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The Gettysburg Dead

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Parent Issue
Day
25
Month
March
Year
1864
Copyright
Public Domain
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A Balthnore correspondent of the Washington Chroniclc, undor date of the 1-tth, saya : David Willis, Esq., of Gettysburg, tbs General of Pennsylvania for the Soldicra' National Cernetery, arrived here this moniing, on faia way tp WahingtoQ. He iuformcd me that all the bodi.is of our Uniou Boldiers had been disinterred, nnd carefully buried in theïr appropriate places in the National Cemetery. The total number Ihus removed and interred is three thousnnd fivo hmidred and twelvc. About one thousand of tliem are unknown, aud oue-fourth of the w'.iole number belong to Now York. Many of the Union soidiers have been reeognized, thejr names haring been diseprered hen remoring them, from lat(ers, photographs, medals, devices, elothing, and otlier things buied with them, ■di they w.ere hastily thrown into ditches aller íhe battle. Quite an amount of mouey was also found on them, both in coiü and paper, in sums langing from the fraction of a dollar up to liftv dollars. - Xhiity-six dollars in gold was fouud in the pautaloot.'s pocket of one corpse, iüd thiriv to forty doilara in garmeuts of others, besides many relies, mementoeg, &e. All this money aud these relies havo been taken care of by the committee, properly labeieü atm held in eull for thetu. A lino bunting-case gold wateh and üve or six gold walches were also found up&n bodies while diatotemng them. The Ceuiciery Association wíl] oo organized as soon as the Pennsylvania Legislatui-e passes nu act of incorporation for tbát purpose novv Ijefüre it. - Workiiifn are busily engaged im pro? ing the grouiuls, aud will continue so doing antil the eemetery is couipleted. Mr. Will-is furthortínfornis me that he reoeived on Saturday a letter from a committee of the First Aruiy Corps, stiiting that the members of sai'! corps had now raised a suffieient sum of money to ertct a si;itablü monument soniuwhere on the battle field vvhere that noble patriot and beioved conimandcr, General Keynoliís, feil, and asluug of Mr. Willis to desígnate tlie most eligible and ippropriate spot whereon to erect it The committee favors the idea of building this monument uppn the spot where Ge-. Reynolds feil. but, it being ralbar obscure and out of the way, Mr. Willis has. suggestcd an elevated position in the eemetery oijginally desigued for euch a purpose, and hü thinks it will be agreed upon. From evidence developed to the jyorkmen aud others engaged n; removing th.e dead bcdies on the battle-field, they are now fully convirxeed that not ess'thau .even thousand rebels lost their lives in this conflict, the bodies of whom ai e still there. In the spaee of threo acres was found three hundred and twenty-five Confederates slaiu ; and elsewhere, in a single trench, two l:undred and fifty more. A considerable portion of the battle grouud is likeiy to be ploughed up this spring aud summer by fanners owning lij preparatory to planting corn and other grain. As a matter of course the Confedérate graves must be obliterated, and the tronches whieh now indícate their burial places. There is a strong desire with the people, to have these bodies, though of thu enemy, respectfully and decently put away, in some inelosure where they may not be di.-turbed - where they eau sleep in quietude. - Many strangers from all parts of the country still continue to visit Gettysburg to behold the scènes and relies of the terrible conflict so 'riumphant in be half of our country, and of republicun liberty Thiríy-two veseels ave now ready for sea, but ate waiting for crews. Tl. e transfer oí sailors from the trmy wil], it is BUpposed, supply tbe demand. It is nád that Sumner i.s abotit to iutroduce a into tho Sennte to chance the name of thu TInited States to New África. The Suprema Court has appohited John W. Wallace, of Philadeiphia, reporter cf 'lie decisions, tice Judgo Black, reeigncd.

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