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Teddy Roosevelt: “Only men with a touch of the heroic in them could have lasted out that three days’ struggle at Gettysburg.”

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Only men with a touch of the heroic in them could have lasted out that three days’ struggle at Gettysburg.
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Teddy Roosevelt
Republican · New York

Editor's note · Context

Roosevelt admires the heroism required to endure the three-day battle at Gettysburg.

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