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Theodore Roosevelt, 1858-1919
Born New York City
This documentary news photograph shows President Roosevelt, his wife, and entourage, flanked by an honor guard of soldiers, arriving at Cemetery Hill on the Gettysburg battlefield, where he delivered an address on the Civil War's legacy. Prior to the speech, the presidential party had toured the battlefield and listened to Union generals Dan Sickles and O. O. Howard discuss their part in the battle; Sickles had lost his leg in savage fighting in the Peach Orchard. Roosevelt's speech repeated the theme of sacrifice that Abraham Lincoln had posed in the Gettysburg Address of 1863. He concluded by maintaining that the North and South were now unified in the joint losses they had suffered during the war: "All are at one now, the sons of those who wore the blue and the sons of those who wore the gray."
Ransburg-Burns Studio, c 1904 |