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A committee of agents from each state who had lost men in battle worked out the logistics

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current ideas regarding the origins

and whether a feint by his men late in the day caused the Confederate infantry to form “squares” (a Napoleonic defensive tactic)

describes what happened next

Lincoln Comes to Gettysburg: The Creation of the Soldiers’ National Cemetery (Bradley M. Gottfried, Linda L. Gottfried - AG) ramsland A committee of agents fromLincoln Comes to Gettysburg: The Creation of the Soldiers National Cemetery and Lincolns Gettysburg Address (Emerging Civil War Series) by Bradley Gottfried Almost 8,000 dead dotted the fields of Gettysburg after the guns grew silent. The Confederate dead were hastily buried, but what of the Union dead? Several men hatched the idea of a new cemetery to bury and honor the Union soldiers just south of town. Their task was difficult to say the least.