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Matthew Stanley Quay: In Memoriam: Address Delivered Before The Grand Army Of The Republic, Beaver Post, No. 473, March 31, 1905

Matthew Stanley Quay: In Memoriam: Address Delivered Before The Grand Army Of The Republic, Beaver Post, No. 473, March 31, 1905

H. Stone, Charles

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Military Biographies19th Century United States HistoryGeneral World History

ISBN10: 9354481795
ISBN13: 9789354481796
Publisher: Alpha Edition
Published: Mar 15 2021
Pages: 26
Weight: 0.19
Height: 0.05 Width: 8.50 Depth: 11.00
Language: English
When Senator Matthew Stanley Quay died, Pennsylvania lost more than a politician; it lost a symbol of Union endurance and Gilded Age power. In Matthew Stanley Quay: In Memoriam, Charles H. Stone presents a historical memorial address delivered before Beaver Post No. 473 of the Grand Army of the Republic on 31 March 1905, in the town Quay called home. Every sentence carries quiet reverence. Spoken among comrades-in-arms, this grand-army-of-the-republic speech becomes a civil war veteran tribute and Union Army remembrance, linking Quay's early service in the Union ranks to his later prominence in Pennsylvania political history and Gilded Age Republican politics. As a political commemorative oration from early 1900s Pennsylvania, it offers a rare, immediate glimpse of how post-Civil War America honoured its leaders and remembered its dead. Though not a full Matthew Stanley Quay biography, the address condenses how contemporaries saw his courage, party leadership and contested legacy. For Civil War historians and for political biography readers, it illuminates networks of loyalty, patronage and remembrance at the heart of Republican power in post-Civil War America. Casual readers of American history will find an accessible human portrait; collectors will value the authentic voice of a vanished political culture. Out of print for decades and now republished by Alpha Editions, this volume is restored for today's and future generations. More than a reprint - a collector's item and a cultural treasure.

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