Final Report on the Battlefield of Gettysburg ...J.B. Lyon Company, Printers, 1900 |
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advance Antietam Appomattox army artillery assault battery battle of Chancellorsville battle of Fredericksburg battle of Gettysburg battlefield blood brave camp campaign Capt Captain captured casualties Cemetery Hill Cemetery Ridge Chancellorsville charge Cold Harbor colors command Company comrades Confederate Creek Culp's Hill dead death dedicate Division duty Eleventh Corps Emmitsburg Emmitsburg Road enemy enemy's engaged enlisted fell field fighting fire flag flank fought Fredericksburg front gallant Gettysburg ground guns honor hundred Irish Brigade July June killed and wounded Lieut Lieutenant Colonel Little Round Top loss marched memory ment miles monument morning mortally wounded mustered Nation night Ninety-fourth North officers patriotic Pennsylvania Petersburg picket position Potomac prisoners ranks Rappahannock rear Rebel regi regiment Ridge River Second Corps Seminary Ridge shot Sixty-third skirmishers soldiers Spotsylvania Station Third Corps to-day took troops Union Union army valor veterans victory Washington YORK INFANTRY York Volunteers
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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.
Page 928 - The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or any State on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.
Page 929 - Let their last feeble and lingering glance rather behold the gorgeous ensign of the republic, now known and honored throughout the earth, still full high advanced, its arms and trophies streaming in their original lustre, not a stripe erased or polluted nor a single star obscured, bearing for its motto no such miserable interrogatory as "What is all this worth?
Page 688 - WHENE'ER a noble deed is wrought, Whene'er is spoken a noble thought, Our hearts, in glad surprise, To higher levels rise. The tidal wave of deeper souls Into our inmost being rolls, And lifts us unawares Out of all meaner cares.
Page 929 - Liberty first, and Union afterwards; but everywhere, spread all over in characters of living light, blazing on all its ample folds, as they float over the sea and over the land, and in every wind under the whole heavens, that other sentiment, dear to every true American heart, Liberty and Union, now and forever, one and inseparable.
Page 562 - Both read the same bible and pray to the same God, and each invokes His aid against the other. It may seem strange that any men should dare to ask a just God's assistance in wringing their bread from the sweat of other men's faces, but let us judge not that we be not judged.
Page 550 - So live, that when thy summons comes to join The innumerable caravan that 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 914 - In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war. The Government will not assail you. You can have no conflict without being yourselves the aggressors. You have no oath registered in Heaven to destroy the Government, while I shall have the most solemn one to "preserve, protect and defend
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...