. 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 . ULIUSBIEN 8C0NEWY0R Pennsylvania at Oettyshurg, 735 DEDICATION OF M0NU:MENT 149^° Rl^GIMENT INFANTRY September 11, 1889ADDRESS OF CAPTAIN J. C. JOHNSON COMRADES:—I am sensible of the high honor conferred by this assign-ment to duty, and I shall hold it a cherished memory to the last dayof my life. I
. 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 . ULIUSBIEN 8C0NEWY0R Pennsylvania at Oettyshurg, 735 DEDICATION OF M0NU:MENT 149^° Rl^GIMENT INFANTRY September 11, 1889ADDRESS OF CAPTAIN J. C. JOHNSON COMRADES:—I am sensible of the high honor conferred by this assign-ment to duty, and I shall hold it a cherished memory to the last dayof my life. I wish I could hope to properly express the deep and earnest feelingsthat animate your breasts on this occasion. We are again assembledon the field where we fought more than a quarter of a century ago, andwhere we left many of our comrades wounded, mangled, dying. Time hasworked great changes since that day. Many who escaped death here,afterwards fell gloriously on other fields of battle. With us, the remnant,time has dealt as with all mankind. Many now see with dimmed vision,walk with halting gait and bended form, while all our heads are silveredover by the frosts of time. We begin to see that the day is not far dis-tant, when we shall reach the last camping ground and hear the last bugl
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