The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1895-06-08
MEMORIAL DAY AT CHICAGO
Thousands of People at lakewood
Cemetery Today.
A Multitude of People From Out
side the State Present to Honor
the Memory of the Dead
Confeterntes.

1887 Sho ASihot bho OS"u -
ConfeIerntes.
Chicago, May 30.-Under a Sky now
blue and now green us light clouds
yelled the sun, blue and gray-federals
and confederates-united today In ded-
icating the monument to the confeder-
ate dead in Oakwood cemetery. The eN-
trenle heat of yesterday had given place
to a pleasant GOODNESS and the sky was
slightly overcast when h distin-
guished officers of the late war assem-
bled at the Palmer house this morning
awaiting the formation of the process
sion which was to escort them to the
depot of the Illinois Central railroad.
The time set for the parade to move
was 8 o'clock, but it was nearer 8 when
all the arrangements We're completed
n the veterans of the great struggle
took their places in the carriages.
In the meantime the great rotunda OF
the hotel was a scene of hustle and
shifting colors. Army officers in 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
or gathered In groups to talk yer the
changed conditions since that spring
day in 1855 when A~ppomattox ended for
ever the contentious of the north and
the south.
Ex-federal and ex-confederate sat
sid by side in the easy chairs and
IL At. H. ~ = r,Ls,,a y
by the strains of martial music as the;
military escort formed on State street.
In the throng were men whose namesi
are historic. There We're Longstreet and:
Fitzhugh Lee. General John c. Black
and Senator and General John M. Pal
mer; Marcus j.. Wright of Tennessee,
and General Joseph Stockton of Illinois;
M. c.. Butler, Epha Hunton, General
John c. 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 of
the 5000 men in gray who sleep the
sleep that knows no waking in the
beautiful cemetery by the shores of
Lake Michigan. Veterans were there
who a followed the fortunes of Lee
md Jackson and more than once flung
their s%quadrons against the hosts of
Grant and Meade. There were COM
manders who had carried the stars and
stripe with Sherman from Atlanta to
the sea and old soldiers, the mention of
whose names awake the memories of
Shiloh, Lookout Mountain, Nicksburg.
the Wilderness, Gettysburg and Antie-
tam, all had gathered to honor brave
Americans-not ex-confederates. but
soldiers of a common country.
Finally the clear notes of a bugle an
nounced hat the Chicago city troop,
Captain F%unkhauser. which was. to cs-
cort the visitors to the depot was in
line and the carriages, each containing
two federals and two confederates, We're
rapidly filled and moved toward Mich
fgan avenue. AS the procession moved
along the broad boulevard, Battery u.
Illinois National Guard, which was sta
toned in the Lake Front park, fired a
national salute of forty-siX gun AT
the depot the party was quickly 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 We're again in waiting. The
march to the cemetery then began.
The police and military had consider
able difficulty In clearing a way for the
carriages, and 1T was considerably after
II 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 died
away Colonel Joseph Desha Pickett,
chaplain of the Kentucky Orphan Brit
gade,' arose, and advancing to the
front of the stand invoked the divine
blessing on the assemblage.
General John G. Underwood, who
originated the idea OF the monument. !
then briefly sketched the inception and
progress of the movement which Gull
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 Methodist
church, and past commander of U. S.
Grant post No. %, G.. A. r., whom he
eulogized as the embodiment of honor,
justice and morality, n broad repre-
sentative of the union veterans, a hui
manitarian and a Christian gentle
man." E ~sti
DR.. Bolton, on taking the chair, re-
turned thanks for the honor conferred
upon him, n in a speech of some
length delivered an eloquent eulogy
upon the soldiers of the lute war, both
north II south. After an anthem by
a double quartet the orator of the law
General Wade Hampton, was intro
duced. -
Another vocal selection followed and |
then Major Henry T. Stanton of KEN
lucky recited the memorial ode. He
was followed by Rt. Rev. Samuel Eel
lows, LII. D., bishop of the Reformed !
Episcopal church, and late major geu-
eral United States volunteers, who elo-
duently voiced the blessings of peace.
Monumcnting the Guns.
Then followed the most Impressive por-
ton Of the c~eremony-thnt of "monument-
ing the guns" The four cannons used in
the ceremony formed a part of a federal
battery during the war. The ceremony at
gun No. l, which was repeated substan-
TALLY at each of the three others was as
follows:
Colonel Stewart: This gun having fired
Its last shot on the field of battle, will now
be silenced forever. Spike the gum,
Thereupon the spiking party spiked tho
cannon. Miss Still then mounted a pc,
destal and said: This cannon with fts
6ioiious ieSoId vi tHe helu VI Dattle nav
ing been silenced forever, / do consecrate
1t to the meory of the valorous soldiery as
a military decoration monument to their
a military to their bravery
The guns having been m the
drums gave a muffled roll and the entire
corps formed In line on the west front of
the monument. Then from General In
derwood came. the command: Decorate
the At the word Miss Cath
crime Stewart. Miss Marion Sullivan and
Mrs. r. +. Walker approached the monu-
ment. advanced and placing a laurel
wreath at the northwest corner Of the
monument base said: AS a Just need 10
the worth of the confederates whose NOR
tai remains are here monumcnted | place
this emblematic wreath in token OF their
honored remembrance on this occasion by |
friends. southern people, and all broad