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A National Cemetery System. Civil War Dead . An estimated 700,000 Union and Confederate soldiers died in the Civil War between April 1861 and April 1865. As the death toll rose, the U.S. government struggled with the urgent but unplanned need to bury fallen…
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Philadelphia National Cemetery. . . Civil War Philadelphia . At the time of the Civil War, Philadelphia was the second-largest American city. Its factories supported the Union war effort by producing everything from blankets to gunboats. In less than three…
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U.S.C.T. Burials in the National Cemetery. . . U.S. Colored Troops . Beginning in March 1863, the federal government began actively recruiting black men for the Union Army. A few months later, the War Department created the Bureau of United States Colored …
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Confederate Burials in the National Cemetery. . . The Confederate Section . All of the Confederate prisoners of war buried here died in a Civil War military hospital in or near Philadelphia. All were originally interred near the hospital where they died. I…
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Confederate Soldiers and Sailors Monument. . Erected by the United States to mark the burial place of 184 Confederate Soldiers and Sailors,. As shown by the records, who, while prisoners of war, died either at Chester, Pa., and were there buried, or at Ph…
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Mexican-American War Monument. . (north side)To the soldiers of the Mexican War. (east side)Vera Cruz, Cerro Gordo, Huamantla, Puebla, Atlixco, Valley of Mexico.. var plainText = document.getElementById('inscription1').innerText; …
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Address by President Abraham Lincoln. November 19, 1863. Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. . . Now we are engage…
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Address by President Lincoln. At the Dedication of The Gettysburg National Cemetery. Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created eq…
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Address by President Lincoln. At the Dedication of The Gettysburg National Cemetery. Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created eq…
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