Thayer Walk Project — Along the Wall
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Gettysburg, Pennsylvania
July 3, 1863 |
Tell Hancock I have done him and my country a
great injustice which I shall never cease to regret . . . |
gasped Brigadier General Lewis A. Armistead, CSA, ex-USMA Class of 1837, as he lay dying before the guns of Battery A, 4th US Artillery, commanded by First Lieutenant Alonzo H. Cushing, USMA Class of June 1861, who fell there also. Armistead’s brigade was stopped with the remainder of the division of Major General George E. Pickett, USMA Class of 1846, at the crest of Pickett’s Charge. |
This message, along with other personal items, was relayed to Armistead’s close friend, Major General Winfield Scott Hancock, USMA Class of 1844, Commander of the Second Army Corps of the Army of the Potomac, by General Hancock’s aide. |
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Belle Grove, Virginia
October 21, 1864 |
Major General Stephen Dodson Ramseur, CSA, USMA Class of 1860, mortally wounded during the Battle of Cedar Creek, was carried from the field to Belle Grove, a nearby country home. His Union friends, whom he had met at West Point, Major General George Armstrong Custer, USMA Class of June 1861, Colonel Wesley Merritt, USMA Class of 1860, and Lieutenant Colonel Alexander C. Pennington, USMA Class of 1860, joined him and sat through the night comforting him as he lay dying. |
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Washington, DC
March 4, 1865 |
“With malice toward none; with charity for all; let us strive to finish the work we are in; to bind the nation’s wounds; to care for him who shall have borne the battle, and for his widow, his orphans — to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and a lasting peace, among ourselves, and with all nations.” |
Abraham Lincoln
. . . Second Inaugural Address |
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