Presented by John Linton

Part 1 will deal with David Wills and the creation of the Gettysburg National Cemetery and Soldiers’ National Monument, David McConaughy and the creation of the Gettysburg Battlefield Memorial Association, the formation of the Grand Army of the Republic and its lobbying of state legislatures to fund their regimental monuments, and the bid process focusing on the Smith Granite company and their agent W.B. Amringe.

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