Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1891-06-18
MEMORIAL DAY
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Abssssot Of The Hlcqssnt Address by
Col Hsnay walker ci Bostoa.

Especial 10 the kmNnD1c JouRxAL.1
NATIONAL HoxE. Togns, june II Win
the veterans Of the Rebellion who an
qus1tersd as the Eastefn Branch ot ths
Nstionsl Home for Disabled volunteel
Soldiers. Memorial day, which 10 observed
BY them on the i7th Of June. il held IL
more than average sacfsdness for the reason
that there 10 ~ unusually large number Of
veterans gathered together II this insiitu.
ton who remember with greater yividnsss,
on account OF the disability. the trying
scene. through which they passed. Today,
with the members Of the Home, has been
sacred to the memory Of departed comrades
and has been observed with the usual
appropriate exercises. In the forenoon Il
s o'clock, delegates from Cutler Pest, G.
A. R., were ssnt to ne three neighborina
cemeteries where the graves Of 60 deceased
veterans were decorated with the miniature
flag and . bouquet Of flowers. Returning,
tbs men were dismissed until the afternoon.
At 2 O'Clock promptly in acco4dance With
the programme, the procession formed in
front Of headquarters building the right
resting near Rccklsud street, marching TO
the residence Of Governor Stephenson, the
,fficers Of the Hcme, orator Of the day and
invited guests joined the procession in
carriages. TIE line Of march was then
taken up through the principal avenues
about the Home to the cemetery where the
exefcises were held. The line was formed
A. follows under the direction Of Serg. Msj.
T. G. Goodwin, - chief msfshsl.
National Home Band, B. W. Theme leader.
Cutler Post, No. -, g. A. r., 7. G. Goodwin,
commander.
Oficers Of the Home, orator and invited guests.
Veteran members OF the Home fns companies
under the command o. company sergeants.
National Home Fire Beps,tment.
Adj Gen. sprague Of Auburn. Col Geo A. Phil.
brook OF Augusta. Rev. and Mr.. X. ". Jen-
iins . Of ,,,i G.,dlaes, y. s, Hon: Weston Lewis
among the inyited guests.
Too much cannot be said Of the align
ment snd the marching Of the men. The
Home Military band under B. W. Theme
10 leader, appeared in handsome new uni
forms worn for the first time on this occa-
sion. Their selections during the line Of
march and the services at the cemetery
were most excellently rendered and won
many words Of praise and ccmmendation
from the Hundreds Of visitors who thronged
the line Of march and the cemetery. Cut
ber pest made Ane showing, turning out
60 men and marching liks the true soldiers
that they were.
The members Of the home Who pxrtici-
pated in the parade we're divided into rix
compsnies each under the command Of q
company sergeant. The members Of the
pest and several of the companies carried
the flowers with which to decorate the
graves Of their departed comrades. II was
estimated that fully 1000 men participated
in the parade and all were given deserved
com plimsnts for their nne appearance.
Upon arrival at the cemetery The ex.f-
cises were carried out in accordance with
the following programme;
Music. .Nationsl Home pand
Prayer. ....kev. W. A. Grimm. chaplain
Decoration of graves. Veterans OF the Home
During the ceremony the band plased a dirse)
Oratiop. Col. Henry Walker Of MASS.
Music. ic......,................RA RAti0na Home Band
Hymn, America. ..By the entire sssemblage
b nedie.iou.
The scene at the cemetery was . most
Impressive one. On plateau overlookios
the Home are the graves Of departed com-
rades, each one marked with the small
white stone which denotes the fnal resting
places Of . valiant soldier. Today long
iiges Of their comrades whom death has
spared stood beside the graves OF their de-
parted frieads and ou. OF full hearts placed
thereon the floral emblems, evidences that
they are still remembered BY those who are
left behind. The volley Of musketfy was
fred ever the graves I'D . dirse was
played by the band, the ceremony Of deco.
rating the graves following Immediately.
At ,he close Of these services, Gen. Luther
Stephenson IT,, Governor OF the Home,
ste pped forward, and ia = few words in
which he very fitinsly referred to the very
plessap Acquaintance which had existed
between them since the nfst call to afms,
Introduced the orator, Col. Henry Walker
OF Boston, Mass. The orstion was de-
iivsred in . NEST eloquent and fnithed
manner, and in it, ecspe aud treatment was
the equal Of any ever delivered before the
members OF the hCms. The assembled
vese,ans ard the hundreds Of visitors found
iu Is something tangible and intere sting and
eAve ii the closest attention throughout.
The JOURNAL representative 10 sb!e 70 give
the following 9 abstract:
A few days since our people throughout
the land gathered in city, in village ard in
hamlet wherever the springims hsd clothed
in beauty the last resting places Of the men
who in our late civil war wrote the etofy Of
their patriotism upon the pages Of our
country's history with their life's blood,
ard with eaddened hearts and feveren;
hsr d. strewed a ,wers upon the turf beneath
which sleep our comrades, and placed over
it the hss 'hey gave their lives to preserve
this. Dag the symbol Of the government.
their sacrifices, their suferiDgs and their
deaths did 90 much to perpetuate. The
eloquent words Of the orator, the song Of
the poet, the saIvos Of artillery still linger.
ing in our ears, We gather here today TO
commemorate the heroism Of cur comrads 6
whose blood cemented the eovsrnmen.
which WsshiuRtcn and The fathers Of the
revelation founded and without whose
sscrifees instead Of one people from ocesn
to ocean, from lake to gulf, unioa one
ard iudiyisahle. we should have beer
sent into fragments antagonis,ic each
to the other, without power ef prestige
At home and abroad, and BY ou,