. 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 . nts capture of Vieksburg and the cheers were loud and news was premature, but two days afterward it came in full truth, andit was Vieksburg and Gettysburg which made inevitable the triumph ofthe Union. All, after these battles, was but useless sacrifice, which camethrough the lack of discer
. 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 . nts capture of Vieksburg and the cheers were loud and news was premature, but two days afterward it came in full truth, andit was Vieksburg and Gettysburg which made inevitable the triumph ofthe Union. All, after these battles, was but useless sacrifice, which camethrough the lack of discernment or stubbornness of the head of the Con-federacy. More than a quarter of a century has passed since the battle we arehere to commemorate. None of us can ever see its like again. If each andall could find the elixir of youth, and carry his life down the coming cen-turies, he could not again see the like of Gettysburg in civiUzed inventions since made in deadly explosives—in dynamite, —explosives which are a thousand-fold greater than any whichdeafened our ears upon this field, where the roar of four hundred andeighty cannon were heard, and the sharp rattle of one hundred thousandrifles—a battle like that of Gettysburg is no longer possible. Though ef-. BIEN 8 CO. NEW YOR Pennsylrania at Gettysburg. 199 fective beyond our power to measure at the time, it is well that it isthe last of its kind. It served a purpose, now indisputably established,and let us hope tliat it was, to our people at least, the final proof of thepoets lines, wherein he says:— Some things are worthless, some so good That nations which buy, buy only with blood. DEDICATION OF MONUMENT 27^^^ RKGIMKNT INFANTRY September 12, 1889 THE Twenty-seventh Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers, under thecommand of Lieutenant-Colonel Cantador, arrived at Gettysburg,July 1, 1863, about noon. The regiment was at once ordered toadvance from Cemetery Hill to the north of the town, to suppo
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