Lincoln Comes to Gettysburg: The Creation of the Soldiers’ National Cemetery (Bradley M. Gottfried, Linda L. Gottfried - AG) lincoln improvising brilliantly

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Lincoln Comes to Gettysburg: The Creation of the Soldiers’ National Cemetery (Bradley M. Gottfried, Linda L. Gottfried - AG) lincoln improvising brilliantlyLincoln Comes to Gettysburg: The Creation of the Soldiers National Cemetery and Lincolns Gettysburg Address (Emerging Civil War Series) by Bradley Gottfried Almost 8,000 dead dotted the fields of Gettysburg after the guns grew silent. The Confederate dead were hastily buried, but what of the Union dead? Several men hatched the idea of a new cemetery to bury and honor the Union soldiers just south of town. Their task was difficult to say the least.