The record-union., 1897-11-16
Five Thousand People Witness the Cere-
monies at Orchard Knob.
Union and Confederate Ex-Soi-
diers Unite in Commemoratahs
Grounds of Some of the Most
Noted Battles in the country
History-Eight Monuments Ded-
..+aa and Turned Over to the
National Government.

CHATTANOOGA (Tenn.), Nov. 10
This has been a glorious day lot tile
PENNSYLVANIA veterans VINO came hei
to dedicate their monuments 10 inc
memory of their heroism in the sr6aI
war. exemplified in their valorous con-
duct on the field of Chickamauga, MIS-
sionary Ridge, Orchard knop anu
Lookout Mountain.
The dedicatory ceremonies occurred
at Orchard Knob, where fully o'ooo
people gathered within sound of the
voices of the speakers
Hon. H Clay Evans, General Jolln
P. Goblin, General Latta and other ols-
tinguished visitors occupied seats on
the platform.
The Fifth Regiment United States
band from Mcpherson Barracks 1ur-
nishcd the music for the occasion.
After prayer by DIR. Thomas I'll. hop-
inson. Lieutenant-C Colonel Archpalu
Blakeley of the Seventieth Regiment
presented the Pennsylvania Battle-
field Commission, who formally TRAINS
ferred the monuments erected by the
State to the Governor
Following Colonel Blakeley, Governor
Hastings spoke, delivering the monu-
ments to the National Government. Ihe
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
National Park Commissioners by John
Tweedale. Chief Clerk of the War De-
partment, representing the Secretary OF
War.
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 a Pennsyi-
vania Regiment, and fought in the bat
ties about Chattanooga. Among other
things, he said:
"Tennyson has immortaHzed the
charge of the Light Brigade; history
thrills US with the stories OF Water
loo and 1Austerlitz, of Marengo, Gt-sei-
lotte and Sedan, vivid pictures of gal
lantry in battle. The Light Brigade
lost 36.I per cent. at Balaklava, the
Third Westphalian lost 49.4 per cent
at Marsha Tour the highest record OF
casualties in authentic history until our
late war. At Gettysburg the One
Hundred and Forty-first Pennsylva-
MIA lost 75.1 per cent; the First Min
nesota lost 81 per cent, and on the
Confederate side the Twenty sixth
North Carolina lost III per cent, not
including the missing in action In
Fox's Book of Regimental Losses of the
Civil War 1t is stated that in the bat
tie Of the first day Captain Tuttle's
company of this regiment went into
action with three officers and eighty
four men-all of the officers and eight
three of the men We're killed or wound
ed. In the presence of almost certain
death, American soldiers stood and
fought without flinching."
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
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 a deeper and more far
reaching meaning in the fact that all
the States of the South, as we'll as the
North. are engaged with equal enthu-
siasm. 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 it's establishment
would have been possible? In the de-
velopment of the race, union between
warning States has never been COM
plete before But in the furnace of our
contest every trace ef dross was con-
sumed. and the forging Of our battles
was more perfect union and strong
er and mightier one than the world
has seen. We are all conscious of
this, an6 we glory in 1t. The world
Will learn ii whenever, as united ma
tion, we are called to righteous war.
There is no element in all our work
which glorifies the lost cause. Even
shose who upheld its tattered banners
do not seek that. But every soldier
who stood in the front against them till
the union triumphed and we became
brothers again. knows that the mag
nificent military skill. endurance and
yalor which rallied to support that
cause. melted the North TO military
effort and deeds which had never even
foated in its dreams before.
And so it came TO pass that North
md South, after four years course in
their schools of war. graduated this
nation as a first-class military power.
And now we all know that the his
tory which stands recorded on the
fields around this city, repeating on
monuments and tablets as IL does the
story of the unexampled development
of American endeavor in battle, has
carried this nation forward with strid-
ing steps far along the path of its great
destiny Our park first suggested that
union by which the soldiers of the
North and those of the South came to-
gether on famous battlefield in equal
commemoration of American valor. The
whole nation responded, and has well
learned the lesson which such union
teaches.
I'VE are now conscious of our military
prowess. We remember the trernen-
dous blows which each section struck
on many fields. when the nation stood
divided and veterans OF both armies
will be forgiven IL in all their musings