Gettysburg and Lincoln: The Battle, the Cemetery, and the National Park (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Gettysburg and Lincoln: The Battle, the Cemetery, and the National Park

The principal sources of my information concern ing the battle are to be found in the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies. Other sources are sufficiently indicated in the foot-notes. In the preparation of the part of the work pertaining to the cemetery and President Lincoln's address, I am indebted to the late Hon. John Hay, Secretary of State, and especially to an article in the Century Magazine by Mr. John G. Nicolay, President Lincoln's private secretary. Much material for an account of the development of the National Park was found in Vanderslice's History of the Gettysburg Battle-field Memorial Association, and in the annual reports of the Gettysburg National Park Commission.

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