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Park (NATIONAL MILITARY)

NATIONAL MILITARY.

In the United States the name is given Department, and containing memorials the Civil War, cared for by the War in that war. is the Gettysburg National Military Park, established in 1895, with an area The most famous of them of 24,460 acres, comprising the field on which the battle of Gettysburg was of 24,460 acres, comprising the field on mauga Georgia and Tennessee, established in 1890, with 6,966 acres, comprising the and Chattanooga Park, in Missionary Ridge and Lookout Moun- 1890, with 6,966 acres, comprising the tain, and the battle grounds ments. Shiloh National Military Park nds of the tle was fought in 1862. Vicksburg National Military Park, in Mississippi, is contains the field of Shiloh, where a batcommemorative both of the Confederate by them in the spring of 1863. These sites were not established as national and Union forces, and the positions held property immediately after the war, but PARKER after the passage of a number of years had given them a reminiscent and hallowed character. An endeavor is made to preserve them in the condition they were in when the events commemorated occurred.