The Portland daily press., 1895-05-31
BLUE AND GRAY.
Dedication Of the Monument to the
Confederate Dead.

Militia and Grand Armyr Comrades Acted
as Escort-GeneraI Wade Hampton
Was the Orator of the Day and Deliv-
cred an Eloquent Address.
Chicago, May 30-Under sky now
grey and now blue, as the light of the
cloud was veiled, the blue and grey
Federals and onfederates-united today
in the dedication of a monument to the
confederate dead in Oakwoods Cemetery
1t was pleasantly cool and the sky. was
slightly overcast when the distinguished
officers of the late war assembled at the
Palmer house this morning, awaiting
the formation of the procession which
was to escort them to the depot of the
Illionis railroad The time set for the
parade to move was eight clock, but it
was nearer nine when all arrangements
were completed, and the veterans took
their places in carriages. In the mean
time the great rotunda of the hotel was
the scene of hustle and shifting colors.
Federals and ex-confederates sat side by
side in chairs and fought their battles over
again. Il In | the the throng gg,, We're men whose
1leAAliSo diC dlouOllS IACIO WcI0 1LOliSS.
street, Fitz Hugh Lee, Gen. John G.
Black, Senator and Gen. John M,
Palmer, Marcus J. Wright of Tennessee.
Gen. Joseph Stockton of Illinois; M. G.
Butler, e. P. Hunten, Gen. John G,
Underwood, protector of the monument,
and Wade Hampton, orator of the day
and hundreds Of lesser officers. When the
clear notes of bugle announced the Chica-
go city troop, Capt. Funkhauser, which
| was to escort the visitors to the deport
was in line, the carriages each containing
two Federals and two Confederates, were
rapidly filled and moved toward Michigan
avenue. AS the procession moved along
the board boulevard the battery of the
| Illinois National Guard, in Lake Front
guns.
At the depot the party was quickly
transferred to a special train decorated
with national colors and rapid run soon
deposited the distinguished veterans at
Sixtieth street station, where carriage
were in waiting. The march to the GENES
terry began. The Black Hussars Capital n
T. S. Quincy, acting as guard of honor
and detachments from the Illinois
militia, Grand Army posts and Camps OF
Conferedate veterans made up the rest OF
the procession. The route to the ceme-
terry was covered within few minutes
and it was quarter to eleven when the
WAS ICdCIGN. I1tlG ID great
crowd assembled considerably after
eleven, when the distinguished visitors
were seated on the platform and the band
began the opening selection. AS the last
notes died away, Col Joseph Desha
Pickett, chaplain of the kentucky orphan
brigade arose, and advancing to the front
of the stand, invoked he divine blessing
on the assemblage. Gen. Underwood
briefly sketched the progress of the monu
ment which culminated in the great
gothering today and closed by introducing
as the presiding officer of the exercises
Rev. H. W. Bolton, pastor of the
Century Methodist church, and past com
mander of U. S. Grant Post, No. "a, G.
A. r. DR.. Bolton on taking the chair re
turned thanks for the honor conferred up
on him, and in speech of length de
livered an eloquent eulogy upon the
soldiers of the late war both North and
South. After an anthem by a quartette,
the orator cf the day, Gen. Wade Hamp
ton, was introduced and delivered an
eloquent address, in which he praised the
generosity and magnaminity of their for
mer foes. and gave. honor to the liberal
men of Chicago, who had shown by their
action they regarded the war as over.
Another vocal selection followed and
Major Henry Stanton of Kentucky,
recited the Memorial ode. He was fol
lowed by Bishop Fallows who eloquently
voiced the blessings of peace. This was
followed by the ceremony of monument
ing the guns. The monument was then
decorated. after which the bugles sounded
taps and the audience dispersed.