On September 11, 1889, the Rev. J.C. Truesdale stood along Gettysburg’s Emmittsburg Road and delivered a soaring address to dedicate a monument to the veterans of the 105th Pennsylvania Infantry, affectionately known as “The Wildcat Regiment.” Though he had not been at the Battle of Gettysburg, the Presbyterian pastor and Ohio native served as a Pennsylvania militiaman during the Civil War, en route to his role as the 105th’s regimental chaplain during the conflict’s final year. One contemporary remarked, “He was highly esteemed, and he was cordially hated,” while another deemed him a “radical...against slavery” and recalled, “He was an earnest, fearless, eloquent minister of the Gospel of Christ”—exemplified in the sermon he spoke on the rebellion’s bloodiest battlefield, 26 years after the events of July 1863.

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