Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1910-10-01
DEDICATE SHAFT
AT GETTYSBURG
Old Soldiers From All Parts Of
Pennsylvania Attend.
RECEIVED BY GOV. STUART
Unwilling Of Battlefield Monument
Took Place In Drenehing Rain--Is
SO Feet High and Cost $4,000.

SO Feet High and Cost $4,000.
Standing In a blistering summer sun
during the early part of the ceremon-
les and in a drenching rain toward the
end. 10000 Pennsylvanians. one-fourthI
OF them Civil War veterans, attended
the impressive dedication Of the me-
mortal erected by Pennsylvania TO her
sons who fought at Gettysburg forty.
seven years ago.
The unpleasant weather did not In
any degree lessen the enthusiasm OF
the veterans. Only one or two were
FRUSTRATED by the heat When the
rain started TO fall General Gregg was
speaking.
Saying that he did not wish to keep
his comrades in the wet he was about
TO stop. when from all sides came
cries of Go on; go on" Until he had
finished the old soldiers stood in the
pouring rain. entirely obllyious TO their
discomfort.
Pennsylvania was represented by
many OF her most prominent sons In
present day lie and by practically all
OF her men OF Civil War fame who are
now living.
The throng which viewed the cere-
monies completely covered the broad
expanse OF ground Immediately sur.
rounding the monument and extended
in the direction Of the famous Bloody
Angle.
No display or ostentation marked
the exercises. There was no parade.
no salute. The veterans went to thu
scene of the dedication singly or in
groups. while the orators and others
who took part in the activities OF the
day we're conveyed to the monument
without escort.
The only touch OF the spectacular
was given when the students from
Gettysburg college marched TO the me-
mortal carrying aloft their college col.
ors and each wearing band OF orange
and blue. One hundred OF their mum.
Der were on the program 10 sing An.
gel Of Peace" and as the students
marched from East Cemetery Hill to
the Pennsylvania monument over the
ground occupied by the Union army
when Picketts mighty charge was re-
pulsed, th"y sang 70 stirring march
time Hail. Columbia
The band from the Soldiers Orphan
Industrial school at Scotland. Pa.
opened the program with music and
the PRAYER was made by Chaplain NJ
b. Riddle. General H. S. Huidekoper
president OF the commission which
had ia charge the erection OF the mon
ument and all arrangements for the
dedication. made the address turning
over the memorial to Governor Stuart
representing the stae of Pennsylvania
Monument Cost $4,000.
The monument itself. which was
erected at cost of $l50.O0O, is the
most magnificent of the more than 500
memorials which dot the battlefield.
The monument rests in the center OF
Pennsylvania park and towers sixty.
nine feet in the air. and is forty feet
square. II is of granite, surrounding
a parapet eighty-four feet square. en-.
closed in a stone coping, In inches in
which are numerous bronze tablets
bearing inscriptions. IL is built in the
form of hollow square. a high arch
opening from each of the four sides,
each topped by huge reliefs. and the
whole structure is topped by a dome
on which is perched a figure symbo-
lizing victory and made Of iron cannon
used in the Civil War.
The memorial contains the records
OF the Pennsylvania commands which
took part in the battle. There were
sixty-nine regiments OF infantry. nine
OF cavalry and seven batteries of artil.
lery. Total present. 34,530; killed and
mortally bundled. 1882; wounded,
3177; missing. $50; total loss, 52I9.
The names of thirty-four generals
appear. Among them are: Meade, Rey.
nolds, Hancock. Gregg, Birney, Geory,
Humphreys. Hayes. Crawford. Rowley.
Pleasonton. Gibbons. Whistler, Huey,
Vincent. Muhlenberg. j. L. Gregg,
Gotham. Lie. Fisher. Coulter. Schim-
melpfenning. Biddle. McCandless.
Stone, Tippen, Kane. Brooke. McIn-
tyre. Dana. Switzer. Fraser. Neill and
Mexican.
The reliefs above the arches repre-