The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1888-07-04
TWENTY-FIVE YEASS AGO.
The Reunion on Gettysburg's Bloody
Field.

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TWENTY-FIVE YEASS AGO.
| The Reunion on Getty Bloody
Field.
GErrYsBrRG, Pa. June 30.-The great re-
union was begun to-day under cloudy sky
The Wisconsin memorials were scheduled to
be dedicated at 10 o'clock, and at that hour
Reynolds Grove was crowded with the vet
Grams and visitors. Permission had been
granted by the First Corps to hold the exer-
cises from the platform erected by it for the
reunion tomorrow. II was not until II
( O'Clock, however, that Gov. Beaver and L.
! 5. Senator John c. Spoouer, of Wisconsin
arrived on the ground, and the exercises
were begun. Capt. Levi Z. Pond. President
Of the Commission, transferred the monu-
ments to State Treasurer H. B. Harshaw.
/ who, owing to the unavoidable absence of
Gov. Rusk, accepted them in behalf of the
I State. Senator Spooner then followed in q
/ splendid oraiion of forty minutes length
Z He compared the battles of Waterloo and
/ Gettysburg the North and the South, and
made most touching allusions TO Grant.
/ Meade, Reynolds and other Federal com
/ manders. Gen. Lucius Fairchild presented
the monuments to the Battlefield Memorial
Association, and spoke with such feeling as
to bring tears TO the eyes Of many of his
hearers. They were formally accepted in
| the name Of the associJiion by Gov. James
| A. Beaver, President ex-ofiicio. He said in
/ substance
The fact that you are here to-day is an evil
/ dence that quarter of century has not
! dimmed the lustre of Wisconsin's loyalty;
nor the love that she bears to the men who
/ barred their breasts that she and We and the
nation, North and South, might live and love
/ and flourish. 1t evidences that citizens were
willing TO aid the Government when attack
/ ed and to defend the Constitution. Let the
monuments be reared to show to generations
| unborn that these men who died here diel in
! the cause of truth, and that their memory
/ should be held in sacred reverence 50 long a.
there is loyal heart that beats in unison
with loyalty and truth and duty lGreat
applause. Which is holier, the altar or the
I gift which sanctiied it. The soil on which
the monuments stand or the blood which
that soil drunk twenty-five years ago? You
came here because your love of country was
greater than your love of ease; because death
with the country saved Is better than life
with a nation divided. Tremendous ap-
plause.l Therefore we take these monuments
and pledge you the faith not only of the
MaFrasrsal
soodly Commonwealth of ours, that they
shall be preserved and that they shall be
cared for. We welcome you TO Pennsylvania
and to this battle field which You helped to
inaugurate and in conclusion. General Fair
/ child, it gives ME pleasure as the representa-
tive of this Memorial Association, TO accept
, these monuments of Wisconsin, indicative
of her loyalty, of her love for her dead. and
to assure you, and through you her grand
Executive, that they viii be cared for as our
own and that we will see that the lessons
which they teach are incuated to all who
come here, especially to our children and our
children's children
This closed the exercises proper but short
address were made by representatives from
some OF the regiments The Wisconsin me
MORALS are seven in number and may be
briefly described as follows The Fifth is of
granite with polished die ond surmounted
by corps badge cut distinctly II is located
on what is called Sedgwick avenue east of
Round Top. The Twenty-sixih is On the
Eleventh Corps avenue and Is a symmetrical
shaft Of granite. Company G, First Regi-
mcnt of sharpshooters, is near tho Massachu-
sets monument, on the Emmittsburg road.
and has the figure of soldier cut on the die
in the act ofdiseharging his gun at the enemy
The Third Infantry is of granite with base
and sub-base, and having pillars cut in the
corners of the die in which is the number of
the regiment. 4 five sided figure surmounts
it and on the right of line beyond spanglers
Spring and near the Thirteenth New Jersey,
is its position. The moumen Is of the Iron
Brigade, the second, Seventh and Sixth, are
all on the first days field The Sixth is at
the famous railroad cut in which the Confed-
crate General Archer and 800 of his brigade
were captured. and the Second and Seventh
in Reynolds Grove. The Second was COM
manded in this battle by General Lucius
Farchild. and he lost his arm a short dis
tonce from where the monument stands.
NEW JERSEY VETERANS.
AT 2 clock this afternoon the exercises of
the New Jersey Veterans were held at the
Brigade monument north of Round Top.
The National Guard deployed into the woods
on the right, and the Governors salute rang
out from their guns The First Regiment
Band opened the exercises. and the assembly
was called to order by Colonel james "
Duff, Chairman of the Gettysburg Monu- I
ment Commission of New Jersey. The in-
vocation by Rev. Aianson r. Haines, late |
Chaplain of the Fifteenth Regiment was |
followed by the unveiling of the Brigade !
monument by the Commission. Governor
Robert ). Green delivered the Grafton. and /
transferred the monument to the Gettys- /
burg Memorial Association, and Governor 1
James A. Beaver received them in the name 4
of the association. Brief addresses were
then made by surviving members of the sew
eral New Jersey commands engaged here
The military OF this State leave for home to-
night, and the wheat field will be once more
deserted
CAN'T 4. WILSON NORRIS.
Camp A. Wilson Norris Of the g. \ R.was
formally taken possession of to-day by the
wearers Of blue. The Philadelphians and !