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 REPORT OF PROCEEDINGS 
 
 INCIDENTAL TO THE ERECTION AND 
 DEDICATION OF THE 
 
 CONFEDERATE MONUMENT 
 
 RECEPTION AND ENTERTAINMENT OF RENOWNED SOUTHERN GENERALS 
 
 AND OTHER DISTINGUISHED PERSONAGES, AT CHICAGO, ILLINOIS; 
 
 LUNCHEON AND BANQUET GIVEN THEM AT CINCINNATI, 
 
 OHIO, AND THEIR MILITARY GREETING AT 
 
 FORT THOMAS, KENTUCKY, 
 
 MAY 29 JUNE 1, 
 
 1895. 
 
 JNO. C/ UNDERWOOD, C.E., A.M. 
 
 MAJOR-GENERAL U. C. V. 
 
 UUustratefc. 
 
 SOUVENIR EDITION. 
 
 CHICAGO: 
 
 WM. JOHNSTON PRINTING COMPANY. 
 1896.
 
 COPYRIGHT 1896, 
 
 BY 
 
 JOHN C. UNDERWOOD. 
 (All rights reserved.) 
 
 DRAWINGS AND ENGRAVINGS BY 
 
 FRANKLIN ENGRAVING AND ELECTROTYHING CO. 
 CHICAGO
 
 1 6 
 
 TABLE OF CONTENTS. 
 
 ILLUSTRATIONS. 
 
 AND BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. 
 
 Landscape scene in Oakwoods cemetery, Chicago, showing the 
 
 Confederate monument as it stands ...... Illuminated Frontispiece 
 
 PAGE. 
 
 Military Scene Inspection of the Black Hussars, the cavalry escort at the dedication 
 
 of the Confederate monument in Oakwoods cemetery, Chicago, May 30, 1895 . xii 
 Ornate patriotic corner piece (reduced and reproduced on type pages) .... i 
 
 Maj.-Gen. John C. Underwood of Kentucky 2 
 
 Lieut. -Gen. John. B. Gordon of Georgia 10 
 
 GROUP: ACTIVE STAFF OF PROV. DEPT. OF THE NORTH, U. C. V. 
 
 Brig. -Gen. Fayette Hewitt Kentucky. 
 
 Col. Albert Akers . District Columbia. 
 
 Col. Jos. Desha Pickett Kentucky. 
 
 Col. R. H. Stewart Illinois. 
 
 Col. Sam'l J. Sullivan Illinois. 
 
 Col. L. Tierman Brien Maryland. 
 
 Lieut. -Col. Lute C. Norman . . . . . Kentucky. 
 
 Maj. Frank V. Robinson District Columbia. 
 
 Mrs. R. L. Henry, of Chicago 24 
 
 GROUP: LADY ASSISTANTS. 
 
 Miss Virginia L. Mitchell . West Virginia. 
 
 Miss Marie Louise Longstreet Georgia. 
 
 Miss Marie Armontine Sanders Georgia. 
 
 Miss Amanda C. Childress Louisiana. I g 
 
 Miss Margaret Cox District Columbia. 
 
 Miss Nannie Heth District Columbia. 
 
 Mrs. Marcus J. Wright District Columbia. 
 
 Miss Fannie M. Scott Arkansas. 
 
 U. S. Eagle and Shield, esto perpetua .... 29 
 
 Ferdinand W. Peck, Esq.. of Chicago 32 
 
 Lieut. -Gen. Stephen D. Lee of Mississippi 34 
 
 Hon. Geo. B. Swift, Mayor of Chicago 36 
 
 Col. Henry L. Turner of Chicago . 3^ 
 
 Lieut. -Gen John M. Schofield, United States Army 42 
 
 Lieut. -Gen. James Longstreet of Georgia 44 
 
 Maj.-Gen. M. C. Butler of South Carolina . . 46 
 
 Brig. -Gen. John C. Black of Illinois . . 50 
 
 Maj.-Gen. Fitzhugh Lee of Virginia 52 
 
 Lieut. -Gen. Wade Hampton of South Carolina (Washington, D. C.) . . . . . . 56 
 
 Rev. H. W. Thomas of Chicago 58 
 
 Adjt-Gen. Alfred Orendorff of Illinois .._-.... * 62 
 
 Maj. Holmes Conrad of Virginia (Washington, D C.) 66 
 
 Maj.-Gen. H. Kyd Douglas of Maryland 68
 
 PAGE. 
 
 Maj.-Gen. Henry Heth of Virginia (Washington, D. C.) , ', 76 
 
 Maj. -Gen. S. G. French of Florida 78 
 
 Judge W. L. Calhoun of Georgia 80 
 
 Rev. Jenkin Lloyd Jones of Chicago 82 
 
 GROUP: STAFF OF Div. OF THE NORTHWEST, U. C. V. 
 
 Lieut. -Col. Geo. Forrester . . . . . . . . ... Chicago. 
 
 Lieut. -Col. R. Lee France . - . . . . . . . . Chicago. 
 
 Lieut. -Col. Jere S. White . . ... . . . . , Chicago. 
 
 Lieut.-Col. John W. White . , . . Chicago. }- 84 
 
 Maj. Benjamin F. Jenkins . ." Chicago. 
 
 Maj. Chas. R. Tucker . . . . '. .-.'. . . . Chicago. 
 
 Capt. Wm. B. Phipps . . . ."....> . . . . Chicago. 
 
 The Confederate monument at Chicago ... . . . . . . 86 
 
 The bronze statue on monument at Chicago . 88 
 
 Two bronze panels on monument pedestal at Chicago f 90 
 
 Bronze and granite panels on monument pedestal at Chicago .... . . 92 
 
 Goddess of Liberty vignette, invitation, etc 94 
 
 GROUP: COMDR. AND COMP. STAFF, CONFED. MEMO. PARADE. 
 
 Maj.-Gen. John C. Underwood Kentucky. 
 
 Gen. Jos. P. Ellacott Chicago. 
 
 Gen. Chas. S. Bentley Chicago. 
 
 Rev. Jenkin Lloyd Jones . . . .. Chicago. 96 
 
 Mr. Alexander H. Revell ... V . ... . . . Chicago. 
 
 Capt. Malcom McNeill . . . ... . . . . . Chicago. 
 
 Mr. Chas. U. Gordon Chicago. 
 
 Capt. M. L. C. Funkhouser of Chicago 98 
 
 Liberty Bell and ringing party 100 
 
 Maj. Alfred Russell of Chicago . . . . \ . . . . 102 
 
 Detachment of Black Hussars of Chicago ... . . 104 
 
 Rev. H. W. Bolton of Chicago . . . 108 
 
 Rev. Jos. Uesha Pickett of Kentucky (River Forrest, 111.) 114 
 
 Lieut. -Gen. Wade Hampton delivering dedicatory address 116 
 
 Maj. Henry T. Stanton of Kentucky 124 
 
 Rt. Rev. Samuel Fallows of Chicago 132 
 
 GROUP: MONUMENTING THE CANNON. 
 
 Miss Lucy Lee Hill Kentucky. 
 
 Mrs. Alice Pickett Akers . .... . . . . . District Columbia. 
 
 Miss Laura L. Mitchell . . . . . . . West Virginia. 134 
 
 Miss Isabelle Armstrong . . . . . ' . ... District Columbia. 
 
 Mrs. Katie Cabell Cur rie . . . .... . Texas. 
 
 Scenes in cemetery spiking and consecrating one of the guns 136 
 
 GROUP: FIELD AND STAFF FIRST REGIMENT INFANTRY, I. N. G. 
 
 Lieut.-Col. Geo. V. Lauman . . . . Chicago. 
 
 Maj. Jos. B. Sanborn Chicago. 
 
 Maj. Edgar B. Tolman . . ." Chicago. 
 
 Maj. Jas. M. Eddy, Jr. . '. Chicago. 
 
 Maj. Chas. Adams . . . . Chicago. 
 
 Capt. Wm. L. DeRemer Chicago. 
 
 Capt. John W, Streeter Chicago. 
 
 Capt. Hiram W. Thomas Chicago. 
 
 Capt. Eugene R. Cox Chicago. 
 
 Capt. Adolphus L. Bell . . Chicago.
 
 GROUP: PLACING FLORAL DECORATIONS. 
 
 Miss Eliza Seldon Washington . . . . . . . . West Virginia. 
 
 Miss Catherine Stewart .;' Chicago. 
 
 Miss Marion Sullivan ... . . . ... . Chicago. 
 
 Mrs. R. L. Walker . . . ... -.-.', . . Georgia. 
 
 Miss Blanche McCollum Georgia. 
 
 Miss Laura McCollum Georgia. 
 
 Platoon of Company D First regiment infantry, I. N. G 142 
 
 Maj. H. G. Purinton of Chicago 144 
 
 Squad of Company M First regiment infantry, I. N. G., at a rally ^5 
 
 GROUP: COMPANY COMMANDERS FIRST REGIMENT INFANTRY I. N. G. 
 
 Capt. Jos. H. Barnett Chicago. 
 
 Capt. Edw. H. Switzer Chicago. 
 
 Capt. Wm. F. Knoch Chicago. 
 
 Capt. Benj. F. Patrick, Jr Chicago. 
 
 Capt. Anson L. Bolte .... Chicago. 
 
 Capt. Wm. J. Sanderson . . . ,'.--'.-. . .... . Chicago. 
 
 Capt. Sherman W. Smith . . . ... . ./ . . . Chicago. 
 
 Capt. Chas. B. Sandham Chicago. 
 
 Capt. Timothy M. Kennedy ..',.. . ... . Chicago. 
 
 Capt. Thos. W. Cole Chicago. 
 
 Capt. Alexander M. Daniels Chicago. 
 
 Lieut. Leon Rosenthal Chicago. 
 
 Capt. Thomas S. Quincey of Chicago 150 
 
 Messrs. A. G. Corre and D. C. Shears, props. Grand Hotel, Cincinnati .... 152 
 
 Mr. Maurice]. Freiberg of Cincinnati . . 154 
 
 Mr. E. O. McCormick of Cincinnati ... 156 
 
 Brig. -Gen. Marcus J. Wright of Tennessee (Washington, DC) 160 
 
 Ornamental invitation to Cincinnati banquet 165 
 
 Ornamented program of addresses, toasts and responses at Cincinnati banquet . 166 
 
 Ornamented menu of Cincinnati banquet 167 
 
 Mr. James M. Glenn of Cincinnati 168 
 
 Col. Albert Akers of Tennessee (Washington, D. C.) 170 
 
 Maj. -Gen. J. D. Cox of Ohio '. ' . 176 
 
 Maj. H. P. Lloyd of Cincinnati . . . -. . . ; . . 180 
 
 Brig. -Gen. Eppa Hunton of Virginia ... ... 182 
 
 Brig. -Gen. Michael Ryan of Cincinnati 186 
 
 Maj. Robt. W. Hunter of Virginia (Washington, D. C.) 188 
 
 Col. M. A. Cochran, U. S. Army 190 
 
 Capt. H. Beverly Littlepage of Virginia (Washington, D. C.) 194 
 
 Maj. -Gen. L. L. Lomax of Virginia (Washington, D. C.) 200 
 
 Capt. John W. Drew of District of Columbia 202 
 
 Col. S. A. Cunningham of Tennessee . . 204 
 
 Maj. -Gen. E. C. Walthall of Mississippi 208 
 
 Brig. -Gen. Wm. H. Jackson of Tennessee 210 
 
 Mrs. Sarah Bell Waller (deceased) of Chicago '212 
 
 Ex-Confederate Association of Chicago, decorating Federal soldiers' graves . . 214 
 
 Maj. -Gen. Lewis B. Parsons of Illinois . , 216 
 
 Col. Chas. R. E. Koch of Chicago 218 
 
 Gen. Thos. G. Lawler, Commander-in-chief G. A. R 222
 
 Mr. A. O. Slaughter of Chicago 224 
 
 Mr. Potter Palmer of Chicago .' . 226 
 
 Mr. H. N. Higinbotham of Chicago 228 
 
 Mr. Lyman J. Gage of Chicago ' 230 
 
 Hon. C. B. Farwell of Chicago 232 
 
 Hon. Washington Hesing of Chicago . 234 
 
 Mr. M. E. Ingalls of Cincinnati 236 
 
 Mr. Chas. K. Lord of Baltimore 238 
 
 Mr. J. T. Harahan of Chicago 240 
 
 Mr. Geo. M. Pullman of Chicago 242 
 
 Mrs. Caroline Moerlein of Cincinnati 246 
 
 Maj. J. A. Eberhardt of Cincinnati 246 
 
 President and ex-presidents of The ex-Confederate Association of Chicago . . . 250 
 Company M, First regiment, infantry, I. N. G., Capt. Edw. H. Switzer, command- 
 ing, firing a volley in Augusta, Ga 284 
 
 INDEX. 
 
 Accounts of receipts and disbursements 258-269 
 
 Armour, Philip D., reference to 225 
 
 Beasley, W. F., reference to 203 
 
 Belknap, J. S., reference to 207 
 
 Black Hussars, roster of officers and troopers of, at inspection, March 29, 1896 . . xi 
 
 Black, John C., speech at Chicago banquet 49. 5 1. 53 
 
 Bolton, H. W.: 
 
 Address at Oakwoods cemetery, Chicago 109-113 
 
 Presiding at Oakwoods cemetery, Chicago 109-143 
 
 Butler, Matthew C.: 
 
 Speech at Chicago banquet 47~49 
 
 Remarks in Cincinnati Chamber of Commerce 159 
 
 Calhoun, W. L., speech at Chicago banquet 81 
 
 Campbell, T. W.: 
 
 Reference to 207 
 
 Letter of 281, 282 
 
 Chicago, carriage drive through and departure from . . 151 
 
 Chicago southern movement, endorsement of 274-280 
 
 Chicago Veteran Association, letter of . 273 
 
 Cochran, M. A. : 
 
 Speech at Fort Thomas reception . . 163 
 
 Speech at Cincinnati banquet 191, 192 
 
 Committees: 
 
 Chicago citizens', general roster of 18 
 
 " organization of .... ... .... 19 
 
 Cincinnati Chamber of Commerce, organization of, for entertainment . . . 164 
 
 Placed in charge of monument 270 
 
 Confederate Memorial parade, reference to 99, 101, 103, 105 
 
 Conrad, Holmes: 
 
 Speech at Chicago banquet - . . "... . 65, 67 
 
 Remarks in Cincinnati Chamber of Commerce . . . , . ... . . 161 
 
 Speech at Cincinnati banquet . . . . . . ... . -->' I 7 8 - 1 79 
 
 Contributors to monument fund, etc 235, 258-263, 265, 266, 268 
 
 Corre, A. G., reference to Cincinnati entertainment 153
 
 PAGE. 
 
 Couper, J. M., reference to 206 
 
 Cox, J. D.: 
 
 Speech at Cincinnati banquet 175, 177, 178 
 
 Presiding as toastmaster at Cincinnati banquet I 75~i93 
 
 Cunningham, S. A., reference to 205 
 
 Dedication of book, a sentiment . . . . . . . ....'. * . . ; i 
 
 Douglas, H. Kyd: 
 
 Speech at Chicago banquet 67, 69-71 
 
 Remarks in Cincinnati Chamber of Commerce .......... 162 
 
 Speech at Cincinnati banquet 192, 193 
 
 Drew, John W., reference to ......... , ...... 203 
 
 Eberhardt, J. A., reference to 247, 248 
 
 Erwin, J. B., reference to . 201 
 
 Ex-Confederate Association, Camp No. 8, U. C. V ~. . . . . 251, 252 
 
 Fallows, Samuel, ministerial at Oakwoods cemetery, Chicago 131, 133 
 
 Farwell, Chas. B. : 
 
 Reference to 233 
 
 Letter of 233 
 
 Freiberg, Maurice J., chairman Cincinnati Committee of Entertainment . . . 155 
 French, Samuel G., speech at Chicago banquet . . . ... -. . . . 79, 81 
 
 Funkhouser, M. L. C. : 
 
 Reference to .... 99, 101 
 
 Letter of, tendering courtesy 272 
 
 Gage, Lyman J., reference to '.,...: 231 
 
 General thanks . . . ... . . . . . . . . 270 
 
 Glenn, James M. : 
 
 Remarks at Cincinnati Chamber of Commerce ". ... . 158 
 
 Reference to at Fort Thomas, Ky .."... . 163 
 
 Speech at Cincinnati banquet ...'. . . . 169, 171 
 
 Presiding at Cincinnati banquet ; . . ... . 169-175 
 
 Grand Hotel, Cincinnati, reference to 153 
 
 Green, Wharton J., reference to . . , . t 203 
 
 Hampton, Wade: 
 
 Resolution at Chicago banquet 39 
 
 Speech at Chicago banquet . . ".. . 57, 59 
 
 Dedicatory oration at Oakwoods cemetery, Chicago . . , . . . . 117-123 
 
 Harahan, J. T., reference to ' . . . 241, 243 
 
 Henry, Mrs. R. L., reference to ' 27 
 
 Hesing, Washington, reference to -." . . "; .. .. . 235 
 
 Heth, Henry: 
 
 Speech at Chicago banquet . . , .. . . .' 75, 77, 79 
 
 Remarks at Cincinnati Chamber of Commerce . . . . . . . ... 162 
 
 Higinbotham, H. N. : 
 
 Reference to . . . . 229 
 
 Letter of ,.. . . .... . . . . ....... . ^ . . . 229 
 
 Hunton, Eppa: 
 
 Remarks at Cincinnati Chamber of Commerce . . . . . . . . . . 159 
 
 Speech at Cincinnati banquet . . . . ' . . . . . . . ". . . 183-185 
 
 Hunter, Robt. W., speech at Cincinnati banquet . . . .... ... 189, 191 
 
 Imperial-Arion Octet, music by . . . . "". > . . . . 23, 115,123, 131, 133 
 
 Ingalls, M. E., reference to . . .'.... . . , . . . "'. . . . 237, 239 
 
 Invitation to dedicatory ceremonies . . . . '. . . . . , . ... . 94 
 
 Jackson, Wm. H., reference to . ^ . . . ... . . * . -. . . 209, 211
 
 PAGE. 
 
 Jones, Jenkin Lloyd: 
 
 Benediction at Chicago banquet ...... .81,83 
 
 Letter of ~, . 3 
 
 Benediction at Oakwoods cemetery, Chicago 143 
 
 Koch, Chas. R. E., reference to 219-221 
 
 Lawler, Thos. G., letter of 223 
 
 Lee, Fitzhugh: 
 
 Speech at Chicago banquet . . . .. . * . . " . ...... 53~55 
 
 - Remarks at Cincinnati Chamber of Commerce 159 
 
 Lee, Stephen D., speeches at Chicago banquet 35, 37, 60, 61, 63 
 
 Littlepage, H. B., letter and history of Merimac-Monitor naval battle . . . 195-199 
 
 Lloyd, H. P., speech at Cincinnati banquet 181 
 
 Lomax, L L., reference to 201 
 
 Longstreet, James: 
 
 Speech at Chicago banquet 45 
 
 Letter of ... . 283 
 
 Lord, Chas. K., reference to . . . . . ... . . . . ... . 239, 241 
 
 Lyman, W. R., reference to 206 
 
 Macloon, Chas. R., reference to 207 
 
 McCollum, J. L., reference to 206 
 
 McCormick, E. O., reference to 155, 169 
 
 Moerlein, Caroline, reference to 248 
 
 Montgomery, J. E., reference to 207 
 
 Monument: 
 
 Description of . . 87 
 
 Statue on .'..-. 89 
 
 Panels of ... ... . ... . 91, 93 
 
 Ceremonies, dedicatory, incidental program of 95 
 
 Consecrating the guns and dedication of battery 135, 137, 139 
 
 Decorating the * . . ."..... . . . 139, 141 
 
 Morgan, John T., letter of .- . . . ; . . . . . 221 
 
 Morris, Mary B. (deceased), reference to 215 
 
 Official communications: 
 
 Confederate cemetery at Rock Island, 111 ' . . 271 
 
 Courtesies extended . 271, 272 
 
 Orendorff, Alfred, speech at Chicago banquet . . 63, 64 
 
 Palmer, Potter, reference to . . . . . . . . . 227 
 
 Parsons, Lewis B.: 
 
 Letter of . . . . . 217 
 
 Reference to . 217, 219 
 
 Peck, Ferdinand W. : 
 
 Speech at Chicago banquet 33, 35 
 
 Presiding at Chicago banquet 33~39 
 
 Pickett, Jos. Desha, prayer at Oakwoods cemetery, Chicago . ..... 113, 115 
 
 Poems: 
 
 "The United States of America." i 
 
 " Victorious Defeats" 89 
 
 Extract from "Gray's Elegy" 93 
 
 Porter, Washington, letter of 280 
 
 Powers and authority, vested in the author 253-257 
 
 Preface and historic outline 3-9
 
 PAGE. 
 
 Press: 
 
 Extracts from the Chicago 143. J 45 
 
 Extracts from the Cincinnati *55- I 57- I 59, 161-163 
 
 Pullman, Geo. M., reference to 243-245, 247 
 
 Purinton, H. G., commanding Columbia Post No. 706, G. A. R 145 
 
 Quincey, Thos. S. : 
 
 Reference to 103, 151 
 
 Letter of, tendering courtesy 272 
 
 Railroads: 
 
 Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis . 237 
 
 Baltimore & Ohio 239 
 
 Illinois Central 241 
 
 Various other transportation companies 247 
 
 Receptions and entertainments: 
 
 At the railroad depot, Chicago, press report of 20 
 
 At the Palmer House, Chicago, invitation to and press report of 22, 23, 25, 27, 28 
 
 Banquet at Kinsley's, Chicago 29 
 
 Menu of 3 
 
 Program of addresses, toasts and responses at 3 1 
 
 At Armory of First regiment infantry, I. N. G., Chicago .... 145, 147, 149 
 
 In Cincinnati, Ohio, and Ft. Thomas, Ky., press report of 155-163 
 
 Luncheon at the Queen City Club, Cincinnati, reference to 162 
 
 Banquet at Grand Hotel, Cincinnati, invitation to . 165 
 
 Program of addresses, toasts and responses at . . ... . . 166 
 
 Menu of .- ..... . . 167 
 
 Reference to and press report of 169, 193 
 
 Reference to letters from prominent officers 43 
 
 Report, mortuary and monument 11-15 
 
 Roster of guests 21 
 
 Russell,- Alfred: 
 
 Reference to IO1 
 
 Letter of, tendering courtesy 272 
 
 Ryan, Michael, speech at Cincinnati banquet 185, 187, 189 
 
 Schofield, John M.: 
 
 Extract from letter of 4 1 . 43 
 
 Telegram from T 62 
 
 Slaughter, A. O., reference to 225 
 
 Shears, D. C., reference to Cincinnati entertainment I 53 
 
 Southern Granite Company, reference to 247 
 
 Staffs: 
 
 Provisional Department 
 
 Hewitt, Fayette ......... ... 17, 135, 137 
 
 Akers, Albert 17 
 
 Pickett, Joseph Desha X 7 
 
 Stewart Ramsey H. . .... 17, 135,270 
 
 Sullivan, Samuel J. . . ... J 7- 135. 270 
 
 Brien, L. Tierman X 7 
 
 Norman, Lute C X 7 
 
 Robinson, Frank V T 7
 
 Division 
 
 Forrester, George 85, 135, 137, 145, 270 
 
 France, Robert Lee 85, 135, 270 
 
 White, Jere S ~ ........... 85 
 
 White, JohnW 85, 135, 137, 270 
 
 Jenkins, Benjamin F 85, 103, 273 
 
 Tucker, Charles R .'.... 85 
 
 Phipps, William B ,..'.'. 85 
 
 Complimentary 
 
 Ellacott, Joseph P 27, 97 
 
 Bentley, Charles S 97 
 
 Jones, Jenkin Lloyd 28, 97 
 
 Revell, Alexander H 97 
 
 McNeill, Malcom 97 
 
 Gordon, Charles U 97 
 
 Stanton, Henry T., memorial poem at Oakwoods cemetery, Chicago .... 125-131 
 
 Some of the ladies attendant, reference to 27, 28, 101, 135, 137, 139, 141 
 
 Swift, Geo. B., speech at Chicago banquet 37 
 
 Thanks to Chicago citizens 149 
 
 Thanks to First regiment infantry, I. N. G 149 
 
 The beginning of the end 283, 285 
 
 Thomas, Hiram W., speech at Chicago banquet 59, 60 
 
 Turner, Henry L.: 
 
 Speech at Chicago banquet . . . . . . . . 3Q-4 1 
 
 Presiding as toastmaster at Chicago banquet '. . . 39-83 
 
 Commanding military in Oakwoods cemetery, Chicago 139 
 
 At armory, First regiment, infantry, I. N. G 145-149 
 
 Letter of, tendering courtesy 271, 272 
 
 Letters of, endorsing plan for Chicago-southern movement 280 
 
 Tuthill, Richard S., letter of 74. 75 
 
 Underwood, John C.: 
 
 Speech at Chicago banquet 7 I- 74 
 
 Introductory at Oakwoods cemetery, Chicago 105-107 
 
 Ceremony at Oakwoods cemetery, Chicago 135-143 
 
 Remarks at Cincinnati Chamber of Commerce . , . ... . '. . . 158, 159 
 
 Speech at Cincinnati banquet 171-174 
 
 Prison and military record of, reference to 281, 282 
 
 Endorsements of, by Gen. Longstreet, and the Veteran Corps, First regiment 
 
 infantry, I. N. G : . . . . 282, 283 
 
 Waller, Sarah Bell (deceased), reference to : * . . . . . 213, 215 
 
 Walthall, E. C., reference to 209, 211 
 
 West, A. J., reference to . ....... 206 
 
 Wright, Marcus J.: 
 
 Speech at Cincinnati Chamber of Commerce . ....... . . 161, 162 
 
 Letter of 282 
 
 Younge, J. W., letter of ....*... 273
 
 INSPECTION OF THE BLACK HUSSARS 
 OF CHICAGO. 
 
 THE CAVALRY ESCORT AT THE DEDICATION OF THE CONFEDERATE 
 MONUMENT IN OAKWOODS CEMETERY, CHICAGO, MAY 30, 1895. 
 
 IRoster of flnspector, Staff ano tbe Command 
 
 MAJ. E. L. BRAND, " HUSSAR SQUADRON," 
 INSPECTING OFFICER. 
 
 Stafi. 
 
 FIRST LIEUT. SOL WOLFE, "Black Hussars," Adjutant. 
 
 FIRST LIEUT. A. MATTHEWS. "Black Hussars," Inspector. 
 FIRST LIEUT. P. E. CARPENTER, "Black Hussars," Quartermaster. 
 FIRST LIEUT. CLAIR E. MORE, "Black Hussars," Judge- Advocate. 
 
 FIRST LIEUT. STUART JOHNSTONE, M. D., "Chicago Hussars," Surgeon. 
 FIRST LIEUT. RUFUS A. WHITE, D. D., "Chicago Hussars," Chaplain 
 SERGT. JOHN A. FOSTER, "Chicago Hussars," Sergeant-Major (Acting). 
 
 BLACK HUSSARS. 
 
 March 29, 1896. 
 
 Commissioned fHcers. 
 
 CAPT. SAMUEL B. FOSTER, Commanding. 
 FIRST LIEUT. H. CLAY GANG. SECOND LIEUT. W. B. BRAINARD. 
 
 (Troopers IRanfe and ffile. 
 
 FIRST SERGT. A. P. STEPHENSON, 
 
 SECOND SERGT. L. M. COPE, 
 
 THIRD SERGT. W. J. SUTHERLAND, 
 
 FOURTH SERGT. F. A. SUTCLIFFE, 
 
 FIFTH SERGT. GEORGE BELL, M. D., Surgeon, - 
 
 SIXTH SERGT. S. W. JACKSON, Judge-Advocate, 
 
 COLOR SERGT. E. M. HUNT, 
 
 QUARTERMASTER SERGT. CHAS. GUNTHER. 
 
 FIRST CORP. S. W. CROWEN, 
 
 SECOND CORP. A. R. STUMER, 
 
 THIRD CORP. O. E. ANDERSON, 
 
 FOURTH CORP. A. SHAPIRO. 
 
 FIFTH CORP. W. H. SIMPSON, Trumpeter, 
 
 SOL WOLFED c. E. MORE, p. E. CARPENTER, 
 
 A. MATHEWS, G. L. HOPPER, R. T. BARTON, 
 
 T. S. QUINCEY, R. J. HALL, T. J. ROBESON, 
 
 BEN L. HILL, FRED H. WICKETT, S. H. STRATTON. 
 
 J. L COCHRAN, F. G. JACKSON.
 
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 Wl^eneVer breeze^ free Unfold, 
 emblem of l^er ^lory. 
 
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 .' /\ndrev/5 cro^^ beneat^ tl^em 
 banner Wit^ it^ ^tarry field, 
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 perpetXia l^er pride, 
 l^jer Valor and l^er l^onor 
 Let Unity and ^treneSt^ abide, 
 "poreVermore Upon ^er. 
 
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 L. JNO. C. UNDERWOOD, 
 
 ^RREN MILITARY PRISON, 
 1863-64 
 
 May 29 -June 2, 1395. 
 BIOGRAPHIC: 
 
 John Cox Underwood was born in Georgetown, D. C., September 12, 1840, while his father was a member of Congress, and taken 
 to Kentucky when an infant; received literary and scientific education, graduating as civil engineer at Rensselaer Poly- 
 technic Institute, Troy, N. Y., Julyg, 1862; and received degree of Master of Arts from Center College, Danville, Ky., in 1876. 
 
 Went south July, 1862, returned to Kentucky with Gen. Bragg in August, and went south again on Bragg's retreat, fall of 1862. 
 
 Volunteer aide-de-camp, Confederate army, December, 1862; appointed first lieutenant engineers, C. S. A., spring 1863; 
 appointed lieutenant-colonel Hodge's authorized cavalry, P. A. C. S., and ordered to recruit in Kentucky, May, 1863; 
 captured, sick with typhoid fever, on retreat of Bragg's army from Tullahoma, Tenn., summer 1863; prisoner of state and 
 war, confined at Louisville, Cincinnati and Fort Warren, Boston harbor, 1863-64, and on parole fall of 1864-65. 
 
 Chief engineer public works of Warren county, Ky., 1866-68; city engineer Bowling Green, Ky., 1868-75; consulting engineer 
 State of Kentucky, 1872-75; councilman, Bowling Green, Ky., 1869-70; mayor City of Bowling Green, Ky., 1870-72; lieu- 
 tenant governor of Kentucky, 1875-79; chairman Kentucky Agricultural and Mechanical College commission, 1878-79. 
 
 Grand master 1. O. O. F. of Kentucky, 1872-73; grand representative from Kentucky and officer Sovereign Grand Lodge. 
 I. O. O. F., 1873-93; grand sire and generalissimo, I. O. O. F., of the world, 1888-90. 
 
 Lieutenant-general commanding Patriarchs' Militant, 1885-93; major-general United Confederate Veterans, 1891
 
 PREFACE AND HISTORIC OUTLINE. 
 
 The recognition of real worth and valor is alike born within the 
 American breast, whether the birth occurs in the icy regions of the great 
 lakes, under the sunny skies of the gulf coast states, or in any of the 
 sections of the more temperate climes between those extremes, and is 
 especially instanced and most fitly illustrated by the honorable mention 
 made by northern as well as southern people of the valorous achieve- 
 ments of the boy heroes, cadets from the Virginia Military Institute, at 
 the battle of Newmarket in the valley of Virginia, May 15, 1864, where, 
 under Gen. John C. Breckenridge, the "little devils," as they were 
 called by the Federals, went into the fight as if on dress parade, and, 
 losing in killed and wounded fully one-third of the command, never 
 broke line of battle, but constantly closing up the gaps made by the 
 missiles of the enemy and ever presenting a soldierly and perfect align- 
 ment, drove the Union forces for miles, and, finally capturing a section 
 of artillery on " Meems' " hill, turned the guns on Sigel's retreating 
 forces and insured victory. The ragged Confederate veterans who had 
 derided the boys (their average age being under 17 years), calling them 
 "trundle bed soldiers" as they marched past going to the front, when 
 the battle was over and won with the cadet line shortened to two-thirds 
 its original length and the little heroes standing with powder-begrimmed 
 faces as if awaiting inspection, tossed their hats high in the air and gave 
 vent to their admiration by enthusiastically cheering them , and still 
 later, as the Confederate army marched along the valley toward Win- 
 chester, many of the old battle-scarred veterans, not satisfied with their 
 previous demonstration of appreciation of the boy soldiers because of 
 their remarkable achievement, took the little fellows upon their shoulders 
 and otherwise indicated that they almost worshiped them for the deter- 
 mined bravery they had displayed. 
 
 Again, the Virginia Military Institute at Lexington, the "West Point 
 of the south" and home of the boy battalion of such celebrated fame, was 
 burned by order of the Federal Gen. Hunter on June 12, 1864; and, 
 when his forces evacuated the town passing by the cemetery wherein the 
 remains of the renowned Confederate, Gen. Thomas J. Jackson, were 
 buried, Gen. Hunter ordered the panels of the fences removed and the 
 Federal army marched by the grave of the Napoleonic "Stonewall" with 
 reversed arms and otherwise honored the valiant dead. Some two weeks 
 later, Gen. Jubal Early's Confederate command passed through Lexing-
 
 ton and, without previous knowledge of Gen. Hunter's tribute to the 
 immortal Jackson, he too caused the cemetery fences to be removed and 
 his veterans in gray, marching past the tomb of the distinguished 
 soldier and Christian hero, made their lament and gave military honors 
 to the loved commander dead. Thus two martial bodies, antipodes in 
 thought and purpose, the one invaders of a state, the other defenders of 
 its domain, and at war to the death, yet, each recognizing unsullied worth, 
 Christian fortitude, bravery on field of battle, general nobleness of 
 nature, and though representing a zenith and nadir in interest, the one 
 respecting the private character and public deeds of an honorable foe, the 
 other revering the memory of a loved and devoted commander, both, 
 actuated by a lofty sentiment and through a pre-historic action, loyal 
 alike to true soldierly impulse and real manhood, paid the highest mili- 
 tary courtesies to the remains of the dead chieftain. 
 
 These citations clearly indicate the axiomatic truth that all enlight- 
 ened and just people admire fortitude, bravery and determined purpose 
 under reputable circumstances, without regard to the right or wrong of 
 the political or other cause which provided the opportunity that enabled 
 the display of opposing deeds of heroism. 
 
 Acting upon such hypothesis and further influenced by a noble act of 
 friendship related in the body of this work, I, as far back as the later 
 "sixties," reasoned that the time would come when all sections and 
 parties would recognize the individual and collective bravery, prowess, 
 great fortitude and honor displayed by the defeated Confederates as well 
 as by the victorious Federals, and then determined that I would attempt, 
 through a life work if necessary, to bring about a general recognition of 
 the valor and endurance displayed by both of the formerly opposing 
 elements, and thereby inaugurate the harmonious re-uniting of the here- 
 tofore belligerent sections of the country. 
 
 Therefore, pursuant to such intention, my initial work began in a 
 feeble way at my local city in southern Kentucky, was enlarged in some 
 degree throughout the state and afterward widened and advanced, as 
 time and opportunity admitted, until the summer of 1885 when, a very 
 considerable attempt was made at Philadelphia, where I hoped, through 
 a general encampment of National Guards and State Troops (the sons of 
 veterans who wore both blue and gray), with a contingent of United 
 States regulars for instruction, to bring about a reciprocal feeling of 
 friendship by means of the social commingling of the descendants of the 
 opposing veterans of the civil war. The demonstration was a military 
 success, but the movement was attempted either too soon or the place 
 unfortunately selected: anyway, the purpose failed, and although it was
 
 approved by all the most prominent generals living, who had served in 
 both the Union and Confederate armies, yet the populace started the cry 
 of "rebels in the park" (when I was the only ex-rebel there), and the 
 long hoped for object was defeated. The unexpected outcome, of course, 
 threw a very great damper upon the ardor of my desire, called a "hobby" 
 by others, but it was not sufficient to kill the germ of the original inten- 
 tion, so, when opportunity occurred, in the fall of 1889, I brought bat- 
 talions of State Troops from Kentucky and Alabama to meet National 
 Guard organizations of Ohio at its capital city, Columbus, on an occasion 
 of a great demonstration by a civic-militant order of which I was both the 
 military commander and civil ruler. Meeting with a desperate accident, 
 however, that very nearly cost me my life, I was lost to the work for the 
 time and my labors were again futile. It looked as if fate was against 
 the successful culmination of such a laudable enterprise, but on my 
 recovery plans were again formulated with the view of carrying out my 
 original conception to a triumphant termination; and, regarding the 
 great northwestern metropolis as the objective point from whence to 
 continue operations, I moved my headquarters to Chicago in December 
 of the same year, conceived and, in August, 1890, conducted one of the 
 largest civic-military demonstrations by a fraternal order probably ever 
 made in said city. It was a great success so far as display and the 
 advertising of the order was concerned, but owing to the sparse attend- 
 ance of members and organizations from southern states its dual purpose 
 failed. Matters remained in statu qiio until the summer of 1891, when I 
 joined The ex-Confederate Association of Chicago and was appointed a 
 committee of one to raise moneys to erect a monument over the Confed- 
 erate dead in Oakwoods cemetery, and in December of the same year I 
 was commissioned and placed in command of the Division of the North- 
 west and afterward in April, 1892, of the Provisional Department of the 
 North, United Confederate Veterans.* 
 
 The position attained enabling me to reach the entire Confederate 
 veteran element and southern people generally, and the field of opera- 
 tion being so broad as to cover the northern states from ocean to ocean, 
 and embrace the southern border states east of the Mississippi river, I at 
 once foresaw the possibility of success and again became enthused with the 
 now almost certainty of being able to carry out my original purpose and 
 inaugurate the re-establishing of friendly, political, social and business 
 relations between the two great sections of the country, and, conse- 
 quently, once more began the reciprocal northern-southern movement 
 with renewed vigor. 
 
 *See documents in addendum.
 
 Learning that the ex-Confederate Association of which I had become 
 a member had been organized shortly after Gen. U. S. Grant's funeral 
 in New York City, August 8, 1885, and was the outgrowth of the senti- 
 ment created by and through the liberal action of the distinguished 
 southern generals on such memorable occasion, who, out of respect for 
 the opposing victorious general and ex-president, followed his remains 
 in honor to the grave, and discovering that two G. A. R. posts under 
 command of Col. Charles R. E. Koch had decorated the Confederate 
 graves in Oakwoods cemetery as early as May 30, 1876, which courtesy 
 has been generally practiced since, and, upon further investigation, 
 having ascertained that the secretary of war had granted authority 
 to The ex-Confederate Association of Chicago to erect a monument 
 over the Confederate dead buried on the government lot in said ceme- 
 tery, I felt that the time was ripe for successful operation, and that 
 Chicago of all northern cities was the place in which to begin work, 
 and consequently determined to commence solicitation for the monu- 
 ment fund. 
 
 The ex-Confederate Association turned over to me as a nucleus upon 
 which to build, nearly $1,600, the proceeds of the Gordon lecture, with 
 interest, and I began in person and through appointed agents the solici- 
 tation of contributions, and finally raised that monument asset through 
 subscriptions, absolute and under guarantee, to nearly $12,000. I then 
 designed and contracted for the erection of the said monument as it now 
 stands, at a total cost of $10,000 for pedestal, shaft and statue; and, 
 afterward, upon increasing such fund materially, of $5,000 additional for 
 improving grounds and by estimating donated ordnance decorations; 
 and in addition to which, by embracing the expenditures for banquets 
 and entertainments of guests during the dedicatory occasion, various 
 other cash outlays and estimated values of donations in material, service, 
 etc., the whole approximated *$25,ooo. This constituted a material 
 memorial, surpassing all monuments heretofore erected to the memory 
 of private soldiers, with dedicatory ceremonies culminating in such an 
 open air reception, given by the populace of the great city to the visiting 
 southerners and Confederate element over the very trenched graves of 
 its dead soldiery as had never been experienced anywhere else, when in 
 fact over 100,000 people were within the borders of Oakwoods cemetery 
 to see the Confederate monument dedicated. What other city under 
 the sun could have done such a thing? What place other than Chicago, 
 with its cosmopolitan elements, changing in sentiment from the bitterest 
 
 *See the account of the organization and work of The ex-Confederate Association of Chicago 
 and the statement of receipts and expenditures in addendum, etc.
 
 city during the war to one of the greatest liberality one that extended 
 the right hand of fellowship, open, and with an honest heart beating 
 responsive to the return of friendship from the south, silently expressing 
 a welcome to its representatives; not as conquered foes, not as men who 
 are prodigal children, but as citizens of one country and one people. 
 
 One of the broadest men of Illinois and in the United States has said 
 he would be glad to see all monuments, material and idealistic, com- 
 memorating- events during the civil strife between the sections, entirely 
 obliterated, that the whole country might forget past differences and be 
 as brothers once more! Such sentiment, certainly liberal as coming from 
 a victor, is undoubtedly politic, yet it cannot be successfully grafted so 
 long as the desire to herald valorous achievements exists in the human 
 breast; for as time softens the belligerent feelings, former enemies recog- 
 nize and acknowledge the great deeds of their early foes. Examine into 
 the dedication of the Chattanooga and Chickamauga battlefield parks 
 under the auspices of the general government, and the memories of the 
 bravery, heroism and chivalry of the American soldier can but be indelibly 
 stamped upon the hearts and brains of a now united and patriotic people. 
 Go to Chickamauga and see the marble and granite monuments erected to 
 the northern soldiery that fell on that sanguinary field and you will find 
 here a magnificent shaft to a regiment from a particular state, there a superb 
 column to a battery from another section and so on through the roster of 
 honorable dead that wore the blue, while there can scarcely be found a 
 monumental mark raised by the impoverished southern people desig- 
 nating the gory bed of their heroic defenders who won the battle; but 
 the "strike back" there is manifest, at every turn and on all sides the 
 teaching of impact and resistance is self-evident, and the ability of the 
 southerners to do is silently heralded by the numerous monuments reared 
 in honor of their dead foes. 
 
 Again, it is accredited to none other than the martyred President 
 Lincoln, the most revered and almost worshiped son of Kentucky, 
 adopted by the great State of Illinois, when the battle points of great 
 Federal renown on the field of Gettysburg were being shown to him and 
 the bravery of those who there fell "wearing the blue" were recalled by 
 citations of their military achievements, of saying in his laconic way, 
 "The Johnnies were no slouches. " So long as history lasts and such 
 liberal recognition of opposing elements are made by the most exalted, 
 'twill be an impossibility to forget the deeds of the brave men who even 
 in fratricidal strife, through deeds of "derring do," have made the name 
 of the American soldier a synonym for bravery, fortitude and honor. For 
 the comradeship resulting from the stopping of bullets in battle array, is
 
 next akin to the loving friendship deliciously incited by the honeymoon 
 kisses under the holy bonds of the wedding ring; and therefore among 
 the Federals who fought the war to a finish in the field, there are none 
 that refuse to acknowledge the southern battle flag to be an honorable 
 archive of a brave and chivalrous people; and of those who fought 
 'neath the folds of that starry cross, as real Americans, without having 
 been watered through immigration, all cherish the Stars and Stripes as 
 the revolutionary insignia of their forefathers, and now hail with 
 patriotic pride the same glorious flag of the re-united states constituting 
 the greatest nation on earth. Acting upon this idea I designed the 
 vignette decorating the invitation to the dedication of the monument, 
 where the goddess of liberty is represented as holding the national 
 banner on high and pointing to the southern battle flag lying on a pile of 
 cannon balls at her feet as an honorable archive. After nearly two 
 years' application to Congress, I finally secured a field battery of four 
 cannon of distinguished battle record, with shot and shell, from the 
 general government with which to ornament its grounds in Oakwoods 
 cemetery, and have still further obtained permission to erect a flag-staff 
 on the said burial plat from which to fly the United States flag, thereby 
 constituting the Confederate trenches an embryo national cemetery. 
 The large list of pensions borne by the government and given wholly 
 to Federal soldiery are paid from a treasury partly supplied by internal 
 taxation largely from southern states; why, then, should not the Con- 
 federate dead be cared for as those of their successful brothers in the 
 same country, where all states and sections contribute in like ratios to 
 the support of the government of the Union? The castles of our 
 ancestral isle are traditioned with honorable scars from attacks during 
 the "Wars of the Roses," therefore why should not America's beautiful 
 slopes be decorated by entwining the exquisite flowers of the south with 
 those of sterner hues from the north in harmonious forgetfulness, that 
 they may blossom together in friendship and reciprocal interest? 
 
 It is not now profitable to discuss the right or wrong of the past, 
 which has been settled by arbitrament of arms, neither should the 
 question be raised as to the morals of Massachusetts selling her slaves 
 and South Carolina holding hers, nor as to the profit of merchandising 
 the negro on the block in New York or from the sugar cane fields of the 
 Mississippi "coasts" and cotton plantations in other parts of the south; 
 but the great recognition of the de facto status of the states is unmistak- 
 ably shown through the action of that typical southerner, Wade Hampton, 
 a planter and slaveholder in the past, who, in accepting fully the issue of 
 the unequal strife, visited Chicago to commemorate southern soldiery in
 
 monumental tribute; and there, commingling with a formerly opposing 
 ultra people, in turn, being enthusiastically received by scores of thous- 
 ands of her citizens turning out to welcome him as the orator of the 
 memorable occasion. Verily, the philosophical acceptance of the inev- 
 itable, has resulted in good for the two opposing classes and most fitly 
 illustrates the beauty of forgetfulness in the interest of a united people; 
 and now, in upholding the cause of the republic, both Cavalier and 
 Puritan, in self abnegation because of the bitter hatreds and unjust 
 actions of the past, might equally acknowledge that each could then 
 have truly said: 
 
 All that's beautiful in me, 
 
 Is the way I'd like to be ; 
 
 and harmonize in a reconstructive friendship, though recognizing the 
 frailties and selfishness of individuals and classes, while uniting in and 
 maintaining the noble sentiment of national patriotism. 
 
