The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1895-09-27

lneSe evolutlOns exnlDiteu To IN
$ spectators the new tactics and feel
movements suggested by the board q
tactics and drills.
Promptly at noon saLut of fort,
four guns announced the beginning @
the execution OF the programme $
long arranged and looked forwar
to Music by the band Of tn
Fourteenth regiment. in camp OF
the field, followed. and at subscquen
with delight The addresses O
Senator and Gen. John NJ Palmer, o
Illinois, aud OF Senator and Gen. Johl
h. Gordon, of Georgia, were precede.
by the singing Of America" by tn,
audience, and followed by Aud Ian,
Sync."
Gen. j. ;. Fullerton. chairman of tn.
National Park commission. and, n.
such, Secretary Lamont's representa-
tive. charged with the duty Of direct
ing the dedicatory exercises. intro.
duced Vice President Stevenson. who
presided in the abse nee of the secret ary
Of war. He said:
vice-Presidcnt Stevenson's speech.
lam honcred by being called 20 preside over
the ceremonies 81 this dav Bv solemn de-
cree OF the representatives 81 the American
people this magnificent park. with its won
drous associations and memories. j. now 10 he
dedicated for all time TO national and patriotic
purposes
This = the fitting hour for the august cesc-
monies we now inaugurate To-day by the
] act OF congress of the United states the Chicig-
amauga and Chattanooga National Military
park is forever set apart from All common
uses. >olennly dedicated for all the ages to
the American people.
The day is aus pcious. II notes the anatver-
sary ~ one OF the greatest battles known 10
history. Here. in the dread tribunal OF last
resort. yalOr commended against yalor Here
brave men struggled and died for the right
AS God gave them to see the righ.r
Twenty-Five years have passed. and the few
survivors o. that masteTful day--victors and
vanquished allke-again meet upon this MEM
orabie field Alas, the splendid armies which
rendezvoused here. are now little more than a
process sion 81 shadows
ION James eternal CAM ping ground
Their silet tents are spread
While glory guards with solemn round.
The bivouac OF the dead"
Our eyes now behold the sublime spectacle
OF the honored survivors OF the great battle
coming together upon these heights
once more They meet. not In dead
ly conflict but a. brothers under
one nag-fellow citizens OF common
country All grateful to God. that in The su.
preme struggle. the government OF our fathers
our common her!tage-was triumphant and
that 10 AL OF the coming generations OF our
countrymen. IL will remain AN inlivisble
union OF indestructable states
Our dedication to-day Is but q ceremony In
the words OF the immortal Lincoln ut Gettys-
burg: But in larger sense we can not dedi-
cate We can not consecrAte We can not
hallow this ground. The brave men living and
dead. who struggled here have consecrated II |
far above our power to add or dctract''
win detain you no longer from listening to
the elocuen: words OF those who were par.tci-
pants In the bloody struggle-the sharers alike
In Its danger and its glory.
Gen Psim~r's Oratson.
Payer was offered by Rt- Rev. Bish-
op Gailor of Tennessee. The first ad-
dress was that Of Gen. Palmer. who
prefaced his Grafton with eulogistic
on the brave officers and men.
living and dead who participated in |
the sanguinary struggle being com. |
and continued:
Standing in This presence. upon this historic
ground. / am conscious that no word, OF my
own will stir and thrill the survivors OF the
ago transpired in these valleys. and under the
shadow OF these mountains. as will the mention
Df Ghickamauga. Chattanooga, Lookout Moun- |
Tain and Missionary Ridge.
These names are now Historically significant
u great battles. where many thousands OF
brave men OF the same race and language. con
Tended with each other for victory
AT the mention OF them the eyes OF Veterans
immed by age. will kindle and for the mo-
nent they Will forget the flight OF time and the
apse or years. and in Imagination, again
plunge into the heady light.
lie then took his hearers backward
Tor time over the years preceding the
war and recounted the various caa-
'entions and issues that led up TO the
great struggle. Reaching the time Of
The firing upon Fort Sumter. he said:
The assault upon Fort sumter. which oc-
urred In April. 1881 made any compromise OF
he sectional differences Impossible. and fully
Justified Mr. Toombs. secretary OF state OF the
onfederate government. In saying: Tho mr.
nv upon that fort will inauguratc civil wnr
reater than any the world has ever seen
Whatever may have been hoped. believed or
cared BY the lovers Of peace Ia the different
ections Of the Union before that time the at
ack upon Fort sumter rendered . civil war
1evitsblc.
need not speak OF the military operations
the yeAfS iSot oHu lrO- noT OF tue events
hitch occurred elsewhere than upon the thea
Or included In the operations OF the armies
Thich encountered each other here.
The speaker then told the plain, un-
arnished tale OF the military opera I
ions directly leading up to the great ,
attic for the possession Of Chatta-
ooga. fought in the valley of the :
and described from his '
oint Of view. and with the light Of
istory thrown upon the operations ,
4 others. that terrible and bloody /
trugglc which terminated through =
n unfortunate order or the
Of an order from
zen. Rosccsans to Gen. Wood in the \
efeat Of the Union soldiers. t
Facts, he said, demonstrated the dcs- '
crate courage of the opposing armies
vhich were almost identical in nu- 3
ierical strength.
Two armies OF American soldiers OF the az I
revate numbers % iisisp. suffered the loss OF 4
tH killed. go.gos wounded without counting =
he missing. the casualties 81 the two armies
- more than 20 per cent Of the whole number
ngaged r
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