It gives me special pleasure to combine with that tribute, which I have usually been able to pay since this day was instituted, to the dead of all our armies, a special mark of respect to that great soldier who won Gettysburg.
Remarks During Decoration Day Ceremonies at Laurel Hill Cemetery in Philadelphia
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