![]() ![]() As you walk you will notice a black iron fence to your right, beyond which is Gettysburg’s public Evergreen Cemetery. Proceed to Stop 4 by walking into the cemetery along the paved avenue’s upper walkway. The upper walkway of the Gettysburg National Cemetery. Stop 2 is located by the cannons and monument to the 1st Massachusetts Battery, just beyond and to the left of the Lincoln Speech Memorial. Eisenhower-1955) have used it during Memorial Day services and other ceremonies. Hayes-1878, Theodore Roosevelt-1904, Calvin Coolidge-1928, Herbert Hoover-1930, Franklin D. ![]() Although Lincoln did not speak from this platform, world leaders and other dignitaries, including six United States presidents (Rutherford B. To your left is a brick speaker’s stand built in 1879, known as The Rostrum. Officially closed in 1972, family plots remain for dependents of veterans already interred. The Cemetery contains the remains of American soldiers and dependents from the Civil War through Vietnam. This memorial will be discussed in more detail at Stop 3.īehind the Lincoln Speech Memorial are some of the 3,307 post Civil-War burials in the National Cemetery. The monument to your right, the Lincoln Speech Memorial, honors that moment and the 16th president’s words. The Gettysburg National Cemetery is famous throughout the world today as the site of Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address, delivered at the cemetery’s dedication ceremony four and a half months after the battle. ![]()
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