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One of the most emotional inspiring coins in all of numismatics. Post a coin that you feel inspires great emotion...
Antietam:
"The muffled drum's sad roll has beat
The soldier's last tattoo;
No more on life's parade shall meet
That brave and fallen few."
"When we look on yon battlefield, I think of the brave men who fell in the fierce struggle of battle, and who sleep silent in their graves. Yes, many of them sleep in silence and peace within this beautiful enclosure after the earnest conflict has ceased."
Antietam:
"The muffled drum's sad roll has beat
The soldier's last tattoo;
No more on life's parade shall meet
That brave and fallen few."
"When we look on yon battlefield, I think of the brave men who fell in the fierce struggle of battle, and who sleep silent in their graves. Yes, many of them sleep in silence and peace within this beautiful enclosure after the earnest conflict has ceased."
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<< <i>I don't have an image, but the Gettysberg commem always had an emotinal effect on me. You can tell the Confederate and the Union solders on the obverse are brothers. The Civil war sometimes pitted brother against brother.
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Gettysburg:
The Army paused to rest awhile,
All hearts were light, each face a smile,
And jokes went round through rank and file, -
We knew not then of Gettysburg.
Perchance a wit roused up, and then
Played the buffoon for graver men;
Nor dreamed we of the future, when
The cloud should burst o'er Gettysburg.
A Bugle sounds. "What means it! Say?"
A General Staff just passed this way.
Said one, – "I think we’ll fight to-day,
For Lee’s in force at Gettysburg."
The veterans well knew what it meant,
For Meade had re-enforcement sent
To Reynolds’ men, now well nigh spent
In holding ground at Gettysburg.
Our three days’ march was nearly done;
Foot sore and scorched ’neath burning sun,
We waited now the signal gun;
To take our turn in Gettysburg.
And presently there came a sound,
That filled the heavens and shook the ground,
And echoed wildly all around
The woods and vales of Gettysburg.
"Fall in! Fall in!" The host uprose,
With one consent, to meet its foes; –
Thus did the morning dawn for those
Who fought with us, at Gettysburg.
What were our thoughts? – You ask in vain,
For scarcely two men felt the same;
Before us on the open plain –
’Twas LIFE or DEATH at Gettysburg.
Some thought of HOME, and raised the prayer:
"Father, this day our firesides spare,
And if we fall, in mercy care
For those bereft by Gettysburg."
And some with doubts and fears oppressed,
Others with thoughts of sin distressed,
And some said: "Comrades, Breast to Breast
We'll stand or fall at Gettysburg."
Said Christian men: "We humbly pray,
0, God! for our success this day,
Help Thou the right, aid us to say,
‘Thy will be done’ at Gettysburg."
As on we hurried came the cry
Of battling hosts for victory;
"Unfurl Your Colors!" Let them fly
To cheer the men at Gettysburg.
We pass by scores the Boys in Blue,
Jaded and sick and wounded, too,
They’ll rest awhile, and then anew
Fill up the Gaps in Gettysburg.
"Fresh Troops! Hurrah!" rings over the field,
Now to the North, the South must yield;
We knew them not; their hearts were steeled
To WIN or DIE at Gettysburg.
This was the turning point; if won
By Southern arms their work was done.
Were ours the day, a Northern sun
Would shine as now o’er Gettysburg.
The cannon roar from every mound,
And horsemen fly at bugle sound,
While wounded men upon the ground
Were bruised and crushed at Gettysburg.
In ghastly heaps the dead were thrown;
In shapeless piles the wounded strewn;
Like fields of grain the men were mown
By shot and shell at Gettysburg.
And still the carnage fiercer grew,
And yet the fight fresh troops renew,
And more the murderous bullets flew,
Laden with death at Gettysburg.
And still the strife throughout the day
Abates not ’tween the Blue and Gray,
At nightfall Thirty Thousand lay
Upon the field of Gettysburg.
The end has come. Let those who bled
Be e’er revered as honored dead.
Let Peace her glorious mantle spread
And hide from all men Gettysburg.
What of the Living? Were they not true
In time of need and danger, too?
They fought for Right, for Home, for You,
And shunned not even Gettysburg.
Honor them well, Old Comrades Brave,
They did their best the land to save,
Wealthy or Poor, their all they gave
Before the guns at Gettysburg.
If then these sufferings made us free,
And gave our bond men Liberty,
We’ll say: Thrice blessed the chastening be,
And thank the Lord for Gettysburg.
Let us in unity to-day,
Lift up the prostrate foe and say
The Northern Blue and Southern Gray
Brothers shall be since Gettysburg.
In well the PAST has been, or ill,
We have the glorious PRESENT still.
In FUTURE let us trust His will
Who brought us safe through Gettysburg.
Comrades, we send a brother’s cheer,
As you convene from far and near.
May this eclipse each former year
In harmony since Gettysburg.
Live honest lives. Let every one
Be faithful ’till his time shall come,
Then heaven will surely "Welcome Home"
Each Noble Son of Gettysburg.
"God of our sires," within whose hand
The Nations rest, "like grains of sand."
Bless Thou our great and glorious land
Baptized in blood at Gettysburg.
That's the finest Antietam I've ever seen!
The Oregon Trail is steeped in American History:
Albert Bierstadt: EMIGRANTS CROSSING THE PLAINS
On to Oregon! It all began with a crude network of rutted traces across the land from the Mississippi River that was used by nearly 400,000 people. Today the 2,170 mile Oregon Trail still evokes an instant image, a ready recollection of the settlement of this continent, of the differences between American Indians and white settlers, and of new horizons. In 1840 only three states existed west of the Mississippi River. Maine's boundary with Canada was undefined. The western boundaries of the Nation lay roughly along the Continental Divide. Within 10 years the United States and Great Britain had drawn a boundary that stretched from the Atlantic to the Pacific. The western boundary moved from the Rocky Mountains to the Pacific Ocean. In another 40 years successive waves of emigrants completely eliminated any sense of frontier, changed the way of life of the American Indians, and ravaged many wild animal species, especially the herds of buffalo. Plows and barbed wire subdued the prairies. Transcontinental railroads knitted the great distances together.
Herb
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