emerging Civil War Series) by Bradley Gottfried Almost 8,000 dead dotted the fields of Gettysburg after the guns grew silent. The Confederate dead were hastily buried, but what of the Union dead? Several men hatched the idea of a new cemetery to bury and honor the Union soldiers just south of town. Their task was difficult to say the least.