This speech was delivered by Edward Everett on April 19, 1825, the 50th anniversary of the battles of Lexington and Concord. It illustrates how a still-fledgling nation reflected upon the events that commenced the American Revolution.
Oldiees Publishing, Abraham Lincoln, Joe Hooker, Robert E. Lee, Stonewall Jackson, Clement Vallandigham, Ambrose Burnside, George Meade, Edward Everett, Ulysses Grant, William Sherman, Philip Sheridan, John Freemont, John Cochrane, George McClellan, Andrew Johnson, Walt Whitman, Mary Todd Lincoln, John Wilkes Booth, Joseph Holt, Robert Foster, H. L. Burnett, C. R. Clendemin, William T. Sherman & Nathan Bedford Forrest