Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1873-06-04

programme, being headed by Chief
Marshal, General Cooper, and five of his
assistants, Maj. S. Hambright, of Bradley
county: Capt. Robert Kittrell of Loudon
Capt. w: A. White, OF Knox; Capt. a.
Myers, of Campbell Capt. A. A. Snod-
DERBY, of Union. and took up their line
of march up Gay street to Union, thence
up to Crooked, down Crooked to Asylum,
thence to Broad, up Broad to Bellevue,
and down BELLEVUE to Jacksboro' streets,
and thence to the Cemetery.
ORDER OF PROCESSION.
LIST. Chief Marshal and Assistants.
I'd. Turn Verein Band.
Sd. Cadets of East Tennessee University
under arms.
4th. Carriages with speakers and city
authorities.
5th. Officers and Committees of the So
ciety in carriages.
9Th. Car of Misses representing the thir-
ty-seven States.
9TH. Fire Companies Nos. /, ., and 4.
Sth. Ex-Federal soldiers OH foot.
9th. Ex-Federal soldiers mounted.
10th. Citizens in carriages.
18th. Citizens on foot.
18th. Wagons with flowers.
ORDER OF EXERCISES AT THE CEMETERY.
Music by the Band.
Prayer by Rev. J. Howard-Smith.
Music" How Sleep the Brave"
Address. A. Dewy, Esq.
Music" Silently, Tenderly, Mournfully
Sleeping"
Address-N. g. Taylor, d. ID.
Music-Brave BatterylBoys.
Decoration of the graves, while the Band
plays Funeral March," composed by
Prof. Knabe.
Benediction by Bev. j. B. Ford.
The procession was the largest ever
known in this city, extending nearly four
squares in length. The Cadets, under
Capt. Romeo Spence, presented q good APP
pearance, and made a very favorable i'm
preston on all who witnessed the process
ion.
The Turner Band discoursed some ex-
cellent music during the march as well as
at the Cemetery.
Arriving on the grounds the carriages
were emptied of their living freight, and
the crowd, after refreshing themselves
with ice water, four barrels having been
placed at each side of the avenue near the
main entrance, congregated around the
stand, under the National flag, which was
unfurled to the breeze at half mast.
THREE SUITABLE STANDS
had been erected, one for the President
Speaker of the occasion, Marshals, &c.
another for the Band and Choir. and q
third for the Misses representing the thir'
ty-seven States.
After music by the Band, they playing
one of Memberships songs withOutwords
the President, Hon. II. A. r. Nelson
made few remarks, explaining the OBJ
ject of the meeting and closed by calling
on Rev. j. Howard Smith, who addressed
the Throne of Grace in fervent and elo-
quent prayer.
The choir then sang "How Sleep the
Brave" after which the President intro
4, n
the day, explaining at the same time thai
the absence of n. G.. Taylor, d. D., who
was also to deliver an address, would nee
essarily make some change in the pro
gramme.
THE GRAFTON BY GEN. JOEL A. DEWEY.
| Comrades, Ladies and Gentlemen:
You have gathered for decoration an {
the discharge of duty. You have mustered
| from 1ar and near-frOm city, town anC
| hamlet; from vale, hillside and plain. We
| meet in the Joy and strength of hope, bu
we meet that we may not forget the de
! parted braVe-those who went hand in
| hand with us into the great struggle, bu
whose forms have vanished, whose voices
are hushed, and on whose graves the do
| lets of many springs have bloomed any
| died.
The memories of these brothers gone
before are with us now, and give this
! these memories are ever green; and ever
when we, like them, shall our take places
| in the silent halls of DEATH" they will bC
| fresh in the hearts of succeeding genera
tions, who too, shall bring their yearly
floral chaplets for the brows of our patriot
dead There is scarce household in the
| land which does not this day mourn some
Marcellus; no brotherhood that has no
laid some of its princely ones in the grave
More, and through all time 1t has been the
sad cry of humanity, that it is soon
est bereft of its worthiest and it,
dearest that in this world of sill
| having so much need of it
strongest and its purest ones-the fairesI
promise is earliest doom. So in the wa
our nation, from lakes to gulf, lost many
of the sons she hoped of most
And yet, though we have such prouC
and precious remembrances-almos thu
only recollections of those dark four year
we ought to nurture and to cherish
seems more apt and wise to me TO speak Il
living men of living things. In doing so
albeit in the weakest way, may best ap
propriate and teach the lesson Of their live
and deaths, and / stop only Ia aver that
| do not and will not here speak of polite