 In brief, with such aims and purposes my conceptions have been suc- 
 cessfully carried out; and the transcripts of speeches, orations, poems, 
 prayers, etc., presented, compiled from original papers and stenographic 
 notes taken at the time and afterward examined, corrected or verified 
 by the authors, and ceremonies formulated by myself, are published 
 as constituting the cherished history of an epoch ever to be remembered 
 and appreciated throughout the entire Land of the Free. 
 
 The work treats, seriatim, of the northern-southern demonstration 
 from its definite beginning in the reception of the southern generals at 
 Chicago to the finish at Fort Thomas, Ky. , giving rosters of bodies, 
 organizations, guests and other prominent personages, addresses and 
 descriptions, together with an addendum embracing incidental historic 
 references, other pertinent communications and the resultant initial 
 northern-southern fraternization, and contains superb half-tone engravings 
 and correct etchings of the principal actors and abettors of the move- 
 ment, etc., and is hereby promulgated as true in its every particular 
 and vouchsafed by original documents in my possession. 
 
 The whole is presented for what it is worth, and it is hoped that it 
 will receive the consideration it deserves, be that great or small. 
 
 Very truly, 
 
 THE AUTHOR.
 
 LIEUT.-GEN. JOHN B. GORDON, 
 
 AT APPOMATTOX. 
 
 May-June, 1895. 
 BIOGRAPHIC: 
 
 John Brown Gordon, was born in Upson county, Ga., February 6, 1832; educated at the University of Georgia; read law and 
 
 was admitted to the bar; at the beginning of the civil war he was living in Jackson county. Ala. 
 
 He first raised a troop of cavalry, which was declined by the governor of Alabama as not needed: he then recruited a company 
 of infantry, composed of hardy men around the Racoon mountain, and was elected captain, which command was 
 accepted and became a company of the Sixth Alabama regiment. 
 Commissioned in the Confederate Stairs army: 
 
 Captain of the "Racoon Roughs," Sixth regiment infantry Alabama volunteers, 1861: elected major, shortly after theregi 
 mental organization; lieutenant-colonel, December 26, 1861 and colonel April 28, 1862; brigadier-general, P. A. C. S., 
 November i, 1862; major-general, P. A. C. S., May 14, 1864; acting lieutenant-general commanding army corps of 
 Lee's army 1864-65. 
 
 He was remarkable for his personal gallantry, quickness of perception and determined bravery on the battlefield; 
 received eight severe wounds, the bloodiest being a shot in the face at Sharpsburg which he will carry as a 
 scar-jewel to the grave; he was active in all the battles engaged in by the Army of Northern Virginia and "fought his 
 command to a frazzle" in reaching Appomattox. 
 
 He practiced law after the war and rendered valuable service to his state; was Democratic candidate for governor in 1868; 
 member of the national Democratic convention and presidental elector for state at-large in 1868 and 1872; United 
 States senator, March 4, 1873, and re-elected in 1879. 
 
 Governor of Georgia in 1886 and re-elected in 1888; United States senator in 1890-97. 
 General, commanding United Confederate Veterans, since the permanent organization of that federation.
 
 MORTUARY AND MONUMENT REPORT. 
 
 UNITED CONFEDERATE VETERANS, ] 
 DIVISION AND PROVISIONAL DEPARTMENT > 
 HEADQUARTERS. ) 
 
 CHICAGO, January 20, 1896. 
 
 Gen. John B. Gordon, Commanding United Confederate Veterans: 
 
 SIR AND COMRADE I have the honor to make final report of the condi- 
 tion of the division and department under my command, give a synopsis 
 of the statistics of Confederate soldiers who died in military prisons and 
 are buried in northern soil, and especially herald the procedures incidental 
 to the erection and dedication of the monument to 6,000 southern sold- 
 iers whose remains are trenched in Oakwoods cemetery, Chicago. 
 
 Pursuant with powers originally granted by The ex- Confederate Asso- 
 ciation of Chicago, Camp No. 8, U. C. V*., afterward approved by your- 
 self, as per orders and other official documents issued from the office of 
 your adjutant-general, and by authority delegated through subsequent 
 election by the U. C. V. federation itself, I recruited and organized into 
 camps a large number of Confederate veterans living east of the Miss- 
 issippi river within, the limits of my provisional department, collected 
 and reported rosters of the Confederate dead buried in various northern 
 cemeteries. 
 
 The general conditions of my divisions, so widely separated, are good, 
 and have been referred to in detail in my biennial report under date of 
 April 20, 1894, an d the mortuary lists, cemetery charts and other data 
 relating to deceased soldiers buried within the territorial bounds of my 
 command, which were given in part in said biennial report and subse- 
 quently compiled more fully and published in supplement thereto, are 
 now revised and presented in final tabulation, as follows: 
 
 WAR PRISON CEMETERIES. 
 
 REVISED NUMERICAL ROSTER OF CONFEDERATE SOLDIERS WHO DIED IN MILITARY 
 PRISONS AND ARE BURIED IN NORTHERN SOIL 
 
 ILLINOIS. 
 At ALTON 
 
 In the Confederate cemetery, the military prison-dead; 
 
 interments known and reported ... i,5?8 
 
 Interments unknown, number reported ... 640 
 
 Carried forward 2,218 
 
 *See official documents in addendum.
 
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 Brought forward. 2,218 
 
 AT CAMP BUTLER 
 
 In the Confederate cemetery, the military prison-dead; 
 
 interments known and reported 470 
 
 CHICAGO 
 
 -In Oakwoods cemetery, the Camp Douglas prison-dead; 
 interments 1-nown and reported (J. C. U.'s official roster) .... 4.317 
 Interments known and reported (Government smallpox roster) 412 
 
 Interments estimated as on registers burned in 1871 1,500 6,229 
 
 MOUND CITY 
 
 In the National cemetery, the military prison dead; interments 
 
 reported (roster promised by War Department) 34 
 
 ROCK ISLAND 
 
 In the Confederate cemetery at arsenal, the military prison- 
 dead; interments known and reported 1,960 
 
 Total in Illinois 10,91 1 
 
 INDIANA. 
 
 INDIANAPOLIS 
 
 In Greenlawn cemetery, the Camp Morton prison-dead; inter- 
 ments known and reported J.4^4 
 
 Total in Indiana 
 
 MARYLAND. 
 LOUDON PARK 
 
 In the National cemetery, the military prison-dead; inter- 
 ments unknown (statistics missing but estimated at): 100 
 
 POINT LOOKOUT 
 
 In the Confederate cemetery, the military prison-dead; inter- 
 ments known and reported 3 445 
 
 Total in Maryland 3 545 
 
 NEW JERSEY. 
 *FINN'S POINT 
 
 In the Confederate cemetery, the Fort Delaware prison-dead; 
 interments reported (roster should be in the War Department, 
 but cannot be found; and the number of deaths reported seem 
 to be too few) i , 4 34 
 
 Total in New Jersey T .434 
 
 NEW YORK. 
 ELMIRA 
 
 In Woodlawn National cemetery, the military prison-dead; 
 
 interments known and reported 2.947 
 
 Carried forward 
 
 2,947 17.374 
 
 [*Official note ] 
 
 RECORD AND PENSION OFFICE, 
 
 WAR DEPARTMENT, 
 WASHINGTON, January 17, iS> 
 Gen. John C. Underivood, Chicago, III. : 
 
 Many of the Confederate prisoners who died in confinement at Fort Delaware were buried at Finn's 
 Point, N. J., but no roster of those buried there is known to be in existence. No record has been found 
 of any prison at Finn's Point, N. J., nor has anything been found to show that any Confederate 
 prisoners were ever confined at that place. 
 
 By authority of the secretary of war: 
 
 F. C. AINSWORTH, Col. U S. Army, Chief of Office.
 
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 Brought forward 2.947 J7.374 
 
 LONG ISLAND 
 
 In Cypress Hills cemetery, the military prison-dead; inter- 
 ments known and reported 488 
 
 Total in New York 3.435 
 
 At COLUMBUS OHIO. 
 
 In the Confederate and city cemeteries, the Camp Chase 
 prison-dead; interments known and reported (J. C. U.'s offi- 
 cial roster) 2.161 
 
 JOHNSON'S ISLAND (L. E., near Sandusky) 
 
 In the Confederate cemetery, the military prison -dead; 
 interments known and reported (J. C. U.'s official roster). . . . 206 
 
 Total in Ohio 2, 367 
 
 At PHILADELPHIA PENNSYLVANIA. 
 
 In the National cemetery, principally, the military prison- 
 dead removed from Chester Rural cemetery and the Odd- 
 Fellows' cemetery; interments known and reported 224 
 
 PITTSBURG 
 
 In Allegheny cemetery, the military prison-dead; interments 
 
 known and reported 15 
 
 Total in Pennsylvania 239 
 
 At MADISON WISCONSIN. 
 
 In the Confederate burying plot of cemetery, the military 
 prison-dead; interments reported and rosters promised by 
 War Department 137 
 
 Total in Wisconsin 137 
 
 Total number of interments of deceased prisoners re- 
 ported 23, 552 
 
 There are possibly 100 Confederate soldiers buried in the Soldiers' 
 Home National cemetery at Washington, D. C., and doubtless an aggre- 
 gate of a few hundred more at other points, but the total of such inter- 
 ments throughout the department, recorded and unknown, will not vary 
 materially from the number reported above which will approxi- 
 mate 24,000 (unless there were many more deaths at Fort Delaware 
 than reported). 
 
 The mortuary rosters heretofore reported and filed with the adjutant- 
 general embrace the lists of Confederate soldiers who died in military 
 prisons, and, besides recording their names, give dates of deaths in all 
 cases and, with few exceptions, the companies, regiments and states 
 from whence the deceased hailed, so that it will be an easy matter to 
 ascertain desired information covered by such records. 
 
 The foregoing tabulated statements have been compiled from data 
 mainly furnished by the U. S. War Department, and, in no instance, has 
 the battlefield dead been considered.
 
 Special reference is hereby made to the good condition of the *Con- 
 federate cemetery at the government arsenal near Rock Island, 111., and 
 much praise and sincerest thanks are due Gen. D. W. Flagler, chief of 
 ordnance, U. S. A., for accomplishing such work. 
 
 MONUMENT TO CONFEDERATE DEAD AT CHICAGO. 
 
 In this connection I make synoptical reference to the construction 
 and dedication of the monument erected over the southern dead buried 
 in Oakwoods cemetery, Chicago, and demonstrations incidental thereto, 
 giving below a classified account of receipts and expenditures, balanced, 
 aggregating on both credit and debit sheets nearly $25,000 (which would 
 have amounted to a much larger sum, had my four years' services and 
 the value of the floral contributions from the south been estimated), as 
 
 follows: 
 
 FINANCIAL STATEMENT, 
 
 CLASSIFIED RECEIPTS. 
 
 To cash from Chicago and northern sources $11,808.63 
 
 To cash and credit from the Southern Granite Co. and 
 
 various southern sources 4,896.63 $16,705 .26 
 
 To cash value of donations: 
 
 By the U. S. Government, of ordnance 3,500.00 
 
 By various railroads, of transportation 2,050.00 
 
 By Hotel and Palace Car Co., of entertainment 
 
 and accommodation 900.00 
 
 By sundry business firms, of printing, etc 605.00 
 
 By the Cemetery Association, of work and mate- 
 rial 557-7 8 
 
 By credit from various sources, of service, labor 
 
 and material 329.48 7,942.26 
 
 Aggregate $24,647.52 
 
 CLASSIFIED EXPENDITURES. 
 
 By cash and exchange for erection of monument ... $10,000.00 
 
 By cash balance entry for value of cannon, shot and shell. 3,815.80 
 
 By cash balance entry for transportation, sleeping car 
 
 accommodation and hotel entertainment of guests. 2.950.00 
 
 By cash paid for banquets, martial music and regimental 
 
 incidentals 2,188. 34 
 
 By cash and donation credit entries for printing and pub- 
 lishing 1,390.85 
 
 By cash and donation credit entries for grand stand, decora- 
 tions, vocal music, carriages, etc 994 . oo 
 
 By cash paid, account office and headquarters, assistants, 
 
 stationery, postage, telegrams, expressage. etc 961 . 18 
 
 By cash paid, account traveling expenses and promotion. . . 908.71 
 
 Carried forward $23, 208 . 88 
 
 (*See document relating thereto in addendum.)
 
 I 
 
 Brought forward 
 
 By cash and donation credit entries for clearing, grubbing 
 
 and pyramid foundations 
 
 By cash and donation credit entries for remodeling statue. 
 
 painting ordnance, boxing, for special assistance. 
 
 and various sundries 
 
 By cash in the hands of Col. H. L. Turner, secretary and 
 
 treasurer of Citizens' Committee.. 
 
 Aggregate 
 
 $24,647.52 
 
 By deducting the cash in the hands of the secretary of the citizens' committee 
 from the aggregate ($24,647.52 575.92), the remainder of $24,571.60 will represent and 
 cover the total outlay. 
 
 NOTE. A detailed statement of bills receivable and payable, under final audit, with 
 copies of the certificates of their correctness and approval are to be found in addendum. 
 
 The descriptive references to the ceremonial of the dedication, recep- 
 tion of the Confederate generals and other southern guests, their enter- 
 tainment by the good citizens of Chicago, Cincinnati and U. S. army 
 officers at Fort Thomas, Ky. , are made in the special work following, 
 which is also replete with orations, poems, speeches and prayers and 
 embellished with engravings and etchings of the prominent actors, other 
 distinguished personages, the monument and its accessories. 
 
 The preface hereto constitutes a historic outline of my individual and 
 public actions prior to and under commission from you and the veteran 
 federation, relating to things pertinent to the U. C. V., the Confederate 
 dead buried in the northern states and the general northern-southern 
 movement toward establishing harmonious social and business relations 
 between the two great sections of the United States. This, together 
 with the body of the book and addendum, containing various documents 
 for reference, to prevent repetition, are referred to and hereby made part 
 of this report as to matters applicable through the discharge of duties 
 assigned, and otherwise considered admissible, because of conveying 
 information given in channels interesting to the south and its people. 
 
 Thanking you both personally and officially for the numerous cour- 
 tesies extended, valuable assistance frequently rendered and fully appre- 
 ciating the confidence reposed in and favor shown me by yourself, The 
 ex-Confederate Association of Chicago and the U. C. V. federation, 
 generally, I remain, 
 
 Very truly and fraternally, your obedient servant, 
 
 Major-General Commanding.
 
 ACTIVE STAFF 
 
 OF THE 
 
 PROVISIONAL DEPARTMENT OF THE NORTH, U. C. V. 
 
 Page 2. MAJ.-GEN. JOHN C. UNDERWOOD of Kentucky, Commanding Department. 
 
 ROSTER OF STAFF. 
 
 No. i. BRIG.-GEN. FAYETTE HEWITT of Kentucky, Chief of Staff. 
 
 No. 2. COL. ALBERT AKERS of Washington City, Inspector-General. 
 
 No. 3. COL. JOSEPH DESHA PICKETT of River Forest, 111., Chaplain-General. 
 
 No. 4. COL. RAMSEY H. STEWART of Chicago, Commissary-General. 
 
 No. 5. COL. SAMUEL J. SULLIVAN of Chicago, Quartermaster-General. 
 
 No. 6. COL. L. TIERMAN BRIEN of Maryland, Volunteer Aid-de-Camp. 
 
 No. 7. LIEUT.-COL. LUTE C. NORMAN of Kentucky, Ass't Adjutant-General. 
 
 No. 8. MAJ. FRANK V. ROBINSON of Washington City, Special Transportation Aid.
 
 THE DEPARTMENTAL STAFF. 
 
 The Provisional Department of the North embracing such a vast 
 scope of territory, a large staff was necessarily appointed throughout its 
 limits, and of that body certain members constitute the active staff (see 
 engravings and roster on preceding page). The two officers from Chicago 
 have been of great assistance to the commander; Col. R. H. Stewart, 
 besides soliciting and collecting a considerable amount toward the 
 construction of the monument, accompanied him to the south and rendered 
 valuable aid at the United Confederate Veteran convention at Birming- 
 ham, Ala. ; and Col. S. J. Sullivan having originally solicited and collected 
 the greatest amount toward the monument fund obtained by any of the 
 assistants. Maj. F. V. Robinson, as special transportation aid, rendered 
 important service, and the other officers of the staff, in consequence of 
 their attendance at the monument dedication and discharge of duties 
 assigned them, are deserving of special mention. 
 
 To the entire active staff, individually and collectively, appreciative 
 thanks are hereby extended. 
 
 BIOGRAPHIC SYNOPSIS OF THE STAFF. 
 
 FAYETTE HEWITT entered the Confederate army at the beginning of the war, and, serving as 
 adjutant-genera! of the Kentucky "Orphan" brigade, was in all the battles in which that renowned 
 command participated. Since the war he has been adjutant and quartermaster-general of Kentucky, and 
 it was through his labors that the Kentucky war claims against the government were settled. He is now 
 president of a bank in Frankfort, Ky. He is popular with his army comrades and with all who know him. 
 
 ALBERT AKERS entered the Confederate army from Tennessee as lieutenant of his company, 
 and subsequently became captain. He was twice very severely wounded and was assigned to staff duty, 
 and for gallantry and meritorious service promoted major and assistant adjutant-general. He is one of 
 the general officers of an old line life insurance company; is noted for his genial disposition and is 
 regarded as one of the best raconteurs throughout the states 
 
 JOSEPH DESHA PICKETT went south, from Kentucky, at the beginning of the war and espoused 
 the Confederate cause, serving as chaplain of the Kentucky "Orphan" brigade. After the close of 
 hostilities he returned to his native state, and engaged in literary pursuits and ministerial vocations. He 
 is now living in ripe old age, respected and beloved by all who know him. 
 
 RAMSEY H. STEWART entered tne Confederate service in the Twelfth Mississippi infantry, 
 and, fighting in the ranks three years of the war, was engaged in the battles of the Army of Northern 
 Virginia until severely wounded; when, on partial recovery, he was detached and served in the ordnance 
 department and on special duty. He was a typical Confederate infantry soldier. After the war he came 
 to Chicago and engaged in the decorating business, where he has met with great success, and is now 
 president of his company. 
 
 SAMUEL J. SULLIVAN enlisted as a Confederate soldier from Kentucky and served with Morgan's 
 cavalry throughout the war. Upon the surrender in 1865, he went to Chicago and engaged in wholesale 
 mercantile business. He is the commandant of Camp Chicago, No. 8, U. C. V., and is a type of a frank, 
 open-hearted, chivalrous southern soldier. 
 
 L. TIERMAN BRIEN entered the Confederate service at the beginning of the war and became 
 colonel of the First Virginia cavalry and afterward served with distinction on the staff of Gen. J. E. B. 
 Stuart. After the war he engaged in railroad business at various points throughout the country and at 
 different times has been the successful and popular business manager of the Palmer House, Chicago. 
 
 LUTE C. NORMAN entered the Confederate army from Kentucky, became captain of his company 
 and for gallant and meritorious service was promoted major of his regiment. He served with distinction 
 through the war and upon its close began the practice of law and, entering politics, was elected auditor 
 of public accounts of his state, which position he has held for many consecutive terms. 
 
 FRANK V. ROBINSON of the Georgetown, D. C., -Virginia family by that name, has for many years 
 been employed in the treasury department of the United States, and is regarded as one of the most 
 competent and reliable government employes. He is an energetic genial gentleman and had transporta- 
 tion charge of the party of southerners between Washington City and Chicago May 28-June 3, 1895.
 
 GENERAL CITIZENS' COMiWITTEE. 
 
 ENTERTAINMENTS INCIDENTAL TO THE DEDICATION OF THE 
 CONFEDERATE MONUMENT, CHICAGO, 
 MAY 29-31, 1895. 
 
 CHICAGO, May, 1895. 
 Gen. John C. Underwood, Chicago, Illinois: 
 
 DEAR GENERAL In reference to the dedication of the Confed- 
 erate monument in Oakwoods cemetery and the re-union of prominent 
 generals of both the Union and Confederate armies, on May 30, 1895, we 
 most heartily endorse the purpose expressed and will be pleased to serve 
 as members of your reception committee, 
 
 Very respectfully, 
 
 Henry L. Turner, 
 
 H. N. Higinbotham, 
 
 Cyrus H. McCormick, 
 
 Ezra J. Warner, 
 
 J. J. Mitchell, 
 
 Washington Hesing, 
 
 J. W. Doane. 
 
 Gilbert B. Shaw, 
 
 C. L. Hutchinson, 
 
 Geo. M. Pullman, 
 
 Wm. H. Rand, 
 
 W. G. Ewing, 
 
 Ferdinand W. Peck, 
 
 A. O. Slaughter, 
 
 W. A. Alexander, 
 
 O. H. Horton, 
 
 P. D. Armour, 
 
 William Deering, 
 
 Otto Young, 
 
 W. D. Kerfoot, 
 
 Lyman J. Gage, 
 
 Joseph Stockton, 
 
 R. W. Patterson, 
 
 H. W. Wheeler, 
 
 L. Z. Leiter, 
 
 H. W. Bolton 
 
 H.C.Chatfield-Taylor, 
 
 Francis T Colby, 
 
 J J. P. Odell, 
 
 Wm Penn Nixon, 
 
 Chas. Henrotin, 
 
 T. H. Wickes, 
 
 Melville E Stone, 
 
 D. H. Burnham, 
 
 E. S. Lacsy, 
 
 C. C. Kohlsaat. 
 
 John C. Black, 
 
 Alexander H. Revell, 
 
 Orson Smith, 
 
 Allison V. Armour, 
 
 Potter Palmer, 
 
 Edward F. Lawrence, 
 
 Owen F. Aldis, 
 
 Robert L. Henry, 
 
 T. W. Harvey, 
 
 Franklin H. Head, 
 
 C. M Henderson, 
 
 A. A. Sprague, 
 
 Martin A. Ryerson, 
 
 Thomas G Windes, 
 
 J. T. Harahan, 
 
 Geo. E. P. Dodge, 
 
 R. S Tuthill, 
 
 John Barton Payne, 
 
 M. M. Kirkman, 
 
 James Fentress, 
 
 M. F. Tuley, 
 
 Norman Williams, 
 
 Victor F. Lawson, 
 
 W. H. Newman, 
 
 Francis Adams, 
 
 Alfred Orendorff, 
 
 John S. Hannah, 
 
 C. C. Bonney, 
 
 Chas. R E. Koch, 
 
 Geo. M. Moulton, 
 
 H. H. Kohlsaat, 
 
 John H. Hamline. 
 
 John R. Walsh, 
 
 Chas. Fitz Simons, 
 
 S. P. McConnell, 
 
 C. S. Bentley, 
 
 Harry G. Selfridge, 
 
 HempsteadWashburne 
 
 ,E S. Con way, 
 
 G. M. Rogers, 
 
 Frank Baker, 
 
 N. B. Ream, 
 
 Robert Lindblom, 
 
 Chas. E Fargo, 
 
 Geo. B. Swift, 
 
 M. D. Wells. 
 
 Samuel Fallows, 
 
 W. Vernon Booth, 
 
 R. A. Waller, 
 
 H. W. Thomas. 
 
 Clarence C. Cheney, 
 
 Jenkin Lloyd Jones, 
 
 Chas. B. Farwell, 
 
 Luther Laflin Mills, 
 
 F. H. Cooper, 
 
 Wm. A. Amberg, 
 
 Stuyvesant Fish, 
 
 Byron L Smith, 
 
 W. H. Crocker, 
 
 Henry W. Bishop, 
 
 Marvin Hughitt, 
 
 R G. Chandler, 
 
 J. P. Ellacott, 
 
 Swan A. Miller, 
 
 M. E. Ingalls, 
 
 G. H. Wheeler, 
 
 T. C. Haynes, 
 
 Malcom McNeill. 
 
 C. J. Blair, 
 
 Chas. Deering, 
 
 Joseph R. Dunlop, 
 
 M. L. C. Funkhouser. 
 
 Geo. Schneider, 
 
 John R. Wilson, 
 
 H. G Purinton, 
 
 Richard Michaelis, 
 
 R. B. Campbell, 
 
 L. T. Brien, 
 
 A. J. Canfield, 
 
 Fred M. Farwell, 
 
 Andrew McNally, 
 
 Fritz Glogauer, 
 
 Alfred Russell, 
 
 A. B. Capron, 
 
 Samuel Baker, 
 
 Charles U. Gordon, 
 
 Frank S Weigley, 
 
 Hugh T. Reed. 
 
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 FERDINAND W. PECK, President 
 
 ALEXANDER H. REVELL, 
 
 First Vice-president 
 
 JOHN C. UNDERWOOD, 
 
 Second Vice-president 
 
 HENRY L TURNER, 
 
 Secretary and Treasurer 
 
 Executive Committee 
 
 ROBERT A. WALLER, Chairman 
 
 HENRY L. TURNER, Vice-chairman 
 
 JOHN J. MITCHELL 
 SAMUEL FALLOWS 
 GILBERT B. SHAW 
 
 WILLIAM D. KERFOOT 
 MELVILLE E. STONE 
 CHARLES U. GORDON 
 
 AND EX-OFFICIO 1 
 
 ROBERT L. HENRY 
 
 H. G. SELFRIDGE 
 
 M. L. C. FUNKHOUSER 
 
 FERDINAND W. PECK ALEXANDER H. REVELL JOHN C. UNDERWOOD 
 
 Committee on flnvntations 
 
 H. G SELFRIDGE HENRY L. TURNER FERDINAND W. PECK 
 
 ROBERT L. HENRY JOHN C. UNDERWOOD 
 
 press Committee 
 
 MELVILLE E STONE H. H. KOHLSAAT 
 R. W. PATTERSON v VICTOR F. LAWSON 
 JOHN R. WILSON FRANK S. WEIGLEY 
 
 WM. PENN NIXON 
 WASHINGTON HESING 
 JOSEPH R. DUNLOP. 
 
 FRITZ GLOGAUER 
 
 RICHARD MICHAELIS 
 
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 2O 
 
 RECEPTION AT THE RAILROAD DEPOT. 
 
 [Extract from the City Press of Chicago.] 
 
 The gray-haired members of that band of southern warriors who fought so bravely 
 during the war were welcomed to Chicago the morning of May 29, 1895 They came 
 from the south to participate in the dedication of the Confederate monument and their 
 hearts were filled with thankfulness at the thought that Chicago had been the first to 
 unite the blue and the gray in bonds of sympathy and affection. Aged and world-worn 
 though they were, they carried themselves in a soldierly way, and grasped the hands of 
 those who welcomed them in a most hearty manner. 
 
 Among the guests who had arrived via Cincinnati over the Big Four Route, was 
 Gen. Longstreet, whose long white mustache and flowing side whiskers gave him a 
 martial appearance. The citizens' reception committee assembled at the Palmer House 
 on the morning of the 2gth, and escorting Gens. Longstreet, and S. D. Lee and ladies, 
 the whole party took carriages and drove to the Grand Central depot to await the coming 
 of the guests who were to arrive at 11:00 o'clock from Washington City, via the B. & O. 
 railroad. As the train rolled into the depot the committee, together -with many south- 
 erners who had arrived in the city on the previous day, walked down to the special car 
 which had brought the distinguished visitors from Washington. Gen. Wade Hampton, 
 that stately southerner, with heavy gray mustache and side whiskers, was the first to be 
 welcomed; then came a round of introductions, and Gen. Underwood being the only man 
 who knew and remembered the names of everybody, acted as master of ceremonies. 
 The party felt tired after the long and hot journey and therefore was soon escorted to 
 carriages and driven to the Palmer House. 
 
 Flags covered the rotunda of the hotel and other memorials reminded the southerners 
 that Dixie's land had not been forgotten in Chicago; and in addition, the pillars were 
 draped in black and white for Secretary Gresham. Above one of the arches was a large 
 portrait of the secretary of state draped with crape and the Stars and Stripes. 
 
 When the Confederate generals arrived at the hotel they found many of the com- 
 rades from Atlanta, Ga. , had taken possession and the battle-scarred veterans were soon 
 among their southern friends One notable figure in the crowd of southerners was 
 Chaplain T. L. Smith of Virginia, who is now a pastor in Denver and is in appearance 
 a patriarch of all the patriarchs He wore long flowing white hair and heavy white 
 beard, and carried with him his commission as chaplain and major in the Twenty- 
 second Virginia regiment, and was proud of the distinction that his was the first chap- 
 lain's commission issued by the Confederate States 
 
 A touching meeting took place between Lieut. -Gen. Stephen D. Lee and Gen. Wade 
 Hampton. These two comrades embraced, and Gen. Hampton putting his hands on 
 Gen. Lee's shoulders, said, laughingly: "Don't you remember how you used to wish 
 you could reach the rank of colonel and command a battalion of artillery? That was 
 when you were a captain, but you climbed up far beyond a colonelcy." 
 
 In the afternoon the party went to the theaters and clubs, the keys of the city 
 opening to it every class of entertainment.
 
 21 
 
 ROSTER OF GUESTS. 
 
 FROM GEORGIA: 
 
 Lieut. -Gen. James Longstreet, daugh- 
 ter, Marie Louise, and Mrs. C. C. 
 Sanders and daughter, Marie Armon- 
 tine, Gainesville. 
 
 Judge W. L.-Calhoun, Col. A. J. West, 
 Maj. J. M. Couper and Mrs. R. L. 
 Walker, Atlanta. 
 
 Maj. J. L. McCollum and daughters, 
 Blanch and Laura, Marietta. 
 
 FROM SOUTH CAROLINA: 
 
 Lieut. -Gen. Wade Hampton and 
 
 secretary, Mr. Chas. E. Thomas; 
 
 public officials, Washington, D. C. 
 Maj. -Gen. M. C. Butler, Edgefield; 
 
 Col. J. B. Erwin, public official, 
 
 Washington, D. C. 
 
 FROM MISSISSIPPI: 
 
 Lieut.-Gen. Stephen D. Lee, Agricul- 
 tural College. 
 
 FROM VIRGINIA. 
 
 Maj. -Gen. Fitzhugh Lee, Glasglow; 
 Brig. -Gen. Eppa Hunton, Warren- 
 ton. 
 
 Solicitor- General Holmes Conrad, 
 public official, and wife, Washington, 
 D. C. 
 
 FROM WASHINGTON CITY: 
 
 Maj. -Gen. Henry Heth and daughter, 
 
 Nannie. 
 Maj. -Gen. L. L. Lomax.wife, and Miss 
 
 Isabelle Armstrong. 
 Brig. -Gen. Marcus J. Wright, wife, and 
 Miss Eliza Washington, of Charles- 
 ton, W. Va. 
 
 Col. Albert Akers and wife; Maj. R. W. 
 
 Hunter. 
 Capt. H. B. Littlepage and wife; Capt. 
 
 J. W. Drew and wife. 
 Maj. F. V. Robinson, Misses Margret 
 
 Cox, Virginia L. and Laura L. 
 
 Mitchell. 
 
 FROM FLORIDA: 
 
 Maj. -Gen. S. G. French, Winter Park. 
 
 FROM MARYLAND: 
 
 Maj. -Gen. H. Kyd Douglas, Hagers- 
 town; Col. W.F. Beasley, Baltimore. 
 
 FROM KENTUCKY: 
 
 Brig. -Gen. Fayette Hewitt, and Majs. 
 
 H. T. Stanton and L. C. Norman, 
 
 Frankfort. 
 Col. T. W. Campbell, Louisville; Rev. 
 
 Jos. Desha Pickett (River Forest, 111. ) 
 
 FROM NORTH CAROLINA: 
 
 Col. Wharton J. Green, Fayetteville. 
 
 FROM LOUISIANA: 
 
 Col. W. R. Lyman, wife and Misses 
 
 Amanda C. and Mary Childress, 
 
 New Orleans. 
 Commodore J. E. Montgomery and 
 
 granddaughter, New Orleans. 
 
 FROM TEXAS: 
 
 Mr. J. L. Currie and wife, Dallas. 
 
 FROM TENNESSEE: 
 
 Col. S. A. Cunningham, Nashville. 
 
 FROM COLORADO. 
 
 Rev. J. L. Smith, Denver.
 
 INVITATION TO THE RECEPTION AT THE 
 PALMER HOUSE. 
 
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 >-/ '-/
 
 RECEPTION AT THE PALMER. 
 
 [Condensed extracts from the City Press of Chicago.] 
 
 The parlors of the Palmer House were -filled between 5:00 and 7:00 o'clock last even- 
 ing with a merry, jostling company, with many characteristics unusual in social gather- 
 ings. One-armed men were so numerous as to attract attention. Bronze buttons of 
 strange design were worn in the lapels of dress coats. Tiny examples of the American 
 flag ware displayed on the corsages of beautiful women with evident pride, and on the 
 bosom of a fair one here and there was pinned a badge of the stars and bars side by side 
 with the stars and stripes. Men with hair and beards silvered by time were conspicu- 
 ous by their number and their erect carriage. Strange for a social affair, several 
 ambled about on crutches or canes. And in the buzz of conversation which filled the 
 rooms and trailed out into the spacious corridor there was one note which caught the 
 Chicago ear and held it a willing prisoner. It was the unaccustomed southern accent, 
 with broadened "a" and slurred "r," softening our mother English into the languorous 
 charm of the south. The committee in charge of the arrangements for the dedication of 
 the monument to the Confederate dead at Oakwoods had not forgotten the social 
 amenities, and the gathering at the Palmer House was a reception to the visitors from 
 the south. 
 
 Gen. Underwood had prepared a musical treat for the guests through the vocal 
 talent of the popular and gifted IMPERIAL-ARION OCTET, which rendered the following 
 selections with admirable execution and harmony: 
 
 PROGRAM. 
 
 1. THE- FOREST Vangola 
 
 IMPERIAL QUARTET. 
 
 2. DUET The Fishers, Gabussi 
 
 ARIEL NICHOLS AND ADELE HOLMAN. 
 
 3. ANGEL LAND, ., .' . , \. J. F. Bird 
 
 IMPERIAL-ARION OCTET 
 
 4. BARITONE SOLO My Axe of Steel Havens 
 
 CHAS A. DREW. 
 
 5. CUCKOO, Fittig 
 
 ARION QUARTET. 
 
 6. JENKS' COMPOUND Macv 
 
 IMPERIAL QUARTET. 
 
 7. DAYBREAK, ... Peuret 
 
 ARION QUARTET. 
 
 8 SOUTHERN MELODIES, 
 
 IMPERIAL-ARION OCTET. 
 
 9. GOODNIGHT, ....... . . . Pinsntti 
 
 IMPERIAL-ARION OCTET. 
 v 
 
 Beyond the singing there was nothing prearranged. The familiar plantation melodies 
 moved southern and northern hands alike to applause; and the gallant warriors from the 
 south maintained their chivalrous reputation by paying compliments to the pretty 
 young women present. Many Chicagoans called to pay their respects to the visitors 
 
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 May 29- 31, 1895. 
 
 SEE PAGE 27.
 
 25 
 
 and to make the acquaintance of the men who have won distinction in legislative halls as 
 well as on the field of battle, but the feature of the affair, after all, was the reunion of 
 comrades after a long separation. Not only were southerners from widely separated 
 sections brought together, but Chicago counts among her good citizens hundreds who 
 wore the gray, and to these the opportunity of meeting their old commanders was an 
 occasion to open the springs of the heart for a flood of love, admiration and fraternal 
 good will. 
 
 The meeting of "Yank" and "Johnny Reb " was also a feature of the occasion. It 
 was always accompanied by the warmest of cordiality, and the old epithets that once 
 stirred their blood to the fighting pitch were bandied with rollicking, mocking good 
 nature. And it needed only the fair daughters of the south, a handful in number but 
 lovely in their evening gowns, full of feminine graciousness and with an engaging 
 vivacity set off by the charming southern accent, to add the last touch to this memorable 
 gathering. 
 
 Gen. Longstreet was the center of universal interest. Feeble with seventy years and 
 more, he sat in the middle of one of the parlors, the point of general attraction. The 
 general was compelled to use an ear trumpet, but beamed with interest when incidents 
 of the war were recalled. About him were grouped several southern women, as though 
 a bodyguard, and near by stood his pretty daughter receiving compliments for her 
 father's valor and paying filial tribute by wearing the stars and bars on her bosom by the 
 side of the red, white and blue. Ex-Sheriff O. L. Mann of this city, furnished a char- 
 acteristic incident. Stumping in on crutches, he reminded Gen. Longstreet that when a 
 member of the Thirty-ninth Illinois regiment in the Shenandoah valley he tried to pay 
 his compliments, but had been prevented and now called to make up for lost time. 
 
 Gen. Stephen D. Lee of Mississippi, was another distinguished guest, and his ener- 
 getic expression, fine personnel and military carriage caused him to be much sought after 
 by his comrades and the citizens of Chicago. 
 
 Gen. Wade Hampton, son and grandson of warriors, the typical soldier, the dashing 
 cavalryman, the governor of South Carolina, United States senator, and now the govern- 
 ment railroad commissioner, was surrounded by an admiring throng. Capt. Littlepage 
 was compelled to tell again and again the story of the fight between the Monitor and the 
 Merrimac, for he was on the rebel gunboat during its entire career. Gen. Wright had 
 a special interest for many because he furnished much of the Confederate data which 
 Gen. Grant used in his magazine articles and memoirs. George Forrester, formerly of 
 Kentucky, and John W. White, formerly of Virginia, both now of Chicago, held groups 
 of veterans in suspense as they tried to outdo each other with stories of the raids of Gen. 
 Morgan and Col. Mosby. Col. Campbell, a neighbor of Gen. Underwood before the 
 war, touched on the sharp contrasts of the war by telling how he had charge of his 
 friend when taken prisoner. 
 
 Gen. Fitzhugh Lee, the distinguished cavalry officer and ex-governor of Virginia, 
 was another of the popular guests, and though he arrived late, he was made quite a lion 
 by both the ladies and gentlemen who vied with each other to greet him. 
 
 Col. Charles J. Murphy of New York, was a picturesque figure with his massive head 
 crowned in white and bearing medals proving honorable service in the Mexican war as 
 well as in that of the rebellion. 
 
 The reception committee was: Ferdinand W. Peck, William D. Kerfoot, George B. 
 Shaw, Rev. Samuel Fallows, Alexander H. Revell, Malcom McNeill, Robert A. Waller, 
 Harry G. Selfridge, Henry L. Turner, Robert L. Henry, Metellus L. C. Funkhouser 
 and John C. Underwoood.
 
 LADY ASSISTANTS. 
 
 No. i. MISS VIRGINIA L. MITCHELL, Charleston, W. Va. 
 
 No. 2. MISS MARIE LOUISE LONGSTREET, Gainesville, Ga. 
 
 NO 3. MISS MARIE ARMONTINE SANDERS, Gainesville, Ga. 
 
 No. 4. MISS AMANDA C. CHILDRESS, New Orleans, La. 
 
 No. 5. MISS MARGARET COX, Washington, D C. 
 
 No. 6. MISS NANNIE HETH, Washington, D. C. 
 
 No. 7. MRS. MARCUS J. WRIGHT, Washington, D. C. 
 
 No. . MISS FANNIE M. SCOTT, Van Buren, Ark: 
 
 SEE FOLLOWING PAGE
 
 27 
 
 The first of the reception committee to arrive were Ferdinand W. Peck and Miss 
 Peck, Malcom McNeill and the Misses McNeill. These young ladies were in the inter- 
 esting groups through the afternoon. Among the first arrivals were Col. and Mrs Albert 
 Akers of Washington. Mrs. Akers descended from a distinguished revolutionary family, 
 is the cousin of Maj.-Gen. Pickett, of Gettysburg fame, a queenly and charming woman, 
 and had a court of admirers about her from the first. Early in the afternoon Solicitor- 
 General and Mrs. Holmes Conrad of Winchester, Miss Polly Gary Randolph and Col. 
 Isham Randolph of Chicago, were together. Gen. and Mrs. Marcus J. Wright of Wash- 
 ington, were among the first comers. With them was a distinguished and elegant 
 woman, Miss Eliza Seldon Washington, daughter of Col. John Augustine Washington, 
 the last private owner of Mount Vernon. Miss Washington was born in that historic 
 mansion. She was the recipient of marked attention. Miss Belle Armstrong, the hand- 
 some and winsome daughter of Gen. Frank Armstrong and grandniece of President 
 James K. Polk; was present and the center of a circle. Gen. H. Kyd Douglas of Hag- 
 erstown, Md., was a marked figure, gray clad, and the target of all eyes on account of 
 his striking personality. He is one of the Bayard type, of great inches, slight, with a 
 smooth cameo-cut face, gray hair, full blue eyes and great mobility of expression com- 
 plete the ensemble. Gen. Douglas tells an inimitable story, and has manners simple 
 and easy. Among others present were Mr. and Mrs. F. H. Cooper of Chicago, the 
 brilliant and attractive Miss Margaret Cox of Washington City, the beautiful Misses 
 Virginia and Laura Mitchell of Charleston, W. Va., who are descendants of Gen. 
 George Washington's only sister Betty, and, through their mother, connected with 
 Martha Washington. Mr. and Mrs. R. L. Henry of Chicago, both of whom were exceed- 
 ingly attentive to the guests, especially Mrs. Henry, who in hsr attractive and agreeable 
 way assisted in introducing and making everyone feel perfectly at ease and happy, Mr. 
 and Mrs, Alexander H. Revell and Miss Alice Revell of Chicago; Gen. Harry Heth and 
 daughter, Miss Nannie Heth of Washington City. Another cavalry general was M. C. 
 Butler, late United States senator from South Carolina, a superb looking man and distin- 
 guished for his chivalry and gallantry, and, although he lost a leg in the battle of Brandy 
 Station, appeared as a veritable Adonis. Among the otherspresent were Maj.-Gen. L.L. 
 Lomax and wife, of Washington, D. C.; Brig. -Gen. Alfred Orendorff, adjutant-general of 
 Illinois; Gen. S. G. French of Florida, the hero of Kennesaw mountain; Maj. Henry T. 
 Stanton, the poet laureate of Kentucky; Gen. Eppa Hunton, United States senator from 
 Virginia; Maj. Robert W. Hunter of Virginia, Gen. Gordon's adjutant-general during the 
 last fight at Appomattox; Mr. and Mrs. R. A. Waller of Chicago, Mr. and Mrs. W. H. 
 Crocker of Chicago, W. A. Alexander of Chicago; Capt. J. W. Drew and wife of Wash- 
 ington City, Col. W. R. Lyman and wife, and those lovely daughters of the Gulf, Misses 
 Amanda C. and Mary Childress of New Orleans. Col. Lyman is a distinguished southerner 
 and one of the most prominent business men of the Crescent City, and Miss Amanda 
 Childress has enthusiastically devoted much of her time in assisting to perfect the organ- 
 izations of the United Confederate Veterans; Mr. and Mrs. Jas. H. Harris, of Chicago 
 and Maj. Frank V. Robinson of Washington City. Over in a corner stood a 
 man of military bearing, who, thirty years ago, when he was a mere boy, helped 
 to keep guard over the Confederate prisoners at Camp Douglas the men who met 
 J. P. Ellacott at the' reception made as much of a fuss about it as though 
 he were an old and dear friend, instead of a one-time jailer. He was glad to see them 
 all, too, and immediately became involved in a long argument as to the days of the 
 Golden Circle conspiracy and the exact location of certain tunnels and stockades in 
 the old Camp Douglas prison.
 
 28 
 
 Back of the chair of the venerable Gen. Longstreet, who was surrounded by friends 
 and admirers waiting for a word or presentation, were: Miss Louise Longstreet, his 
 daughter, and Miss Armontine Sanders. These young ladies were remarked for viva- 
 cious beauty and high-bred courtesy. In the same interesting party were Miss Lucy Lee 
 Hill of Chicago, whose father was Lieut.-Gen. A. P. Hill of Virginia and mother, a 
 sister of Gen. John H. Morgan of Kentucky; Mrs. Katie Cabell Currie, the beautiful 
 and accomplished daughter of Gen. Cabell of Dallas, Texas, and Mrs. Sanders of 
 Gainesville, Ga. 
 
 Col. Henry L. Turner did the honors on behalf of the military arm of the city, and 
 brought his handsome wife along to help. 
 
 Gen. JohaC. Underwood, the originator of the plan for a memorial to the Confederate 
 dead at Oakwoods and of the peace festival attendant upon its dedication, came late and 
 the cordial greetings and ripple of applause that welcomed him indicated his place in 
 the affections of both northern and southern people. The general was tired and wor- 
 ried with the burden of the two days' program which he has charge of, but he found 
 time to say pleasant things to everybody and give the final touch of cordiality to the 
 affair. 
 
