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Title: Pennsylvania at Gettysburg. Ceremonies at the dedication of the monuments erected by the commonwealth of Pennsylvania to Major-General George G. Meade, Major General Winfield S. Hancock, Major General John F. Reynolds and to mark the positions of the Pennsylvania commands engaged in the battle ..
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: Pennsylvania. Gettysburg Battle-field Commission Pennsylvania. Fiftieth Anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg Commission Nicholson, John P. (John Page), b. 1842, ed Beitler, Lewis Eugene, 1863- ed Roy, Paul L
Subjects: Pennsylvania. Militia Gettysburg, Battle of, Gettysburg, Pa., 1863 Gettysburg Reunion, 1913 United States -- History Civil War, 1861-1865 Regimental histories Pennsylvania Gettysburg National Military Park (Pa.)
Publisher: (Harrisburg, W.S. Ray, State Printer)
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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, we believe and knowthat this dear land shall not call in vain. The fallen heroes sleep in this beautiful cemetery: they sleep the sleepthat knows no waking, but thoir fame is as fadeless as the beauty of therise of the sun. They live in our hearts and in our memories. This nationis to-day a Union baptized in the best blood of the American people. Itis a Union that has been tried in the fire of steel, and has come forthbrilliantly and imscathed. The best way for us to appreciate the devo-tion of those who died for their country in the war of the rebellion isto make it our duty to preserve what thty sacrificed their lives to save.The value of a thing generally depends upon what it costs. To show thewortli of this it is only necessary to imagine the Union broken into dis-jointed and discordant fragments; the States antagonized and inimical toeach other. The Union, as saved, is the reverse of all this, and standsproudly before the world the synonym of national greatness, power andglory.
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Pcnnsijlvdnia at (IcttijshKr;/. 435 DEDICATION OF MONUMENT 75™ REGIMENT INFANTRY* OCTOHKK 8, 1888ADDRESS OF FIRST SERGEANT H. NACIITKJAI.L COMRADES of the Seventy-fifth Regiment Pennsylvauiii Volunteeis:—I extend to you a hearty welcome upon the historic battlefield ofGettysburg. We are assembled here upon consecrated ground, con-secrated by the blood of our brethren, and shed in a great struggle for thepreservation and maintenance of the high principles of liberty and humanity. More than a quarter of a century has ebbed away into the abyss ofeternity since one of the most eventful dramas recorded in the annals ofhistory was enacted upon this field ; a drama in which you with thousandsof sons of this our glorious country were destined to assume a role. Your ranks have been considerably depleted since those memorable Julydays of 1863, and of that once magnificent Seventy-fifth Resiment, which,a just pride of the German population of Philadelphia, left that city in Sep-tember, 1861,

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