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Modern
day visitor to Gettysburg’s 1863 battlefield shows view from Rebel side looking
across field toward the Union lines in the distance.
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“As the trees are not dead, though
their foliage is gone, so our heroes are not dead, though their forms have
fallen. And the spirit of their example is here. It fills the air; it fills our
hearts. And long as time shall last, it will hover in these skies and rest on
this landscape;
And pilgrims of our own land, and
from other lands, will thrill with its inspiration…”
From
the prayer by Rev. Thomas Stockton, Chaplain of the U.S. House of
Representatives given at the dedication of the Soldiers’ National Cemetery at
Gettysburg, Pennsylvania on November 19, 1863.
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| Gettysburg remembered on Memorial Day 2016 |
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