. In memoriam, Alexander Stewart Webb, 1835-1911; . kill and forethought, in localitiescalculated to repel Lees and also any other army of the Rebel Confederacy. In the presence of the graves of our dead let us repeat that which I wrote ofyou about twenty years ago, sustained as I have been in mj statements by the bestof our historians, and conscious of my willingness and desire to acknowledge therights and the claims of any and every soldier who may have participated in ourtriumph. Men of the Philadelphia Brigade held this position for the whole period of thebattle, and were never driven from
. In memoriam, Alexander Stewart Webb, 1835-1911; . kill and forethought, in localitiescalculated to repel Lees and also any other army of the Rebel Confederacy. In the presence of the graves of our dead let us repeat that which I wrote ofyou about twenty years ago, sustained as I have been in mj statements by the bestof our historians, and conscious of my willingness and desire to acknowledge therights and the claims of any and every soldier who may have participated in ourtriumph. Men of the Philadelphia Brigade held this position for the whole period of thebattle, and were never driven from one rod or foot of it under any circumstance,save when the two companies of the Seventv-first, to which I refer in my report,others of the same regiment having been already removed to afford a space forartillery fire, were fairly overwhelmed, and driven back 100 to 150 feet by a massof the enemy, now known to be equal in volume to a full brigade. Some men of 110 THE NEW YOPkPUBLIC LIBRARY ASTOR, LENOX-DCl; rCCKDATIOMS the: crater PeT£R56URG, FAIR 0AK5UA. aieiant)er Stewart TlUebb the other brigades of our division passed in rear of our Seventy-second Regimentto its right, and, after the assault, to our front, who were not at any nionitnt inthe immediate face of the rebels, and who yet claim to have passed tlirough thatregiment. They did not. Justice — simple justice — to these, our dead, require this declaration, and ifI am to-day brought in direct conflict of statement with some of those who sopatriotically endeavored to assist us on July 3d, it is not through a want of appre-ciation of their efforts. God knows that I was grateful enough to them; but it issimply througli my sense of duty to the memory of these, over whose graves wehold this service. In loving commemoration of their devotion and daring, I must restrict these claims. You were posted, as you will remember, earh* on July 2d, on this ridge, andon the right of our division, by o
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