Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1888-07-11
FALLEN BRAVES REMEMBERED,

and the Gray at Gettysburg Battle
Field-Saveral Moro Memorial Shafts
& Dedicated, and a Number OF Speeches
Made.
GETTYSBURG, Pa., July Sat 10 O'Clock
.. M, yesterday the five regiments Of
GREEN'S Brigade, the Seventy eighth, One
Hundred and Second, Sixtieth, One Hun.
dret and Thirty-seventh and One Hundred
and Forty ninth New York, dedicated
their monuments on Culp's Hill.
Gettysburg battle. field, and immedi-
ately afterWard reunion Of
the brigade was held. Major-General
Henry j. Slocum, who commanded the
right of the Federal line during the bat
tie, and Brigadier- General George s..
Green, the brigade commander, made ad-
dresses. At the same hour Sickles' Excel
sior Brigade, made up Of the Seventeen,
Seventy-frst Seventy second, Seventy
third and Seventy fourth New York regu.
lars, met at the site of the brigade monu-
ment and held the dedicatory exercises.
At $3.50 o'clock the members Of the
Irish brigade, composed of the Sixty
third, Sixty-ninth and Eighty eighth New
York Infantry, marched to the Catholic
Church where requiem mass for those
who fell in the battle was celebrated by
Fathers Suillett' and Corby. It was the
latter who, just before the brigade went
into battle on the afternoon of the I'd,
blessed and absolved them.
In addition to these memorials there
were dedicated yesterday the monuments
of the following regiments: Battery d,
First New York Artillery, the Second New
York anderson Zouaves), the Sixty
fourth New York, the One Hundred and
Forty-ninth New York, the Fourth New
York Independent Battery, the Eighty
sixth New York, the Slxty-eighth Penn
sylvania (Scott legion), the Ninety eighth
Pennsylvania, the One Hundred and For
ty fifth New York, the One Hundred and
Tenth Pennsylvania. the Forty first Ne>
York Infantry. the One Hundred and Fifth
vania, the Fifty-second New York. the
Fortieth New York, the Fifteenth New
York Battery, and the Ninetieth New York
Cavalry.
At 2 o'clock the cornerstone of the me
mortal Church of the Prince of Peace' was
formally laid in the presence of thousands
of people The question of the creation of
this edifice has been agitated for a number
Of years, and one of the former Episcopal
rectors collected a quantity of stone in
scribed with either the names of donators
or that of some comrade or friend who had
fallen in the rebellion. These will be
placed in the inside of the church tower.
Bishop Howe, of the Central diocese of the
Episcopal church, laid the cornerstone
At 8 o'clock the Society of the Army of
the Potomac held its annual meeting and
elected General Joshua Chamberlain pres.
ident for the ensuing year. A telegram
was sent to General Sheridan congratulate
ing him on his convalescence At 4:3O the
grand procession moved from Center
square to the rostrum in the National Gem
etery, where the exercises of reunion be-
tween the blue and the gray took place.
On the rostrum the front row of chairs
was occupied by General Sickles, Genera
Beaver and General Robinson (all with
crutches). General Gordon, of Georgia
General Graham, General Butterfield and
Rev. DR.. Valentine, of the Southern Theo
logical seminary At 5 o'clock General
Robinson introduced General Sickles az
the presiding officer. The old commander
Of the left corps addressed the throng, say
ing among other things:
Among the hundreds of memorial structure.
on this field there is not one bearing an inscrip
ton that wounds the susceptibilities OF an hon
orable and gallant foe. This meeting is an his.
torical event. We dedicate here on this battle.
field to-day an altar sacred to peace and tran.
guilty and union. We SOW the seeds of friend.
ship between communities and States and pop.
ulation once hostile and now reconciled. Our
civil war was not conspiracy against
a ruler; 1t was not the plot of soldier to Dust
q rival from power; it was not a pronuncia-
mento. The conflict Of '61-5 was war OF in
situations and systems and politics. It was q
revolution ranking in Importance with the
FlVnCh rpVnlNfiNn Qiohfoonfh confrru
and with the English revolution OF the seven
teenth; universal in the benefcent influence
uron the destinies OF this country. and in
efaceable in the footprints made in the path
OF our National progress"
When Governor Gordon appeared before
the great crowd that filed the vast lawn
before the rostrum the cheers and hur.
rahs were almost deafening, and through.
out his speech he was Interrupted by cries
of "Good," "Hurrah," and other express
sions of pleasure and approval such as
must lave been flattering in the extreme
to Georgia's chief executive. In the course
of his speech he said:
or all the martial witnesses, the one which
brave is the virtue OF magnanimity. MY fair.
est earldom would give to bid Clan Alpine's
chieftain live,' was the noble sentiment
attributed to Scotland's magnanimous
monarch, as he stood gazing into
the face Of his slain antagonist That
sentiment, immortalized by Scott in his musi.
cal and martial use, will associate for all time
the name OF Scotland's King with those OF
the great spirits of the past How grand
the exhibition OF the same generous
impulses that characterize the victors
upon this memorable field. Ny fellow
countrymen of the North, ii may be permit.
ted to speak for those whom represent le,
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 capable. We join you in setting
apart this land as an enduring monument OF
peace, brotherhood and perpetual union.'
Governor Beaver, who was introduced
by Governor Gordon, was received not less
enthusiastically than his predecessor, and
he was also broken in upon by the hearty
cries Of the spectators. His speech was in
the same vein that marked the others.
Chaplain McCabe, Of Vermont, who was
to have responded to Governor Beaver in
behalf of the Southern men, was, owing ia
arailroad delay, unable to be present, and
General Hooker, of Mississippi, took his
place. Brief addresses were also delivered
by Ex-Governor Curtin, of Pennsylvania,
General Longstreet, General Slocum and
General Curtis.
The following telegram was received by