The Soldiers' National Cemetery at Gettysburg: With the Proceedings at Its Consecration, at the Laying of the Corner-stone of the Monument, and at Its Dedication |
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... wounded , etc. , on the battle field , and I have suggested to him , and also the Rev. Mr. Cross , of Baltimore , and others , the propriety and actual necessity of the purchase of a common burial ground for the dead , now only ...
... wounded , etc. , on the battle field , and I have suggested to him , and also the Rev. Mr. Cross , of Baltimore , and others , the propriety and actual necessity of the purchase of a common burial ground for the dead , now only ...
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... wounded and dying . He readily approved of the plan submitted by Mr. Wills , appointed him agent of the State , and authorized him to open a correspondence at once with the Governors of other States , whose soldiers had been killed in ...
... wounded and dying . He readily approved of the plan submitted by Mr. Wills , appointed him agent of the State , and authorized him to open a correspondence at once with the Governors of other States , whose soldiers had been killed in ...
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... wounds received in that battle and the skirmishes ; therefore , SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in General Assembly met , and it is hereby enacted by the authority ...
... wounds received in that battle and the skirmishes ; therefore , SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in General Assembly met , and it is hereby enacted by the authority ...
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... wounded soldiers of the Army of the Potomac , from the York Hospital . These men had been wounded in the battle of Gettysburg.
... wounded soldiers of the Army of the Potomac , from the York Hospital . These men had been wounded in the battle of Gettysburg.
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... wounded in the battle of Gettysburg , and were present in a delegation to pay this just tribute to the remains of their fallen comrades . These scarred veterans came and dropped the tear of sorrow on the last resting - place of those ...
... wounded in the battle of Gettysburg , and were present in a delegation to pay this just tribute to the remains of their fallen comrades . These scarred veterans came and dropped the tear of sorrow on the last resting - place of those ...
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Page 59 - 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. The world will little note, nor long remember, what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here.
Page 59 - 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 the cause for which they here gave the last full measure of devotion — that we here highly resolve that the dead shall not have died in vain — that the nation shall, under God, have a new birth of freedom, and that the Government of the people, by the people, and for the people, shall not perish from the earth.
Page 8 - CEMETEKY, and by that name, style and title shall have perpetual succession, and be able and capable in law to have and use a common seal, to sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, in all courts of law and equity, and to do all such other things as are incident to a corporation.
Page 28 - Trilled his thick-warbled note the summer long;* whose pathways gleamed with the monuments of the illustrious dead, the work of the most consummate masters that ever gave life to marble. There, beneath the over-arching plane-trees, upon a lofty stage erected for the purpose, it was ordained that a funeral oration should be pronounced by some citizen of Athens, in the presence of the assembled multitude.
Page 27 - Standing beneath this serene sky, overlooking these broad fields now reposing from the labors of the waning year, the mighty Alleghenies dimly towering before us, the graves of our brethren beneath our feet, it is with hesitation that I raise my poor voice to break the eloquent silence of God and Nature.
Page 48 - In many cases the consent will usually precede the compact or agreement, as where it is to lay a duty of tonnage, to keep troops or ships of war in time of peace, or to engage in war.
Page 49 - States, — could have been, but were not prohibited to the States; but to speak of the right of an individual State to secede, as a power that could have been, though it was not delegated to the United States, is simple nonsense.
Page 101 - ... that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain, that the nation shall, under God, have a new birth of freedom, and that the government of the people, by the people, and for the people, shall not perish from the earth . ABRAHAM LINCOLN.
Page 42 - ... on the road. General Lee, in his report, makes repeated mention of the Union prisoners whom he conveyed into Virginia, somewhat overstating their number. He states, also, that "such of his wounded as were in a condition to be removed" were forwarded to Williamsport.
Page 53 - ... could be instruments of, almost to the desolation of two kingdoms, and the exceeding defacing and deforming of the third. ... By these remarkable steps did the merciful hand of God, in this short space of time, not only bind up and heal all those wounds, but even made the scar as undiscernable as, in respect of the deepness, was possible, which was a glorious addition to the deliverance.' 53. In Germany, the wars of the Reformation and of Charles V., in the sixteenth century, the Thirty Years...