The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1895-05-31
THE BLTE AND THE GRIY
Dedication Of the Confederate Mon
ument at Chicago.
A TOUCHING REUNION OF HEARTS

A IUUUhlNG hhUNlUN VI HEARTS,
The Roses of the North and the Orange
Blossoms of the South Bedeok alike the
Graves of Those Who Fought Bravely
on Both Sides.
CHICAGO, May 91.-In one corner of Oak
woods cemetery there have stood for years
many rows of short white stones which
mark the last resting places of 5000 men
who in the days between 81 and '65 wore
the Confederate gray, and who, far from
their homes and friends, sealed with their
lives their devotion to the Lost Cause. "
Today there stands above these lowly
stones of white tall and beautiful monu-
ment erected partly by the sons of the
southland and partly by men of the north
to testify--the one their love for their gal
liant comrades fallen in the fight, and the
other to the respect which heroic endur-
ance and brilliant courage must always
evoke when it is based, as was the endur-
ance and courage of the men who sleep in
Oakwoods, upon firm conviction of JUS
tice of the cause for which they strove
Yesterday above those grass grown
mounds the gri2zled veterans of the Grand
Army of the Republic and the white haired
warrior Of the south clasped hands and re-
allied that the war is over. The roses Of
the north fell in profusion upon the graves
of the Confederate dead, and over the rest
ing places of many of those who wore the
blue were scattered the magnolia bios
SONS of the south and by the hands OF
those who had fercely sought in battle
the lives of the silent sleepers who lay
below
The dedication of the Cor f-derate mon
ument yesterday marked sucA blending,
or rather such an eradication of the two
great sections as the nation has rarely
seen before. Side by side with the men
who sent Pickett's brave Virginians
against Gibbons wall Of steel on Gene
terry ridge stood the men who stoutly
hurled back Hoods mad charges at Frank
lin-Longstreet and Schofeld. Elbow to
elbow stood the men who led the best
blood of the south behind the guidons Of
Stuart and he who was the cavalier par
excellence of Sheridan's famous cavalry
Fitzhugh Lee, Hampton and Wesley Mer-
ritt.
There were present any number of other
men who had borne their part nobly and
with distinction, and others of the rank
and file who fought as bravely and
marched as we'll, but found no glory save
that which hung around the colors of the
army in whose ranks they fought. These
men, who so often had stood against each
other in the shock of battle, stood yester-
day with eyes dimmed with tears while
the cannon which had borne their part on
both sides of the fratricidal struggle, and
which will now stand around the monu-
ment were spiked and forever sileuced by
the hands of their women.
This was the most impressive portion oi
the ceremonies-thato of monumenting the
| guns. The four cannons used in the cere
mony formed part of a Federal battery
| during the war. They were captured from
the Union forces in the battle of Murfrees
| boro, and afterwards fought on the Con
federate side in the battles of Missionary
Ridge, Resaca Dalton, Kenesaw Noun
tain, Peach Tree Creek, Atlanta ant
Franklin. They We're recaptured by the
! Federals at the battle of Nashville, ant
did service for the Union side during thC
| remainder of the war
There was love and tears for all-fol
Federal and Confederate, friends and foe
There were flowers and garlands for all
and if in the chance of war the men il
| blue had won the laurel while the willow
was left for those in gray, no eperceiveC
any distinction in the honors given TO tn
memories of the departed warriors. Laure
and willow were intertwined, and, so en-
wreathed, were laid on grave and hung ol
| monument, and no one asked when deco
rating each grassy mound what uniform
he wore who rested beneath.