Cemeteries, Guides & Park

Question 1

Who sculpted the Lincoln bust in the National Cemetery, the Meade Equestrian monument and the Slocum Equestrian monuments?

Answer 1

H. Bush Brown

Question 2

Which Confederate state memorials are found on West Confederate Avenue?

Answer 2

Texas, Alabama, and Confederate Soldiers and Sailors

Question 3

Who is the current park superintendent?

Answer 3

Bob Kirby

Question 4

Who is the sculptor of the Soldiers National Monument located at the center of the National Cemetery?

Answer 4

Randolph Rogers

Question 5

Who was the landscape architect who designed the cemetery?

Answer 5

William Saunders

Question 6

State the name of the army camp on the battlefield that was established immediately before WWI.

Answer 6

Camp Colt

Question 7

Which state monuments are located in the National Cemetery?

Answer 7

New York State Memorial and the Kentucky State Memorial

Question 8

What is the name of the statue atop the National Soldiers Memorial?

Answer 8

The Genius of Liberty

Question 9

Who sculpted the ‘Friend to Friend’ Memorial?

Answer 9

Ron Tunison

Question 10

How many monuments and memorials are in the battlefield park?

Answer 10

Approximately 800

Question 11

Who designed and sculpted the Longstreet statue?

Answer 11

Gary Casteel

Question 12

What are the statues near the base of the National Soldiers Memorial?

Answer 12

Plenty, History, Peace, Agriculture

Question 13

Who sculpted the North Carolina state memorial?

Answer 13

Gutzon Borglan

Question 14

In what year did licensed guides first appear on the battlefield?

Answer 14

1914

Question 15

What was the first regimental monument placed on the battlefield?

Answer 15

First Minnesota, an urn on a pedestal in the National Cemetery

Question 16

What is the name of the poem on plaques surrounding the National Soldiers Memorial?

Answer 16

Bivouac of the Dead

Question 17

Who is the author of the poem on the plaques surrounding the National Soldiers Memorial?

Answer 17

Theodore O’Hara

Question 18

Until 1895, what organization managed the battlefield park?

Answer 18

Gettysburg Battlefield Memorial Association

Question 19

Who was the commander of the army camp established on the battlefield immediately before WWI?

Answer 19

Dwight David Eisenhower

Question 20

How many bodies of the battle’s casualties interred in the National Cemetery are unknown?

Answer 20

979

Question 21

Who designed the High Water Mark memorial?

Answer 21

John Batchelder

Question 22

Where is the ‘Lost Avenue’?

Answer 22

It is Neill Avenue on the east side of Rock Creek and near the Z. Taney farm.

Question 23

How many bodies of the battle’s casualties are interred in the National Cemetery?

Answer 23

3,512 Federals

Question 24

Who originated the notion and made the earliest organizational efforts to create a National Soldiers Cemetery at Gettysburg?

Answer 24

David McConaughy

Question 25

For what battle and in which war was the poem surrounding the National Soldiers Memorial written?

Answer 25

Battle of Buena Vista, Mexican-American War

Question 26

Which state has the most graves in the National Cemetery?

Answer 26

The state of New York

Question 27

What statue is atop the New York State Memorial in the National Cemetery?

Answer 27

Victory

Question 28

Who sculpted the Elizabeth Thorne Women’s Memorial?

Answer 28

Ron Tunison

Question 29

Who designed and sculpted the Mississippi, Louisiana and Confederate Soldiers and Sailors statues?

Answer 29

Daniel DeLue

Question 30

In the Gettysburg National Cemetery, how are the graves of the soldiers organized?

Answer 30

The graves are organized by the 18 Union states, the unknowns, the Spanish-American War, and World War One.