From the 1909 volume of the Confederate Veteran:
"July 1, 1864, being the first anniversary of the battle of Gettysburg, President Lincoln visited the battlefield and, pointing to Cemetery Ridge, said: 'I am proud to own as my countrymen the men who charged those heights.'" Dr. C. H. Todd, of Owensboro, Ky., inquires, "Did President Lincoln make such or a similar statement at that time and place or at any other time and place?"