Morning journal and courier., 1885-10-28
CONNECTICUT AT GETTYSBURG.
Address of David A. Buehler, Esq. At Gettysburg, October 22d, In Accept ing The Monument of The Twenty Seventh Regiment.

Address of David A. Buehler, Esq.,, At
 Gettysburg, October 22d, In Accept
 ing The Monument of The Twenty
 Seventh Regiment.
 Following is the address delivered by David A. Buehler at Gettysburg, Pa., Octo- Der 22d, in accepting the monument of the Twenty-seventh c. ":
 Governor Harrison and Veterans of the
 Twenty Connectticut-I deeply gret that Governor Pattison, ex.officio presi- dent of the Memorial association, by reason of prior engagements calling him out of the State, is unable to be with us to-day to ten der to you in fitting words the greetings of our great commonwealth on this interesting occasion.
 In accepting this magnificent monumental shaft, it gives me great pleasure in this pres ence to express the obligations of the Memo rial association, and of the veterans of the
 Union interested in it's work, to the loyal peo-
 pie of Connecticut for the hearty, generous
 aid and cooperation they have given us.
 In full appreciation of the central relation
 which "Gettysburg" sustains to the war for
 the suppression of the rebellion and the i'm
 portanee of it's historical deliniation, Connec-
 ticut has not contented herself with erecting costly monumects in honor of the gallant deeds of her own heroes, but her legislature appropriated s2, 50O which you, sir, ordered to be transferred to our treasury without questioning or condition, thereby enabling the association to go forward in it's work and setting an example of liberality and generous confidence that ought not to be lost on other States.
 Although the regiments from Connecticut
 constituted comparatively small portion of
 the great host of citizen soldiery who upon
 this field during three long days stood up amid the crash of shot and shell ready to die if need be that the nation might live, it so happened that they were singularlv fortunate in occupying representative positions. Full four miles to the north of whare we stand the classic memorial of the Seventeenth Con
 necticut shows that that gallant regiment l had the honor of holding the right of the 1st and on 'sBarlow's Knob" received the shock of EwelFs battalions they bore down in overwhelming masses on the Eleventh corps.
 On the avenue, nearly midway between this town, on the spot which has come to be
 known as the ''Highwater Mark of the Rebel
 lion" massive granite monument tells how the Fourteenth Connecticut shared with comrades of other organizations the glory of there meeting and repulsing with disastrous slaughter, Pickett's famous but ill-fated charge.
 Three miles to the right on the slopes of .tCulp's Hill," handsome monument pro- claims the honorable relation of the Twen- tieth Connecticut to the desperate contest on
 the morning of July Sd, in the successful eff fort to dislodge the enemy, who, the night be- fore. had carried a portion of the Union line, weakened by absence of troops tempor arily sent to the left.
 And now the surviving veterans of the 27th Connecticut come to-day to dedicate this imposing memorial shaft in the very center of the fWheatfeld" memorable as the
 whirlpool" of the fierce conflict of July 2d. Beginning far out at the 'Peach Orchard"
 you know how the storm of battle rolled | over all these intervening fields and woods to the slopes of s'Round Top"-how every foot of ground was desperately, heroically COIL tested, as the enemy again and again flung themselves in overpowering force on front and flank of the Union lines-how on the spot where we stand the tide of battle ebbed and flowed, surging back and forth with changing fortune, as regiments and brigades 1 melted away i'll the carnage of that terrible | day, until this entire field was moistened with l the blood of heroes.
 ssBarlow's Knob" "Culp's Hill, ; the ''High l Water Mark of the Rebellion,' the Wheat l 6eld"-all historic and ever memorable
 names! And so it comes to pass that the story of these four monuments is largely the
 story of the battle of Gettysburg. In accepting the trust confded to us in | the transfer of this monument can assure your Excellency that our association will
 carefully guard it and give it somewhat at | least of the loving care with which the sur | vivors of the Twenty seventh have watched | it's erection. Long may it stand-so that in the
 oncoming years, when the busy actors in these scenes shall have passed away, and other generations come to this Mecca of 1 American patriotism to gather inspiration | from the great deeds and heroic sacrifices of 1 the nations heroes, who amid fiery and l bloody baptism, consecfated these hills and | valleys to immortality of fame, this tall
 shaft will eloquently tell the story of the
 relation of the Twenty ty-seventh Connecticut | to the battle of Gettysburg.
 FROM A LETTER
 | The following is an extract from letter ! received by Governor Harrison from Mir. | Buehler:
 Permit me to assure you. and through you the
 Veterans of the Twenty that their visit to l Gettysburg will long be remembered by our people with grateful appreciation. one of the most de lightfu of the many pleasant reunions with which ! our town has heen favored and honored since the | great struggle of July 1S63.''
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