 Gen. Joseph Stockton received the veterans from the south with all the courtesy 
 that comes of a knowledge of man's fighting qualities; and Washington Hesing was there 
 because the government had taken official cognizance of the reunion and because he 
 personally believes the spirit which prompted the festival is a good and beautiful one. 
 
 Bishop Fallows, who has been a soldier, and, despite his cloth, knows a lot about 
 society, said the reception was a historic event and the most splendid society function 
 since the ante-bellum days. Rev. Dr. Jenkin Lloyd Jones, who loves to see people kiss 
 and make up, stated it was simply glorious to see old enemies meeting together in sweet 
 amity like brethren and sisters. 
 
 A unique feature and contrast was furnished by Harrison Terrell, a colored man with 
 a history. Born a slave, he followed the fortunes of his master through the war and 
 served Gen. Lee's staff as cook and valet until the surrender at Appomattox. He 
 became an employe of Gen. Grant while president, and the great commander sent for 
 him to come to McGregor to help smooth his dying hours. 
 
 These are characteristic examples of the men. the reminiscences and contrasts 
 brought to notice on every hand at the reception, filling hearts with tenderness and often 
 eyes with tears. And against this background of military shoulders, of noble heads, of 
 tales of daring and suffering were outlined the grace and high-bred beauty of the Amer- 
 ican woman, the northerner and the southerner, exchanging sisterly affection in imitation 
 of the examples set by father and brother. 
 
 Some of the women and there were about one hundred of them were remarkably 
 beautiful, and probably no more aristocratic gathering has ever come together in the 
 parlors of Mr. Palmer's hotel. 
 
 The citizens commenced taking leave of the honored visitors at 7:00 o'clock and in 
 a half hour all had left, that the male guests might have an opportunity to prepare for 
 the banquet shortly to follow. 
 
 About 8:00 p. m., members of the committee arrived with carriages and the distin- 
 guished personages were whirled away to the banquet halls at Kinsley's.
 
 OCCASION OF THE DEDICATION OF THE 
 CONFEDERATE MONUMENT 
 
 CHICAGO, ILL. 
 
 BANQUET TO DISTINGUISHED UNION AND 
 CONFEDERATE OFFICERS 
 
 UNDER THE AUSPICES OF 
 
 THE CITIZENS' COMMITTEE. 
 
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 IRlnsle^'s 
 
 May 29, 1895 
 
 FROM 8 TO 12 O'CLOCK P M. 
 
 RADISHES. 
 
 MENU 
 
 LITTLE NECK CLAMS. 
 CRESS. 
 
 OLIVES. 
 COCKTAIL SOUTHERN. 
 
 CONSOMME MACEDOINE. 
 
 TOASTED WAFERS. AMONTILLADO. 
 
 PLANKED WHITEFISH. 
 CUCUMBERS. POTATOES PARISIENNE. 
 
 HAUT SAUTERNES, 1874. 
 
 TENDERLOIN OF BEEF A LA CHATELAINE. 
 NEW POTATOES. STUFFED TOMATOES. 
 
 PONTET CANKT, 1881. 
 PUNCH MILITAIRE. 
 
 BROILED SNIPE ON TOAST. NEW ASPARAGUS VINAIGRETTE. 
 
 SPARKLING MOSELLE. 
 TRUFFLED PATE ON LEAF OF LETTUCE. 
 
 MOET AND CHANDON WHITE SEAL. 
 GLACE, WITH FRESH STRAWBERRIES. 
 
 WHITE, MOSAIC AND BLACK CAKE. 
 
 CHEESE. CRACKERS. COFFEE. 
 
 COGNAC. CIGARS. 
 
 (30)
 
 AFTER DINNER EXERCISES. 
 
 FERDINAND W. PECK, President Citizens' Committee, Chairman 
 
 Sentiments anfc IResponfcers 
 
 ADDRESS OF WELCOME, The Chairman 
 
 RESPONSE Gen. JOHN B. GORDON, Commanding 
 
 United Confederate Veterans 
 
 Col. HENRY L. TURNER, Toastmaster. 
 
 Taps for the Old Days, 
 Reveille for the New. 
 
 By the Toastmaster. 
 
 Coasts 
 
 1. THE ARMY OF THE UNITED STATES, . Lieut -Gen. JOHN M. SCHOFIELD 
 
 2. THE ARMY OF NORTHERN VIRGINIA, . Lieut.-Gen. JAMES LONGSTREET 
 
 3. THE REUNITED NATION Maj.-Gen. JOHN M. PALMER 
 
 4. THE AMERICAN SOLDIER IN HISTORY, . . Maj.-Gen. M. C. BUTLER 
 
 5. "HERE'S THE HAND OF FELLOWSHIP!" . . . Gen. JOHN C. BLACK 
 
 6. "SHALL NOT THE SOUTH GRASP IT?" . . Maj.-Gen. FITZHUGH LEE 
 
 7. THE BEAUTY OF FORGETFULNESS, .... Judge R. S. TUTHILL 
 
 8. SOUTHERN CHIVALRY FROM 1776 TO 1865, Lieut.-Gen. WADE HAMPTON 
 
 9. THE CHRISTIAN SIDE OF THE SOLDIER, . . Rev. H. W THOMAS, D.D. 
 
 10. THE PROSPEROUS SOUTHLAND, . . . Lieut.-Gen. STEPHEN D. LEE 
 
 11. THE NATIONAL GUARD, the Nation's New Soldiery, 
 
 Adjt.-Gen. ALFRED ORENDORFF 
 
 12. SOUTHERN INFANTRY , Maj.-Gen. E. C. WALTHALL 
 
 13. THE CROWN OF HEROISM, ...... Hon. LUTHER LAFLIN MILLS 
 
 14. THE DEAD HEROES OF AMERICA, A National Monument, 
 
 Rev. A. J. CANFIELD, D.D 
 
 15. THE UNITED STATES VOLUNTEER, . ... Gsn. JOSEPH STOCKTON 
 
 16. THE MOTHER OF PRESIDENTS TO THE HISTORIC NORTHWEST. 
 
 Senator JOHN W. DANIEL 
 
 17. THE EXCERCISE OF OFFICIAL INFLUENCE AND POWER, 
 
 Solicitor-Gen. HOLMES CONRAD 
 
 18. THE "INDIVIDUAL" OF THE AMERICAN SOLDIER, 
 
 Maj.-Gen. H. KYD DOUGLAS 
 
 Extemporaneous rernjniscent speeches by Gens. Alex. P. Stewart, Harry Heth, 
 S. G. French, L. L. Lomax, Marcus J. Wright, Eppa Hunton, Wm. H. Payne, 
 Frank C. Armstrong, and others. 
 
 GOOD NIGHT AND BENEDICTION, . . ... Rev. JENKIN LLOYD JONES 
 
 ALL SPEECHES ARE LIMITED TO FIVE MINUTES EACH. 
 
 (The Program could not be exactly carried out owing to the unavoidable absence 
 of some of the speakers.) 
 
 (31)
 
 May 29-31, 1895. 
 
 BIOGRAPHIC: 
 
 Ferdinand W. Peck was born in Chicago, 111., in 1848; graduated at Chicago's High School, Old University and Union College of 
 
 Law; admitted to the bar coincidently with the attainment of his twenty-first year. 
 Prominently connected with enterprises which have contributed to the renown of Chicago. 
 From the earliest agitation of the Columbian celebration he was its indefatigable champion. 
 Positions filled: 
 
 First vice-president, member board of control, and chairman committee on finance World's Columbian exposition. 
 President of the Chicago Athenaeum; president of the Auditorium Association; president of the Chicago Opera Festival 
 Association; trustee of the New Chicago University; vice-president of the Illinois Humane Society; president 
 of the Union League Club; member and vice-president of the board of education. 
 Probably his most successful work was the conception and erection of the magnificent Auditorium building.
 
 33 
 FERDINAND W. PECK, ESQ. 
 
 President of Chicago Citizens' Committee. 
 
 After the banquet, at 9:30 p. m., President Ferdinand W. Peck called 
 the assembly to order, and spoke as follows: 
 
 Mr. Peck: ' Gentlemen In behalf of the citizens of Chicago it is 
 my duty and great pleasure to extend a most cordial welcome to our dis- 
 tinguished guests from all sections of our common country, who honor 
 us by their presence. There have been few grander or more significant 
 events in our American history than this coming together of the great sol- 
 dier-leaders who, with their comrades, more than thirt)' years ago, fought 
 gallantly face to face, as well as side by side, for a cause which each of 
 them believed to be just, and for the defense of which each felt that 
 duty demanded action. (Applause.) It is indeed fitting, and our 
 citizens of Chicago are proud of the fact, that this greatest and most 
 representative of American cities should be the chosen ground for this 
 sublime occasion, and we express a Nation's sentiment when we grasp 
 the hands of our brothers from every section of our splendid republic 
 and forever obliterate all differences as we stand under the folds of Old 
 Glory (applause and cheers), which is and shall be forever hereafter our 
 one common banner. (Applause.) Outside of sentiment and patriot- 
 ism, gentlemen, there will come from this assembly and the fraternal feel- 
 ing thereby established, closer commercial relations and business union 
 between the citizens of our country, thus enlisting in a larger degree 
 the investment of the capital of this section in developing the vast 
 resources of the southern states. (Applause.) To accomplish this 
 there must be strong fellowship and mutual confidence existing between the 
 people of what was once known as the Confederacy and the section con- 
 taining the great cities of the north. There should be closer union 
 between all sections of our country, for there is great and grand and 
 glorious work for all true loyal men and women to do, and they should 
 stand united to promote our national welfare, that the republic may 
 always endure. (Applause.) I do not believe that the Columbian 
 exposition of 1893 was a more momentous event in its future influence 
 upon both our city of Chicago and upon our Nation than is this second 
 reunion of the great representatives of our civil war, more than a 
 quarter of a century after the object lesson taught by Grant and Lee at 
 Appomattox and the precepts left to us by the immortal Lincoln of 
 charity toward all and malice toward none. (Applause.)
 
 LIEUT.-GEN. STEPHEN D. LEE, 
 
 DURING THE SIXTIES. 
 
 May 29- 31, 1895. 
 
 BIOGRAPHIC: 
 
 Stephen Dill Lee was born at Charleston, S. C., September 22, 1833; graduated at United States Military Academy, June, 1854. 
 Commissioned in United States army: 
 
 Second lieutenant, Fourth artillery, June, 1854, and first lieutenant and regimental quartermaster, October, 1854. 
 Commissioned in Confederate States army: 
 
 Captain March, 1861; major November, 1861; lieutenant-colonel May. 1862; colonel July, 1862. 
 
 Brigadier-general P. A. C. S.. November 6, 1862; major-general P. A. C. S., August 3, 1863. 
 
 Lieutenant-general P. A. C. S., June 23, 1864; Stale senator of Mississippi, 1878. 
 
 President of Mississippi Agricultural and Mechanical College, 1880 Member of state constitutional convention, 1890.
 
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 "Again, friends from the south and from the north, the people of this 
 imperial city warmly welcome you and greet you as brothers in a united 
 Nation, that forevermore shall know no sectionalism and no discord. 
 (Applause.) w 
 
 "I am requested to say that Gen. John B. Gordon of Georgia, is 
 unexpectedly detained by the illness of his wife. He has warmly 
 commended this gathering, and expressed his earnest desire to be 
 present, by his telegrams and by his letters. 
 
 ''Among many distinguished gentlemen who surround us to-night and 
 honor us by their presence, there is one whose name is national, whose 
 record is great in war and is great in peace. I have the honor, gentlemen, 
 to present to you Lieut. -Gen. Stephen D. Lee of Mississippi " 
 
 LIEUT.-GEN. STEPHEN D. LEE, 
 
 Of Mississippi. 
 
 The general was greeted with great applause and cheers, and spoke as 
 follows: 
 
 Geri. Lee: " Mr. President and Fellow Citizens of Chicago On 
 account of the absence of Gen. Gordon, I have the unexpected pleasure 
 of expressing, on behalf of those who have accepted your hospitality, 
 our warm appreciation of these courtesies. A year ago you gave a royal 
 welcome to the world in this typical American city, and on this occasion 
 show that you have the same welcome for your most distant American 
 brethren, who come here with the love of this republic in their hearts 
 and a message of peace upon their lips. (Applause.) To-night we feel 
 that Chicago hospitality knows no sectional line. This great city, des- 
 tined to be the heart of the Nation, makes no American a stranger 
 (applause), and we of the south feel that we share your broad and 
 catholic welcome. If we read the significance of this occasion aright, 
 this welcome is worthy to be made historic. In this city that makes 
 presidents another great thing has come to pass. A thousand miles have 
 come the veterans of the greatest civil war that the world has ever seen. 
 The defeated have come into the land of the victor, .even into the ranks 
 of their bravest foes, bringing with them flowers to lay on the graves of 
 the great dead, and to set up a monument, not to those who fell in the 
 red onslaught of battle, but to those who in prison walls sealed their 
 sincerity with their lives. To these pilgrims Chicago is saying, not that 
 we approve of the principles for which these men fought, not that we 
 concede one jot or tittle of the convictions which caused us to send our 
 own brave men to the battle front, but that we do not deem it dishon-
 
 May 29, 1895. 
 
 SEE FOLLOWING PAGE.
 
 37 
 
 orable to honor the unfortunate brave. (Great applause and cheers.) 
 That you make no war upon the dead, but rather with you, we would 
 honor whatever was faithful, courageous and heroic in these American 
 soldiers. (Applause.) It is not strange that the hatreds of civil strife 
 have not been eliminated from so many hearts, but it is strange that so 
 much love and reconciliation has spread over our broad Nation. And in 
 conclusion, my friends, I desire to say in behalf of your visitors, that we 
 accept your friendship with the same generous spirit with which you 
 offer it; that we invite you again to invade us, not with your bayonets 
 this time, but with your business. (Applause.) We want to hear in 
 our land the voices of your industries; we wish you to push the columns 
 of your goods into our utmost stronghold, and when you come, we will 
 give you as hearty, if not as royal, a welcome." (Great applause.) 
 
 President Peck: "I know that our distinguished guests, also our own 
 citizens of Chicago, would be glad to hear a word from their mayor, the 
 Hon. George B. Swift." 
 
 HON. GEORGE B. SWIFT, 
 
 Mayor of Chicago. 
 
 Mr. Swift: "Mr. President and Gentlemen It is hardly fair to depart 
 from or interfere with the carefully prepared program and yet the true 
 Chicagoan never falters when called to the front. And to-night I realize 
 fully why I have been asked to say a word to you, or rather to our 
 guests, and it arises from the fact that I am the chief magistrate of the 
 greatest city in America, and in that capacity, as the mayor of this won- 
 derful city, I bid you guests a royal Chicago welcome. Chicago is equal 
 to every occasion. Witness the warmth of the weather unparalleled 
 the papers state (the papers always state the truth), unparalleled in the 
 history of Chicago, the warmest May weather ever known in our city. 
 That is an indication of the individual and collective warmth of heart of 
 the Chicago citizens toward their honored guests. Now, my fellow 
 citizens, we welcome you, we thrice welcome you in our midst. We 
 bespeak for you a happy sojourn, we hope for you a safe return to your 
 homes, we also hope that there may abide in your hearts and your minds 
 the kindliest recollection of Chicago and her people. Again I bid 
 you welcome." (Applause.) 
 
 President Peck: "A gentleman who will speak to you later in the 
 evening, and who is upon the program, desires at this time to offer a 
 resolution. I therefore introduce to you for that purpose Gen. Wade 
 Hampton." 
 
 Upon rising, Gen. Hampton was greeted with applause and cheers.
 
 COL. HENRY L. TURNER 
 
 OAKWOODS CEMETERY, MAY 30, 1895 
 
 May 29 - 31, 1895. 
 BIOGRAPHIC: 
 
 Henry Lathrop Turner was born in Oberlin, Ohio, August 26, 1845; graduated at Oberlin College. 
 
 First lieutenant One Hundred and Fifteenth regiment, Ohio volunteer infantry; first lieutenant and adjutant Fifth regiment, 
 
 United States colored troops. 
 
 Moved to Chicago after the war and engaged in journalistic, real estate and banking pursuits. 
 An enthusiastic national guardsman, has been and is an untiring worker for the I. N. G. 
 
 Major First regiment infantry, I. N. G., April, 1887; lieutenant-colonel, April, 1889; colonel, November 18, 1893 
 Colonel Turner displayed military ability and obtained great credit for the manner in which he protected Pullman against the 
 
 strikers in 1894 and otherwise assisted in quelling the riots; he is respected and loved by his command; is popular with 
 
 all who know him and is a ready speaker and fluent writer.
 
 39 
 
 GEN. WADE HAMPTON, 
 
 Of South Carolina. 
 
 Gen. Hampton: "Mr. Chairman and my Fellow Citizens I have 
 a right to call you my fellow citizens now. I have been honored with 
 the request to offer a resolution that I am sure will meet a response in 
 the hearts, not only of every citizen of Chicago and this grand state, 
 but every citizen of the United States." (Reads): 
 
 Resolved, That this assembly of Union and Confederate officers and citizens of 
 Chicago hereby "express their profound sorrow at the death of the late Secretary of 
 State, Walter Cj. Gresham. His distinguished service on the battlefield, upon the bench 
 and in the President's cabinet, are recognized throughout the length and breadth of the 
 country. The Nation has lost one of its greatest heroes and statesmen, whose 
 distinguished- service for his country should never be forgotten in the future history of 
 our common land. 
 
 The resolution was adopted unanimously by a rising vote. 
 
 President Peck: "My next pleasure, gentlemen, is to name your 
 toastmaster. He needs no introduction to a Chicago assembly, and he 
 has already become acquainted with the distinguished guests from 
 elsewhere. I therefore present to you Col. Henry L. Turner." 
 
 COL. HENRY L. TURNER, 
 
 First Regiment Infantry, I. N. G. 
 
 Col. Turner: "Mr. President, Gentlemen and Guests Our chairman, 
 representing the business men and the people of Chicago, has most 
 eloquently bidden our guests welcome. Our honored mayor has officially 
 welcomed you and given you the freedom of our city. It is fitting, 
 however, inasmuch as our guests are soldiers, that a word of welcome 
 from another source be added. To-morrow I shall wear the insignia of 
 the Grand Army of the Republic, of the military order of the Loyal 
 Legion. As an old soldier, then, I cordially, heartily welcome my old 
 comrades of the Union army, and I thank the Lord my heart is big 
 enough to send my voice ringing across the estrangement of thirty 
 years and say, welcome and God bless you, my southern friends. 
 (Great applause.) 
 
 "There is one other representation for which I wish to speak. 
 To-morrow I shall march at the head of one of the really great National 
 Guard regiments, and one of the Nation's new soldiery, which loves and
 
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 honors valor wherever found. I bid you welcome. My sentiment is, 
 'Taps to the old days, reveille to the new.' I have dedicated this to the 
 ex-officers and soldiers of the Confederate army who visit us: 
 
 'Twas many years ago, boys, 
 
 When first we marched away, 
 We wore the blue, you know, boys, 
 
 Whilst you'uns wore the gray. 
 
 Then life was fresh and new, boys, 
 
 And so it is to-day, 
 Only in courtesy to you, boys, 
 
 We wear our beards in gray. 
 
 (Laughter.) 
 'Twas stars and bivouac all night, boys, 
 
 'Twas tramp, tramp, tramp all day, 
 'Twas thundering, crashing fight, boys, 
 
 Between the blue and gray. 
 
 Lord, how your bullets flew, boys, 
 
 And yet I'm free to say, 
 We sent as good to you, boys 
 
 Blue paid its debts to gray. 
 
 Oh, radiant days of strife, boys, 
 
 When every hour and day 
 Some hero gave his life, boys, 
 
 For either blue or gray. 
 
 War's epic grandly rolled, boys, 
 
 Life soared to heights away, 
 And glory's requiem tolled, boys, 
 
 For both the blue and gray. 
 
 But battle flags are furled, boys 
 
 All anger's worn away; 
 We'll face a hostile world, boys, 
 
 Blue side by side with gray. 
 
 (Cheers.) 
 Sound taps for those old days boys, 
 
 And strew the flowers of May 
 As God's own sunshine plays, boys, 
 
 O'er both the blue and gray. 
 
 And for the days to come, boys, 
 
 A ringing reveille, 
 We'll make the Nation hum, boys, 
 
 We'll bring the jubilee. 
 
 (Applause.) 
 
 "Now, major, sound the taps and the reveille. (Music.)
 
 "To you, speakers, and to you, guests, I wish to say that this is a 
 military occasion, and military rules will be enforced rigidly. So many 
 have to be heard from, that each speaker will be held down to five 
 minutes. This is under the instructions of the committee, which I will 
 carry out literally. 
 
 "These old generals who are present here, well know how difficult it 
 is to make a combined movement and to have every part fit into the 
 predestined whole. We had hoped to have with us to-night some 
 speakers who are absent. The lieutenant-general of ths army was to be 
 with us, and he has sent warm letters in appreciation of the movement, 
 but he is detained away by the death of the secretary of state." 
 
 This .extract is from a letter written to Gen. J. C. Underwood by 
 LIEUT.-GEN. JOHN M. SCHOFIELD, 
 
 Commanding United States Army. 
 
 Patriotic people of all nations delight to honor the memories of brave men who 
 have fought and died for a cause which they believed to be just. When the passion of 
 war has subsided all just and generous men cease to discuss abstract questions of right 
 or wrong in respect to a contest which has been ended, and delight to share the spirit 
 which actuates the true soldier at all times and which causes him to honor even his 
 brave enemy who has fallen in battle. 
 
 In this spirit patriotic and generous people of the great City of Chicago, Union vet- 
 erans of the Grand Army of the Republic and young soldiers of the National Guard of 
 Illinois have spontaneously given .their assistance, support and sympathy to the sur- 
 vivors of the late Confederate army in the honor which they are pnying to the memory 
 of their dead comrades. 
 
 But this great event has also a far higher signification. It is a token of the rejoicing 
 which fills the hearts of all good ciiizens of this great republic, north, south, east and 
 west, that the wounds of war and strife have been healed; that the causes of bitter dis- 
 sension have been forever removed; that allegiance to the Stars and Stripes has become 
 the one only standard of patriotism in the political faith, as we also trust and believe in 
 the hearts of all throughout the length and breadth of this great land; and that we 
 may now rest assured that our posterity will be a united people in this, our beloved 
 country for all time to come. 
 
 The difference which divided the country in 1861 was of that character which can be 
 decided only by appeal to the god of battles. The decision was rendered at Appomattox, 
 and no one has been so hardy as to question the finality of that decision. The Confed- 
 erate soldiers then and thereafter pledged their honor to accept in good faith the honor- 
 able and liberal terms offered them by the great Union commander, to return to their 
 allegiance and become loyal and faithful citizens of the United States. The Union com- 
 mander and his comrades did not for a moment doubt the honor of their brave antago- 
 nists. But millions of loyal people in the country trembled with apprehension, lest that
 
 BIOGRAPHIC: 
 
 May-June, 1895. 
 
 John McAllister Schofield was born in Chautauqua county, N. Y., September 29, 1831. Graduated at United States Military 
 
 Academy, in 1853. 
 Brevet second lieutenant, July i, 1853: second lieutenant, First artillery, 1853-55; first lieutenant, August 31, 1855; captain, 
 
 May 14, 1861; assistant professor of philosophy, United States Military Academy, 1855-60. 
 Major First Missouri volunteers, April 26, 1861. Brig.-gen. U. S. Vols. November 21, 1861. Maj.-Gen. U. S. Vols., November 29, 
 
 1862. With Gen. Sherman until after battle of Atlanta; afterward with Gen. Thomas, and fought the battle of Franklin, 
 
 Tenn., and for his services in that battle he was commissioned brigadier-general, U. S. A., with a brevet of major-general. 
 Was sent to Europe on a special mission for state department, 1865-66. 
 Secretary of war, June, 1868, March, 1869. Major-general U. S. army, March 12, 1869. 
 Superintendent United States Military Academy, West Point, N. Y., 1876-81. 
 
 Major-general commanding U. S. army, 1888; lieutenant-general commanding U. S. army, 1895; retired September 29, 1895. 
 He was assigned to and has filled many other honorable positions.
 
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 pledge of good faith might not be kept. The doubts and anxieties of that day .have 
 gradually and slowly been dispelled, until now, by almost universal accord throughout 
 the land, the brave men of the south are regarded as among the most reliable defenders 
 of the constitution of the United States and of the national honor and interests in any 
 contest which may hereafter arise. Sectional political divisions are passing away, The 
 people of the south, no less than those of the north, are dividing according to their hon- 
 est opinions and practical interests upon the important questions of public policy. The 
 decision rendered at Appomattox has borne its fruit. The sublime aspirations of 
 Abraham Lincoln and Ulysses S. Grant have been realized by their countrymen through- 
 out the land. 
 
 The battle flag of the Confederate army now lies upon the graves of the brave 
 soldiers who defended it, while the glorious old flag of the Union floats on high, unchal- 
 lenged by any at home or abroad, throwing its protecting folds around all who now 
 acknowledge true allegiance to the sovereignty it represents. 
 
 The time has fully come when the veteran soldiers and the people of the country, 
 north and south, may rejoice together, "with malice toward none, with charity for all," 
 and with "peace in every heart," unite in honoring the memory of the brave men whose 
 blood was shed in the great contest to fully establish the "more perfect Union" designed 
 by those who framed the constitution of the United States, and to make this Union 
 perpetual. * * * * 
 
 As a private citizen, and as a veteran soldier of the Union, I give you my cordial and 
 hearty sympathy in the tribute of respect you are paying to the memory of your brave 
 comrades. 
 
 Please give my cordial and respectful greeting to all the old soldiers, Union and 
 Confederate, who may meet for this purpose in Chicago. 
 
 Letters were also received from Maj.-Gen. Daniel E. Sickles, of 
 New York; Brig. -Gen. D. W. Flager, chief of ordnance U. S. A.; 
 Lieut. -Gen. A. P. Stewart, of Tennessee; Maj.-Gen. E. C. Walthall, of 
 Mississippi; Brig. -Gen. Frank C. Armstrong, of Washington; Brig.- 
 Gen. W. L. Cabell (Lieut. -Gen. U. C. V.), of Texas; Brig. -Gen. 
 Wm. H. Payne, of Virginia; Col. John B. Castleman, of Kentucky, 
 and many others, fully endorsing the memorial movement and regret- 
 ing their inability to attend. 
 
 Col. Turner: "The first toast upon our program is the 'Army of 
 Northern Virginia,' to be responded to by one of the makers of history. 
 In old days he used to introduce himself to us in a most startling and 
 unexpected manner. I take pleasure in introducing to you the right arm 
 of the Army of Northern Virginia, a man who served from Bull Run to 
 Appomattox Gen. Longstreet."
 
 LIEUT.- GEN. JAMES LONGSTREKT, 
 
 DURING THE SIXTIES. 
 
 May 29 -June 2, 1895. 
 
 BIOGRAPHIC: 
 
 James Longstreet was born in South Carolina, January 8, 1821, graduated at United States Military Academy, July, 1842. 
 Commissioned in United States army: 
 
 Brevet second lieutenant. Fourth infantry, July i, 1842; second lieutenant, Eighth infantry, March 4, 1845; first lieutenant 
 February 23, 1847; regimental adjutant, June 8, 1847 to July i, 1849; captain, December 7, 1852; major-paymaster, 
 July 19, 1858; brevetted captain, August 20, 1847, for gallant and meritorious service at Contreras and Churubusco, 
 Mexico; brevetted major, September, 1847, for gallant and meritorious conduct at Molino del Rey, Mexico; resigned 
 commission in the United States army, June i, 1861. 
 Commissioned in Confederate States army: 
 
 Lieutentant-colonel, corps of infantry, C. S. A., lo rank from March 16, 1861; brigadier-general, P. A. C. S., June 17, 1861; 
 major-general, P. A. C. S., October 7. 1861; lieutenant-general, P. A. C. S., October 9, 1862, and continued in com- 
 mand of his corps, the right wing of Lee's army, until surrender at Appomattox. Resides at Gainesville, Ga.
 
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 LIEUT.-GEN. JAMES LONGSTREET, 
 Of Georgia. 
 
 Gen. Longstreet: "J/r. Chairman and Fellow Citizens I heard a 
 good story once, and it is so old that it will be new to you here, as it 
 happened in 1848, just after the Mexican war. There is not much 
 rhetoric in it, but a good deal of soldier. It was at a banquet. All of the 
 armies of the. Mexican war were represented, and among the rest was 
 the army engaged in the battle of Sacramento. The only officer present 
 from that army was Lieut. Wooster of the regular army, who com- 
 manded the artillery. When Sacramento was toasted, the lieutenant 
 said: 
 
 "You all seem to know that I was at the battle of Sacramento. I commanded the 
 battery there, and when the lines were spread and our ammunition about exhausted, 
 Col. Donovan, who commanded, came and asked, ' Lieutenant, what shall we do 
 next?' 'Well,' said the lieutenant, 'I think, colonel, we had better take a drink 
 and charge them.' We took the drink, we did charge, the Mexicans ran and we ran 
 after them. That is all that I know about the battle of Sacramento." 
 
 " Well, I will say for the Army of Northern Virginia, you all seem to 
 know I was there. I had that honor. I had the honor to be with the 
 Army of Northern Virginia from the first battle at Bull Run, on the i8th 
 of July, 1861, until the close of its brilliant career. I was in the most 
 of its general battles. But it will be mockery in me to attempt to 
 describe the valor, endurance and splendid career of that army. 
 Through that army I had the honor of an introduction to the Army of 
 the Potomac on the i8th of July, 1861, and that led to intimate acquaint- 
 ance with another army, as gallant and brave and true as any army that 
 was ever mustered. So we served together. (Laughter.) Until finally, 
 after four years of severe and difficult struggle and valor, we found, on 
 the gth of April, 1865, that a little man from the north, from this state, 
 had spread his lines before us and spread his lines behind us, and was so 
 strong that we could not get through, so Gen. Lee concluded that it was 
 as little as we could do, and it was the best that we could do, to say, it 
 is enough." (Applause.)
 
 MAJ.-GEN. M. C. BUTLER, 
 
 DURING THE SIXTIES. 
 
 May 29 -June i, 1895. 
 
 BIOGRAPHIC: 
 
 Matthew Calbraithe Butler was born near Greenville, S. C , March 8, 1836; educated at Edgefield Academy and Columbia Col- 
 lege, South Carolina. 
 
 Began the practice of law in December, 1857; elected to the state legislature in 1860. 
 Commissioned in Confederate States army: 
 
 Captain, Hampton's South Carolina Legion, June 12, 1861; major, July 21, 1861; colonel Second South Carolina cavalry, 
 
 August 22, 1862; brigadier-general, P. A. C. S., September i, 1863; major-general, P. A. C. S., September 19, 1864. 
 Lost his right leg in the battle of Brandy Station, June 9, 1863; returned to duty November, 1863: surrendered with Gen 
 
 Joe Johnston at Greensboro, N. C., in April, 1865. 
 
 After the war, resumed practice of law, and was elected member of the South Carolina legislature in 1866; elected United 
 States senator and admitted to his seat December 2, 1877; re-elected in 1882 and again in 1889, his term expiring 
 March 3, 1895. He took a prominent part in ridding his state of "carpet bag rule" and was a delegate to a number 
 of state conventions, and resides in Edgefield, S. C.
 
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 Col. Turner: "Our next speaker will speak to the toast, 'The 
 American Soldier in History.' In these days of peace, when they are 
 trying to read the soldier out of the party, I hope this gentleman will 
 give us a good setting forth. He was a splendid cavalry general, one 
 of the best in the service, and he has the honor to be born in South 
 Carolina, and to have represented that state in Congress. I take 
 pleasure in introducing Maj.-Gen. M. C. Butler." (Prolonged applause.) 
 
 MAJ.-GEN. MATTHEW C. BUTLER, 
 
 Of South Carolina. 
 
 Gen. Butler: "Mr. Chairman and Gentlemen I have been assigned 
 a subject to-night, in the discussion of which I might occupy 
 two or three hours, but fortunately the chairman has announced we 
 shall be restricted to five minutes, and I beg to express to him my pro- 
 found thanks for that restriction (laughter); not only on my own 
 account, because sometimes I like to extend my remarks, but there is an 
 immense amount of oratory and eloquence here to-night, and if it were 
 given free rein the sun might rise upon this assembly. 
 
 "I need not, Mr. Chairman, go outside of this room to illustrate the 
 soldier of American history. On my right and on my left and in front 
 of me I see them, and I think it is no exaggeration, it is no extreme 
 expression of national vanity to say that in our generation as great and 
 distinguished soldiers have been produced as have ever been found in 
 the world's history. (Applause.) I will not attempt of course not to 
 enumerate them. But there are many of the soldiers of this late family 
 trouble of ours who might easily have been ranked with the most 
 brilliant field marshals of the French Empire, of the First Consul; 
 many of them who might have taken rank with the greatest soldiers of 
 any war. 
 
 "And now, my friends, because, as my distinguished friend said, I 
 feel that I have the right to address you as friends I want to pause 
 one moment to pay a tribute, a sincere, honest, candid tribute, to one of 
 the most distinguished I say, one of the most distinguished soldiers 
 on the other side m our troubles, the late Walter Q. Gresham. 
 (Applause.) You are to bury him here to-morrow. The whole country will 
 do honor to his character and to his memory, and there is no American 
 citizen who has ever died, who deserves that honor more than Gresham. 
 (Applause.) It was my good fortune and privilege to have known him
 
 4 8 
 
 when he was postmaster-general during Mr. Arthur's administration, and 
 I there learned, not only to respect him, but to entertain for him the very 
 highest esteem. He came into Mr. Cleveland's administration as secre- 
 tary of state, and as a member of the committee on foreign relations of 
 the Senate, it was not only my privilege to confer with him frequently 
 but candidly and frankly. I say to you, gentlemen, from all sections of 
 this country, the north, south, east and west, that since the days of Hamil- 
 ton Fish, no secretary of state has had more delicate and difficult 
 questions to deal with than Judge Gresham. And I want to say another 
 thing, that there has been no secretary of state in this country who has 
 dealt with them with more ability and candor and directness than he. 
 (Applause.) Many of his acts have been misunderstood, because in the 
 very nature of his negotiations they were secret. The time will come, 
 my friends, when this country, without regard to party, will sustain and 
 vindicate the acts of Secretary Gresham. 
 
 "And I want to add this tribute to what has been said so eloquently 
 and feelingly by my friend, Gen. Hampton, in pursuance of the resolu- 
 tion which he offered. When our distinguished friend, Gen. Gordon, 
 delivered his first lecture in Washington, where there were 9,000 people 
 to listen to him in the Convention hall, a Confederate major, who is 
 present to-night, introduced the chairman for the occasion. That con- 
 vention was presided over by the now Lieut. -Gen. Schofield, commanding 
 general of the army. Gen. Gordon delivered that marvelous address of 
 his, and after he got through I turned to Admiral Jewett, who was in the 
 Federal navy, and I said: 'Jewett, if a stranger were to come into this 
 audience, do you think he would be able to discriminate between the 
 man who was a rebel, and the man who was faithful to the Union?' He 
 says: 'No, I think not.' He said: 'This meeting could not occur in any 
 other country on earth,' and the same thing is true to-night. I do not 
 believe there is another city on the face of the earth that would have had 
 the audacity to have done what Chicago has done in inviting us rebels 
 here to-night. (Great applause.) And I do not know of any city that 
 could better afford to do it than Chicago. 
 
 "And I want to say to you, my friends, that I respond to the cordial 
 welcome, as far as I am concerned, and all those whom I have a right to 
 speak for, in the most candid manner, and taking a material view of it 
 a practical view, outside of the sentiment which you have been indulging 
 in to-night, I doubt very much if there is an old rebel anywhere in the 
 south, who wants to buy anything, who will not say: 'Well, I believe I 
 will go to Chicago. (Laughter.) They treated our old chieftains, 
 Hampton and Longstreet and Fitzhugh Lee and Stephen D. Lee and all
 
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 of those old rebels kind of honestly when they got up there, and I think 
 we will send up there when we have got to buy.' That is the practical 
 side of it. (Laughter.) 
 
 "But I am inclined to think that I am about to exceed my limit (cries 
 of no! no! go on!) That reminds me of Jerry Phillips. Jerry Phillips 
 was lieutenant in my old regiment; Gen. Hampton knows him very well, 
 and Jerry could never learn the tactics. I had a school, I remember, 
 when I was colonel of the regiment, and all the subordinate officers 
 attended the school of tactics; he would insist on calling saber, sabrees; 
 and one day, down at Hampton's Crossing, Kilpatrick ran in on him; he 
 was out on picket and had about thirty men, the reserve, and, rather 
 unceremoniously, Kilpatrick called on him, and Jerry wanted to get 
 away, very naturally. (Laughter.) So he got his reserves in line, 
 but didn't know exactly how to get into column. He rode out in front of 
 his command, and drew his sword and gave this command: 'Attention!' 
 and this was his order to get into column: 'Leak out by twos if you 
 can't form fours; draw sabrees and charge without discretion; follow me, 
 by God.' And away they went. Gentlemen, I retire." (Laughter and 
 applause.) 
 
 Col. Turner: "Gentlemen, this is not a national beauty show, but I 
 am very glad to say that after the very fine specimen of southern chivalry, 
 the next speaker will be Gen. John C. Black. I want to say to our 
 friends from the south that he is just as good and brave as he is pretty." 
 
 GEN. JOHN C. BLACK, 
 
 Of Illinois. 
 
 Gen. Black: "I never saw a bald-headed toastmaster that did not 
 make fun of a man with a full head of hair." (Laughter.) 
 
 Col. Turner: "I knew he wouldn't stick to his toast, so I thought I 
 would let him have his own way." 
 
 Gen. Black: "The limit of time, gentlemen, in this case is the 
 comfort of some of us, and the protection of all. I am to speak to a 
 sentiment which the toastmaster has neglected, in his desire to jibe at 
 his victim, to announce to you. It is found on your bill of fare, how- 
 ever, and I have no doubt is thoroughly appreciated by you all. 'Here's 
 the Hand of Fellowship.' Now I would like to know who is going to 
 forbid the extension of the hand of fellowship? Who is there in all 
 this land, drunk or sober, that would deliberately rise up and say, ' Do
 
 BRIG. -GEN. JOHN C. BLACK. 
 
 DURING THE SIXTIES. 
 
 May 29-31, 1895. 
 
 BIOGRAPHIC: 
 
 John Charles Black was born in Mississippi in 1839; resident of Illinois since 1847; received a classical education and 
 
 studied law. 
 Enlisted in Eleventh regiment infantry. Indiana volunteers, U. S. A., April 15, 1861, and served until July 25; re-enlisted from 
 
 Illinois July 28, 1861. 
 Major, Thirty-seventh regiment infantry, Illinois volunteers, September 5, 1861; lieutenant-colonel, July 12, -1862; colonel. 
 
 December 31, 1862; brevetted brigadier-general of volunteers, April 8, 1865, for gallant services; served in the field 
 
 throughout the war and was badly wounded. 
 Appointed United States commissioner of pensions March 5, 1885, resigned March 4, 1889, but served until his successor was 
 
 appointed. 
 
 Elected congressman at-large for State of Illinois, November, 1893. 
 Appointed United States district attorney for Northern district of Illinois, January, 1895
 
 not extend the hand of fellowship to any American?' I guess that covers 
 
 the whole thing, the whole substance of all that I might say to you if I 
 
 had the night before me. There is no sane man under the American 
 
 flag to-day who does not say the hand of fellowship ought to be and is H^ 
 
 extended. 
 
 "This morning I addressed an assemblage of school children, a rep- 
 resentative assemblage a thousand strong, from amidst 14,000,000 of 
 school children who occupy the public schools in America. Not one of 
 them ever heard a hostile gun. To each and every one of the 14,000,000 
 who are to-day attending the public schools in the forty-four states and 
 the territories, the war that we, some of us, remember is simply and 
 purely history. There is left to them of that history very little besides 
 its beauty and that glamour which always hangs about the achievements 
 of stricken fields. 
 
 " To-morrow it will be mine to stand by the side of the graves of 
 comrades. We that are here occupy a middle place between the gener- 
 ation that comes on resistlessly and that which passes to its rest. To us, 
 the survivors of the two armies, is left the rarest privilege, and that is, 
 that we shall, in the same generation that carried on war, bind up all 
 the wounds of war (applause) and leave to those that are to come after 
 us only the heritage of affectionate remembrance of deeds of American 
 valor, American heroism and American honor. And standing on this 
 high plane, we, the few survivors of battles and of war, can look back- 
 ward through a vista now thirty-five years long, and through that vista 
 we see what, thank God, has become history. As I look there, Mr. 
 Chairman, I can see emerging from a peaceful people the ranks of the 
 blue and the gray approaching each other in the final arbitrament of war. 
 I can see, dancing above, the flags which now, so great is the distance, 
 need the field-glass of history to determine the stars that shone in the 
 blue. I can hear the thunder of the cannons, and the shouting; I can 
 see all that was grand and terrible of war. That was a generation ago, 
 and the years are dropping their veil, thickening ever, between us and 
 the sorrows of that time. We are upon the mountain top of a great 
 opportunity, we who survive, and as we turn our backs toward that past 
 and look toward the future, we see about us the thronging millions that 
 yet shall be and that now are, the descendants of the republic, all of 
 them true to the mighty cause of a great Nation. Our feet are upon the 
 very edge of the gentle descent that leads from the front of active life 
 toward the retirement that all men love. But there is still before us a 
 vista of glory and promise of the greatness of the republic yet to come, 
 worthy of all the sacrifices and of all the labors of the past. And,
 
 MAJ.-GEN. FITZHUGH LEF., 
 
 DUKING THK SIXTIES. 
 
 May ag-June i, 1895. 
 
 BIOGRAPHIC. 
 
 Fitzhugh Lee was born at Clermount, Fairfax county, Va., November 19, 1837; graduated at United States Military Academy in 
 
 1856. 
 Commissioned in United States army: 
 
 Brevet second lieutenant, Second cavalry, July T, 1856; second lieutenant, January i, 1858; first lieutenant, March 31, 1861; 
 
 resigned commission in United States army, May 21, 1861. 
 Commissioned in Confederate States army: 
 
 First lieutenant, corps of cavalry, C. S. A., to rank from March 16, 1861; lieutenant-colonel, First Virginia cavalry, August, 
 
 1861; colonel, March. 1862; brigadier-general, P. A. C. S., July 24, 1862; major-general, P. A. C. S., August 3, 1863. 
 Governor of Virginia 1886-90. United States internal revenue collector for Virginia, 1895 with office at Lynchburg.
 
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 standing between that past struggle and this future of promise, who shall 
 say that the hand of fellowship shall not be extended? (Applause.) 
 Who shall say that, whatever may have been different within the past, 
 every American is not the brother of every other American under the 
 flag? (Great applause.) And in this imperial city, the theater of great 
 civic accomplishment, we of the blue welcome with extended hands 
 and with earnest hearts you that wore the gray." (Applause.) 
 
 Col. Turner. "The next toast is a response to that which the toast- 
 master inadvertently omitted to announce, the two being a couplet, 
 'Here's the Hand of Fellowship,' which has been so splendidly handled 
 by our friend, Gen. Black, and the response, ' Shall not the South 
 Grasp It ? ' to be responded to by the bearer of one of America's historic 
 names, one which is the property of all Americans the name of Lee. 
 Gen. Fitzhugh Lee, the great cavalry leader, the great southern horse- 
 man, will answer Gen. Black." 
 
 MAJ.-GEN. FITZHUGH LEE, 
 Of Virginia. 
 
 Gen. Lee (greeted with cheers): "J/r. Chairman and Gentlemen The 
 country seems to be safe to-night. (Laughter.) I find myself surrounded 
 upon every side by th^ flag of the United States. I had a similar experi- 
 ence about thirty years ago (laughter) at the little village of Appomattox, 
 and I remember sleeping the night after I received my parole between two 
 major-generals of the United States army. I never felt safer. Indeed 
 I had not felt so secure for many of the preceding days. Both of my 
 flanks were well protected. (Great laughter.) History in a measure 
 repeats itself. To-night the mayor of what he terms the greatest city 
 in the world it is evident he has never been to Richmond, Va. , (laughter 
 and applause) sits here quietly, calmly and serenely smoking his cigar 
 between two rebellious rebel generals of cavalry, Wade Hampton and 
 Fitzhugh Lee, and he is not afraid. (Laughter.) . 
 
 "I respond to the toast with great pleasure, Mr. Chairman, because 
 I feel when the right hand of fellowship is held out by one section it is 
 the duty of the other section to grasp and hold it. I say, therefore, to 
 Gen. Black, we are both Americans, we are now citizens of this great 
 country and it is equally our respective duty to promote its glory, 
 grandeur and growth. (Great applause.) Each side had a cause to 
 fight for, and if we want to have true fellowship in this country, we must 
 give the people at the north credit for fighting gallantly, nobly and hero-
 
 54 
 
 ically in behalf of their cause, and they must give the south credit for 
 defending courageously their fundamental faith. You, sir, fought to 
 maintain this country as an undivided republic, stretching from where 
 the frozen fingers are laid upon the icy lakes of the north, to where the 
 great father of waters rolls his tribute to the gulf, and from the chasing 
 waves of the Atlantic upon the east, to where the great billows of the 
 Pacific break into golden sands upon the California shore. You earnestly 
 desired one great republic. I fought to make two republics grow 
 where only one grew before. 
 
