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The McClellan Gate, which for a time served as the main entrance to the cemetery.

Aerial view.

The inscriptions on the gate read

McClellan

Here rest 15,585 of the 315,555 citizens who died in the defense of our country from 1861 to 1865.

On fame's eternal camping ground their silent tents are spread and glory guards with solemn round the bivouac of the dead.