Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-10-16
TO SHERMAN.
A Handsome Equestrian Statue
Unveiled at Washington.
Little Grandson of the Great General
Pulls the Cord.
Address by President Roosevelt-Many
Guests Present.

Washington. Oct. 15.-To the mem
cry of VIM. Tecumseh Sherman an
equestrian statue was unveiled here,
lhls afternoon, by little VIM. Tecumseh
I sherman Thorndike, grandson of the
chle1taln, in the presence of official
washington, President, diplomatic
corps and the cabinet at it's head.
thousands of veterans, members of the
societies of the armies of the Cumber-
| land, the Tennessee. the Ohio and the
Potomac, all the regular troops in the
vicinity of Washington, a battalion of
| miners, two battalions of seamen and
National Guard were reviewed by the
President before the unwilling cere-
monies which began at 2.30 O'Clock.
After the invocation by the Rev. D.
j. Stafford and music by the Marine
| Band, Gen. Dodge, president of the So
ciety of the Army of the Tennessee and
chairman of the Sherman Statue COM
mission made the Introductory adj
dress.
The President said:
Today We meet together to do honor
to the memory of one of the great men
whom. in the hour of her agony. our
| nation brought forth for her preserva-
ton. The Civil War was not only in
the Importance of the issues at stake
and of the outcome the greatest OF
modern times. but it was also, taking
into account its duration, the severity
of the fighting and the size of the
armies engaged, the greatest since the
close Of the Napoleonic struggles.
Among the generals who rose to high
positions as leaders of the various
armies in the field are many who will
be remembered in our history as long
as this history itself is remembered.
! Sheridan, the incarnation of fiery
! energy and prowess; Thomas, far
| sighted cool-headed, whose steadfast
courage burned ever highest in the
supreyne moment of the crisis; Nc
Clellan, with his extraordinary gift for
organization; Meade, victor in one of
the decisive battles of all time; Han
cock, type of the true fighting man
among the regulars; Logan, type of
| the true fighting man among the vol
unteers-the names of these and of
many others will endure so long as
our people hold sacred the memory of
the fight for union and for liberty
/ I1.SIl StfiitIIS lItSc CIlltlo IiSc lItc lltS
ures of Grant and of Grants great
| lieutenant, Sherman, whose statue here
in the national capital is today to be
unveiled. 1t is not necessary here to go
over the long roll of Sherman's mighty
feats. They are written large through
out the history of the Civil War. Our
memories would be poor indeed if we
did not recall them now, as we look
! along Pennsylvania avenue and think
of the great triumphal march which
surged down it's length when at the
close Of the war the victorious armies
of the East and of the West met here
in the capital of the nation they had
! saved.
| There is a peculiar fitness in COM
memoratng the great deeds of the SOL
diers who preserved this nation, by
suitable monuments at the national
capital. l trust we shall soon have a
proper statue of Abraham Lincoln, to
| whom more than to any other man this
nation owes it's salvation. Meanwhile,
on behalf of the people of the nation,
| | fish to congratulate all of you who
have been instrumental in securing the
erection of this statue to General Sher-
| man.
| The living can best show their
respect for the memory of the great
dead by the way in which they take to
heart and act upon the lessons taught
by the lives which made these dead
men great. Our homage today to the
| memory of Sherman comes from the
depths of our being. We would he un
worthy citizens did we not feel pro-
| found gratitude toward him. and those
| like him and under him, who. when the
| country called in her dire need, spranS
| forward With such gallant eager1ess
| % answer that call Their blood and
their toll their endurance and patriot
| ism, have made us and all who come
after us forever their debtors. They
eft us not merely reunited country,
| out country intellectually greater be-
cause of it's rich heritage in the deeds
which thus left it reunited. As ii ma
tiOn we are the greater, not only for
he vaor and devotion to duty dis
played by the men in blue. who won in
he great struggle for the Union. but
also for the valOr and the loyalty
toward what they regarded as right of
the men in gray: for this war, thrice
fortunate above all other recent wars
in its outcome, left to all of us the
right of brotherhood alike with valiant
victor and valiant vanqushed.