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...pride a timepiece he had completed after ten years. Big as a horse-van, more ornate than a cathedral altar, the monstrous gimcrack every hour tells the time in 27 different cities, plays a pipe organ, sings, talks. At the hour of Lincoln's funeral it intones the Gettysburg address. For the memory of President Garfield it plays "Gates Ajar," for President McKinley "Lead Kindly Light." An incidental ornament is a toy electric train...
Because its crowd of corpses marked the highest tide of the Confederate invasion of the North, because it is still the best-preserved battlefield in the U. S., and finally because Abraham Lincoln made a speech there, Gettysburg remains a famed landmark in U. S. history. The story of that three-day battle between Lee's veterans and Meade's Army of the Potomac has been told many & many a time since 1863 without growing older in the telling. Author Kantor's version, an attempt to describe the battle as it might have appeared to a noncombatant...
Daniel Bale came back to Gettysburg from the West to bury his grandfather. No Copperhead but an inconsistent pacifist, Bale had done his share of Indian fighting but refused to have anything to do with the Civil War. He settled down in his grandfather's house, prepared to have a quiet time for a while, in spite of his neighbor's nudges. Two events shattered his peace. First, a friend's wife fell in love with him, practically asking him to seduce her. And on July 1, 1863, Lee's advance guard met Buford...
Those cheerful frauds who enrich themselves by the confection of such small primers of American citizenship as are on tap at the local immigrant school have divine certainty on two points. First, of course, is the great democratic hypothesis of equality which Mr. Lincoln phrased so enchantingly at Gettysburg. But next the halting, all credulous alien is told that in the dark days of our republic, when irate heaven scorned the frontiersman and his libations, a very wicked gargoyle named the spoils system flourished in the land. Ah, alien--when he departed, and the curtains parted, there was Pendleton, kicking...
...confused with the Panorama is the Cyclorama, a single long painting in which one place or event merges into the next. Examples: the famed Pantheon of the War (402 ft. by 43 ft.) done by aged & infirm French painters, now in Chicago (see above); Battle of Gettysburg (404 ft. by 72 ft.), by Paul Philippoteoux, also in Chicago...