Last updated: July 22, 2021
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Grant's Tomb Dedication Ceremony
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Grant Monument Association
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Library of Congress
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Library of Congress
“Let us not forget the glorious distinction with which the metropolis…has honored his life and memory. With all that riches and sculpture can do to render an edifice worthy a man, upon a site unsurpassed for magnificence, has this monument been reared by New York as a perpetual record of his illustrious deeds, in the certainty that as time passes around it, will assemble with gratitude and reverence and veneration men of all times, races, and nationalities. New York holds in its keeping the precious dust of the silent soldier, but his achievements – that he and his brave comrades wrought for mankind – are in keeping of seventy millions of American citizens, who will guard the sacred heritage forever and forevermore.”