Birmingham age-herald., 1895-05-31
IMPRESSIVE IN THE EXTREME
Men Whose Names Are High on historys
 Scroll Were There.
WADE HAnpToN's WORDS OF ELooUENcE.
The Wearers of the Blue and Gray Were Brothers Indeed-Sentiments That Make the Heart of an American
 Pulsate With Pride.

Chicago. May 30.-Under sky, now gray and now blue as light clouds yelled the sun, blue and gray, federals and Confederates, united today in the dedi- cation of a monument to the Confeder- ate dead in Oakwood cemetery.
 The extreme heat of yesterday had given place to pleasant coolness and the sky was slightly overcast when the dis tinguished officers of the late war as- sembled at the Palmer house this morn- ing awaiting the formation of the pro cesion which was to escort them to the station of the Illinois Central railroad.
 The time set for the parade to move was o'clock, but it was nearer 9 o'clock when all arrangements were completed and the veterans of the great struggle took their places in the carriages. In the meantime the great rotunda of the hotel was a scene of hustle and shlttlnS colors. Army officers in full uniform, Grand Army men wearing the old volun- teer uniform of 1861, members of the state militia in gorgeous array and ex- Confederates decked with badges of the various camps to which they belonged, hastened hither and thither, or gathered in groups to talk over the changed con ditions since that spring day in lSoo, when Appomattox ended forever the contentious of the north and south. Ex- federals and ex-Confederates sat side by side in easy chairs and fought their bat ties over again.
 Men With Historic Names.
 Accompanied by maltial music. the es- cort formed on State street. In the throng were men whose names were his toric There were Longstreet and f1tz- hugh Lee, John c. Black and Gen. John M Palmer Marcus J. Wright of Ten nessee and Gen. Joseph Stockton of Hi nois; M. c. Butler, Eppa Hunton, Gen. John c. Underwood, the protector of the monument, and Wade Hampton, orator of the day, besides hundreds of lesser officers on either side who had come to- getber to do honor to the memory of the 5000 in grey who sleep the sleep that knows no waking in the beautiful ceme- tery by the shores of Lake Michigan.
 The veterans were there who had fol- lowed the fortunes of Lee and Jackson, and more than once flung their squad rons against the hosts of Grant and Meade. There were. commanders who had carried the stars and stripes of Sherman from Atlanta to the sea, and old soldiers the mention of whose names evoke the memories of Shiloh Lookout mountain Vic5sburg, the Wilderness, Gettysburg and Antietam. All had gath cred to honor brave Americans-not ex-
 
 country.
 Finally the clear notes of the bugle an- nounced that the Chicago City troops, Captain FunlShauser, which was to es- cort the visitors to the station, was in line, and the carriages, each containing two Federals and two Confederates, rap idly filled and moved toward Michigan avenue. As the procession moved along the broad boulevard, Battery D of the Illinois National Guards, which was sta in a Er0nf n rx 6-nd no tional salute of forty-six guns.
 At the station the party was quickly transferred to the special train decor ated with national colors, and a rapid run soon deposited the distinguished veterans at Sixteenth street station, where the carriages were waiting.
 March to the Cemetery.
 The march to the cemetery was then begun. The Black Hussars, Capt. T. S. Quincy, acted as the guard of honor, and attachments from the Illinois mili- tia, Grand Army posts and camps of Confederate Veterans made up the rest of the procession. The route to the cem- etery was covered within a few minutes and it was 10:45 o'clock when the monu- ment was reached.
 Here a crowd had assembled, stretch ing out in dense masses from every side of the speakers stand. The police and military had considerable difficulty in clearing way for the carriages, and it was considerably after Il o'clock, the hour set for beginning the exercises, when the distinguished visitors were seated on the platform and the military band began the opening selection. As the last notes died away Col. Joseph Desha Pickett chaplain of the Ken lucky orphan brigade" arose and in advancing to the front of the stand, in- voked the divine blessing on the, assem- blaze.
 Gen. John c. Underwood, who orig mated the idea of the monument and then briefly sketched the inception and progress of the movement which cul- minated in the great gathering today closed by introducing as presiding officer of the exercises Rev H. w. Bolton, pas tor of the Centenary Methodist church and past commander of D. S. Grant Post No 2S, Grand Army of the Republic, whom he eulogized as "an embodyment of honor, justice and morality repre- sentative union veteran, a humanitarian and Christian gentleman"
 Dr. Bolton, on taking the chair, re- turned thanks for the honor conferred upon him. and in a speech of some length delivered an eloquent eulogy upon the soldiers of the late war, both north and south
 General Hampton's Speech.
 After an anthem by a double quar-