Excerpt from An Oration: Delivered on the Battlefield of Gettysburg, (November 19, 1863, ) at the Consecration of the Cemetery, Prepared for the Interment of the Remains of Those Who Fell in the Battles of July 1st, 2d, and 3d, 1863 A general hospital was then being established, to which all the wounded soldiers in the town, and at the corps hospitals, were being removed. The sub-committee visited all the hospi tals, and endeavored as far as possible to ascertain the name and condition of every Massachusetts soldier there. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.