Word: battlefield
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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More than forty years of domestic peace have healed the wounds left by the Civil War. At the close of the struggle, many who had left Harvard for the front returned to complete their course. Others there were who did not return, but died on the battlefield,--soldiers of the North and soldiers of the South. Memorial Hall was built as a tribute to the gallantry of those who fell fighting for the Union. Probably a greater number left Harvard to join Confederate ranks than fought in the war with Spain. Would it not be a fitting token...
...early days of service that we are to hear tonight in the Union, of the days and months when still a young man, he experienced the tedium of the camp, the fatigue of the march, and the danger of the battlefield. It should provide a splendid occasion to gain an insight into the character and ideals of the man, who has survived the War these forty years a model of devotion to his country and his College, while he reminisces about the days...
...Hotchkiss School, delivered a lecture in the Union last evening on "The Battle of Gettysburg" before a large audience. The stereopticon views illustrating the lecture consisted of charts showing the positions of the divisions of each army before the battle and during its various stages; pictures of the battlefield as it appears at the present day and of the monuments erected to the soldiers; and many contemporary paintings, photographs and wood-cuts portraying the struggle...
...Arthur K. Peck. Mr. Peck is a traveller of note in both Europe and America and has made a desirable reputation as a lecturer on places of interest in the western parts of the United States. This evening he will describe a visit to Custer's battlefield, the Sioux and Crow Indian reservations, horse-back trips with the cow-boys, explorations in the Bad Lands, digging fossil remains of pre-historic monsters, and many adventures unusual in accounts of travel in the Indian country. Among the interesting events he will mention are a journey into the wilderness with the discoverer...