The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-08-21
orlow J. Smith, Company F.
COLONEL GREENE's ADDRESS

At the Reunion of the First Coz lnecti- | cut Cavalry.
 I At the annual reunion of the Connect l icut Cavalry association, held in Hart 1 ford August 19, at Robert o. lyle post,
 an address was delivered by Colonel
 Jacob L. Greene, president of tn Con-
 necticut Mutual Life Insurance tcompa-
 ny, who served as adjutant- -genaral un- | der General Custer. He made the ad- ] dress of welcome. He wore onee of the original Custer ties, which was made
 out of the colors at the Custer head quarter s. Colonel was introdMaed by President Lewis w. Smith and SD pke as
 follows:
 COLONEL GREENE's ADDR Ess. Veterans of the First Connecticut Cav
 airy: To you, once again assembling in your peaceful organization to ren CIV the
 comradeship of days long past, when
 each in his place was a part tof the
 others strength and of the cduntrys whole might, am asked to givel formal
 assurance of welcome to this soldiers
 hall devoted to like memories and to the fraternal deeds which follow, them,
 and to this capital city of the state
 whose name you bear,l whose fisag flew
 before your squadrons whose honor
 rested secure in your arms, whose faith you justified on every contestet1 field. whose pride in the deeds of youls living and your dead can never be for gotten,
 and in whose eyes their luster VI i'll nev- CT pale beside no matter what hi aroisns of the future. And so I welcome you
 and your associates of other cor lmands
 to your own; to this home of the wide
 comradeship of all the servi ces by
 which the country was made whole,
 and to the home of the mother whose
 honor you kept and whose ancient brave
 fame you have helped to send shining
 down the ages
 And as this is an occasion of personal meeting and greeting. full of personal
 memories both tender and proud may I say that my chief joy in this brief for. mality is that in it stand, not as a stranger to- you, though not d,f your
 ranks; and I bid you that heartfelt welcome that can only thrill in the heart and spring to the lips of Hone of the few survivors of the staff of 'khe old
 Third Cavalry division: the division of Custer, the beau sabreur; the fair haired boy who led like flame point whither he, would have his horsemen ride; him of the eagle vision, the daunt- less heart, the swift and mightyl stroke; who knew danger but as the hsoldier's opportunity, and difficulties arid odds but as leaves to be plucked forihis lau- rel wreath. the man who knewihis men and trusted them; whom his m an knew and trusted, proud to be inspire by his fiery enthusiasm, to be guided by the cool daring of his boundless but never needless enterprise, confident To follow wherever his, set face showed the way. to victory.
 How great and high a partl in it all you and your comrades bore the names biazoned on your battle flags, historic documents, iii their place of due honor in yonder@ statehouse, show, and will forever show, to your childrsl's chil- dren It is neither meet nor necessary to here rehearse their own deeds to the men who gathered artillery irllthe val- | ley with Sheridan, or helped at Five
 Forks and Sailors Creek to raise the curtain on Appomattox. Nor is 1t in vanity of spirit, but in, humh le thank
 fulness to Almighty God, thnt vt re-
 view among ourselves that which He
 wrought by the willing hanhis of the living and dead. To this greeting among the, survivors
 of a great part in a great pa st, to the
 revival of it's memories and | he result
 ing or it's friendships, as a citizen of
 this ancient commonwealth, s.s mem
 Der of the veteran body named for a 1 Connecticut hero which here has it's
 home, and as a wearer of the red neck- tie made of the bunting of the grand old
 Third division flag, which rnarked> all
 ways the center of the storm, and which led the van in the grand review of the
 Army of the Potomac, give you here the welcome whose depth and volume cannot be spoken.