November 6th, Liverpool, England marked the last surrender of the American Civil War and the last official lowering of the Confederate flag. The very last act of the Civil War was Captain Waddell walking up the steps of
Liverpool Town Hall with a letter to present to the mayor surrendering his vessel to the British government.
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Albertus McCreary, " Gettysburg, A Boy's Experience Of The Battle ", McClure's Magazine, July 1909
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015014772829;view=1up;seq=255
McCreary stated Burns was out looking for his old cow when the Union army caught up with him and he was swept along with it.
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Philip Bliss
Hold The Fort For I Am Coming
Battle Altoona Pass, October 1864
Ira D. Sankey - Kennesaw Mountain
There is a report that Sherman remembered the words as being:
“Sherman is moving in force; Hold Out!”
“General Sherman says Hold Fast. We are Coming”
Sherman would say later he didn’t say “Hold the Fort for I am Coming” although that is what he meant.
Source: Reader’s Digest Family Songbook of Faith and Joy (pages 138-139)
Edit - After observing that nobody got the official correct answer of Albertus McCreary to the Veterans' Day question, I have come to the conclusion that that question should be thrown out. The way the question was worded would lead people to think that it was asking for the name of somebody who was a well-known citizen of Gettysburg at the time of the battle. Maybe McCreary became more prominent later in life, but he was only a kid at the time of the battle, so I think the question was misleading in that regard.
I will consider "Hold the Fort" to be an acceptable short version of the title "Hold the Fort For I Am Coming."
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