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<p>, which are engraved upon the memorial erected by the United Daughters of the Confederacy to the Confederate dead at Jackson Circle in Arlington National Cemetery.
Here are Dr. McKim’s words:
“Not for fame or reward, not for place or for rank, not lured by ambition or goaded by necessity, but in simple obedience to duty as they understood it, these men suffered all, sacrificed all, dared all, and died.”
We meet at Gettysburg, and we dedicate this beautiful memorial to the soldiers and sailors of the Confederacy, who taught by example this precept of their greatest chieftain, Robert E. Lee: “Duty then is the sublimest word in our language.”
Like the memorial to the Spartans who fell at Thermopylae, this is a monument to the vanquished and not to the victors.
I end with a prayer. As long as Fame her record keeps, may this memorial join history in bearing to the generations the message that the soldiers and sailors of the Confederacy fought for the cause they loved in simple obedience to duty as they understood it and that they illustrated by their lives and by their deaths in a fashion unsurpassed in the annals of time this eternal truth:
“Defeat may serve as well as victory, 
To shake the soul and let the glory out.”</p>
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