Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1895-06-08
Thousands of People at 0akwood
Cemetery Today.
A Multitude of People From Out
side the state Present To Honor
the Memory OF the Dead
Confederatcs.

was s o'clock, but ii was are y when
all the arrangements were completed
and the veterans of the great struggle
took their places i'm the carriages.
In the meantime the great rotunda Of
the hotel was a scene of hustle and
shifting colors. Army officers I'm full
uniform, Grand Army men wearing the
old volunteer uniform of 1861, members
of the staff militia in gorgeous array
and ex-confederates deCked with the
badges of the various camps to which
they belong, FASTENED hither and thither
gathered in groups to talk over the
changed conditions since that spring
day in 1865 when Appomattox ended for
ever the contentious Of the north and
the south.
Ex-federal and ex-confcderate sat
side by side in the easy chairs ana
fought their battles over again, inspired
by the strains of martial music as the
military escort formed on State street.
In the throng We're men whose names
are historic. There were Longstreet and
Fitzhugh Lee, General John G. Black
and Senator and General John NJ. Pal
mer: Marcus J. Wright of Tennessee,
and General Joseph Stockton of Illinois,
NJ. G. Butler, Epha Hunton, General
John G. Underwood, the protector of the
monument; Wade Hampton, the orator
of the day, besides hundreds of lesser
officers on either side who had come to-
gether to do honor to the members or
the 5000 men in gray who sleep the
.l,,,s tlnt EnpNFc NO waxing in tho
beautiful cemetery by the shores of
Lake Michigan. Veterans were there
who had followed the fortunes of Lee
and Jackson and more than once flung
their %squadrons against h hosts OF
Grant and Meade. There were COM
manders who had carried the stars ana
stripes with Sherman from Atlanta to
the sea and old soldiers, the mention Of
whose names awake the memories Of
Shiloh, Lookout Mountain, Vicksburg,
the Wilderness, Gettysburg and Ante
tam. all had gathered to honor brave
Americans-not ex-confederates, but
of q common country.
Finally the clear notes Of a bugle an
nounced thai the Chicago city troop,
CAPTAIN F~unkhauser, which was 10 cs-
cort the visitors to the depot was IN
line and the carriages, each obtaining
two federals and two confederates. Were
RAPIDLY filed and moved toward Mich
igan avenue. As the procession moved
along the broad boulevard, Battery H..
Illinois National Guard, which was sta
toned in the Lake Front park, fired n
national salute of forty-six guns. AT
A. 1..sA tIn 49, 81 nraG n,Ii4k1N trans
ferred to a special train decorated with
the national colors, and a rapid run de-
posted the distinguished veterans at
the Sixtieth street station where car
riages were again in waiting. The
march 10 the cemetery Their began.
The police and military a consider
able difficulty In clearing a way Tor the
carriages, and 1T was considerably after
IL o'clock, the hour set for beginning
the exercises, when the distinguished
visitors were seated on the platform
and the military band began the open
ing selection. AS the last notes die
away Colonel Joseph Desha Pickett,
chaplain Of the Kentucky Orphan Brf-
gade," arose, and advancing to the
front Of the stand invoked the divine
blessing OF the ~assemblage.
General John c. Underwood, who
originated the idea of the monument
then briefly sketched the inception and
progress Of the movement which cul'
minated in the great gathering today
and closed by introducing as presiding
officer of the exercises, Rev. II. w. Boil
ton, pastor of the Centenary Methods
church, and past commander of u. S
rwA. N 900 No 10 lA>x l..
eulogiZed as "the embodiment of honor
justice and morality, a broad repre-
sentative of the union veterans, a hu
manitarian and a Christian gentle
man"
DR.. Bolton, on taking the chair, re
turned thanks for the honor conferred
upon him, and in a speech of some
length delivered an eloquent eulogy
upon the soldiers Of the late war, botf
north and south. After an anthem by
a double quartet the orator of the day
General Wade Hampton, was intro
duced.
Another vocal selection followed ant
then Major Henry II. Stanton of Ken
lucky recited the memorial ode. I'll,
was followed by Rt. Rev. Samuel Eel
ioWS, H. ~ biSiiop VI III 4 ihNt
Episcopal church. and late major gen
eral United States volunteers. who elo
quently voiced the blessings of peace.
Monumenring the Guns.
Then followed the most impressive por
tion of the ceremony-that of monume
ing the guns" The -four amor used II
the ceremony formed a part of a fedora
battery during the war. The ceremony a
gun No. /. which was repeated substan
TALLY at each of the three Others was a
follows:
Colonel Stewart: This gun having fire,
It's last shot on the field of battle, will nov
be silenced forever. Spike the gun.
Thereupon the spiking party spiked tn
cannon Miss Still then mountsd a DC
destal and said: This cannon with II
glorious record on the field of battle hay
ing been silenced forever, / do consecrat
1t to the meory of the valorous soldiery a
a military decoration monument to thei
a military monument to their bravery"
The guns having been monumented tn
drums gave a muffied roll and the entir
corps formed in line on the west front o
the monument. Then from General Tn
derwood came the command: "Decorat
the monument" At the word Miss Cath
crime bteWdTt MISS HldTlOn Sull1tun an
Mrs. II. F.. Walker approached the monu
ment. advanced and placing a laur,
wreath at the northwest corner Of tn
monument base aid "As a just need {
the worth of the confederates whose MOI
tai remains are here monumented / plac
this emblematic wreath In oxen Of thei
honored remembrance on this occasion b
friends. southern people. and all broa
and liberal men,"
The other ladies did likewise, afte
which the choir rendered an anthem
Then the ladies generally, assisted b
the veterans of both armies, decorate,
the monument, guns and piles Of she
and shell with flowers.
The field was then cleared and tn
First regiment Of infantry, Illinois Ma
tional Guards. paid the final militar
tribute by firing three volleys. The
came the command TAPS" after whicI
the military band played a march an,
the audience dispersed.
MORTON FALLS IN A FAINT.