The herald., 1897-11-16
KEYSTONE
SOLDIERS
Raise Monuments on Fa.
nous BattlefieldS
THE PLAINS OF TENNESSEE
DOTTED WITH MEMORIALS TO
HEROIC DEAD
Survivors of the Cruel War Enter
tanned by the Remnants of Their
Erstwhile Fees

CHATTANOOGA, Tenn, Nov 15.-
This has been glorious day for the
Pennsylvania veterans who came here
to dedicate their monument to the men,
ory of their heroism in the great war,
exempllfied in their valorous conduct on
the field of Chickamauga. Mission Ridge,
Orchard Knob and Lookout Mountain.
| The dedicatory ceremonies occurred at
Orchard Knob, where fully 5000 people
gathered within sound If the voices of
the speakers.
Hon. II. Clay Evans, Gen. John P.
Goblin, Gen. Latta and other distin-
guished visitors occupied seats on the
platform. The Fifth Regiment United
States band from Mcpherson barracks
furnished the music for the occasion.
After prayer by DIR. Thomas H. Robin
son, Lieut.. Col. Archibald Blakeley, of
the Seventy-eighth regiment, represent
ing the Pennsylvania battlefield COM
mission, formally transferred the mon
uments erected by the state to the gov
ernor.
Following Col. Blakeley, Gov. Hast
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to the national government. The gov
rupled by applause.
The monuments were then formally
accepted on the part of the national
government ard transferred to the Ma
tional park commissioners by John
Tweedale. chief clerk Of the war de-
| partment.
Mr.. Tweedale said he had been dele
gated by President Mckinley and Sec
retary Alger to represent them because
he was a private soldier in Pennsyl-
vania regiment and fought in the bat
ties 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 Mdrengo. Gravelotte
and Sedan and other vivid pictures OF
gallantry in battle. The light brigade
lost 1861 per cent at I3alaklava and the
Third Westphalian lost 49.4 per cent at
Mars La Tour, the highest record of
casualties in authentic history until our
late war. At Gettysburg the One Hun
dred and Forty-first Pennsylvania lost
75.7 per cents the First Minnesota lost
So per cent and on the Confederate side
the Twcnty-sixth North Carolina lost
III per cent. not including the missing
in action, In Tox's book-"Regimental
Losses Of the Civil War"--it is stated
that in the battle of the first day Capt.
Tuttle's company Of this regiment went
into action with three officers and S4
men. All of the officers and SO of the
men were killed or wounded. In the
presence of almost certain death Amer
can soldiers stood and fought without
finching.
When can their glory fade?
Oh, the wild charge they made
All the world wondered
And what of Chicamauga?"
Gen. II. V. Boynton, for and on behalf
of the national park commission, 70. :
mally accepted the monuments. Gen
Boynton spoke in part as follows.
while there is deep and abiding
meaning in the fact that Pennsylvania
comes here to honor the military
achievements Of her sons and preserve
their memory until the centuries shall
have crumbled granite and wasted
bronze, there is deeper and more far
reaching meaning in the fact that all
the states of the south us well as the
north are engaged with equal enthusi-
asm under the same national author
ity in the same work.
Have you ever read of anything like
our park in history? Did any nation
ever exist where Its establishment would
have been possible? In the development,
of the race. union between warrinr
states has never been completed before
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trace of dross was consumed and tbs
forging of our battles was a more perfect
union and a stronger and a mightier ono
than the world has seen. We are al
conscious of this and we glory in it. This
world will learn it whenever as united
nation we are called to righteous war
There Is no element in all our worl
which glorifies the lost cause. Ever
those who upheld its tattered banners
do not seek that. But every soldier wht
stood in the front against them till tn,
union triumphed and we became broth
ers again, 1t was magnificent skill an,
endurance and valor which rallied t,
support that cause. melted the north t,
military effort and deeds which hat
never been fioated in its dream before
4 And SO 1t came to pass that north ant
south, after four years. course in theil
schools Of war, graduated this nation
as a first class military power. And nov
we all know that the history which
stands recorded on the fields around thi.
city, repeating on monuments and tab
let's as it does the story of the unexam
pied development Of American endeavol
In battle, has carried this nation for
ward with striding steps far along tn
path OF its greatest destiny. Our pari
first suggested that union by which tn
soldiers of the north and those Of tn,
south came together on famous bat
tlefield in equal commemoration o
i American valor. The whole nation re
aponded and has we'll learned the les
! son which such union teaches.
3 We now are conscious Of our militar!
iprowees. We remember tho tremen
1ous blows which each section strucl
on many fields when the nation stoo,
divided, and veterans Of both arinie
! will be for9lven x "a ~ their uausine
pver the future nv picture v them
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