About This Collection
Correspondence, contracts, memoranda of agreements, design specifications, sketches and blueprints relating to the location and erection of monuments and markers authorized by the Pennsylvania General Assembly and erected under the authority of the Gettysburg Monuments Commission. Originally collected by Brevet Lieutenant Colonel John P. Nicholson who served as Secretary of the Commission, these records were formerly bound into volumes and presented to the State Library of Pennsylvania in 1903. Among the information provided is name of regiment and county where association of survivors was located, names and addresses of survivors appointed to cooperate with the Commission in locating the sites for monuments, and their dates of appointment. Also given are dates military units were mustered in and out and the number of soldiers in each unit who were killed, wounded, captured or missing at Gettysburg. Other records scattered through the series provide the names of casualties in each corps, correspondence with contractors, and sketches of monuments. Images are arranged chronologically by date of contract or correspondence. This collection is part of Special Commissions which includes the records of the Board of Commissioners on Gettysburg Monuments.