 "We were brought up differently. We of the south were educated 
 in the theory that our states could blaze their own paths and declare 
 their own course through the action of a convention, its highest repre- 
 sentative body. We were taught that when this Union was formed, the 
 constitution was silent on the question of the secession of a state. There- 
 fore, when the states of the south spoke through their conventions, and 
 determined to leave the Union, their decision was binding upon their 
 citizens. I can explain in no other way that men were willing to leave 
 their homes, their huts, cottages and castles, and stand steady in long 
 ranks and let the men who wore the blue shoot shot and shell at them, 
 unless they fought for the faith that was in them. 
 
 "Thirty years have elapsed since the sound the 'dead echo,' as it 
 has been termed of the last gun of the last battle has been heard. No 
 more do camp fires blaze through the land. No more do we hear the 
 strains of martial music, no longer do men face men in battle. In the 
 armies of the south we had soldiers as brave as the Spartans who fought 
 in the pass of Thermopylae. In the armies of the north there were men 
 whose courage was not surpassed by the Old Guard of Napoleon when 
 making the final charge, before the field of Waterloo was won by 
 Wellington. Both sides added their contributions to American valor. 
 For example, I saw your men at the battle of Fredericksburg, when the 
 lightning was scorching the ground beneath their feet, charging in front 
 of Marye's hill, and you saw our troops leave the lines of their comrades 
 at the battle of Gettysburg and bravely march to the fire-crowned 
 heights. Give us credit upon the one side and we will give you credit 
 upon the other, and together we will make this great republic what our 
 forefathers intended it should be the glory of America and a blessing 
 to humanity. (Prolonged applause.) 
 
 "Soldiers upon each side are rapidly passing away. The sound of 
 'taps' upon the eternal shores are already being heard by some of them 
 every day, and many suns will not set before the veterans upon either 
 side have furled their battle flags forever. Lincoln is gone. Davis is
 
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 dead. The swords of Grant and Lee have returned to their scabbards; 
 the tents of Sherman and Joe Johnston are pitched upon the eternal 
 camping ground; the sabers of Sheridan and Stuart no longer flash in 
 the fore-front of battle, while many of the men who followed these 
 leaders are now 'but a handful of dust in the land of their choice, a 
 name in song and story, and fame, to shout with her trumpet voice, 
 Dead! dead, upon the field of glory!' 
 
 "Englishmen, whose past battles against each other are recorded upon 
 the pages of history as evidence of their valor and endurance, are proud 
 of old England whose morning drum-beat follows the sun, and whose 
 martial strains are heard in unbroken music all over the world. We, too, 
 can be proud of our country. We, too, on either side, can by the hand 
 of fellowship make it a great and forever undivided republic. We can 
 not do it by abusing each other; we can not do it by flying in the faces 
 of each other in time of peace, and we can not do it by criticising 
 each others' actions on memorial occasions. I know we are always glad 
 to see your great demonstrations in remembrance of the services and 
 courage of your soldiers, and you should know that when we assemble 
 together for the purpose of honoring the valor of our living, or paying 
 respect to the memory of our dead, there is nothing inconsistent in that, 
 with the duties we owe to a great and united country. (Great 
 applause.) 
 
 "We fervently pray with you that as the veil of futurity is raised, 
 we will see an American Union whose course is ever onward and 
 upward a republic representing more power and commanding more 
 respect than ever the armies of Ca3sar and Augustus won for the imperial 
 eagles, and we will unite with you in praying that state will not lift 
 up its hand against state, neither shall they know war again, but that the 
 reign of peace, unity and fraternity shall be as 'lasting as the home of 
 the stars, as eternal as the foundation of the everlasting hills.' ' (Great 
 applause.) 
 
 Col. Turner: "We are to hear of southern chivalry from 1776 to 1865 
 from an ideal southern soldier. The gentleman who will speak to you 
 first appeared during the last thirty-five years at the head of a little com- 
 pany of 500 or 600 men, named the Hampton Legion, which had been 
 equipped and brought into service at his own personal expense. I think 
 he started as a captain or a major a colonel but he retired from service 
 with the highest rank possible, lieutenant-general. I take great pleasure 
 in introducing Lieut. -Gen. Wade Hampton of South Carolina." (Cheers 
 and applause.)
 
 Vx 
 
 I.1EUT.-GEN. WADE HAMPTON, 
 
 DURING THK SIXTIES. 
 
 May 29- 31. 1895. 
 
 BIOGRAPHIC: 
 
 Wade Hampton, the grandson of the revolutionary general by that name, was born in Columbia, S. C., March 28, 1818; gradu- 
 ated at the University of South Carolina, and in early life served in the legislature of his state. 
 
 State senator when South Carolina seceded; resigned, volunteered as a private, and served in the Confederate army during 
 the war. 
 
 Colonel of the celebrated Hampton Legion, composed of infantry, cavalry and artillery, which he recruited and equipped 
 in 1861. 
 
 Brigadier-general, P. A. C. S., May 23, 1862; major-general, P. A. C. S., August 3, 1863; lieutenant-general, P. A. C. S., February 
 14, 1865; and, after the death of Gen. J. E. B. Stuart, commanded the cavalry of the Army of Northern Virginia under 
 Gen. R. E. Lee, and the cavalry of Gen. Jos. E. Johnston's army during Gen. Sherman's march through the Carolinas; 
 he was wounded many times and was noted for his military ability and gallantry. 
 
 Governor of South Carolina twice, having been elected in 1876 and re-elected in 1878. 
 
 United States senator two terms, elected in December, 1878, and re-elected in 1884. 
 
 United States commissioner of railroads, under appointment by President Cleveland, in 1893
 
 57 
 
 LIEUT.-GEN. WADE HAMPTON, 
 
 Of South Carolina. 
 
 Gen. Hampton: "Afr. Chairman Our toastmaster has given me a 
 theme that, as my friend on my right, my old colleague, Gen. Butler, 
 says, it would take me several hours to do justice to the chivalry of the 
 south. I did not come here to speak of the south. I came here with a 
 grateful heart to thank the people of Chicago for doing what I think is 
 the most honorable thing that has been done by any people in the his- 
 tory of America. (Applause.) Narrow-minded and bigoted men may 
 abuse you, and may abuse us, who come here from the south at 
 your invitation, to do honor, not to Confederate soldiers, not to 
 victors in a great civil strife, but to dead Confederates, men who rep- 
 resented the bravery, the courage, the devotion to duty, the very highest 
 type of American manhood. You have called us here to join you in 
 doing honor to these men, and we have come here to take the hand of 
 good fellowship, of comradeship which you have offered to us. 
 
 "But, my friends, if I was to commence to talk of the chivalry of the 
 south, what theme would be better than to say, that you ought to be 
 southerners yourselves ! Who gave you this magnificent territory but 
 the Old Dominion? (Applause.) Who gave you Washington, who 
 gave you Jefferson, and Patrick Henry, and the thousand civil and mili- 
 tary men that made the history of America luminous, but Virginia? 
 Who gave all this magnificent northwestern territory, and gave it to 
 promote the union of the states? You ought to have been Virginians 
 you are Virginians, in fact ! About what my friend says of Rich- 
 mond: I have been in Richmond a good deal, but I do not think 
 Richmond is as large as Chicago. (Laughter.) It is a very good place, 
 as some of you people know, and it gave us a great deal of trouble in 
 the war to take care of it. (Laughter.) 
 
 "Now, my friends, it was rather an unfair advantage taken of me to 
 bring me out here to make a speech, which I will say, in all candor, was 
 the hardest work I have not finished yet, but it is the hardest work I 
 ever undertook in my life. I do not want my southern friends to believe 
 that I have gone back on them, and yet I want to say everything I 
 possibly can, for I feel with the most grateful heart. I want to say 
 everything in candor and sincerity of the magnificent hospitality extended
 
 May 29-31, 1895. 
 
 BIOGRAPHIC: 
 
 Hiram Washington Thomas was born in Hampshire county, Va.., April 29, 1832. He worked on a farm and attended winter 
 schools until 18 years old; then for two years took a special course at Berlin Seminary, Pennsylvania; studied at the Iowa 
 Wesleyan University; received degree of Doctor of Divinity from Indiana Asbury University in 1861. 
 
 Preached three years as a student when in Virginia and Pennsylvania; joined Iowa Conference M. E. church in 1856; transferred 
 to Rock River Conference and stationed at Park Avenue church, Chicago, in 1869, and remained three years, then 
 three years at the First church, Chicago, two years at Aurora, three years at the Centenary church, Chicago, was then 
 tried and expelled for heresy. During the pendency of his trial, which lasted over a year, he began independent minis- 
 terial work, and preached at Hooley's theater, out of which has grown the People's Church of Chicago, of which he is and 
 has been pastor for over fifteen years. 
 
 Chaplain First regiment, infantry I. N. G., for the past fifteen years, and served two terms as grand chaplain of the Masonic 
 order of Illinois. Member of the different clubs in the City of Chicago, and, besides being an eminent divine, is a con- 
 scientious gentleman and liberal patriot.
 
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 to us here, of the fellowship you have shown, of the nobility and the 
 magnanimity of the people of Chicago which they displayed in putting 
 up a monument to the Confederate dead." (Great applause.) 
 
 Col.Turner: " 'The Christian Side of the Soldier. ' To Chicago people 
 Dr. Thomas needs no introduction. To you, friends from the south, I 
 wish to say, from personal acquaintance, that no bigger heart ever grew 
 either north or south of Mason and Dixon's line, than that which will 
 speak to you now." 
 
 REV. H. W. THOMAS, D.D. 
 
 Of Chicago. 
 
 Dr. Thomas: "Mr. Chairman and Friends It was not known to me 
 that I was expected to say anything until since we came together. And 
 yet it would be a poor, dumb spirit that would not feel the thrill of life 
 and be able to say something on such an occasion as this. I too, with 
 Gen. Hampton, am a Virginian. I too, with Gen. Hampton, and with 
 you all, am an American. It seems to me, brothers, that the time has come 
 when we have to put larger meanings into the old words. We have to 
 put a larger meaning into the thought of a Christian and of Christianity. 
 We have to put a larger meaning into the thought of the soldier, the 
 Christian side of the soldier. We can no longer define a Christian simply 
 by such terms as Catholic or Protestant, Methodist, Baptist, Presby- 
 terian, orthodox or liberal. The Christian is the noblest type of a man. 
 (Applause.) Jesus the Christ was not a weak, supplicating sentiment- 
 ality in the world. He was a tremendous personality, and so great that 
 he could call himself by no less term than the Son of Man. Larger than 
 Hebrew, Jew, Roman, he belonged to humanity. Christianity means and 
 emphasizes selfhood, personality. Not a shrinking, hiding, retiring, 
 getting away, but the manhood that stands up for its noblest conviction, 
 and He taught that He came not alone for peace, but for war; that the 
 antagonisms of life must go on until the final reconciliations should come. 
 And when we talk of the Christian side of the soldier, we mean the human 
 side, the largest man-side, the side that stands for the right and must 
 stand for that as the soldier sees it at the time. That is the reason we 
 honor our noble southern brethren. That is the reason they honor us. 
 (Applause.) Because there were no cowards on either side, and we met 
 in the great arbitrament of battle to settle questions, not that we had 
 created, but that we had inherited. (Applause.) History moves by 
 compromises, but compromises at last could not settle the debates and 
 the issue had to come. And the Christian side of the soldier means
 
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 this, as it meant back in the wars between Greek and Trojan, that over 
 all our debates and differences there is a higher power, there is an 
 eternal right; for in those old Greek wars everything at last had to be 
 referred to the Eternal power. Men might differ, the lower gods might 
 differ, but the Eternal Zeus at last decided, and it is to that higher 
 tribunal to which we appeal all our great causes. And I tell you, friends, 
 it is the Christian side of the soldier, the believing side, the faith in the 
 eternal right, that gives the soldier his courage, and it is the Christian 
 side of the soldier, and the soldier side of the Christian, that has made 
 possible these great days of reconciliation these years of peace, greater 
 than were the years of war. It is the Christian side of the soldier, and 
 soldier side of the Christian that makes possible the dedication, and 
 glad the dedication of the monument in which we all join in honor of 
 men who died far away from home and friends. (Applause.) 
 
 "I tell you more: This great occasion, this shaking of hands and 
 touching of hearts across the troubled chasms and darkness of the 
 past, means a greater and more beautiful and loving life in the future. 
 East and west and north and south shall feel the thrill and the joy of 
 brotherhood. Yes, and it is the Christian side of the soldier, and the 
 soldier side of the Christian, that does not want to carry the warfares 
 of this life into the peaceful lands beyond death. For, in the will of 
 the Eternal, we are moving over and camping one by one on the fields 
 of peace, and it is the Christianity of this age, the love of God and 
 man, that is saying to us: 'Let us have some of that joy and peace 
 and brotherhood here on earth.' (Great applause.) We will all hail, 
 brothers, ..he future born out of to-night and born out of to-morrow, 
 and the glad and happier days to come in this our great, and united 
 country." (Applause.) 
 
 Col. Turner: "Gen. Lee proved himself so good a substitute in his 
 reponse to the address of welcome, that I think you will all join with me 
 in that recent piece of slang, which says, 'It is a good thing, push it 
 along,' and be glad to hear from him again on 'The Prosperous South 
 Land."' 
 
 LIEUT.-GEN. STEPHEN D. LEE, 
 
 Of Mississippi. 
 
 Gen. Lee: "Mr. Toastmaster and Citizens of Chicago, who have given 
 us this imperial welcome Out of a full heart I would speak my apprecia- 
 tion of the generous spirit which has found expression in these hospi- 
 talities. It is only a few days since I stood in a great gathering of sur- 
 viving Confederate soldiers at Houston, gray-haired veterans, whose 
 ranks are now melting away swifter than in the valley of death at Shiloh
 
 6i 
 
 or on the red heights of Chickamauga. From these men, whose years are 
 few to forgive or to be forgiven, I bring you to-night a message of peace 
 and reconciliation (applause) a message, that many years ago the last 
 feeling of unbrotherly hatred and bitter remembrance died in their hearts, 
 and that the love of our common country left no room for the prejudices 
 and the suspicions of the past. (Applause.) Standing here upon the 
 soil that was once Virginia's, ever}' southern heart glows with pride that 
 the star of Illinois, which our hands placed in the firmament of states, 
 now shines with such surpassing luster. Every southern heart thrills 
 with pride, also, that from Kentucky came the farmer's boy, Abraham 
 Lincoln, whose hands in the providence of God, struck the shackles 
 from the republic, when he struck them from the slave. (Great applause.) 
 
 "But I have another message to bear to you a message of welcome 
 from our now prosperous southern land, fully recovered from the desola- 
 tion of war, to come and share with us the blessings of our fertile soil, 
 our genial climate, the riches of our forests, the mineral wealth of our 
 mountains. To you we come to seek our immigrants, to occupy our sur- 
 plus arable lands. There are none so welcome to us, as our fellow citi- 
 zens, whose industry we value in peace, as their courage we honored in 
 war. I would I could speak into the ear of American youth, like another 
 Greeley, the words, 'Go south, young men.' We want you for our 
 neighbors and friends. There remains the ungarnered, the greatest 
 harvests of American industry. But, my friends, under the five-minute 
 rule, I must hasten on and sum it all up in one sentence. Since the 
 Almighty has decreed the marriage of the north and south to be indis- 
 soluble, we of the south mean that our national house shall be a home. 
 
 "Now, that thirty milestones of the years have been passed since the 
 last life was offered up for the love of our country, the southern people, 
 making no apologies for the past, since, as you generously recognize, 
 they fought for the right as they saw it, and 'did their duty as they 
 understood it, do not regret that the Great God, who holds the destiny 
 of nations, settled the question of state .sovereignty and slavery for our 
 common and everlasting good. It cost the dearest sacrifice of blood 
 and treasure that ever a people laid upon the altar. But was it not 
 worth it all to solve these awful problems, which our forefathers could not 
 solve, but bequeathed to us? The clock of the universe had struck the 
 hour when slavery should be no more; when our Union should be made 
 complete; when the sin of north and south alike should be redeemed by 
 the blood of the patriot. And now that prosperity has come south to 
 stay, now that the battlefields stained with the blood of almost a million 
 lives, are green with harvest, and our sunny land is fragrant with the 
 blossoms of a great future, we rejoice that this is one country and not 
 two (applause); that all the stars our fathers placed on the flag, remain
 
 May 29-31, 1895. 
 
 BIOGRAPHIC: 
 
 Alfred Orendorff was born near Lincoln, Logan county, 111., July 29, 1845; educated at Wesleyan University, Bloom- 
 
 ington, and Albany, N. Y., Law School. 
 
 Captain Company I, One Hundred and Thirty-third Illinois volunteer infantry, United States army, during the civil war. 
 Member of general assembly, 1873-1874, and has been chairman of the Democratic state central committee for a term. 
 Adjutant-general of Illinois 1893-1896. 
 Prominent Oddfellow, having been grand master of Illinois; grand representative to the Sovereign Grand Lodge and general 
 
 commanding the Third Army corps, Patriarch Militant. 
 Broad and liberal in his views, a lawyer by profession and practice and a cultivated gentleman. Resides in Springfield, 111.
 
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 to gladden the eyes of their children, and that the sons of men who stood 
 shoulder to shoulder at Bunker Hill and Yorktown, shall stand shoulder 
 to shoulder forever. 
 
 " But, are these words false to the memory of those who sleep at Oak- 
 woods underneath the sod ? We shall say that but for their death, 
 slavery and secession might have been with us still; that through their 
 sacrifice this Union ceased to be a house of strife and became a house 
 of peace. And, my brethren of the north, shall we not also say that 
 these men who died as free men, fighting for a constitutional principle, 
 are worthy to be honored of all men? They may not have understood, 
 perhaps, the niceties of sovereignty; but they knew how to die on this 
 frozen shore, far away from the land they loved, from mother and from 
 home. They need only have taken the oath of allegiance, or have 
 enlisted in the conquering armies of the republic to fight against the 
 Indians, and life and freedom would have been theirs. But these simple- 
 hearted, faithful men privates preferred the death of the captive, a 
 wretched death, rather than give up the principles in which they believed. 
 You may say that they were mistaken; that they were, perhaps, 
 misguided; that it was folly, that it was madness; yet, is there a brave 
 man who will not stand with uncovered head before the fidelity, the 
 heroism of these dead? Is there one who will not bow before their dust? 
 
 "To-morrow there will march out to Oakwoods, the sons of men who 
 lie sleeping there. To-morrow flowers, plucked by loving hands in the 
 far-off land for which they gave their lives, will be laid upon their ashes. 
 Do you wonder that the south loves these men? Would you have it 
 otherwise, for the honor of our race? Would you have it otherwise, for 
 the honor of our humanity? (Cries of no, no!) And to-morrow, as we 
 stand beside these dead, may the whole Nation stand with us, forgetting 
 the past, loving all her children everywhere, and may that monument 
 which is to be dedicated to the glory of the dead be also one of recon- 
 ciliation to the living." (Great applause.) 
 
 Col. Turner: "Our next speaker, owing to the absence of the 
 governor of the state, whom he represents, will speak to the text 
 'Illinois,' in place of the toast which has been assigned to him." 
 
 BRIG.:GEN. ALFRED ORENDORFF, 
 
 Adjutant-General of Illinois. 
 
 Gen. Orendorff: "Afr. Chairman and Gentlemen It would be, 
 perhaps, in this truly national gathering, invidious to speak of any 
 state, were it not coupled with the welcome which I extend to you in
 
 coming to our commonwealth. The great State of Illinois welcomes 
 you to its borders upon this mission of paying a debt of gratitude and 
 devotion to the brave dead whose monument you will consecrate 
 to-morrow. In speaking of our state, time would not permit, if it were 
 desirable, to talk of its material resources; neither would it, perhaps, be 
 in good taste to speak of Illinois' sons, were it not that those that I 
 shall mention were typical Americans. Our greatest son, Abraham 
 Lincoln, who enunciated the sentiments spoken by one of the gentlemen 
 who has addressed you to-night, whose greatest utterance was: 'Charity 
 to all, with malice toward none,' and with the purpose to bind up the 
 Nation's wounds, Abraham Lincoln stepped from the topmost round of 
 Fame's ladder to a home in the skies. And we had another citizen 
 familiar to many of the older gentlemen who adorn this occasion a 
 statesman Stephen A. Douglas. (Applause.) On his dying bed, when 
 he was asked what word he had to send to his sons, he spoke a 
 benediction which should rest upon the youth of America when he said: 
 'Tell them to obey the laws and uphold the constitution of the United 
 States. ' (Applause. ) 
 
 "And there is still another, whose name has also been spoken in this 
 presence another Illinoisan, the great, silent commander. (Applause.) 
 He issued many orders, he spoke many words of wisdom, yet the greatest 
 sentiment he ever uttered was, when, after the internecine strife was 
 over, he proclaimed throughout the land that exalted sentiment, ' Let us 
 have peace.' (Applause.) 
 
 " I am persuaded that if those who have gone beyond take an interest 
 in the affairs of earth, that those typical Americans are looking from 
 their upper homes with approval upon this scene to-night. (Applause.) 
 
 "The sudden transition from the sentiment assigned me, 'The New 
 Soldiery, the National Guard,' is such, and the time is so limited, that I 
 have only to say that the true, real National Guard is the brave American 
 citizens who are represented here to-night. The Nation is guarded by 
 brave and true men in every section of our country. 
 
 "Let me say to you, my friends, that the people of the State of Illinois 
 gladly welcome this distinguished company to this commonwealth. We 
 wish you to see Chicago, the imperial city. We wish you to see whatever 
 we have of material enterprise. We wish you to see whatever may be 
 pointed out to you, but we have a more cherished hope than that, and 
 that is, that when you return to the loved ones at home you may, 
 after you describe what you have seen, be able to say that you found in 
 the State of Illinois men with warm American hearts, who gave you an 
 American welcome." (Applause.)
 
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 Col. Turner: " In the list of speakers who are absentees, there are 
 four or five on the remainder of the program. The next speaker 
 present will speak to the topic, 'The Exercises of Official Influence and 
 Power,' I now introduce Solicitor-General Holmes Conrad, from 
 Washington." 
 
 MAJ. HOLMES CONRAD, 
 
 Solicitor-General U. S., of Washington City. 
 
 Maj. Holmes Conrad: "Mr. Chairman I announce a truism in the 
 statement that there is not one foot of ground within the limits of 
 this Union over which the laws of this government are not supreme. 
 There is not one foot of ground over which its gorgeous ensign is not the 
 unerring symbol of Federal supremacy. (Applause.) 
 
 "There is nothing in the history of this government that justifies any 
 man in the land in the notion that anything but law can determine and 
 control the exercise of governmental power. There is no act of any man 
 holding an office in this government that can be justified in the sight of 
 the law, except that action be in pursuance of some Federal statute or 
 settled rule of law. It is but a truism to say that public office is a pub- 
 lic trust. 
 
 "As well may we expect one into whose hands we entrust the wealth 
 of a national treasury to exercise his personal discretion in the disposal 
 of the treasure, as to justify one into whose hands has been confided 
 official power, to dispense that power in the advancement of his own 
 personal or political interest. 
 
 "Both parties if I may, in this hallowed assembly, refer to parties 
 and all parties have to agree that it is the duty of every officeholder to exer- 
 cise the power confided to him, not in the interest of party, not in the 
 interest of individual, not in the interest of section, but in the interest of 
 a government which they have sworn to support. (Applause.) 
 
 "It exists in the platforms, whether in fact it exists in the consciences 
 of those who stand upon them, that civil service is the only hope of the 
 efficient exercise of governmental power. Yet we have seen, and all 
 here who have held place in legislative, judicial or executive departments, 
 will attest the truth of the utterance, that nothing has so impeded, noth- 
 ing has so impaired the efficient execution of official power as the dispo- 
 sition on the part of the incumbent to exercise that power in the direction 
 of the advancement of a party of which he was a member.
 
 May 29 -June 2, 1805. 
 
 BIOGRAPHIC: 
 
 Holmes Conrad was born in Winchester, Va., January 31, 1840; educated at the Winchester Academy and University of 
 Virginia. 
 
 Enlisted as a private in Company A, First Virginia cavalry, Confederate army, April 17, 1861, and was appointed and remained 
 first sergeant of his troop until January, 1862, when he was transferred to and became lieutenant and adjutant of the 
 Seventeenth battalion, later the Eleventh regiment Virginia cavalry. 
 
 Captain and assistant inspector-general of cavalry brigade, and in October, 1864, promoted to major and assistant inspector- 
 general and served under Gen. Rosser to the close of the war. 
 
 Studied law and was admitted to the bar in January, 1866. Member of Virginia legislature in 1881-2, and elector-at-large in 1892. 
 
 Assistant Attorney-General of the United States, June, 1893. Solicitor-General of the United States, February, 1895
 
 6; 
 
 "But 1 have no interest in speaking on this subject. I do so only in 
 submission to the duty which the toast imposes upon me. I am strain- 
 ing up hill in getting away from the subject which inspires every heart 
 here to-night, and that is, the union of these soldiers here. What care I 
 for the civil power of this government now? What care I for the execu- 
 tion of the civil law? As I look back across this chasm of thirty years, 
 and see those who sometime stood in opposing ranks, now in all sin- 
 cerity, candor and heartiness clasping hands here at this festive board 
 to-night, I look forward in the spirit which has been inspired by those 
 who preceded me, as the Pilgrim in the immortal allegory looked from 
 the summit of the Delectable mountains over into the land called Beau- 
 tiful; and I am filled with hope that has been foreign to my heart for 
 thirty years, by the declarations that have come from the lips of those 
 whose sincerity I dare not doubt, whose candor and uprightness I will 
 heartily vouch for. 
 
 "Let men in the refinement of modern civilization declare that suc- 
 cess is the test of merit. For me, I dare to say for the Confederate side, 
 in the language of the Roman poet: 
 
 'Victrix causa Diis placuit 
 Sed victa Catoni.'" 
 
 (Calls of Underwood! Underwood! Underwood!) 
 Col. Turner: "If the audience will wait just one moment until the 
 last regular toast is responded to, Gen. Underwood, I have no doubt, will 
 be glad to respond to the request to hear from him. 
 
 "The next regular toast upon the list is 'The Individualism of the 
 American Soldier.' It is to be responded to by one whom I admire 
 and love, one of my old friends, who was personally very close to that 
 great southern soldier, Gen. Jackson, whom he served as staff officer 
 during the war Maj-Gen. Henry Kyd Douglas." 
 
 MAJ-GEN. HENRY KYD DOUGLAS 
 
 Of Maryland. 
 
 Gen. Douglas: "My New Friends and Old Enemies (Applause.) I 
 have lived long enough to be here, thank God ! (Applause.) There is a 
 special individuality in the American soldier, or we would not be here 
 to night. That special individuality has announced itself in the pro- 
 ceedings of to-day and for to-morrow in such a way as is not possible in 
 any other country. To-night we fight the last fight of the civil war.
 
 May 29 -Tune 2, 1895. 
 BIOGRAPHIC: 
 
 Henry Kyd Douglas, of Hagerstown, Md., was born in Shepherdstown, Va.; educated at Franklin and Marshall College 
 Enlisted in the Confederate States army as private in Second regiment infantry, Virginia volunteers, 1861; promoted lieutenant 
 
 and captain Company B, and served as assistant inspector-general of the Stonewall Brigade; A. D. C., A. I. G.,and 
 
 A. A. A. G , to Lieut. -Gen. Thos. J. Jackson in 1862. Chief of staff to Maj.-Gen. Edward Johnson, May, 1863. 
 Major and A. A. G., June 3, 1863; A. A. G. of Stonewall division; A. A. G. and chief of staff to Maj.-Gen. John. B. Gordon, and 
 
 subsequently to Lieut.-Gen. Jubal A Early, May 20, 1864. 
 Colonel Thirteenth and Forty-ninth Virginia regiments (consolidated), and assigned in 1865 to command the Light Brigade, the 
 
 Confederate troops that fired the last volleys at Appomattox. 
 Colonel First regiment infantry, state troops, Maryland, in 1881. 
 Judge Fifth judicial circuit, State of Maryland, 1891. Adjutant-general of Maryland, 1893
 
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 (Applause and cheers.) To-morrow we achieve the greatest military victory 
 of civilization. (Cheers.) There is but one city in this country that is 
 brave enough to have that done, and that is the City of Chicago. 
 (Tremendous cheering and applause.) In war we reached no farther 
 than Gettysburg, in peace we have captured the northern metropolis of 
 this great nation. (Cheers.) 
 
 " I came to speak to you as a southerner, with no explanations to 
 make and no apologies to give to any human being because I wore the 
 Confederate gray and followed the southern cross. (Applause.) I come, 
 knowing that I can speak to soldiers who know that the greatest military 
 honor that they could ever have achieved is to have conquered the army 
 that was commanded by Lee the soldiers that followed Stonewall 
 Jackson. (Great applause and cheers.) 
 
 "Marc Anthony said: 'We came to bury Caesar, not to praise him.' 
 You have buried these dead for us, and we come here to thank you and 
 to tell you of the heroism they exhibited when living. And we dare say 
 it here. There are, perhaps, those to-night in this land who are narrow 
 enough to shake their heads with disapproval and raise their voices with 
 dissent because of the proceedings that are to take place to-morrow. 
 Perhaps in the south doubtless in the south we have men who, if you 
 came to perform such a deed over your dead, might speak with bitter- 
 ness, but, so help the names of the Lees and the Hamptons and the 
 Butlers, we would crush them with the strong frown of American free- 
 men with the hand of the southern soldier. (Cheers.) 
 
 "There are those in some distant state, probably, whose names you 
 and I have never heard, who disapprove of the grand sympathy of these 
 people for our dead. I remember reading that he who burned the 
 temple of Diana at Ephesus was proud of achieving that unholy 
 immortality, and these men who wish to distinguish themselves by 
 opposition to this act of sympathy are men who never distinguished 
 themselves when the ranks were rolled in vapor and the flag of the 
 Union was dragged in the blood and the dust in the valley of Virginia. 
 (Applause.) 
 
 " That man never died in any cause who should not have been buried. 
 Those people dishonor themselves who do not honor those who lived 
 among them. We of the south do not forget our heroes, and when you 
 come among us to bury your dead, we will strip our rosebushes of their 
 flowers and drop one upon the grave of the Confederate and another 
 upon the grave of him who wore the blue. (Applause.) 
 
 "I want to speak plainly to you, because I have a right to do it. 
 During the war I served upon the staff of five distinguished Confederate
 
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 generals, and since the war have served upon the staff of five distin- 
 guished Union officers. (Applause.) The only time that McClellan ever 
 visited Antietam after the war he came as my guest, and when Hartranf t, 
 of Pennsylvania, died, it was not a Union soldier, but myself, that was 
 asked to pronounce the eulogy of the Third Pennsylvania division over 
 his grave. I stood at the open grave of McClellan, by the side of 
 Hancock and Joe Johnston, both now dead. I received a message from 
 the dying bed of Hancock. I have delivered more addresses before the 
 Grand Army of the Republic of the north than any Union soldier has 
 ever spoken in the south, and therefore I have a right to talk to your 
 people. (Applause.) I have served since the war with McClellan and 
 Hancock and Slocum and Ayers and Hartranft, and twice have I been 
 asked to be present and speak at the memorial services on the birthday 
 of your greatest leader, Gen. Grant. (Applause.) 
 
 "I remember now, I must speak of the 'Individualism of the Sol- 
 dier/ and I will be done in one moment. During the war my father's 
 home was on the banks of the Potomac. The troops under which I 
 served were on the Virginia side. I stood upon the cliffs of the Potomac 
 and looked over the field to where my father walked in his garden, and 
 I dared not speak to him. I saw 500 Union cavalrymen along the banks, 
 and when I raised my hat they asked me to come and meet them. I got 
 into a skiff with a courier and met them in the middle of the river. They 
 took me over to their side; I was not afraid of them; they were soldiers; 
 they were not politicians. (Applause.) Five hundred of them gathered 
 around me, and when I said I wished to see my mother and my sister, 
 as I stood in their midst, one of them said: 'You shall do it; damn a 
 government that can be destroyed by a man seeing his mother.' I saw 
 them that day, and these brave Union soldiers, when my mother 
 approached me, moved off 100 yards and stood along the banks while I was 
 holding sacred communion with her. And then they put me in my skiff 
 and sent me back to Virginia, although they knew perfectly well who I 
 was and where I was going. That was an act of the individual soldier 
 of America, and you are going to repeat that act to-morrow, when for the 
 first time in a northern state, upon Union soil, in the state consecrated 
 by the memory of Lincoln and of Grant, you people here are going to 
 unite with us in dedicating and consecrating and making sacred the dust 
 under which 6,000 Confederate soldiers lie. (Applause.) That is the 
 individuality of the American soldier, and nothing higher and grander 
 than that can occur. I say in the language of your great leader, 'Let us 
 have peace,' and may we all dwell together in unity until the time comes 
 when you and I and all of us, in the language of my own great leader,
 
 shall 'cross over the river and rest under the shade of the trees." 
 (Great applause.) 
 
 Col. Turner: "I take great pleasure in presenting to this audience a 
 man who, from my. own personal knowledge, has done more to make this 
 occasion possible than any other one man Gen. John C. Underwood." 
 
 MAJ-GEN. JOHN C. UNDERWOOD, 
 Of Kentucky. 
 
 Gen. Underwood: "Mr. Toastmaster and Fellow Citizens I did not 
 intend to utter a word to-night. This is the culmination of a twenty 
 years' thought, and for the past four years in this city a constant work. 
 Coming here in 1890 and grasping the broad thoughts and liberal actions 
 of these. people in this great northwestern city of our country, I said 
 to myself that the reason I had failed to bring about a success in the 
 same movement, which I had attempted in other sections of the United 
 States, was because I had mistaken the place, and that the harmonizing 
 demonstration was possible in Chicago while it failed in Philadelphia. 
 That the movement for reuniting the formerly belligerent sections was 
 possible with the people here, though it had failed elsewhere, and that 
 I would try it again. Then, beginning with the small amount of money 
 that had been raised by The ex-Confederate Association, through the 
 citizens of Chicago attending a lecture delivered by Gen. John B. 
 Gordon, and with that fund, turned over to me by the said association as 
 a nucleus upon which to build, I asked the citizens of this great 
 metropolis to help erect a tribute to the memory of the men who made 
 the generals, the common soldiers, lying under the sod in Oakwoods 
 cemetery. These men who died, because of the hardships in prison life 
 and their inability to endure the climate (coming as they did from a 
 warm section of the country), without any expectation of receiving rewards 
 because of high office and renown, thereby demonstrating to the man 
 liberal in his thoughts and just in his actions, that they possessed within 
 them a fortitude and bravery that any class could honor. I asked 
 the good people of Chicago to contribute, with the idea of enhancing 
 friendly interest throughout the land, and to bring back that old feeling 
 which we had before the war, that recognized every section of the 
 country as co-equal, and placed all the states upon such terms of 
 friendly intercourse that the Nation as a whole grew and prospered. 
 Such was my hobby and philanthropic theme for twenty years, and 
 although it had been a failure, to my cost of many thousands of
 
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 dollars on two other occasions, yet when I found the citizens of Chicago 
 made such a thing possible, I carried it on year by year until all 
 fully recognized the situation. They thought of the 6,000 mortals 
 that were buried three times underneath their sod, carried twice 
 across the city and finally interred in the government lot purchased 
 specially for them, the largest body of common soldiery, or, in 
 fact, any soldiery buried in one limited place throughout the entire 
 country, here in their midst. Recognizing that fact, and knowing from 
 the pulsation of the people that it was a possibility here, I have gone 
 forward, carefully, consistently and persistently, until it has culminated 
 in this deed of Chicago which will cause it to be heralded throughout all 
 time to come as the city that inaugurated the act bringing the south and 
 north together as it was before the war. (Applause.) 
 
 " It is not the question of what, kind of money you want to-day, gold 
 or silver, one or the other, or both, but the real vital problem to be 
 solved is how to make something out of nothing, to enrich the land, and 
 to do that successfully. Whether the movement is started by Chicago or 
 by any other city or section, it should be to redevelop that portion of the 
 south that needs assistance and requires the capital that can be easily 
 furnished and which should be done in confidence by the north, for 
 through combining the possibilities of the sun and the soil of the south- 
 land through culture, stimulated and enabled by the wealth of the north, 
 the southern country can be made to prosper as it did forty years ago. 
 
 "I came from a slave state; my father a slave owner, afterward, 
 when a colleague of Mr. Clay in the United States Senate, jointly 
 agreed with him to emancipate their slaves, freed and sent them 
 to Liberia. I went against my family, was the only man by my name 
 from Kentucky who entered the southern army. I spent half of my war 
 period in northern prisons; therefore, I can appreciate how the soldiers 
 whose memory we honor felt when they heroically served on the shores 
 of Lake Michigan in the stockades here, and sacrificed their lives for a 
 cause they thought honorable and just. Such fortitude is a monument to 
 any nation and a tribute to any cause; and now, thirty years after that 
 time, upon the principle of the 'Wars of the Roses,' in England, or of 
 the Eagles and Lilies, in France, why should we not look on one side as 
 having made an honorable record, and on the other as achieving a glorious 
 victory? I say, sir, it takes all the contingents of this country to make 
 the whole people, and that a city in any section thereof which recognizes 
 that fact is great in every sense of that term (Applause.) 
 
 " My life has been molded in a large degree upon the recollection of 
 a friendship that was worked out in the actual thrill and pressure of war.
 
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 I had a difficulty when a boy with a schoolmate, and at the beginning of 
 hostilities he enlisted in the army of the north, and I espoused the cause 
 of the south. When Gen. Bragg entered Kentucky from Tennessee, 
 the summer of 1862, I went to see my sister, living near Dechard, 
 Tenn., and by accident met a United States wagon train, escorted by a 
 squadron of Federal cavalry, in a long lane formed by lines of 'staked and 
 ridered ' rail fences on each side, and, consequently, impossible for my 
 horse to jump the fence to make a run for the foothills of the Cumber- 
 land mountains, or to get out of the lane in any way. I wore what was 
 known as a Kentucky gray hunting-shirt I do not know that any one 
 present has ever seen one and having an old black citizen's overcoat 
 behind my saddle, I pulled it up and buttoned it across my breast, so 
 that it hung loosely over my shoulders. I hid the bright buckle of my 
 pistol-belt by holding my hand over it, and when I got near enough to 
 recognize the features of the soldiers whom I was meeting in the road, the 
 first man in the front of the vanguard that was approaching me was the 
 self-same enemy of my youth, and to whom I had neither spoken, nor he to 
 me, for fifteen years. I would not have given a snap of my finger for my 
 life; and while imagining that I would grace one of the trees near by within 
 a few minutes, I determined, if I had to go to the bar of judgment that day, 
 I would send my enemy to the other world before I went, and undoubt- 
 edly showed the tire that I felt within, as I met and never took my eye off 
 of my supposed enemy, but when I rode up along by him, although he 
 looked straight forward between the ears of his horse and avoided open 
 recognition, I intuitively felt that he knew me, and upon reaching his side 
 he said in an undertone the first words spoken for fifteen years: 'All 
 right, John.' He was a Federal soldier, I a Confederate, and he knew 
 it. I was a possible spy (though not one), because I could not have 
 proven otherwise had I been arrested and tried by a drum-head court- 
 martial, for when an army is on a retreat there is no great deal of inves- 
 tigation as to whether a suspected prisoner is a spy or not. Anyway, I 
 fully realized my situation, and regarded my non-identification by my im- 
 agined personal enemy as a real act of friendship in life. That man 
 went on to Kentucky, and was killed in the battle of Perryville reported 
 to have been shot in two by a cannon ball. I do not know for certain the 
 particulars of his death, but I speak here to-night in acknowledgment 
 of his heroism, and assert, that I would cheerfully give this right arm 
 to bring him back to life again. (Applause). Such was true friendship, 
 and that is the principle upon which this monument was builded; it was 
 the prompting on which the Chicago people were asked to contribute 
 toward its erection, not because of anything living, but for the heroism
 
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 of the dead. And the broad heart of liberal Chicago, the superb metrop- 
 olis of the great northwest, philanthropically beating, makes possible 
 through the glorious culmination in free expression of all the feelings of 
 friendship and fraternity, so richly portrayed here to-night, the reunion 
 of the formerly belligerent sections. Long live a reunited people and 
 an undivided country." (Prolonged applause.) 
 
 Col. Turner: "There was on the program to-night a response from 
 a Union officer who is greatly respected among us and greatly loved, a 
 man who was the personal friend of our dead secretary of state, to whom 
 were spoken the last words, the last order which Gen. Gresham ever 
 gave as a military officer. Judge Tuthill writes this letter to explain his 
 non-appearance:" 
 
 JUDGE RICHARD S. TUTHILL, 
 
 Of Chicago. 
 
 (Letter.) 
 
 " Gentlemen: The death of my dear friend and companion in arms, 
 Walter Q. Gresham, and a call to attend a memorial meeting in his 
 honor to-night, at which arrangements for his funeral to-morrow will be 
 made, will, I much regret to say, deprive me of the anticipated pleasure 
 of being at the banquet given to visiting officers of the Union and Con- 
 federate armies. 
 
 "My heart and desires are and always have been for burying all the 
 bitterness which was engendered by the war in a grave deeper and more 
 silent than are those where rest the heroes of both sides who fell in the 
 great struggle. The men of the north and the men of the south claim a 
 common heritage of colonial history. Alike they fought under Washing- 
 ton to establish on American soil, government by the people. They are, 
 by all the ties that can bind men one to another, brothers. Such may 
 they ever remain. 
 
 "I propose as a sentiment for the toast to which I expected to 
 respond to to-night, this : 
 
 "The battlefields, the rifle pits, the earthworks, where a quarter of 
 a century ago heroic men, our brothers all, fought with a valor which 
 has not been surpassed in any age or land, and, actuated alone by high 
 and sacred convictions of duty, nobly sacrificed their lives therefor, were 
 soon by kindly nature hidden from sight with a covering of tender grass 
 and flowers and shrubs. Shall not the same Providence which causes 
 the grass to grow and the flowers to bloom upon soil once drenched with 
 fraternal blood, in like manner cover, as with a mantle of forgetf ulness, all
 
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 the evil passions of the war, its trials, its hardships and its terrors? Thus 
 alone can it be possible that that true reconciliation, indispensable to a 
 real union, shall be accomplished, when every man who lives under the 
 star spangled banner, the priceless gift of a common ancestry, shall feel 
 in the inmost recesses of his heart fraternal regard for all of his fellow- 
 citizens. Let us forget that we ever differed and hereafter vie with each 
 other only as to who shall do most to promote the welfare and glory of 
 our common country. Very respectfully, 
 
 " RICHARD S. TUTHILL." 
 
 (Great applause greeted the reading of this letter.) 
 The toastmaster then introduced Gen. Harry Heth, who spoke as 
 follows : 
 
 MAJ.-GEN. HENRY HETH, 
 Of Virginia. 
 
 Gen. Heth: "I will not go into the history of Gettysburg, but I 
 will tell you something that may be of interest to you, that I do not 
 think has ever been stated before, certainly not in public, and it refers to 
 your distinguished commander, Gen. Grant. 
 
 "In 1852 Gen. Grant and myself happened to be in St. Louis 
 together. He had nothing to do there; he came on to bring his wife 
 home, who at that time gave birth to their son, Fred. We had nothing 
 in particular to do and we were together during the day, played billiards 
 together, rolled ten-pins and took drinks. I had to go down to the 
 barracks on some business to see the commanding officer of the depart- 
 ment, and I missed the stage that went down at 10:00 o'clock, and I met 
 Grant and told him my misfortune. He said, ' Oh, that makes no 
 difference; I will drive you down with my fast horse that I brought down 
 from Detroit.' I said, 'All right; you dine with me at the Planters' 
 House; have your buggy there at 3:00 o'clock and we will drive down 
 together.' We did so. I went out and looked at this pony that he had 
 there, and I commenced to ridicule it, and he said, ' Get in and I will 
 show you how she will go after we get outside of the city limits.' I 
 still continued teasing him after we got into the buggy and he said, 'Well, 
 I will show you how she will go after we get outside of the city limits. ' I 
 made him mad and he pulled on the reins; the thing was going along at a 
 jogtrot, he hit it with a whip and it broke into a rack or pace, and it went 
 down the street like a streak of lightning; we had to turn an angle in 
 the street, and it ran into a cow, and Grant was thrown out and struck 
 the curbstone with his shoulders; I was thrown between two baskets of 
 cranberries, which broke my fall: Grant was knocked insensible, was 
 taken up by the people and taken into an apothecary establishment, laid
 
 MAJ.-GEN. HENRY HETH, 
 
 DURING THE SIXTIES. 
 
 BIOGRAPHIC: 
 
 May 29 -June 2, 1895. 
 
 lAPHIC: 
 Henry Heth of Washington, D. C., was born at Black Heath, Chesterfield county, Va., December 16, 1825; graduated at United 
 
 States Military Academy in July, 1847. 
 Commissioned in United States army: 
 
 Brevet second lieutenant, First infantry, July i, 1847; second lieutenant, Sixth infantry, September 22, 1847. 
 
 First lieutenant, June g, 1853; regimental quartermaster, November 24, 1854. 
 
 Captain, Tenth infantry, March 3, 1855; served in war with Mexico and on frontier. 
 
