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“I should be glad if I could flatter myself that I came as near the central idea of the occasion, in two hours, as you did in two minutes.” –Edward Everett, keynote speaker at the dedication of the National Cemetery in Gettysburg, to Abraham Lincoln, in a letter written the day after Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address.
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randomcivilwarquotes posted this
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The events and people of the Civil War through the eyes of its participants and witnesses.
