Rutherford Hayes actually said...

"The honored dead who fought and perished will, therefore, be held in special and grateful remembrance."

"The battle of Gettysburg will probably always be regarded as the battle which did more than any other to determine the result of the great civil war in the United States."

"They believed that our institutions were equal to any emergency, and that they ought to be maintained at the cost of property or of life."

"I am directed by the President to say that the several Departments of the Government will be closed on Thursday, the 30th instant, in respect to the memory of those who fell in defense of the Union, a..."