The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1899-10-25
AT GETTYSBURG.
Monuments Dedicated to the Memory
OF the Vermont Regiments.

GETTYSBURG, Pa, Oct. 19.-Under
rare autumnal skies the monuments to
the memory of the Thirteenth and
Fourteenth Vermont regiments were
dedicated this afternoon in the Nation
al cemetery.
From platform at the base of the
shaft concentrating the deeds of the
members of the Thirteenth regiment,
Col. Albert Clark of Boston delivered
an eloquent address. He reviewed in
detail the story Of the battle of Gettys-
burg and the part taken by the old Thir-
teenth Vermont. In closing he said:
1--WE have always felicitsted ourselves
that our loss was small, considering the
haz ards that we took. But our killed and
wounded were nearly 18 per cent OF our
number engaged. This is more than any
United States regimen has sustained in all
the battles in Cuba, Porto Rico and the
Philippines. L. is nearly per cent greater
than the average losses in all the great
European battles for more than century.
1t is per cent greater than the average
losses of the Union troops in eleven of the
create battles OF the civil war, and it is
per cent greater than the average Con-
federate losses in the same battle. II en-
braced some of our best officers and de.
prived everyone of us of some dear friend.
The sacrifice consecrates this ground. We
linger upo. 1t, loath to say farewell. Many
of us will never see it again; but we have
left our mark here and il is not a small one,
even on the face of nation grown twice as
great as when we fought to save its life
The integrity OF the Union and the rights OF
man were II ade secure by the events we
commemorate and broad new vista of the
worlds progress WAS opened before our
eyes The II ig that We upheld has gained
more stars and signaled forth new messages
of duty. We love it too we'll not to read
and heed the call, and we make our own
the words of our soldier President when he
said at Aberdeen, South Dakota, last Sat.
urday, that Wherever that i1g is II stands
for liberty, humanity and civiliz Atom
The monument was accepted for the
government by Commissioner M Ajor
Robbins, who was in the Fourth Ala
bama infantry. Among other things
he said:
THAT we Southerners are part Of this
country you didn't find out until last year.
You couldn't understand how men as
proud as you could bow to defeat. | now
reach out my hand from North Carolina
and Alabama to you men and women OF
the Green Mountain State and | accept
Tor the government this beautiful monu.
ment.
The presentation speech for the four
teenth regiment monument was made
by Captain y. Gore, and the mOnu-
ment was accepted by United States
commissioner, Major Richardson. B.
F. Potter of Worcester, Mass, deliv-
cred the Grafton.
Thursday evening a rousing camp
fire was held in the court house at
Gettysburg at which veterans of three
regiments of Green Mountain boys in
dulged in "reminiscences of the great
battle OF Gettsburg. Hon, S. A. An
drews of Vergennes, member of the
Thirteenth regiment, presided and ad-
dresses were made by Lieut. Col. A, c.
Brown, Hon. Mason p Carpenter, j.
II. Walling, ex Gov, E. j. Ormsbee,
Hon. b lrton j. Potter, j. II. Lyon,
Capt. S. F. Brown, w. w. Holden and
r. f, Sturtevant, members of the
Twelfth, Thirteenth and Fourteenth
regiments. j. w. NJ. Robbins of the
United States battlefield commission
delighted the visitors with an enter
tanning address.