Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1888-07-06
WHERE HEROES SLEEP.
Opposing Armies Of 1868 Meet
and Clasp Hands as Friends.


GYTTYsBURG, Pa, July 2.-The
day has been filed with the dedicl-
tion of monuments, the meetings OF
corps societies, the meetings Of old
comrades, long separated by years
aud distance, and the informal as
well as the formal reunions of the
Blue and the Gray the Conteder-
ates have been moving on the town
in greater numbers than yesterday.
Governor Gordon, OF Georgia, and
Governor Fitzhugh Lee, OF Virginia.
arrived to day. Mrs. Pickett was ex-
pected, but sent telegram Of regrets
The Robert Z Lee Camp, of Rich
mond, $50 strong, and over 100 Unit
ed Veterans from Richmond, also ar
rived this evening. together with a
detachment Of veterans from At
lanta
At O'Clock Sickles' Excelsior Brig
ade, composed Of the Seventeen,
Seventy-frst, Seventy-second, Sew
eaty-third and Seventy-fourth New
York Regiments, met and held dedi-
catory exercises over the foundation
OF the brigade monument. The mon
Gment is unfinished and only the
foundation is ready. The Rev c.
II. Buckley, of Howard University,
of Washington, d. c., chaplain OF
the First Regiment, opened the exer-
cises with prayer and read an origin
al poem, called Excelsior" Rev.
G Ii. Twitchell, of Hartford, deliv-
cred the oratioD. The monument
when completed will consist of a
Doric temple, with statue of Gener-
al Sickles.
Later, the Irish Brigade, composed
of the Sixty.third, Sixty ninth, and
Eigtieth New York Infantry. heard
requiem mass at St Francis Navier's
church, and afterwards dedicated
their monument in the wheat field
This is the brigade that was blessed
and absolved by Father Corby just
before going into battle on this field.
Orations were delivered by several Of
the brigade and two poems were
read.
At $3.50 this afternoon Bishop N.
"a. DeWolfe, of the Central Pennsvl-
vania diocese of the Episcopal
Church, laid the corner stone for the
memorial chapel of Gettysburg, to
be known as the Church of the
Prince of Peace" 1t will contain in
it's walls several memorial tablets,
quite a number having been donated
within the past few years. The site
is at the corner of Baltimore and
High streets, and is very conspicu-
Gus Hon. VIM. Mclean, presiding
Judge of this judicial district, deliv-
cred an historical grafton. the Dean
of the Harrisburg Convocation, and
General w. S. Crawford, of the United
States Army, participating in the ex-
ercises. Among the monuments ded-
icated this morning were the Seven
ty-eigth and One Hundred and Sec
ond jointly; Battery B. First Light
Artillery; Sixty-second, Sixty
fourth, Sixty seventh, Third Inde-
pendent Battery, One Hundred and
Forty ninth. Fifteenth Independent
Battery, One Hundred and Tenth,
Fortieth, One Hundred and Fifth,
Forty-6fth and Fifty-third.
The great event OF this second
days anniversary did not hapen un-
til late this afternoon. 1t was the
great Reunion of the Blue and the
Gray, and it may safely be called the
most impressive, the moss hearty and
the most dignifisd and inspiring of
any of the meetings OF survivors Of
the war that haye occurred since Ap.
pomatox. The place was the Ma
tional Cemetery, where beneath the
sloping green sWard, shaded by mur-
muring trees and dotted with lines Of
granite, marked with their names, or
marked with the grim "Unknown,"
so many thousands of the Nations
dead lie in peaceful sleep.
The actors were the very men who
defended the ridge, on whose slopes
the cemetery lies, against the repeat,
ed and desperate assaults led by the
very men twenty-five years ago this
very day, who joined them here now
in pledges of friendship, loyalty to
common flag, and unity of devotion
to a common country. The place,
scene, and the living figures of the
men themselves were inspiring.
Thousands Of spectators, men who
wore the blue, men who wore the
gray, women who toiled and wept at
home, children born since the bloody
struggle ended, looked on and cheer
ed and laughed and wept by turns.
ON CEMETERY HILL.