REVISED REPORT MADE TO THE LEGISLATURE OF PENNSYLVANIA RELATIVE TO THE SOLDIERS'NATIONAL CEMETERY AT GETTYSBURG, EMBRACING AN ACCOUNT OF THE ORIGIN OF THE UNDERTAKING; ADDRESS OF HON. EDWARD EVERETT, AT IT CONSECRATION, WITH THE DEDICATORY SPEACH OF PRESIDENT LINCOLN, AND THE OTHER EXERCISES OF THAT EVENT; TOGETHER WITH THE ADDRESS OF MAJOR GENERAL O.O. HOWARD, DELIVERED JULY 4, 1866 UPON THE DEDICATION OF THE SOLDIERS' NATIONAL MONUMENT, AND THE OTHER PROCEEDINGS UPON THAT OCCASION.
Book Details + Condition: Singerly & Myers, State Printers (Harriburg, PA). First Edition, 1867. Hardcover with black pebbled and embossed boards. 282 pages; illustrated with maps. A comprehensive report of the creation, erection, consecration and commencements of the Soldiers' National Cemetery at Gettysburg, PA. The report includes several dedications, ceremony commencement, and other speeches. It also includes a list of the soldiers interred, as well as agreed rules, regulations and list of board members.
Firm binding; rubbed corners and edges; wear to boards; covering of top corner of spine has chipped off; damp stain to pp 275-282 (last few pages of book); light foxing to endpapers, with an old pencilled note to ffep; interior is otherwise clean and free of markings. All books are carefully packed, and shipped in boxes.
