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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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fellow-citizens, display the samedevotion in the enforcement of obedience to the laws; in the restraintof license and disorder; in the abatement of party rancor; and in the pro-motion of every good and wise measure conducive to the general welfare.Then, with harmony and concord, will continue the onward march of thepeople. And now! my comrades! this may be our last reunion. We are exceed-ingly fortunate both in the event and place of occurrence. When lastyou saw this ground, it was the vale of death. Then the fury and pas-sion of war rent the earth, and the sulphurous fumes of battle stifled theair. Now these fields blossom in quiet happiness, and the air is vocal withmusic of birds. As the lights are heightened by shadows, as the sunshineglows more brightly after the broken storm, so do you, to-day, by the con-trast, realize more clearly the benign blessing of peace. Some of you bringugly scars, and bodies weary with wounds, but even to such this blessedscene is an ample recompense.
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Pennsylvania at Gettysburg. 527 To us, the Ninety-sixth Regiment is something more than a name—far more than an integral part of the army. It is a brotherhood of com-rades, both living and dead, linked together with hooks of steel. It is atalisman, whose power over the heart time can never impair. It meansfor lis not only camp life, midnight picket watches, marches, battles, cam-paigns, toils, dangers and death ; but tender sympathies, warm affections,and noble loves, which were born in the hour of danger, and which liveon even after death. I know you are even now thinking of Lew, andJohn, and Bill, and Tom, and Charley, those noble fellows, whose guilelesshearts were as an open book to us, and into whose fearless eyes you so oftenlooked, when The noise of battle hurtled In the air. We learned to know them so well. They were kUled by our side. Thelast look of the eye and the quick hand pressure, beyond the power ofspeech, conveyed their parting message to home and us. We buried them

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