The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-07-04
GENERAL SETH POMEROY MEMO
 RIAL.
A Soldier of Colonial and Rcvolution-
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The ceremonies attending the un- yelling and dedication of the beautiful monument to the memory of General Seth Pomeroy at Peekskill, N. Y, on Bunker Hill day, the 17th of June last, by the Society of the Sons of the Revo- lution, were conducted in the perfect manner which characterizes all the functions of that organization. A special train from New York city, stopping at two or three intermediate stations, reached Peekskin at 1O;3O a, Here line had been formed, consisting of local organizations, civic Dxd militia ry, which proceeded with bands of mu- sic, flags and banners, over route of two miles, lined by thousands of citi- zens, to Hillside cemetery, located upon high ground east of the village and commanding fine views of the sur rounding country.
 Among the descendants, as invited guests, from this city were Mrs. J. M. B. Dwight and MT. and Mrs. Charles c. Munson of Hillhouse avenue, and Mrs. F. w. J. Sizer of Fair Haven Heights.
 The Memorial is a polished granite shaft of the Roman-Doric order, stand ing on base which rests on a pedestal four feet square. The capital of the column Is surmounted by polished ball, which is twenty-eight feet from the ground. The entire stone weighs twenty-two tons. The shaft is of Quincy granite, the base of white Yer mont granite, and the ball of dark red New Brunswick granite.
 These inscriptions are cut in the four sides of the base:
 General Seth Pomeroy, born at Northampton, Mass, May 2Oth, 17o6; died near this spot Feb. 18th, 1777."
 Ensign 174S, Captain 1744, Major at Louisburg 1745, Colonel at Lake George 1755, Brigadier- General 1775 Bunker Hill 1775.'
 Peekskill, Feb. Il, TIT.
 T. go cheerfully, for I am sure the cause we are engaged in is just, and the call have to it is clear and the call of God. SETH POMEROY.
 Erected by the Sons of the Revolu- ton: in the State of New York, in the year 1S9S,"
 The order of exercises at the monu- ment was as follows: Music by Sev- enth Regiment Band, Pilgrims cho- rus;" prayer by Rev. Brockholst Mor- gan; presentation by Hon. George c. Andrews on behalf of committee; un- yelling by MT. Seth H. Pomeroy of Chi cago; music, "America;" acceptance on behalf of Sons of the Revolution by President Frederick A. Tallmadge, and it's presentation to trustees of the Cort landt Cemetery association acceptance by Hon. George w. Robertson; music National Airs;'' addresses by MT. George E. Pomeroy of Toledo, O., and General Francis H. Appleton of Boston, Mass; march Stars and Stripes"
 The day was the one hundred and twenty-third anniversary of the battle of Bunker Hill General Pomeroy was prominent member of the congress of the province of Massachusetts Bay, and was present at Cambridge all the spring of 1775, organizing the hosts that gathered around Boston.
 One of our historians says:
 "In June he went home for a few days rest, but had slept under his own roof only one night when, on the 18th, a post arrived from Putnam that busi- ness was on hand at Boston. At noon Pomeroy mounted and rode toward the Bay, now an old man of sixty-nine, a tall, spare figure, gray-haired and stern in aspect, speeding swiftly over the rude highways. All night he rode by a change of horses, and in twenty-four hours from starting galloped into Cam bridge, to learn that the breast works were up on Bunker Hill. Changing horses again and this time borrowing one of General Wards, he rode over to Charlestown Neck, where the fire from the vessels was so hot that, like War ren, he refused to risk the borrowed an- imal by riding across. Sending the horse back, he hurried on along the narrow and deathly isthmus, and keep ing by the Mystic, presented himself at the rail fence, where his old friends Stark, Putnam and many others greet ed him.
 You here, Pomeroy?" exclaimed the profane Putnam, God! A cannon would wake you out of the grave" Here the battle began and here the provincials held their ground after the redoubt on the hill was abandoned. Pomeroy, like Warren, was offered the command and declined it, but fought all day, doubtless with one of his own trusty muskets. His rifle having been indented by bullet, Pomeroy retreated with the others, facing the foe lest he should be dishonored by a shot in the back
 From an article which appeared in the Springfield Republican we quote the following:
 But no eulogy," says Judge Devens in his Bunker Hill address, speaking of the loss of Warren, twas more graceful than that of Mrs. John Adams, herself one of the most interesting figures Of the Revolution, or more touching than that of the rm-hearted Pomeroy, who lamented the caprice of that for tune which had spared him in the day of battle. ain old warworn soldier whose work was nearly done, and taken Warren in the brightness of his youth and with his vast capacity to serve his country" With him we shall name Mary Pomeroy, his wife, whose patrio- tism was no less pious than his, and who sustained his labors in the field with the most tender affection and the most vigilant care for his private inter- ests, This noble pair are no mere fig ures in history, but they have left such memorials of themselves in their dia- 2as and corresnondence that they