Excerpt from An Oration: At the Unveiling of the Equestrian Statue of Major-General Winfield Scott Hancock on the Battlefield of Gettysburg June 5 1896 Our thought to-day goes out to the superb soldier, his work in battle, this memorable field and its many lessons. Pennsylvania, that gave to the cause of the Union in the War of the Rebellion white soldiers, 8612 black soldiers and sailors and marines, aggregating by legislative enactment places upon this historic field, to te main as long as a grateful people love liberty, and a constitutional government obeyed by all, monuments to the three distinguished soldiers of our Commonwealth who fought, bled and died upon the soil of their loved State. Words elo quent and true, though language is poor to ex press his great deservings, have this day dedicated the bronze and iron and stone, that history, through the sculptor's art, may exhibit the heroic, a monument to major-general George Gordon Meade. May the love and veneration of the people for this great soldier, be commensurate with his mighty work upon this blood-stained field, and their memory as lasting as the Union which here he did so much to maintain and pre serve. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.