Soldier's National Cemetery
To properly bury the Union soldiers who died at Gettysburg, a "Soldier's Cemetery" was established on the battleground near the center of the Union line. Pennsylvania Governor Andrew Curtin supported the proposal with state funds to purchase the ground on Cemetery Hill and paid for the reinterment of the Union dead from inadequate gravesites that covered the battlefield. Today, the Soldier's National Cemetery is the final resting place for American Veterans from all of this country's major wars and conflicts, however it is closed to new burials.
Thank you Irma for the cemetery card.
