Pennsylvania at Gettysburg: Ceremonies at the Dedication of the Monuments Erected by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania to Mark the Positions of the Pennsylvania Commands Engaged in the Battle, Volume 1E. K. Meyers, state printer, 1893 - Gettysburg, Battle of, Gettysburg, Pa., 1863 |
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Page 52
... front of Webb's Brigade . They now seem irresistible , and they mean to kill . Webb , in the midst of his soldiers , fights as they fight , yet he is ever the leader . The fearful thunderbolt has driven back his first line , but it ...
... front of Webb's Brigade . They now seem irresistible , and they mean to kill . Webb , in the midst of his soldiers , fights as they fight , yet he is ever the leader . The fearful thunderbolt has driven back his first line , but it ...
Page 66
... front , along and beyond the Emmitsburg road , into the presence of a large body of the rebel army , with his line on the right stretching along the front of a part of the Second Corps , and the left down through the peach orchard ...
... front , along and beyond the Emmitsburg road , into the presence of a large body of the rebel army , with his line on the right stretching along the front of a part of the Second Corps , and the left down through the peach orchard ...
Page 67
... front of Little Round Top , to cover the troops engaged in the front should it become necessary for them to fall back . This movement placed the Third Brigade pretty well down the rocky slope with the Eleventh Regiment in the rear of ...
... front of Little Round Top , to cover the troops engaged in the front should it become necessary for them to fall back . This movement placed the Third Brigade pretty well down the rocky slope with the Eleventh Regiment in the rear of ...
Page 68
... front being practically uncovered by the broken masses of troops retreating past us , and the enemy being at close range , the front line opened fire . The Eleventh was armed with smooth - bore muskets , and , in ad- dition to the usual ...
... front being practically uncovered by the broken masses of troops retreating past us , and the enemy being at close range , the front line opened fire . The Eleventh was armed with smooth - bore muskets , and , in ad- dition to the usual ...
Page 69
... front and left , to do which the command had to cross an open field about eight hundred yards wide . The enemy , noticing this move- ment , opened a battery directly in front . I pushed the Sixth Regi- ment through the woods on the ...
... front and left , to do which the command had to cross an open field about eight hundred yards wide . The enemy , noticing this move- ment , opened a battery directly in front . I pushed the Sixth Regi- ment through the woods on the ...
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advance afternoon Army Corps arrived artillery attack Battery battle of Gettysburg battle-field Big Round Top brave Brig camp Capt Captain captured Cavalry Division Cemetery Hill Cemetery Ridge charge Colonel command Company comrades Confederate Creek crossed Culp's Hill DEDICATION Devil's Den duty Eleventh Corps Emmitsburg enemy enemy's engaged Enlisted field Fifth Corps fight fire flag flank force fought Fredericksburg front gallant Gregg's ground guns halted Hancock honor hundred John July June killed Lieut Lieutenant Lieutenant-Colonel line of battle Little Round Top loss Meade memory ment miles monument morning moved mustered night o'clock officers ordered patriotism Pennsylvania Reserves Pennsylvania Volunteers picket Pickett's Pickett's charge position Potomac Rappahannock rear rebel Regiment Infantry Reynolds Ridge river road Second Brigade Second Corps side Sixth Corps skirmishers soldier Station Taneytown Third Brigade Third Corps to-day troops Twelfth Corps Union army victory Virginia Warrenton woods wounded York
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Page iii - 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 battlefield of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live.
Page 407 - It is for us the living rather to be dedicated here to the unfinished work that they have thus far so nobly carried on. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us...
Page 200 - Love thyself last; cherish those hearts that hate thee; Corruption wins not more than honesty. Still in thy right hand carry gentle peace To silence envious tongues. Be just, and fear not; Let all the ends thou aim'st at be thy country's, Thy God's, and truth's; then, if thou fall'st, O Cromwell, Thou fall'st a blessed martyr!
Page 315 - As a soldier, in obeying this order, an order totally unexpected and unsolicited, I have no promises or pledges to make. The country looks to this army to relieve it from the devastation and disgrace of a hostile invasion. Whatever fatigues and sacrifices we may be called upon to undergo, let us have in view constantly the magnitude of the interests involved, and let each man determine to do his duty, leaving to an all-controlling Providence the decision of the contest.
Page 434 - In the beauty of the lilies Christ was born across the sea, With a glory in His bosom that transfigures you and me : As He died to make men holy, let us die to make men free, While God is marching on.
Page 237 - For right is right, since God is God ; And right the day must win ; To doubt would be disloyalty, To falter would be sin ! FREDERIC WILLIAM FABER.
Page 424 - Farewell the tranquil mind ! Farewell content ! Farewell the plumed troop, and the big wars, That make ambition virtue ! O, farewell ! Farewell the neighing steed, and the shrill trump, The spirit-stirring drum, the ear-piercing fife, The royal banner ; and all quality. Pride, pomp, and circumstance of glorious war ! And O, you mortal engines, whose rude throats The immortal Jove's dread clamours counterfeit, Farewell ! Othello's occupation's gone ! lago.
Page 382 - ... sheeted fire and flame, I saw and led the hosts of New York as they charged in contest upon a foreign soil, for the honor of your flag ; so again, if Providence shall will it, this feeble hand shall draw a sword never yet dishonored, .not to fight for distant honor in a foreign land, but to fight for country, for home, for law, for Government, for Constitution, for right, for freedom, for humanity, and in the hope that the banner of my country may advance, and wheresoever that banner waves, there...
Page 407 - 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...
Page 382 - ... wellnigh worn out in the battle and toil of life, may pledge himself on such an occasion and in such an audience, let me say, as my last word, that...