The National tribune., 1883-09-06


Y. Rnles for government OF the camp viii be
published Ia future orders.
by command of
Z. S. OSBORNE,
Department Commander.
THos J. STEWART,
Asst Acknowledgement.
Monday.
DELEGATIONS OF TABLETS.
Monday having been designated as that upon
which the Seventy-second, Eighty eighth and
Ninety-first regimentai associations would m
vel the tablets erected to mark the localities
occupied by them during the different days OF
the great fight the ceremonies were carried out
according 10 the programmes arranged, the
Eighty-cghth and Ninety-irst holding theirs
in the morning, and the Seyenty-second late in
the afternoon.
TIE irst to leave camp was the Ninety first
Association, who were driven over TO Little
Round Top to the spot selected, accompanied
by the band and number of ladies. The ex-
ercises opened with prayer by Department
Chaplain Savers followed by Colonel J. ii.
siner, who commanded the regiment during
the battle, and who, being called upon at the last
minute TO act as the orator of the occasion in
the absence of General Pearson, of PittSburg,
who had been expected to oil that position, but
did not arrive, was not, of course, prepared to
make any extended remarks
After sketching the part taken by the regi-
mcnt during the second days fight, Colonel
Sinerrelsted the incident ofthe death of General
Weed, who, after having personally stationed
the command on the top of Little Round Top
TO support a battery, turned away with the
remark, Shoot the first rascal who tries to 90
To the rear" Immediately after, he was shot
! and instantly killed. Lieutenant HaZlett who
! commanded the battery, ran TO him when be
fell aad was also killed, falling across the body
of the general II was on this spot that the regi-
4 ment erected IT'S tablet In concluding his
/ remarks, the Colonel said: " This regimental
/ association has erected the tablet as a memento
I to the dead as Yell as the living / hope every
! person who visits this place viii appreciate
! the men who suffered and Offered up their lives
q sacrifice to their country's needs, and that all
viii point out TO the rising generation the
noble deeds OF their fathers and brothers, and
that in after years they VIII emulate their valor
and patriotism" At this point his emotion so
overcame him that, with the tears rolling down
! his cheeks he was compelled 20 stop. The cere-
monies closed with music by the band.
EIaHTY-ETGHTH REGIMENT ASSOCIATION.
The Eighty eighth Regiment Association,
/ headed by the flute and drum corps of Posts 5
and %, aud the gnard of Post z, left camp at
/ 10 o'clock, and marched 10 Zieglers Grove, just
I back of the old cemetery and within a few
/ minutes distance from the camp. Here is
/ where the regiment was located on july 2,
! 1868, and although tablet was erected on the
spot occupied on each of the three days, the
ceremonies commenced with music by the
flute and drum corps, followed by prayer by
I comra9e Jno ID. Nantier, chaplain OF the asso-
ciati0n after which the President, ID. K. Hart
zell. introduced the orator of the occasion, Gen.
g. w. Gle, who said:
You look upon peaceful scene here to-day, COM
rades OF gtyeisilth. The sunlit YerduFe repos-
ing in autumn drowsy stiffness. only broken by the
sill small voices of nature in the anthems of praise
TO TIE Author Of their being is question of quiet
.tAff
who, weary Of the world and its warnings
I" Lay themselves down
Upon the yellow sands, betwixt the sunset and the
Saying, Let us alone; why should life all labor
be-"
1t was not always so, as you comrades. have good
reason TO remember. Some of you have had the
good fortune to cross tie Atlantic. At first the
winds and the waves seemed TO conspire to wreak
their fury upon what timorous souls may have
believed to be doomed ship, but the proud vessel
rode Out of the tempest and if conscious OF their
in1pptent rage. the winds subsidized and the good
shiI, glided into port on the placid bosom of sum-
nler seas. SO with your experience on this spot.
