The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-07-03
WHERE HEROES FELL
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indian massacre: that Andrew Jackson, who
fought the Cherokees as we'll as the English
ana that Harrison and Taylor came from that
OF savagry.
IL was matter of scorn that President
ADraham Lincoln was a product of a. set
n sled CABIN and frontier court. The future
had not yet lifted the veil from the i'm
mortals or the war. but Grant Sheridan Sher-
man, Hancock, all who led our armies in
the footsteps of victory. as we'll as Lee and
Longstreet and Johnson, who made such a
great fight for a poor cause and added nm
persuade laurels to the American name
We're graduates of the frontier fort and the
ihdlan training school. In these days, when
IL seems TO be the fashion to disparage the
west, IL may be well to recall that the great
names or the country with few exceptions
pear the baptism of the frontier The first
vosHe ,. was the pick OF young energy that
went out to create new enterprises and build
new homes in new land. But loyal TO those
they left behind they were the first to spring
10 the defense of the old affairs. old union and
0lu nag. They were men who could write
books or practice law or conduct colleges
men who could put watch together in a rifle
pit who could build locomotive or a steam
boat, or carry mine into the bowels of the
earth. Men who could shoot and march and
rue ana do anything demanded in the ext
gencles of war. | have seen Gen Barnard
ehglneer-ln-chief of the army listen with
earnest attention to the Instructions of a nri-
Vate soldier from Company B. who told him
now best to- build corduroy road on which
70 move MS Siege guns in front of the en-
t tha works at Yorktown. You all know that
tne same class of men built that famous
grapevine bridge across the Chickahominy
which saved the battle of Fair Oaks.
III Inc training OF the regiment was of the
pesC' rate made us happy in our command
ers. First German, full of enthusiasm the
tuedi soldier OF the stage; then Dana the
Sreat master OF skill and discipline; then
an suii iror easy as an old shoe. but heavy as
an IRON maui All Of these left us sic itum
al astla. We made their pathway TO the
stars, put only paid them for what they did
f frp,, US. Ihen We began to graduate generals
from our own class-Morgan witboTt fear
and without reproach and ColyiIle orr last
leader and our last chief. that We followed
uown this deadly slope till it was crimsoned
or the First Minnesota e'0''
mere at gettysburg we were nut at this
spot lor an easy place, not for action-for re-
serve: All that murky afternoon we watched
Our masses in that field over there
Our hearts Went up in rejoicing cheers when
we saw our flag advanced, our spirits fell
again When 1t was pushed back We saw our
DlIsaues charge over the enemy's guns and
Sleh saw the foe break over our batteries
New brigades and new divisions, 90 in soma
times winning their way across and AGAIN
rapidly driven back. We know now thai il
Was the great infantry fight of the world
me roll OF musketry, the crash of
cannon hlied the. world. But it never &C.
CURED 10 US that it would reach us here
men the gray sea prevailed. The blue shore
was washed away; the flood and foam of
nre, the flame of red battle flags rolled up
towards this solitary rock. Then we were
Iold to roll down and through it. We started
Ihen we saw it rolled around u.s. We went
through 1t. The wave washed back We
turned and saw the re-established line. The
enemy nad disappeared but we also we were
gone. 1t seemed as if the regiment had fled
mat 1t had disgraeed the state and left but
sentinel to guard the colors but they were
all there, there on the ground now swept by
the Confederate shells, alone, all present
Killed or wounded, not one missing. The
honor of the state was all right and the
honor OF the country, which need not go to
Balaklava or Gravelotte for the highest stand
ard of discipline devotion, death success and
necessary military sacrifice.
This Will probably be our last great reunion
We will never meet again. Certainly not
here. The result is worth il ALL We have
met to live in honor as in military life to do
all our duty as citizens, and let us so keen
up our lives that when we receive our final
muster out, as each one alone shall enter the
unknown river and reach the shadowy shore
our old comrades in their tents, shall cry as
the new shade marches in, Turn out fhe
guard; salute the latest comrade from the old
First Minnesota -
Speeches were made by various members of
congress from Minnesota. Judge Page Nor
ris of Duluth, was the last speaker and be-
ing from Confederate stock, made some telling
points. At 1890 the ceremonies were brought
to termination. The special tram bearing
veterans left Gettysburg for Washington at
o'clock tonight.