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 Resigned commission in United States army, April 18, i 
 Commissioned in Confederate States army: 
 
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 Member of board of Antietam battlefield commission, 1895
 
 77 
 
 on the counter, rubbed and brought to. Somebody caught the horse 
 and brought back the buggy. The shaft was broken and the harness 
 also. After he recovered, I said, ' Well, we must abandon our trip; we 
 cannot carry it out.' He said, 'No, the ordnance department is just a 
 few hundred yards below here; we will go down and have the buggy 
 repaired, and then we will go down to the barracks.' That was done, we 
 went to the barracks, and I transacted my business 
 
 "The next time I met Gen. Grant was at Appomattox. Gen. Lee 
 sent me up to his headquarters on some business. He was very glad to 
 see me, took me by the hand, asked me to come into a room, and we 
 had a talk, and he said: 'Heth, do you remember when we were last 
 together?' I said: 'Yes, at St. Louis.' He said: 'Do you remember 
 how near I came to breaking your neck and mine?' I said: 'Grant, it 
 would have made very little difference if you had broken my neck, but I 
 have wished, old man, a thousand times that you had broken yours.' 
 'Well,' he said, 'Do you remember anything special that occurred 
 down there when we were at the barracks?' I said: 'No.' 'Well, says 
 he, 'Do you remember who was there?' 'Yes,' I said, 'Hancock was 
 there, McDowell was there, Bragg was there, Gen. Clark was there, 
 whom I went down to see.' ' Well,' said he, 'do you recollect anything 
 that occurred there?' I said: 'No, I do not.' 'Well,' says he, 'I do. 
 Not one of those fellows asked us to take a drink.' 'Well,' says I, 
 'Grant, that reminds me of the fact that you have not asked me to take 
 a drink now.' 'Well,' says he, 'have you got a courier here?' I said: 
 'Yes.' Well,' said he, 'leave him here, and when you get to your tent 
 you will find plenty to drink there,' which I did." 
 
 Gen. Butler: " How much?" 
 
 Gen. Heth: " Two gallons." 
 
 "Now, I will tell you another little instance of another general, a 
 friend of mine. I was a guest of Gen. Burnside, in Washington. He 
 was very much depressed, as he had lost his wife, and he would sit up 
 till 2:00 o'clock at night attending to his committee work. Then he 
 would see something, apparently, that reminded him of his dead wife, 
 and he would break down, throw himself on his sofa, and throw his 
 arms around me, and I tried to console him in every way. This con- 
 tinued for some time, and finally he got up one night and he said: 
 ' Heth, what we want is a dinner party.' I said: ' That is just what we 
 want.' He said: ' How are you getting along with Grant and Sherman 
 and all those fellows?' Said I: 'Just as well as before the war.' 
 And so we gave a dinner party, and we sat down. Gen. Grant did not 
 come, but Sherman did, and all the old fellows, and I think there 
 were some twelve or fourteen at the dinner party. We sat down at 
 7:00 o'clock and got up at 3:00 o'clock. And they talked over all the wars
 
 MAJ.-GEN. S. G. FRENCH, 
 
 DURING THE SIXTIES. 
 
 May 29 -June 2, 1895. 
 
 BIOGRAPHIC: 
 
 Samuel G. French was born in New Jersey, November 22, 1818; graduated at United States Military Academy, in July, 1843. 
 Commissioned in United States army: 
 
 Brevet second lieutenant July i, 1843; second lieutenant Third regiment artillery, August n, 1846. 
 
 First lieutenant March 3, 1847; captain, assistant quartermaster, January 12, 1848. 
 
 Brevetted first lieutenant for gallant service at Monterey, Mexico, September 23, 1846. 
 
 Brevetted captain for distinguished service at Buena Vista, Mexico, February 23, 1847. Resigned his commission 
 
 in United States army April, 1856. 
 Commissioned in Confederate States army: 
 
 Lieutenant-colonel and chief of ordnance, Mississippi state troops, February 12, 1861. 
 
 Major, corps of artillery, C. S. A., April 2, 1861; brigadier-general, P. A. C. S., October 23, 1861. 
 
 Major-general, P. A. C. S., August 31, 1862; served in the western army and specially distinguished himself at Kennesaw 
 
 mountain. 
 Cotton planter, Greenville, Miss., 1856-79; afterward engaged in orange culture Florida. Resides at Winter Park, Fla.
 
 79 
 
 that they had ever been engaged in the Florida war, the Mexican war, 
 and then our war, the Civil war. I was sitting at the left of Gen. Sher- 
 man. Something was said, and he said: ' Heth, but you damned rebels wag 
 did so and so.' 'Well,' said I, 'stop, Sherman. I think if there are 
 two men that should go down on their knees and thank the Almighty for 
 raising up the rebels, those two men are Grant and yourself. If it had 
 not been for the rebels you would have been teaching school yet in the 
 swamps of Louisiana, and Grant would be -tanning leather at Galena." 
 The toastmaster then introduced Gen. French, who spoke as follows: 
 
 MAJ.-GEN. SAMUEL G. FRENCH, 
 
 Of Florida. 
 
 Gen. French: " The distinguished guests who have addressed you 
 this evening have expressed thanks to you gentlemen who represent this 
 great city, for the hospitality that its people have shown us, and yet I 
 am quite sure they will pardon me if I say they have fallen short of 
 expressing it in such measured terms as it truly merits. Perhaps the 
 highest exhibition of hospitality is that where the host makes the guests 
 the masters of his house, and this is the measure of the hospitality that 
 has been extended to us. 
 
 " I remember at early dawn, the morning after the battle at Franklin, 
 Tenn., I climbed over the Federal line of works and found therein, 
 among the dead, six or seven soldiers lying side by side, wounded and 
 unable to rise, protecting themselves from the cold by a blanket drawn 
 over them. Three or four of them were Missourians from my division, 
 and the others were Federal soldiers. I had with me a flask of whisky 
 and I said to them, ' Boys, here is some whisky for you, but I insist 
 that you who drink first shall be moderate so that the last man shall have 
 some.' They all promised that they would do so, and there was plenty 
 for the last man. 
 
 " And now I declare unto you that, from the morning of that sad day 
 to this evening of festivity, it has never once before occurred to me that I 
 was then ministering to the sufferings of a fallen foe. I numbered them all 
 alike, unconsciously, as friends. If then, prompted only by the dictates 
 of common humanity, the living soldier finds relief, surely to-morrow the 
 dead will have their ashes respected and committed to your care. 
 
 "Your actions in regard to the remains of those prisoners have been 
 inspired by a sympathy awakened by an advanced knowledge, intensified 
 by a higher and progressive civilization, and it places you on an elevated 
 plane of broad humanity from which you can securely look down on the 
 petty hates of those below, and pour oil on the bitter waters of strife 
 and still the yet rippling waves; and in doing this work of peace it will
 
 May 29-31, 1895. 
 
 BIOGRAPHIC: 
 
 William Lowndes Calhoun, a descendant of the South Carolina family, was born at Decatur, Ga., November 21, 18^7; was 
 educated in the private schools of Decatur and Atlanta, Ga., studied law and became a prominent attorney. 
 
 Mayor of Atlanta, two years- representative in the Georgia legislature, four years; and judge of the "Court of Ordinary and 
 Probate" of Atlanta for the past fifteen years, which position he at present holds. 
 
 Captain in the Confederate army; he served in the south and west nearly the entire war period and was severely wounded in the 
 battle of Resaca,Ga.; and, since the war, became lieutenant-colonel commanding Fourth battalion of infantry, Georgia 
 volunteers. 
 
 President of the Confederate Veteran Association of Atlanta, member of the Davis monument committee and judge advocate- 
 general of the Department East of the Mississippi River, U. C. V.
 
 8i 
 
 be told as a memorial of you, as oft as of the woman who poured the 
 box of precious ointment on the head of the great Galilean. 
 
 "A harmonious union of our people may change the destiny of the 
 world; and you may awake some morning to find your names written by 
 an angelic hand as high on the roil of those deserving heavenly favor, 
 as was the name of Abou Ben Adhem, written by an angel, because ' he 
 loved his fellow men.'" (Applause.) 
 
 (Calls for Calhoun.) 
 
 JUDGE W. L. CALHOUN, 
 
 Of Atlanta, Ga. 
 
 Judge Cathoun: ''Gentlemen It is entirely too late to speak to you 
 to-night. I only wish to make one remark, and that is, that we desire 
 to invite you of Chicago to come down to our exposition, which our 
 people say will be much larger than the Columbian exposition. (Laughter.) 
 
 "Just a word, gentlemen. I desire on behalf of the city I represent, 
 and the State of Georgia, to reciprocate most heartily the sentiments 
 which have been expressed. I thank God that this prevails everywhere 
 over this country, and that we come now to look upon the achievements 
 of the soldiers of the north and of the south as the common heritage and 
 common glory of the American people. I regard it as an event of the 
 nineteenth century, that here upon northern soil a monument to Con- 
 federate dead should be dedicated. It expresses and is, the indication 
 of a feeling that I believe now prevails throughout all this country, that 
 the war is at an end, and that we have but one country and one govern- 
 ment. I see all around me to-night the flag of the United States. I 
 have no hate in my heart for that flag. It was established by the heroism 
 of the soldiers of the north and the south, and I assert to-night, that if 
 the day should ever come, when either from within or without this gov- 
 ernment should be threatened, they will stand together, shoulder to 
 shoulder and arm to arm. to aid in defending and preserving it forever." 
 (Applause.) 
 
 Col. Turner: "All good things must come to an end. It is now 
 12:00 o'clock, and all these people have to go down to the cemetery 
 early in the morning. I want to say that I believe that all will join with 
 me in feeling that we are glad to have stood sponsors to the birth of a 
 new era. Rev. Jenkin Lloyd Jones will pronounce a benediction." 
 
 REV. JENKIN LLOYD JONES. 
 
 Pastor of All Souls' Church, Chicago. 
 
 Rev. Mr. Jones: "Into the glory of the greater future, into the peace 
 born out of heroism, into the hope that grows out of struggle and trial,
 
 PRIVATE JENKIN LLOYD JONES, 
 
 DURING THE SIXTIES. 
 
 May 29- 31, 1895. 
 BIOGRAPHIC: 
 
 Jenkin Lloyd Jones was born at Llandyssul, Wales, November 14, 1843; his parents immigrated to America when he was a year 
 old, and settled in the backwoods of Wisconsin. 
 
 Enlisted in the Sixth Wisconsin battery, August 14, 1863; served as a private throughout the war in the western army under Gens. 
 Grant, Sherman, and other commanders; took part in the battles of Corinth, Oxford, Port Gibson, Raymond, Jackson, 
 Champion Hills, Missionary Ridge, the sieges of Vicksburg, Chattanooga, Atlanta, and defense of Nashville. 
 
 After the war, worked on farm and taught school; studied four years at Theological school, Meadville, Pa.; ordained to the 
 ministry June, 1870; secretary of the Western Unitarian Conference for ten years; organized All Souls (Independent) 
 church, Chicago, in 1882, over which he still presides; is and has been managing editor of The New Unity tor eighteen 
 years; secretary of the general committee on the Parliament of Religions, and is general secretary of the American 
 Congress of Liberal Religious Societies.
 
 83 
 
 we would enter. Oh, thou Infinite Father, may we so live that we may 
 hasten the glad time that is to come, when the battle drum beats no longer 
 and the flags of war are furled, in the federation of man, in the parlia- 
 ment of peace, the brotherhood of man, the round world over, Amen." 
 
 Pertinent to the actions of Rev. J. L. Jones is the following letter: 
 Gen. John C. Underwood, U. C. V., Palmer House, Chicago, May 23, 1895: 
 
 "DEAR SIR AND BROTHER I have tried to find you that I might tell 
 you in person, that I find myself in closest fellowship with you and all 
 others who fain would conserve the memory of the brave and do honor 
 to the valiant, whatever the verdict of history may be upon their efforts. 
 I want to say to you further that I consider your efforts to honor your 
 fellow comrades not only perfectly legitimate but most commendable and 
 honorable, and as one who served as a private on the other side from you, 
 who met you and yours many times in the hot contest, I want to endorse 
 the project of dedicating on Decoration Day next the monument reared 
 in honor of the Confederate prisoners whose bones rest in Oakwoods 
 cemetery. Their death was a most pathetic witness to the sincerity of 
 their purpose, and if after thirty years the representatives of the contend- 
 ing armies can clasp hands over their humble graves, they certainly have 
 not died in vain. The outcome of the bitter warfare has been worthy 
 the sacrifice, if now we can clasp loving hands across what was once a 
 bloody chasm, but which chasm is now grass-grown and flower-garlanded. 
 The angel of history has made many things plain now, that were ambigu- 
 ous then. In the growing perspective of history things have grown clear 
 that once were obscure, but in all these revealments nothing has become 
 more clear than that not methods but motives, not what we accomplish but 
 the spirit in which we seek to accomplish, measures the worth of a man. 
 
 "Please do not interpret this letter as any intrusion upon your time 
 or your proceedings. I shall be pleased to take a silent place with you 
 on the 3oth, that I may thus testify by my presence rather than by any 
 word of mine to the fellowship I bear in my heart for you. There are 
 others whose voices will be more welcome, more fitting than mine and 
 who have far greater right to be heard, but I will gladly join in your 
 dedication exercises by my presence. 
 
 "I know nothing of the details of your program. It has occurred to 
 me that if any portion of your procession should be mounted, I have a 
 good saddle horse which I will be pleased to place at the disposal of any 
 member of your staff or will be pleased to ride her myself in such a pro- 
 cession. I will be glad to know your wishes in this matter. 
 
 "Allow me to subscribe myself as one who was once a sincere foe but 
 never a personal enemy, now your cordial fellow citizen and brother man. 
 
 "JENKIN LLOYD JONES."
 
 STAFF OF THE DIVISION OF THE NORTHWEST U. C. V. 
 
 Page 2. MAJ.-GEN. JOHN C. UNDERWOOD, Commanding Division. 
 ROSTER OF STAFF. 
 
 COL. SAMUEL BAKER, Chief of Staff. 
 
 No. i. LIEUT.-COL. GEO. FORRESTER, Adjutani-General. 
 
 No. 2. LIEUT.-COL. R. LEE FRANCE. Inspector-General. 
 
 No. 3. LIEUT.-COL. JERES. WHITE, Quartermaster-General. 
 
 No. 4. LIEUT.-COL. JOHN W. WHITE, Commissary-General. 
 
 No. 5. MAJ. BENJ. F. JENKINS, Aid-de-Camp. 
 
 No. 6. MAJ. CHAS R. TUCKER, Aid-de-Camp. 
 
 No. 7. CAPT. WILLIAM B. PHIPPS, Banneret.
 
 85 
 THE DIVISION STAFF. 
 
 The officers constituting this staff rendered efficient and valuable 
 service, fully appreciated by the commander, and for which he hereby 
 makes due acknowledgment and extends both official and personal thanks. 
 
 BIOGRAPHIC SYNOPSIS OF THE STAFF. 
 
 GEORGE FORRESTER of Chicago, a Kentuckian, at the commencement of the war was 
 publishing a newspaper in Maysville, Ky., when he was arrested and confined for several months in Fort 
 Lafayette, N. Y., in 1861. On being released he immediately went south and joined the Third Kentucky 
 cavalry of Gen. John H. Morgan's command, C. S. A., rose to the rank of captain and followed that 
 intrepid leader throughout his dashing career. He was severely wounded in the fight at Woodburn 
 Station, Ky., and upon recovery returned to his command, and finally surrendered at Augusta, Ga., in 
 May, 1865. He engaged in planting in Alabama until 1868. then moved to Chicago, and has been 
 employed there ever since in mercantile pursuits, at present being with Sprague, Warner & Co. He 
 vi as the first president of The ex-Confederate Association of Chicago and was re-elected to a second term. 
 
 ROBERT LEE FRANCE of Chicago, was born in Washington, D. C., moved to Baltimore, and, 
 running the blocka.de in 1862, went south and joined French's battery of Virginia artillery, C. S. A.; was 
 at the capture of Harper's Ferry, his battery firing the last gun and shot that killed Gen. D. H. Miles, 
 commanding the Federal forces. He was appointed sergeant of the battery and afterward ordnance 
 sergeant to Col. Alexander, chief of artillery of Longstreet's corps, and engaged in the battles of 
 Sharpsburg, Fredericksburg, Gettysburg and all the operations of the Army of Northern Virginia to 
 Petersburg; when, upon application, he was transferred to the "Maryland Line," ultimately became a 
 member of Col. Mosby's command, and, being captured by Merritt's cavalry, was first confined in the 
 old Capitol prison, Washington City, and afterward in the military prison at Elmira, N. Y., where he 
 was paroled in March, 1865, and, returning to Virginia, reached Richmond two weeks before the surrender 
 of Lee's army at Appomattox. He remained some time in Virginia, and then moved to Chicago, 
 and is there at present engaged in the coal business. 
 
 JERE S. WHITE of Chicago, was born near Aberdeen, Miss., moved to LaGrange, Tenn., 
 entered the military academy, and afterward the college, in 1860. At the outbreak of the war he went to 
 Mobile, Ala., and enlisting in the Gulf City Guards, C. S. A., participated in the capture of the ship 
 Danube off Fort Morgan, Mobile bay. He was commissioned a special courier in the secret service, 
 C. S. A., by Secretary of War Walker, and was sent with dispatches to various military commanders in 
 Arkansas, and operated later in north Mississippi and west Tennessee, and in the delivery of the same 
 and discharge of the various hazardous duties of such special service, he constantly encountered 
 difficulties, dangers, and experienced many hardships. He crossed and re-crossed the Mississippi river 
 several times, traversed the marshes and swamps of that river and various bayou bottoms, and had 
 many hair-breadth escapes. He finally surrendered with Gen. Forrest in May, 1865, and, going to New 
 Orleans, engaged in mercantile pursuits until 1879, when he moved to Chicago; was employed 
 commercially, and is now in the general commission business. 
 
 JOHN W. WHITE of Chicago, was born in Richmond, Va., and educated in Washington, D. C., 
 whence he went south at the beginning of the war and enlisted in the Seventh regiment infantry, 
 Georgia volunteers, C. S. A., May, 1861; was transferred to the First Virginia cavalry, February, 1862, 
 and participated in every battle fought by the Army of Northern Virginia, from Blackburn's Ford to 
 Chancellorsville, when he joined Col. Mosby's Forty-third Virginia battalion and remained with that 
 command until its disbandment after the surrender. He was captured during Gen. Early's invasion of 
 Maryland in July, 1864, and confined for about three months in the old Capitol prison at Washington 
 City, when he was exchanged. He moved to Chicago in 1866, and has been ever since engaged in 
 transportation and commercial business, and is now the manager of Jevne & Co. He is a past 
 president of The ex-Confederate Association of Chicago, which position he filled a second term. 
 
 BENJAMIN F. JENKINS of Chicago, was born in Richmond, Va., enlisted at Asheville, N. C., in 
 the "Buncombe Rifles," afterward Company E First regiment infantry, North Carolina volunteers, 
 C. S. A., in April, 1861, and commenced his first service with that command on the Virginia peninsula. 
 Upon the expiration of the term of service of his regiment, he joined Company K Third Virginia 
 cavalry, and served in that command to the close of the war. He was engaged in all the pitched battles 
 of the Army of Northern Virginia from the beginning to the surrender at Appomattox, and was severely 
 wounded four times, having been shot through the body at Gettysburg, but was never a prisoner. After 
 the war he engaged in mining phosphates in South Carolina for a year, then as a traveling salesman for 
 New York and Chicago houses, about twenty-two years, and is at present cashier of the Illinois state 
 grain inspection department in Chicago. 
 
 CHARLES R. TUCKER of Chicago, when a boy 16 years of age, ran away from his home in 
 Louisville, Ky., when that city was occupied by Gen. Buell's army. He crossed over the Ohio river into 
 Indiana and walked twenty miles to elude the Federal pickets, then recrossed into Kentucky and finally 
 reached and joined Gen. Abe Buford's Confederate" command at Frankfort, wheie he was almost 
 immediately under fire from Federal cavalry at a skirmish in defense of a bridge over the Kentucky 
 river. Having, boy-like, left home without anv kind of preparation, he soon became sick, and on the 
 retreat of the Confederates from Lexington, he was honorably discharged and left in a disabled condition 
 at a farmhouse in central Kentucky, and finally reached Louisville. Since the war he has been engaged 
 in mercantile pursuits in various cities and at present is in business in Chicago. 
 
 WILLIAM B. PHIPPS of Chicago, was born in Stratford-on-Avon, England, immigrated to 
 America about 1850, returned to England and again came to the "States" in 1855, purchased property 
 and settled in Greenville, N. C., the following year. He enlisted in Company C Forty-fourth regiment 
 infantry. North Carolina volunteers, C. S. A., June, 1862; was in the fights at Newbern, N. C ; Drury's 
 Bluff's, Va., and many of the principal battles of the Army of Northern Virginia, after Chancellorsville. 
 He was color-sergeant of his regiment, was wounded in the battle of "Hatcher's Run" and finally 
 captured at Petersburg, taken to and confined in the military prison at Point Lookout, Md He was in 
 the Confederate army three years and never sick or absent from duty. On being released from prison 
 in June, 1865, he sold his interests in North Carolina and moved to Chicago, where he has since been 
 engaged in mercantile transactions.
 
 THE MONUMENT.
 
 DESCRIPTION OF THE MONUMENT. 
 
 The monument is erected in the center of an oval plot, with axes 
 275 feet and 500 feet, in Oakwoods cemetery, Chicago, bought by the 
 United States government, in which to bury the Camp Douglas military 
 prison dead; and was constructed by the Southern Granite Company of 
 the widely known "Pearl " granite from its quarries at Constitution Hill, 
 Ga., which, for closeness of grain, beauty of texture and susceptibility of 
 receiving a brilliant and everlasting polish is unsurpassed; and, owing to 
 such superlative quality, it is particularly fitted for and has no superior 
 in the higher class of monumental and art work. 
 
 The memorial is truly a handsome creation of the stoneworkers' art, 
 and presents a dignified and imposing appearance, the correct propor- 
 tions being very noticeable in the chaste yet simple design, as follows: 
 
 The lower base or platform is fifteen feet six inches square, upon 
 which are laid three other bases; and, on the front of the center one, cut 
 in raised and polished letters of bold outlines, are the words, "Con- 
 federate Dead." The upper base is adorned with a series of rich mould- 
 ings and on the front of this stone is placed an enlarged model of the 
 well-known Confederate seal, worked in bronze, representing in relief a 
 mounted soldier (Gen. Washington) enclosed within a wreath, wrought 
 by entwining the foliage of products peculiar to the south. 
 
 The "die " of the monument is made of one massive stone, the dimen- 
 sions being six feet one inch square, by two feet ten inches high; it 
 has re-entering angles which are filled with groups of cluster columns 
 terminating in richly carved Romanesque caps; on the front is the 
 inscription and on the other three sides are placed artistic bronze panels. 
 
 An elaborate piece of masonry, ornamented with a carved wreath on 
 each of its four gables, forms the crown to the cap of ' ' die " and completes 
 the pedestal, from which as a base, springs the shaft, two feet six 
 inches square at bottom and twelve feet in height, surmounted with 
 a finely designed battlemented capital which supports a bronze statute 
 of a Confederate foot soldier, eight feet high. 
 
 In addition to the bronze panels, carvings, etc., cannon balls as 
 military emblems in the angles of the second base, greatly add to the 
 effect, and while the column is over thirty feet, the total height of the 
 monument, including the statue, is nearly forty feet. 
 
 The monument was designed by John C. Underwood, with Louis R. 
 Fearn as delineating architect.
 
 BRONZE STATUE OF CONFEDERATE INFANTRY SOLDIER, 
 SURMOUNTING CAPITAL OF COLUMN.
 
 8 9 
 
 THE STATUE. 
 
 The statue is over eight feet high, is that of a Confederate 
 infantryman, and every old soldier will recognize the figure as that of a 
 typical Confederate as he appeared at the close of the war. He stands 
 with folded arms looking down in regret upon the field where hosts of his 
 comrades sleep; with travel-stained clothing and shoes worn, he is the 
 picture of one who has suffered many hardships and whose defeat has 
 been accomplished only after a bitter struggle. He has on the usual 
 accoutrements of the soldier, and his face is typical of southern manhood. 
 
 This statue is true to nature and perfect in detail, even to the 
 placing of the trousers within the socks to guard against dust a com- 
 mon practice with Confederate infantry. 
 
 The figure represents the soldier after the surrender, is without mili- 
 tary arms, very impressive in its silent dignity, easy and natural in its 
 pose and readily conveys the story of the past. 
 
 The following epic poem to the deceased and monumented foe, by 
 L. M. Ennis, Hist. Vet. Corps First regiment infantry, I. N. G., is 
 appropriately quoted: 
 
 VICTORIOUS DEFEATS. 
 
 No chord was lost whose melody 
 
 E're cheered a heart of sorrow; 
 No cause was lost when patriots' blood 
 
 Gave pledges to the morrow. 
 
 No principle was ever wrong, 
 
 Tho' oft in life defeated; 
 The grandest armies men have seen, 
 
 Have from the field retreated. 
 
 The might of power has ever ruled 
 
 In great or lesser measure; 
 The pure have died in poverty, 
 
 While vice enjoyed the treasure. 
 
 "The battles lost, the battles won," 
 
 No matter which the story; 
 The dead have paid their awful price, 
 The living gain the glory.
 
 BRONZE PANELS ON THE PEDESTAL DIE. 
 
 THE CALL TO ARMS. 
 
 A VETERAN'S RETURN HOME.
 
 THE PANELS. 
 
 The panel on the east represents the "Call to Arms" at the beginning 
 of the Confederacy and is a very striking scene, one that relates the 
 story at a glance. Here is displayed the front of an old style courthouse, 
 with the numeral 1860 over the door. On one side of the door a 
 southern volunteer in uniform is represented, on the other a number of 
 persons flocking to the entrance are seen, some of them going in. 
 Figures representing men in various conditions of life, the laborer, 
 artisan and professional man are depicted as they are hastening from 
 their avocations, encouraged by their wives and daughters, to enroll 
 themselves beneath the southern battle cross, for the "call" has gone 
 forth throughout the length and breadth of the south and amid wild and 
 sectional enthusiasm all classes rush to the aid of their country. Many 
 a grizzled veteran gazing at this sculptured bronze picture in these later 
 and quieter days will mentally recall the beginning of the arduous 
 struggle, which has no parallel in history. 
 
 The panel on the west represents an extremely pathetic picture. It 
 is the return of the soldier to his home. The realism thrown into this 
 scene is wonderful. In the foreground of the medallion is an unarmed 
 Confederate soldier in rude and picturesque garb, leaning on a hickory 
 staff cut on his way returning from the "front," whose attitude reveals 
 deep dejection. He is gazing upon a dismantled log cabin and sorrow- 
 fully thinking of the past. The broken door lies extended across the 
 deserted threshold, part of the roof has been carried away by a round 
 shot, wild ivy has grown up and run over a corner, and the house of his 
 youth is a ruin. Solitude is pictured everywhere, and even the birds 
 are seen deserting the desolate surroundings of the soldier's destroyed 
 home. Near by lies a discarded cannon and war debris, and the sun, 
 slowly declining in the west, by its departing rays furnishes an appro- 
 priate setting to the picture, and lends completion to the idea sought to 
 be expressed by the deft hand of the sculptor, that of a blighted hope 
 and a ruined substance, portraying the cause that is lost. 
 
 The panel on the south side of the "die" is entitled "A Soldier's 
 Death Dream," and is an allegorical picture, representing a "private" 
 who, having received a mortal wound on the field of battle, has crawled 
 beneath the sheltering branches of a tree to die. The bronze design 
 further represents a field earthwork and stockade, with a gun silently 
 frowning through an embrazure, and a dead horse lying near by. The
 
 BRONZE AND GRANITE PANELS ON THE PEDESTAL DIE. 
 
 A SOLDIER'S DEATH DREAM. 
 
 THE INSCRIPTION.
 
 93 
 
 moonbeams disclose the dismantled fortification, and in the soft half-light 
 of the distance a battlefield stretches away. The wonderful feat of 
 working the moonlight into this scene has been done by the artist 
 with rare accuracy. The deathly stillness of the after-battle picture is 
 made more vivid by the drooping flag and the night effect produced by 
 the pale rays of the waning moon, shining through clouds, and the 
 hovering of a vampire bat, as an imaginary ghoul, over the hero remains 
 of the dead soldier. 
 
 On the north face the following inscription is worked in incised 
 letters upon a polished granite panel: 
 
 ERECTED TO THE MEMORY 
 
 OF THE 
 SIX THOUSAND SOUTHERN SOLDIERS 
 
 HERE BURIED, 
 WHO DIED IN CAMP DOUGLAS PRISON, 1862-5. 
 
 All the panels, bronzes and polished granite, are exquisite reproduc- 
 tions of the photographs even to representing the weather stains. 
 
 BENEATH HALLOWED SOD. 
 
 The Confederate prisoners dying in captivity are buried 'neath 
 northern sod. "Side by side they sleep the sleep that knows no waking," 
 away from home and kindred. To die is the last service a soldier can 
 render his country, but to die a prisoner in a hostile land, far from all 
 endearing associations, lends a special halo to his heroism. 
 
 The breezy call of incense-breathing morn, 
 
 The swallow twittering from the straw-built shed, 
 
 The cock's shrill clarion or the echoing horn, 
 
 No more shall rouse them from their lowly bed. 
 
 For them, no more the blazing hearth shall burn 
 
 Or busy housewife ply her evening care, 
 No children run to lisp their sire's return 
 
 Or climb his knees, the envied kiss to share. 
 
 Thomas Gray.
 

 
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 COMMANDER AND COMPLIMENTARY STAFF, 
 
 CONFEDERATE MEMORIAL PARADE. 
 
 ROSTER. 
 No. i. MA]. -GEN. JNO. C. UNDERWOOD, Commanding. 
 
 VOLUNTEER STAFF. 
 
 No. 2. GEN. JOS. P. ELLACOTT, Acting Chief of Staff. 
 
 No. 3. GEN. CHAS. S. BENTLEY, Acting Adjutant-General. 
 
 No. 4. REV. JENKINS LLOYD JONES, Acting Chaplain-General. 
 
 No. 5. MR. ALEX. H. REVELL, Aid-de-Camp. 
 
 No. 6. CAPT. MALCOM McNEILL, Aid-de-Camp (detailed). 
 
 No. 7. MR. CHAS. U. GORDON, Aid-de-camp.
 
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 THE COMPLIMENTARY STAFF. 
 
 The gentlemen forming this staff volunteered their services, were 
 accepted, and took part (mounted) in the Confederate memorial parade, 
 from the Palmer House, along Michigan avenue, to the Twelfth street 
 depot, May 30, 1895, for which service appreciate thanks are hereby 
 proffered. 
 
 BIOGRAPHIC SYNOPSIS OF THE STAFF. 
 
 JOSEPH PARNACOTT ELLACOTT, was born at Hatherleigh, England, December n, 1844; 
 immigrated to Chicago in 1854; graduated from the public schools and National Business College. 
 
 In the fall of 1858, although not old enough to be a member, he drilled with the Ellsworth Zouaves. 
 
 In 1862 he organized and was elected captain of the Union Park Home Guards. 
 
 In the fall of 1864, when the news came that an attempt was to be made to liberate the prisoners 
 in Camp Douglas, he reported his command to Col. Sweet, the commandant of the prison, for active 
 duty. After the war he pursued scientific studies and became a mechanical engineer. He was super- 
 intendent 'of machinery of the Inter State Industrial exposition in 1881 and chief engineer of the 
 World's Exposition of Railroad Appliances in 1883. 
 
 He was one of the early advocates for a military branch to the I. O. O. F., and after its successful 
 organization, attained the rank of major-general, as a reward for meritorious service, and is an active, 
 scientific, broad minded man. 
 
 CHARLES S. BENTLEY was born in Schoharie. N. Y., and moved to La Crosse, Wis. Enlisted 
 in Second Wisconsin cavalry, October 10, 1861; promoted sergeant, then first lieutenant, and became 
 captain of his company, D, July 4, 1864. Served as aid to Gen. E. B. Brown at the second battle of 
 Springfield, Mo., and was recommended for promotion "for bravery on the battlefield " Served as 
 acting assistant adjutant-general at the battles of Prairie Grove, Ark.; Newtonia, Mo., and the raid on 
 Van Buren, Ark., and was appointed acting inspector general of the cavalry brigade at Vicksburg. 
 
 He was mustered out of the United States service in February, 1865, at Memphis, Tenn. 
 
 After the war he went to Iowa, joined and served seven years in the State militia, four of which 
 as brigadier-general, commanding the Second brigade. He commanded the Inter-State military 
 encampments at Dubuque, Iowa, Nashville. Tenn., and, in 1885, Camp Drum, at Mobile, Ala. 
 
 He moved from Dubuque, Iowa, to Chicago, where he is now in business. 
 
 JEN KIN LLOYD JONES is a Welshman by birth, an American by adoption and a minister of the 
 gospel and editor by cultivation and ability. [See his "Biographic" on page 82]. 
 
 ALEXANDER H. REVELL was born in Chicago, 111., January 6, 1858. Educated in the public 
 schools of the city and under special tutors. He began his business career as a poor boy, but has rapidly 
 pushed to the front, and is to-day at the head of one of the largest and most successful business houses 
 in the western country. 
 
 He is a member of the various clubs of Chicago and takes active interest in all public matters; and, 
 though never a candidate for public office, he has been a member of the school board. 
 
 He is a self-made man in the truest sense, and as such is a most active type and thorough 
 representative of an energetic, determined and prosperous business man of Chicago. 
 
 MALCOM McNEILL was born in Kentucky, October, 1846; taken by his father to his plantation 
 in Mississippi, and at the beginning of the war, at the age of 15 years, he joined "Henderson's Scouts," 
 a noted body of independent cavalry, and afterward the Eighteenth Mississippi regiment of Forrest's 
 cavalry, C. S. A.; was in many engagements, including the bloody battle of Franklin, Tenn. At the close 
 of the war he completed his education, and in 1868 commenced mercantile business near Grenada, Miss., 
 whence he moved to Chicago in 1875 and engaged successfully in large real estate transactions. 
 
 He is a member of the Chicago Real Estate Board, chairman of the board of control, National Real 
 Estate Association, and was actively engaged relative to the World's Real Estate Congress at Chicago in 
 1893. He was captain and aid-de-camp to Gen. Chas. Fitz-Simons, First brigade, I. N. G., 1883-1888; acted 
 as brigade quartermaster in 1884, and took part in quelling strikes of that period. 
 
 He is one of Chicago's energetic business men and enjoys the respect of his associates. 
 
 CHARLES ULYSSES GORDON, was born in Dunlap, Peoria county, 111., April 3, 1865, and 
 obtained his early education in the public and high schools in and near the place of his birth. He was 
 appointed a cadet to the United States Military Academy, but owing to ill health, resigned, and after- 
 ward graduated at Bryant's College and studied law in Chicago, where he went in 1881. 
 
 He at first engaged with several large manufacturing firms, afterward entered the real estate busi- 
 ness, in 1885, and is a member of the Chicago Real Estate Board and served as its secretary for one year. 
 
 He is a member of the Union League, Chicago. Athletic and Marquette clubs, and is the present 
 president of the latter; is a prominent Mason, a member of the Art Institute and Civic Federation; and. 
 as one of the leading young Republicans of Chicago, takes a prominent part in local, state and national 
 politics; is of the most active type of Chicago's energetic young business men, liberal in his views and 
 ever ready to advance the interests of his city. Member of First regiment infantry, I. N. G., in 1883 and 
 has held several positions of military honor.
 
 May 29-31, 1895. 
 BIOGRAPHIC: 
 
 M. L. C. Funkhouser was born January 17, 1864. at St. Louis. Mo., and educated in the St. Louis High school. 
 
 At the age of 17 he commenced active business in St Louis, and afterward went to New Orleans where he remained a short 
 while, and then, returning to St. Louis, he was engaged commercially there until 1884, when he moved to Chicago. Shortly 
 after reaching Chicago he entered the office of Geo. W. Montgomery & Co., which firm becoming general agents of the 
 Fidelity and Casualty Company for the west in 1886, he was made assistant general agent in 1888; and later, was 
 promoted to one of the general agencies and admitted to partnership in both the local, fire and general agency business 
 and is a thorough and most active business man. 
 
 He was five years lieutenant of the Chicago Hussars; two years captain of the Chicago City Troop, now Troop "C," I. N. G., 
 which position he still holds He takes great interest in military affairs, has a commanding, soldierly appearance and is 
 an affable, courteous gentleman.
 
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 CONFEDERATE MEMORIAL PARADE. 
 
 [Compiled from Inspection and Reports.] 
 
 Decoration Day in Chicago was like nothing in the history of nations. 
 It sent in the same line the victor and the vanquished, each with gar- 
 lands for its own army of dead, with the uncounted thousands from the 
 heart of the city to Oakwoods, cheering for the memory of heroes, of 
 friend or foe. 
 
 It was the first time since the first shot that warriors from the north 
 and cavaliers from the south forgot entirely revengeful bitterness and en- 
 gaged in such a public demonstration of unity. It marked an epoch. The 
 multitudes heard upon the same winds plaudits for the men who died for 
 their country and the yell which led the hardest and bravest enemy that 
 ever faced fire. 
 
 It was this unique feature that brought to the city a crowd which 
 barely found standing room in the stretch of territory reserved for the 
 ceremony. The streets began to fill shortly after sunrise, the visitors 
 and townspeople, the dwellers above and below the line between here 
 and Dixie, gathering to witness the spectacle a scene not possible 
 in any other land that knows the sun. They climbed into points of van- 
 tage, into balconies and windows, swarmed about the sides of the boule- 
 vards and into the cemetery, long before the roaring guns on the lake 
 front belched the starting signal. 
 
 This host grew in rapid thousands with each hour, pushing, jamming, 
 scrambling for positions. It was equal to the scenes of World's Fair 
 fetes, and when the commander with his staff tried to leave the Palmer 
 House to begin the famous march he found Monroe street in possession 
 of men and women bound to welcome the forgiven enemy. Policemen 
 begged and then belabored the front rows of people, persistent in their 
 determination to see at close range the distinguished Confederate 
 leaders. 
 
 The parlors and corridors of the Palmer House presented an animated 
 scene. The Confederate party was to have left the hotel for the Twelfth 
 street depot at 8:00 a. m., but owing to the late hour at which they left 
 the banquet few of them were ready at that hour. 
 
 Instead of 8:00 a. m. it was 9:30 a. m. when the march to the depot 
 began. City Troop men were lined across the way, with swords at 
 a "present." It was a slow task to start. There was no space for the 
 parade, but, turning their horses into the throng, the cavalry detachment
 
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 opened a space to Michigan boulevard, and the first procession of southern 
 soldiers in a northern city was under way. The formation of the column 
 was as follows: First, a platoon of police commanded by Lieut. Hayes 
 second, the Chicago City Troop, Capt. Funkhouser, as escort; Gen. Under- 
 wood and staff, mounted, and fifteen carriages containing the Confeder- 
 ate visitors and other guests. The first carriage contained Gen. Long- 
 street and his family; the second, Gen. Hampton, Gen. S. D. Lee, Col. 
 Belknapand Mr. E. F. Lawrence; Senator Butler and Gen. Fitzhugh Lee 
 occupied the third carriage. Other carriages contained Gen. H. A. 
 Wheeler and staff of the Illinois National Guard, the remainder of the 
 guests and the committee. The column moved down State street to 
 Adams street, east to Michigan avenue, and south to the depot. 
 
 Gen. Orendorff, Gen. H. Kyd Douglas, Maj. Robt. W. Hunter and 
 Messrs. Malcom McNeill and F. V. Robinson chaperoned Misses Eliza 
 Washington, Isabelle Armstrong, Margaret Cox, Virginia and Laura 
 Mitchell, the young ladies delegated to ring the Columbian liberty bell. 
 The party proceeded the procession to a point on Michigan avenue, near 
 the Leland Hotel where the liberty bell, mounted on a wagon drawn by 
 four horses, occupied the entire center of the roadway. The young 
 ladies alighted from the carriages and, taking the rope in their hands, 
 rang out thirteen strokes, while the masses of people who had gathered 
 on the lake front to witness the ceremony, cheered vociferously. 
 
 Scarcely had the echo of the last stroke died away when the cannon 
 of Russell's artillery thundered forth a national salute of forty-four guns 
 in acknowledgment of a reunited country and welcome to the southern 
 men and women who had come north to honor their dead and strew the 
 graves of two armies with sweet flowers from Dixie land. Battery D 
 drawn up so as to present its full strength near the Art Institute on 
 Lake Front park, never appeared to better advantage, and, unsurpassed 
 as a national guard organization, its war-like appearance and the boom 
 of its guns so inspired the military chieftains, as they passed its battery 
 front, that they called attention to such battle music as a fitting intro- 
 duction to the after ceremonies at the graves. The parade continued 
 along Michigan avenue to the Twelfth street depot, and the desire of 
 the populace to be gracious was manifested from its first appearance 
 throughout the entire line of march. Capt. Russell's battery was 
 ringing the echoes on the shore, but high above this din and the clatter 
 of cavalry hoofs people shouted good cheer to Longstreet, Hampton 
 and the Lees. They lifted their hats in honor of the generals, each 
 bearing on an arm that knows a saber swing some fair daughter of the 
 land of fairest women, and each received the clamorous reception by 
 chivalric acknowledgment.
 
 May 30, 1895. 
 
 BIOGRAPHIC: 
 
 Alfred Russell was born in Boston, Mass., April 7, 1836; was educated in the public schools of New York city, and went to 
 Chicago in April, 1855. 
 
 He engaged in active business and finally became established on South Water street, where he has been a successful merchant 
 and financier for thirty years. 
 
 Possessing a natural taste for the profession at arms, he joined the Chicago Veteran Light Artillery organized January 19, 1878, 
 now "D" Battery Light Artillery, I. N. G., and was elected and commissioned junior second lieutenant November 27, 1880, 
 and re-elected for three terms: was promoted first lieutf-nant February 17, 1894; commissioned captain July 7, 1894, and is 
 now major First Battalion Liaht Artillery. I. N. G. The high standing, perfect discipline and general excellence of 
 "Battery D," is, in the main, due to his powers of organization, martial spirit and gre'4t exe"utive ability. 
 
 He is a very prominent thirty-third degree Freemason, having been commander-in-chief of Oriental Consistory 1885-7 and 
 grand treasur er of the Illinois Council of Deliberation.
 
 103 
 
 The greatest curiosity was exhibited in regard to the most prominent 
 southerners. Every one who could point them out had a crowd of 
 people around him who seemed thankful for the information. Some of 
 the hotels on the line of march were decorated with flags hung on the 
 front, and the flags on the flag-staffs were at half-mast. At the depot 
 the police and City Troop wheeled into line and Capt. Funkhouser 
 caused his command to give military honors to the distinguished 
 personages as they passed. The transfer from carriages to the train 
 and the trip to Sixtieth street were accomplished smoothly and agreeably. 
 
 At Sixtieth street, when the visitors left the train, they took carriages 
 again, and from that point were escorted by the Black Hussars, Capt. 
 T. S. Quincey, commanding, to Oakwoods cemetery, the first part of the 
 drive being on the Midway Plaisance. At every point of their pro- 
 gress they saw solid columns of people moving along the streets toward 
 the same spot, sj that after they had passed through the cemetery gates, 
 where The ex-Confederate Association, Maj. B. F. Jenkins, command- 
 ing, stood with uncovered heads to welcome them, they were not 
 surprised to find that a throng of 100,000 people had preceded them 
 and captured everything, except the speakers' stand, that would afford 
 a view of the proceedings, not excepting eligible branches of the trees. 
 When the head of th^ column arrived it was impossible to get near 
 the iron gates as the news spread that the famous soldiers of the 'Most 
 cause " were coming. Women and men struggled with one and another 
 in attempts to be close spectators. A committee representing The ex- 
 Confederate Association of Chicago and ladies had previously taken 
 charge of the floral decorations and, so distributed the many carloads of 
 plants and flowers sent from the south, that palms, magnolias, jasmines 
 and tropic creepers had m ide the Confederate sacred three acres like a 
 nook in a planter's garden. Laurel wreaths marked the concentric 
 trenches in which the bones of the brave southerners lie side by side, 
 with beautiful lilies and palmettos drooping over them in groups of 
 hundreds. The sighing poplars held festoons of the vines, and hanging 
 mosses of the south; while roses and magnolia buds and blossoms 
 covered the sod of the leveled mounds. 
 
 Approaching the government lot, the Black Hussars swept into sight 
 and following them came the United Confederate Veterans and the 
 guests of the day. To the right and the left fell the crowd, and the men 
 who, in their half undress uniforms still preserved memoiies of old days, 
 were given the place of honor. 
 
 The speakers were conducted to the platform, and were followed by 
 the representatives of the south, men and women; and there, to meet 
 them, were many of Chicago's most prominent citizens.
 
 105 
 
 Most of these gentlemen were accompanied by ladies, who were 
 gowned exquisitely. Many of the younger of the southern girls were in 
 white; those who were not, wore soft gray or black. Many people had 
 expected to see Gen. Lee and others in some sort of uniform, and felt 
 aggrieved that the only bit of bright color on the platform was made by 
 the splendid uniforms of Gen. Wheeler and his staff and the Columbia 
 Post, which, after decorating the graves of comrades, assembled near 
 the monument. 
 
