Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1888-07-03
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FROM ALL QUARTERS.
BLUE AND GRAY UNIFIED.
No North Nor South At Get
tysburg.
A BULLDOGS DEATH GRIT.
stanley's Route Strewn With
Mems Bones.
A BRIDGE ACROSS THE HUDSON.
FulIer's Name Reported To
The Senate.
rHE ExERC1sEs AF GETTYSBURG.

THE EXERCISES AT GETTYSBURG.
Many Monuments Dedicated to the
Heroes who Fell ON the Bloody
FfeId-Tender and Touching Memo
rial Services
GETTYSBURG, Pa, July 2.-One train after
another has been bringing in people until
the streets, which were full yesterday ARE to-
day crowded with mass of noisy, pushing
and in some instances drunken humanity
A sufficient number of captains and majors
are running loose to make corps and the
colonies and generals are plentiful enough to
fill the necessary quota of brigade. In fact
tions-hardr to find. The exercises of the
day were begun at $50 o'clock when the
veterans of the famous ssIrish brigade as
sembled at the Catholic church where re-
QUEEN mass for the souls of those who had
fallen in this battle was celebrated by Fathers
Joui1liette and Carbey. The party then
marched to their monument, which stands at
what is known as the 'Eloop" Just south of
the Wheat Field where the exercises of dedi-
cation were held. The orators of
the occasion were Generals Nugent and
Burke, who made short addresses. At 10
other gentlemen rode out on the Emmets-
burg road on the horses of the United States
cavalry to the scene of the second days adj
vanced position where the monument of the
Excelsior brigade stands. Unfortunately
some delay in obtaining the various stones
constituting the memorial hes delayed its
erection and now nothing but the foundation
is in readiness. When completed it will
represent pentagonal Doric temple, the
dome being supported by five polished gran
tie pillars surmounted by a bronze eagle and
on each of it's sides will be the record of
one of the regiments. Between the
pillars is a niche which is designed
for a bust of General Sickels to be placed
there in the future. The exercises were
opened by DR.. Buckley with prayer. Rev.
Dr.. Twitchell, of Hartford, delivered the ora
ton and an original poem entitled excel
sior" was read by DR.. Buckley. Appropriate
musical selections were interspersed. At 10
O'Clock Green's brigade, formed of the Six
tieth, Seventy eighth, One Hundred and Sec
ond and One Hundred and Thirty-seventh
New York regiments, met on Culp's Hill at
the place where their monuments stand and
dedicated them to their fallen comrades. At
the reunion which followed General Henry
w. Slocum. the commander of the right of
the Union line during the battle, end Gem
eral George 8. Green, who. commanded the
brigade, made addreeso5. The joint monu-
mens of the Seventy,eighth and the One
Hundred and Second regiments % of gran
ite and has on the top the figure
of a soldier on his knses and in the act of dig
charging his gun over the breestworks in
front. N addition to these memorials there
were dedicated to-day the monuments of the
following regiments:
Battery D, First New York e. silleIJ:
The Sixty-3econd New York tAndel cons Zou-
The si1sy-foursh New York on the Sc ,ond corps
The One Hundred end Fo. ninth New York.
Inc Fourth New York Inder endent batterJ at the
The Eighty light eighth New York.
The siIty-eighth Perpsylvania {scota LsgfoD on
the highest cret of the expose 1dge at he Peceh
The Ninesy eighth Pennsylys
he One ONE Hrred and Tenth
The Eoi " first New York infentry.
The One aundrS 1 and F.ftn Per. syiVs1;a.
The Fifty second New. York
The Fife smith New York batt,.g.
The Ninth New York caye,ry.
The corner stone of the Memorial church
of the Prince of Peese wes formally laid at 2
o'clock in the presence of thousands of peo-
pie. The exercises were opened by prayer and
then Bishop Howe of the Central diocese of
the Episcopal church laid the col ler stone
with three taps of the hammer. Hon. Will
liam Mclean made an address mainly of an
historical nature, end MessI5. Morrow of Car
Isle, Powell of York and Eyre of German
town also spoke. The surpfce cho:r psrtici-
pated in the exercises.
