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Procession(Continued Pram Pift 1)and snapped pictures of thebrightly uniformed units and the nationally known figures in the column.There is only a picture ortwo in existence on the 1863procession and they show the big sycamores at the foot of Baltimore hill under whoselimbs Tuesday’s processionpassed.Photography in 1863 was sloe and cumbersome and historians say the reason there is no photograph of Lincoln speaking is that the speech was over be fore photographers could get their equipment ready to makethe exposure.PLANES OVERHEADTuesday’s column was led by MaJ. Gen. Henry F. Fluck, commending general. 28th In fantry Division of the Pennsyl vania National Guard, and members of his staff. They were on foot directly ahead ofthe U.S. Marine Band.Then followed company uniti of the Third Infantry. U.S. Army, the motorcade of dis tinguished guests, the 28th Division Band, a large detachment of the Pennsylvania National Guard with the smartly uniformed band and marching cadets from the Valley Forge Military Academy.Jets miles above left trails of white across the blue sky and a small plane roared a thousand feet overhead but the thousands who saw Tuesday procession were undisturbed by the 20th century distractions and they saw again in their imagination the column that moved to the edge of town a hundred years before to dedicate “a final resting place” for those who had died five months earlier in the battle here.
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Gettysburg Times
Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, US
Wed, Nov 20, 1963
Page 10
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John T.
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