The Portland daily press., 1895-09-19
ON BLOODY FIELDS.
Reunions of Veterans at Chickamauga
and Chattanooga.

ana Chattanooga
The Greatest of Military Parks-Story of
the Eventful Campaign on the Ten
f, nessee-Strength of the Armies.
| The largest battle of modern times! The
greatest number of old soldiers since the
civil war These will be the double
honor of Chickamauga' bloody field on
today, and tomorrow when the Chatta-
nooga and Chickamauga battlefield will
be dedicated as national military park.
Congress enacted last December that the
dedication should be a national affair, and
the prospects are that it will be notable
| and memorable in many ways. lt is an
ticipated that as many as 400 600 persons
| will be there, and preparations are max
| ing to accommodate that number.
| President Cleveland and all his cabinet
| are expected to be present and participate
together with the justices of the Supreme
Court, committees of Congress, both
House and Senate the lieutenant general
of the army and a large body of regular
troops, the ranking admiral OF the navy
the governors of nineteen different states,
with their staffs, and detachments OF local
militia, and the survivors of the several
armies, Union and Confederate, that were
engaged in..the Chickamauga and Chat
tanooga campaigns thirty-two years ago.
The states to be represented by their gov
ernors in person are Massachusetts,,
Rhode Island, Connecticut, Vermont,
New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michi-
diana, Missouri, Tennessee, Kentucky,
South Carolina, Alabama, Georgia and
Louisiana Fully seventy five per cent
of the veterans of the g. A. r., which
has been in session in Louisville. will
| find their way to the dedication, and an
equal proportion of the Sons of Veterans
| will come hither after their battlefield
encampment at Knoxville. The yearly
meeting of the army of the Cumberland
has been called to assemble at Chlcka-
mauga on the anniversary of the battle,
and the Army of the Tennessee will meet
in Cincinnati and go in a body to the
dedication
GRAND PARADE
Today there will be grand parade OF
veterans, north and south, dedication OF
| the Chickamauga section of the park and
exercises at Snodgrass Hill, to be opened
by Secretary Lamont. The orators will
be Gen. John II. Palmer of Illinois
| (Union) and Gen. John B. Gordon OF
Georgia (Confederate). At s o'clock in
the evening, at Chattanooga, the exer-
cises will be conducted by the Society of
the Army of the Tennessee lUnion) and
of TnpnoccSpn (COnfa60rat61.
Gen. Granville M. Dodge presiding. The
orators will be Gen. O. o. Howard
| (Union) and Gen. Joseph Wheeler of Ala
| bama (Confederate).
On September 90, the dedicatory exer-
cises of the Chattanooga section OF the
park will begin at noon at Chattanooga
The orators will be Gen. Charles II.
Grosvenor of Ohio (Union) and Gen.
William H. Bate of Tennessee (Confeder-
ate). At p. m., at Chattanooga, exer.
cises will be conducted by Veterans OF
the Army of the Potomac (Union) and
the Army of Northern Virginia (Confed-
erate), Gen. Edward G. Walthall of Miss
issippi (Confederate) presiding me s
| orators will be Gen. Orlando Smith and
Gov. William G. Oates of Alabama. Gen
| w. S. Rosecrans, who commanded the
Union forces at Chickamauga, is in Cali
| fornia, too i'll and feeble to bear the
| Journey to Chattanooga. Gen. James b.
Longstreet, who commanded the Con-
| federate left wing at Chickamauga, and
Gen. A. P Stewart. one of his brigade
commanders, will be present and take
part in the celebration.
OHIo's MONUMENTS.
| On September 1S. the day before the
beginning of the official ceremonies, the
| Ohio monuments in the park fifty-hye
in number were dedicated and turned
over to the United States government.
Other states besides Ohio, including
Michigan, Indiana and Missouri, will
also transfer their monuments to the
government during the same week. At
8 D. m. of that day at Chattanooga, oc-
CURED the annual reunion of the Society
of the Army of the Cumberland, with
Gen. Charles Fl. Manderson of Nebraska
| as orator.
The Chickamauga and Chat
grandest reservation of its kind in the
world The United States government
has spent on it $3.50, 600 since its establish
ment was authorized in 1890, and various
state governments about 100000 more,
making total of 1,225, 900. The plan
was to restore the old lines OF the Chicka-
mauga and Chattanooga campaigns (Sep-
|
WORK OF THE STATES
1t has been left to the states having had
troops in the battles to erect monuments
to regiments and batteries, and to the
military societies and the larger organiza-
tions, such as corps, divisions and briga-
des, to erect their own monuments. Nine
handsome granite M monuments, all differ
ent, to the United States regulars, have
been set up by the government, at cost
of 81, 500 each. Eight pyramidal monu-
ments, each ten feet high, constructed of
eight-inch shells, have been erected to
mark the spots where brigade command
ers on each side were filled.
| Of the ten square miles constituting
the area of the park, something over s, 00O
acres are forest, and about 1000 acres
open farms A central driveway, con-
Meeting the Chickanauga and Chatta-
nooga ends of the park, and passing
u