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Identification:
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Preferred Structure Name:
| Bivouac of the Dead Markers
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Structure Number:
| CM08
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Other Structure Name(s):
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Other Structure Name(s)
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1.
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Bivouac of The Dead Poem Tablets
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Park:
| Gettysburg National Military Park
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Park District:
| GETC Gettysburg National Cemetery
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Historic District:
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Historic District
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| No records. |
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Structure State:
| Pennsylvania
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Structure County:
| Adams
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Region:
| Northeast
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Cluster:
| Chesapeake
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Administrative Unit:
| Gettysburg National Military Park
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LCS ID:
| 080532
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Historical Significance:
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National Register Status:
| Entered - Documented
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National Register Date:
| 01/23/2004
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National Historic Landmark?:
| No
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Significance Level:
| Contributing
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Short Significance Description:
| Series of 8 tablets tribulizing the valor of the dead soldiers interred in the National Cemetery.
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Construction Period:
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Construction Period:
| Historic
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Chronology:
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Physical Event
| Begin Year
| Begin Year AD/BC
| End Year
| End Year AD/BC
| Designer
| Designer Occupation
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1.
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Built
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1882
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AD
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2.
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Preserved
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1882
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AD
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1906
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AD
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War Department
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Other
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3.
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Restored
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1992
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AD
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NPS
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Other
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Function and Use:
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Primary Historic Function:
| Monument (Marker, Plaque)
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Primary Current Use:
| Monument (Marker, Plaque)
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Other Functions or Uses:
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Other Function(s) or Use(s)
| Historic or Current
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| No records. |
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Physical Description:
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Structure Type:
| Outdoor Sculpture
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Material(s):
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Structural Component(s)
| Material(s)
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1.
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Superstructure
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Iron
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Short Physical Description:
| Series of 8 tablets of original 17, placed around Cemetery Loop. Inscribed w/ stanzas from Theodore O'Hara's "Bivouac of the Dead", 7 stanzas remain, 1 repeated in tablet series. Approx. size 2'x4' mounted at a slant, 2'H.
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