Morning journal and courier., 1883-08-21

Parade i'm Bridgeport xester0oy AHe
 Monument UnveiIing-or@taOn ny COl.
 Onel HOyt-
 BRIDGEPORT, Aug. 20.
 The monument in St. Mary's cemetery, East Bridgeport, erected to the memory of | tbe late Captain Edward N. Goodwin of Com pauy E. Fourth regiment, 0. N. G., by his late command was unveiled this afternoon with appropriate exercises. The military display in connection with the unvsiling was quite an imposing one. At half-past two formed in the following order
 Wheeler and Wilson Band.
 Company E, Fourth Regiment, 0. N. G.
 Company O, Second Regiment, Q. N. c.
 Company K, Fourth Regiment, 0. N. G:
 American Band Of New Haven.
 Company B, Fourth Regiment, Q \. G.
 Company D, Fourth Regiment O. N. G. Company Veteran Corps.
 General 8. R. smith, Mayor F L MaSgsls \ % D Colonel
 Hoyt, orator of the day, and
 invited guests in carriages.
 The line of march was through Main to State, to Cortland, to Fairfield avenue, to West, to Washington avenue, to Noble, to Barnum, to Caroline, to St. Mary's ceme- tery. Upon arriving at the cemetery the ex- ercises took place. platform had been erected in the family lot. The monument is . handsome shaft of CIark's Island granite, six feet high, including the base, die, phnth and column, the latter being square with beveled corners. There are appropriate in- scriptions, including summary of Captain Goodvin's military record, the whole form ing handsome testimonial to the memory of this worthy officer and citizen. Seated in the family lot around the monument was the family of Captain Goodwin. His grave was beautifully decorated with flowers. After the invited guests had been seated the Wheel L l.~11 NTnI composed expressly for the occasion by Lead CT s. c. Rosenberg. An appropriate song by double glee club under the leadership of MT. Edward Brennan followed. Colonel Crofut then introduced Colonel H. W. R. Hoyt, of Greenwich, as orator of the day. Colonel Hoyt began his oration as follows: Colonel Crofut, old comrades, ladies and gen. tlemen-To consecrate the ashes of the dead and to remember and practice what was good and generous in their lives is the most ae- ceptable service we can render to those who have been separated from the living and become partakers of 8 divine life" It was the good fortune of many of personal associations much that was good and generous in the life of that comrade to whose memory has been erected the monu- ment which we have now unveiled and in commemoration of the virtues of the man and the graees and beauties of his character. We have to-day gathered to manifest by out ward and visible symbols our sincere appre- citation of his worth and to aid by our glad sympathy and presence in the full compile tien of that work which originated in the affection of his immediate command and carried forward by their unaided efforts will bear to future generations the testimony of his goodness and the esteem with which he was regarded by those who were his asso- ciates in life and his sincere mourners after death. Each day from the summer fields of life some har- vester disappears. Yes, every hour some sentinel falls from his post and is dropped from the ramparts of time into the unknown waters of eternity. But behind each soul that enters into the unseen mysteries of fu- lure life is left an earthly record and the qualities which characterized it's earthly ex- istence leave their influence for good or ill upon all of us who remain behind. It was the crowning glory of him whose memory we recall to-day that the qualities of his life were such ss to make the sphere in which he moved the happier for his presence and the recital of the story of his life become grateful duty. Edward N. Goodwin was born in the city of Dublin in the year 1923. He came from that stock, sturdy in mind and strong in body, which forms the basis of Irish na- tionality and which by it's vigorous life trans planted to this soil has aided so greatly in the building up of this republic. Patriot ic impulses moved in his veins and nodded his character. Instinctive aspirations in favor of freedom animated his being which were checked and stifed in the atmosphere of a country yielding reluctant and enforced obe- dience to the dominion of power which was not regarded as the legitimate ruler of that fair l land which was his birth place. For the purpose of entering upon a more | extended sphere of life where oppor- tunities for advancement were offered which could never be enjoyed in his native country, he came to the United States at the age o1 | 26. He established himself in Bridgeport lr 1849. Here he founded his home and gath cred to himself those friendships which warmed and illuminated his life, and by the | unobtrusive but faithful performance of all | the duties which devolved upon him built up that character which was admirable in its | symmetry and ''stood four square to every wind that blew upon it." Early manifestinR taste for the practice of the military art he entered the militia service of the State and March IA, 1853, received 8 commission as third lieutenant of Company B, Eighth regi- ment Connecticut militia, bearing the sigma ture of Thomas H. Seymour as governor and commander-in- chief. That close at- tention which he always displayed towards the duties of his position and the ability which he brought to their perform ance gained for him rapid advancement and on the 2d day of May in the year following Governor Henry Dutton granted him com mission as second lieutenant in the same company. This position he occupied until that organization with others in the State was disbanded by order of the newly elected governor. Lieutenant Goodwin rendered his services to the government. He aided in the enlistment and organization of com pany in Bridgeport and received from Gov ernor Buckingham commission as first lieu tenant in Company K, Twenty-f fourth regf- ment Connecticut volunteer infantry, with rank from the Sd day of October, 1862. This organization was at once ordered to the South and bore gallant part as portion of the Nineteenth army corps in the cam paign in Louisiana He received an honorable discharge September 3Oth, 1863. Lieutenant Goodwin again joined the ranks of the army on the 25th of August, 1865, re- ceived commission as first lieutenant in Company B, of the Eighth regiment, on the 31st of January, 1868. He was elected cap tain of this company to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Captain James Cahill. This position he retained until his death, declining all promotions, but prefer ring to continue the senior captain of the an