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Battery G, Fourth U.S. Artillery. The
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(7-01) Evergreen Cemetery from Culp's Hill
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Statue of Elizabeth Thorn, who was the 31 year old daughter of the
cemetery's groundkeeper, Peter Thorne. Six months pregnant at the time
of the battle, Elizabeth led General Howard of the 11th Corps on the
first day on a survey of the surrounding countryside where she showed
him roads and ridges which would be of strategic importance in the days
to come. Leaving during the rest of the battle, Elizabeth and her father
returned and helped in digging over 100 graves for Union dead after the
battle |
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Gettysburg's most famous citizen-soldier, John Burns, who although in
his 70s and armed with a flintlock musket offered his services on the
first day with the 150th Pennsylvania Regiment positioned west of town.
Burn's grave is only one of two in the cemetery marked with a flag on a
flagpole. The other is Jenny Wade's, the twenty year old who was the
only civilian killed in the battle |
