Western appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1885-18??, 1888-07-07
FALLEN BRAVES REMEMBERED.

Continuation of the Reunion Of the Blue
and the Gray at Gettysburg Battle
Fteld-Ssveral More Memorial Shafts
Dedicated, and a Number of Speeches
Made.
GETTYSBURG, Pa, July Sat 10 O'Clock
a. m, yesterday the five regiments OF
Green's Brigade, the Seventy eighth, One
Hundred and Second, Sixtieth, One Hun
dre5 and Thirty-seventh and One Hundred
and Forty ninth New York, dedicated
their monuments on Culps Hill.
Gettysburg battlefield, and inlmedi-
ately afterward reunion OF
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 adj
dresses. At the same hour Sickles' Excel
slor Brigade, made up Of the Seventicth,
Seventy first, 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 $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 1t was the
latter who, just before the brigade went
into battle on the afternoon Of the Cd,
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)r 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-ffth New York, the One Hundred and
| Tenth Pennsylvania, the FGrty-t first New
York Infantry. the One Hundred and Fifth
Pennsylvania, the Sixty second Pennsyl-
vania, the Fifty-second New York, the
Fortieth New York, the Fifteenth New
York Battery, and the Niretieth New York
Cavalry.
At o'clock the conversions 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 number
OF years, and one of the former Episcopal
rectors collected & quantity Of stone in
scribed with either the names o. 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 3 o'clock the Society of the Army
| the Potomac held it's 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. Al / 80 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, General
Beaver and General Robinson (all with
crutches), General Gordon, of Georgia,
General Graham, General Butterfeld and
Rev. DR.. Valentine, of the Southern Theo-
logical seminary. At o'clock General
Robinson introduced General Sickles as
the presiding officer The old commander
of the left corps addressed the tnrong, say
ing among other things:
Among the hundreds OF memorial structures
on this field there is not 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 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; it was not the plot OF Il soldier to oust
rival from power; it was not I,ranuncla-
| mento. The conflict Of 1915 was war OF in
| situations and systems and politics It was a
| revolution ranking in Importance with the
! French revolution of the eighteenth cen fury
and with the English revolution OF the seven.
,yriun f1n t,ps 49, ,l,,xN,
upon the destinies OF this country, and in
effaceable in the footprints made Ia the path
| OF our National progress
When Governor Gordon appeared before
the great crowd that filled she vast lawn
before the rostrum the cheers and hur-
rahs were almost deafenir1r and through
out his speech he was Interrupted by cries
of "Good," "Hurrah,' and other express
sions of pleasure and approval such as
must have been flattering in the extreme
to Georgia's chief executive. In the course
of his speech he said:
"Of all the martial witnesses, the one which
is perhaps more characteristic of the truly
brave is the virtue Of magnani nifty MY fair,
est earldom would give to bid Clan Alpine s
chieftain liye, was the noble sentiment
attributed to Scotlands magnanimous
monarch, gazing into
the face Of his slain antagonist. That
sentiment imm0rtalized by Scott in his must
cal and martial use will associate Tor all time
the name of Scotland King with those oil
the great spirits of the past How grand
the exhibition of the same generous
impulses that characterize the vctors
upon this memorable field. My fellow
countrymen OF the North, if may lie permit
ted to speak for those WhonA I represent, lei
me assure you that in the protoundest depths
Of their nature they rectprocate that generosity
| with all the mainline GnG sincerity of which
brave men are capable. We Join you in setting
apart this land enduring monument Of
peace, brotherhood and perpetual union
Governor Beaver, who was introduced
by Governor Gordon, was received not less
enthusiastically than his Predecessor, anG
! he was also broken IN NPon by the hearty
cries of the spectators. His speech was ir
the same vein that marked the others.
Chaplain McCabe, Of Vermont, who was
to have responded to Governor Beaver in
behalf of the Southern mot,. was, owing tx
RAILROAD delay, unable to be present, anG
General Hooker, of Mississippi, took his
place. Brief addresses were also delivered
by Ex- Governor Curtin, of Pennsylvania
General Longstreet, General Slnnum an6
General Curtis.
The following telegram was received by
General Longstreet last night:
"WAsHINGTON-You friend and comrad'
has gone to join the heroic columns of Amer
lean soldiers in the land CT the I.eal, but hi
widow and son greet you from afar upon tn,
| held which consecrated tina bleilding of thu
blood OF brave men,
"MRs. GESERAlL PICKETT"
The Pope and Ireland.
LONDON, July 3.-'The Chroinicls's. Rome
| correspondent SAYS thar Cardinal Moran