The Detroit times., 1910-05-12
BLOWIAG TRIBUTE
FOR WAR HEROES
fx.Gov. Guild, Or. Angel and Others,
speak at Dedication Of Memorial
Building.


huts to the students who went from
The University OF Michigan to night Ia
THE Civil and Spanish.American wars.
twas dedicated. The exercises took
place In the university hall.
Among the distinguished men pres
ent were DR.. Angel. president emerl'
titus OF the university, and Curtis
kGuild, Jr., former governor OF Massa'
kchusetts. The hall was decorated
kwith the maize and blue. while the
ktars and stripes were stretched across
fthe stage.
DIR. Angel, with trembling voice,
bread a letter that was found in the
B hand OF Allen III. lzacharias as he lay
Edead on the battlefield or Antietam,
Melting Of his mortal wounds and bid
kding his loved ones goodbye. 1T Is
tbecause these brave men weEs out tnat
ave are here" said Dr. Angel. Can
any one feel that IL was not the most
SACRED OF duties. after he has read such
Ia letter as this to erect a monument
| Whereon the names of brave soldiers
4 like this one may live forever?
R. DIR. Angel then praised Hon. Ezra
Rust. OF Saginaw, whose generous gift
hcontributed one of the largest shares
a |A0W oA0o thO CASNSAOh Vi NAS AAANA4SA 49,
building.
IN Judge c. B. Grant, OF Detroit. who
acted as chairman, then introduced
mir. Rust. who pleaded for a spirit ut
Mplift for the whole people. Regent
Nv. H. Sawyer. Of Hillsdale, accepted
BON behalf OF the board OF regents OF
khe university, the memorial hall.
(which was formally presented by
Nudge Grant
Curtis Guild, Jr., the speaker OF the
fevening, was then introduced He
lDaid In part:
I'VE are gathered TO eulogize not
Inny virtue in war as war, but the vir-
tue that the. crushing. burning adyer-
IRfty Of war here made manifest in the
Imen OF Michigan. We remember, too
that the virtue OF that self-surrender
nay not chfeAy In the victory but In
nhe sacrifice. Whether the flame OF
life flashed out in splendor at the
head OF charging columns or faded
lelowly away In the hospital or the
trenches. the quality of the service
WAS the same.
1T Is one OF your own. James II.
Kidd. the gallant commander of the
Illrst brigade OF Merritts division at
iCedar Creek. who has lived to tell
4 how in response TO the stirring
speeches of Chancellor Tappan, OF
& Prof White. the young blood OF this
university from the very beginning OF
the war was poured forth In defense
pf our country.
Ann Arbor's roll of honor needs
not to be called. IL you seek 1t, look
about you. How can eulogy ade-
onately describe, for example, how the
wings of the death angel touched
Chapman of the Sixth at Pleasant
Hill Guild or the Eighth at James
island; - Wiltsie OF the Twentieth at
Knoxville: Jewett at Wiliamsport;
6hier at Cedar Creek; Chapman, Mo
Cnllom and }Ainsworth by, your side.
\ Mr.. Chairman. at Spottsylvania?
1T Is not extraordinary that when
war came again to the United States
that the sons OF such men should have
0ocked to the standard that was raised
against Spain. Ii Is not extraordinary
that when Admiral Dewey should have
given the order to commence firing
Itn the spectacular naval victory at Ma
mia that the order should have been
Giyen to Gridley Of Michigan.
In addition to enlistments In the
regular forces Michigan contributed
~. 01O men TO the Spanish war. Three
'fof her Ave regiments saw foreign SER
vice and two shared in the victory at
santiago. Three states only were
|DFumpt enough in their action TO be
Represented by regiments In the San
IOagc campaign, New York sent one
ktegiment. Massachusetts, and Michigan
each sent two. Again by that strange
fcCincidence of comradeshlpG II was
1&hafrer OF Michigan who commanded
I'm Cuba and Miles of Massachusetts
fwho commanded In Porto Rico
At the head OF the war department
E during the war with Spain was a
tlooppr OF MichiEan who hal won n
* ReneraPS star in the great rebellion.
|Charged to accomplish the impossible,
tile efennls OF ms ore Wa sln,iened
with abuse as bitter as IL was un-
@derstooi he found a department
3that had been persistently neglected
Eby congress for two score years. He
had 10 send armies across the ocean
east and west for country that dtd
4 not possess single transport and that
had never trained one quartermaster
70 load an ocean steamer. He had to
3improylse medical corps, headed by
1nrmy surgeons few OF whom had ever
mad charge of over a dozen sick men
At time. He had TO prepare for
. handling large bodies OF troops in mod
ern warfare, with officers who, for the
Y most part, even the regulars. had
never even participated In campaigns
OF maneuveTs where the number en-.
gagged amounted to more than 500
men.
There was not in existence at the
time OF the sinking OF the Maine
enough fixed ammunition to fire twice
oven the few scattered cannon on our
oxposed coast. In spite OF this known
fact, jealousy and obstinacy I'm high
places prevented action by the house
81 representatives on the ordnance
bill 20 supply this lacck TIL the hand
~ unworthy malice and envy was
breed by the secretary OF war. who
awe the order for the needed powder
and shot and guaranteed payment
from his own private fortune
rThe tickle mob blamed him al the
time because he did not wholly sue
teer where many another would have
wholly failed Posterity will remem
her that the foulest OF SANDER failed
NJ blncken the Wilderness of his honor.
History will record that the very am
I|unitiOn with which the battle OF san.
||41O was fought would have been
1nllng had II not been for the patriot
41l and the energy of Russell A. Alger
44Ialslsrone