Preliminary Survey/Proposal for Conservation of the Sculptural Monuments of Gettysburg National Military Park
Weil PD and Grissom CA. 1978. Preliminary Survey/Proposal for Conservation of the Sculptural Monuments of Gettysburg National Military Park. Historic Structure Report. U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service
The Battle of Gettysburg was a turning point in the Civil War, the Union victory that ended General Robert E. Lee's second and most ambitious invasion of the North. Often referred to as the "High Water Mark of the Rebellion", Gettysburg was the Civil War's bloodiest battle and was also the inspiration for President Abraham Lincoln's immortal "Gettysburg Address". The Gettysburg National Military Park protects and interprets the landscape of the 1863 Battle of Gettysburg. The report focuses on the conservation problems of the Gettysburg sculptural monuments in bronze and stone. Estimates for treatment costs have been divided into five groups, according to size, in the case of the bronze monuments, for which treatments will be similar for each monument. For the stone monuments, where the treatments will vary to a greater degree, individual estimates have been provided.
- Type
- Published Report
- Authors
- Weil, Phoebe; Grissom, Carol
- Date of Issue
- 1978-08
- Publisher
- U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service
- Units
- GETT , NER
- Keywords
- bronze, Civil War, Confederate, maintenance, marker, memorial, monument, stone, tablet, treatment, Union