Gettysburg Forty-three Years After
A 1908 reflective piece on Gettysburg contrasts the battle with modern times. It honors Lincoln and the Union spirit while lamenting the lost Confederacy, envisions a future of unified nations, and meditates on memory, sacrifice, and the enduring meaning of the battlefield. It imagines Lincoln, Lee, Reynolds, and other figures revisiting the field in a spirit of reconciliation.
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Gettysburg
Rome
Greece
Russia
America
Earth
Thermopylae
Zama
Tours
Naseby
Yorktown
Hving
Lincoln
Robert EK
Lee
Reynolds
Cemetery Hill
Culp’s Hill
Chambersburg
Taneytown
Meade
Making Soldierys Monuments
Over eighty national cemeteries in the United States hold about 400000 soldiers and sailors, with 10000 Confederate dead among them. Arlington becomes a focal point while a clerk Thomas Brougham Baker championed national cemeteries after initial rejections. Lincoln and Stanton supported the idea. machinery now speeds monument work. Arlington hosts Confederate burials. Wheeler and Lee memorials spur reconciliation across North and South.
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Hamilton Musk
United States
Mexicco City
Mexico
Virginia
Tennessee
Kentucky
Arlington
America
Chicago
Thomas Brougham Baker
War Department
Cameron
Edwin M. Stanton
Baker
Stanton
Lincoln
Union
McKinley
Congress
Arlington Cemetery
United Confederate Veterans
Memphis
Joseph Wheeler
Arington
Camp A. Wheeler
Washington
Wheeler
Atlanta
A Memorial Day Resolution
Memorial Day resolution by James Arthur extols peace and brotherhood. It frames war as madness and urges a future without bloodshed, calling for love to guide humanity and to sever the bonds of war from the next generation.
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James Tanner
Frederick D. Grant
Robert E. Lee
Ulysses
Grant
American Press Association
Heaven
Hell
Soldier Home Encounter Reveals Civil War Wounds
A veteran described as five feet nine inches tall with sandy hair and gray eyes recalls losing an arm in battle. He explains that a canister fire in the Wilderness nearly killed him, but his sacrifice saved his life.
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Ile
Segeant
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J. A. Edgerton
Orty-Three Sears
Republic
Plutarch
Ines
Confederacy
Pickett
Appomattox
South
Round Top
Devil's den
General Lees
Livcol
Pennsylvania
Chambersburg Turnpike
By Walton Williams
James Arthur
Co Bless the World Forever
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