The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-05-31

| was centred Lees terrible fire Of shot
and she'll. and away to the rear with the
supply wagon was commssary sergeant
poy OF eighteen. who, as the day and the
hours wore away, remembered that the
men Of his regiment would be fainting
and weary for the want OF the food left
in his charge behind
And then the boy without orders. COM
PEELED by no soldiers duty loaded his
wagons. called for volunteer drivers, arij.
on from the rear to the front through the
shower Of shot and she'll, Drawing death
every instant. brought to the front and to
the fainting soldiers of his regiment the
re- endorsements of food and strength that
enabled them to so on with the conflict
till the end. The regiment was the Twen
tythird Ohio its colonel was Rutherford
B. Hayes. afterward the nineteenth Presi
dent of the United States. and upon that
field Of battle the colonel and future Presi-
dent recommended for commission that
boy of eighteen. The commissary sergeant
was William Mckinley. the twenty-fourth
President OF the United States.
MY fellow citizens. he stands not alone:
that great-hearted kindliness for all Amer
leans which makes him not only Presi-
dent but father to us all is not alone.
The impetus given by loyal sacrifice and
noble deeds upon this battlefield has con-
tinued to this hour in American breasts.
and has helped largely to make America
what it Is. And so your monument COM
memorates not merely the fallen, but 1T
commentaries the service OF the living.
and 1t shall stand for ages to come to mark
the loyalty and the devotion OF all the
men who fell and all the men who sur
vived that all of us who come after them
may justify their sacrifice for the country
reunited. for the promotion Of law and
tha lac
honor to the men who died that we might
live and ever spreading through the world
the blessings that we enjoy.
Representative McCIeIInn's Speech.
Representative George B. Mcclellan OF
New York spoke in part as follows:
Nearly forty years have come and gone
since that bright September morning when
Lee and Mcclellan stood face to face
upon these beautiful hills that surround
us. We who were born after that day are
growing grey. Lee and Mcclellan have
been long dead and scarcely one OF the
prominent figures of the period remains.
We can think Of the battle without sec
tional feeling. without party spirit, with
out personal animosity, happy that the |
day has come at last when North and
South can join in dedicating this monu-
When the smoke Of battle had cleared
away. when brothers remembering once
more that they came from a common an
cestry and forgetting the past agreed to
look only to the future. no two men did
more by their words and their examples
to heal the wounds Of civil strife than the
two commanders of Antietam. II McClel-
Ian be remembered as the victor and Lee
as the vanquished. both Mcclellan and
7 ba bar Vic
torious in far broader and a far nobler
sense than in the merely physical, for
both fought for the cause they thought |
right, both sacrificed self in their devotion |
to principle. both conquered self In the at |
of the best humanity has to give. |
and left a heritage to their country OF |
spotless names. pure, unsullied, noble /
manhood.
And so today L may be pardoned II.
for the moment / forget Mcclellan and /
Lee the soldiers. and think of Mcclellan
and Lee. the men. not our Mcclellan and |
your Lee but our Mcclellan and our Lee.
no longer the heroes of opposing sections,
but the heroes OF great nation. to be
equally honored and to be equally reTered.
for both were Americans.
The memory of the dead who lie about |
Us here. the memory of the dead who lie
yonder belongs to all OF US. They fell
fighting for the cause they loved. dying
TO make good that cause, but they died
in 4 greater cause than they knew. for
they gave their lives to make Il reunited
people. one in destiny. one in grandeur
One in might and one in righteousness.
Enemies in life. they have gone to join
the army that knows 10 State and no sec
tion. an army from North and South ani
East and West. recruited at Bunker Hill
and Lundy's Lane. ia Mexico. and in the
Wilderness. at Santiago. and at Manila.
he army Of Columbia's noble sons who fell
in battle"