The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-10-16


ton by Senator Edmunds 49, Mrs. j.
G. II. DORIS Poem Model of Com
memorative Verse The Stannard
Monument Said to he the Most I'm
posing on the Field.
The monuments that Vermont has
erected to her soldiers who fell at Get
tysburg were presented to the battle
field association and dedicated with APP
propriate and impressive exercises last
week Wednesday. There were some
thing like five hundred men and women
who claim to be Vermonters, either by
past or present residence in the state, in
attendance to witness the exercises and
do honor to the soldiers of the state
who died on this battlefield. The sun
shone brightly, the addresses were elo-
quent and patriotic, the poem was a
real poem, and the programme I'M
folded smoothly and naturally. No
son or daughter of the state, whether
present or not, could fail to feel proud
of the manner in which those who made
the arrangements had accomplished
their task. The state monument is
said to be the finest and most imposing
of any on the field, and the exercises
were in every way high credit to the
state.
The procession formed on Gettys-
burg common about half-past ten
o'clock. The well-known citizens of
the state who were there were many,
and these were some of them: Secre-
tary Proctor, Senator Edmunds, Gov
ernor Dillingham;, eX-Governors Orms-
bee, Barstow and Pingree, Lieutenant
governor Woodbury., Secretary of State
Porter, State Treasurer Dubois, State
Auditor Powell, Collector of L. S.
Customs Benedict, General William
Wells, General j. G.. Mccullough and
General w. w. Henry. A party of
about fifty Vermont men from Boston
was also there, among them Colonel
Albert Clarke and Secretary w. H.
GoodnOw of the Boston association.
There were many ladies present, includ-
ing Miss Kitty Stannard and Mrs. w l..
Stone, daughters of General Stannard.
President Harrison had promised to be
there, AM only the force of urgent Off
cial business prevented him from at
tending. 1t was an honorable and dis
tinguished company that formed line in
the following order: Chief Marshal
Thomas o. Seaver and aids, Gettysburg
Grand Army band, Vermont veterans,
on foot, escOrting the United States
and state officials and guests, governor
and state officers Of Vermont, orator of
the day. chaplain, monument commits
sioners, officers of the Battlefield AS
sociatiOn, generals who commanded
Vermont troops in the war of the re-
bellion, and other distinguished guests
in carriages, citizens on foot. To the
state monument, on Hancock avenue,
the procession moved, the Gettysburg
Grand Army band playing its liveliest
strains. Here the main exercises of
the day occurred, in accordance with
the following programme, Ex-Governor
E. j. Ormsbee presiding as chairman
of the state Gettysburg commission
dwelling of the state monument; mu-
sic by the Gettysburg Grand Army
band; prayer by Rev. William S. Smart,
ID. d., of Albany; presentation of the
monument to the Gettysburg battlefield
memorial association, by Governor
William P. Dillingham;; acceptance OF
the monuments in behalf of the bat
tleield memorial association, by Hon
Wheelock G. Veazey; Grafton by Sena.
tor Edmunds; poem by Mrs. Julia c.
r. Dorr, read by Professor j. Wesley
Churchill of Andover.
The Grafton of Senator Edmunds be
gan at half-past eleven O'Clock. The
effect of Mrs. DORIS beautiful poem
read with the finest expression by Pro
fessor Churchill, was beyond descrip
ton. Inc audience 1elt that great al
was her theme the treatment was fully
adequate. Music preceded the bene
diction by Rev. II. W. Mcknight, presl
dent of the Pennsylvania College a
Gettysburg. Then followed brief re
marks by Colonel John b. Batchelder
the government historian of Gettys
burg, who told how the location of tn,
monument was selected, and gave
description of the great battle in graphic
language. The Vermont association
placed large laurel wreath at the has,
of the monument, at the conclusion o
the addresses.
When the exercises at the state monu
ment were concluded and "a lunch haC