Gettysburg Address Monument -- Leavenworth Natl. Cem., Leavenworth KS
N 39° 16.532 W 094° 53.165
15S E 337310 N 4349048
A granite monument with a bronze plaque of Lincoln's famous Gettysburg Address stands mear the Memorial Carillion at the Leavenworth KS National Cemetery.
Waymark Code: WMGRBF
Location: Kansas, United States
Date Posted: 04/04/2013
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This dignified monument to the honored dead of Gettysburg - which has now come to apply to all those who have died in wartime -- adds to the reverence, solemnity, and patriotic ambiance of this honorable place. (
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The plaque is made of bronze, affixed to a large tablet roughly carved from grey granite. It is very near the Memorial Carillon and the Obelisk at the Officer's Row area on the dominant hill in the cemetery.