Excerpt from Tributes to Abraham Lincoln: Excerpts From Newspapers and Other Sources Providing Testimonials Lauding the 16th President of the United States; Surnames Beginning With Mau-MC This was the bloodiest battle of the Civil War, and that war was, in proportion to the numbers engaged, the bloodiest war of modern times. 'this gives a solemnity to the spot that every visitor above the level of the brute must feel. But the men on both sides who died here died for a high ideal; and the sp'ot-oh which the blood of a brave man is spilled for a high ideal becomes forever after 'holy ground. To maintain such a place in reverent memory is, in the literal sense of the word, a work of piety, which originally meant loyal devotion. 'for what is a nation? Is it a certain area of land occupied by a certain 'number of people? But that can describe a concentration camp, which is certainly not a nation. The United States of America occupies a continent, but the continent was here for many ages before the cou'ntry. 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.