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Gettysburg Quotes
Words shaped by one battlefield's lasting weight.
This set of Gettysburg quotes moves between firsthand Civil War accounts and reflections on why Lincoln's address still ranks among great achievements in oratory. History and memory sit side by side here.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
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You don't go to Gettysburg with a shovel, you don't take belt buckles off the Arizona.
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Rations were scarcely issued, and the men about preparing supper, when rumors that the enemy had been encountered that day near Gettysburg absorbed every other interest, and very soon orders came to march forthwith to Gettysburg.
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We entered Gettysburg in the afternoon, just in time to meet the enemy entering the town, and in good season to drive him back before his getting a foothold.
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After this urgent protest against entering into battle at Gettysburg according to instructions - which protest is the first and only one I ever made during my entire military career - I ordered my line to advance and make the assault.
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