. Pennsylvania at Gettysburg. Ceremonies at the dedication of the monuments erected by the commonwealth of Pennsylvania to mark the positions of the Pennsylvania commands engaged in the battle . pon the line ofbattle. Nearly a generation has passed since President Lincoln stood on thisfield and uttered the immortal words at the dedication of the first battle monu-ment erected here, the world will little note, nor long remember, what we sayhere; it can never forget what they did here. DEDICATION OF MONUMENT 105^ REGIMENT INFANTRY September ii, 1S89 ORATION OF CHAPLAIN J. C. TRUESDALE COMRADES:—
. Pennsylvania at Gettysburg. Ceremonies at the dedication of the monuments erected by the commonwealth of Pennsylvania to mark the positions of the Pennsylvania commands engaged in the battle . pon the line ofbattle. Nearly a generation has passed since President Lincoln stood on thisfield and uttered the immortal words at the dedication of the first battle monu-ment erected here, the world will little note, nor long remember, what we sayhere; it can never forget what they did here. DEDICATION OF MONUMENT 105^ REGIMENT INFANTRY September ii, 1S89 ORATION OF CHAPLAIN J. C. TRUESDALE COMRADES:—Twenty-six years ago you were here, and did well yourpart in that awful conflict that for three days raged on this plain andover these granite hills. How these scenes around us stir the blood and revive the memoriesof other days. Here is the peach orchard, and there is the wheat-field; andthere is the Sherfy House; yonder are the two Round Tops; yonder are Gulpsand Wolfs hills, and Seminary and Cemetery ridges. All along these hills andridges more than two hundred guns volleyed and thundered in the most ter-rific cannonade ever heard on this continent. Yonder, in the edge of the woods,. PHOTO. BY W. H. TIPTON, GETTYSBURG. HE F. GUTEKUNST CO., Pennsylvania at Gettysburg. 537 Reynolds, the uoblest Ivoman dI them all, fell while bravely seeking to holdthe enemy in check until our forces could come up; yonder Pickett with ls.()0(jmen made his famous charge on the center of our line, only to be mowed downas grass falls before the reaper; there Longstreet vainly tried again and againto flank us and capture the batteries on Round Top; over all this ground werethe dead and the dying; there our own regiment, on the 2d and 3d of July,last in killed, wounded and missing more than half the force that went intothe tight. Here, too. on this historic ground, only five months after the stormof battle had passed away, the immortal Lincoln stood, and uttered these words,so true, so fitting: We
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