[9] With additional funding by New York, Indiana, Tennessee, Illinois, and Wisconsin; the $60,000 monument was instead completed northwest of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.

President Franklin D. Roosevelt arrived at a temporary platform on his special train via the Reading Railroad from the North after leaving Springwood at Hyde Park NY that morning.

The U.S. 3d Cavalry Division escorted the President's motorcade to the memorial on Oak Hill,[11] and Roosevelt's open car arrived with a 21 gun salute.

A Sixth Field Artillery battery near Oak Hill fired a 21 gun salute as the President departed at 7 p.m. (His train to Washington used the Western Maryland Railway.)

"[15] The deteriorated Alabama limestone in the lower section that had been approved for use by the Bureau of Standards[16] was replaced with gray granite in June 1941,[17] and repairs were also made in 1950.

A Gettysburg Peace Celebration committee had been formed by June 1988, and the gas flame was restored at their Fiftieth Anniversary Rededication on July 3.