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This layout I wanted to keep simple. The top photo is the only one from our 2007 trip, the others are from 2006. For some reason in 2007 we didn't really get any of the area around the monuments. The way Gettysburg National Cemetery is set up is the the Soldier's National Monument is in the middle, then the graves of the Union soldiers surround it in a semi-circle. Each state that fought there has a section. The most heartbreaking aspect to me is all of the "unknowns." So many men died and were buried without their loved ones knowing where they were. Naming the individuals who died during the Civil War was extremely difficult. They didn't have dog tags or any real kind of way to identify soldiers other than by things found in their pockets and often time thieves would pick the pockets of the dead clean, leaving nothing to identify the body. Civilians often raced to the battlefields to look for loved ones to bring them home and to give them a name. So many died without names other than as Walt Whiman said "by the significant word Unknown." It wasn't until the Korean War that the US created a policy of identifying and bringing back every soldiers. It always makes me cry to see the number of "Unknown" graves. The bottom right photo is of a section of "unknown" graves, marked only by numbers. The poem on the left is parts of "Bivouac of the Dead" by Theodore O'Hara that is posted around the cemetery on plaques.
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