File:5. Tennessee Assembly Joint Resolution No. 69. Acts of 1967, November 6, 1968 Page 3 (4a61f667-da3c-44bc-bd07-660367e7a797).jpg

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attack on Cemetery Ridge on July 3, 1863, although these troops did succeed in temporarily breaching the union works and taking their battle flags over the federals’ stone wall defenses; and WHEREAS, many gallant sons of Tennessee from the counties of Bedford, Coffee, Dekalb, Franklin, Grundy, Lincoln, Montgomery, Moore, Robertson, Smith, Stewart, Sumner and Wilson and others lost their lives on the slopes of Cemetery Ridge and the plain below, an area that is now encompassed in the Gettysburg National Military Park, brave soldiers whose deeds at that place have never been suitably commemorated by a memorial to their courage and valor; and WHEREAS, Tennessee is the only state among these whose sons participated in that great battle on either side which is not represented at the battleground by a monument or memorial to honor its dead heroes of Gettysburg; and WHEREAS, alternate designs for a Tennessee Regimental monument at Gettysburg have been developed and proposed by the Department of War Memorials of the Confederate High Command International, a Tennessee general welfare corporation dedicated to the perpetuation of the memory of the valiant sons of Tennessee wo fought so bravely on so many battlefields during the War Between the States; and WHERAS, a plan been developed to build and erect the monument on a suitable site in the Gettysburg National Military Park, the funds for which are to be raised through voluntary private subscriptions from the people of Tennessee, with no tax dollars being involved; and

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