The Washington times., 1909-05-19
TWO GOVERNORS
GREET PRESIDENT
Taft Helps Dedicate Penn
sylvania Monument at Fort
Malone, Petersburg.
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Clarence Guiles Flower Mrs. w. II.
Magill, Mrs. William Malone, and Mrs.
Gen. J.. a DOdd, all related to Northern
and Confederate generals who took part
in the siege and defense OF Petersburg.
Major lseac b. Brown, president OF
the Pennsylvania battlefield commission,
delivered the first speech at the unveil-
ing.
Stand On Hallowed Ground.
Major Brown said I'm part:
Here, near Petersburg.' a familiar
phrase OF old war time days. upon the
sacred soil of Virginia, made forever
hallowcd in the unprecedented clash of
arms and the shedding of American
blood. do two great Commonwealths ex-
tend fraternal greetings.
This monument is q tribute TO the
American soldier, no matter whether it
particularly names the Third Division.
Ninth Corps, or Grimes Division Of
Gordon's Corps (Confederate) that de-
Tended these lines in the memorable as
Sault.
Surely the ground whereon YOU stand
IS most hallowed, and while the nation
shall live, and deeds of heroism and de-
votion be venerated, the territory within
the siege of Petersburg will be sacred
10 every true American.
Wants National Monument.
I'm a spirit of love and veneration
the people OF France and England erect
cd a joint monument in Canada in mem
ory of their dead. So may it be here,
at some point in this vast battlefield
that the Government of the United
States and all the States of the Ameri-
can Republic may, in a fraternal and
loyal spirit, unite in the building OF
joint monument to the Confederate and
Union soldiers which. so far as pos
sible, shall be commensurate with the
great sacrifices and the unsurpassed
bravery which characterized the Ameri-
can soldiers in the great siege Of
Petersburg"
At the conclusion of Major Brown s
address. there was one woman whose
sobs of JOY and emotions called pietous-
~ to every heart She YVES Mrs. John
Frederick Hartranft. widow OF the gen.
eral whom Pennsylvania and Virginia
honored today.
Governor stuart turned the monument
over 10 Virginia. making a brief speech
in which he declared that such shafts
would prove the strongest safeguard
against a recurrence Of sectional un-
pleasantness-" Speaking along a similar
strain. and commencing and thanking
the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania for
the magnificent monument and statue
Gov. Claude a. Swanson, accepted the
shaft.
Lauds Both Sides.
President Taft spoke, in part, as fol-
lows;
MY Fellow Citizens: We are met
today on the soil of Virginia to dedicate
a memorial TO the bravery of the sons
OF Pennsylvania exhibited III a contest
10 the death with the sons of Virginia
and the South.
I'VE stand here in the center cs the
bloodiest and most critical operations of
the last year OF the civil war, only
few miles distant from that dramatic
scene at Appornatox between Grant and
Lee which marked the great qualities
Of the heart and soul OF each, and
which was the real end OF the terrific
struggle between the two sections.
Strategy of Lee.
Here in and about Petersburg, the
outwork of Richmond. the home Of tne
sConfederacy, were carried on those
States of the Union engaged in the de-
besiegilg operations begun late in the
spring Of 1864 and continued with the
characteristic CT the Federal comman-
der for nearly a year. and resisted with
the bravery snd strategy and wealth Of
expedient OF the Confederate leader un-
til the forces Of the South, =Srn out by
the constant assaults and the incessant
hammerinE. were compelled to yield to
the greater numbers and the resources
Of the North
"To Pennsylvania. as one of the great
termination to save it. fell the burden
OF furnishing tens of thousands Of men
FOR the struggle IN every part of the line
OF attack; but especially IN the army Of
the Potomac were the force of her peo-
PIE and their devotion TO the cause felt.
Besides her Eerried columns she con-
tributed 10 tie Union army Major Gen.
George c. T.. Meade, the commander Of
the army OF the Potomac; four corps