Pennsylvania at Gettysburg - ceremonies at the dedication of the monuments erected by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania to Major General George G. Meade, Major General Winfield S. Hancock, Major (14780854724)

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Title: Pennsylvania at Gettysburg : ceremonies at the dedication of the monuments erected by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania to Major General George G. Meade, Major General Winfield S. Hancock, Major General John F. Reynolds and to mark the positions of the Pennsylvania commands engaged in the battle
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: Pennsylvania. Gettysburg Battle-field Commission Nicholson, John Page, 1842-1922 Beitler, Lewis Eugene, 1863-
Subjects: Gettysburg, Battle of, Gettysburg, Pa., 1863 Gettysburg Reunion, 1913
Publisher: (Harrisburg : W. S. Ray, state printer)
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto



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ces fruitful again. They and their sons anddaughters have made this the richest and freest land on earth; andthrough them, without regard to sectional lines, the spirit of peaceand good will between us has been growing sweeter and stronger.Shall we not highly resolve to do all in our power to influence Con-gress and the States to here erect a Peace Monument which shallbe grander than any now here, or which may be erected hereafter onthis great battlefield? Thus eloquently and under most opportune and fortuitouscircumstances as to time and place was revived this Commis-sions desire for the crowning glory of this Great Reunion, adesire and intention expressed in its first tentative programmeof October, 1910, and earnestly advocated thereafter untilfound, in March, 1912, impossible of accomplishment in the62nd Congress then in its closing Session, a desire tliis Com-mission had finally presented, Januarj^ 11th, 1912, to the JointCommittee of the Congress of the United Stales on the Cele-
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