Word: gettysburg
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Arnold '52 has recently presented the Union with a framed copy of Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Speech. It has been placed on the north wall of the Assembly Room. This gift is one of many presented to the Union by Mr. Arnold, among which are the speaker's desk, the exhibition case in the Periodical Room and many valuable books for the Library...
...Lincoln at Gettysburg," by C. E. Carr...
...Pennsylvania, 6; Gettysburg...
...proportion to the numbers engaged, said Mr. Buehler, the losses at Gettysburg were the greatest of the war. In one regiment alone the losses were 83 per cent, as compared to 33 per cent in the charge at Balaklava. A Confederate battalion was obliged to count its standards in order to realize that at one time it comprised ten regiments, and during Pickett's charge a body of cavalry lost 27 out of 36 of its horses within ten minutes...
Taking up the story of Gettysburg at the time when General Lee decided to strike a crushing blow in the North, Mr. Buehler followed the two armies in their reconnoiters around the Federal capital, showed the strategic position which the armies occupied on each the three days of the battle, and then described the battle and General Lee's retreat. He explained the decisive character of the conflict by referring to the session of the English House of Commons on the eve of the battle, when, after an argument extending far into the night, it was decided to wait before...