Gettysburg, Then and Now, the Field of American Valor: Where and how the Regiments Fought, and the Troops They Encountered ; an Account of the Battle, Giving Movements, Positions, and Losses of the Commands EngagedG.W. Dillingham Company, 1899 - 492 oldal |
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14th Inf 1st Light 2d Inf 7th Inf Alabama Anderson army Artillery Artillery Reserve assault attack battalion battle-field Big Round Top Birney bronze Buford Cavalry Cemetery Ridge Chambersburg charge Colonel Commander CONFEDERATE LOSSES Corps line Culp's Hill deceased Devil's Den East Cemetery Hill Eleventh Corps Emmittsburg Road enemy engaged erected Ewell FEDERAL LOSSES field Fifth Corps fighting fire Fitzhugh Lee flank fought front Georgia brigade Gettysburg granite Gregg Hays's Heth Humphreys Inf.¹ 3d Infantry Jersey July Killed and Miss Killed and Total Killed and wounded line of battle Little Round Top Longstreet Massachusetts McLaws ments Michigan North Carolina Ohio Peach Orchard Pender Penna Pennsylvania Pettigrew's Pickett pike position rear Regiment Ruger Second Brigade Second Corps Second Division Seminary Ridge Sixth Corps Stuart Taneytown Third Corps Third Division Total loss Total Missing Total Regiment Total wounded Trobriand troops Twelfth Corps Virginia Wheat-Field York Infantry Zouaves ΙΟ
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347. oldal - The Battle-field, where Persia's victim horde First bowed beneath the brunt of Hellas' sword, As on the morn to distant Glory dear, When Marathon became a magic word ; Which uttered, to the hearer's eye appear The camp, the host, the fight, the conqueror's career.
492. oldal - ... shrubbery that may be growing upon said park, or shall cut down or fell or remove any timber, battle relic, tree or trees growing or being upon...
343. oldal - Standing beneath this serene sky, overlooking these broad fields now reposing from the labors of the waning year, the mighty Alleghenies dimly towering before us, the graves of our brethren beneath our feet, it is with hesitation that I raise my poor voice to break the eloquent silence of God and Nature.
348. oldal - I must leave to others, who can do it from personal observation, to describe the mournful spectacle presented by these hill-sides and plains at the close of the terrible conflict. It was a saying of the Duke of Wellington, that next to a defeat, the saddest thing was a victory.
347. oldal - ... on whose issue it depended whether this august Republican Union, founded by some of the wisest statesmen that ever lived, cemented with the blood of some of the purest patriots that ever died, should perish or endure — rolled back the tide of an invasion, not less unprovoked, not less ruthless, than that which came to plant the dark banner of Asiatic despotism and slavery on the free soil of Greece?
355. oldal - ... that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain, that the nation shall, under God, have a new birth of freedom, and that the government of the people, by the people and for the people shall not perish from the earth.
488. oldal - National Park shall, subject to the supervision and direction of the Secretary of War, be in charge of thre.e Commissioners...
344. oldal - Trilled his thick-warbled note the summer long," — whose pathways gleamed with the monuments of the illustrious dead, the work of the most consummate masters that ever gave life to marble. There, beneath the overarching plane-trees, upon a lofty stage erected for the purpose, it was ordained that a funeral oration should be pronounced by some citizen of Athens, in the presence of the assembled multitude. Such were the tokens of respect required...
351. oldal - The whole earth," said Pericles, as he stood over the remains of his fellow-citizens, who had fallen in the first year of the Peloponnesian war, "the whole earth is the sepulcher of illustrious men." All time, he might have added, is the millennium of their glory. Surely I would do no injustice to the other noble achievements of the war, which have reflected such honor...
491. oldal - Interior to establish and enforce proper regulations for the custody, preservation, and care of the monuments erected or which may be hereafter erected within the limits of the said national military park; and such rules shall provide for convenient access by visitors to all such monuments within the park, and the ground included therein, on such days and within such hours as may be designated and authorized...
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