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Title: Pennsylvania at Gettysburg : ceremonies at the dedication of the monuments erected by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania to Major General George G. Meade, Major General Winfield S. Hancock, Major General John F. Reynolds and to mark the positions of the Pennsylvania commands engaged in the battle
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: Pennsylvania. Gettysburg Battle-field Commission Nicholson, John Page, 1842-1922 Beitler, Lewis Eugene, 1863-
Subjects: Gettysburg, Battle of, Gettysburg, Pa., 1863 Gettysburg Reunion, 1913
Publisher: (Harrisburg : W. S. Ray, state printer)
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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ish andmaintain at Gettysburg around the battlefield, a Great Camp,complete in all its provisions of camp and garrison equipment,with all quartermaster, commissary, hospital and other neces-sary supplies, ample for forty thousand honorably dischargedVeterans of the Civil War, which was the number of such gueststhis Commission, from the best data at hand at that date,.estimated would in July, 1913, be in attendance at the anniver-sary. After further conferences with the Congressional Com-mittee and the War Department officials, additions, elimina-tions and corrections fixed the total sum required at threehundred thousand dollars, (;300,000.00), and a bill was intro-duced in the Senate, May 29, 1912, by Honorable George.T.Oliver, Senator from Penn.sylvania, and Cliairman of the Com-mittee, as follows:— That, within the limits of the appropriation hereinafter made andthe sum furnished by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania for suchpurposes, the Secretary of War be authorized and directed:
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• Pennsylvania at Gettysburg. 13 First. To make all necessary and proper details of officers of theUnited States Army to make such surveys, measurements, and es-timates as may be necessary in providing a sufficient supply of goodvvater for public use upon the first, second, third, and fourth daysof July, nineteen hundred and thirteen, upon the battlefield of Get-tysburg, in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, upon the com-memoration of the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg,and to make all necessary provisions and perform all necessary actsin connection with bringing upon said battlefield upon said occasionsuch suflBcient supply of good water fit for drinking and other pur-poses connected with and incidental to such occasion. Second. To provide for all necessary sewerage, sanitation, andhospital service necessary for the health and accommodation of per-sons attending upon such occasion. Third. To provide and furnish all necessary camp and garrisonequipment for visiting v

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