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Updated: April 30, 2025
I am at your service without reserve to play my part in any way you may call upon me to play it in this great enterprise of exigent reform which it will dignify and distinguish us to perform and discredit us to neglect. FRIENDS AND FELLOW CITIZENS: I need not tell you what the Battle of Gettysburg meant. Upon these famous fields and hillsides their comrades died about them.
Sominagot, you come like this, that velly superstich." He would readily have laid down his very life for Van, but he laid a good dinner instead. During its preparation Beth and her maid sat down on a bench beside the bunk-house, in the presence of Cayuse, Napoleon, and Gettysburg, while Van led the horses to the stable for refreshment, and Algy talked to himself in pigeon English.
Thus ended the battle of Gettysburg the bloody turning-point of the Rebellion the bloody baptism of the redeemed Republic. Nearly twenty thousand men from the Union ranks had been killed and wounded, and a larger number of the Rebels, making the enormous aggregate of at least forty thousand, whose blood was shed to fertilize the Tree of Liberty.
And when the news of Gettysburg and Vicksburg came; and mamma grew furious; and I saw for the first time that success was truly looming up on the horizon of the North, and that my dear coloured people might indeed soon be free; that night Mont Pilatte and I shouted together. There came no particular light on my own affairs all this time.
The veterans of our crowd the surviving remnant of those captured at Gettysburg had been prisoners over a year. The next in seniority the Chickamauga boys had been in ten months. The Mine Run fellows were eight months old, and my battalion had had seven months' incarceration. None of us were models of well-dressed gentlemen when captured.
And on the heights of Gettysburg, At twilight first was seen, The stars of Louisiana bright, And Katy's shamrock green. "And oh! if I get home again, I swear I'll never leave her; I hope the straw mattress will keep, The pig won't have the fever! For then, you know, I'll marry Kate, And never think of others. Hurrah, then, for the shamrock green, And the Louisiana colors!"
Stuart, with Hampton's division of three brigades, Hampton being still disabled from the wounds received at Gettysburg, spent the 10th swarming on the right flank of the confederate army, in the country between Madison Court House and Woodville on the Sperryville pike. Kilpatrick was in the vicinity of Culpeper Court House.
Lincoln blazed the way from the cabin to the crown; working away in the silence of the woods, he heard the murmur of a storm; toiling in the forest of flashing leaf and armored oak, he heard Lexington calling unto Sumter, Valley Forge crying unto Gettysburg, and Yorktown shouting unto Appomattox.
More important still, their courage was as unflinching in this obvious climax and catastrophe of the war they had waged, as it had been at Bull Run in the beginning of that struggle, or in the Seven Days' Fight, or at Fredericksburg, or Chancellorsville, or Gettysburg, or Cold Harbor.
"'Gettysburg and Little Round Top," was the response. "Mr. Vosburgh is out, and left word that you should linger near till he returned and then come again." "I cannot do that. It would not be safe for either him or me. He does not realize. Can you be trusted?" "I am his daughter." "Say, then, terrible work up town. The orphan asylum sacked and burned. Many private residences also.
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