25 Years After Gettysburg, a Sergeant Spoke From the Heart. Here's What he Said.
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First Sgt. John V. Miller of the 142nd Pennsylvania Infantry led his company at Gettysburg after all the officers had been hit. A quarter-century after the battle, at a reunion in Gettysburg, he remembered the fallen. Here's his address.
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