The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-09-20

| and looked forward to. Music by the band
of the Fourteenth Regiment, in camp on
the field, followed, and at subsequent in.
tervals it was also heard with delight. The
addresses of General John NJ. Palmer oil
Illinois and General John B. Gordon OF
Georgia were preceded by the singing OF
America" by the audience and followed
by 'Auld Lang Syne."
General j. S. Fullerton, chairman of the
National Park Commission, and as such
Secretary Lamont's representative charged
with the duty of directing the exercises,
introduced Vice President Stevenson, who
presided in the absence of the Secretary of
War. Mr.. Stevenson s remarks were loudly
cheered.
Prayer was offered by the Right Rev.
Bishop Gailor of Tennessee. The first ad-
dress was that Of General Palmer, who
said IN part:
Mr.. President, Ny Comrades and Nh Country
men: am profoundly sensible of the honor
which the Secretary of War conferred by select
ing me to represent the soldiers of the United
States who participated in the great military
events which occurred on this theater in the
late summer and autumn of 1868. When | re-
call the names of the galaxy of distinguished
men who took part in the drama which has
made Chickamauga immortal in National his
tory feel that many of them would have bet
ter honored this occasion; but, alasl where are
they?
Rosecrans, the central figure in the great
campaign for Chattanooga" is now on the
genial shore or the Pacific struggling with age
and disease, attended by a loving daughter
and the prayers and good wishes of all the sur
vivors of the hosts he commanded
George II. Thomas, the earnest, disinterested
patriot, the soldier, the Crock of Chicka-
mauga," sleeps in quiet cemetery near one
of the beautiful cities of New York. native
of Virginia, educated by the United States, and
one OF the officers of the army at the begi lning
of armed strife, he did not yield to the sophis-
try of paramount allegiance to the State of his
birth, which deluded and misled so many
others. He adhered to and followed the flag of
his country, and died at his post of duty in
California. No nobler man lives, and none
nobler has died.
Crittenden, always generous, brave and
manly; and Gordon Granger, who so distin-
guished himself on this field on the Goth of Sep
tember, have passed away, ard McCook alone
of the corps commanders survives. Death has
summoned Brannan of the Fourteenth" JEFF
ferson G. Davis and Philip H. Sheridan of the
Twentieth" Van Cleve of the ssTwenty-firstn
).
Of the brigade commanders LytIe. the "scl-
dierpoet," fell September 20; Harker and Dan
McCook, in the assault On Kenesaw in 1864.
and others, equally distinguished, have since
succumbed to age and disease, and compare
lively few survive to this thirty-second ami
versary of the first day of the battle of Chicka-
mauga. 1t may be that 1 owe my selection for
this honorable duty to my seniority in rank
among the survivors of that day, but not on
account of superior merit for where all did
their duty no soldier can be said to be superior
to any other.
1 feel honored, too, that on this interesting
occasion / am associated with that distin-
guished soldier and orator, General John B.
Gordon, who, though not participant in the
operations here, represented the Confederate
cause gallantly on many other battlefeids, and
has described the "Last Days of the Confeder-
acy'' with such force and eloquence that can
not hope to equal him.
My comrades and my countrymen, 1 will at
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