A Symphony of These Honored Dead – Aaron Slutkin

A Symphony of These Honored Dead – Aaron Slutkin

Though he claims to have compiled the first “oral history” of the Battle of Gettysburg, Bruce Chadwick is among fine company in calling us to hearken to the fallen. Standing among the neat graves at the first Decoration Day ceremony at Arlington National Cemetery, then-Congressman James A. Garfield offered a similar requiem: “And now consider this silent assembly of the dead. What does it represent? Nay, rather, what does it not represent? It is…