IL seems but a short time since the air rent
with oemoniac sights and sounds. Men cursed
and prayed Ia the same breath, gToaneG in agony
and shouted IN oevilish exutaton. while cannons
vOrted from their brzen throass fire and sulphur
oHs smoke, filed with missiles Of death and tor
ment. War is sublime and on authority of the
Rook- is ordained of and presided over by, the
God OF Battles Hsaiso hellish and iIistigated and
Z directed by the orlgin2toTS OF GIsc0rd and the
! father OF lies. Your unseffsh devotion 70 the
cause of country against the 6ght of faction
take 70 be the sublime aspect OF the gauge Of battle
The helish aspect was the consfiring among, al
first, few ambitious men, to work upon the
sectional lrejudices and emotions of peculiar
people, who had little IN common with the broader
and more liberal sentiment pervading the majol
portion of the Nation, until they commenced fc
believe themselves the victims OF tyranny which
they were cOUnselled 10 throw OF and set up ial
themselves, with the conspiring insIgators OF then
thought as the aTbiiers OF their destiny. The nacr
who finally met you here arid rendered up then
xVsf zfffx 4lfsyK
comrades who now sleep side by side Cemetery
Ill., were either entirely right entirely wrong
There IS no middle ground to occupy If in generous
efforts 10 rub out the Of the conflict il is
eaFy blot out the distinction between right allc
wrong and appear, as some do, TO make the worst
appear lhe better cause, Tor one, would prefer
life of isolation rather than of such concilia
ton. You here to-day not only to glorif,
your past achievements as you have, IN all mod
esty, a proud and perfect right 20 do but [,
, perFeluate 10 coming generations the memory o
! the struggle which more than auy other y2s Ia
turning point in the war, and when il should hav
, / closed. il is now your inestimabe privilege &
dedicate the monuments which testify 10 your de
Eotion to your colors more particularly upon thi
field As the smoke OF carnage has lifted from TIN
fateful field and the n8ists have cleared from III
! minds of q once sorely misguided people. go il
uDgeillng these monuments never to be obscure'
from the light OF day, as these high hilitops hav
> been by smoke and mist, let us dedicate then
4 TO the God OF Battles through whose win ri
| nations have been created and maintained am
! who has been buczier and shield from the dsrl
days that tried mems souls, TO the darkerdays whe
country, who rode above the storm-coud of Wal
: inspiring or heroes and gTciousiy wooiDg her son
10 the iielG and giving them the victory, and las
Il to the imperislabe memory OF the Eighty-eightl
! whose presence here to-osy tells a gTander stoT
: : than historian can weave OF poet sing.
o at the conclusion Of the Grafton salute wa
d fred by the guard, and the ceremonies close
If with music by the band.
= Immediately after returning TO camp q bus
i ness meeting OF the association was held, 8
d which votes Of thanks were rendered to til
e Gettysburg Battlefield Association Post No.
t. Post Guard, Superintendent Wilson Of tn
It National Cemetery, General Gle, Colonel J. !
is Batchel3eT, General Louis Wagner, and d. K
+ Hartzell, the retiring president of the associf
e ton. An election for officers TO serve durin
d the ensuing year was then held, resulting
l. the selection Of Sylvester Morton, president
e Nathan Sauble, of Philadelphia and Michat
g. Bright, of Reading, Vice-presidents; John \
d Wallace, secretary, and Edward A. Mas, trea
Is urer. The executive committee lYill be a.
Y pointed by the incoming president at his lei
d ure. After deciding to hold the next Reunio
a at Reading, August 9, 1884, the meeting az
TO journed TO meet at the call OF the president
S sEVENTY-sEcoSD REGIMENT ASSOCIATION.
The most interesting of these dedicatio,
q was that of the Seyenty-second regiment (Ba,
IN ter's Fire Zouaves). At O'Clock the associ
= tion, headed by the Weccacoe band, escorted
IL Post Guard, and accompanied by lar,
IA delegation of comrades from camp, proceed,
n mint ora (tesaafarr I4iil ,xJ,ars p3a4-,,4.