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 . Everett, one of the most distinguished orators wehave ever had, delivered a great oration. He was followed by thePresident who made an address that occupied five minutes. When took his seat, Mr. Everett said to him, Mr. President, my ora-tion will soon be forgotten, but what you have said will
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 . Everett, one of the most distinguished orators wehave ever had, delivered a great oration. He was followed by thePresident who made an address that occupied five minutes. When took his seat, Mr. Everett said to him, Mr. President, my ora-tion will soon be forgotten, but what you have said will live that great President, the friend of the whole country, who knewno animosity, was assassinated, the first surgeon to reach his side wasDr. John Wells Bulkley, who remained with him to the end. His son,Mr. Barry Bulkley, will read Lincolns Gettysburg Cemetery Dedica-tion address at this time. Mr. Bulkley then read the address as follows:— Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on thiscontinent a new nation, conceived in liberty and dedicated to theproposition that all men are created equal. Now we are engagedin a great civil war. testing whether that nation, or any nation so con-ceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great o HO a.
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