{"id":10,"date":"2016-05-05T17:42:49","date_gmt":"2016-05-05T17:42:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.harvard.edu\/bugscuffle\/?p=10"},"modified":"2016-05-05T17:49:36","modified_gmt":"2016-05-05T17:49:36","slug":"gettysburg-national-military-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/bugscuffle\/2016\/05\/05\/gettysburg-national-military-park\/","title":{"rendered":"Gettysburg National Military Park"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_13\" style=\"width: 220px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.harvard.edu\/bugscuffle\/files\/2016\/05\/GETT.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-13\" class=\"wp-image-13 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.harvard.edu\/bugscuffle\/files\/2016\/05\/GETT-210x300.jpg\" alt=\"Gettysburg National Military Park 1914\" width=\"210\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/bugscuffle\/files\/2016\/05\/GETT-210x300.jpg 210w, https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/bugscuffle\/files\/2016\/05\/GETT-768x1095.jpg 768w, https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/bugscuffle\/files\/2016\/05\/GETT-718x1024.jpg 718w, https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/bugscuffle\/files\/2016\/05\/GETT.jpg 841w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 210px) 100vw, 210px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-13\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gettysburg National Military Park 1914<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Map of the battlefield of Gettysburg from original surveys by the engineers of the Commission.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Gettysburg National Military Park Commission.<\/p>\n<p>1914<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Commemoration of the Gettysburg battlefield began almost as soon as the battle was over, with the first land purchases for conservation made within 6 months of the July 1863 battle.\u00a0 The Gettysburg Battlefield Me<\/p>\n<p>morial Association raised funds for more land acquisition and maintained the battlefield, until 1896 when it was transferred to the War Department.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The monuments at Gettysburg serve the dual purpose of commemorating the soldiers\u2019 contributions to the Union cause and of documenting the course of the battle for that future.\u00a0 With the latter goal in mind, it was important that the monuments by located accurately, so important that at least one placement ended up being litigated in the courts. When War Department took over, some 320 monuments were included in the transfer of property.\u00a0 The current count stands over 1300.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This map shows the monuments and markers that were in place in 1914, along with the positions of units at various points during the battle.\u00a0 It also includes topography and land cover, both of which were extremely important throughout the battle.\u00a0 Maps like this were used for many years to study the battle and help explain why events unfolded the way they did<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ids.lib.harvard.edu\/ids\/view\/53915060?buttons=y\">Hi-res view Gettysburg 1914<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Map of the battlefield of Gettysburg from original surveys by the engineers of the Commission. Gettysburg National Military Park Commission. 1914 &nbsp; Commemoration of the Gettysburg battlefield began almost as soon as the battle was over, with the first land purchases for conservation made within 6 months of the July 1863 battle.\u00a0 The Gettysburg Battlefield [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8013,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","post-preview"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/bugscuffle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/bugscuffle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/bugscuffle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/bugscuffle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8013"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/bugscuffle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/bugscuffle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/bugscuffle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10\/revisions\/15"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/bugscuffle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/bugscuffle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/bugscuffle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}