The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1909-08-12

Photograph taken on occasion of
dedication of the Henry Hill mon
unent, June II, 1865. Among the
officers show in the picture are Mont
gomery c. Meigs, quartermastsr gen
eraI OF the army; General Gamble,
then commanding the division in
which the battlefield was located,
and their staff officers.
The following statement has been pre-
pared by Comrade George C. Round Of
Picket post Of Manassas, Va, at the re-
quest of the chairman of the Bull Run
battlefield monument committee, to be
used as supplementary to the commit
tees report proper, which will probably
be presented to the enCampment today
Tor its consideration.
The army of the Potomac, the might
lest OF history, On May %, 1868, passed
On grand review before the nations. on
Pennsylvania avenue. Washington, D.
Co. Then the veterans marched back
TO their camps on the Virginia hills.
They were disbanded, bearing with
them the proud satisfaction that the
had been saved to humanity for all
time. But before they went 10 their
homes, they paused long enough to erect
two monuments, which viii forever
mark the beginning of the great war
for the Union. These unique memorials /
were not shafts of victory. The brave
men who built them sung not their own
praises. They inscribed thereon no
words of denunciation FOR brave oppo-
sympathy, and toward whom went out
a soldiers admiration. But, as they
saw the bones of their younger broth
eIs who fought and fell in those ear
lest hours of discourag cement and
gloom, they tenderly gathered them to-
EerheT, and. with their own hands. and |
with such tools as they had in their |
camps. fashioned hastily, from the ma
tive brown stone, these rude memorials /
and inscribed thereon.
"In Memory Of the Patriots who fell |
July D. 1861 and In Memory of the /
Patriots who fell August 2S. 20 and 80 1
1882 The one twenty feet high. stands 1
ON the Henry Hill" where as undisci- 4
plined recruits. they suffered their first i
defeat, and where, thirteen months /
later under Sykes and Reynolds auC /
Reno, they had stood against the tTi-
umphing legious of LOngst-eet and Lee. /
The other monument. sixteen feet high. /
was located on the Groveton farm.
where in the second battle. superhumau
efforts had been made 20 dislodge Jack
son from his entTenChed position on the
unfinished railroad cut Both monu-
ments were Consecrated by the same
ceremony on the same day. Sunday.
June II. 1865. The elaborate ritual
modelled from the Book of Common
Prayer. was published i'm full in the
New York Herald of tuesday. June 13,
1853. The report there given embraces
three columns. being the first article on
the first page.
Suggested by Women.
II is proven beyond doubt that the
FIRST suggestion came from the mind
and heart of q woman. Two sisters
from the District OF Columbia, two sis
ie-s from the state of Pennsylvania,
with an aunt from Indiana, while visit
ing soldier friends fin camp, came to the
battlefield where youthful friends and
srlo0.mates had persisted. As surviving
comrades told the thrilling story these
aides became deeply impressed. and, ON
their return TO the camps at Fairfax.
stirred up a fever of patriotic seuti-
ment. and by an impormptu meeting a /
program was marked out Major Wick
.Ts1au. one of the survivors OF the deS-
Tarare charge of the Eighth Pennsyl-
'HnIa cavalry AT ChanCelOTVille, then a
brigade chief of staff, drew the neces-
eaTE orders. which were endorsed by
General William Gamble and forward
cd IN department headquarters for APP
prevail Captain II. c. Lawrence, a bTi-
Eaaa guartermaster. had general control
NJ the enterprise and provided the need
ed material Lieutenant McCallum Of
fre Sixteenth Massachusetts battery
was made superintendent and builder.
a hundred mechanics and labOrerS were
detailed from Colonel Gallup'S Fifth
Pennsylvania heavy artillery. The ser
vic, of conservation was rendered with
great sOlemnity by Chaplain McMurdy
NJ Kentucky. assisted i'm the responses
ny Chaplain William A. Spencer of the
tlEhth Illinois cavalry and by Signal
officer Albert y. Seip. General AugUr. |
1umander Of the department Of Wash
1gton, was represented by his staff.
one of whom. Colonel J. II. Taylor. was
the author of the inscription. General
Meade, commanding the army Of the
Potomac sent his headquarters band :
A government railroad train from
Washington brought special guests in
large mum hers TO Fairfax station. and /
sixty army wagons and amhulances
carried them TO Henry Hill At the close
NJ the dedication there was q large pa /
-ade of all branches of the service and |
ScOtt's battery fred a salute from the
spot where Ricketts, battery was cap Z
-ured.
The addresses made were representa-