Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1870-06-23

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war, which seem to grow pleasanter and
more interesting as the scenes and service
they commemorate recede il point OF
time. Twenty members of the regiment
including its first Lit. Col, Stannard, its
last Colonel, A. S. Tracy, Surgeon B. w
Carpenter, Quarter-Master Lauriston
Stone, and others of the officers and rank
and file, met at o'clock p. m, at the
Hall of the Grand Army of the Republic
Gen. Stannard presided and introduced
Col. F. V. Randall, formerly Capt. of Co
f. of the I'd, who delivered
THE ADDRESS
Col. Randall commenced by recalling
the rising of the people at the call o.
President Lincoln, and the organization
of the second regiment, the first of the
Vt, three years regiments, at Burlington
on the Goth of June, 1861. These meet
ings, called to perpetuate the memories Of
the four years of war that followed
should also have a higher object. We
should not allow posterity to lose sight Of
the cause of the war. Unless the cause
| forget rather than remember those scenes
Slavery was the cause of the war, thu
skeleton in the house; but had the South
erners striven to maintain 1T within tn
Union, any proposition to make war OF
them would have found no favor. Blu
when they defed the government, anC
announced their intention TO set up {
new government, of which slavery should
! be the corner stone, the North rose to thu
emergency, and the hilltops of Vernon
were ablaze, as her sons rallied TO the
support of the government. The I'd regi
ment, which then took the field, wa
second to none for gallsntry and dash
Picked men for physical perfection anC
for intelligence, such men could not Blu
be successful soldiers. No soldiers ex
torted more admiration than the Vernon
soldiers, and the second was behind nom
in those respects AS illustrating TIA
characteristics of the Vermont troops Col
Randall gave a spirited description of tn
famous storming of Marye's Heights a
Fredericksburgh by the old brigade, anC
narrated various experiences of the CAM
and march including the well known
story how the I'd boys made the thievinI
New Jerseymen eat dog.
To Col. Whiting, the first Colonel o
the regiment, Col. Randall gave the credi
| OF unt1rlng zeal aud ID IL providing 70,
the regiment, and if he could not fight i
successfully, there were those who could
in the persons of Lieut. Col. Stannard, tht
thorough soldier and upright and cour
teous gentleman, and Major Joyce, tn
Murat of the regiment.
OF the line officers of the regiment VIII
attained subsequent distinction, Col. Ran
dali made the following mention:
Beside the great distinction won by
Gen. Stannard, who wears more star
than arms, Capt. Walbridge, the great
stickler for literal observance of the tao
tics, became Colonel of the regiment
Major Joyce attained to the rank of Lieu
tenant Colonel, and had he remained in
the regiment and service would have
gained much higher honors
Captain Hope, although he did not at
tain promotion in the line, deserved it, fol
| he damaged the rebels on the Peninsula
more than Mcclellan did, for he made q
picture of them that showed them in theil
true ragamuffin style, which, had they
seen it, would have blasted all theil
earthly hopes and aspirations for South
ern Confederacy Capt. Dillingham; wal
made Lieut.. Col of the Eighth Regiment
and served with distinction in the Gull
department. Capt. Smith, although he
did not aspire to high rank, commanded
with distinction the Tunbridge company
Capt. Drew, believe, attained some dis
tinction in the Veteran Reserves. Capt
Fullam was made Lieut. Col. of the 18th
Regiment
Of the Lientenants, several attained tc
high rank.
Lieut.. Tyler became Colonel of the regi
as did also Lieut.. Stone, and both of these
gallant officers surrendered their lives al
the head of their command, while most
nobly doing battle for the cause and up.
holding the honor of cur State. Lieut.
Henry, who has survived all the shocks OF
battle and who is with US tonight, and
God grant he may be with us ON many an
occasion like this, became Colonel in due
course of promotion from a Captaincy in
the tenth regiment, and received brevet
commission as a Brigadier for gallant and
meritorious conduct. Lieut.. johnson at
tanned to the rank of Lieut.-Col. in the
old regiment where he did most nobly bis
duty to the end of the war, and after hav-
ing endured and withstood the hardship
of camp for four years, like many other OF
our noble and worthy companions, re-
turned to his home to sicken and die by
ordinary disease. His commanding per.
son, his frank and manly bearing, and his
companionable department is fresh in the
memory of all, and l need but allude to
mis- sad case to arouse the sympathy and
unwelcome tear of all who knew him
We supply Col. Randall's modest omis-
sion of his own name from the above list,
by saying that Capt. Randall became af-
forwards Colonel of the 18th Vermont
distinguished himself at Gettysburgh,
and was subsequently Colonel of the 18th,
whose history was record of almost con.
slant fighting and gallant service.
The battles of the regiment were the
first Bull Run, where they did tall run
ming with the rest. Drainsville, Lees
Mills, Williamsburg, Golding's Farm,
Savage Station, White Oak Swamp, NAL
vern Hills, South Mountain, Antietam,
Fredericksburgh, Marye's Heights, second
Fredericksburgh, Gettysburgh, Funks-
town, Rappahannock, Wilderness, Spott-
sylyania,I Cold Harbor, Petersburgh,
Charlestown, Opequan, Fishers Hill, Mt.
Jackson, Cedar Creek, Petersburgh, March
ID. and April I'd, '65, and Sailors Run
Col. r. alluded to the fact that the 2nd
was ordered out for regimental parade for
the inspection of Gen. Prim, the Spanish
General, on his visit to the army in 1862,
and the consolation they deserved from
the reflection that Gen. Mcclellan would
probably have paraded his worst regi
ment on such an occasion. With few
words of encouragement to his hearers to
keep fresh the memories of the service
and the assurance that future generations
would more fully appreciate the service