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Title: Routes and rates for summer towns
Year: 1895 (1890s)
Authors: Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company
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Publisher: Baltimore
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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water, and are con-sidered renudial in gout, rheumatism, dyspepsia, and affec-tions of the kidneys. The Springs Hotel accommodatesthe patients who resort here during the summer for treat-uKnt. The chief interest of Gettysburg is historic, and this itis that attracts tourists from all parts of the world. Agreat battle, perhaps the most important of tlie civil war,was fought here on the 1st, 2d and 3d of July, 1863, be-tween the Xational forces under General Meade and theConfederate army under General Lee. The )>rincipal ob-jects of interest are Cemetery Hill, so named from havinglong been the site of the village cemetery, forms the centraland most striking feature at Gettysburg. Here were theUnion head(puirters, and standing on its crest the visitorhas the key to the position of the Union forces duringthose eventful three days of July. Flanking CemeteryHill on the west, about a mile distant, is Seminary Eidge,on which were General Lees headqnaiters and the bulk of K \ F.: :d and HE
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Union Troops (blue.) Confederate Troops (red.) ~~ UM owned by Generjl S. Wylie Crawford. ■ Land owned by BaltlefieM Memorial Asmcialion. GETTYSBURG and VICINITY, Land proposed to be purchased by DallleficldMemorial AssociatioD. ^BflQ Additional Lands will be purchased as meuis arefrom time to time appropriated l>y other States. oil WlJlUll WCic \jr^j!icxt*l JUCCo lit ?rV3 Wiitt vii\j iL^Liiji v>i ROUTES AND RATES FOR SUMMER TOURS. 127 the Confederate forces. Other spots nsually visited areBenners Hill, Gulps Hill, Round Top, and Little RonndTop; also Willougliby Run, where Bnfords cavalry heldA. P. Hills column in check during two critical hours.The National Cemetery, containing the remains of theUnion soldiers who fell in the battle of Gettysburg, oocu-pies about seventeen acres on Cemetery Hill adjacent to thevillage cemetery, and was dedicated with imposing cere-monies, and an impressive address l)y President Lincoln,November PJth, 18(53. A Soldiers Monument, dedicatedJuly

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