The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-07-04
Continuation Of the EXer-
cises on Tuesday.
THE GRAFTON OF THE OCCASION
George William Curtis Mastery
Effert-SOme Grand Sentiments
Expressed-Other "Details.
The Gettysburg Reunion

several thousands as the preceding
days. Nothing was stirring in the camp
the veterans mostly stayed out all nigh
and were devoting themselves 10 sleel
preparing for the reunion exercises t.
be held late this afternoon when Georg
William Curtis will deliver an orator
aud George Parsons Lathrop read
poem.
There was strange similarity between
this day and that OF Just twenty.
five years ago. Then the armies O
Meade and Lee confronted each other
So to-day the Federals and Confeder.
ates were once moro on the field anC
again was the one On Seminary Ridge
and another on Cemetry Hill Nothine
unusual occurred to break the mono
tary until o'clock when the Union:
and Confederates met once more at al
most the same hour at which they had
joined in the dea lily conflict twenty-five
years ago. The monuments which
were dedicated to-day were as fol
lows: The Fifth New York Cavalry, the
One Hundred Forty-six New York
infantry, "Garnarard Tigers" Sixty
seventh New York (the first longstand
volunteers and known as Beecher s
r-gImen) at which Thomas K. Beecher,
of Elmlra, New York, delivered the ora
ton. The New York Independent Bat
terry with Major-General w S. Rose
Grams as orator. Battery 3, New York
Article and Thirteenth New York Bat
terry. The Signal Corps Association of
the Army OF the Potomac held meet.
ing here to-day. They determined to
erect an imposing tablet on Little
Roundlap IN commemoration of the
work done by this branch of the
army in the battle. They also elected
General Jesse Morrill, president and
decided to hold their annual reunions
at the time and place where the national
encampmrnt of the Grand Army OF the
Republic takes place. GEM. B. Goran,
Of Georgia, was compelled by his official
position as chief executive, to leave for
Atlanta. An Associated Press re
porter, in answer to the question what
vas his opinion of the reunion, said ::
'GhIs meeting was g great success, and
II these reunions of soldiers occurred
yearly 1t would serve to cement the
friendly feeling of the blue and gray
more closely, and to bind the North
and South SO firmly that there would
be no North and South but this country
be linked together by chains of indis-
soluble friendship" At three o'clock
the procession composed of military
commands, as yesterday, entered the
National Cemetery and marched past
the rostrUm. At the conclusion Of The
parade General Robinson, of New
York, as presiding officer requested
Rev. Turrchell, of Hartford, Connect
cut to open the exercises with prayer.
Prayer was listened to with uncovered
heads and when concluding he began
the Lords prayer, the crowd Joined
in. The poet of the occa-
sion, Geo. Parsons Lathrop,
was unable to be present but
a part Of his poem was read by General
b. @. King, secretary of the society of
the Army of the Potomac and Has re-
ceived by the audience with much ap.
plause. When orator George William
Curtis was presented, three cheers were
sailed for by General Sharpe aid he was
greeted with hearty applause. At the
conclusion of his Grafton.
Eloquence was in every line in Mr..
Curtis Grafton. He began with these
words, Upon this field, consecrated
oy American valor, We meet to con-
secrate ourselves to the American
Union. In this halloW ground be buried
not only the brave soldiers of the
blue and grey. but the passions
If war; The jealousy of sections and the
bitter of all our national differences
luman slavery. Here long and angry
of the political dogmas of
interest and of moral pride
md tradition came to decisive strug-
;le. AS the fate of Christendom was
lecided at Tounis, that of American
at Saratoga, and that of
modern Europe at Waterloo,
he destiny of the American
Union was decided at Gettysburg.
4 hundred other famous fields there
ire OF the same American bravery in
DE same tremendous strifes, fields |
whose proud and terrible tale history
nd song will never tire of telling, but |
It's here that the struggle touohed,its
ligr est point. Here broke the fiery |
rest of that invading wave Of war,
rom this field the contest from the |
enouned campaign of courageous
ndurance of fearful carnage and of |
accompanying heart break for north
IN and southern homes slowly
eceded toward it's end. This.
therefore,, is one of the historical fields
t the world and to US Americans no
Their has an interest so profound. Mar
thon and Arabela, Worcester and
Amy, even our own Bunker Hill ana
aratoga and Yorktown fields of IN
wing fame have not for US a signific-
nee so vital and so benefc;ent as this
cid of Gettysburg. Continuing, Mr..
urtis said, but that the glory OF this
sy and of America and of humsn
AZURE may be tull, it is the veterans
III the survivors of the armies
nose trem ndous conflicts interpreted
Ia Con tuition, Who to- day, here
pom the field of battle and upon Its
v nty-fitth anniversary. clasp friendly
aads of Hymparhy to salute common
ct ~ This is a spectacle without
reed mt in history. NJ field of the
tn of gold or the grounded arms:
o splendid scene of the royal adjust
eat of conquesrs, the diplomatic set
ement of treaties or the Papal
lcitement of crusades rival in
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