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1st Lieut 1st Lt 2d Lt Abner Doubleday annual re-union applause appointed Army Corps Art'y Artillery badge ballot battle Boston Brevet Brig.-Gen Brevet Maj Brevet Maj.-Gen Brig Brooklyn Buffalo Butterfield Capt Cavalry Chairman Charles Charles Devens Chas Colonel command comrades Conn Corps-Bvt Corps.-Brevet Corresponding Secretary Daniel Butterfield Edward elected Fitz John Porter flag gentlemen George H Gettysburg heart Henry honor Horatio invitation James Jersey John John G June 15 King Lieut.-Col Major Major-General Mass McMahon Meade motion N. Y. Cav N. Y. New York N. Y. Vols O. O. HOWARD officers Ohio Orange orator patriotism Penn Philadelphia Portland Potomac present President re-union receipt Recording Secretary regiments Samuel Truesdell Scranton Selden Connor Sergt Society soldier Surg thanks to-day to-night toast U. S. Inf'y U. S. V. Sixth Union veterans Vice-President vote Washington William York City
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第29页 - I shall have the most solemn one to 'preserve, protect and defend it.' I am loath to close. We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.
第24页 - In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war. The government will not assail you. You can have no conflict without being yourselves the aggressors. You have no oath registered in heaven to destroy the government, while I shall have the most solemn one to "preserve, protect, and defend it.
第73页 - Forward, the Light Brigade ! Charge for the guns ! " he said : Into the valley of Death Rode the six hundred. " Forward, the Light Brigade...
第34页 - By direction of the President of the United States, I hereby assume command of the Army of the Potomac. As a soldier, in obeying this order — an order totally unexpected and unsolicited — I have no promises or pledges to make. The country looks to this army to relieve it from the devastation and disgrace of a hostile invasion.
第59页 - Shoot, if you must, this old gray head, But spare your country's flag," she said. A shade of sadness, a blush of shame, Over the face of the leader came; The nobler nature within him stirred To life at that woman's deed and word: "Who touches a hair of yon gray head Dies like a dog! March on!
第56页 - First in war, first in peace, first in the hearts of his countrymen," was originally used in the resolutions presented to Congress on the death of Washington, December, 1799.
第39页 - This incident gave me even a more favorable opinion of Meade than did his great victory at Gettysburg the July before. It is men who wait to be selected, and not those who seek, from whom we may always expect the most efficient sen ice.
第14页 - My fellow-countrymen of the North, if I may be permitted to speak for those whom I represent, let me assure you that, in the profoundest depths of their nature, they reciprocate that generosity, with all the manliness and sincerity of which brave men are capable. In token of that sincerity they join in consecrating, for annual patriotic pilgrimage, these historic heights, which drank such copious draughts of American blood, poured so freely in discharge of duty, as each conceived it, — a Mecca...
第14页 - ... liberty ; and by the blood of our fallen brothers, we unite in the solemn consecration of these hallowed hills, as a holy, eternal pledge of fidelity to the life, freedom, and unity of this cherished Republic.
第80页 - This constitution may be altered or amended at any regular meeting of the society, by a vote of two-thirds of the members in attendance. The following, among other resolutions, was adopted: "Resolved, That the Corresponding Secretary of this Society be instructed to communicate to the ' North Western Educational Society...