 While the speakers and guests were assembling on the grand stand 
 the military band discoursed appropriate selections; and after the music 
 ceased the ceremonies were commenced with the following: 
 
 INTRODUCTORY REMARKS 
 
 By GEN. JOHN C. UNDERWOOD 
 
 "Fellow Citizens: 
 
 "It becomes my duty on this occasion to officially explain the objects 
 of this movement toward monumenting the prison dead of a lost cause, 
 which I shall endeavor to do plainly and briefly by the following 
 statement of facts: 
 
 "The close of the civil war of 1861-65 found the south destitute of 
 almost everything save the manhood of the few surviving men and the 
 purity of its women. Principles of the past and desires for the future 
 were submerged by the mighty sea of necessity under a motto of "To 
 do," to meet and solve the immediate problem of life. Therefore, for 
 the time, the proper caring for the dead and monumenting heroism had 
 to be put aside for the sterner need of making bread and obtaining other 
 physical requirements, but the heart pulsation to honor the buried 
 remains of a soldiery that could do and die existed. When times became 
 better and the natural resources of the southland enabled it to bloom 
 and blossom, its people began to care for their hero dead, and the flame 
 that was formerly latent burned into an active desire to erect tributes to 
 the sleepers of the "sixties." 
 
 "This germ grew to such an extent that an organization was effected 
 among the battle-scarred soldiery of the south, known as the United 
 Confederate Veterans, and the little body of ex-Confederates who had 
 previously formed themselves into The ex-Confederate Association of 
 Chicago merged into Camp No. 8, United Confederate Veterans. The 
 said ex- Confederate association was born out of the desire of its members
 
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 to monument the prison dead here buried, after the funeral of Gen. 
 U. S. Grant, for the part taken therein by the Confederates of highest 
 standing caused the Chicago contingent to believe that it might be 
 allowed to erect a monument over the thousands of southerners beneath 
 this sod. Consequently permission was obtained from the secretary of 
 war during President Arthur's administration and the good work was 
 begun. The first fund raised for the purpose was about $1,400, the net 
 proceeds from a lecture delivered in Chicago by Senator John B. Gordon 
 of Georgia, now the president of the United Confederate Veterans; and 
 when I came to Chicago and joined the local association in 1891, accept- 
 ing the appointment as a committee of one to raise funds and erect a 
 monument over the Camp Douglas prison dead, I received the money 
 from the Gordon lecture with interest, amounting to over $1,500, as a 
 nucleus upon which to build. After years of solicitation I was so far suc- 
 cessful as to add to the fund several thousand dollars, and then designed 
 and contracted for the erection of this monument, submitting my plans 
 to and receiving instructions directly from the United States army 
 officers, having military control of the government plot on which it 
 stands. Three-fourths of the money was subscribed by the liberal 
 citizens of Chicago, the other quarter having been donated in varying 
 small amounts from a hundred or more camps of the United Confederate 
 Veterans in the south. 
 
 "After the successful erection of the memorial structure in July, 1893, 
 I determined to secure an appropriate donation of ordnance from the 
 government, and accordingly on application to Congress, through the 
 instrumentality of Senator Gordon, got a bill passed through the United 
 States Senate appropriating four cannon, shot and shell to ornament 
 these grounds. The Senate bill failed to be reported by the military 
 committee of the house through the first to the last days of the second 
 session of the late Congress, when upon my personal applicatibn to the 
 house committee it was unanimously approved, presented to and passed 
 the house without objection, and the act was approved by the President on 
 January 25, 1895. In securing the cannon from the war department 
 Gen. D. W. Flagler, the chief of ordnance, United States army, by 
 his activity and research very kindly enabled me to obtain guns with a 
 battle record, and consequently the battery here presented is of such 
 renown as to make it a fit accessory to a monument for heroism, such 
 as was displayed by the private soldiers here interred, shown by their 
 fortitude, firmness and bravery even unto death. From careful investi- 
 gation it appears that over 6,000 Confederate soldiers died in Douglas 
 prison and are here buried in concentric trenches which cover nearly the
 
 entire three -acre plot, there being 4,317 names on the registers of the 
 cemetery and over 400 additional on the mortuary lists in the war 
 department at Washington of those who died with smallpox, thereby 
 making the recorded dead more than 4,700, to which should be added 
 some 1,500, the record of whom was either burned or lost. 
 
 "Mr. Farwell, now deceased, the former president of Oakwoods 
 Cemetery Association, stated to me the fact regarding the missing regis- 
 ter, and therefore the interments can in round numbers be safely placed 
 at 6,000. In addition to the Confederate prisoners sleeping here are 
 twelve Federal soldiers, who, as prison guards dying with smallpox, 
 were buried with the Confederates. The remains of this soldiery were 
 first interred near the prison inclosures, afterward exhumed and conveyed 
 across the city at night to Lincoln park, where after a limited sleep the 
 6,000 were again disinterred, brought back at night and trenched in this 
 lot purchased by the government for the special purpose. 
 
 "The government lot was for many years covered by a thicket of 
 undergrowth and trees. .The concentric mounds of the trench-graves 
 were first decorated with flowers by Col. C. R. E. Koch and two Grand 
 Army posts of Chicago and Englewood in 1876, and ever since have 
 received attention at the hands of brave men. In monumenting these 
 remains the ex-Confederate element and the contributing citizens of 
 Chicago materially expressed the desire to honor the heroism of a 
 soldiery that possessed sufficient courage and determination to endure 
 the hardships of military confinement, culminating in death; and which, 
 by such fortitude enriched history with the character of a people, whose 
 private soldiers, even under most trying circumstances gave life to their 
 cause. These are the facts, and it is for others to enlarge and orate 
 thereon. 
 
 "In recognition of the liberal element of the former opposing forces, 
 I have selected a man to preside on this occasion who is the embodiment 
 of honor, justice and moralit)', a broad representative of the Union 
 veteran, a humanitarian and Christian gentleman. I now have the 
 pleasure and honor to place in the ceremonial chair the Rev. H. W. 
 Bolton, pastor of the Centenary Methodist church and past commander 
 of U. S. Grant Post No. 28, Grand Army of the Republic."
 
 REV. K. W. BOLTON, 
 
 OAKWOODS CEMETERY, MAY 3O, 1895. 
 
 May 29-31, 1895. 
 BIOGRAPHIC: 
 
 Horace Wilbert Bolton was born at Orrington, Me., in 1839; received a liberal education; enlisted in the United States army in 
 
 1862; served through the civil war and was discharged in 1865. 
 
 Began to study for theministry in Methodist Episcopal church in 1865; ordained deacon in 1869, and elder in 1871. 
 Filled several prominent pulpits in New England, viz: Park Street church, Lewiston, Me.: Trinity church. Charleston, and 
 First church, Boston, and was transferred to First church, Chicago, in 1885, pastor Centenary church, Chicago, in 1890, 
 
 and South Park Ave., church, Chicago, 1895. 
 
 Author of " Home and Social Life," " Patriotism," " Souls' Cry," " Fallen Heroes," " Reminiscences of the War," and 
 
 " America's Next War." 
 Chairman of the Ceremonies Dedicating Confederate Monument, Chicago, May 30, 1895.
 
 log 
 ADDRESS. 
 
 By REV. H. W : BOLTON, D.D. 
 
 "Gen. John C. Underwood, Gentlemen, Comrades and Friends: 
 
 "In accepting this honored position I cannot refrain from saying a 
 word. Never in the history of any people were so many distinguished 
 ex-officers of contending forces brought together for the purpose of 
 dedicating a monument erected to the memory of the heroic dead. It 
 is truly an auspicious occasion, for which we are indebted to Gen. 
 John C. Underwood, whose untiring devotion and persistent effort to 
 cement in fraternal bond the two sectional elements of the general 
 country is without a parallel. Blessed is that man or people who com- 
 memorate the valor, courage, loyalty and conviction of men, for in 
 biographical history is stored all that renders it valuable. Drop 
 the names of a few men from Egyptian history and it would be 
 read no more. Greece is indebted to the lives of Phidias and Socrates 
 for its preservation and place in history. In the study of their lives 
 and times we may learn all that is of value to the student. So with 
 all kingdoms and republics. To-day we stand with comrades at the 
 graves that are not simply houses for the dead, but vaults in which the 
 Nation's power, fame and glory is stored. Thirty years have swept over 
 these graves, the dust of wasting forms, and yet they are centers of 
 sufficient power to arrest a nation in its march and call a generation, 
 born since they were made, from home, hothouse and conservatory, 
 hillside and valley with flowers gathered, selected, arranged and trans- 
 ported for the decoration of the sacred dead. Every heart in this 
 broad land is made broader and more patriotic by the services of this 
 day in this place. If there were no words spoken or songs sung, an 
 hour among the dead who gave up life for convictions, with muffled 
 tread and silent prayer would impress us with a sense of that self-sacrifice 
 which is most sacred to a nation's well-being. None can move among 
 the disembodied spirits of such men without being inspired for better 
 service. We come not as the soldiers of Grecian and Roman armies, 
 but as brothers of one country. We have had trouble, 'tis true, and 
 every thinking people will have. We entertained different ideas 
 relative to government and polity- -ideas that begot convictions resulting 
 in war, but we fought, not to destroy but to maintain, and now that the 
 Union is preserved and all men, north and south, cheerfully accept the
 
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 results, support the government and obey the constitution, why should 
 we be enemies or keep up a line of defense? Some months ago an 
 American lady traveling in Europe was invited to visit the British 
 Museum and on entering the room where the relics of American history 
 are stored, the lady said to her guest, ' I suppose you would like to 
 see the flag we captured at Bunker Hill?' 'Oh, no,' said the American 
 lady, 'I am not particular about that, we have the hill I believe, and 
 you're quite welcome to the flag.' So to-day we have the Union, and 
 you have the Union, and we are sons of the patriots who knelt upon 
 these wild and inhospitable shores to consecrate America to freedom 
 and to God. 
 
 "Amid the storm they sang, 
 
 And the stars heard and the sea, 
 And the sounding depths of the deep woods rang 
 To the anthem of the free. 
 
 " It is now too late for us to say what ought to have been done or what 
 could have been done. All of those questions have been settled in the 
 lapse of time. A generation has been born and bred since we shook 
 hands and threw down our arms; a thousand interests claim our attention 
 that have been developed since the war, and there remains but one 
 thing for us to do, and that is well expressed in the couplet of an 
 old hymn: 
 
 "To serve the present age; 
 
 My calling to fulfill, 
 Oh, may it all my powers engage, 
 To do my Master's will. 
 
 "Those born since the close of the war are now in the majority and 
 must be impressed with the spirit of the survivors. If it be magnanimous, 
 they will be inspired with that patriotism and loyalty which the conflict 
 developed, and I verily believe that no heroic sacrifice is ever lost, and 
 that the characters of men are moulded and inspired by what they 
 inherit, and by the interests they adopt and maintain. How much this 
 country is indebted to the war of 1861 and 1865 no man can tell. 
 Emigration began to take on its cosmopolitan features about the time 
 of our trouble; emigrants from all parts of the world came among us, 
 bringing the traditions and prejudices and national peculiarities of the 
 whole earth. Many of them entered the Army of the United States as 
 Englishmen, Irishmen, Scotchmen, Germans and Frenchmen, but such 
 as survived came out of the war Americans. I have heard the stubborn
 
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 Englishman, the heroic Scotchman, the enthusiastic Irishman, 
 hearty German and the fun-loving Frenchman join in singing 
 
 "My country 'tis of thee, 
 Sweet land of liberty, 
 Of thee I sing. 
 
 as lustily as though they had all been born and reared on these shores. 
 "As true Americans we ought to enter into the service of this day with 
 the same enthusiasm that characterized the days of enlistment, organiza- 
 tion and conflict. Turning from the busy marts let us hasten to the 
 mountains, whose rugged brows offer flowers, and decorate the graves 
 with a spirit so catholic as not to be influenced by any distinction, geo- 
 graphical, political or religious. Leaving the blasts of war we hasten to 
 praise God for the past and pray that peace and good will may fill all 
 hearts and homes. Standing here on this beautiful rose-bedded earth 
 beneath a smiling heaven, let us seek Him who gave Himself for us and 
 now waits with unselfish devotion to bless all men everywhere. Like 
 Him who scatters the flowers at the hand of the wind on all, may we 
 lose all that is selfish and unkind, in remembering the dead who suffered 
 and sacrificed in the conflict. They suffered many days of weariness and 
 pain, shall we not spend one day out of the three hundred and sixty-five 
 in respect to their memory? Can we be true to our manhood and 
 withhold? It is only doing what we wish others to do unto us. There 
 is an inherent desire in every soul to be remembered. What mean the 
 mounds of Mexico, and the far west? The well tombs of Peru? The 
 memorials of Palestine and the songs of the poets? The mariner flings 
 his farewell kiss with a 'Remember me;' the soldier wrote in his blood, 
 'Remember me;' so say we 
 
 "Death shall not claim the immortal mind, 
 
 Let earth close o'er its sacred trust, 
 Yet Goodness dies not in the dust. 
 
 "Our Divine Lord silenced the murmuring throng at his anointing 
 with words of commendation co-extensive with the gospel preached, and 
 He established a memorial service to perpetuate His own memory 
 throughout time. In view of this law of desire, history has been and is 
 being written, for this the halls and galleries are filled with familiar 
 faces and forms, and in obedience to this claim we come here with music 
 and flowers to say to our comrades, 'We remember thee; thou shalt 
 never be forgotten.' To-day we unveil this monument and dedicate it
 
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 to the memory of the brave men who died in our city while prisoners of 
 war and who are buried in our midst men who were as true to their 
 convictions and as loyal to their leaders as any class of men that ever 
 put on the uniform, listened to the bugle call or marched to battle. In 
 this we do not commemorate the cause for which they fought, or 
 encourage any feeling of devotion to that Confederacy which surrendered 
 at Appomattox in 1865. Nor is there any man here who desires to have 
 it commemorated, nay, our brothers received at the hand of Ulysses 
 Grant their arms and horses with the exhortation, ' Let us have peace, 
 for we are brothers! ' They have been, and are, true, loyal and 
 devoted citizens of the United States. To-day we are one with a deeper 
 sympathy, grander brotherhood and a diviner ministry than could have 
 been but for the late war. 
 
 "As we turn from the past to grapple with the priceless commodities 
 left us, let us remember that to have lived in the nineteenth century in 
 America will be an awful account to meet in the roll-call of eternity. 
 There are 65,000,000 free spirits to be educated and directed in view of 
 perpetuating the glory we have inherited. It is one thing to subdue 
 the wild prairies and forests, employ the tides, marshal the wealth, 
 distribute the revenue and control the energies of a country, but 
 it is another thing to utilize them in developing the resources of an 
 inexhaustible storehouse. To turn $1,754,000,000 from the tide of 
 sorrow, waste and death into the channels of enterprise and prosperity 
 and open the gates of the whole world to our manufacturing interests is 
 not an easy thing to do, and if we are to so assimilate the national 
 peculiarities now represented in this country as to strengthen the body 
 politic and preserve our republican institutions, we must be brothers. 
 The socialistic problems of the day, the financial questions of the hour, 
 demand the hearty co-operation of all true lovers of American liberty, 
 and if we would be true to the sacred dead we must bring to these 
 questions our best service, for liberty must go on God hath ordered 
 its flight. An eminent countryman once said: 'Stop the march of 
 liberty! As well might the boys of Boston mount the state house 
 steeple on a lustrous night and call on the stars to stop in their course. 
 Gently but irresistibly the greater and lesser Bear move around the pole, 
 Orion with his mighty train comes up the sky, and the Bull, the 
 Heavenly Twins, the Crab, the Lion, the Maid, the Scales, and all that 
 shining company pursue their heavenly march night and day. The 
 urchins in their lofty places grow tired, sleepy, and ashamed, while
 
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 Liberty moves steadily onward.' While it moves, comrades, brothers, 
 so live that you may increase the honor of those 
 
 "On fame's eternal camping ground, 
 
 Who their silent tents have spread, 
 While glory guards with solemn round 
 The bivouac of the dead. 
 
 "Having been invested with the chair, it is fitting to begin the 
 ceremonies with divine invocation, and with that view I now introduce 
 to you the distinguished chaplain of the Kentucky 'Orphan Brigade' 
 of the Confederate States army Rev. Joseph Desha Pickett. " 
 
 PRAYER. 
 
 By REV. JOSEPH DESHA PICKETT. 
 
 "Almighty God, Lawgiver and Judge of all the earth! Our Father 
 which art in heaven, hallowed be Thy name! 
 
 "We thank Thee for all Thy mercies unto this favored land and we 
 humbly beseech Thee to bless by the presence of Thy Spirit, the great 
 purpose of our convention here this day, in the cause of ' Peace and good 
 will toward men.' 
 
 "Divine Father, in the name and in the service of the Prince of 
 Peace, we present ourselves as Thy children come before Thee, bearing 
 palms and ojive branches in our hands. From the north and the south, 
 from the east and the west, we come as brothers, to present our offer- 
 ings at these nameless graves the graves of southern soldiers who died 
 in prison, giving testimony of their faith, and at the graves of northern 
 soldiers who offered their lives for the restoration of the Union. 
 
 "We thank Thee, that in Thy providence, leaders of the armies of 
 the north and of the south, who stood face to face, in the heroic con- 
 flict a generation ago, are present, side by side, animated by the same 
 spirit, in the consciousness of a reunited country, of a restored Union, 
 of a common citizenship in this mighty land. We thank Thee that such 
 is the spirit of this vast assemblage, assuring by its presence, fraternal 
 union, in perfect peace, from ocean unto ocean. 
 
 "Thou knowest, Father, that our pilgrimage to this spot is not to 
 dedicate this monument to the 'Lost Cause,' but to honor appropriately 
 the last resting-places of faithful comrades who died in prison, far away 
 from their southern homes. As such, may this monument ever be a 
 shrine sacred to Peace!
 
 CHAPLAIN JOS. DESHA PICKET I'. 
 
 DURING THK SIXTIES. 
 
 May 29-31, 1895. 
 
 BIOGRAPHIC: 
 
 Joseph Desha Pickett was born at Washington, Ky., January 6, 1822; graduated at Princeton College in 1841 and Bethany 
 Theological College in 1849; continued his studies in Europe in 1851-2; traveled extensively in Europe, Africa and Asia. 
 
 Ordained to the ministry January 6, 1854; professor at Bethany College from 1857 to the beginning of the civil war in 1861. He 
 moved his family to Kentucky, and, going south, espoused the cause of the Confederacy; member of the noted war con- 
 vention of Virginia; chaplain of Second regiment infantry, Kentucky, C. S. A., November 7, 1862; chaplain of the Ken- 
 tucky " Orphan Brigade " January, 1863, to close of war. 
 
 Founded the Kentucky Relief Society for benefit of the survivers of the Orphan Brigade and other Kentucky soldiers. 
 
 Resumed the work of the ministry in Kentucky in 1865; connected with the Kentucky University, 1867-68: professor in the Agri- 
 cultural and Mechanical College of Kentucky, 1878-79; superintendent of public instruction of Kentucky, 1879-91; at 
 different times president of Agricultural and Mechanical College of Kentucky and College of Arts of Kentucky University. 
 
 He is accredited "fighting chaplain" of the Confederate army, and is now colonel and chaplain-general, Provisional Depart- 
 ment of the North, U. C. V.
 
 "Help us to realize that the lives that passed away on battlefields, in 
 camp or hospital, in prison or at private homes, or on the deep, in 
 defense of principle, were not sacrificed in vain. And of the nameless 
 buried here and elsewhere, we know that Thou hast the 'record.' Their ^ 
 
 names are written in Thy book, and He who died for men will remember, 
 them when 'the earth shall cast out the dead.' 
 
 "Make us feel, dear Father, that no drop of blood, no tear of love, 
 was shed in vain in our prolonged conflict. Help us to know they swell 
 the rivers sweet, of perfect peace. Bind up the broken hearts, both 
 north and south, and in all the lands of earth! Sail Thou Thy ships of 
 mercy on the tides of blood! Unfurl Thy flags of truce in every country 
 of the earth! Bear Thou up the worlds with all Thy blessed plans and 
 purposes! And help us all to help our fellowman along the progress of 
 the ages! 
 
 "For those who took the mother's place at the dying soldier's cot, 
 who fed the hungry, clothed our shivering boys, and in their deep and 
 tender sympathy and in their loving ministrations, breathed the spirit of 
 home and brought sunshine to their prison life, we pray Thee, Father: 
 Bless their memories! Bless their children and their children's chil- 
 dren, through all the years to come! May never a friend be lacking 
 unto them in sickness, sorrow, loneliness or death! May many a 
 mother's blessing, north and south, come home to them wherever their 
 lot may be! 
 
 "In the name of the Prince of Peace, we ask Thy blessing on the 
 spirit that conceived this day of peace, and upon all who are co-operating 
 in the grand and gracious work. 'Blessed are the peacemakers, for they 
 shall be called the children of God!' Give us all Thy Spirit, that in the 
 hope of eternal life in Christ, our Lord, we may ever manifest 'Peace on 
 earth, good will toward men,' to Thy 'glory in the highest.' 'Amen." 
 Anthem, by the Imperial-Arion Octet. 
 
 Chairman Bolton: "Gentlemen We are honored with the presence 
 of a man whom to honor is to be honored, who suffered more than 
 almost any other man by the war of 1861-5. A true soldier, adored by 
 his command for his soldierly bearing and courage; respected by his 
 enemies for his ability and manliness; loved and revered by his country- 
 men as soldier, statesman, scholar and gentleman. Given the public 
 positions of United States railroad commissioner, governor of his state 
 and United States senator, he has served with honor and won fame. 
 
 "I now have the esteemed privilege of introducing as the orator of 
 this occasion a man who is a typical southerner, Lieut. -Gen. Wade 
 Hampton of South Carolina."
 
 GEN. WADE HAMPTON DELIVERING THE 'DEDICATORY ADDRESS.
 
 ii; 
 
 DEDICATORY ORATION. 
 
 By LIEUT. -GEN. WADE HAMPTON. 
 
 "The scene presented here- to-day is one that could not be witnessed 
 in any country but our own, and for this reason, if for no other, it 
 possesses a significance worthy of the gravest consideration. A few 
 years ago brave men from the north and from the south stood facing 
 each other in hostile array, and the best blood of the country was 
 poured out like water on many a battlefield. Thousands, hundreds of 
 thousands, of our bravest sleep in bloody graves men who gave their 
 lives to prove the faith of their convictions; and now north and south, 
 standing by these graves wherever they may be, grasp hands across 
 the bloody chasm, and proudly claim Federal and Confederate soldiers 
 as Americans men who have given to the world as noble examples of 
 courage and devotion to duty as can be enrolled on the page of history. 
 
 "Nor is this all that marks this occasion as exceptional and remarkable, 
 and which should render it memorable in our annals for all time to 
 come. No monument in the world has such an honorable history as 
 attaches to yonder one. That marks the graves of no victorious soldiers, 
 but of the followers of a lost cause; it stands not on southern soil but 
 on northern; the men who rest under its shadow come from our far-off 
 southland, and it owes its erection, not to the comrades of these dead 
 soldiers, but mainly to the generosity and magnanimity of their former 
 foes, the citizens of this great city. All honor then, to the brave and 
 liberal men of Chicago, who have shown by their action that they 
 regard the war as over, and that they can welcome as friends, on this 
 solemn and auspicious occasion, their 'former enemies. As long as that 
 lofty column points to Heaven, as long as one stone of its foundation 
 remains, future generations of Americans should look upon it with pride, 
 not only as an honor to those who conceived its construction, but as a silent 
 though noble emblem of a restored Union and a reunited people. In the 
 name of my comrades, dead and living, and in my own name, I give grateful 
 thanks to the brave men of Chicago, who have done honor to our dead 
 here, not as Confederate soldiers, but as brave men who preferred 
 imprisonment and death rather than freedom obtained by a dishonorable 
 sacrifice of the principles for which they were willing to die. 
 
 "Of the six thousand Confederates buried here, not one was an officer. 
 All were privates, in no way responsible for the unhappy war which
 
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 brought an Iliad of woes upon our country. And yet these humble pri- 
 vate soldiers, any one of whom could have gained freedom by taking the 
 oath of allegiance to the Federal government, preferred death to the 
 sacrifice of their principles. Can any possible dishonor attach to the 
 brave men of Chicago because they are willing to recognize the courage 
 and the devotion to duty of these dead Confederates? Imagine if you 
 can, my friends, the despair, the horror of these poor privates, lingering 
 in prison, and dying for their faith. They died here, in what they 
 looked upon as a foreign and hostile land, far from the land of their birth, 
 with no tender hand of mother or wife to soothe their entrance into the 
 dark valley of the shadow of death, and with all the memories of their 
 far-off homes and loving kindred to add the sharpest pangs to death 
 itself. They were true men, and say if you please that they were mis- 
 taken, that they were wrong, no brave man on earth can fail to do honor 
 to their courage and their steadfast adherence to what they conceived to 
 be their duty. You, the brave citizens of Chicago, in doing honor to 
 their memory, honor yourselves and humanity. Nor will you blame 
 us of the south, while appreciating gratefully your generous action in 
 behalf of our dead comrades, for cherishing with pride and reverence 
 their memory. You could not respect us were we to feel otherwise. 
 Death places its seal on the actions of men, and it is after death that we 
 'measure men.' 
 
 "A King once said of a Prince struck down, 
 
 'Taller he seems in death,' 
 
 And this speech holds true, for now as then, 
 
 It is after death we measure men. 
 
 And as the -mists of the past have rolled away, 
 
 Our heroes who died in their tattered gray, 
 
 Grow taller and greater in all their parts, 
 
 Till they fill our minds, as they fill our hearts. 
 
 And for those who lament, there is this relief, 
 
 That glory stands by the side of grief. 
 
 Yes, they grow taller as the years go by, 
 
 And the world learns how they could do and die. 
 
 The nation respects them. The east and west, 
 The far-off slope of the golden coast, 
 The stricken south and the north agree 
 That the heroes who died for you and for me 
 Each valiant man, in his own degree,
 
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 Whether he fell on the shore or sea 
 
 Did deeds of which, 
 
 This land, though rich 
 In histories, may boast, 
 And the Sage's book and the Poet's lay 
 Are full of the deeds of the men in gray. 
 
 No lion cleft from the rock is ours, 
 
 Such as Lucerne displays, 
 
 Our only wealth is in tears and flowers, 
 
 And words of reverend praise. 
 
 And the roses brought to this silent yard 
 
 Are red and white. Behold! 
 
 They tell how wars for a kingly crown, 
 In the blood of England's best writ down, 
 Left Britain a story whose moral old 
 Is fit to be graven in text of gold; 
 The moral is, that when battles cease 
 The ramparts smile in the bloom of peace. 
 
 And flowers to-day were hither brought 
 From the gallant men who against us fought; 
 York and Lancaster gray and blue, 
 Each to itself and the other true, 
 
 And so I say 
 
 Our men in gray 
 
 Have left to the south and north a tale 
 Which none of the glories of earth can pale. 
 
 "We, of the south, measure our dead comrades buried here by the 
 standard applied to men after death, and you, of Chicago, have measured 
 them by the same standard, the only standard by which we can measure 
 men, and by applying this you have shown that you have come to the 
 highest standard vouchsafed to men, and on this north and south can 
 stand, with honor alike to both sections. 
 
 "Are any Federal soldiers disloyal to the flag under which they fought 
 because they join in decorating the graves of brave men whom they 
 met in battle? Thousands of Federal soldiers rest under southern skies, 
 in southern graves many in unknown graves.
 
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 "Where some beneath Virginian hills, 
 And some by green Atlantic rills, 
 Some by the waters of the west, 
 A myriad unknown heroes rest. 
 
 *******^ 
 
 "Of them, their patriot zeal and pride, 
 The lofty faith that with them died, 
 No grateful page shall further tell. 
 Than that so many bravely fell. 
 
 "And when on Memorial Day in the south the graves of our dead are 
 decorated, gray-headed Confederate veterans, and noble devoted women, 
 strew flowers over the graves of Federal soldiers. If the humane 
 generous action of the people of this city in doing honor to the memory 
 of their old antagonists is denounced as desecration, it would seem to 
 follow that the decoration of Federal graves by ' Rebel ' hands, should 
 be open to the same criticism, but no denunciation of southern people 
 for daring to honor the memory of men who were once their enemies 
 has met my eyes. Such narrow and bigoted feelings as would prompt 
 a discordant note on occasions of this sort are rarely found among true 
 men and brave soldiers, and I have often thought that if the two great 
 captains who were engaged in that death grapple in Virginia had been 
 left to settle the terms of peace, each supported by his faithful followers, 
 the country would have had a peace indeed, one honorable alike to 
 victors and vanquished, and which would have prevented the evils 
 brought about by the politicians. As it is, the south recognizes and 
 honors the magnanimity of Gen. Grant toward our great chief, 
 Gen. Lee, and deplores as an unmitigated misfortune the assassina- 
 tion of Lincoln. I repeat emphatically, that the untimely death of 
 President Lincoln was regarded by all thoughtful men of the south as 
 one of the most serious evils which had befallen our section, and I 
 venture to say that my southern associates here present will sustain my 
 assertion. We know that during the war he devoted every energy of 
 mind and body for a restoration of the Union, and that result accom- 
 plished, we felt that his big brain and his kind heart would prompt 
 him to deal kindly and leniently to his fellow citizens of the south, for 
 his highest, if not his sole aim, was to see the Union restored, and it was 
 a cruel hope that deprived him of what he had hoped would be the 
 reward of his labors, and the south of one who would have been her 
 strongest protector in her sorest hour of need.
 
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 "Some of our northern fellow citizens seem to paraphrase the biblical 
 question, 'Can anything good come out of Nazareth?' by applying it 
 to the south, but, my friends, we really are not all evil. Put yourselves 
 in our places and judge us from that standpoint. In the convention 
 which formed the constitution, there were two parties which held oppo- 
 site opinions, one urging the formation of a strong central government, 
 and the other advocating the doctrine of state rights. It was attempted 
 to reconcile these antagonistic views by a compromise, by which it was 
 declared that all powers not delegated to the general government were 
 annexed to the states, but like all compromises it left this vital question 
 unsettled, and from 1787 until 1861 the proper construction to be placed 
 on the clause of the constitution just referred to has led to constant and 
 often to angry discussion. This unfortunate condition of affairs was 
 further complicated by the injection of the question of slavery into it, 
 and we .all know what has been the result of these unhappy differences. 
 These are now all dead issues and I do not propose to discuss them. 
 
 "It was a wise philosopher who said to a general commanding an 
 army, 'I do not choose to argue with the commander of ten legions,' 
 and when questions are submitted to the arbitrament of the sword, the 
 decision is generally in favor of the ten legions. The vexed questions 
 which have disturbed the country since the foundation of the government 
 are settled, and reference to them is made only to show how natural the 
 course of the south was, educated as the people there were in the school 
 of strict state rights. Every southern man felt that a call made upon 
 him by his state was an imperative command, and that his duty was to 
 obey without hesitation and at all hazards. When the north called on 
 its citizens to rally to the old flag, they, too, responded to the summons 
 from a sense of duty, as did the people of the south to the call made on 
 them. State allegiance and state pride in each case was the moving 
 cause which arrayed millions of men in arms in this country, and while 
 the war which brought them out caused untold misery to the country, it 
 has taught a lesson to the nations of the earth, that America in arms can 
 defy the world. It seems to me, too, that it should inculcate another 
 lesson to us, and that is, that the time has come when the actors in that 
 fearful fratricidal strife and those whom they represent should judge 
 their former opponents as they would themselves be judged. This can 
 be done without the sacrifice of principle on either side, as the example 
 of our mother country has shown us. York and Lancaster, Cavalier 
 and Roundhead, no longer wage war on each other; all are Englishmen, 
 proud of their country, and the red rose and the white are emblems of
 
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 peace, and of the glory of Old England. Can we not all be proud of 
 the prowess of the American soldier? 
 
 "I do not envy the feelings of the man, who, looking upon this scene 
 to-day, and estimating its importance, could denounce its observance or 
 undervalue its significance. It inaugurates a new era, a new departure, 
 and he who would denounce its fraternal spirit is no patriot. The sen- 
 timents I express here are not new; only a short time since I had 
 occasion to address my fellow citizens of Charleston, S. C. , the 
 cradle of secession, and I then used the following language, which 
 is of the same tenor of all I have uttered since the war ended: 
 
 '"Let me not be understood as speaking to reawaken sectional ani- 
 mosity, now happily dying out, nor as counseling one act of disloyalty 
 to the restored Union. I recognize, as every true Confederate soldier 
 does, the supremacy of the constitution, the integrity of the Union, and 
 all the obligations we assumed when our arms were laid down. We, of 
 the south, are now an integral part of the great republic. Its flag 
 waves unchallenged from the rock-ribbed coast of Maine to the Golden 
 Gate and far-off Alaska, from the snow-capped mountains of the north 
 to the orange groves of Florida, and it is the duty of every patriot to 
 make that country the fit abode for freemen for all time to come. But I 
 appeal earnestly and reverently for justice to my Confederate comrades, 
 dead and living. They discharged their duty, as they saw it, bravely 
 and nobly, and God alone can judge whether they were right or wrong.' 
 
 "These men, resting here 'til summoned to answer to the last roll call 
 on high, were my comrades; many of them from my own state, and 
 perhaps some of them of my own command. Bear in mind, then, my 
 friends, that I speak for them and for the south while I plead for jus- 
 tice to them and to my native land. I speak to the victors in behalf of 
 the vanquished; I speak not for those who wear the laurel, but for those 
 whose emblem is our mournful cypress. I speak for our Confederate 
 dead. 
 
 "I sing the hymn of the conquered, who fell in the battle of life, 
 
 The hymn of the wounded, the beaten, who died overwhelmed in the 
 
 strife; 
 
 Not the jubilant song of the victors, for whom the resounding acclaim 
 Of nations was lifted in chorus, whose brows wore the chaplet of fame. 
 But the hymn of the low and the humble, the weary, the broken in 
 
 heart, 
 Who strove and who failed, acting bravely, a silent, a desperate part;
 
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 Whose youth bore no flowers on its branches, whose hopes burned in 
 
 ashes away, 
 From whose hands slipped the prize the)' had grasped at, who stood at 
 
 the dying of day, "j^ 
 
 With the wreck of their lives all around, unpitied, unheeded, alone, -Q 
 With death swooping down o'er their failure, all but their faith 
 
 overthrown. 
 
 "Now my friends and fellow citizens of Chicago, the duty you 
 honored me with is discharged; would that this could have been done 
 in a manner more worthy of this great occasion, of your grand city 
 and of its noble citizens, but rest assured that no one could feel more 
 profoundly the importance of this occasion, nor have a higher apprecia- 
 tion of the honor you have conferred on me, than myself. The action 
 taken by the people of this queen city of the northwest in erecting 
 a monument to men who in years gone by were opposed to them has no 
 parallel in the history of the world, and I am sure that it will tend more 
 than anything has yet done to do away with the animosities of the past, 
 and to restore those fraternal relations which should exist between the 
 citizens of a common country. We of the south thank you for your 
 unstinted hospitality, for the kindness extended to us, and above all for 
 the noble, magnanimous spirit you have shown in rising above sectional 
 feelings in setting an example to the whole country of brotherly love, 
 of a sincere desire to bring about a more perfect union, and to make 
 the citizens of this great republic all work in union to promote its wel- 
 fare and to uphold its honor. Let it be hereafter the hope of all of us 
 that our states shall be 
 
 "Distinct as the billows, but one as the sea." 
 "Te Deum," by the Imperial-Arion Octet. 
 
 Chairman Bolton: " Gentlemen It is my privilege now to present 
 Maj. Henry T. Stanton, the literary genius and the poet laureate of 
 Kentucky, who will recite his memorial poem."
 
 MAJ. HENRY T. STANTON. 
 
 DURING THE SIXTIES. 
 
 May 29 -June 2, 1895. 
 
 BIOGRAPHIC: 
 
 Henry Thompson Stanton was born in Alexandria, Va., June 30, 1834, and taken when four months old to Kentucky; educated at 
 Maysville Seminary. LaGrange and Shelby Colleges, all of Kentucky, and United States Military Academy. 
 
 Lieutenant of Company B, Fifth Kentucky infantry, Confederate army, September, 1861; captain, winter of 1861; adjutant- 
 general of brigade, October 14, 1862; major and assistant adjutant-general, fall of 1864-5. 
 
 Served in all the campaigns of West Virginia, Tennessee, and East Kentucky; was in the battles of Seven Pines, Bermuda 
 Hundreds, Knoxville, Saltville, etc., and recommended for promotion because of " gallantry and efficiency on the fields 
 at Fayette and Charleston ;" was assistant adjutant-general of the department, and variously served with and upon the 
 staffs of Gens. Longstreet, Beauregard, Armstrong, Loring, Breckenridge, Morgan, Williams, Echols, and was surren- 
 dered under Gen. Jos. E. Johnston at Greensboro. N. C. * 
 
 After the war he returned to Kentucky, and has since been engaged in journalistic and literary work, residing at Frankfort
 
 MEMORIAL POEM. 
 
 By MAJOR HENRY T. STANTON. 
 
 HEROIC SLEEP. 
 
 Within this closed and darkened earth, 
 
 All seeds of being lie, 
 That, in good time, find light, and birth, 
 
 To blossom and to die 
 To blossom and to fruit, and turn 
 
 Again to whence they came; 
 To give their ashes to an urn 
 
 Where ash comes back to flame. 
 
 Such is the law of life and death, 
 
 The law that nature gives 
 Man comes from earth to one short breath 
 
 And dies while yet he lives; 
 For in this universe of parts 
 
 One part completes the whole - 
 With varied minds with varied hearts 
 
 There's one unvaried soul. 
 
 In all our states of being here, 
 
 From summer's dawn to frost; 
 From dark to light, from birth to bier, 
 
 No part of soul is lost; 
 A system grand goes on and on, 
 
 With true untiring wheels, 
 And that which in our night is gone, 
 
 Our morrow's sun reveals. 
 
 There is no finite mind that solves 
 
 This problem of God's plan 
 We know not if our life evolves 
 
 From mollusk up to man; 
 We cannot trace an atom's course, 
 
 Above, or under earth; 
 We cannot find in vital force 
 
 Its secret springs of birth.
 
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 Mayhap a thousand million years 
 
 Have been since human kind 
 Came crowding on this sphere of spheres, 
 
 With mastery of mind; 
 We may not tell, we cannot know 
 
 What space has been since then, 
 Though buried ages rise to show 
 
 Their prehistoric men. 
 
 A monolith left here and there, 
 
 In isolation stands; 
 An obelisk that spears the air 
 
 Gleams out of drifted sands; 
 On ancient Egypt's fruitless waste, 
 
 Vast pyramids are piled, 
 That prove how perished races graced 
 
 A spot that one time smiled. 
 
 Throughout this thousand million years 
 
 That may, perhaps, have sped, 
 At intervals, some mark appears 
 
 Above their honored dead; 
 Some mark of issues lost or won 
 
 With great men stricken down, 
 Some proof of sanguine war-work done 
 
 For subject, or for crown. 
 
 That martial pulse which men now feel, 
 
 Throbbed in the cycles gone, 
 And battles waged with stone and steel 
 
 For human pride went on 
 We look not back from this new day 
 
 For good or ill so wrought, 
 Sufficient that their granites say, 
 'Here rest the men who fought." 
 
 Whilst yet our Arian race is young, 
 
 To these long lines of stone, 
 New hills and vales and plains among, 
 
 We proudly add our own. 
 We leave our marks of contests red, 
 
 Of battles fought too well, 
 And rear our piles to heroes dead 
 
 The same sad tale to tell.
 
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 Where bright Potomac, in the sun, 
 
 A plate of silver lies, 
 Our marble shaft to Washington 
 
 Goes out to pierce the skies, 
 An obelisk that stands and waits, 
 
 New centuries of sun 
 Compiled of stones from sovereign states 
 
 He moulded into one. 
 
 There stands a mark at Bunker Hill 
 
 On grand, historic ground, 
 That proves how, in the rebel still 
 
 The patriot is found; 
 And everywhere about this land 
 
 These summer sunbeams slant 
 On polished marble stones that stand 
 
 To Lincoln, Lee and Grant. 
 
 For men who fought in all our wars 
 
 And gave their valiant blood 
 To glow in after-time, like Mars 
 
 O'er life's enduring flood; 
 For noble men on every field, 
 
 To honor's cause allied, 
 Whose truth and glory stand revealed 
 
 In that they fought and died. 
 
 That after years and after man 
 
 May find a stone-mark here, 
 Of strife twixt northern Puritan 
 
 And southern Cavalier; 
 That centuries anon may see 
 
 How man to-day was brave, 
 This speaking pile is placed to be 
 
 A guide-post to his grave. 
 
 This granite stands for men who fought, 
 
 As man heroic must, 
 W r ho loves his land and has no thought 
 
 But that his cause is just: 
 This mark is such as valor plans, 
 
 For spirit such as hers, 
 Set up by victor Puritans 
 
 For vanquished Cavaliers.
 
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 It may not be that deathless pile 
 
 Of Egypt's brazen clime, 
 Nor yet that needle of the Nile, 
 
 From out the sands of time. 
 But it will stand while men believe 
 
 That glory fits the brave; 
 While flowers bloom, while women grieve 
 
 Beside the hero's grave. 
 
 Six thousand men lie buried here, 
 
 Who from their prison close 
 Were borne upon a soldier's bier 
 
 To rest among their foes, 
 No mother's tears, no wife's bewail, 
 
 . No child's pathetic cry; 
 No home-friend near to list his tale, 
 
 Or watch the soldier die. 
 
 At martial hands their graves were made, 
 
 Their coffins rudely dressed, 
 And valiant soldiers gently laid 
 
 Their foemen down to rest; 
 And thus the brotherhood of man 
 
 Is grandly proven here 
 It puts aside the Puritan, 
 
 Blots out the Cavalier. 
 
 This kinship of the hero lives, 
 
 Estrange it how you will, 
 The soldier to the soldier gives 
 
 His meed of honor still; 
 No matter what the cause may be, 
 
 If wrongful, or if just. 
 Chivalric foemen only see, 
 
 True valor in the dust. 
 
 The coward puts his spurning feet, 
 
 Upon a foeman's grave, 
 That base-blood cry: " Revenge is sweet I: 
 
 Came never from the brave; 
 And truer manhood noblest shows, 
 
 Among ignoble hordes, 
 When victors to their vanquished foes 
 
 Hand back the yielded swords.
 
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 This honor done on northern soil 
 
 To southern soldiers dead, 
 In days to come, shall prove a foil 
 
 To blood by brothers shed; 
 Shall stand before our children's eyes, 
 
 A proof that courage shows 
 The best where it can recognize 
 
 The manhood of it's foes. 
 
 When faction lives and heat begins, 
 
 And naught save war avails, 
 Comes revolution where it wins, 
 
 Rebellion where it fails; 
 And from this rule of wrathfulness, 
 
 Where blood-bound people meet, 
 The patriot is in success 
 
 The traitor in defeat. 
 
 When from proud England's iron sway 
 
 Our liberties we tore, 
 Her stigma "rebel" died away, 
 
 Her "traitor" lived no more. 
 With man to man in conflict met 
 
 And war's great havoc done, 
 There came an end to epithet 
 
 When rebel-traitors won. 
 
 With fast subsiding passion here 
 
 From internecine strife, 
 The Puritan and Cavalier 
 
 Are lost in newer life; 
 Our days of perfect peace are on, 
 
 Our compact made anew, 
 And every shade of Gray has gone 
 
 To mingle with the Blue. 
 
 No more reproach, the end has come, 
 
 The argument is o'er, 
 In north and south the calling drum 
 
 Shall be for us no more 
 The banner of St. Andrew's cross 
 
 In silent dust is lain, 
 And what has been a section's loss 
 
 Shall prove a nation's gain.
 
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 While yon unbelted soldier bends 
 
 Above this granite base, 
 Our land shall be the home of friends, 
 
 Where peace upholds its mace, 
 Where martial lines shall never stand 
 
 With gleaming sword and gun, 
 Until, in service of our land, 
 
 We march to fight as one. 
 
 Nor Puritan, nor Cavalier 
 
 A home grown strife shall see, 
 While o'er the soldiers resting here 
 
 This granite shaft shall be; 
 With all of bitterness forgot 
 
 With all of taunting done- 
 Columbia is freedom's spot, 
 
 It's sovereign states are one. 
 
 We've had our change from life to death, 
 
 And back from death to life, 
 The law of nature gave us breath 
 
 And with it pride and strife; 
 We came from earth to bloom and fruit 
 
 With mastery of mind; 
 We've held our kingdom o'er the brute 
 
 As gracious God designed. 
 
 And still we keep the atom's place 
 
 In this grand system here, 
 We die and live again through grace 
 
 Immortal in our sphere; 
 W T e fall and find our rest in earth 
 
 Where seeds in darkness lie, 
 Where all things fall and come to birth 
 
 And seem again to die. 
 
 There is no finite mind that solves 
 
 The problem of this plan; 
 We cannot know how God evolves 
 
 His fragile creature man; 
 We only know that while we live 
 
 The law of God is just, 
 And what we take from earth, we give 
 
 In tribute back to dust.
 
