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There are times when a corps commander's life does not count.
Winfield Scott Hancock /
Civil War
Doe
Gettysburg
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I've been to Gettysburg probably more than half a dozen times.
Keith Hernandez / Baseball Player
Dozen
Gettysburg
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it wasn't by accident that the Gettysburg address was so short.
Ernest Hemingway / Author
Addresses
Gettysburg
Prose Writing
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Gettysburg. . . . You cant understand it. You would have to be born there.
William Faulkner / Writer
Born
Gettysburg
Understanding
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You don't go to Gettysburg with a shovel, you don't take belt buckles off the Arizona.
Robert Ballard / Professor
Arizona
Belt Buckles
Gettysburg
Belt
Shovel
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I remember working on movies like Gettysburg and feeling that Jeff Daniels was kind of a mentor.
Donal Logue / Actor
Feelings
Gettysburg
Kind
Mentor
Remember
Working
Feeling
Jeff
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One hundred and fifty years after Lincoln's Gettysburg Address, equality for many Americans remains elusive.
Mike Quigley / U.s. Representative
Elusive
Gettysburg
Remains
Lincoln
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Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure.
Abraham Lincoln / 16Th U.s. President
War
Gettysburg
Long
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A great presidential address - Lincoln's Gettysburg Address, Truman's Farewell Address, Kennedy's Inaugural Address - has the power to inspire.
Steve Rushin / Journalist
Farewell
Gettysburg
Inspire
Presidential
Truman
Address
Lincoln
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We entered Gettysburg in the afternoon, just in time to meet the enemy entering the town, and in good season to drive him back before his getting a foothold.
John Buford /
Afternoon
Enemy
Entering
Gettysburg
Drive
Back
Before
Getting
Entered
Him
His
Meet
Season
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If you go to Gettysburg and take the time, maybe take a tour, maybe just drive around, read some of the monuments, read some of the plaques, you will come away changed.
Jeff Shaara / Novelist
Changed
Gettysburg
Monument
Time Will Go
Drive
Around
Away
Read
Maybe
Monuments
Tour
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I went to Gettysburg College, where the famous Civil War battle was fought. I majored in English. I would've liked to major in writing, but they didn't offer a major in that.
Jerry Spinelli / Writer
Famous
War
Battle
Civil War
College
Gettysburg
Writing
English
Civil
Liked
Fought
Major
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Lincoln's address at Gettysburg - 272 words dedicating a cemetery at the site of one of the Civil War's bloodiest battles - has been called by scholars the source of all modern political prose.
Mike Quigley / U.s. Representative
Cemetery
Gettysburg
Prose
Site
Battles
Civil
Dedicating
Lincoln
Scholars
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And my parents live down in West Virginia, and I have to drive through the Shenandoah Valley pretty often to go visit them. You actually drive right by Gettysburg and some other spots where there were huge battles.
Aaron Dessner / Songwriter
Gettysburg
Spots
Virginia
West Virginia
Battles
Valley
Visit
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Rations were scarcely issued, and the men about preparing supper, when rumors that the enemy had been encountered that day near Gettysburg absorbed every other interest, and very soon orders came to march forthwith to Gettysburg.
Joshua Chamberlain / Former Governor Of Maine
Enemy
Gettysburg
March
Preparing
Supper
Absorb
Came
Encountered
Near
Orders
Rumors
Scarcely
Soon
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After this urgent protest against entering into battle at Gettysburg according to instructions - which protest is the first and only one I ever made during my entire military career - I ordered my line to advance and make the assault.
John B. Hood /
Assault
Battle
Entering
Gettysburg
Military
Protest
Urgent
According
Advance
Entire
Instructions
Ordered
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May we all, as a nation of believers, fight for the achievement of America; may we make sacrifices worthy of those proud men and women who fought for us, labored for us, bled soil from the beaches of Normandy to the fields of Gettysburg for us.
Cory Booker / United States Senator
Achievement
Fields
Gettysburg
Men And Women
Proud
Soil
Worthy
Men Women Fight
Beaches
Believers
Bled
Nation
Women Men Fight
Fought
Sacrifices
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My great-grandfather and his two brothers fought at Gettysburg. They were in artillery, and they survived the war, thank goodness. So I revere what they did. I think their motivations were honorable when they undertook the war and participated in it along with other Southerners.
Jimmy Carter / 39Th U.s. President
Artillery
Gettysburg
Goodness
Great Grandfather
Honorable
Survived
Fought
Motivations
Revere
Southerners
Thank
Thank Goodness
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I was raised with traditional stories of leadership: Robert E. Lee, John Buford at Gettysburg. And I also was raised with personal examples of leadership. This was my father in Vietnam. And I was raised to believe that soldiers were strong and wise and brave and faithful; they didn't lie, cheat, steal, or abandon their comrades.
Stanley A. Mcchrystal / Armed Force Officer
Wise
Abandon
Brave
Faithful
Gettysburg
Vietnam
Comrades
Examples
Lee
Robert
Soldiers
Steal
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