Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1888-06-23
GENERAL PUTNAM.
A Statue Erected Where the
Hero Lies Buried.
Connecticut Honors the Memory Of
a Revolutionary Soldier.

The bronze equestrian statue of the old
Revolutionary General, Israel Putnam, was
unveiled at Brooklyn, Conn.,, Thursday, over
the spot where he lies buri ID near that town.
The statue was made by Gorhardt and COST
$4,000 Tho interest of the occasion was
heightened by the unveilns of fine soldiers
monument, also by Gerhardt the gift OF
Thomas S. Marion, a prominent citizen
Governor Lounsbury, of Connecticut, and
staff arrived the night before During the
forenoon Governor Taft and staff arrived
from Provi lence, II. t. The only lneal
descendants of old Putnam present were
William Fl. Putnam, of Brooklyn a-sFandson,
in his seventy-eighth year, and his son, :,ohn
D. Putnam, who accomplished the unveiling.
Capt George D. Putnam, OF Boston,a seventh
cousin in descent from one of the younger
;'utnam immigrants to Salem, was also
present
The Putnam Phalanx, Major Warner, Of
artford, arrived during the morning in
their Continental uniforms with drum and
fife corps. The First company OF the Cover
nors Foot Guard Major Kinney, Of Hart
of the controversy Of l176, attired
Colts Band. The Thrill Regiment of the
Connecticut National Guards, Colonel Ha-
vcns, marched over from the c;ty-four miles.
The following veteran corps came from -Aew
York, with Tubbs Band, of Norwich:-The
Seventh Lieutenant Colonel E. G. Arthur;
tho Ninth, Colon John B. Pryor; the Thir-
tenth. General Theodore B. Gates; the
Twenty second, Colonel $. Eiiis Briggs; the
Twenty-third, Captain A. Calhoun, and the
Seventy first, Colonel D. w. c. Ward.
They paraded as a battalion. From Eos
ton came the Montgomery Light Guard,
Colonel Doherty and the Roxbury Artillery
from Providence. The Providence Light In
fantry and the Bristol Artillery, a delegation
present with the Nathan Hale drum CORPS
Several thousand villagers from surrounding
towns also visited the scene.
Visitors to the ploughel field, the Old Inn.
the VOLTS den, the original grave and the
house in which Putnam died were numerous.
At half-past twelve the parade WIS formed
under Colonel H. A. Tyler, chief marshal.
AS Governors Lounsberry and Taft were es-
corted to the stand Governors salute was
fired from the spot where Putnam left his
plough. at the instant of tho unyeillng
another was fired in honor of Putnam as
Maior-General, and the church bells were
rung.
At one o'clock President Dwight, OF Yale,
made the opening prayer. Hail Columbia,
was rendered by the consolidated bants and
q chorus of forty voices, under Director
Leroy Wool, of New York. Morris w. Sey-
mour, of the State Commission, made the
speech of presentation.
Governor Louns5ury accepted the statue in
the name of the State, saying: The sturdy
self-asserting manhood and the unselfish devo-
ton of Putnam and Of the men cast III his
heroic mold won for them and bequeathed
to you the blessings OF constitutional liberty.
t.
virtues to preserve these blessings for Your;
selves and to transmit them to the genera
tions to come"
After the singing of "The Star Spsygled
Banner" Professor johnson, Of Trinity Col
le.e, read his Loem. Henry e. Robbins, of
Hartford delivered the GRAFTON as follows:
''Ninety-eight years ago the wasted form
bullet, was laid to rest in yonder graveyard.
The sacred acres were filled with mourners
He was consigned to sleep in the echoess-
of artillery and of musietry and
under the glories of the hng the fbres
of whose folds his own brave hands
had conspicuously helped to weave.
His epitaph was written by the foremost
frost of winter and the selfish hand OF the
relic hunter wasted the stone slab on which
it was written. And here, above handful OF
ashes all that remains of that stalwart frame,
which in life was the inspiration of colo
nists, the hute of Frenchmen, the fear of Eng
lishmen and the awe Of Indians, to-day, late,
but not too late, grateful State has built
secmly and enduring pedestal, has placed
upon it his war horse and called again to his
saddle, with his bronzed features salutinS the
morning, the Connecticut hero of the isevo-
luton"
Then "America" was sung, after which
Governors Lounsbury and Taft, with their
staffs took up their positions on the review
ing stand and the whole column of fifteen
hundred troops marched by and were fur.
nished collation. on the fair grounds.
ment then followed. Chaplain Anderson,
of the Grand Army of tho Re-
public, accepted the gift in response to
the words of Morgan G.. Buckley, Of Hart
ford, who was substituted Mt the last mo-
ment for General Hawley, who was i'll and
had to be content with sending patriotic
letter.