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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 Nicholson, John Page, 1842-1922 Beitler, Lewis Eugene, 1863-
Subjects: Gettysburg, Battle of, Gettysburg, Pa., 1863 Gettysburg Reunion, 1913
Publisher: (Harrisburg : W. S. Ray, state printer)
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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Pennsylvania at Gettysburg. 169 virtues in each other found. Our country will he the richer and herfame the greater for this unique visitation. It is an incident, nayan epoch, unparalleled in martial history. And while you have come from the South and the North bearing thetattered colors that once distinguished you as enemies, wearing theBlue and the Gray as you gallantry wore them through the tumult ofbattle, you meet again here at the Bloody Angle, the very zenith ofthe mighty current of the war, not as furious, fighting champions ofState or Section, but as messengers of peace; as men and brothers,loyal to a common country, united under one flag—• the Stars andStripes. In thus assembling, mindful of your past differences only asthrilling reminiscences in the story of your lives, you are manifestingthe highest, the truest qualities of patriotism. Wide, indeed, was the breach that put you asunder, and long werethe years of bitterness and misunderstanding that ensued; but youhave o

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