. Philadelphia in the Civil War, 1861 1865 . 2, 1863, Hunterstown, Pa. July 5, 1863, Littlestown, Pa. July 6, 1863. Fairfield. Pa. Md. 256 OTHER MONUMENTS OF SPECIAL INTEREST TO PHILADELPHIANS. The National Monument National Cemetery. Pennsylvania Memorial Hancock avenue (south section). Lincolns Gettysburg Address, National Cemetery. High Water Mark, (bronze book).... Hancock avenue (copse of trees). George Gordon Meade Eques-trian Statue Near High Water Mark. Major-Gen. Winfield S. Hancock Eques-trian Statue East Cemetery Hill. Major-Gen. John F. Reynolds Equestrian .Sta
. Philadelphia in the Civil War, 1861 1865 . 2, 1863, Hunterstown, Pa. July 5, 1863, Littlestown, Pa. July 6, 1863. Fairfield. Pa. Md. 256 OTHER MONUMENTS OF SPECIAL INTEREST TO PHILADELPHIANS. The National Monument National Cemetery. Pennsylvania Memorial Hancock avenue (south section). Lincolns Gettysburg Address, National Cemetery. High Water Mark, (bronze book).... Hancock avenue (copse of trees). George Gordon Meade Eques-trian Statue Near High Water Mark. Major-Gen. Winfield S. Hancock Eques-trian Statue East Cemetery Hill. Major-Gen. John F. Reynolds Equestrian .Statue Chambersburg Pike, McPherson Ridge. Major-Gen. John F. Reynolds, National Cemetery. Major-Gen. John F. Reynolds (killed) .. Marker, Reynolds Grove. Col. C. Fred. Taylor (killed) Marker, Ayres avenue. Headquarters, Major-Gen. George Gordon Meade Meade avenue and Taneytown Road. Greggs Cavalry Division, Monumental Shaft East Cavalry battlefield. U. S. Regulars Monument Hancock avenue, south of High Water Mark. GETTYSBURG—1913. I N the week beginning Sunday, June 30th,1913, forty thousand survivors of theUnion armies met eleven thousand Con-federate veterans, sharing with them, inpeace and amity, in the semi-centennial celebra-tion of the Battle at Gettysburg. It was anevent unique in the history of human a renewed affirmation of the principle ofnational sovereignty, as superior to that of anysubordinate part, by a now invincible free people,it was of world-wide importance. Conceding allhonor and valor to the veterans of the Southerncause, conceding nothing at variance with theimmortal sentences spoken there by AbrahamLincoln, the soldiers of the North took the grayConfederates to their hearts and together theywrote a new and enduring pact and sealed itwith the red seal of that field of fields; andwhere these men, once armed enemies, now com-rades under one flag, stood face to face, their aged bodies young oncemore with patriotic ecstasy, a great temple
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