Gettysburg National Cemetery is located on Cemetery Hill in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. Shortly after the Battle of Gettysburg, with the support of Pennsylvania Governor Andrew Curtin, the site was purchased and Union dead were moved from shallow and inadequate burrial sites on the battlefield to the cemetery. Confederate soldiers remained burried on the battlefield until they were moved to cemeteries in the south in the 1870s.
The cemetery was dedicated on November 19, 1863. The main speaker at the ceremony was Edward Everett but it was here that Abraham Lincoln delivered his most famous speach, the Gettysburg Address. The landscape architect William Saunders, founder of the National Grange, designed the cemetery.
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