The daily morning journal and courier., 1894-11-15
THE MONUMENT DEDICATED
IN HONOR OF THE DEAD OF THE FIFTEENTH c. AT NEW BERNE.

Cordial Welcome Given the Union Veterans
 by Their Southern Host--Great Crowd
 Witness he Excrolses-Colonel Upham
 Makes n shost Address and United States
 Senator Platt Delivers m Eloquent ura-
 ton on the American Soldier in the Late
 war-stlrring Address by Captain But-
 Iioits of New Haven.
 New Berne, N. C., Nov. H.-This old town is to-day in possession of the vet erans of the Fifteenth Connecticut Vol unteers, who dedicated their handsome state monument erected to the memory of their comrades who lost their lives here during the war. The exercises were witnessed by great crowd of people and the visitors were given a most hos pitable welcome.
 A cold wind was blowing this morn- ing, which was not conducive to com fort. The thermometer was down to 46 and the visitors found their over- coats as necessary as at home. There was no sunshine untll noon, when the raw wind from the northwest blew the clouds away. The southern veterans of New Berne have taken as much inter- est in the dedication of the monument as the old soldiers of the north. The ex-Confederates gave reception last night to their northern guests and the event was most notable.
 The exercises to-day began with ap-; propriate introductory remarke by Col onel Charles l.. Upham of Meriden, Conn.,, president of the Fifteenth Regi- ment association. Prayer was offered by Rev. c. D. Vardell of New Berne, and an eloquent address was made by Captain M. A. Butricks of the Fifteenth. An original ode, "The Blue and the Cray" was given by the author, Rich- ard Berry of New Berne, and then came an address by Rev. Edward Bull, also of New Berne. The oration of United States Senator Orville H. Platt of Con- necticut was pronounced .one of the best of the kind ever delivered in the south on such an occasion. The exer- cises closed with the singing of Amer ica" and benediction by Rev. MT. Bull.
 Captain Butricks in his address thrill- ingly told the story of the regiment in the war and the sufferings of the men who died at New Berne during the vel low fever scourge in 1864, and the brav- cry of their acts at Kinston, where so many members of the regiment were killed.
 Most of the visitors will start for the north this evening, but many will stop over at Washington and other places. All are we'll, Below will be found the addresses of Senator Platt and Cap tain Butricks.6
 CAPTAIN BUTRICKs' ADDRESS.
 Comrades, Friends and Fellow-Citi- aens-1t is giith feelings. of unalloyed satisfaction that a few of those who composed the, Fifteenth regiment of Connecticut Volunteers are permitted to revisit this pleasant city of New Belre-a city tn q recollectfons of which will have aplaSe iny, D yr npI;x As long as meffoaN Itssl If shaaf sessjst ,ssss A' city where in the days ofSlongs .aso we ex- periencsd many days of pleasure as well as many, many days of sorrow and sad ness But while it is a pleasure and a satisfaction to walk once more through the pleasant streets of this beautiful southern city and its Interesting sur roundings, yet we must not lose sight of the principal object of our visit to this city. As is we'll known, we come here to dedicate monument to the memory of those of our comrades who. less fortunate than we were not per- mitted to return, to their northern homes. but whose remains are resting from all trouble and strife, from all toll and cares, in this quiet National ceme- tery. ''.. '''..-,
 These comrades left their homes, their families, their friends, as we left them, l filled with what we believed to be a ! holy, patriotic purpose. They believed, as we believed, that the call to duty as heard in the days of 1862 was not to be misunderstood, or listened to without response. This call was responded to, and they with us, entered into the ser vice of the government, actuated by the one purpose of sustaining the govern ment in it's effort to preserve united | Union of States.
 AIlu Wue1l, SlH AuSuSl, looG, tue fIL- II teenth regiment left New Haven, Conn.,, to perform their part in the war; then T in full operation, none were more confi- dent, none were more active, none more enthusiastic, than those lamented com rades who to-day silently slunber be- meath this to tis, most sacred soil. We, | my comrades, passed safely through. all dangers. We escaped the deadly rifle ball, the shrieking, bursting shell the various diseases Incident to camp life, and we escaped that terrible. scourge, the yellow. fever, that dread visitant which claimed as victims nearly enc | hundred of our comrades who since the | autumn of 1864 have quietly reposed in their burial places at New Berne. Thirty years have passed. You and I, my comrades, have grown older and are now fast passing down the decline | of life, and in few years more we too will be numbered with those 'twho once were,r but to-day are not" But no lapse of time will ever suffice to cause us to forget that terrible experience of September, October and November, 1884.
 Do you recall that morning in Sep tenber when the light of life went out from Sergeant Rogers of Company and we were called upon to mourn him as dead Do you recall that feeling of anyiefv that narvadnd tha eJ1ffr,n carir, |