Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1891-01-22
HoroRs TO THE DEAD GENERAL.

HONORs TO THE DEAD GENERAL.
Memorial Services at United Church
In Honor of the Late General Alfred
HI. Terry-Eulogies Upon the Nom
Ored Dead by Rev. III. L. Wayland,
Rev. H. Clay Trumbull and Ex.Gov.
ernor HI. II. Harrison.
United church was well filed last even
ing at the opening Of the memorial services
in honor of the late General Alfred a.
Terry. The New Haven Grays in uniform
occupied body of seats at tho right Of
Admiral Foote post. which filed the main
portion of the front seats. Grand Army
officials and large numbers Of other mill
tary and municipal officials were in at
tendance, and the number of ladies was
very large. The church altar was adorned
before the pulpit with Ife-size portrait
of General Terry, and upon either side
were the national flags and the banners of
Admiral Foote post. The committee of
arrangements which conducted the ser
vices was composed of George NJ. White,
Albert G. Hendrick and Fred Il. Waldron.
Members of the post also acted as ushers.
A hymn by a quartette and prayer by
Rev. DR.. Theodore T. Munger opened the
services. DR.. Munger then introduced
Rev. II. L. Wayland, late chaplain of the
| Seventh Connecticut Volunteers, whose Gu
logy upon the departed hero was intently
| listened to.
THE ADDRESS IN FULL OF CHAPLAIN WAY
| LAND OF THE OLD SEVENTH C. v.-aENE-
RAJ TERRY's REGIMENT
apI oifi1aps-Oro 1,u ono the
stars which shone for our guidance and
cheer through the long night of national
peril and gloom are sinking beneath the
horizon. To call the list of the great civil
ians and soldiers who were leaders during
the war for liberty and union is, with few
exceptions, to call the roll of the dead.
Among the civilians Hamlin survives,
whose name will always he associated with
that of Lincoln, and among the captains,
in few days will complete his seventy
first year. But how lonely in their emil
| nence!
| And now there has been added to the 81
lent majority one of whom his native COM
monwealth was proud, whose greatness was
recognized by the nation, whom we loved
as comrade and gladly followed as a COM
mander. You have hidden me give ex-
| preston to the sentiments which are in the
hearts of you all. Though dihident of my
ability, cannot refuse your call. You
could have chosen many more gifted, bnt
none moro loyal.
While shall not attempt any formal
| biography-but shall merely seek to illus
| trate his character by few facts, many of
which lie within your own recollection
yet connot altogether ignore his ancestry.
Every man is the product of his ancestry,
of his surroundings and of himself He
was descended from the heroic men and
women, than whom the world has seen NO
better or Drawer, the Pilgrims of Plymouth.
In 1887, writing to ask him to be present
at the approaching dinner of the New
England society in Pennsylvania, I Incl
dentally referred to his Connecticut an
cestry. In reply, he said: "Were to &C
cept your invitation, and to sit at dinner
of New Englanders, I should proudly
trace my descent from Plymouth Rock ani
from my direct ancestor, Governor Brad
ford" Happy he who adds luster even tt
such an ancestry.
need not remind you of his birth in
the sister capital, of his education in thi
city, of his entrance on his profession.
In letter written few years ago from
his headquarters at St. Paul to Genera
Sherman, he referred to tour across tn
country in which he was to accompan,
General Sherman and Chief Justice Waite
and said, ct do not know Chief justice
Waite, but I knew his father, and wa
clerk of the court over which he presided
and I feel also a pride that a native O
Connecticut should be occupying tn
highest judicial position in the country.
How he had always been an enthusiasts
in military affairs, how he commanded i
time of peace military organization i
this city which was second to none in tn
| T,o1-focti0n of ifo Iicoir,liro how ~
to the presidents call he led tho secon
Connecticut, how he held them we'll /
hand during the lamentable day of Blu
Run, how, on his return, the honored Go,
ernor Buckingham urged him to form
regiment for longer service, how his nam
as commander of the seventh Connection
, called together the choicest young me
from his native Hartford, the Grays fro,
New Haven, the matters from Danbur,
from Killingly and from Tolland, tho sal
8 or boys from New London and Saybroo
and Bridgeport, the students from Val,
the artisans from Plantsville and Ne,
Britain and Winsted and Waterbury, a
this is recorded by history.
To-day my mind goes back, almost thi
ty years, to Tuesday, September II, 1856
when the regiment lay encamped in fiel
on tn, borders of the sound, just on tt
edge of New Haven. then saw him f
the first time and was mustered by him il
to the service of the United States. Lii
all who met him, was impressed by h
(. commanding stature and splendid appea
ance, his courtesy, his soldierly ..bearin
Within few days joined the regiment
Washington, and thereafter, for mar
months, I was in almost daily intercour
>, with him.
He was enthusiastic for the cause
which he was enlisted. cannot concei,
him as taking up arms under flag staine
with oppression or crime. He believed ]
liberty and in the nation. While we we
on Meridian Hill at Washington clerg
= man, resident in the city, called upon
member of the staff. He had been know
as an apologist for slavery, as very feeb
q in his loyalty and as having, in pray
meeting which he was conducting, Or
hibited any one for praying for the abo
ton of slavery. when Colonel Ter,
>, heard of it he said, eff I had known it,
q. would have ordered him OUT the camI
But he did not make the then common mi
take of supposing that enthusiasm won
!. supply the place of knowledge and ski
He spared no exertion to bring the reg
ment to the highest point of preparation
Every evening he had the officers in b
tent instructing them in tactics, beginnil
! with the alphabet of drill. fThe SOU,
| drill is everything" he said. These wor
' have a wide significance.
He regarded war as sublime art I
had studied the campaigns of the gre
captains. I often listened with d
N light to his military criticisms
Fortunately for himself and for Il
country, he worked his way up. The M
who began as major generals worked the
way down. l remember in connection wi
his own career a remark which I heard hi
NJ quote from the brilliant conversation
Major General Mitchell, our departme
commander, whose career was too ear
- cut short by the yellow fever. 'It
probable" said General Mitchell, THAT t
Emperor Napoleon would have failed
his destiny if the French people had
/ any possibility taken him by the hair
4 the head and made him general at t
start. He began as sous lieutenant; tn
B he was lieutenant, going through each st
in graduation, and constantly preparing f
the next" ALI this was alphabetically tr
of our own commander.
That he should care for the men g
trusted to his charge was the dictate
kindness, of duty, of wisdom; he kne
who they were, the choicest of the 80
of the hills and valleys of the brave lit
state. And he knew that it was wi
lie these that the victory was to be wo
49, He cared for their health; once VIII
something was said about the sickne
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