. Personally-conducted tour to the battlefield of Gettysburg, Luray caverns, and Washington .. . erected to their honor and the jealous care with which every movement ismarked. A special tour, therefore, from Boston,New York, and Philadelphia, which includes in itsitinerary this historic field, must appeal strongly tothe residents of those cities. Gettysburg is indeed one of the most interestingplaces in America. The most momentous contest of the great Rebellion,it was also the great-est battle ever foughton American soil, andthe greatest conflict ofrecent years. Not un-til the tourist standsu
. Personally-conducted tour to the battlefield of Gettysburg, Luray caverns, and Washington .. . erected to their honor and the jealous care with which every movement ismarked. A special tour, therefore, from Boston,New York, and Philadelphia, which includes in itsitinerary this historic field, must appeal strongly tothe residents of those cities. Gettysburg is indeed one of the most interestingplaces in America. The most momentous contest of the great Rebellion,it was also the great-est battle ever foughton American soil, andthe greatest conflict ofrecent years. Not un-til the tourist standsupon Gulps Hill, oron one of the RoundTops, or treads theground once troddenby Picketts men intheir brave and deadlycharge, does he fullyappreciate all the ter-rible realities of thousands ofnoble men met death—the greatest sacri-fice they could make—that their country, the gloriousAmerican Union, might live; and through their death,and the heroic courage of their comrades who haveerected their monuments, that nation still lives tohonor and cherish and revere their memory. It is. VETERANS OF 63. the inspiration ot the patriot and the pride of everyAmerican citizen, for on its hilltops and in its val-leys was wrought out through blood and death the
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