File:49. Jerry Cross, Researcher to Jerry C. Cashion Supervisor Research Branch, October 7, 1983 Page 04 (1003d113-4bf3-41d2-bb6c-6b957e4d5217).jpg

White paper with typed black text

Pages Mrs. Edwin Josey Miss Mary Lewis Harvey Miss Edwina Martin Miss Cora Harris Miss Elizabeth Cooper Miss Martha Bailey Hawkins Andrews Hospitality Committee Mrs. I. W. Faison Mrs. H. L. Riggins Mrs. Walter Woodard Mrs. T. E. Sprunt Mrs. John Anderson Address By F. D. Beary, The Adjutant General of Pennsylvania Your Excellency, Governor Gardner, Members of the United Daughters of the Confederacy Friends: I am directed by Honorable John S. Fisher, the Governor of Pennsylvania, to express to you all and particularly to you, Governor Gardner, his sincere regrets that conditions beyond his control have prevented him from being present on this most pleasing occasion. As a keen student of the history of the growth of our Nation, Governor Fisher was particularly desirous of being present on an occasion of this kind and is very, very, much disappointed that he could not be with you. Personally, it is a great pleasure to me to meet here on this field with the descendants of some of those who came here 66 years ago in defense of what to them was a sacred principle. The God of battles decided that contest, and the growth and prosperity and influence of our nation today, and the happy cordial auspices under which we meet before all point to the divine infallibility May I congratulate the citizens of North Carolina, especially the Daughters of the Confederacy, and you, Sir, on this wonderful memorial and assure you that Pennsylvania fully appreciates the splendid spirit which occasioned its erection.

• Keywords: Gettysburg; Gettysburg National Military Park; Photography; monuments; memorials; virtual experience; battlefield