Final Report on the Battlefield of Gettysburg, Volume 1 |
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advance Army Corps arrived Artillery attack Battalion battle of Gettysburg battlefield Big Round Top Brig Capt captured CASUALTIES Cavalry Cavalry Division Cemetery Hill Cemetery Ridge Chambersburg Colonel command companies comrades Confederate Corporal Creek crossed Culp's Hill Devil's Den duty Early's Eleventh Corps Emmitsburg Emmitsburg Road enemy enemy's engaged enlisted Ewell's Corps field Fifth Corps fighting fire flag flank fought Frederick Fredericksburg front gallant George Georgia Gregg's guns Headquarters honor hundred James John July June killed and wounded Lee's Lieut Lieutenant Little Round Top Longstreet's loss marched Meade miles monument moved mustered N. Y. INFANTRY North Carolina officers ordered Peach Orchard Pennsylvania Pickett's position Potomac Private Private rear regiment REGIMENT INFANTRY Rodes Second Brigade Second Corps Seminary Ridge Sergeant Sickles Sixth Corps skirmishers Slocum soldiers Taneytown Third Brigade Third Corps to-day Total troops Twelfth Corps Union Union army veterans William ΙΟ
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Page 249 - No more shall the war-cry sever, Or the winding rivers be red: They banish our anger forever When they laurel the graves of our dead! Under the sod and the dew, Waiting the Judgment Day: — Love and tears for the Blue; Tears and love for the Gray.
Page 441 - 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 442 - ... 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 433 - So live, that when thy summons comes to join The innumerable caravan, which moves To that mysterious realm, where each shall take His chamber in the silent halls of death, Thou go not, like the quarry-slave at night, Scourged to his dungeon, but, sustained and soothed By an unfaltering trust, approach thy grave, Like one who wraps the drapery of his couch About him, and lies down to pleasant dreams.
Page 317 - that all men are created equal, and endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights — among which are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness,' I shall strenuously contend for the immediate enfranchisement of our slave population.
Page 441 - Now we are engaged in a great civil war testing whether that nation or any nation so conceived and so dedicated can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We are met to dedicate a portion of it as the final resting-place of those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.
Page 315 - In the Revolutionary war, his enthusiastic admirers dubbed him a saint, and he was established under the name of St. Tammany, the Patron Saint of America. His name was inserted in some calendars, and his festival celebrated on the first day of May in every year. On that day a numerous society of his votaries walked together in procession through the streets of Philadelphia, their hats decorated with bucks...
Page 236 - The whole country now looks anxiously to this army to deliver it from the presence of the foe. Our failure to do so will leave us no such welcome as the swelling of millions of hearts with pride and joy at our success would give to every soldier of this army.
Page 441 - We are met to dedicate a portion of it as the final resting place of those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this. 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.
Page 250 - But in a larger sense we can not dedicate — we can not consecrate — :we can not hallow — this ground. The brave men living and dead who struggled here have consecrated it far above our poor power to add or detract.