The San Francisco call., 1897-07-23
Great Multitudes Crowd Chi
oago to Witness the Mill
tary Parade.
ALL PAY HOMAGE TO THE HERO
OF ATLANTA.
GrizzIed Veterans Who Bore Arms
With the Soldier Statesman and
Ex- Mingle.

CHICAGO, Ill. July 22.-To-day the
statue of General Logan was unveiled IN
the presence OF a multitude, with mag
nificence OF detail unprecedented in this
city. On the platform at the foot OF the
statue was grouped a company that no
event of less importance could have called
together. The widow OF the dead gen.
eral, army officers who served with him
through the war, Governors members OF
President McKiniey's Cabinet and United
States Senators sat in the shadow OF st.
GAuden's heroic statue and took part in
the exercises.
In the throng that listened to George R.
Peck's Grafton were many of the leading
citizens OF the Nation, and in those great
multitudes along the line OF march were
thousands of Chicago residents, together
with other thousands from every quarter
of the country.
The city was profusely decorated. Busi-
ness houses and private residences in
every section of the city shared in the
general display. The parade was re-
viewed by Mrs. Logan, Captain John a.
Logan, John A. Logan III, whose tiny
hand Ioosed the drapery and unveiled the
w. F. Tucker, the latter a daughter of the
hero of Atlanta. And the city itself, hav-
ing announced its intention to make this
q holiday, also reviewed the parade from
every foot of standing room along the
miles of the line of march.
The ceremonies opened promptly with
an eloquent prayer by Rev. DR.. Arthur
Edwards. Then Henry W. BlodSett,
chairman of the presentation committee,
on behalf of the Commissioners presented
the monument to the State. Amid the
rattle of artillery young Logan tugged
the silksn cord and the heroic representa-
tion of the popular warrior was revealed,
and the band struck up battle Scenes of
the War" amid general enthusiasm.
Governor Tanner in a short speech &C.
cepted the monument in behalf of Hi.
nois, and George z. Peck paid eloquent
tribute to the soldier-statesmau, with
whom he served as q comrade in arms
PECK said in part:
Illinois Is proud and happy. Waiting pa
tiently for fitting time she opens all her well
coming gates and bids the world take note
what breed of men she rears. Here is the
product of ner soil, and here she brings
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This great city the lake, with all its breadth
of waters, the prairies stretching outward to
the West and the sky mingling light and
cloud in an ever-changing picture, are re-
splendent witnesses OF the scene. The event,
the hour and the men are historic
The soldier in battle does not, consciously,
arrange dramatic situations. When John A. Lo-
gan, summoned by destiny. rode, sabered and
spurred, along those bleeding lines, beautiful
in the deep sense tnat makes the heroic al
ways beautiful, he little thought of the BAN
ners that wave for him to-day. Goeth de-
clared that genius could always be. known by
its doing first the duty that was nearest. |
''The readiness is alp is Shskespeare's way of |
speaking the same great truth The Greeks !
believed that ships, steered by the gods, al
ways came to port; but a truer knowledge !
counts upon the practical skill of the men at
the helm.
That day at Atlanta had none of the ro-
mantle surroundings which which give arti. |
fetal renown to bettlefelds. No Pyramids,
hiding the grim secrets of the centuries,
looked down upon them. 1t was not Lodi. |
where general could dash across bridge to
victory. There were no narrow paths to
glory. 1t was DreasI-to-breast fighting. sucb
as seldom comes In any war; q confused mass
struggling against an enemy that was everv-
where. And, in the midst OF them was
because the command had fallen on one who
knew what to do and could not breathe until
It was done.
He is past all lattery. Shall we call him
brave2 Others have worn that crimson badge.
Great men become types. The people single
them out, with the ready common sense,
which belongs to no man, but to all men.
Logan is Our Great Volunteer So they have
named him, and so he will be known, when we
are forgotten. Whatever is heroic they can
make classic.
chronicles of the future viii write of him as
Froissrt did of the knights ana heroes OF med
ieval times. 1t is, and always will be, q
glorious story.
When the war was almost over, and the in.
evitable triumph was plainly visible there
came to him opportunity which would
have been trial and g temptation to most
men. But it was not to him. Grant sent him
o relieve Thomas, and in doing so gave notice
Ito all the world that Logan was Fl for high
command. 1t was one OF the most picturesque
situations of the war. The Army of the Polo
mac was holding the Confederacy by the
throat while Sherman, marching to the sea-
was cutting all its veins and arteries. Mean
while Thomas, with beleagured Nashville at
his back, was making ready, slowly but surely
for the blow that should kill. Grant the i'm
perturbable, seeing the whole field, was, for
once impatient, and could wait no longer
He called for his Thunderbolt and sent
Logan, whom no one had ever thought slow,
20 make the fight. I could name men with
stars on their shoulders who would have
seiEed the opportunity to humiliate the man
whose lineage ran from Mill Spring, through
Corinth, Murfrees boro and Chickamauga, to
Atlanta. He, like Logan, had become type.
He was the synonym for that enduring cour-
age which stays forever in its place.
But Logan, Fastening to the field, where
Thomas and Hood were preparing for their
last grapple, stopped at Louisville, not be-
cause it see med best for his own fortunes, but
because it was right He, who would have
flown to any place where danger lay, halted
at that supreme moment He ruled hts own
soul; and his conduct shines with greater
ight when we READ in Sherman's Memoirs
! that after the battle of Atlanta Thomas-con-