Rutherford Hayes actually said...

"If our assembling In this place shall fitly honor those whom we wish remembered with gratitude, it will be because, beholding these scenes and contemplating the example of the heroes who made Gettysbu..."

"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..."