The record-union., 1896-05-30

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They, too, are fallen heroes, and it is
for them we mourn"
AT THE PAVILION.
Exercises of the High School and
Grammar Schools.
AT z O'Clock p. m. the pupils Of the
High School, Sacramento, Sutter and
Harkness Grammar Schools assembled
at the Pavilion to hear the comrades of
the Grand Army tell the story of Me-
mortal Day, and incidentally to assist in
the exercises by singing patriotic songs.
The auditorium of the vast wigwam
Set apart for the reception of the several
political conventions was filled with
fresh young faces and 1.-the forms in
holiday attire, while the lobby was
| packed with friends of both pupils and
members Of the Grand Army.
On the platform were chairs ranged
ready for the old veterans, and when
they appeared, preceded by the post
colors, they were given a hearty recep-
ton.
Superintendent of City Schools Erie
wine stated that the President of the
Board of Education, Win j. Davis, was
unable to be present, which was to be re-
GREETED, as Mr.. Davis always had some
thing good to say, and knew how to say
| it.
The American people, continued the
| superintendent, were yearly feeling
more in touch with the G. A. r. and their
respect for the organization was be-
coming more and more sincere. He felt
I IN a1a of 1;+
to himself, and that class was the vet
erans OF the Grand Army. 1t was the
duty of the school children to honor the
veterans living, as well as their memory
when dead, and be should like to see
each and every schoolboy in Sacramento
raise his hat when he met one of them.
But the pupils would hear from those
who had snuffed powder and gone down
into battle, and to begin with the pupils
| would join in singing Dying on the Old
Camp Ground"
Mr.. Erlewine then introduced Com
rade l.. L. Hatfield. who told his story in
very effective manner.
Mr.. Hatfield dwelt upon the causes
which led to Memorial Day being set
apart as a national holiday. and took
MS audience with hin to the National
Cemetery at Arlington Nights, oppo-
site the city of Washington, where re-
pose 11,OOO unknown Union soldiers
who were killed in battle. He depicted
| the carnage at the field of Chicamauga
where the woods, filed with dead and
wounded, We're fired, and all living
things persisted, and said 1t was for
such as these that Memorial Day was
observed, as we'll as for those whose re-
| mains lay in cemeteries in our own
State
The speaker, in order to impress the
enormity of actual battle upon his
hearers, described with accuracy the
| fearful carnage of the field of Gettys-
burg, where in eighteen hours actual
hghting, $4,000 men We're killed or
wounded, or again as many persons as
| there are men, women and children in
| the city of Sacramento
In such "a time it was impossible to
identify all the dead, and the conse-
| quence was that many a long row OF
graves had been marked only by the
| name OF the regiment to which the men
| belonged.
1t was for the memory Of such men as
these, as we'll as those known, that
Memorial Day was set apart. for AL
| most all the men who filled nameless
graves had died on the field of battle
No one, unless he had passed through
1t all could imagine what privations a
| soldied underwent. Whenever a long.
hard march had been made, the quar-
| termasters' wagons, with the soldiers
raltlons were sure to be a half day be-
| hind. and when danger was thickest
were never to be found at ALL
| The speaker closed his remarks by
exhorting the boys and girls present to
love the country and flag for which the
soldiers of the Grand Army had fought
and If days of trial came, to go out and
lay down their lives for it as the SOL
diers had done thir.y-five years ago
| The assembled pupils sang Marching
through Georgia on the conclusion of
Mr.. Hatfield's address, after which
MI ErieWine stated that as Colonel
West, who was booked to deliver an ad-
dress was unable to attend on account
CT Illness. he should introduce Comrade
| Nj. d. Bronson.
| Mr.. Bronson said that besides the un-
known dead mentioned by Mr. Hatfield
| there were thousands who had gone
down in ships. and other thousands
who were buried so shallow that their
bones had become scattered and had
never been brought together On the
cattlefields of the Wilderness, even vet
skulls might be picked up
| In the Wilderness, which was indeed
a wilderness, the brush being so thick
that one could not see an enemy ten
| feet In front of him, fire had also broke
out and thousands OF wounded as we'll
as the dead, were consumed.
| Mr.. Bronson had been with Sheridan
| on his raid to within sight of Richmond
in 1864, and told all about 1t. He de-
scribed the situation at Meadow Bridge
and told what he knew about the cav
airy fight at Mechanicsville where the
Confederate General j. Z. b. Stuart was
killed. and wound up by telling the
pupils that 1T would soon fall to them to
| protect the flag the men of the Grand
Army of the Republic had fought for.
! and asked them to do that duty we'll
| At the conclusion of Mr.. Bronson's s
remarks the pupils sang America, j"
after which the members of the Grand
Army present arose, and being led by
Colonel Kellogg, sang Rally Round
| the Flag" with a relish that smacked of
war time, and the exercises were con-
cluded.