The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-11-16

Chattanooga, Tenn, Nov. 15.-This
| has been q glorious day for the Penn
| sylvania veterans who came here to
dedicate their monuments to the mem
ory of their heroism in the great war.
exemplifed in their valorous conduct
on the field Of Chickamauga, Mission
airy Ridge, Orchard Knob and Lookout
Mountain.
The dedicatory ceremonies occurred
at Orchard Knob. where fully 5000
people gathered within sound of the
/ voices Of the speakers.
! Hon. H. Clay Evans, General John
| p. Goblin. General Latta and other dis
tinguished visitors occupied seats on
the platform. The Fifth Regiment
| United States band from Mcpherson
| barracks furnished the music for the
occasion.
After prayer by DR. Thomas H. Rob
| inson, Lieutenant Colonel Archibald
Blakely of the Seventy eighth regiment,
representing the Pennsylvania battle
field commission, formally transferred
the monuments erected by the state
I to the governor. Colonel Blakely made
the addT a
Following Colonel Blakely, Governor
| Hastings spoke. delivering the mOnu-
ments to the national government. The
governors address was frequently in
terrupted by applause.
The monuments were then formally
/ accepted on the part of the national
| government and transferred to the ma
tiOnal park commissioners by John
| TWeedale, chief clerk of the war de-
partment, representing the secretary Of
war.
MKINLEY REPRESENTED.
Mr.. Tweedale said he had been dele
! gated by President Mckinley and Sec
rotary Alger to represent them, be-
cause he was a private soldier in
pennsylvania regiment and fought in
! the battles about Chattanooga. Among
other things, he said:
''Tennyson has immortalized the
charge of the Light brigade: history
thrills us with the stories of Waterloo
and AusterlitZ, of MarengO, GraveIOtte
and Sedan-viyid pictures of gallantry
in battle. The Light Brigade lost 367
per cent at Balaklava and the Third
| Westphalian lost 49 4 per cent at Mars
! la-TOur, the highest record Of casual
| ties in authentic history until our late
war At Gettysburg. the One Hundred
and Forty-frst Pennsylvania lost 1911
per cent; the First Minnesota lost 80
per cent, and on the confederate side
the Twenty North Carolina lost
| Ill per cent, not including the missing
in action. In FoX's book. 'Regimental
| Losses of the Civil War it is stated
that in the battle Of the first day. Cap
tain Tuttle's company of this regiment
went into action with three officers and
| ST mental of the officers and SO Of the
men were killed or wounded. In the
presence Of almost certain death.
American soldiers stood and fought
without finching.
when can their glory fade?.
Oh, the wild charge they made
Ali the world wondered
NATIONAL PARK BILL.
and what of Chfckamauga? In
1890, the committee on military affairs
of the house of representatives. COM
posed of gallant soldiers who had seen
service in the Union and confederate
armies. reported to the house a bill
to establish a national military park
at the battlefield Of Chickamauga.
In that report, after full and care
full consideration, the committee said:
The figures show Chickamauga to
rank. for the numbers engaged and the
time of their fighting, among the most
noted battles of the modern world. The
/ average losses on each side for the
| troops which fought through the two
days were fully SO per cent, while for
many portions of each line the losses
| reached 50 per cent, and for some even
| rs per cent There is probably no other
| field in the world which presents more
| formidable natural obstacles to great
military operations than the slopes Of
Lookout Mountain and Missionary
Ridge, while there is no field that sur
passes Chickamauga in the deadliness
| and persistence Of the fighting.
THE MEN GONE DOWN.
This is a calm statement of an his
! toric fact. back of which are the smoke
and roar of conflict, the shrieks of the
wounded, the grOans of the dying. the
! agony of the far-Off homes, wives
widowed children fatherless. fathers
and mothers bereft of sons in the
twinkling of an eve, and mvriamids
MANNED for life-the fruit and flower
of the nation. it's young manhood han
dicapped in the race for existence, but
with the precious memory of duty well
| done at the lannon's mouth and the
| flaming threats of the guns.
1T does not come to each generation
to be privileged to offer life that a ma
/ ton may live. In our time the oppOr-
tunity came and was accepted.
DO any doubt that history will re-
peat itself if the opportunity is pre-
scented again2 The young men of the
nation are as patriotic, as eager, as the
men of 81: their hearts beat as true
and they enthuse as readily. Men grow
languid in peaceful pursuits, but the
/ lethargy disappears as the mist before
the rising sun when1=he nation calls
for help
BOYNTON'S ADDRESS.
General H. V. Boynton, for, and on
behalf of the National Park commits
sion, formally accepted the monuments
General Boynton spoke, in part, as fol-
| lows:
while there is deep and abiding
meaning in the fact that Pennsylvania
! come here to honor the military
achievements of her sons and preserve
their memory until the centuries shall
have crumbled granite and wasted