 And granite monuments that stand 
 
 Through Time's untiring roll, 
 Are only guide posts on the land 
 
 To show the course of soul; 
 For human substance goes to earth, 
 
 Whence human passions rise, 
 But soul with God himself had birth 
 
 And lives and never dies. 
 
 Hymn, by the Imperial-Arion Octet. 
 
 Chairman Bolton: "Gentlemen Next we are honored by one who 
 needs no introduction to an American audience soldier, chaplain, 
 colonel, general, scholar, author, preacher and patriot Rt. Rev. Bishop 
 Fallows." 
 
 MINISTERIAL. 
 
 By RT. REV. SAMUEL FALLOWS, LL. D. 
 
 "Our Union soldier dead cannot receive their meed of praise without 
 the fullest recognition and the most unqualified admiration of the magnifi- 
 cent bravery of their Confederate opponents. Virtue is measured by 
 the temptations it meets and masters. Success is scored according to 
 the difficulties to be surmounted. Victory has its value precisely 
 proportioned to the means and measures and magnitudes -and men that 
 enter into the struggle. In that greatest of wars West Point met West 
 Point. Volunteer fought against volunteer. The bravest and the best of 
 our northern hearts and homes slept the soldier's last long sleep with the 
 bravest and the best of our southern hearts and homes. Sincerity strove 
 against sincerity; conviction confronted conviction; determination defied 
 determination; sacrifice set itself over against sacrifice; prayer plumed 
 its petitions against prayer. Not men of alien lineage were these who 
 so heroically opposed us. In their veins flowed the purest of American 
 blood. The toughness of its iron was tested, in the winning, by their 
 fathers, for the American people, of our imperial northwestern and 
 southwestern domain from savage and civilized foes. Beneath the Stars 
 and Stripes they conquered the armies of England and outwitted the 
 diplomacy of France and Spain. And now to-day, thank God, we are 
 all Americans. We are brothers again and forever. The god of 
 nations himself has set upon our country, in the issues of the conflict, 
 the seal of an unbroken oneness and of an indisputable supremacy. 
 The raising of this noble shaft to commemorate the gallant Confederate 
 dead in this northern city, on this historic occasion, attests this 
 glorious truth.
 
 BRIG.-GEN. SAMUEL FALLOWS, 
 
 DURING THE SIXTIES. 
 
 May 29-31, 1895. 
 
 BIOGRAPHIC: 
 
 Samuel Fallows was born in Pendleton, near Manchester, England, December 13, 1835. 
 Literary Record: 
 
 Ministerial Record: 
 
 iterial Record: 
 
 Ordained deacon, Methodist Episcopal church. April 10, 1859; ordained presbyter, Methodist Episcopal church 
 
 September 9, 1860; consecrated bishop in the Reformed Episcopal church, Chicago, July, 1876; elected presidin 
 
 bishop four times.
 
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 "The monument of the Union soldier is our country our whole 
 country. But grand though it is, it is an unfinished monument. The 
 north cannot build it alone, neither can the east nor the west. The 
 north and the south, the east and the west, must join in the blessed 
 work. Every opening of industry, every development of commerce, 
 every act of justice, every advance in liberty, every sentiment of peace, 
 every note of conciliation, every hand-grasp of reconciliation, every 
 heart-throb of love add to its stability and glory. 
 
 "The sword is rusting in the scabbard let it rust itself away and 
 with its increasing dimness and its decreasing sharpness, let the glow of 
 our animosity continue to die out, and the keenness of our reciprocal 
 sympathy augment. Let the burden of the remembrance of struggles, 
 defeats and victories, be not a wedge to drive us asunder, but the very 
 keystone to make our national arch the stronger. Let the burning 
 strife which led to unparalleled feats of arms on a thousand battlefields, 
 give place to the glad endeavor to outvie each other in deeds of chival- 
 rous devotion to our common country's good. Let the dead past bury 
 its dead, and from its sepulchered gloom shall come forth in robes of 
 stainless white, the genius of a risen, purified, glorified republic. 
 
 "To-day, the red letter day of this new era, with the eyes of the whole 
 Nation upon us, we strew the flowers, the richest and the rarest, the gen- 
 erous south, in token of her full accord, can furnish, over the graves of 
 the northern dead and the southern dead nay, from this time forth and 
 forever more, OUR DEAD. And above us and about us I do believe it 
 is gathered the great cloud of witnesses, the mustered-out armies that 
 once met in battle shock, men who were faithful unto death and have 
 received the crown of life, but ONE army now, the real, the Immortal 
 Grand Army of the Republic. 
 
 "Sheridan and Jackson, Sherman and Johnston, Grant and Lee are 
 there, are here, with that invisible, indivisible, approving, protecting 
 host. And with the benediction of our common Father, and the Prince 
 of Peace, our elder Brother, we repeat the words that come from a 
 southern woman's lips and loving, loyal heart. 
 
 "Together, cry the people, and together still shall be, 
 An everlasting charter-bond, forever for the free, 
 Of liberty, the signet-seal, the one eternal sign, 
 Be these united emblems, the Palmetto and the Pine." 
 
 Requiem, by the Imperial-Arion Octet. 
 
 Chairman Bolton: "Gtntlemen Gen. John C. Underwood, soldier, 
 statesman, governor, philanthropist and friend, will now take charge of 
 the military ceremonies."
 
 MONUMENTING THE CANNON. 
 LADY ASSISTANTS. 
 
 No. i. MISS LUCY LEE HILL (Ky..) Chicago, 111., consecrated the first gun. 
 
 No. 2. MRS. ALBERT AKERS, Washington, D. C., consecrated the second gun. 
 
 No. 3. MISS LAURA LANDON MITCHELL, Charleston, W. Va., consecrated the third gun. 
 
 No. 4. MISS ISABELLE ARMSTRONG, Washington, D. C., consecrated the fourth gun 
 
 No. 5. MRS. KATIE CABELL CURRIE, Dallas, Texas, dedicated the battery. 
 
 To all of whom both official and personal thanks are hereby extended.
 
 135 
 CEREMONIAL AROUND THE MONUMENT. 
 
 As Prepared and Arranged by Maj.-Gen. John C. Underwood, Commanding. 
 
 The military, with solemn, cadenced steps, marched in funeral 
 parade on the burial plot, to strains of the Dead March in Saul by its 
 band, and formed a cordon about three faces of the monument. The 
 Confederate Veteran Association and individual members of various 
 Posts G. A. R., formed a united line within the soldiery, facing east, 
 with right resting near the monument. 
 
 CONSECRATING THE GUNS. 
 
 Gen. Underwood: "Prepare to, MONUMENT THE GUNS! " 
 
 Whereupon the monumenting corps, composed as follows: 
 
 For cannon No. i, Col. R. H. Stewart and Miss Lucy Lee Hill; for 
 cannon No. 2, Col. Samuel J. Sullivan and Mrs. Albert Akers; for cannon 
 No. 3, Lieut. -Col. George Forrester and Miss Laura L. Mitchell; for 
 cannon No. 4, Lieut. -Col. John W. White and Miss Isabelle Armstrong; 
 spiking party, Lieut. -Col. R. Lee France and Comrade Theodore Noel: 
 for the battery, Gen. Fayette Hewitt and Mrs. Katie Cabell Currie. 
 
 The members of the corps formed and, the gentlemen escorting the 
 ladies, they passed along the united lines of Union and Confederate 
 veterans, who stood uncovered, marched to and took position at the 
 guns. 
 
 Gen. Underwood: "Consecrate, THE GUNS!" 
 
 AT CANNON No. i Col. Stewart, standing near the breech of the 
 cannon, said: "This gun, having fired its last shot on the field of battle, 
 will now be silenced forever. Spike, THE GUN!" 
 
 Thereupon the cannon was spiked, Lieut. -Col. France placing the 
 spike, and Comrade Noel driving it home. 
 
 After this Col. Stewart assisted Miss Lucy Lee Hill on a pedestal, 
 and the lady said: 
 
 "This cannon, with its glorious record on the field of battle, having 
 been silenced forever, I do consecrate to the memory of the valorous 
 soldiery we now monument, as a military decoration for their bravery 
 and honor unto death." 
 
 AT CANNON No. 2 Col. Sullivan, standing near the breech of the 
 cannon, said: "This gun, having fired its last shot on the field of battle, 
 will now be silenced forever. Spike, THE GUN!"
 
 SPIKING ONE OF THE GUNS 
 
 CONSECRATING ONE OF THE GUNS.
 
 137 
 
 Whereupon, the gun was spiked by the spiking party, and Col. 
 Sullivan, assisting Mrs. Albert Akers on a pedestal, the lady said: 
 
 "This cannon, with its glorious record on field of battle, having been 
 silenced forever, I do consecrate to the memory of the southern soldiers 
 here buried, as a monument to their fortitude and endurance of the 
 hardships of captive life." 
 
 AT CANNON No. 3 -Lieut. -Col. George Forrester, standing near the 
 breech of the cannon, said: "This gun, having fired its last shot on the 
 field of battle, will now be silenced forever. Spike, THE GUN!" 
 
 Thereupon, the gun was spiked by the spiking party, and Col. For- 
 rester, assisting Miss Laura Landon Mitchell on a pedestal, the lady said: 
 
 "This cannon, with its glorious record on field of battle, having been 
 silenced forever, I do consecrate to the memory of the Confederates, 
 whose soldierly remains lie beneath this sacred sod, in monumental token 
 of their firmness and manhood on the field of battle and in prison." 
 
 AT CANNON No. 4 Lieut.-Col. John W. White, standing near the 
 breech of the cannon, said: "This gun, having fired its last shot on the 
 field of battle, will now be silenced forever. Spike, THE GUN!" 
 
 And, the gun having been spiked by the spiking party, Col. White, 
 assisting Miss Belle Armstrong on a pedestal, the lady said: 
 
 "This cannon, with its glorious record on field of battle, having been 
 silenced forever, I do consecrate to the memory of those true men who 
 gave their lives to the cause, and who, after three interments, are here 
 sleeping, far from their loved southland." 
 
 DEDICATION OF THE BATTERY AND ORDNANCE. 
 
 Gen. Fayette Hewitt, chief of staff, then assisted Mrs. Katie Cabell 
 Currie to the central pedestal, and that lady spoke as follows: 
 
 "These four cannon, being guns captured from the Union forces in 
 the battles of Murfreesboro and Chickamauga, and afterward manned by 
 the Confederates and fought on the southern side in the battles of 
 Missionary Ridge, Resaca, Dalton, Kennesaw mountain, Peachtree creek, 
 Atlanta and Franklin, were finally recaptured by the Federals in the 
 battle of Nashville and subsequent engagements. It constitutes a field 
 battery of light artillery of distinguished battle record and is here per- 
 manently parked, never again to belch forth deadly missiles in horrible 
 splendor of war. All hail the silenced guns we consecrate, which, with 
 the shot and shell piled in monumental decoration on this burial plot, are 
 are henceforth dedicated as a military tribute to valor, fortitude and death."
 
 FIELD AND STAFF, FIRST REGIMENT INFANTRY, I. N. G. 
 
 ROSTER, MAY 30, 1895. 
 Page 38. COL. HENRY L. TURNER, Commanding. 
 
 No. i. LIEUT.-COL. G. V. LAUMAN, Second in Command. 
 No. 2. MAJ. JOS. B. SANBORN, First Battalion. 
 
 No 
 No. 
 No. 
 
 3. MAJ. EDGAR B. TOLMAN, Second Battalion. 
 
 4. MA|. JAS. M. EDDY, JR., Third Battalion. 
 
 /- 1 A r>T* *7 ** T T-V r rn? *d T? r> \ <:.... 
 
 5. CAPT. WM. L. DE REMER, Adjutant. 
 
 No. 6. MAJ. CHARLES ADAMS, Surgeon. 
 
 No. 7. CAPT. J. W. STREETER, Assistant Surgeon. 
 
 No. 8. CAPT. H. W. THOMAS, Chaplain. 
 
 No. 9. CAPT. A. L. BELL, Quartermaster. 
 
 No. 10. CAPT. E. R. COX, Inspector Rifle Practice.
 
 139 
 
 Then was heard a muffled drum roll, after which the corps formed in 
 a line to the west of the monument and facing it, and Gen. Underwood, 
 addressing Col. Henry L. Turner in command of the First regiment 
 infantry, I. N. G., the firing body, again gave command: 
 
 Gen. Underwood: "Pay the final, MILITARY TRIBUTE! " 
 
 Whereupon Col. Turner with his regiment, 800 strong, formed in cul 
 de sac with center west of the monument, the wings facing its north and 
 south fronts, caused three volleys to be fired over the graves of the 6,000 
 sleeping Confederates. 
 
 Gen. Underwood: "Sound the, BUGLE!" 
 
 Col. Turner caused to be blown a bugle "blare" and afterward 
 "taps," and the regiment marched off the ground at quick time to inspir- 
 ing strains from its military band. 
 
 DECORATING THE MONUMENT. 
 
 Gen. Underwood: "Decorate, THE MONUMENT!" 
 
 Whereupon Miss Catherine Stewart, Miss Marion Sullivan and Mrs. 
 R. L. Walker, with their floral attendants, the Misses Blanche and Laura 
 McCollum, also Miss Eliza Seldon Washington, escorted by six staff 
 officers, approached the inscription face of the monument, Mrs. Walker 
 to the east, Miss Sullivan to the west and Miss Stewart in the center, and 
 formed in line facing the monument, with the lady attendants, officers, 
 male quartet and drummers in the rear. The ladies were dressed in white. 
 
 Mrs. Walker advanced, and placing a laurel wreath on the easel at the 
 northeast corner of the monument base, said: 
 
 "In the east, to receive the refulgent light of the morning, as a just 
 meed to the worth of the Confederates whose mortal remains are here 
 monumented, I place this emblematic wreath in token of their honored 
 remembrance on this occasion by friends, southern people and all broad 
 and liberal men." and folding her arms across her bosom she knelt on a 
 step of the monument base. 
 
 Male quartet: '-'All Hail the Honored Dead!" 
 
 Miss Marion Sullivan came forward, placed a floral anchor on the easel 
 at the northwest corner of the monument base, and said: "Here in 
 the west, to receive the softened rays of the setting sun, I deposit this 
 representative tribute indicative of the hope that those here buried, in 
 answering the last muster call at the bar of immortal judgment, have 
 experienced everlasting salvation," and folding her arms across her breast 
 she likewise knelt on a step of the monument base. 
 
 Male quartet: Amen! Amen!! Amen!!!
 
 No 
 No 
 No 
 No 
 
 No 
 No 
 
 PLACING FLORAL DECORATIONS. 
 
 LADY ASSISTANTS. 
 
 1. MISS ELIZA SELDON WASHINGTON, Charleston, W. Va. 
 
 2. MISS CATHERINE STEWART, Chicago, 111. 
 
 3. MISS MARION SULLIVAN, Chicago, III. 
 
 6. 
 
 MRS. R. L. WALKER, Atlanta. Ga. 
 
 MISS BLANCHE McCOLLUM, Marietta, Ga. 
 
 MISS LAURA McCOLLUM, Marietta, Ga. 
 
 To all of whom both official and personal thanks are hereby extended.
 
 Miss Catherine Stewart placed a white floral cross on the easel at the 
 base, near the center of the monument, and said: "The chivalrous 
 bravery of the mortal obtains honor among men; the conscientious 
 desire and moral courage to do right, create a hope for the salvation of 
 the soul; but the belief in the Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ, insures life 
 everlasting. Notwithstanding the lives of these monumented soldiers 
 were surrendered from causes incident to strife, still, in token of the 
 consecration of their souls to God, I thus decorate this monument with 
 the white cross of Christian purity," and with folded arms and bowed 
 head she knelt before the monument. 
 
 As the lady finished, Gen. Underwood said: "As God wills," to which 
 all the people responded, "Amen;" and the male quartet chanted, in 
 echo "As God wills, Amen!! Amen!!" 
 
 Miss Eliza Seldon Washington then advanced, and recited: 
 
 After death, heroes are soon forgotten. 
 
 Except by the great Father on high; 
 For the world in haste has little to waste. 
 
 On even the exalted that die. 
 
 Hence a haven in heaven is solace 
 
 To those who believe in the true God; 
 Because of the promise of salvation 
 
 Through the Savior, Jesus Christ, our Lord. 
 
 [Roll of muffled drums.] 
 
 When the drum-roll ceased, the lady assistants arose and Gen. Under- 
 wood kneeling, uncovered, within the circle formed around the ladies, 
 paid homage to the fair women who had participated in the beautiful 
 formula. 
 
 Gen. Underwood: "Ladies, I sincerely thank you for your memorial 
 tribute to the honored dead, and chivalrously kneel to those fair and 
 lovely who have thus consecrated the ordnance and decorated the monu- 
 ment, and, as a representative of the Confederate soldier, pledge the 
 living veteran soldiery of the south to be no less true to a re-united 
 nation than has been its dead to the loved cause, lost ; " and arising, 
 said: "The floral assistants and other ladies will now scatter the 
 flowers." 
 
 The ladies then advanced and decorated the base of the monument, 
 cannon and graves. 
 
 Chairman Bolton: "It is fitting that these ceremonies shall conclude 
 with an appropriate invocation. The Rev. Jenkin Lloyd Jones will now 
 pronounce the benediction."
 
 143 
 
 BENEDICTION. 
 
 By REV. JENKIN LLOYD JONES. 
 
 Rev. Mr. Jones: "May the memory of these men who proved their 
 faith by their faithfulness and sealed their love with their loyalty 
 abide in the world to prove that Thou, Infinite Father of All, judgest 
 not the act but the spirit, not the achievement but the aim. 
 
 "They through strife won the peace that passeth all understanding. 
 May we through peace complete the work they left undone by hastening 
 the coming of Thy kingdom on earth as it is now in Heaven, amen." 
 
 The cerjemony being ended, Camp Chicago No. 8, United Con- 
 federate Veterans, marched with floral tributes and, assisted by the 
 ladies, decorated the graves of Federal soldiers in another part of the 
 cemetery. 
 
 EXTRACTS FROM THE CHICAGO PRESS, MAY 31, 1895. 
 ( The Chicago Tribune. ) 
 
 The dedication of the monument over the Confederate dead at Oakwoods passed off 
 yesterday in a manner so happy as to reflect credit on every one connected with it and 
 to elicit universal congratulations. The opinion was general that the ceremony constituted 
 an epoch in the life of the Nation and the formal close of the period of ill-will engen- 
 dered by the war of the rebellion. From the start of the southern visitors from the 
 Palmer House in the morning to the benediction at Oakwoods in the afternoon there 
 was not a trip, a mistake, or an unpleasantness. Confidence, respect and good will 
 were the everywhere obvious results when the day closed. 
 
 (The Daily Inter-Ocean.} 
 
 Across the graves of their dead the survivors of the great struggle shook hands yes- 
 terday; the war cry was hushed forever, and the hatchet was buried never to be 
 uncovered by north or south again. 
 
 The scene at Oakwoods at the dedication of the Confederate monument was one 
 unparalleled in history. Soldiers lay sleeping far from the homes where they were 
 born, in a land which had held them captives, and around their quiet resting place stood 
 great commanders of both armies, as well as the rank and file. 
 
 Unmarked were the graves of the boys in gray, save by the great granite shaft, to 
 be consecrated by prayer and benediction before the day was done. Not far from the 
 unmarked mounds were others with marble slabs at the head, the resting place of hun- 
 dreds who had fought and died beneath the folds of the dear old flag. But yesterday it 
 mattered not who wore the blue or wore the gray. From the southland came rich guer- 
 don of flowers to mark the graves of her erstwhile foes, while the north laid on the 
 southern soldier's grave tribute of fair blossoms. 
 
 Brave men who thirty years ago had faced each other on the battlefield now met as 
 brothers, and women assisted in the ceremonies which forever silenced guns heard at 
 Murfreesboro, Missionary Ridge, Atlanta, Chickamauga, Kennesaw mountain and 
 Nashville.
 
 May 29 31, 1895. 
 BIOGRAPHIC: 
 
 Holman Green Purinton was born at Bowdoin, Me., April 22, 1847, and received a liberal education. 
 
 At the age of 17 he left Bates College, Lewiston, Me.; enlisted as a recruit in Company B, Twenty-ninth regiment infantry, 
 
 Maine volunteers, U. S. A., and served until the spring of 1866. 
 After the war he taught school and finally entered commercial business in Lewiston, Me. He moved to Dover, N. H., thence to 
 
 Boston, and immigrated to Chicago after the great fire in that city in 1871, where he still resides. 
 He has variously served in the Illinois National Guard as first lieutenant and adjutant, afterward captain Company A, Sixth 
 
 battalion; private, then captain Company I, First regiment infantry; captain and adjutant, and is now major, Second 
 
 regiment infantry. 
 In veteran organizations he has been an active worker, and organized Columbia Post No. 706, G. A. R., of which he has been 
 
 commander for four consecutive years, which office he still holds. 
 He is a prominent Oddfellow and Free Mason, and has filled all the offices in the subordinate lodges and Templar bodies; and, 
 
 for fifteen years, has commanded the famous St. Bernard Drill Corps of Chicago. 
 Member of the Chicago Athletic club and commander of the Chicago Equestrian club.
 
 '45 
 
 Palms and magnolias were used in decoration, and the rude railings of the speakers' 
 stand were wound with bunting and festooned with gray floating Spanish moss. 
 
 At the foot of the soldiers' monument was heaped great masses of blossoms. A 
 floral cross stood at its base, and on either side was an anchor and wreath of roses and 
 lilies. Over all stood watch the lonely figure which in the years to come will teach 
 generations yet unborn the lesson of forgiveness, love and peace. 
 
 Yesterday it looked down upon thousands of people assembled hours before the car- 
 riages carrying the distinguished guests arrived, and who stood patiently awaiting them, 
 heedless of the merciless rays of a scorching sun. 
 
 At the close of the dedicatory ceremonies in Oakwoods, the distin- 
 guished visitors returned to the central part of the city, being driven in 
 carriages through Washington park, along Drexel and Grand boulevards 
 and on Michigan avenue from Thirty-first street to the Auditorium Hotel, 
 where the balconies (specially reserved for the purpose) were occupied, 
 and the general memorial parade witnessed by the southerners, their 
 accompanying ladies and the committee. 
 
 Later in the afternoon, the gentlemen of the party visited the clubs 
 of Chicago, from each of which they had received written invitations of 
 hospitable welcome; and otherwise entertained themselves until evening. 
 
 At 8:00 p. m. Columbia Post, No. 706, G. A. R., Maj. H. G. Purin- 
 ton, commanding, with its military band, and The ex-Confederate Associa- 
 tion, Camp No. 8, U. C. V. of Chicago, Lieut. -Col. Geo. Forrester, 
 commanding, reported to Gen. Underwood at the Palmer House, and a 
 little before 9:00 o'clock the party of southern visitors, the same who 
 attended the reception at that hotel the evening previous, under escort of 
 the combined detachments of Grand Army and Confederate veterans, 
 were driven to the armory of the First regiment infantry I. N. G., Six- 
 teenth street and Michigan avenue, where they were royally received. 
 
 THE RECEPTION AT THE ARMORY. 
 
 Col. Henry L. Turner of the First regiment, was host for the occasion 
 on behalf of the citizens' committee of 130. His regiment, 800 strong, 
 forgot the marches of the day; forgot that it had tramped in the sun for 
 many miles in the largest parade it has ever known; forgot that it was 
 physically exhausted and unfit for service of any kind; forgot itself in the 
 purpose of the hour to brighten the visit of the men and women who 
 had come here from the land of sunshine and flowers and beautiful 
 womanhood and magnificent manhood. 
 
 The regiment practically sacrificed itself to duty, touched with pleas- 
 ure, the pleasure that is born of splendid achievement hallowed by the 
 love of a great people, individually and collectively.
 
 SQAUD OF CO. M, FIRST REGIMENT INFANTRY I. N. G., AT A RALLY.
 
 H7 
 
 Thousands crowded in the armory to take part in the reception to the 
 Confederate generals and the fair southern visitors who came to Chicago 
 to attend the dedication of the monument at Oakwoods. Though the 
 doors of the vast hall were thrown open at 7:00 o'clock and hundreds of 
 guests drove up to the big gates early, the long wait until the southern 
 visitors arrived passed quickly. The floor of the hall was left to the 
 regiment, and the command "At rest" was given, and the boys of the 
 First stacked their arms until the guests arrived. 
 
 The singers of the regiment did not remain silent, however, and the 
 pathetic air, "Tenting To-night in the Old Camp Ground," came from a 
 hundred lusty throats. This was followed by "Don't You Hear Dem 
 Bells?" Then came the regiment yell, but at 9:00 o'clock the merry 
 voices were hushed as the sound of a band penetrated the armory. 
 
 Like an echo could be heard the dashing, inspiriting strain "Dixie," 
 and the mellow cadence became louder and louder as the Columbia Post 
 band approached the armory. Quickly the regiment presented arms, and 
 Col. Henry L. Turner and the reception committee wnt to the grand 
 entrance and greeted the party with most hospitable welcome. 
 
 The guests were received with "three ruffles and three rolls," which 
 is the highest honor paid any military officer. 
 
 A mighty cheer rang out as the southern guests entered. Columbia 
 Post, G. A. R. , marched into the square formed by the regiment, fol- 
 lowed by The ex-Confederate Association of Chicago, and then lined up 
 on one side of the hall as the guests marced to the platform reserved for 
 them, the ladies being escorted to the balcony. A dress parade of the 
 First regiment followed, together with the command marching in review 
 past the southern generals and a fancy drill by Company M completed 
 the military exercises. 
 
 A promenade concert followed the fancy drill and the following 
 program was given under the leadership of J. F.Hastrawser: 
 
 March, "General Anthony Wayne" . Alder. 
 
 Overture "William Tell. " 
 
 Collocation from "Faust" Gounod. 
 
 Selection of southern airs Coates. 
 
 "American Patrol" Meacham. 
 
 "Liberty Bell" Sousa. 
 
 Patrol, "Blue and the Gray" A. Densmore. 
 
 The southern ladies waved their handkerchiefs and applauded as the 
 First regiment band played a selection of southern airs.
 
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 The company then came down from the galleries and crowded around 
 the dais where the southern guests were seated. 
 
 Many distinguished Chicagoans were presented to the Confederate 
 generals. 
 
 After this the people present were permitted to pass by the platform 
 and shake hands with the visitors in an informal way. 
 
 There were no formalities of any kind, but it was a most happy affair 
 and was honored by the presence of many people. 
 
 As the party was breaking up cheers for the gray haired warriors of 
 the south rang out in the First regiment armory, all doing honor to 
 gallant men who had fought for the Confederacy. It was a real union of 
 the blue and the gray and the hearts of the southerners warmed at the 
 welcome they received. 
 
 The action of the First regiment infantry I. N. G. was without parallel 
 in magnitude and unanimity of the various components of the command; 
 and the support thereby given to the general harmonizing movement of 
 the north toward the south was most propitious and valuable. 
 
 The graceful act and military courtesy of firing the memorial volleys, 
 so to speak, over the remains of dead heroes from the southland and the 
 warmth of the after reception by the regiment and hearty individual 
 greetings by its officers and soldiers, caused a thrill of appreciation in 
 the hearts of all of Dixie's representatives; and the feeling was unani- 
 mous that such a body of soldiery had surpassed itself in the bestowing 
 of military honors on the long buried dead and by the lavish courtesies 
 extended to the southern guests during the occasion. 
 
 To this must be added the whole souled hospitality of the citizens of 
 Chicago, demonstrated by the entertainments given by the wealthy and 
 the unanimous and hearty greetings by all classes, who with one accord 
 joined in honoring former foes, come to pay homage tribute at the 
 shrine of their valiant dead. 
 
 No city could have done more, no people could have shown greater 
 liberality; the church, the press, the state, united and vied with each 
 other in the discharge of the duty of harmonization. One voice spoke 
 in thanks, one heart beat with reciprocal impulse and with one eye the 
 people throughout the south viewed the hospitable actions of Chicago's 
 citizens and the deeds of Col. Turner and his men.
 
 May 29-31, 1895. 
 BIOGRAPHIC: 
 
 Thomas Stewart Quincey was born May 28, 1852, at Belleville, Ontario, Canada. At 12 years of age he was bugler of the 
 Argyle Light infantry, and in 1876 he was one of the volunteers on active duty in Minnesota, and assisted in the capture 
 of the Younger brothers after the Northfield robbery. As lieutenant of the Chicago Hussars, he commanded the 
 detachment of his troop in charge of the Stock Yards during the great strike of 1894; member of Troop A Illinois National 
 Guard; organizer and captain of the Black Hussars, the troop which acted as escort at the dedication of the Confederate 
 monument in Chicago, May 30, 1895. Resides in Chicago and is actively engaged in business.
 
 CARRIAGE DRIVE AND DEPARTURE. 
 
 On the 3ist the guests arose late and refreshed, experiencing little 
 or no fatigue from the constant tax upon every moment of time, termin- 
 ating in the reception and supper at the armory the preceding evening; 
 and, when the committee came to drive them through the parks, nearly 
 all were ready to go, and the carriages were filled with the joyous 
 sightseers. 
 
 The party was driven across Chicago river out Dearborn avenue to 
 Lincoln Park and through its beautiful drives, passing by the Grant 
 statue, out the Sheridan road, and returning through the park via the 
 exquisite flower-bed route to Lincoln statue, where the second sleeping 
 place of the Confederate dead was pointed out, and finally taken through 
 the principal streets of Chicago's business district that the tall buildings 
 might be seen in numbers and their great heights realized; then to the 
 Masonic Temple, where many held their breath while being hurried up 
 the twenty-three stories to the top in limited express elevators, and, after 
 enjoying the magnificent city and lake view, thence to the "Palmer" to 
 rest, dine and prepare for the trip to Cincinnati at night. Many of the 
 gentlemen did the clubs and "saw the town" in the afternoon, and all 
 were driven under escort of the Black Hussars to the Twelfth street 
 depot at 8:00 p. m., where the party boarded the cars and was whirled 
 away southward on the "Big Four's" most sumptuous train. 
 
 On arriving at the depot Capt. T. S. Quincey wheeled his hussars 
 into line and gave a parting "present" as the old generals drove past; 
 and afterward the hussars dismounted, entered the depot and paid 
 individual military homage to the heroes that were leaving. This double 
 courtesy extended so^ soldierly by the gallant captain was more than 
 appreciated, and the military bearing of the horsemen and their black 
 chargers caused the eyes .of the cavalry generals to flash with delight, 
 and all joined with heartiest thanks in bidding farewell. It was in this 
 manner that Chicago was bade adieu, ever to be remembered by the 
 guests it so lavishly and superbly entertained. 
 
 After a night trip of special travel, with rare comfort, the placid 
 waters of the Ohio were reached and that beautiful river with the 
 picturesque hills skirting its Kentucky bank kept in view during the 
 twenty miles run to Cincinnati, where the spacious and elegant apart- 
 ments of its royal Grand Hotel awaited them.
 
 SEE FOLLOWING PAGE. 
 
 June i, 1895
 
 153 
 
 MESSRS. CORRE & SHEARS, 
 Proprietors Grand Hotel, Cincinnati. 
 
 In the reception and entertainment of the southern guests by the 
 Chamber of Commerce of Cincinnati, the entertainment committee pos- 
 sessed greater advantages for extending hospitalities than are to be found 
 in any other city of the Union. The party was received at the Grand 
 Central station, conducted across Third street to the spacious elevators 
 at the special entrance to the Grand Hotel, which, located as it is 
 between Third and Fourth streets on Central avenue three principal 
 thoroughfares of the city is most conveniently arranged for the traveling 
 public; thence taken through a spacious and well lighted corridor to the 
 magnificent rotunda that is not surpassed by the office auditorium of any 
 hotel on earth. Its many fluted columns, expansive area of tessellated 
 floors, together with its magnificent marble stairway, copied from the 
 stairway of Caesar's palace, in Rome, produced a feeling similar to that 
 felt by the traveler on the occasion of his first visit to the Grand Opera 
 House of Paris. The decorations in cream and gold, enhanced by the 
 softened light through its lofty ceiling of cut glass during the day, and 
 at night by brilliant, direct and reflected light from hundreds of electric 
 burners, lent enchantment to the imagination of the guests in most 
 pleasing effects throughout the limits of the entire office exchange so 
 much so, that the rotunda of the "Grand" was recognized as constituting 
 one of the attractions of Cincinnati, and by many, considered the most 
 beautiful public room in the country. 
 
 The hotel was found sumptuous, fashionable and homelike, with four 
 passenger elevators, latest sanitary plumbing, the broadest of corridors, 
 most spacious and elegantly furnished parlors, commodious convention 
 and princely dining halls, breakfast and banquet rooms, large and well 
 lighted chambers possessing every modern comfort, on both the Amer- 
 ican and European plans, with a cuisine perfect in all its appointments, 
 a free telephone exchange and every other character of convenience, and 
 with a capacity for entertaining 1,000 guests, and is undoubtedly the 
 hotel of the "Queen City." At this hostelry the ladies and gentlemen 
 of the party who had just arrived from Chicago were most hospitably 
 received and the best that the house afforded placed at their disposal. 
 
 The assistance rendered the committee by the proprietors, Messrs. 
 Corre & Shears, who inherited the talent for keeping a hotel from their 
 fathers, prominent old school bonifaces, enabled it to royally entertain 
 the southern representatives. 
 
 For the courtesies shown by these well-known hotel men through their 
 personal donations and entertainments, the fullest thanks are extended.
 
 June i, 1895. 
 
 BIOGRAPHIC: 
 
 Maurice J. Freiberg was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, January 7, 1861; educated in Cincinnati public school and graduated at 
 
 Wooodward High School, 1879. 
 
 Secretary Cincinnati Chamber of Commerce, 1892-93; vice-president in 1893-94 an d 1894-95. president, 1895-96. 
 Chairman Cincinnati committee for entertainment of Confederate guests, June i, 1895.
 
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 The party on reaching Cincinnati, the early morning of Saturday, 
 June i, were met at the depot by Chairman Freiberg and other members 
 of the entertainment committee, appointed to receive the guests, and 
 taken to the Grand Hotel as stated; Mr. E. O. McCormick of the "Big K } ' 
 
 Four Route" was specially assiduous in his courtesies. 
 
 CINCINNATI'S OFFICIAL TRIBUTE TO THE 
 DISTINGUISHED SOUTHERNERS 
 
 RECEPTION AND ENTERTAINMENT 
 
 IN THE CITY AND AT FORT, THOMAS, KY., JUNE i, 1895. 
 
 The following extracts from the city press of Cincinnati (chiefly 
 Tribune reportorial), June 2, 1895, and stenographic reports, form 
 a succinct account of the visit of the distinguished southerners to the 
 "Queen City" and includes the reception and luncheon given the ex-Con- 
 federates and party at Fort Thomas, Ky. : 
 
 For the first time in its history Cincinnati was laid siege to yesterday morning and 
 captured a short time afterward without offering a single protest or making even a show 
 of resistance 
 
 The men who captured the city have fought many long and bloody battles before, 
 but it is doubtful if they ever had as easy a time achieving a martial victory as when 
 they marched into the Queen City. The attack was made at 7:30 o'clock and the scene 
 of the surrender was the Grand Central depot. 
 
 In other words, the party of distinguished ex-Confederate officers were welcomed 
 with open arms and the city virtually turned over to them. 
 
 As the train bearing the party from Chicago, where these famous men have lately 
 assisted in dedicating a monument to the soldiers of the south, who died in the service, 
 pulled into the station, the committee from the Chamber of Commerce appointed to 
 meet them was there and welcomed the old heroes and their wives and daughters most 
 heartily. 
 
 Introductions were madb, baggage seen to, and the guests of the city conducted to 
 the Grand Hotel, where, after removing the traces of travel and fatigue, they enjoyed a 
 well-served breakfast. 
 
 The party consisted of the following: Lieut -Gen. Jas. Longstreet, daughter, and 
 Mrs. Sanders and daughter; Maj.-Gen. Matthew C. Butler, Maj.-Gen. Fitzhugh Lee, 
 Maj.-Gen. Harry Heth and daughter, Maj.-Gen. S. G. French, Maj.-Gen. L. L. 
 Lomax, wife, and Miss Belle Armstrong; Maj.-Gen. H. Kyd Douglas, Brig. -Gen. 
 Marcus J. Wright, wife, and Miss Eliza Washington; Brig. -Gen. EppaHunton, Solicitor- 
 General Holmes Conrad and wife, Col. Albert Akers and wife, Col. Irvin, Capt. Drew 
 and wife, Gen. Fayette Hewitt, Maj. Henry T. Stanton, Maj. L. C. Norman, Capt. 
 Littlepage and wife, Maj. Frank V. Robinson, Misses V. and L. Mitchell and Miss Cox, 
 Maj. Robert W. Hunter and Gen. John C. Underwood. 
 
 Time has dealt kindly with the men who fought and bled for their cause, and with 
 few exceptions their straight, erect forms and military bearing made them the observed
 
 June i, 1895: 
 
 BIOGRAPHIC: 
 
 Ernest Oliver McCormick was born in Lafayette, Ind., April 3, 1858. Educated in the public schools of his native city, and 
 first entered railroad service as timekeeper, construction department, of the Lake Erie & Western railway in 1879. 
 Since that time he has been consecutively with freight department of the Louisvillej New Albany & Chicago railway 
 at Lafayette, Ind., general agent Great Eastern Fast Freight Line, Louisville, Ky., and later as city ticket agent of the 
 L. N. A. & C. railway; was transferred to Chicago in similar capacity and promoted to general northern paseenger 
 agent, then general passenger agent of same road. Later, general passenger and ticket agent of the Cincinnati, Hamil- 
 ton & Dayton railroad and, in September. 1893, he became passenger traffic manager of the "Big Four Route," the 
 Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis railway. 
 
 President Young Men's Mercantile Library, and member of the Queen City and Cuvier clubs, Cincinnati, Ohio. 
 
 He has attained his present station in railway circles by persistent effort and fidelity to his employer's interests; is easily 
 approached under all circumstances and popular among his colleagues as well as the traveling and general public.
 
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 of all observers. The youthful appearance, the elastic step, the bright eyes and hand- 
 some carriage of these great men were ceaselessly commented on by those who saw 
 them, and their striking appearance alone was enough to attract admiring attention 
 to them. 
 
 Grasping the right hand of fellowship that the Queen City so heartily offered them, 
 these soldiers of the rebellion came into the city with the kindest of feelings for all. 
 They will leave it to-night with that feeling intensified and strengthened a hundred fold. 
 
 In the hotel office for some time after breakfast the party met and talked with their 
 new-found or long-lost friends and many an interesting story of bygone battles or anec- 
 dotes of army and navy were to be heard. The entire party seemed to be feeling in the 
 best of spirits and ready for the delightful day which was to follow. 
 
 The famous old Gen. Longstreet, whose age shows perhaps more than any of the 
 others, was the only one among them who hesitated at the ride. His tall, angular, but 
 soldierly figure was surrounded by his old friends and comrades in the office, but he is 
 not as spry as he once was and his hearing is nearly gone. 
 
 In order to save his strength for the banquet at night he decided finally not to 
 accompany the party, and assisted by his colored servant, a reminder of that halcyon 
 period "befo" the wah," he retired to his room, there to rest and recuperate for a few 
 hours his lost strength after the journey from Chicago. This was a great disappointment 
 to many, especially one group of honest workingmen who were waiting on the pavement 
 in front of the hotel. One of them was heard to remark: "I'd give anything I've got 
 to catch sight of the general's face once again. I ain't seen it since I fought with 
 him in '63." 
 
 Everyone seemed to want to do something for the visitors to show the regard in 
 which they were held and to make them feel how closely allied is Cincinnati to the south 
 in both her commercial interests and her social life. The spirit of welcome was over 
 the assembly, handshaking and hearty greetings, such as 'I'm proud to meet you, sir; 
 I am more than glad to have you in our city," were heard on every side. 
 
 As for attending to their wants and desires, they were fairly anticipated in every 
 case. Even the venerable colored servants were waited on by the younger, agile hotel 
 porters and their every want supplied. 
 
 Gen. John C. Underwood has acted as press agent and general manager from the 
 first, in this truly remarkable gathering of notables, and he played his role to perfection 
 yesterday. Dealing out answers and papers and information with equal liberality, he 
 kept track without apparent effort of all that went on elsewhere, and directed the move- 
 ments of his party whenever called upon. To him is due the honor of the erection of 
 a monument; the like of which has never been seen before a monument erected on the 
 soil of the victor to the memory of the vanquished. 
 
 Shortly after 10:00 o'clock a line of carriages drew up in front of the hotel, and the 
 party filed out of the ladies' entrance and into the conveyances, ready for their drive. 
 
 Col. E. R. Monfort, Wm. McAllister, Capt. J. D. Parker, James M. Glenn, Col. 
 Brent Arnold and E. O. McCormick acted as escorts and, assisted by Mr. Freiberg, 
 helped the visitors off. 
 
 A crowd of old soldiers filled the sidewalk as the old officers and their wives and 
 daughters took their places, and hoarse whispers of "there goes Lee," "I can never 
 forget our Douglas," "Hunton is still with the boys in gray," and the like were heard. 
 
 Driving up Fourth street to Vine, up Vine to Seventh, Seventh to Plum, the line of 
 vehicles made its way to the City Hall, where the distinguished guests were welcomed 
 by the mayor. Entering the building from Plum street, the famous southerners filed
 
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 into Mayor Caldwell's office and were greeted most heartily by His Honor. Almost the 
 first to grasp his hand was Gen. M. C. Butler, who exclaimed: 
 "Hullo! Caldwell, you're here, are you?'' 
 
 Then, as the two grasped hands, the general laughed and reminded his comrades 
 that he had seen the mayor in Washington several years ago, in Congress. 
 
 When Gen. Fitzhugh Lee, who has shaved his beard off of late years and looks 
 younger than ever in consequence, took the mayor's hand the latter said, "I have never 
 had the pleasure of meeting you, General, but I would know your face, nevertheless. It 
 is a familiar one, because of the many pictures I have seen of you." 
 
 Gen. Lee smiled and said he could return the compliment. Then the coterie of 
 handsome men for such was the verdict of all who saw them went through the city 
 building, finding much to admire and comment favorably on therein. 
 
 After the building had been looked at from outside and in, the party bade Mayor 
 Caldwell good-by, and taking the carriages again, drove to the foot of the Mt. Adams 
 incline. Here the conveyances were left in charge of the drivers, and the visitors and 
 their escorts conducted to the top on the incline, it proving a novel and untried 
 experience for some of them. 
 
 From the power house they rode to the Art Museum in the cars, and were shown 
 through it with commendable pride by those who accompanied them. The strongest 
 expressions of approval and admiration for the building and the works of art contained 
 therein were made by the guests, and the view from the park brought forth much 
 admiration. Some of them declared the museum unsurpassed in many respects by any 
 in the country, and they freely congratulated the Cincinnatians of the party on the 
 possession of the same. 
 
 From the museum the party once more descended to the city and drove to the 
 Chamber of Commerce, where a mammoth reception was tendered them by the entire 
 chamber. The great room was filled to overflowing with those eager to see and hear the 
 renowned southerners and at the stroke of 12:00 o'clock the party arrived and were 
 royally welcomed. 
 
 The Symphony orchestra played many martial airs, alternating the "Star Spangled 
 Banner " with "Dixie," as symbolical of the meeting of the men then present the north 
 and the south. These airs brought forth cheers from both sides, and it was pleasant and 
 touching to observe the hearty applause given by all the visitors, ladies and gentlemen, 
 when the former air was rendered. When "Dixie's" sweet strains were sent floating 
 through the big chamber the applause was deafening, and cheers and hat-wavings were 
 the order of the moment. 
 
 In charge of the party, the entertainment committee led them to the register, where 
 once again those famous names were placed upon the page, accompanied by those of 
 the ladies, who caught the spirit of the thing and insisted on writing their own names. 
 The chamber was tastefully decorated in "old glories," and the great flag of the chamber 
 was floating over the street outside, signifying what an auspicious affair was going on 
 within. Hundreds of old soldiers were here also, to talk of the past and point out this 
 or that great man under whom they had fought. The speaker's desk was hung with 
 the emblem of liberty also, and signs reading "welcome" were nearly as numerous as 
 the pleasant words said to and of the strangers. 
 
 President Glenn of the Chamber of Commerce, began the exercises here by a very 
 brief address, in which he asked all present to join in welcoming those distinguished 
 men, now present, in the heartiest of manners. He introduced Gen. Underwood, who 
 said he had asked these southern gentlemen to come to Cincinnati because he wanted
 
 159 
 
 them to see the great gateway of the south and to understand how Cincinnati felt 
 toward them, a feeling that was all friendship and brotherly affection. He declared the 
 south to be the greatest section of all in this country, from which much could be 
 expected, and that so great was its undeveloped wealth that when it was developed it 
 would enrich the entire United States. Cincinnati, he said, was the great point of all 
 others from which to reach those great states lying between the Ohio and the Gulf and 
 the key to increased prosperity for them and it. 
 
 He then introduced Gen. Fitzhugh Lee, the hero of Virginia, and one of the greatest 
 cavalry leaders of the war. 
 
 Gen. Lee said he voiced the sentiments of the party he was with, he knew, when he 
 said he appreciated and thanked the citizens of Cincinnati most heartily for the warm 
 reception they had tendered the southerners. He said the dedication of the monument 
 which they had just come from in Chicago, marked as a great milestone, an epoch in the 
 Nation's progress. It was a great, grand and noble Nation, and when the north and 
 south understood each other more fully, as he knew they were doing now more every 
 day, it would be greater and grander. He said the glory of this common, united country 
 was their glory now as much as the north's, and they were proud of a common govern- 
 ment and a common flag. 
 
