The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1913-06-27

FIRST VERMONT CAVALRY
dedication Of Monument at Gettys-
burg, July 8.


burg, July 8.
On Confederate Avenue in front of
Round Top on the battlefield at Get
tysburg, Pa, on July will occur the
unwilling and dedication of the mon
ument erected in honor of the Off
GERS and men of the LIST Regiment,
Vermont Cavalry and their COM
mander, Major-General William
Wells.
Col. Myron NJ. Parker, private
Company M, Washington, ID. c., pres
ident of the First Vermont Regimen
tai Association, will preside at the
ceremonies.
The exercises will be opened by
the sounding of assembly by the
trumpeters of the 5th U. S. Infan-
try, followed by prayer by Rev. John
E Goodrich of Burlington, chap
lain of the regiment.
Star Spangled Banner" by the
band during which the bronze statue
of Gen. William Wells will be I'M
yelled by his daughter, Mrs. Bertha
Wells Jackson of Burlington, assist
ed by her brother Frank Richard
son Wells.
Presentation of monument from
the United States by Lindley NJ.
Garrison, secretary of war.
Reading of tablet inscriptions and
inscription of the bas-relief by Gen
Theodore S. Peck, Burlington, pri-
vate Company F.
Remarks by ex-Gov. William P.
Dillingham;, United States Senator,
in behalf of the family and relativ-
es of General Wells.
Our Departed Comrades" Prof
Seland w. Landon, Bordentown, ~
j.
"Army of Northern Virginia" Gen.
Z, NJ. Law
Remarks by Col. John p Nichol-
son, chairman of the Gettysburg Ma
tional Park Commission.
THE American Soldier of 1861
1866" John McElroy of Washington
d. C.
Remarks by Col. Heman w. Allen
of Burlington, private Thirteenth
Vermont Regiment and Gettysburg
commissioner from Vermont.
"Old Vermont Brigade" ex-Govern
or Samuel E. Pingree of Hartford,
Northumberland Third Vermont
and Ex-Governor Urban A. Wood
bury of Burlington, first sergeant,
Co. H, Second Vermont.
Second Vermont Brigade" ex-
Governor John A. Mead. Rutland
private Twelfth Vermont, and Col.
Henry o. Clark, East Orange, N. j.,
sergeant, Thirteenth Vermont.
THE Other Vermont Regiments,
Batteries and Sharpshooters," Ma
jor Hobart Evans, Austin, Texas,
private Tenth Vermont, and Col.
Thomas Harmon, Bennington, SER
geant, Ninth Vermont, commander
department of Vermont, G. A. r.
Vermont in the Spanish American
War;" Hon. Frank L. Greene, st. AL.
bans, captain First Vermont Infan-
try and member of Congress from
Vermont
"vermonters in War; General Lee
S. Tillotson, st. Adams, First YER
mont Infantry, Spanish-American
War, and the acknowledgement of
Vermont
Our Brigade" Gen Eugene D.
Dimmick, U. S. A., (retired), Wash
ington, d. c., captain 5th New York
cavalry, and Capt. c. T. S. Pierce.
Vergennes, sergeant Troop G, 5th
New York cavalry.
Our Regiment" Col. John w. Ben
nett Chicago, lieutenant-colonel LIST
Vermont cavalry, and Maj. P. ON.
| Edson
'Shermats Army" Col. Lewis
r. Stegman, Brooklyn, 102nd New
York volunteers.
Remarks of w. B. Van Amringe of
Boston, president of the Van Am.
ringe Granite Company, contractors
for the erection of the monument
500 p. m. Fifty years ago at this
hour the LIST Vermont cavalry made
its desperate charge, and in COM
memoration of that event the bug
les will sound the charge, and a de-
scription of the action will be given
by Commissioner George L. Mcbride
Oh burlington, sergeant Company
NJ, and Capt. Josiah A. Forbes. Be-
lott, Kansas, corporal Company L.
The exercises will close with
America" and the sounding of
taps by the trumpeters.
The 4lst annual regiment of the
survivors of the First Regiment
Vermont cavalry will be held on the
battlefield of Gettysburg, Pa. in
connection with the semi-centennial
celebration of the battle.
Business meeting will be held in
the great tent" on Wednesday. July
2, at l o'clock p. m.
Comrades will report at Vermont
headquarters Immediately on arrival
at Gettysburg, register and procure
badges furnished expressly for this
celebration.
Services ofunveiling and dedica.
ton Of the memorial in honor of
General William Wells and officers
and men of the first Vermont Caval-
ny will be held at $3.50 o'clock D. m.
July Sd, 1913. near the spot where
the 9nd Cnnndrnp or1c-,l M