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Civil War American National Cemeteries
They will be forgotten, while shaft and speech and song shall tell of battle and heroism to ages yet unborn. The decisive contest—the turning strife of the war, from which victory, leaping from field to field, eventuated in peace, National liberty, and reunion—this, this alone, will be the enduring, emblazoning chaplet which time shall weave for the gallant heroes who sleep beneath the shadow of the Nation's mausoleum at Gettysburg. "
In 1867 the Legislature appropriated 3, 344. 88 as the proportion of the State for the purchase, preparation, and care of the Antietam National Cemetery at Sharpsburg, Md., where rest 37 of Michigan's heroic dead. The Hon. John J. Bagley was appointed by the Governor as trustee to represent the State in the corporation formed for the management of the matter.
National Cemeteries of the Civil War
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