Final Report on the Battlefield of Gettysburg ...J.B. Lyon Company, Printers, 1900 - Gettysburg (Pa.) |
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Page 457
... Washington without incident , and went into camp for a week or two on Kendall Green . The next move was across the Potomac , where a camp was made about three miles out of Alexandria , called Camp California . Here the winter was spent ...
... Washington without incident , and went into camp for a week or two on Kendall Green . The next move was across the Potomac , where a camp was made about three miles out of Alexandria , called Camp California . Here the winter was spent ...
Page 462
... Washington , where we arrived without adventure , after a hearty midnight supper given us by the loyal ladies of Philadelphia . We encamped for a few days on Kendall Green , from whence we marched to McCloud's Mills , three miles from ...
... Washington , where we arrived without adventure , after a hearty midnight supper given us by the loyal ladies of Philadelphia . We encamped for a few days on Kendall Green , from whence we marched to McCloud's Mills , three miles from ...
Page 465
... Washington . Urgent orders reached General Sumner here to go to the assistance of General Pope , who through the lukewarmness of some of the generals , and his own misapprehension of the enemy's move- ments , had been defeated . We left ...
... Washington . Urgent orders reached General Sumner here to go to the assistance of General Pope , who through the lukewarmness of some of the generals , and his own misapprehension of the enemy's move- ments , had been defeated . We left ...
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... Washington ; they are patriots ; they know infinitely more than we do . They have re- moved him ; I think they are right . " Later I formed the same opinion . Capt . E. C. November 17th saw us at Falmouth 466 NEW YORK AT GETTYSBURG .
... Washington ; they are patriots ; they know infinitely more than we do . They have re- moved him ; I think they are right . " Later I formed the same opinion . Capt . E. C. November 17th saw us at Falmouth 466 NEW YORK AT GETTYSBURG .
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... Washington . The doctors there told him he must die ; but he told them no , and he lived in spite of them , and is living to - day near Newark , N. J. , married and the father of a family . His case is , in the medical history of the ...
... Washington . The doctors there told him he must die ; but he told them no , and he lived in spite of them , and is living to - day near Newark , N. J. , married and the father of a family . His case is , in the medical history of the ...
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Page 922 - Thou hast spread thy wing, and sheltered us from the pestilence that walketh in darkness, and the destruction that wasteth at noon-day.
Page 900 - But in a larger sense we cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate, we cannot hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it far above our power to add or detract.
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Page 900 - It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us; that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to...