The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-10-29
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
In COmmemOration of Indiana Soldiers
Share in that Great Battle.
Addresses of Major G. W. Spahr, Of the Third
Cavalry, and Major J. II. Slime, of
the Nineteenth Infantry.

GETTYSBURG. Pa. Oct Representatives
of the Indiana troops engaged in the battle of
| Gettysburg. arrived here last night and this
morning to dedicate the monuments recently
erected on the battlefield. This afternoon the
various points were visited, informal addresses
being made at each. This evening, dedcating
services were held in the courthouse, and the
monuments were delivered to the keeping of the
Gettysburg Memorial Association Gen. Jo-
seph j. Reynolds presided. The presenta-
non Tp1 addresses were, made as follows:
Nineteenth Infantry. Comrade J. Ii. Steine;
Twentieth Infantry, j. G. Brown; Twenty
seventh Infantry John NJ. Bloss; Seventh In
fantryN S. G. Holmes; Fourteenth Infantry.
| Capt. David +. BEEN. Vice president D. A.
6ushler, of the Memorial Association, responded.
Addresses were also made by Generals Silas Col
grove. w. w. Dudley and John NJ Foster. NJ.
| D. Manson, Lieutenant-governor of Indiana;
Hon. j. j. Klener and Maj W. II. Calkins.
MAJOR sPAHR's ADDRESS.
Major George w. Spahr. of the Third Cavalry,
| in behalf of the survivors of that organization,
and in memory of those who fell in the service,
| spoke as follows:
The years of nearly quarter of century have come
and into history since the pride OF the
homes OF the great North met the chivalric of
the sunny South the famaas field of Gettysburg.
Then pitted the Army of the Potomac against the
Army OF Northern Virginia. Then these two armies,
for three eventful days poured shot and shell into
| each others ranks from the mouths of angry GUNS
Furious and desperate waged the battle, both deter
either meant irreparable injury to the for which
they fought The morning of the fourth day brought
to us the anniversary of national independence
| and to our arms, victory at Gettysburg
The one came from out the years, the mount
aims at early dawn, to greet the new that
our government still lived and our cause would be
| triumphant. When the of the great victory
won this field flashed the country our peo-
pie and our armies took fresh courage and hope
expulsion of the enemy from soil and the end of
lnvasions. To our foe it the handwriting the
| wa-the' prophecy that told of the numbered days
| of the Confederacy. The great, noble and heroic
things that and armies do should live after them
and and to that end what was here done
MED and undisputed, fresh and green green
in the memory of our people Tablets and monuments
over this battlefield. The place where this monu-
| ment stands marks the line of the morning of the
first day battle and the position taken by the Third
| lnciana Cavalry L need not stop here to tell the
story of that brave regiment we'll known by the
officers and men throughout the Army of the Poto-
| mac and so we'll known and feared throughout the
| army of northern Virginia. All the hills and
mountains plains and rivers of Maryland and Vir-
ginia we rode and re-rode, marched and counter
marched by day and by night, in sunshine and rain,
with hunger and cold, for three long years of awful
|
Their story is one with pride to tell.
They knew their duty and did it well'
| A kind Providence has permitted the survivors of
that fearful struggle to mark this spot and grateful
people to erect this monument. Here that morn
ing, Bufords cavalry checked Murdered and delayed
! the advancing columns of army Injured to hard
| ships and trained to battle until the advantageous
position this field and the certainty of victory
| lost to Lee forever.
| Here this field we did not dare to contemplat 9
| the awful disaster of defeat to our arrns-Lee in
Harrisburg in Philadelphia, in Baltimore. in Wash
| ipcrtn Ma NOT hipl>
and yet the enemy win or die.
Oh, what struggle! Is it any wonder that thou
sands upon thousands rushed to certain death and
| gave to the end a soldiers welcome?
On behalf of our State and the survivors of the
Third Indiana Cavalry and in the name of that gal
liant regiment and its heroic dead present this
ment to the Gettysburg Battlefield Memorial Assoca-
ton. bespeak for it place in your history of the
| great battle which gave life to Republic.
May the visitors to this field in the years to come as
they gaze upon the polished stone and read the rec
ords of the soldiers dead and gone pledge their
loyalty to our flag, and here on consecrated ground
swear by the God OF battles that it shall forever.
| MAJOR SHINES ADDRESS.
| Major j. H. Slime, of the Nineteenth Infantry,
spoke as follows:
In presenting to the Battlefield Memorial Associa.
ton the tablet of the Nineteenth Indiana which was
in the famous Iron Brigade of the First Corps that
sustained valor every field equal to the Old Guard
| of Napoleon it is but just to the memory of the
brave men who fell here and the living who survived
the shock of the fearful conflict the LIST of july
|
occupying Cemetery Hill until the other corps Of the
Army of the Potomac could arrive. The victory of
rolled back the tide of of the enemy
and made this of the most important battles in
| the history of the world. From the beginning
! of time is chronicled the fruitless attempts to
establish a government adapted to the
wants of the people, that stood only for
period to have another reared its ruins at great
cost of blood and treasure Now the mutterings of
the fortunes of nations may change. The eighty
| eight campaigns, covering of two thousand
years, of Alexander, Cesar, Gustavus Adophus
Charemagne. and other generals lasting examples
of that fact Where the benefits of Ferdinand at
Mnden Frederick the Great at Lissa Marlborough at
Families; Hannibal at Cam@, 1.-THE field of blood;"
sand were slain Henry the Fifth at Agincourt or
Wellington at Waterloo, where he conquered
Changed the of the vctors for
awhile. This one not only paved the way for perma-
nent peace and prosperity to the whole country it
also preserved the principle of protecting he hum
best citizen of the land and making the drummer boy
of this field eligible to the position of chief executive
| of the Nation
If the enemy had been successful here in any of
| their furious assaults, in Pickett's desperate
charge the chances that the battles of the Revolu
| ton would have been fought in vain.
1t is happy coincidence that the member of the as.
ISOLATION WIZ receives this officer of this
iment, who galianty fought here, and was severely
wounded IN the charge on Archer's brigade.
| The Third Cavalry monument is located near
the second cut on the Tapeworm railroad. west
of this town. and is of bare granite eighteen feet
| high and suitably inscribed The Nineteenth In-
fantrys is located Willoughby's run. The
shaft is of Quincy granite, twelve feet high. The
! shaft OF the Twentieth Regiment is south of the
wheat-feld, and is Of Quincy granite nine feet
high, cottage style, topped with granite ball
The Twenty-seventh, near Spangers springs,
is cottage style. nine feet high and four feet
square at the base. The Seventies on Culps
hill, is eight feet high, of Quincy granite. hand.
somey carved. The Fourteenth on East Gene
terry hill, is of Indiana limestone, thirteen feet
high. of massive proportions and deliberately in
| scrbed.
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