The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-04-25

evening. when was dedicated a uWnu-
ment to the memory Of Columbus.
AN elegant grafton was delivered by
John b. Johnston. songs were sung.
toasts were quafYed. an ode was sung
which had been composed especially
for the occasion. and in every way
Tammany tried to impress upon the
citizens Its insistence on UNFOLDING
the Rights Of Man"
Valentine. in his manual. refers to
the action taken by TaInmany in 1908
to gather and bury with appropriate
honors the homes OF some II 900 Amer
lean patriots who had died on board
British prison ships during the Revo-
lutionary War and whose bones have
been permitted to bleach upon the
shore" at the Wallabout After many
attempts to induce Congress 10 gather
| and properly care for the Skeletons OF
the dead patriots. Tammany decided to
go ahead alone and perform the duty
| this while the society still WAS meet
| ing in "Brom" MARKINGS little two
story house.
The cornerstone of a tomb was laid
IN April IS, 1908. Mayor Aycregg act
! ing ~ grand marshal Of "a grand and
imposing procession" Military COM
panies and civic societies cooperated
with Tammany and the orator Of the
day was Joseph d. Day. The vault
was duly completed. and on May "a
the bones Of the dead were consigned
therein. Garrett Sickles was grand
marshal Of the procession on this day
and the line was headed by a trumpet
or mounted on black horse. who
carried in his hand black flag. on
which were inscribed in letters Of gold
these words
"Mortais. Avaunt, 1880 spirits Of The
martyred brave;
Approach the tomb of Honor, Of Glory
OF Nirtuous Patriotism"
The society was still meeting In rs
wigwam where THE Sun Is now pub
lished when the civil war broke out
and from It's membership the Forty
second New York Infantry was RAISED
and equipped during the months %
May and June. 1851 The gran
sachem OF that year, Col William d
Kennedy, led 1t into the field, but h
died at Washington within a month
afterward. being succeeded In com
mand by Capt. Milton Coggswell, Al
officer OF the regular army.
Thirty years later a monument Il
memory OF the original Tamman.
| Regiment was dedicated at Gettys
. burg. the dedicatory address being de
, livered by Gen. Sickles. And ne ra
, called that among the Sachems con
spicuOus for work in raising the For
, ty-second were Elijah +. Purdy. Dan
iel Il. Delevan, Isaac Bell, Thoma
Dunlap. SmNh Ely and John Clancy
some of the names not easily identi
!, fed, perhaps, by a majority Of tn
, younger Tammany men OF to-day, bu
never to be forgotten by those who's
, memory runs back a generation 0
more.
, Before the first year Of the war wa
over several other Tammany regi
ments and brigades were raised
among them Gen. John Cochrane'
!, Chasseurs Gen. Sickles's brigade OF fiv
regiments and brigades Of Gen. Coch
rane and Gen. Thomas Francis MeaR
, her Nugent's Sixty-ninth and MeaG
3 hers II Is said, lost more men in ba,
D tie than any other infantry regimen
from the State of New York.
q AT Antictam, Gen. Sickles recalle,
! eight color bearers of the Irish Br
: gade were shot down at Bloody Lam
I but the brigade fought on until It cal
, ried tho position, And at Fredericks
a burg the Color Sergeant OF the 81,
4 ty-ninth WAS found lying dead on IN
= field with his flag concealed, wrappe
J, around his body, bullet having g,