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110. Louisianans at Gettysburg - Historian GNMP Harrison Banquet Speech_Page_09

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Gettysburg is an appropriate place for Louisiana to memorialize her sons who fought in our Civil War. It was here that “…the most eventful struggle of the war” took place. It was here that Jefferson Davis said that a victory would have “…probably…(secured) our independence” for its results “…depressed the Confederacy and heightened that of the Union” causing “…the momentum of the war to be with the north.” General Lee viewed the failure of the Confederacy for “…the struggle for States rights and constitutional government” as being “…in the good provenance of God,” and that “…apparent failure often proves a blessing.” This blessing, whether or not you say it has or has not come to pass, is could be symbolized by the two figures composing the Louisiana Monument. One of the figures them could refers [sic] to that very elusive faculty of mind, our Memory; we could also call it our history, or heritage. The other symbol is is that goal, we call Peace, which his also equally elusive. The memory of it all can be seen in the recumbent figures of the dead Confederate soldier grasping his beloved Stars and Bars of the Confederacy. The integrity, courage, and devlotion devotion of not only those Louisianians at Gettysburg and on all at other Civil War battlefields, but of all Confederates who gave their all last measure of devotion to a cause they believed to be just, can be seen in that sublime figure.

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