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Title: 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
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: Pennsylvania. Gettysburg Battle-field Commission Nicholson, John Page, 1842-1922 Beitler, Lewis Eugene, 1863-
Subjects: Gettysburg, Battle of, Gettysburg, Pa., 1863 Gettysburg Reunion, 1913
Publisher: (Harrisburg : W. S. Ray, state printer)
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto
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with great pleasure that I now present to you the HonorableAlfred B. Beers, Commander-in-Chief of the Grand Army of theRepublic. Before entering upon his address Commander-in-ChiefBeers called on every person present who loved the Unionand its Flag to rise and give three cheers in honor of Gov-ernor Tener and the State of Pennsylvania, who had made thecelebration possible. Every person in the audience, the Blue,the Gray, and the citizens alike, responded, and the cheerswere enthusiastic and long continued. The Commander-in-Chief then spoke as follows:— Mr. Chairman and Veterans—Largely through the liberality andgenerous munificense of the. great Commonwealth of Pennsylvania,we meet on the field where fifty years ago today one of the greatestconflicts of modern ages was waged between t^o great armed bodiesof men, whose common ancestors nearly one hundred years before hadwrested independence from their ruler, domiciled in a foreign land, GENERAL OFFICERS, GRAND ARMY OF THE REPUBLIC.
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(1) ALFRED B. BEERS, BRIDGEPORT, CONNECTICUT, COMMANDER-IN-CHIEFAND SPEAKER, VETERANS DAY, JULY 1ST, 1913. (2) AMERICUS WHEEDON,WASHINGTON, D. C, JUNIOR ViC E-C O M M A N D E R-l N-C H I E F. (3) COLA D. R.STOWITS, BUFFALO, NEW YORK, QUARTERMASTER GENERAL. M) WM. H.ARMSTRONG, INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA, PAST SENIOR V I C E-C O M M A N D E R-l N-CHIEF. (5) REV. GEORGE E.LOVEJOY, LAWRENCE, MASS., CHAPLAIN-IN-CHIEF. GENERAL OFFICERS, UNITED CONFEDERATE VETERANS
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