At O'Clock the society of the Army of
the Potomac had It's annual reunion at the
rink. They selected Orange, N. J., 81 the
next place of asssmblage and elected General
Joshua Chamberlain president. A telss .am
was sent to General She-.dan cons iatulating
him on his convaleseence. At 4:30 the
grand procession moved from Center square
and pas-sd out Baltimore street, s1ong which
the federal troops retreatsd eftar the bloody
struggle the first day, to the National ceme-
terry Int Wis it tuned and swept up the
northeIa d ne - the beautiful rc1ti I'm.
First roda Snel Gibson and two aids, the
United Sta. band followed and then came
regular troo the Light artillery under Col
onel Living and cavaliJ under Major
Carpenter Z Aerlo's band of sixty pieces
led the Ninth ew York militia, Colonel
Stevens, md Z yatiors posts came stray
Cling along efh Ierd. Here, within hesr-
Ing of the 81 where Lincoln made his
immortal spa at the dedication
of the soldiers'n ement November 10, 1868,
the exercises of Nnion between blue and
gray took place IN the rostrum the front
row of chairs wa Nupied by General Sick
els. General Be& kad General Robinson
(ali with crutches), General Gordon of 9eor-
0ia, General Graham, General Butter6eld
and Rev. DIR. Valentine of the Southern The
illogical seminary. General Robinson In
few werds introduced General Sickels az the
presiding officer and the latter made a speech
which was received with much enthusiasm.
When Governor Gordon appeared before the
great crowd that filed the west lawn before
the rcstrum the cheers and hui rahs were all
most deafening and throughout his speech he
was interrupted by cries of Hgood, !" s'hurrah"
and other expressions of pleasure aud APPROX
al. General Gordon said:
greet you tonight with far les tfepidation and
Infinitely more pleasure than in the early days OF
July, 1898, when last met you at Gettysburg l
came then as now to mS ct the soldiers OF tns noa
the Thoughts that now thrill me- The temptation
Is to contrast the scenes which were Witnessed ana
those greetings tonight, to speak ofnthe men with
whom I then marched and of those whom we met,
9e later Mn and of Who fought and
the contrest made by this of manly cordially
and s00s EsT bsRR T stood IN battle behind
bristling bayonets and spread ensigas, moving in
other In deadly conflict. would ST gag of all this
and of the motives which impelled each OF the
federal victory and Of il prepondsrating influence
In turning the scales Of war: The nature OF the
however, one suggestion which dominates my
thought at this hour e present fba wnl s1t,a1
virtues the one perhaps more characteristic
Of the truly brave IS he virtue Of 4Ga gg
cheftan i've was the noble sentiment attributed
to scotiand's msgnanimeus monarch as he stood Cd
Sentiment immortalized BY Scott in his musical and
martial verse win assocase der a s eet sne 9as
the past. How grand the exhibitions OF the same
generous impulses that characterize the vlctors up
On this memorable field Ny fellow countrymen OF
the North il may be permitted to speak for those
whom 1 represent, let me assure you
that In the profoundest depths OF their nature
they reciprocate that generosity with all the
manliness and sincerity Of which brave men are ca
pable In token OF that sincerity they join In Con
secrating for annual patriotic pilgrimage these
historic heights which drank such copious draughts
Of American blood poured freely in discharge Of
| duty as each conceived it Mecca for the North
which so grandly defended it; Mecca for the sol
stormed it We joih you in setting apart this land
| as an enduring monument OF peace, brotnerhood
and perpetual union repeat the thought with ad;
dtional emphasis With s1ngIenesS or heart and or
purpose in the name OF a common country and uni
versal human liberty and by the blood OF our faen3
we unite in the solemn consideration OF those bat
tiehaIlowed as holy eternal pledge OF fidelity to
the life freedom and unity of this cherished repub
lie am nonored tonight in being selected to in
trouce one Of the distinguished representatives of
that spirit of rnagnanimty OF which have spoken.
present to you soldier without fear repreach or
/ malice, a soldier whose blood was spilled and
i whose body was MANNED though then but boy,
though he bravely obeyed his country's command.
iutroduce to YOU statesman whose services are
fistfnguished and whose record Is stainless. in
troduce to you patriot whose extended hand and
generous heart are open to all his countrymen
bsoldier statesman patriot present them all In
the person Of General, Governor James A. Beaver