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Gettysburg Graveyard - Pennsylvania

Pencil drawing of Gettysburg Cemetary headstones


Details:

Pencil drawing from a sketchook kept on location during Sons of the Utah Pioneers tour in July 2005. Drawing size is 5 1/2 inches by 8 inches, sketched with a 6B pencil in a hardbound sketchbook made by Watson-Guptill.
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Story:

It is sad to walk among the thousands of headstones in the Gettysburg Cemetary and realize that more lives were lost in the Civil War than in all the other wars combined. Countless bodies are buried with headstones marked "unknown." There were 51,000 casualties in this battle alone.



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