. 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 .. . t, I do it with a devout reverence and with an undying love for the mem-ory of those brave men who in their youth and manhood offered and gavetheir lives that thip country might live. They fell defending and upholding allthat that flag represents and embodies; the armies of the Union and thearmies
. 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 .. . t, I do it with a devout reverence and with an undying love for the mem-ory of those brave men who in their youth and manhood offered and gavetheir lives that thip country might live. They fell defending and upholding allthat that flag represents and embodies; the armies of the Union and thearmies of the Rebellion together, the people, north and south, east and west,can and will make for all time to come this republic that Lincoln died for,a government of the people, by the people, and for the people; and nowin the name and in behalf of the survivors of the Sixty-eighth PennsylvaniaVeteran Voluateer Infantry, Philadelphia Scott Legion Regiment, I havethe honor of presenting to your care and keeping this handsome granitemonument which marks the spot upon this memorial field where this grandold regiment stood unflinching twenty-five years ago, and where their bravecomrades fell and gave iip their lives upon the altar of their country thatthis glorious Union might be forever Pennsylvania at Gettysburg. 403 DEDICATION OF MONUMENT 69™ REGIMENT INFANTRY* September 11, 1889ADDRESS OF COLONEL JAMES OREILLY COMRADES:—Standing here on ground at once historic and sacred, andto memory ever dear, once again I greet you, and to you I wouldsay that this time—perhaps the hist time, as an organized body, thatwe shall visit this hallowed spot—we have come to pay final tribute, finalhonor, to our dead; not only those who here fell fighting that the Unionmight live, but to all our comrades, who, on any of the battlefields of thewar for the Union (and that was nearly all in which the grand old Army ofthe Potomac took part) offered up their lives a willing sacrifice, th
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