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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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lights his face.Present arms. And every swords point is lowered and every musketbrought to the front of his person with that military motion of salute,and we mnrch by with the band playing Hail to the Chief. The reviewis over. But our dead comrades. Is there no part for them? Ah, yes, we arelooking forward to another epoch, in which, please God, theyll share. It is when the trumpet shall sound and the dead shall arise from thedust. Verily they shall have their reward. May it not be so, may itnot be so, comrades? See, the old Eighty-first gathering together again.From Fair Oaks and Malvern Hill, Antietam and Gettysburg, Chancellors-ville and Fredericksburg, shaking off their dust the warriors gather. FromWilderness and Cold Harbor, Spotsylvania and Petersburg, Bristoe andFarmville, they are coming together; the souls of our departed comrades andcommanders for the final grand review and reception to the faithful, in theeternal city. And we too, comrades, if we are faithful to the sacred
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Pennsylvania at Gettysburg. 451 dead, and to ourselves, and to each other, and to God, we too, through theall merciful provision of the loving Father may join the grand review^,when, shoulder to shoulder, as conquering heroes, we may march the chiefthoroughfare of the New Jerusalem, the battle of life ended and the finalvictory won. And while the bands of Heaven play, and choirs of angels sing; with thebanner of the cross, the emblems of our hope, above us; treading out theexotic sweetness of flowers from the fields of Paradise, may we receiveon every side the greeting and welcome of the loved ones there awaitingus; and marching up in grand review before the king of kings, the captainof the worlds salvation, may it be ours to see His smile, and hear Hisdivine plaudit Well done, good and faithful servants, enter in and sitdown on my right hand, gathered home forever. Amen; so let it be. DEDICATION OF MONUMENT 82^ REGIMENT INFANTRY* June 13, 1888ADDRESS OF LIEUTENANT-COLONEL JOHN M. WET

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