The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1888-07-14


Of Green's Third Brigade ofGeary's Second
division Of Slocum's Twelfth Corps. Major
General Slocum delivered the oration, In
which he recounted and eulogized the deeds
Of the Twelfth Corps.
In the afternoon the monument Of tho
Sixty-eighth Pennsylvania regiment, better
known locally as the Philadelphia Scott
Legion, was dedicated. Alfred Craighead,
secretary of the association recounted the
work done by the committee in charge OF
the monument, and James McLarnon un-
veilcd the monument, After prayer by Rev.
William Fulton, Henry X. Boyer delivered
an eloquent oration. Captain Thomas II.
Leabourne, OF General John +. Reynolds
Post, reviewed the history and exploits Of
the regiment and delivered the monuments
formally TO the Memorial Association.
The great event Of this second days ami
versary did not happen until late In the
afternoon. II was the grand reunion of the
blue and the gray, and it may safely be
called the most impressive the most hearty
and the most dignifcd and inspiring of any
of the meetidgs Of survivors Of the war that
have occurred since Appotomax. The place
was the National Cemetery, whero beneath
the sleeping green sward, shaded by mur-
muring trees and dotted with concentric
lines of granite marked with thei.' .,ames or
else marked with the grim ''unknown," 50
many thousands of the Nations dead lie in
peaceful sleep.
The actors were the very men VINO de-
Tended the ridge on whose slopes the ceme-
terry lies, against the repeated and desperate
assault led by the men who joined them now
I'm pledges Of friendship, loyalty to a COM
mon flag and unity of devotion TO q common
country. The place, scene and living figures
of the men themselves were inspiring. Five
thousand spectators men who wore the
blue, men who wore the gray, women who
toiled and wept at home, children born since
the bloody struggle ended, looked on and
cheered aud laughed and wept by turns.
The procession to the cemetery marched
out from tho dusty town little after four
o'clock. The regular troops led the way.
The Ninth New York militia came next and
behind all their brave array Of newuniforms,
sparkling gold lace and glistening helmets
marched body of men whose older faces,
dusky clothing and hands bearing no arms
were more eloquent than all the glitter and
parade in front These were the Grand
Army men, amounting in number to a bat
talon, and the thin ranks of their former
foes. There were not many Of these Confed-
crate veterans, but the people who lined the
wayside cheered until they were hoarse as
their thin ranks tramped by. Men were
among them from Virginia, North Carolina,
Georgia, Mississippi and Louisiana. AS the
line of ex-Confederates neared the cemetery
they were made little fuller by recruits.
Thess were man who had been crippled;
most of them had lost a leg and had hobbled
out to the road on crutches and waited for
their comrades to come along.
None of the marching troops were adj
mitted within the cemetery gate, but the
veterans and the throng of people poured
through and gathered about the arbor at the
western end of the great inclosure. They
stood closely together the crowd scattering
little at its edges and there must have
been 5000 of them. The center of tho
gathering was the arbor, platform of earth
about twelve feet above the ground. Brick
columns supported roof, and these columns
are covered with ivy. On this platform
were gathered a group Of veteran officers,
and scattered among them were not few
of those who wore the gray. The corps
commanders there were Major Generals
Sickles and Slocum, the division command
ers were Generals Barlow, Crawford and
Robinson. Then there were Brigadier Gen,
erals Lynch, Carr, Graham, Berdan and
Ward and Major General Butterfield.
Meade's chief of staff. Representing the
Confederate side were Generals LOngstreet
and Gordon, of Georgia, and Hooker, Of
veteran officers, nearly all clad in civilian
attire but adorned with badges of the Army
of the Potomac and of the Army of North.
ern Virginia, was Governor Beaver, su.'.
rounded by his Staff. George William Cur
tbs and ex-senator Warner Miller sat near
him. General John C. Robinson, president
of the Society of the Army Of the Potomac,
introduced as the presiding officer of the
reunion General Daniel Sickles. General
Sickles, with few words of acknowledge
ment, introduced General Gordon, who
spoke on behalf of the ex-Confederates.
AS his swinging sentences, eloquent and
ringing, were uttered there was frequent
applause.
The introduction Of Governor Beaver and
the glowing tribute that was first paid him
as a soldier statesman and patriot, was the
signal for another outburst of applause and
three hearty cheers. The Governor stood
resting on his crutches just behind a scroll
bearing the immortal words of Lincoln's
Gettysburg speech, and the National monu-
ment itself, at whose dedication those words
were uttered, looked down upon the gather.
ing from little distance. After General
Beaver had finished his address, the tele.
gram from Mrs Pickett was read. 'She
was soldier too," exclaimed General
Beaver, amid the applause and cheers that
followed the reading Of the dispatch.
GETTYsBURa, July 4.-Before breakfast
Tuesday morning about fifty ex-Confeder.
ates of Parkers battery called on their old
General, Longstreet, who received them
handsomely in an informal way. The mem.
bers Of the organization spent some hours
in the peach orchard-their command hav.
ing been the last of Lees command to leave
that ground to join the retreat.
When the hour for the exercises arrived
there were on the rostrum number of dis.
tinguished persons, most prominent among
whom were Generals Longstreet, Sickles,
Barlow, Hunt Gordon and Sharpe; Govern.
or Curtin and ex-senator Warren Miller.
Lieutenant Governor Robinson, of New
York, presided After prayer he apollo.
gized for the absence of the poet, Mr.. La.
throp, who was detained by illness, General
Horatio King, secretary Of the Society OF
the Army of the Potomac, read portion
of the poem In an effective manner Mr..
George William Curtis was then introduced
and delivered the oration in his usual elo.
quent style. The asscmblage, though not
quite so large as on Monday, were very at
tentive and applauded the orator frequently.
Quite number of Confederates are in the
city. AS rule they have come as individ-
uals from different sections. Among the
few organizations present are the Norfoll
and Portsmouth camps. Wherever gray
uniform is seen, it is found to be surrounded
by n crowd of old veterans in blue, anxious
to shake hands and express their kindly
feeling toward their old antagonists. This
fact impresses the old soldier observers with