New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-07-01
NEW- YORK AT GETTYSBURG.
siEMORIALs TO HER GALLANT TROOPS.
THE EMPIRE STATES MONUMENTS TO BE UNVEILED
ON IUESnAY-sOMr DESIGNS

THE EMPIRE STATES MONUMENTS TO BE UNVEILED
on rUESpAY-sOMr DESIGNS.
Gettysburg, Penn, June 80 speciaD. the dedl-
cation here Tuesday of tytwo careful and costly
memorials of the vaor Of NewYorks troops, the En-
pirc state will at last make honorably conspicuous
this field the credit that is due her arms in the dc
cisive battle of the Rebellion. Heretofore while other
States with just pride in their share in the battle
have been marking every part of the field with
mcnts to their volunteer regiments and batteries, New
York, with the longest muster roll and heaviest losses
of ALL has practically had Only its of headstones
in the National Cemetery stretching further round the
semtcircle than any other States TO do it justice.
Two volunteer regiments the 124th NewYOrk, or
"Orangc Blossoms OF Orange County, and the 18th
New-York, Of Madison and Cortland Counties, long
ago as 1855 or 1856, built monuments at their own
expense to fallen comrades But until the STATE
as a whole, has been easily overshadowed, on the
field at least by Ohio, Massachusetts,, nrsylvania
and even Connecticut. After Tuesday next with more
than ffty memorials unveiled and nearly forty more
in preparation, visitor here can help seeing on
every hand striking testimony to New-York's pre-
eminent part and unequalcd sacrifices In the great
est OF American battles.
New-York, according to the report of the States
Gettysburg Battlefield Commission to the legislature
IN 1857, had at Gettysburg cighty-seven regiments
and batteries, which lost I'm killed, wounded and miss
ing GIFT The 307 commands IN the Army Of
the Potomac reported an aggregate loss OF 22,00O,
the losses of the NewlOrk troops being thus almost
one-third Of the whole The LIST Regiment OF United
States Sharpshooters and independent batteries
were added TO the NETWORKS list in the legislative
bill authorizing the building of the monuments. and
the State has paid or Will pay 500 for monu-
mcnt to every New York organization that can show
It was present, without fighting, on the field.
The State also appropriated 10000 for the purchase
Of monument sites $4,000 for engineering and sur
veying expenses and $50 0C0 for the erection of a
general monument to all the NewYork soldiers who
fought here. The Commissioners who have had the
building Of the monuments I'm charge are General
Daniel L. Sickies, General Henry W. sOcum, General
James j. Carr General Charles A. Richardson and
General Josiah Porter, OF Governor lIils staff.
The monuments themselves, many OF which are now
ready for unwilling vary greatly In size, cost and
design Each battery, regiment, has been at liberty
TO add to the States 81 500 much as II chose 10
subscribe. In some two regiments have joined
forces and built a $1,000 or $1,000 monument Win
smaller markers for the positions of the separate organ
izations The Excelsior Brigade, for instance. tahihe
in the 10th list. 72d. 73d and 74th Regiments Will
club together 10 build sort of Doric temple, win hVe
pillars In tho centre viii be pedestal Tor the Dust
Of General Sicklos under whom the brigade fought In
the Peach Orchard and Wheat Field. Inc irish
Brigade. the 10Th and ssth Regiments, VIII build an
imposing shaped memorial, to marx It's posuoh