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Louisianians at Gettysburg Greetings About this time of evening in early July, 108 years ago, another group of Louisianians were at Gettysburg. As a matter of fact they were just down the hill from here, about 1,200 feet or so from where you are now. You are not quite near the top of East Cemetery Hill, one of America’s historic sites, now part of Gettysburg National Military Park. At the top of that hill on that July evening were Union infantry and artillery of Meade’s Army of the Potomac waiting to close the Second Day’s Battle at Gettysburg. That hill also became the scene of one of the great milestones in our American heritage. A site that is as relevant today for what it stands for as it was on that crisp November day in 1863. For there, in what is now the National Cemetery, is there place where Abraham Lincoln in his response to give “…a few appropriate remarks” for the dedication of the Soldiers National Cemetery, gave us, gave all Americans, a philosophy of government for us to live by. Those words we now call the Gettysburg Address. Carl Sandburg seems to have captured their meaning when he wrote that his Lincoln [sic] sentences “…were inside of them guarded gnarled and tough with the enigmas of the American experiment.”

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