Benjamin Harrison actually said...

"We laid them elbow touching elbow in the order in which they had stood in the line of battle."

"We mourn for them as comrades who have departed, but we feel the glory of their dying and the glory of their achievement covers all our great country, and has set them in an imperishable roll of honor..."

"We can not ask less than that in all relations they shall obey the law, and they shall yield to every other man his full rights under the law."

"I appreciate most highly this generous welcome which you extend to me, and shall take part in these exercises of the day with a sense of their fitness and of the great events which they commemorate."