It was Abraham Lincoln who said at the dedication of the National Cemetery
at Gettysburg:
"But in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate, we
cannot hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled
here, have consecrated it far above our power to add or detract. The world
will little note nor long remember what we say here, but it can never
forget what they did here."
And yet the Military Order of the Loyal Legion, Commandery of
Massachusetts, and the Wisconsin History Commission, in so far as they
authorized, or are responsible for the publication of the Haskell
"Narrative" of the Battle of Gettysburg, are surely, surely doing what
they can to detract from what the living and the dead did there.