Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1891-09-26
THE TAMMANY REGIMENT.
Tammany Hail Unveils y Monument TO III
Memory at Gettysburg.

GErrYsDuRo, Pa. September Tho
lammany Braves to-day dedicated the
monument they have erected on this bat
tie-hcld To mark the position held by the
forty-sccond New York infantry. which
was recruited and sent out by the Wig
wan when the war-cloud burst in 1861.
Rev. w. ii. Keith, pastor of the Metho-
dist church of this place, made the pray
or. and the Commonwealth Band of Har-
risburg, fa., played dirge. The monu-
ment was then unveiled by James +. Nal
Ion, son % Colonel James r. Msllon who
commanded the Forty-second regiment.
MaJor-General Daniel +. Sicklcs. United
States army. delivered the Grafton. and
presented tho monument to the Gcttys-
burg Battlefield Memorial Association.
Hon. Edward Mcpherson received it In
the name Of that body. The Patriotic
Dead, an original poem to the Tammany
regiment, composed by William Geoehe-
gan was read by +. +. Mackav. tho actor.
Short addresses were delivered by District
Attorney John X. Fellows. al ex-osiiccr in
the Confederate army; General Martin L.
Mcmahon, General lily S. Parker. BARLOW
;. Weeks, Captain j. NJ. EilendorE. and
Captain James Casey.
+. +. Mackay then read THE Blne and
the Gray" and after singing " Comrades"
tno exercises concluded.
FELLOWS FOR THE 0RiY.
Mr.. Fellows said in substance: II have
not ordinarily found II difficult to express
III language tho thoughts and feelings that
animate me. but ! have never risen with
such feelings as those that thrill me now.
| cannot on this field. embellished with
these monuments, maintain appropriate
calmness. General Sickies told you no ma
ton could cherish a marital spirit that
failed to honor its dead, and | wish to take
that as my theme for few moments. This
IL one country now, cherished with one
sentiment, with but one 1ag waving IN all
It's glory. Hereafter If this country shall call
upon her children to defend her, the deeds
done by her sons upon this field will
arouse the people IN Il common cause. If
you would awaken France you do not tell
of the Commune and tho time when she
worshipped at the throne of Reason; you
recall when her victorious eagles few
above Jena. Austerlitz, and Friedland, and
the glories of him who came from Corsica,
her child OF fortune and her Emperor. and
when prejudice aud bitterness have pass
ed away, II then the country shall call
upon her sons what words spoken along
the line will hold them steadiest in the hour
of battle? The deeds Of their fathers
done on the sides Of those hills Will be the
nerve food. But III gathering up the lofty
lessons Of American valOr we Will only
crave that the sons now under the standard
Of the one republic may equal the deeds
Of these dead heroes. SO have ventured
to appear before you III behalf Of those
who woie the gray and speak the words of
bTothorly recognition you won. We nc
cept the lesson taught US; We accept the
Government; we will 60 a. far as you To
preserve it. The legions who followed
Lee and Jackson will march as far.
do rs much, drc IA much il ever
the republic shall ask her Sons to
stand up IN battle array. It - our
country, won for us by valor. We love 1t
IN every fibre of our natures. and We love
this starry emblem of thus Government.
What has it not done for those who were
against it, Some one out OF the far
reccdng past may say otherwise, bat this
does not characterize the sentiment OF the
| South. Here We oil are to give ourselves
freely 10 our country, for above all passion
ana hate II is the common country. Let
the dead past bury its dead The falrest
land for which ever patriot lived, It Is the
dearest land for which ever a hero died. "