Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1878-03-01


to intersection Of beams in center. The
ceiling is all of polished butternut laid on
in diagonal strips One of The most inter-
esting features Of the building are its
handsome memorial windows. the glass for
which was imported from Scotland, for
this especial purpose. and is Of the real
old style Of European cathedral glass. the
color beiug part OF the glass itself. and
not frosted and painted over on common
white glass, as is the case in nearly all OF
our American so-called stained glass win
dows. The large chancel window in the
west end Of the Chapel, is the contribution
of number Of the surviving members of
tbs 29th Regiment, and is placed to The
memory of their late honored commander,
Colonel Lewis p Buckley. It also forms
memorial of the services of the 29th
Regiment. This window is ten feet wide and
twenty-five feet high, the lower part, for
fifteen feet in hight, being divided into
three openings. separated by hesvy moulded
stone mullions, from which spring stone
arches, which terminate and intsrsect into
Gothic points above, interlacing and form
ing open trsesry work, dividing the open
ings into a great number of graceful
shapes, which are filed with ornamental
glass. The center opening in the tracery
above, forming five pointed star, the
white star being the emblem of the Goth
Army Corps, upon which is colored the
words, "29lh o. V. V. I. LIST Brigade, 2nd
Division, 20th A. c." The large center
panel of the window below contains a full
size figure of Colonel Buckley in full dress
uniform. with the following inscription
underneath:
In memory of Lewis P. Buckley, horn
at Cayuga Lake, n. Y, died at Akron,
Ohio. June %, 1868. aged "a years.
The eolored glass on either side, con-
tains, in lettared inscription the following
brief synopsis Of the leading events par
ticipated in by Col. Buckley and his Regi-
ment: Col Buckley entered the service
April, 1861, Capt Co. G.19th O.V. l., soon
promoted Major, served in Western Vir-
ginia. in the battle of Rich Mountain, Ju-
ly, 9, 1861. In Sept, 1861, he organized
the 29th o. V. I. for three years service.
The regiment was first engaged in the bat
tie of Winchester, Va. March %, 1862;
at Port Republic, June 9, 1882; Ce-
dar Mountain, Aug. 8, 1862; Chancsllors-
vile May l, 2, 3, Gettysburg. Pa, July /,
2, 3. Transferred to the southwest in 1868,
engaged in the battery Of Lookout Noun
tain, re-instated as veterans, for the war,
in Dec 1868; next engaged in the Atlanta
Campaign at Dug Gap, May s. 1864; Re
SAGA. May 13, and "A; Dallas, May %;
Pine Knob, June 10; Kenesaw June 81;
Peach Tree Creek July 20; occupation of
Atlanta, Sept. 2, 1864 ''Grand march to
the sea, occupation of Savannah, Dec. 81,
1868; march through the Carolinas and
Virginias, to Washington, after the grand
review mustered out at Louisville, KY,
and discharged at Cleveland, Ohio, July
I'd, 1865.
The ladies of the Cemetery Association
have placed the beautiful memorial glass
in the large north transcept window, COM
memorative of the Ladies' Sanitary Com
mission and Soldiers Aid Society, and the
service, sacrifice, sorrow and suffering OF
woman in the war, for the Union. The
first panel typifyilg wemah's sacrifice, re-
presents woman in the act of parting
with her soldier boy, who, uniformed and
equipped. is leaving for the front, with
the motto. ''The love of Country guides
u.s." The center panel, representing wo-
mans work, is typifed by female figure
in the field, in the &C: of raising the head
of a wounded soldier. Under this the
motto, ''She loved the work; it sits own
reward" The third panel, representing
woman's sorrow, is represented by grace
full female figure in the act Of strewing
flowers on the grave of a soldier, motto,
"They are Loves last gift. Bring Flow
srs." The south trancept window is to be
Centennial window, representing two
great spOchs Of our national history one
hundred years ago and the present time,
with Washington representing the epoch
of 177G, and Abraham Lincoln as the
greatest representative man of eur present
period Of history. The center panel i.
commemorative of the intermediate
event in our nations history, the war Oi
1912, represented by the figure of Commo
dOre Perry, the hero of Lake Erie, thus re
presenting the United States Navy and u
event of local interest and great Importance
in our national history. Eight small memo
rial windows, contributed by friends, Sx
plain themselves A window on the soutl
side reads: William Palmer Williamson
Lieut. 29th Reg. o. V. I. Killed in battle
at Manchester, Va, March 23d, 1862, aget
% years. Two Louvre windows, one con
tanning piece of field artillery, and tn,
other Sibley field tent, and also lsrg
rose window in front, were contributed t,
the chapel by Frank o. Weary, drumme
boy Of the 29th, and the architect of this
one of the most beautiful buildings to b
found in the country. The Chapel wa
dedicated on Decoration Day, May 80, 1876
General Edward F. Noyes, of Cincinnati
was the orator of the day, and Will Carl
ton, of Hillsdale, Mich, read beautiful
dedicatory poem, ''This is your Tempt
To-day" written expressly for the occa
sion:
Soldiers who Southwark marched,
Whose feet found the homeward way
You are the worshippsrs here
This is your temple to-day.
No soldier of the Twsnty-ninth regimen
who visits the Chapel and views its grand
eur and richness, will ever have occasion
to regret the disposition of the funds h
may have contributed to perpstuate th
memory of gray-hairOd Colonel Buckley
one of the bravest men that ever lived, an
an honest man.
Lindenville, Feb. 20.
LEO XIII.
The new Pope and Head of th
Roman Catholic Church was, up I