The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1904-05-31

wounded at Fredericksburg and Get
tysburg.
when the war was over, the Union
soldier who came to Hawaii found
here among his countrymen a welcome
and a home
Among the veterans who have lived
and died here, respected and honored,
were our Comrades Bates Dickson,
Asst. Adjt Genl in the army of the
Cumberland, William G.. Wilder, Cap
tain of Illinois Cavalry, Jonathan Aus
tin, Captain of the 18th n. Y. Volun-
teers. Charley Eldridge, 1st Sergt. in
Fletcher Webster's 18th Mass. Infy"
that sturdy Cavalryman John n.
Wright The graves are before us OF
two men who served in Massachusetts,
regiments with myself-Jo Tilden and
George L. Babcock.
"The members of this Post are not the
men to tell of their own record, and I
can only allude to it, Here are men who
fought at shiloh, Stone River, Gettys-
burg, Port Hudson, with Hancock's
2nd Army Corps in the Army of the
Potomac. who went with Sherman
from Atlanta to the sea- who rode
with New York. Michigan, California,
Pennsylvania, Illinois and Tennessee
cavalry. who marched with infantry
from Ohio, Massachusetts, Connecticut,
New York, Iowa, Indiana Missouri
and Pennsylvania, who served guns
in our batteries i'm some of the fiercest
engagements of the War.
our COmrade Tom Carey rode as an
orderly of Gen. Sherman. Our late
Commander Detz ran away from his
German home at Frankfort on the
Main, to enlist as a private in the 9Th
Conn. We have with us men who serv-
ed in the old Navy on the Minnesota"
and Lancaster"
our Commander here, Lieut.. Dickey
went out as a private in the 4th Ill.
Cavalry under that splendid soldier,
Col T. Lyle Dickey; our Comrade John
w. Francis in a Missouri regiment of
infantry with Comrade Carey was at
the front on that fatal Sunday morn
ing when Beauregard's Army sprang
upon our lines at Shiloh and Comrade
Copeland in Lew Wallace's command,
coming down from Crump's Landing
was in the next days fight
There is an incident in the Battle of
Shiloh which ought to be told now. A
sister of our Commander Dckey, Mrs.
General w II. l.. WALLACE, had in
that battle, besides her father her
brother, and her husband, four broth
ers of her husband-Col NJ. r. Wal
lace. Captain John Wallace, Sergeant
Matthew Wallace and Private Hit
Wallace, cousin of Congressman Hit
who may be our next Vice-President.
She had succeeded in being appointed
an Army nurse and in reaching the
field in time to be present and nurse
her husband, who received his fatal
wounds in that battle.
And we never forget our townsman,
Dr.. John S. McGrew an assistant sur
geon in the Mexican War, surgeon of
an Ohio REGIMENT and medical director
in the Army of the Tennessee. We know
the Doctor-we are sure that he took
the gentlest care of sick and wounded
soldiers
Among our interesting comrades to-
day sits a sailor from the Bennington
l do not know his name. it is enough
for me that he was in the landing of
bluejackets under Ensign Robley d.
Evans at the capture of Fort Fisher.
I'm this American community are
those whose fathers did all that men
could do to sustain the National cause.
Here live the daughter and the grand
children of Major General Philip Van
Cleve, who commanded a division IN
our left wing at the Battle of Stone
River, was promoted for gallantry on
that occasion, and who withstood the
desperate onslaught of Longstreet at
Chickamauga the father of our
townsman, r. FaXon Bishop, was a
Lieutenant Colonel of Illinois cavalry;
Warden Henry's father was a Ser
gean in a Massachusetts regiment
which had a fighting record surpassed
by few regiments in the field; and
am sure there are many others among
us whose fathers marched to the music
of the Union.
and here are men like Professor
Scott and DR.. Meyer who fought for
the cause of the Southern Confederacy
and a near neighbor, my fair country
woman, whose father rode with Nor
gan's very rough riders.
q saw these things, because 1 wish
the young Americans of Hawaii to
take an interest in the far distant War
of the Rebellion to study it's causes
and its incidents with no less interest
than they have studied the history OF
the War Of the Revolution.
'Lt-COmmander Almy: 1t is the wish
of the members of this Post, that in
their behalf 1 here and now say
through you to Admiral Terry and Ad-
mirol Glass, and the officers and men
of his squadron, whom we are so glad
to welcome here, that in our opinion,
due credit has not been given to the
Navy for It's work in saving the Amer
lean Union.
"The country knew all about the cam
paigns on land, the frightful loss in
killed and wounded in the great bat
ties Of the war: but the work Of the
blockading squadrons was not so fully
emphe sized.
THE Southern Confederacy had more
guns and more ammunition than we
wished them to have, more than was
good for us but If it could have sent
IFS cotton to England, and Europe
could have sent in abundant material