"In great deeds something abides.  On great fields something stays.  Forms change and pass; bodied disappear, but souls linger, to consecrate ground for the vision-place of souls.  And Reverent men and women from far, and generations that know us not and that we know not of, heart-drawn to see where and why whom great things were suffered and done for them, shall come to this deathless field to ponder and dream...."

                        Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain