The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1888-07-11
r EUNlON AT GETTYSBURG
George w. Curtis Address.


New York Cavalry was dedicated. The
stone has on the main piece, which is
about eight feet high. the figure of a cav
alryman on the march, his carbine slung
on the sub-base. The Third New York
Independent Battery, which won a repu-
tation second to none in the army of the
Potomac, was also dedicated and exercises
were held at the following memorials
scattered over the field: The Sixty
seventh New York Regiment, known un-
der the name of the First Long Island
Volunteers; the Brooklyn Phalanx and
Beerhers Regiment, on Culps Hill, near
the second gate. The orator was Rev.
Thomas X. Beerlier, of Elmira, Y. y.
The One Hundred and Forty-sixth New
York is known rs the Garrard Tigers, out
of compliment to the stern discipline Of
Col. kenner Garrard, a graduate of West
Point, who accepted the command of the
One Hundred and Forty-sixth at the
suggestion Of Gen. iialleek. The posi-
ton of the monument is on the most com
handing portion of Little Round ToPand
near the place where Meade directed the
battle of the third day The Thirteenth
New York battery was also dedicated in
the morning, and Battery b, New York
Artillery, at o'clock, Rev W. VI. Beau
,.i. IL H..
WHERE HANCOCK WAS WOUNDED.
The massive stone which marks the
spot where Mai j.-Gen. W. s. Hancock
was wounded just twenty-five years ago
was visited to-day by thousands OF the
admirers Of that famous Commander.
At large and enthusiastic meeting Of
the L. ;. Veterans Signal Corps Assoei-
alton il was determined to erect a tablet
commemorative Of the work done by this
corps here on Little Round Top, near
where the statute of Gen. T. X. Warren
will be dedicated on the Sth of next Au-
gust. Gen. Jesse Merrill, of Lock Haven
who was chosen President to succeed B.
F. Fisher. Of Philadelphia, delivered an
Grafton before the crops after the meet
ing.
The gray coats of the Confederates can
be seen mingling with the blue, and none
wears the little flag of the Union more
proudly than those who formerly loved
the Stars and Bars"
Gov. J. B. Gordon, of Georgia, who
won all hearts by his splendid speech of
yesterday, left for home this afternoon.
To the Commercial, Go.eae correspondent
he expressed his great pleasure at heing
permitted to see this reunion between
the North and South, and thought if the
soldiers were brought into contact thus
every year the country would be the bet
ter for the meetings.
There was a strange similarity between
this day and that of just twenty-five years
ago Then the armies of Meade and Lee
Confronted each other. So to-day the
Federal and Confederates were once more
on the field and again was the one On
Seminary Ridge and the other on Gene
terry Hill. Nothing unusual occurred to
break the monotony until o'clock, when
the Unions and Confederates met once
more at almost the same hour at which
they had joined in deadly combat twenty
five years ago.
At :; o'clock the procession, composed of
the same military commands as yesterday
entered the National Cemetery and
marched past the rostrum. A the con-
clusion OF the parade Gen. Robinson, of
New York, as presiding officer, requested
the Rev. Twitchell, of Hartford, Conn,
to open the exercises with prayer. The
prayer was listeneded to with uncovered
heads, and when, nconcluding. he began
the Lonl's Prayer the crowd joined in
with the preacher.
Mr.. LATHloPs POEM.
George Lathrop was unable to be pre-
sent, but part Of his poem was read by
Gen. IIoratio c. King, and was received
by the audience with muchapDlause. The
following is an extract
Two hostile bullets in mid-air
Together socked.
And swift were locked
Forever in a firm embrace,
Then let US men have so much grace,
70 take the bullets place
And learn that we are held
BY laws that weld
our hearts together
As once we battlel hand to hand.
80 hand in hand to-day we stand,
Sworn to each other
Brother and borther
In storm and mist, or calm translucent
weather;
And Gettysburgs guns, with dea,h-dealing
roar,
Echoed from ocean to ocean shall pour
Qickening life to the Nations core:
Filling our minds again
With the spirit of those who wrought in the
Field Of the Flower Of Men,
When the orator, George William Cur
It's, was presented, three cheers were call
ed for By Gen. Sharpe
NR. CURTIS SPEECH.
Mr. Curtis in his speech said
If the rising sun OF the ith of July, 1868
looked upon a sad and unwonted scene,
desoIated battlefield, upon which the
combatants upon either side had been
American citizens, yet those combatants
could they have seen Alright would have
hailed that day as more glorious than
ever before. For as the children Of Israel
beheld Moses descending amid the clouds
and thunder of the sacred mount bearing
the divinely illuminated law, 50 from
that smoking and that blood-drenched
field on which all hope Of future union
might seem to have perished utterly they
would have seen a more perfect Union
rising, with the Constitution at las; immut-
ably interpreted and they would have
heard, before they were uttered by hH-
man lips, the words Of which Gettysburg
i the immortal pledge to mankind, goy-
ernment Of the people. by the people,
for the people, shall not perish from the (
earth.
Even the civil war has bat guickened .
and deePened our prosperous activities.
Like spring toshhe1 mountains u snow