Cemeteries in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania

Private Cemeteries in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania often have specific restrictions, such as religious affiliation or family connections. Military Cemeteries in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania are primarily for veterans and individuals who have served in the armed forces, and in some cases, their family members. Public Cemeteries in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania are open to the general public without any particular restrictions.

We offer detailed information for cemeteries in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania , including the names of deceased individuals, their birth and death dates, data about relatives, and cemetery locations. Additionally, you can obtain historical records and conduct searches for ancestors interred in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania .

Our database contains records of burials from 24 cemeteries.

The Gettysburg National Cemetery is the final resting place for over 3,500 United States soldiers who lost their lives at the Battle of Gettysburg, as well as 3,307 post Civil-War United States soldiers and veterans.

The Confederate fallen at Gettysburg were later relocated to Southern cemeteries in Virginia, Georgia, and South Carolina. As Saunders and his crew continued reinterment, David Wills began organizing a ceremony to dedicate the new Soldiers' National Cemetery.

The cemetery contains 3,512 interments from the Civil War, including the graves of 979 unknowns. It also has sections for veterans of the Spanish–American War (1898), World War I (1917–1918), and other wars, along with graves of the veterans' spouses and children. The total number of interments exceeds 6,000.

"One hundred years ago it was commonplace to find bullets in Gettysburg trees but this is a rarity today," said Bob Kirby, superintendent of Gettysburg National Military Park.

In the case of the more decomposed bodies, the crews took only the larger bones; the smaller ones were left to fertilize the hallowed ground. Still, over the years, additional remains have been found and reburied at the cemetery, most recently in 1996 when Confederate remains were discovered on Seminary Ridge.

There is no fee for entrance to the park, National Cemetery, or park buildings.

In 1996 human remains were found at Gettysburg National Military Park after erosion exposed them near a railroad embankment. Scientists from Smithsonian Institution National Museum of Natural History studied those remains as well and determined that they were from the battle of Gettysburg.

Weaver, a Philadelphia physician, began the formal removal of Gettysburg's Confederate dead. He exhumed from the battlefield and shipped south, mainly to Richmond, the bodies of thousands of rebels — so many that Richmond's Hollywood Cemetery has a Gettysburg Hill.

The cleanup of the aftermath was almost as horrific as the battle itself. Most experts estimate there were well over three thousand total bodies left on the ground when both the Union and Confederate armies continued to the next fight. Neither side had the manpower to bury more than a few score of their men.

Why does President Lincoln use all three words? To emphasize his point and wanted to get the point across. Why can't "we" consecrate the cemetery? He has a lot of respect for the people have died and he believes the soldiers already consecrated the battlefield because they died there.