GDG- GNMP Expands Its On-line Virtual Museum Exhibit

[Margaret D. Blough]

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>Gettysburg National Military Park News Release
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>For Release: October 13, 2006
>Contact: Katie Lawhon
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>Gettysburg National Military Park expands Its On-line Virtual Museum
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>The National Park Service has expanded its virtual museum exhibit,
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>?Gettysburg: Camp Life: Civil War Collection?, according to Gettysburg
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>National Military Park Superintendent John Latschar.
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>Working together with the Museum Management Program of the National Park
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>Service?s Washington headquarters, Gettysburg NMP?s museum specialists have
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>collected and added new images and information from the park?s collections
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>related to the life of the soldier and the Battle of Gettysburg. Looking at
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>the website gives the public a better understanding of Civil War soldiers?
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>life in camp, their day-to-day existence, and how they battled boredom with
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>games, writing, drinking, smoking, whittling, playing music, and praying.
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>Seldom seen images include a soldier?s toothbrush, his underwear, a
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>bullet-torn diary, and many more.
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>?Gettysburg: Camp Life: Civil War Collection? continues to be one of the
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>National Park Service?s most popular virtual exhibits, attracting more than
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>800,000 people per year.
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> The website is  < http://www.cr.nps.gov/museum/exhibits/gettex/index.htm>.
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