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Published: July 21st 2010
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Abe and Me
The National Park's information center is wonderful. This bronze sits on the bench in front Several years ago a Houston doctor came to make a presentation to the Bellville Historical Society on “Medicine during the Civil War.” The official number of the men who died during that conflict is 620+ thousand, but the doctor figured the number was closer to 700,000 when the men who left the battlefield and headed home with injuries that resulted in septicemia and death were taken into account. No penicillin in those days of course.
A person cannot possibly visit Gettysburg and not feel the history. In the three day battle here fifty-one thousand men were either killed, injured or were missing. The wounded and dying were crowded into nearly every building in Gettysburg and the dead lay in shallow inadequate graves; some had not been buried at all. Land was purchased for a proper burial for the Union dead and within four months re-interment began. The cemetery was dedicated on November 1863 with the principal speaker being Edward Everett who was followed by Abraham Lincoln who delivered a speech of 272 words; which is now known as the “Gettysburg Address.” Following the war the remains of 3320 Confederate soldiers were removed from the battlefield to cemeteries in the South.
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