When Lincoln gave the Gettysburg Address, had the soldiers already been buried or was ground being broken?

I know that there were four months of preparations for the Gettysburg National Cemetery dedication where Lincoln gave his immortal Gettysburg Address, but am just wondering if the bodies had already been interred and if the marble tombstones and statue had already been put in place by the time the ceremony happened? Or did they just break ground and put in the tombstones and statuary afterwards? I can't seem to find this specific information in any of the sources that I have consulted thus far. Thanks.|||Already buried. Here is your source:


http://books.google.com/books?id=vTEGHfZ鈥?/a>





Always search Google Books for historical info.|||That's an interesting question and I don't know the answer, but in case it helps, I'll point out that embalming was a new process at the time and it was commonly used so that the bodies of dead soldiers could be shipped home to their family for burial in tact. I don't know about the fate of the casualties of that particular battle though.





The embalmers put so much work into Lincoln to prepare for what amounted as a national funeral tour that they essentially ended up mummifying him.|||The bodies had been buried. Leaving them out would have been unsanitary.