St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1903-05-27

was greeted by cheer after cheer from the
assembled multitude. Soon after thirty
six misses representing the thirty-six
states of the restored American Union,
with floral offerings in their hands filed
around the monument and as they did
so deposited them upon its base. Mr..
Mead, the sculptor, was then introduced
to the assembly and was greeted with
great applause after which he made brief
remarks. Prayer was offered by Rev.
John II. Woodward, chaplain OF the LIST
Vermont cavalry and then addresses APP
propriate to the occasion were made by
Gov. Paul Dillingham; and Hon. L. 2.
Poland. The ceremonies were interspers-
ed with music by the band and halfhour
guns were fired from an eminence some
little distance in northeasterly direc-
ton. These salutes were fired under the
direction of Capt. Edward F. Griswold,
who served three years in the Vermont
Artillery.
There is no need of describing the
monument for it is an every day sight,
but it is sufficient to say that there are
80 names of soldiers, inscribed upon the
base, who lett St. Johnsbury to give their
lives for their country. A list OF the prin-
cipal battlefelds on which St. Johnsbury
soldiers fought, including Gettysburg,
Spottsylvania, Wilderness, Cedar Greek
and Fredericksburg is also chiseled on the
base.
THE MONUMENT AT THE CEMETERY.
In the summer of 1886 the trustees of
Mt. Pleasant cemetery presented Cham
berlin Post with large and slightly lot
conditioned that the Post should erect
suitable monument thereon, and the lot
was accepted on those terms. The Post
then went to work to secure funds for
that purpose. The nucleus of the fund
was gift from the Woman's Relief
Corps and earned by them. In the spring
of 1898 a contract was made with the
Carrick Bros. Granite Co., to erect such
a monument as would be satisfactory to
the cemetery trustees and to Chamberlin
Post. The contract was well filled and
the monument dedicated July 4, thirty
years after Gettysburg and Vicksburg.
The monument consists oil base of
rough granite five feet square and
eighteen inches thick, a second base three
and one-half feet square and two feet
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two and one-half feet high, surmounted
by six-foot statue Of an iniantryman
standing at rest, the left hand grasping
his musket near the muzzle, and the right
hand thrust within his coat at the
breast. One face of the plinth is polished
and has this inscription, Erected by
Chamberlin Post, No. l." The entire
height of the monument is twelve feet,
and it is beautiful addition to the
statuary which adorns the grounds of
Mt. Pleasant cemetery.
The monument was appropriately ded-
icated on July 4, 1898. Chamberlin
Post marched in body to the cemetery,
and after brief service there around the
monument, marched to Music Hall,
where eloquent addresses were given by
Rev. DR.. c. M. Lamson and Congressman
FL. H. Powers.
Thus has St. Johnsbury perpet uated in
granite and marble, both in Court House
square and Mt. Pleasant cemetery, the
memory of those brave heroes who sac
ri6ced their lives for this nation.
"Sleep, soldiers! still in honored rest
Your truth and valor wearing;
The bravest are the tenderest,
The loving are the daring"