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“But the cause for which we fought was higher; our thought was wider,” was said by Colonel Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain at the dedication of the 20th Maine Monument at Gettysburg in 1889.

Maine, Gettysburg Commission, Maine at Gettysburg (Portland, ME: Lakeside Press, 1898), 551.

 

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