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Civil War American National Cemeteries
The cemetery contains fifty acres, and has been divided by one main avenue running through the center and subdivided into blocks and sections in such a manner that with the aid of the record, which I am now having copied for the Superintendent, the visitors will experience no difficulty in finding any grave.
"Appropriate inscriptions are placed through the ground, and I have endeavored, as far as my facilities would permit, to transfer this wild, unmarked, and unhonored graveyard into a fit place of interment for the Nation's gallant dead. At the entrance gate, the words 'National Cemetery, Andersonville, Ga., ' designate this city of the dead.
"On the morning of the 17th of August, (1865), at sunrise, the Stars and Stripes were hoisted in the center of the cemetery, when a National salute was fired and several National songs sung by those present.
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