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Consecration of the National Cemetery at Gettysburg, Gettysburg, Adams County,Pennsylvania, 11/19/1863

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    Update 6/18/2019 (CLM): Find A Grave # 120524945 Joseph was born in Philadelphia in August 1842 (references to him being from "Harrisburg" are in error, that was the contact address for Associated Pres...
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    Charles Hale (1831 - 1882)
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  • Benjamin Brown French (1800 - 1870)
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  • Edward Everett, Governor, U.S. Senator and Secretary of State (1794 - 1865)
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Consecration of the National Cemetery at Gettysburg, Gettysburg, Adams County,Pennsylvania, 11/19/1863: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consecration_of_the_National_Cemetery...

Gettysburg National Cemetery: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gettysburg_National_Cemetery

16th President of The United States of America Abraham Lincoln: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham_Lincoln

Governor of Pennsylvania Andrew Gregg Curtin: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Gregg_Curtin

Governor of Maryland Augustus Bradford: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augustus_Bradford

Governor of Indiana Oliver P. Morton: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oliver_P._Morton

Governor of New York Horatio Seymour: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horatio_Seymour

Governor of New Jersey Joel Parker: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joel_Parker

Governor of Ohio David Tod: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Tod

Edward Everett: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Everett

Reverend T.H. Stockton, D.D.: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_H._Stockton

Reverend Henry Louis Baugher: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Louis_Baugher

John L. Burns: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_L._Burns

William McDougall: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_McDougall_(politician)

Birgfield's Band: Note: I (CLM) have very little on this band but have found the following items. https://books.google.com/books?id=0I4qCgAAQBAJ&pg=PA43&lpg=PA43&dq=birgfield%27s+band+schedule&source=bl&ots=3DMCo4JEbJ&sig=ACfU3U1JCACvTcHHeD_QCG8_zU1ekY50ug&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjjlPGDn6rhAhVkh-AKHRULBKUQ6AEwA3oECAQQAQ#v=onepage&q=birgfield's%20band%20schedule&f=false
https://books.google.com/books?id=8VKaCgAAQBAJ&pg=PA99&lpg=PA99&dq=birgfield%27s+band+schedule&source=bl&ots=Yhc0m4_IW8&sig=ACfU3U2C-kbFCUCj8_Um6HmYTM5KYNexqA&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjjlPGDn6rhAhVkh-AKHRULBKUQ6AEwAHoECAgQAQ#v=onepage&q=birgfield's%20band%20schedule&f=false

United States Marine Band: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Marine_Band

Benjamin Brown French: http://www.mrlincolnswhitehouse.org/residents-visitors/employees-an...

Press:

Associated Press: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Associated_Press https://www.ap.org/assets/images/about/corporate-archives/brochures...

The Philadelphia Press: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Philadelphia_Press

The New York Times: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_New_York_Times

New-York Tribune: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New-York_Tribune

Cincinnati Commercial: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cincinnati_Commercial_Tribune

Joseph Gilbert: A Reporter for AP. https://www.ap.org/assets/images/about/corporate-archives/brochures... https://www.historynet.com/dateline-gettysburg.htm

Charles Hale: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Hale

John Russell Young: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Russell_Young

    Media and Books

Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words that Remade America By Garry Wills: https://books.google.com/books?id=7-aynIQRkYcC&printsec=frontcover&...
The Gettysburg Address: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BvA0J_2ZpIQ https://www.pbs.org/video/the-civil-war-the-civil-war-the-gettysbur...

LONG REMEMBERED The Associated Press with Lincoln at the First Inaugural and Gettysburg https://www.ap.org/assets/images/about/corporate-archives/brochures...