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Excerpt from Address Delivered at the Dedication of Monument of the 14th Conn; Vols: At Gettysburg, Penn;, July 3d, 1884
My Comrades:
This is an hour of rarest satisfaction to you. You are where for months you have been longing to be, whither for years your thoughts have been tending - back on the spot where once you confronted the Rebellion's mightiest wave, and gazing over the fields where you passed to and fro in deadly peril, achieving for your regiment imperishable honor; and where you saw the tide of battle fluctuating during the most eventful engagements known in our country's history.
We are not now to dwell upon the history of the battle of Gettysburg or to estimate its effect upon either the effort of rebellion or our country's subsequent interests. He is foolish who shall attempt to do these in one address, and at this late day. Volumes have been written upon the battle and people have all at hand for examination; and the estimate universally put upon its effect leaves unnecessary any moralizing of ours now.
Our purpose is to recall your part in the great struggle here; your experience during the eventful campaign; something of the history of our grand old regiment whose record we are proud and jealous of; and to dedicate upon the spot where your valor and patriotism helped the country you had sworn to defend, even to the surrender of your lives, a pillar of remembrance that shall speak of you to your children and your countrymen when you have long been turned to dust. That our regiment is royally worthy of such honoring as we give it in our Memorial and our words to-day we heartily believe.
Facts and figures speak with a force incontrovertible. Here is one fact.
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