Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1895-08-04
Post-Bellum Record Of Those
Who Served in the Division.
The VETERAN ASSOCIATION.
Interesting Story Of How II Was Formed
and What For.
THE CAMP AND IT'S WORK.
Sick and Needy Cared For Through lis
fundamentally.
MONUMENT AND COTTAGE.
4 Tribute to ValOT and a Home for
The Helpless.
MEMORIES OF GETTYSBURG.
The Terrible Charge and Those Who
Led the Fight.
sp,p,r OF lTERNITY.
rvidcuccs of the Cordial Relations
of Commands that Met on many
Piclds-Pcrsonnel of the George IL
Pickett Camp.
MEMORIES OF GETTYSBURG.
The Terrible Charge and Those Who
Led the Fight.
OF FRATERNITY.
SPIRIT

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The niretecuth century. which was
horn amid the lurid light Of battle such
as tho world never witnessed BEFORE
whilst mankind listened appalled, to the
thunder Of FLASHING armies. and the crash
~ falling thrones, is fading into the
cbangeless past amid an universal peace
y'hp "cobweb woven across the cannon Is
throat" al Appomatox has shaken It's
threaded tears In the winds or thirty
gernal springs. These free. sovereign ana
Independent Commonwealths. linked by
the law of the Constitution and the law
A. Iovo into the mighticst nation on this
rlanet. go hand In hand up the bright
halfway Of progress, domed by the star
rom1srd heaven OF freedom engirdled py
The summer seas OF peace.
Manassas. Gettysburg. Seven Pines, the
Wilderness. Malvern Hill-helds where
The blood Of the best and bravest Of the
southern land ebbed away like waters TO
the sen-are become stories or the ulih
end dmming past. The long ana weary
marches. the midnight call to arms, the
fever and the famine, the hunger and the
thirst. the watching and the waiting tho
prayers. and tears Of sad-eyed women-aH
those terrible experiences which made he
seem a phantasmagoria Of troubled
dreams through those four fateful years
what are they now. but vague, pathetic
momones'
More than thirty years have passed
since the war-clcud broke upon this COM
,ronwealth: more than thirty years since
the last guns echo died away at APP
pomattox. and almost a third OF cen
,ury has been added 10 the past since
As a division. "Picketts men, formed
tt the dawn Of July day and marched
10 their position upon IN, field TO bear
.bcir part IN one Of the greatest battles
n ancient or modern times
LIVE IN THEIR MEMORY.
Tho world is prone to quick forgetful-
ness. As n poet has written our very
,blrth is but sleep and forgetting
md if IS true that the healing hand or
time al last can bring balm TO soiace
Even life's most grievous WOUNDS hHo
sufferings. the agony the priVatohs
,brourh which these men went down into
tho valley Of the shadow Of death ana
clarified If forever more with the beauty
Of faith and courage, are things which III
these latter years are hard fior US 10
pupreciate and understand. NO maroie
ehaft or monumental bronze was neces-
cory IA keen alive in the hearts OF their
comrades LETT behind the memory OF
their exalted virtues. Years or coIhIdiI-
shin In trial and danger, during WIlcn
time they exhibited courage ana Ioiu
tude worthy Of all praise. ana crowned
with their lives their patIlouc ucNo''ot t
IN tbeir native State has left a host Oh
..,der.st memories that VIII not Hshly
go away. and from the depth OF that
love and honor sprung the desire %" 'iiS
,art Of the survivors OF those mlshty con-
ilicts. 10 combine in an associa1oh ~
ueruetuatlng the memories LOT ssHc4"' 'o'9
INC az those who fell while wearing
the gray on Gettysburg Tor minus us
"a the wants and necessities Oh rs
,nained and SCARED veterans, anu pro-
1.tJinq FOR the needy, so that the eve
,,irr 81 their life might fade away ~
,eace amid the golden rays oil ule s"iiae'
a. nos ful0lment, with the present con,
sciousness that they had done mat WI
and nobly. which had been set 70 'leI mn
10 DO. and that their brethren "1'0 -
Onmindful or. or ungrDtslul loI' ''~"
facridces and their service.
11ct5ETT's DIVISION ASSOCIATION
And so IT was that PicNetts DIVISION
Association was formed, taking At VHOo
,,nder consideration various plans devised
ond submitted from numerous sources iOI
The uerpetuation of the fame OF thaV
Gallant army. The idea OF erecting
monument on the battlefield OF Ee''ys-
burg was however. suggested by uio
action Of the Philadelphia Brlsaae' Il~"
cocks Division. which had originated ="
similar movement, and a number OF az
signs and models were prepared 10 'h'S
end. when 10 was learned that opJecuoh9
would probably be forthcoming against
the erection OF a Confederate monument
within the northern lines Accordinsly'
a committee OF three was appointed by
the association To- investigate the matter
The committee was composed Of COiJhclS
Maury and Reeve. and Judge ClopIoh'
These gentlemen met a committee OF the
Battlc-Iields Association Of GettyspuiS'
and were informed OF the adoption Of n
rule that no Confederate monument should
be allowed place on the battle
fields controlled by that association eX~
copt within prescribed lines. Nothing
dauntoi. those who had The scheme AT
heart-and they names were legion-ue-
termine1 % find some suitable and ap-
proprlate site. and eventually decided
upon Gettysburg I'M IN HOLLYWOOD, over
the grave OF General Pickett The work
Of raising funds for the accomplishment
OF this purpose was necessarily slow at
the outset. as the survivors of the diyi-
sion were scattered all over the country
and apart from the dithculty experienced
in discovering their whereabouts. the as-
ISOLATION was confronted with the iact
that a majority Of the men had returned
home from the war only To ma thtlr
fortunes wrecked. and in many cases.
their houses and lands devastated. AT the
time that the association was formed
men were just emerging from the DARK
days OF poverty and woe that followed
on the heels Of the war. and though they
gave literally OF the portion OF the
worlds goods that had fallen TO them, the
required total was built up so slowly thar
but Tor TIM pertinacity Of its prosenitofs,
The scheme would have been consigned
20 the limbo Of good intentions An ihci-
dent that exercised very powertui III
Auence upon the ultimate result was the
eompletlon OF the monument or the
Philadelphia Brigade. II gave an IN,