. 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 . Pennsylvania Volunteers, the heroic dead who lost their lives in the ser-vice of their country, and to the regiment in whose ranks they fell, thismonument is solemnly dedicated by their surviving comrades. May itssilent presence teach more eloquently than language can express, the lessonsof patrioti
. 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 . Pennsylvania Volunteers, the heroic dead who lost their lives in the ser-vice of their country, and to the regiment in whose ranks they fell, thismonument is solemnly dedicated by their surviving comrades. May itssilent presence teach more eloquently than language can express, the lessonsof patriotism and self-sacrificing devotion to country. DEDICATION OF MONUMENT 23° regime:nt infantry September 12, 1889ADDRESS OF COLONEL JOHN F. GLENN COMRADES:—We assemble here to-day to unveil a statue that sur-mounts our monument, that we had the honor to dedicate some twoyears ago, and it is with feelings of gi-atification that I extend con-gratulations to the Twenty-third Pennsylvania Volunteers and comradesof Shalers Brigade, for such a large attendance of their survivors on thishallowed ground—and in their name I most heartily thank our friends whohave honored the occasion by their presence. To the State of Pennsyl-vania we extend our grateful thanks for the gift which I now unveil, that. BIEN S CO- NFW YOR Pennsylvania at Oettysburg. 181 of a Birney Zouave—and in saying this I assure the Commonwealth ofPennsylTania of the gratitude of all the survivors of the Twenty-thirdPennsylvania Volunteer Infantry. ADDRESS OF PRIVATE WILLIAM J. WRAY. MR. Secretary and Members of the Gettysburg Battle-field MemorialAssociation:—On August G, 1886, the Survivors Association of theTwenty-third Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers, and their friends,had the honor to dedicate and turn over to the keeping of your Asso-ciation this tablet, that marks the position of the Twenty-third during theaction of July 3, 1863. On that occasion. General Alexander Shaler, asorator of the day, after reviewi
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