 He did not propose to tell those present that the State of Ohio was formed out of the 
 state from which he came, but it was so, and he was proud and glad to know that the two 
 states were bound by ties of commerce now, and ties of steel rails, but best of all by the 
 tias of friendship and brotherhood. 
 
 Virginia would unite with Ohio in making this one great, grand and undivided 
 country, now and forevermore. 
 
 Gen Hunton followed Gen. Lee, and was introduced by Gen. Underwood, almost 
 before he knew what the latter was saying. He said, with a smile, that of all mean 
 enterprises he had ever encountered in the war, an ambuscade was the meanest, and 
 this was what the call on him for a speech was. However, he would testify from the 
 bottom of his heart that the thanks of all his party went out to the overflowing kindness 
 and patriotism which had been shown them here. He called them fellow citizens and he 
 felt he had a right to do so. Though the war was a great calamity and they recognized 
 it as such, he felt it still had its compensations, for now that the blue and gray were 
 indissolubly united again they could "whip a world of armies." This sentiment was 
 greeted with cheers. 
 
 Gen. Butler of South Carolina, and a great cavalry leader in the rebellion, declared 
 he had also been taken unawares, but he was more unfortunate than his friend, Gen. 
 Hunton. The latter had his manuscript in his pocket, but he had not. He then spoke 
 of the great reception and monument dedication at Chicago, and declared the war was 
 a family quarrel settled then forever. "We fought the last fight in Chicago," said he, 
 "and from this on we are absolutely one people." 
 
 He poured hot shot into the politicians for keeping the breach between the north 
 and south open so long, and declared the reconciliation between the old soldiers was 
 frank, candid and honest, and if any outsider ever tries in the future to interfere with 
 us, joined together we will whip him. He warmed up at the applause this remark 
 elicited, and declared that the old soldiers of the Confederacy were still young and will- 
 ing enough to stand side by side with the men in blue in any conflict that might come; 
 "and then see if we are sincere or not when we say that we are going to protect that 
 glorious flag just as quickly and as earnestly as you."
 
 BRIG.-GEN. MARCUS J. WRIGHT, 
 
 DURING THE SIXTIES. 
 
 May 2g-June 2, 1895. 
 
 BIOGRAPHIC: 
 
 Marcus Joseph Wright was born at Purely, Tenn., June 5, 1831. Educated in common school and the academy at Purdy. Clerk 
 of the Common Law and Chancery Court of Memphis for eight years before the war. Lieutenent-colonel One Hundred 
 and Fifty-fourth (Senior) regiment infantry Tennessee volunteers, C. S. A., April 4, 1861; assistant adjutant-general, 
 staff of Gen. B. F. Cheatham, early 1862; brigadier-general, P. A. C. S., December 13, 1862. 
 
 Commanded regiment in battles of Belmont and Shiloh and brigade in battles of Chickamauga, and Missionary Ridge; staff 
 officer at surrender of Mumfordsville, and battle of Perryville, Ky., commanded the post and district of Atlanta, district of 
 west Tennessee and north Mississippi, and engaged in all the battles of the Army of the Tennessee, except during the 
 Atlanta campaign when he was serving in lower Georgia. 
 
 Sheriff of Shelby county, Tenn., for two years after the war. 
 
 Agent of the War Department, U. S., for the collection of Confederate records, since July i, 1878. 
 
 Vice-president, District of Columbia Society Sons of the American Revolution; member of the American, of the Tennessee, of 
 the Louisiana and of the Virginia historical societies, and author of "Life of Gov. Wm. Blount and of Gen. Winfield 
 Scott," and many other notable biographies in Appleton's Cyclopedia of American Biography, etc.
 
 i6i 
 
 Maj. Holmes Conrad, solicitor-general of the United States, followed with a brief 
 and earnest address concerning the monument they had dedicated, and also went for 
 the politicians who keep alive sectional hatred. 
 
 Gen. Wright was next called on and spoke of the work entailed on him as follows: 
 
 (Approved Stenographic Report.) 
 
 BRIG.-GEN. MARCUS J. WRIGHT, 
 Of Washington, D. C. 
 
 Brig. -Gen. Wright: "Mr. President and Gentlemen of the Cincinnati Board of Trade 
 I fear that a response to the call of my friend, Gen. Underwood, for me to address you 
 in regard to the publication of the war records, will tax your patience, especially after 
 so many eloquent addresses by distinguished gentlemen, representing both the Federal 
 and Confederate armies. But as you seem to wish to hear me, I will make you a brief 
 statement, as requested. 
 
 "The first work in preparing the records of the civil war for publication was inaug- 
 urated by the late Gen. E D. Townsend, adjutant-general of the United States army, 
 under an act of Congress of date May 19, 1864. 
 
 "The first real work began under act of Congress June 23. 1864, which provided 
 means for the secretary of war to begin the publication of the records of the war, both 
 Union and Confederate. Since then appropriations have been made from time to time 
 to continue the work. Under the present law 11,000 copies are printed and distributed 
 to such persons, libraries and institutions as the members of the Forty-seventh Congress 
 have designated to the secretary of war, with 1,000 copies for the executive depart- 
 ments, 1,000 copies for officers of the army and contributors to the work, and the 
 remaining copies to be sold at cost of publication, with ten per cent added. 
 
 "These records contain nothing that is not strictly official. There is no editing except 
 in arrangement of matter chronologically and noting absence of a paper referred to as 
 'not found,' and the insertion in brackets of full name of person when not given in 
 original paper. 
 
 "The Confederate records were scattered all over the country, in the possession of 
 various persons, and it has been my duty to collect them. On stating in a circular, 
 which I very freely distributed every year, and personally stating to persons in possession 
 of Confederate records that the object of the government was to publish a full and 
 complete record of the war on both sides, I have had little difficulty in gathering the 
 Confederate papers. As a -matter of course, the Confederate records are not as complete 
 as those of the Union army but by diligent search we have been enabled to make that 
 record very satisfactory. 
 
 "These records are divided into four series. The first series will contain the 
 formal reports, both Union and Confederate, of all operations of both armies from the 
 beginning to the end of the war. The campaigns are arranged in chronological order. 
 
 "The second series will contain correspondence, orders, reports and returns, 
 Union and Confederate, in regard to prisoners of war, and state and political prisoners. 
 
 "The third series will contain correspondence, orders, reports and returns of Union 
 authorities not relating to subjects of the first two series. 
 
 "The fourth series will contain correspondence, orders, reports and returns of the 
 Confederate authorities similar to that indicated for the Union army of the third series. 
 
 "It may be that the very valuable and interesting diplomatic correspondence of the
 
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 Confederate authorities will also be embraced in the publication, as it will throw much 
 light on matters now but little known. 
 
 "No other government has ever made such a publication of a civil war, and I 
 attribute to this publication much of the good feeling and patriotism now existing in 
 our common country. We are all proud of American valor, and these books are the 
 best evidences on that subject. We are greatly gratified at the reception given us in 
 Chicago and Cincinnati, and will take home with us very kind remembrances of your 
 hospitality and courtesy." 
 
 Gen. Kyd Douglas, the leader of the famous Light Brigade, was then called out. 
 He started by saying that he never before had been in a Chamber of Commerce and 
 knew nothing about the ways of its members. He had not uttered a hundred words 
 before it was seen that he was a man of unusual ability. He said he had always 
 desired to join the Society of Cincinnatus, and he was glad he could do it now. He said 
 the Nation had been rent by fire and flame, but the sweet waters of the Potomac and 
 the Ohio would reunite it, and this was the message be brought. The Star Spangled 
 Banner was good enough for them all now He dwelt at some length on the horrors of 
 war and consequent bloodshed, and paid a glowing tribute to the hospitality of the 
 northern people. The scenes witnessed yesterday, he declared, seldom take place on 
 the panorama of history. He knew nothing about trade, but he knew it followed good 
 will, and certainly now trade would come north and go south. 
 
 Gen. Harry Heth, a hero of Gettysburg, who got further north in that memorable 
 battle than any one else, now living, on the southern side, was next to speak He said 
 that Cincinnati had captured them to-day, but the city would remember the time, thirty- 
 three years ago, when he had come near capturing it. 
 
 Col. Spooner of the Union Veteran Legion, asked that the old soldiers be allowed 
 to shake hands with the famous men present before they left the floor, which they did. 
 The party then adjourned to the Queen City Club house, where an elegant repast was 
 served in its commodious and exquisitely appointed dining room. 
 
 THE PARTY GOES TO FORT THOMAS, KY. 
 
 At 2:15 o'clock two special cars, offered for the use of the guests by the street rail- 
 way company, were boarded at Fountain square and the delightful trip to Fort Thomas 
 made. The beautiful natural scenery along the way was spoken of by all and greatly 
 admired. The talk took as many turns as the track itself, and was not confined to 
 military affairs at all. 
 
 A telegram to Gen. Underwood from Gen. Schofield was passed around one car. It 
 read: "I hope the distinguished Union and Confederate soldiers who may visit Cincinnati 
 upon invitation of the Chamber of Commerce will pay a visit to the troops at Fort 
 Thomas, Ky., where I am sure they will receive a most cordial welcome. I will wire 
 the commanding officer of Fort Thomas that he may expect such a visit." 
 
 When the party arrived at the fort they were met by carriages and driven to the post 
 headquarters, where Col. Cochran and staff received them. They were invited to the 
 reception rooms and there met by the officers and the ladies of the garrison and 
 entertained right royally. 
 
 A bountiful and palatable luncheon was served, and the ride from the city had fully 
 prepared the party to enjoy the good things of the "spread." The iced course was 
 scarcely finished before patriotic toasts were drank in the most excellent of military 
 punches.
 
 Col. Cochran was called for on all quarters, and, mounting a chair, in his soldierly 
 manner said: 
 
 (Approved Stenographic Report.) 
 
 COL. M. A. COCHRAN, 
 
 U. S. Army. 
 
 "Gentlemen and Comrades: The commanding general of the army wired information 
 of your coming, and in extending these hastily prepared hospitalities the hearty good 
 will with which our reception is made is offered to supply any lack of formality. 
 Soldiers need little etiquette around the festive board in the club-room of a military 
 post. The draughts with which our patriotism has been regaled have also served to 
 renew the comradeship of the 'profession of arms,' for there is scarcely a chivalrous tie 
 so strong as that caused through service in battle, whether shoulder to shoulder or as 
 soldiers of opposing forces. The thrill of excitement caused by the constantly changing 
 situations on a stricken field, adds to its charm, and has often prompted the dashing 
 bravery so frequently exhibited by American soldiery, on both sides, during our late war. 
 
 "I am more of a soldier than a speech -maker, yet I would in my military way 
 extend to you, one and all, the heartiest of welcomes to Fort Thomas, and shall rely 
 on the brilliant sparkle the ladies have thrown into the occasion by their presence, to 
 ornament the naturally beautiful surroundings of the post and stamp the visit indelibly 
 in your memories. Having drank to 'The Government,' 'The Flag,' and 'The Army,' I 
 now propose an additional toast: 'To the true comradeship of the soldier,' with the 
 hope that the next war will find us drinking out of the same canteen." (Vociferous 
 applause and a perfect crush to obtain the hand-shake.) 
 
 Many of the distinguished ex-Confederate generals were called on, and they made 
 short addresses, accepting the courtesies so lavishly extended, complimenting the com- 
 mandant and officers on the martial surroundings and praising the ladies for the charm 
 of their presence. 
 
 The guests then, on invitation, repaired to the balconies and pavilion on the parade 
 ground and witnessed a "special dress parade" by the regiment, for their benefit, which 
 was highly enjoyed by all. 
 
 The old commanders say there have been many and excellent changes in the tactics 
 since they were in the field. The bluff, which Mr. Glenn asked them to visit before 
 they left, commanding such a magnificent view of the river, was visited next, and 
 unqualified admiration expressed by all, some declaring there was nothing like it else- 
 where in America. At last the party reluctantly returned to the city, thoroughly 
 enjoying the quick trip on the summer special cars. They reached Fountain square at 
 5:30, and transferring to other special cars, were whirled away to the Grand Hotel, there 
 to prepare for the banquet a few hours later. 
 
 The entire day was one of great pleasure and interest to all, and the greatest of the 
 south's citizens will return to it full of Cincinnati's wonderful commercial enterprise 
 and its unexcelled situation between the north and south, and fully prepared to second 
 and substantiate its claim as the key to the great New South.
 
 164 
 
 Banquet 
 
 UNDER THE AUSPICES OF THE 
 
 CHAMBER OF COMMERCE. 
 
 JAMES M. GLENN, President of the Chamber. 
 
 Committee on Entertainment. 
 
 MAURICE J. FREIBERG, Vice-President of the Chamber, Chairman. 
 WM. McCALLISTER B. W. CAMPBELL H. LEE EARLY 
 
 H. H. MEYER E. O. McCORMICK 
 
 RALPH PETERS BRENT ARNOLD JOS. J. HOOKER 
 
 S. M. FELTON ARCHER BROWN 
 
 R. W. WISE 
 
 THE PRESIDENT, Ex-officio. 
 
 In addition to the committee, those present, besides 
 Hon. John A. Caldwell, 
 
 Gen. J. D. Cox, 
 
 Rev. Dudley W. Rhodes, 
 
 Albert Lackman, 
 
 F. M. Huschart, 
 
 Wm. L. Hunt, 
 
 J. W. Biles, 
 
 Col. S. D. Maxwell, 
 
 J. N. Wolliscroft, 
 
 Capt. Jas. P. Jackson, 
 
 A. G. Corre, 
 
 D. C. Shears, 
 
 E. L. Heinsheimer, 
 E. T. Osborn, 
 
 L. L. Sadler, 
 
 C. Tillinghast, 
 
 Henry J. Grossius, 
 
 Dr. Joseph Ransohoff, 
 
 E. S. Grant, 
 
 J. C. Harper, 
 
 J. W. Bailey, 
 
 John W. Paul, 
 
 A. B. Voorheis, 
 
 A. Ballard of Texas, 
 
 Col. C. B. Hunt, 
 Adam Smyrl, 
 E. P. Wilson, 
 J. Walter Freiberg, 
 S. W. Trost, 
 Hon. J. B. Foraker, 
 Dr. C. P. Brent, 
 James D. Parker, 
 Louis Kramer, 
 T. J. Wyscarver, 
 Col. J. M. Arnold, 
 Edward Colston, 
 D. B. Martin, 
 Geo. H. Campbell, 
 Jas. M. Southgate, 
 David J. Workum, 
 W. W. Lamar, 
 Gen. Michael Ryan, 
 C. H. Kellogg, 
 Major H. P. Lloyd, 
 J. T. Carew, 
 Herman Goepper, 
 
 the guests from southland, were: 
 
 Col. M. A. Cochran, U. S. A. 
 
 M. E. Engalls, 
 
 N. J. Hoban, 
 
 R. Jackson, 
 
 J. L. Workum, 
 
 Geo. N. Stone, 
 
 J. G. Schmidlapp, 
 
 Capt. L. R. Keck, 
 
 Rev. Geo. A. Thayer, 
 
 C. M Holloway, 
 
 Col. L. Marbeit, 
 
 O. G. Murray, 
 
 F. D. Comstock, 
 A. M. Stimson, 
 Julius Fleishmann, 
 Paris C. Brown, 
 
 G. T. Miller, 
 A. H. McLeod, 
 F. B. Wiborg, 
 W. L. Granger, 
 Julius Dexter, 
 Wm. H. Alms, 
 F. A. Rothier.
 
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 .TENDERED-TO-Dl^T)NGyi5HED- 
 
 SOUTH ERN VISITORS- 
 
 BY-THE-CHAnBR- 
 CINCf N'NATI- 
 
 ^ JUNE HI
 
 REV. DUDLEY W. RHODES. 
 
 ADDRESS OF WELCOME, J. M. GLENN, PRES'T 
 
 CHAMBER OF COMMERCE. 
 
 RESPONSE. 
 
 GEN. JOHN C. UNDERWOOD. 
 
 <3en. 3. E>. COI, troastmastcr. 
 
 Coasts. 
 
 / OUR UNITED COUNTRY, SOLICITOR-GEN. HOLMES CONRAD. 
 
 2. CINCINNATI, 
 
 THE GATEWAY OF THE SOUTH. 
 
 3. THE SOLDIER IN POLITICS. 
 
 4. THE OLD HAVE FORGIVEN, 
 
 THE YOUNG HAVE FORGOTTEN, 
 
 5. THE PATRIOTIC SOUTH. 
 
 6. THE ARMY AND NAVY. 
 
 7. THE SOLDIER IN PEACE AND WAR, 
 
 MAJ. H. P. LLOYD. 
 GEN. EPPA HUNTON. 
 
 GEN. M. J. RYAN. 
 
 MAJ. R. W. HUNTER. 
 
 COL. M. A. COCHRAN. 
 
 GEN. H. KYD DOUGLAS.
 
 Stjcrry LITTLE NECK CLAMS 
 
 SALTED ALMONDS. ICED OLIVES. 
 
 CONSOMME IMPERIALE. 
 
 SOFT SHELL CRABS, BORDELAISE. 
 CUCUMBERS. 
 
 <Iaret 
 
 SUPREME OF CHICKEN, DELMONICO. 
 ASPARAGUS. POTATOES IN FORM. 
 
 Champagne 
 
 CAKES. 
 
 <ta.ars 
 
 Punch, a la Slue anb (Stay. 
 
 ENGLISH SNIPE, SUR CANAPE. 
 WATER CRESS SALAD. 
 
 ICE CREAM, IN 
 
 STRAWBERRIES. 
 
 CHEESE
 
 June i, 1895. 
 
 SEK FOLLOWING PAGE.
 
 169 
 
 THE BANQUET. 
 
 The banquet was served in Congress hall of the Grand Hotel and 
 was spread for 100 guests, the table being continuous and arranged 
 in the shape of the letter U, with President Glenn, Gens. Cox and 
 Hunton, Col. Cochran, Majs. Lloyd and Conrad and other speakers 
 seated around the convex side of the center section. 
 
 Before the covers were removed President Glenn called upon Rev. 
 Dudley W. Rhodes to bless the repast and proceedings, which he did by 
 a most admirable and appropriate grace. The gentlemen comprising 
 the party were then seated and partook of and enjoyed the many good 
 things, placed before them, and the individualities of the social board. 
 
 The only regret was the absence of Gens. Longstreet, Fitz Lee and 
 Butler, the former being obliged to keep his room in consequence of 
 indisposition caused by fatigue and the intense heat, and the two latter 
 having been hurriedly called to the capital by wire. But like everything 
 of even a semi-military nature, sorrows are made to give place to 
 pleasures, and the wine and hilarious spirits of the party flowed with 
 rivalling rapidity and contentment reigned supreme. 
 
 After the cigars had been passed Mr. E. O. McCormick left the room 
 very unceremoniously, so much so that his departure caused remarks and 
 all sorts of reasons were given for his hasty retreat. However, he 
 returned a few minutes later, escorting the ladies, who had made the trip 
 to Kentucky in the afternoon, and graced the hospitable reception at 
 Fort Thomas. As they entered, everyone arose and prolonged applause 
 was the salute with which they were greeted, for all recognized that they 
 would not only surround the proceedings with the charm of feminine 
 beauty and culture, but also add to the pleasure of the occasion through 
 the delights brought by their presence. 
 
 When the room had quieted the representative of the city's commerce 
 arose and spoke as follows: 
 
 JAMES M. GLENN, 
 
 President Chamber of Commerce, Cincinnati. 
 
 President Glenn: "My Friends from the South, Ladies and Gentlemen- 
 "As president of the Chamber of Commerce, representing the business 
 community of this city, I now officially welcome you to Cincinnati, the 
 great municipal gateway between your section and mine. If I possessed
 
 May 29-June 2, 1895. 
 BIOGRAPHIC 
 
 Albert Akers was born in Appomattox county, Va., January 6, 1841. Educated at Lynchburg, Va., and Western Military 
 Institute, Nashville, Tenn. On the breaking out of the war he was appointed drill master to the Second Tennessee 
 infantry; soon commissioned a first lieutenant in the regiment, and commanded his company in the battle of Shiloh, 
 April 6. 1862, where he was desperately wounded, a musket ball passing entirely through his body. Left on the battle- 
 field for dead, he fell into the hands of the Federals and was removed to Cincinnati and kept in hospital until October, 
 1862. He was then taken to Camp Chase, thence to Cairo, 111., and from there to Vicksburg, Miss., and exchanged, 
 November, 1862. He was sent to the parole hospital at Jackson, Miss., and afterward granted a furlough; went to and 
 remained at Lynchburg, Va., until May, 1863, when he reported for duty at Richmond. He there learned that in the 
 belief that he was dead, his funeral discourse had been preached in Nashville, his commission vacated; that the captain 
 of his company had fallen in battle, and the promotion to which he was thereby entitled had passed to another. How- 
 ever, an order was issued from the war department restoring him to his command and giving him a commission as 
 captain. Regarded as not fit for active service, he was temporarily assigned to duty at Macon, Ga., as provost marshal 
 and mustering officer. He returned to his regiment and, at the head of his company, was actively engaged in the battle 
 of Chickamauga, September 19-20, 1863, in which he behaved with conspicuous gallantry. In a skirmish near Atlanta, 
 July 18, i864, he was again wounded and disabled from duty for two months, when he resumed his command and remained 
 with it until the surrender under Gen. Joseph E. Johnston at Greensboro. He was brevetted major for bravery and meri- 
 torious conduct at Shiloh. 
 
 At the close of the war he returned to Nashville, Tenn., studied law and was admitted to the practice in 1865. City attor- 
 ney 1866-68; clerk of the Circuit and Law courts of Davidson county, Tenn., 1870-74; delegate from Tennessee to the 
 Geographical and Scientific Congress in Paris, France, 1875; United States attorney in the adjustment of claims against 
 the government on account of swamp land indemnities, i88<;; resigned in 1889 to accept a highly responsible position in 
 the law and medical revision department of the Mutual Life Insurance Company of New York, which he still retains, 
 residing at Washington, D. C. Colonel and inspector-general, U. C. V.; a public speaker and humorist of rarest merit.
 
 the tongue of some of your famous orators I might impress you more pleas- 
 ingly with the heartfelt earnestness of our greeting. Let me say, how- 
 ever, with that brevity which is the soul of wit, that it is most fitting for 
 the north and south to eat, drink and be merry together; and above all for 
 the Queen City of the west to play the hostess on this felicitous occasion. 
 
 "There is no other city which could better entertain her southern 
 neighbors than this; no other place where northern veterans and southern 
 heroes could meet more cordially at the same board and grasping each 
 other's hands, say: 'Brother, ours was a family quarrel; both sides were 
 brave; the past is forgotten, we will look to the common future with 
 hopes prepared for an ampler vision of prosperity, a closer union and a 
 more enduring patriotism.' (Applause). 
 
 "To the ex-Confederate generals and all the representatives of the 
 southern soil who are here, I proclaim you the guests of Cincinnati 
 to-night. Guests you shall ever be when it suits your pleasure to accept 
 the hospitalities of our city, and friends you shall ever be whether you 
 are here in body or in spirit. 
 
 "But I prefer to speak especially of our commercial kinship. We 
 have not only reunited our hearts, but we have effected a fraternity of 
 our pockets. Cincinnati is the greatest mart of trade and manufacture 
 in the central west, and it is more closely allied with your people than 
 any other city in America. For this reason it gives me great pleasure to 
 ask you to take back to every section of the south the greeting of Cin- 
 cinnati's business men. When we learned that these distinguished south- 
 erners were to pass through our city en route to their homes, we deter- 
 mined to capture them if possible, not as capturing was done thirty 
 years ago, but by the gentler arts of peace. For to-night, therefore, you 
 are our prisoners. We will treat you to the best we have, but we will 
 hold you as hostages for the love and sympathy of the southland. 
 
 "But to the fair ladies who accompany your party, we have only to 
 say that we are their prisoners; they have captured us. 
 
 "Know, then, one and all, and you, sir (addressing Gen. Underwood), 
 as the spokesman of our visitors, that we make you a part of our 
 municipal family to-night; that we are proud to have you with us and 
 that we sincerely hope you will all come again, when you can stay longer. " 
 (Great applause.) 
 
 MAJ.-GEN. JOHN C. UNDERWOOD, 
 
 Ex-Lieut. -Gov. of Kentucky. 
 
 Gen. Underwood: il Mr. President and Members of the Chamber of 
 Commerce, Citizens of Cincinnati and Friends, Ladies and Gentlemen You
 
 172 
 
 no doubt know that among the various attributes of a Kentuckian 
 modesty is the most prominent, and the battery of bright and beautiful 
 eyes, added as a complimentary audience on this occasion, is enough to 
 appall even the bravest. (Laughter.) 
 
 "Over thirty years ago I was a prisoner, confined first in Kemper 
 barracks on Third street and afterward in McLean barracks on Sixth 
 street in this goodly city. I had been captured the summer of 1863, by 
 being left within the Federal lines, sick with typhoid fever, on the retreat 
 of Gen. Bragg's army from Tullahoma, Tenn., and, at the time of my 
 incarceration in Cincinnati I was in a feeble condition, but, nevertheless, 
 soon learned the rigidity with which opposing elements are treated 
 during times of war. The contrast between this most bountiful banquet 
 and the royal accommodations of your truly 'Grand' hotel to-night, 
 and the prison fare and my personal recollection of sleeping on an iron 
 bedstead with a Federal soldier constantly near, with fixed bayonet to 
 guard the fever-worn and enfeebled 'desperate' prisoner, is as wide as 
 our land from ocean to ocean. The bitterness of that era has passed 
 away, overstrained imaginations of desperation have given place to a 
 frank and free acknowledgment of possible errors and misconceptions 
 by both sides, and things are not as they were. The change is healthy! 
 Thirty years after the war is time enough to hold animosities and this 
 occasion is most auspicious, because of the distinguished elements com- 
 mingling here to-night. (Applause.) The 'southern' has in a manner 
 forgotten the hardships, trials and losses of the past, in his acceptance 
 of the result of the issue by arbitrament of arms; and in so doing has 
 displayed the soundest of good sense by making the most of the 
 inevitable. We are here not by compulsion, neither for unprofitable 
 debate, nor for any other purpose than that of good will and harmony, 
 with the view of sharing reciprocal benefit with the north, socially, 
 politically and materially. The south, as a people, are unalloyed and 
 Americans to the core, and, through its recuperative powers, is now the 
 large section of the country fast becoming self-sustaining in every 
 particular. The railroads recognize, through its redevelopment, a 
 rich harvest of transportation in the near future; and its people are law 
 abiding from the lowest to the highest. (Applause.) It both wants and 
 needs co-operative business with sister northern states, and the cotton 
 fields of its broad acres, now hear the hum of machinery in places 
 where the spindles of cotton factories were never dreamed of in ante- 
 bellum days. In business, the past is dead; in living hearts, both politic 
 and true, the friendliest intercourse for the future is assured and dis- 
 sension has given place to concord, with a jointly united purpose to
 
 work out prosperity and enjoy happiness throughout a reunited, glorious 
 nation the land of the free. (Prolonged applause.) 
 
 "Ohio is one of the best all-around states in the Union, and it is 
 only necessary to travel through it and see the fertile fields, prosperous 
 mines and great manufacturing interests to learn and know the truth of 
 the statement. Its numerous cities, containing magnificent business 
 blocks and palatial residences are made to stand out in bold relief by a 
 background of live smokestacks, and the street hum of busy traffic is 
 blended with the constant music of the artisan's hammer. Cincinnati, 
 its most prominent and largest city, is conservative and safe in its every 
 action, with unbounded credit, stanch and admirable banking and varied 
 business facilities, with its hundreds of miles of street car railways and 
 inclined roadways up the heights to the most beautiful suburbs of any 
 city; with its many denominational churches, each with the 'tallest 
 steeple' and all as popular as the 'little chapel around the corner;' with 
 its superb system of public schools and innumerable residences display- 
 ing comfort, luxury and magnificence, it is undoubtedly a veritable 
 paradise in which to live. (Loud and continued applause.) 
 
 "The broad river, flowing between the sister States of Ohio and 
 Kentucky for 500 miles, does not bound separate and foreign gov- 
 ernments, but artery-like, courses its way with the life fluid of natural 
 commerce between sections of one people, distinct in location, but 
 united in business purpose. Cincinnati, the great city of the northern 
 sister, is, in fact, the gateway to the south and the capital mart of 
 central and northern Kentucky, while the State of Ohio from the 
 lakes to this dividing river is agriculturally, minerally and mechanically 
 prosperous, and possesses a pronounced radical patriotism. The strong 
 southern and elder state, Kentucky, the first daughter of the revolutionary 
 federation, now a Bourbon Democratic sister, no longer the 'dark and 
 bloody ground' of a pre-historic period, but liberal and enlightened in all 
 things, shakes hands across the gulf of former hatreds so thoroughly 
 that the typical southerner of the central state blue grass, yellow grain 
 and rich tobacco fields of the Green river section, can socially greet his 
 cooler neighbor from the wool-growing regions of Lake Erie, and join 
 in a united patriotic sentiment over the festive board without gauging 
 the size of the draught that quenches the thirst of his friend. (Laughter 
 and applause.) 
 
 "The picture drawn between Ohio and Kentucky is but typical of all 
 the states in greater and less degrees, and 'twould be folly to assert 
 otherwise should any one so wish. In consequence of my early support 
 of Cincinnati's southern railway scheme and subsequent official aid
 
 174 
 
 toward the completion of the enterprise, to say nothing of my residing 
 for several years at Columbus, I claim connection with the great State of 
 Ohio and cousinly relationship, at least, for the reasons that my father 
 fought under the first Harrison in Dudley's defeat opposite Fort Meigs, 
 and, when a wounded prisoner, 'ran the Indian gauntlet' on the banks 
 of the Maumee river near Toledo. He afterward made the first white 
 man's trans-Ohio water trip from Sandusky to Portsmouth, and my 
 great-uncle, Joseph Rogers, a captive, disguised as an Indian, gave up 
 his life in Gen. Clark's fight with the Pawnee Indians at Piqua, shot by 
 red man or Kentuckian, while trying to escape to his cousin's army; and, 
 later, through the acts of Ohio's natural orator, Thos. Corwin, who was 
 instrumental in securing my release on parole from the Fort Warren 
 prison by special order of President Lincoln. The knowledge of such 
 historic events cannot fail to bring closer together the elements of the 
 former associations of fraternal blood ties, and in this nsw era, not 
 of forgetfulness, but of harmonization and reciprocal friendly inter- 
 course, the true man from either of the formerly belligerent sections 
 cannot but hail a reunited Nation with sincerest gratitude. 
 
 "It was with such feeling that I asked my southern friends to accept 
 the invitation to visit your city, and, as a resident of the first and 
 adjoining central border southern state and the originator of the move- 
 ment now so happily culminating, I, on behalf of the people of the 
 south, accept the hearty and warm welcome so lavishly and hospitably 
 extended to its representatives by the president of the Chamber of 
 Commerce and, through him, by the citizens generally of Cincinnati. 
 (Applause.) I would stop here were it not a punishment, if not an 
 impossibility, for a Kentuckian to cease speaking without first paying 
 proper tribute to the fair ladies present. (Laughter.) No burying of 
 the hatchet, no sealing of mutual vows of future friendship and national 
 unity can be so well witnessed as by the eyes of those, the types of our 
 mothers, sisters, wives and daughters. The ladies present, descendants 
 of revolutionary sires, by the charm of their loveliness, lend enchant- 
 ment to the occasion and forever attest and bespeak the keeping of 
 vows, self-promised to-night in silent obligation. 
 
 "Fair woman is the fitting being to rub off and smooth down the 
 asperities of former hatreds, for in her ministrations the gentleness of 
 her nature, the chastity of her thought and Christian purpose is felt 
 everywhere: the preceptor of intuitive right, a diamond in brilliancy, a 
 pearl in gentle radiance, a dewdrop in purity, complete the ensemble, 
 and, in retiring, I bow to her shrine, a prisoner unto death." (Vociferous 
 and prolonged applause.)
 
 175 
 
 President Glenn: "Ladies and Gentlemen I now have the pleasure 
 to present our soldier-statesman, Gen. J. D. Cox, as the toastmaster." 
 (Gen. Cox was greeted with rousing applause.) 
 
 MAJ.-GEN. JACOB D. COX, 
 
 Ex.-Gov. of Ohio. 
 
 Gen. Cox: "Mr. President and Genttemen. It was a most appropriate 
 and graceful thing for the Chamber of Commerce to represent the people 
 of Cincinnati in welcoming these distinguished southern soldiers on their 
 way home from the dedication of the monument to their comrades in one 
 of Chicago's beautiful cemeteries. 
 
 "Commerce is not a mere pursuit of gain by trading. It is sys- 
 tematic and enlightened intercourse among men. It's keen-eyed activity 
 is untiring in bringing distant parts of the country and of the world into 
 closer touch and more appreciative acquaintance. The intelligent mer- 
 chant studies the progress of every community into which his enterprise 
 carries him, notes its changes of sentiment, stimulates the growth of 
 every kindly feeling, and thus is a go-between of busy, friendly influence, 
 bringing his own home and the home of his customers into more sympa- 
 thetic relations and more appreciative spirit. 
 
 " This patriotic, this educative work, the organized body of mer- 
 chants in the Chamber of Commerce has been doing for years, and we 
 thank them for now bringing these representative men of the south into 
 personal and social contact with their brethren of the north. The meet- 
 ing is full of significance. It speaks louder than words, saying: ' You 
 who were once estranged from each other, even to the extent of desperate 
 and blood}' war, are brethren again!' This great body of merchants, 
 with the knowledge gained through a thousand channels of sure infor- 
 mation, becomes the public guarantor that a true fraternal feeling has in 
 fact prevailed, and that in both north and south a common patriotism, 
 a common loyalty to the United States, a common devotion to the 
 national flag is found. We, their guests, are in our own persons the 
 proof that what they say is true! (Applause.) 
 
 "In my service in the national army, the names of many of those 
 whom I meet here to-night were very familar, not merely with familiar- 
 ity which fame gives to the names of stout soldiers. There was another, 
 a more personal interest. It is one thing to read of men prominent in a 
 great war; it is quite another to look across the interval between hostile 
 pickets in the field and say to one's self: ' Longstreet is commanding
 
 MAJ.-GEN. J. D. COX, 
 
 DURING THE SIXTIES. 
 
 June i, 1895. 
 BIOGRAPHIC: 
 
 Jacob Dolson Cox was born in New York, October 27, 1828; graduated Bachelor of Arts in 1851. 
 
 Member of Ohio Senate in 1860, brigadier-general of Ohio troops, April, 1861; brigadier-general of United States volunteers, 
 May, 1861; major-general of United States volunteers. October, 1862; commandant of Twenty-third army corps, March. 
 1865; governor of Ohio, 1866-67; secretary of interior, 1869; representative in' Congress, 1877-78; dean of the Cincinnati 
 Law School July, 1880
 
 177 
 
 yonder, French's division holds that height, Fitz Lee's horsemen hold 
 that wood, Hampton's legion is marching there!' That is the past which 
 comes back when I meet around this board many oi these distinguished 
 men for the first time, though after so long, and in some cases so inti- 
 mate an acquaintance. How curious it is to compare the features and 
 the personal presence with the mental portrait with which one has long 
 been familiar! What a zest it gives to the thought that we are really 
 friends and countrymen! 
 
 "With some of them, like my friend, Gen. Hunton, who sits beside 
 me, I have served in civil duties, and have known by surest personal 
 knowledge that they not only had been gallant and able soldiers in the 
 field, but had become representatives of the new south in the national 
 legislative halls, with as unquestioned allegiance to the Nation and as 
 patriotic devotion to the service of the whole country as any of us would 
 venture to claim. Accepting the results of the great struggle with candor 
 of heart and directness of purpose, without hesitation or mental reserva- 
 tion, they throw their whole strength into the work of developing the 
 national prosperity and making our common heritage more than ever 
 precious to our children. (Applause.) 
 
 "And I love to think that some who cannot be with us to-night 
 because 
 
 'Their souls are with the saints, we trust,' 
 
 proved before they left us how earnest and sincere they were in trying 
 to lead their countrymen into the fullest recognition of the fact that the 
 war was over, and that it was a supreme duty to build with utmost dili- 
 gence the reconstructed Union on the foundation of hearty obedience to 
 the whole constitution and most honest citizenship in the whole Nation. 
 
 "Few would claim for Robert E. Lee a higher place as a soldier than 
 I would cordially yield, but I love best to think of him as a model of 
 citizenship when Appomattox was behind him and when, with his mate- 
 rial fortunes apparently ruined, he was showing with what dignity, with 
 what charity, with what modesty a great man can teach his followers 
 how to bow to the decrees of Providence. He did not stop to bewail the 
 past, he did not hide himself in despair, nor shirk the duty which came 
 to hand. By every word and every act he set the example of accepting 
 results without reserve and bending every energy to bring Virginia and 
 her sister states out of the straits which necessarily followed such a war. 
 
 "With a fine sense of propriety, he hesitated to accept even the head- 
 ship of an institution of learning till he could satisfy himself that it would 
 not give public offense on account of his prominence in the great strife.
 
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 He was ready to become a plain farmer and get his bread by the labor 
 of his own hands if that would best teach his people the quiet, unques- 
 tioning obedience to the laws, which was the first condition of a solidly 
 renewed citizenship. (Great applause.) 
 
 "But when he went to preside over the college at Lexington, the 
 closing scenes of his career lent a new dignity to his character and drew 
 the hearts of candid and thoughtful persons toward him with wondrous 
 power. His influence on the young men who crowded about him was 
 elevating and inspiring. His daily life was a lesson in letting 'the dead 
 past bury its dead.' His every word taught good faith and earnestness 
 in accepting the obligations of citizenship. With a grave and noble 
 cheerfulness he showed that the future might be every great and glorious 
 thing the young men of the generation would patriotically determine to 
 make it. 
 
 "I am sure it would be difficult to overestimate the value of that 
 example and that teaching in preparing the way for the fraternity of 
 which we are here to-night the visible proofs and living witnesses. Past 
 conflicts may well be forgotten in the homage to such a character, and 
 whether we wore the blue or the gray, we may find common ground and 
 a new bond of union in our admiration of it." (Prolonged applause.) 
 
 Gen. Cox: "The first and most auspicious toast, 'Our United Coun- 
 try,' was to have been responded to by Gen. Fitzhugh Lee, but the 
 general having been called by official duties is unavoidably absent, 
 therefore the sentiment will be responded to by one of the most promi- 
 nent civil officers of the general government; and I now have the pleas- 
 ure of introducing Solicitor-General Conrad. 
 
 MAJ. HOLMES CONRAD, 
 
 Solicitor General United States. 
 
 Maj. Conrad: "Ladies and Gentlemen I invoke your sympathy that 
 it has fallen to my lot to occupy the place which had been assigned to 
 Gen. Lee. I cannot allow to pass unchallenged the statement from our 
 distinguished chairman, that a 'new patriotism' now inspires the people 
 of the south. The patriotism of Robert E. Lee was the patriotism of 
 George Washington; the patriotism of 1861 was that of 1776. It was 
 strong, unyielding and unselfish love of country. It rested upon a con- 
 viction which had been formed in the minds of the people of the south 
 when the Federal constitution was adopted, and which their education 
 and experience had confirmed, that home rule was the surest safeguard
 
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 of our republican institution and form of government; that the evils 
 which threatened us from centralization and paternalism in the Federal 
 government were far greater and more disastrous than any which could 
 result from according to the several states the rights and responsibilities 
 which, as we conceived, rightfully belonged to them. We submitted 
 our cause to the decision of the sword, and we lost. 
 
 "No weak repinings, no unmanly complaints, no unworthy or 
 ignoble designs have found place among us. We accepted the result 
 with fortitude. We have endured the long and bitter train of conse- 
 quent evils with a courage that has never faltered and a virtue that has 
 never failed. Our patriotism has never changed, it has abided and sus- 
 tained us in war and in peace. In sincere and ardent love of country 
 we have yielded to none. (Applause.) 
 
 "It is true, indeed, that with the people of the south their patriotic 
 ardor was more immediately kindled by the flag that bore the emblem of 
 state authority than by the gorgeous ensign, which was the symbol of 
 Federal supremacy, but this was due, as well to the views of govern- 
 ment in which they had been trained as to the fact that their own states 
 had furnished many of the statesmen and soldiers who had given that 
 national banner its commanding place among the flags of the nations. 
 
 "We are here to-night, not as the citizens of states, but as citizens 
 of the republic. If challenged at your outposts, we compel admission 
 to your camp by that countersign that has prevailing power over every 
 American heart 'I am an American citizen.' 
 
 "Our country is united. United in interests, united in sentiment and 
 united in destiny. Let but some hostile invader from a foreign shore 
 insult our coasts and the citizen soldiers of the north will be swift 
 indeed if they anticipate those who will gather from the south to the 
 defense of our common country. (Applause.) 
 
 "We are united in our material interests. You gentlemen of the 
 Chamber of Commerce, whose munificent hospitality we are enjoying 
 to-night, must rightly discern the underlying forces on which our 
 domestic commerce depend and see to it that they are rightly applied. 
 
 "I fear that the mere professional politician has more to do with the 
 application of these forces than the merchant or the manufacturer. 
 That the perplexing and ceaselessly disturbing questions of tariff, cur- 
 rency and interstate commerce are kept alive and not suffered to settle 
 down into a national adjustment under the fixed laws of trade, because 
 the politician knows too well that with their final settlements his avoca- 
 tion is gone." (Continued applause.) 
 
 Gen. Cox: "The next sentiment was to have been responded toby 
 his Honor, Mayor Caldwell, but, owing to temporary sickness, his indis-
 
 June i, 1895. 
 BIOGRAPHIC: 
 
 Harlan P. Lloyd was born at Angelica, N. Y., of English and Welsh parentage, and after a high school and collegiate educa- 
 tion in his native state, entered the Union army in 1861, raising a company of volunteers in his county. He was engaged 
 under Gen. Burnside in the operations in North Carolina, and later was transferred to a cavalry regiment, and served in 
 the cavalry corps of the Army of the Potomac under Gens. Custer and Sheridan. He took part in the battles of the 
 Wilderness. Spottsylvania C. H.,Cold Harbor, the siege of Petersburg, at Jerusalem Plank Road, and in all the battles 
 of the Wilson raid south of Richmond, in June, 1864. His regiment was then sent to the Shenandoah valley, and took 
 part in every battle of Gen. Sheridan's brilliant campaign. While leading a charge at the head of his command near 
 Winchester, in August, 1864, he was shot directly through the body, and was considered mortally wounded. He recov- 
 ered, however, rejoined his regiment in the field in December, 1864. and served until the close of the war, taking part with 
 Gen. Grant's army in its final engagements; was twice promoted for gallantry on the field, and brevetted by the President. 
 
 At the close of the war he entered the practice of law in Cincinnati, Ohio, has been very actively engaged professionally, 
 and has attained a high rank at the bar of that city: has been frequently employed in United States courts and asso- 
 ciated in the practice with some of the most distinguished lawyers of the land. 
 
 He has been very actively interested in many philanthropic associations of his city and state, and is a very prominent 
 member of the military order of the Loyal Legion: is a member of the various literary, social and political clubs; has 
 been quite a traveler, making four different trips to Europe, where he spent much time in special study in England, 
 Germany and Austria.
 
 position is such as to prevent his attendance and therefore the toast 
 "Cincinnati, the Gateway of the South," will be responded to by Maj. 
 H. P. Lloyd, the representative of the mayor." 
 
 T 
 
 MAJ. H. P. LLOYD, 
 
 Of Cincinnati. 
 
 Maj. Lloyd was greeted with enthusiasm and said that while he 
 regretted the unavoidable absence of the mayor, yet he was glad of the 
 opportunity to say a word to the renowned visitors and welcome them to 
 Cincinnati, the central and main gateway between the north and south, 
 which he did in a most agreeable, hospitable and emphatic manner, 
 thereby eliciting the heartiest applause from the visiting guests and the 
 fullest expressions of endorsement from the city's prominent citizens 
 present. 
 
 The major paid a high tribute to the south, its men and its women, 
 and referred to the free, open, hospitable attributes of the people of that 
 section. He thought the redevelopment of the southland meant renewed 
 national prosperity and said, very impressively, that Cincinnati's advan- 
 tageous location, together with the sincere purpose and good will of her 
 citizens constituted her, of all cities, the one to receive, welcome and 
 entertain southern people. 
 
 He said that the people of Kentucky knew this to be true not only in 
 theory but by the material investment of millions upon millions of the 
 city's capital in constructing its great southern railroad to Chatta- 
 nooga, thereby opening new and extending its rail communication with 
 the Atlantic seaboard and gulf states. The pulsation caused by business 
 interests as well as that from the heart existed; and that the central and 
 queen of the cities of the north was not only proud of its pioneer move- 
 ment in building the chief link of the overland transportation line to the 
 Crescent City on the gulf, but that it at the same time enjoyed such 
 extensive natural advantages that the floating palaces of travel and 
 commerce on the great water course highway formed by the Ohio and 
 Mississippi rivers, placed Cincinnati in closer connection with the cen- 
 tral south than any other supply city of the land. When the city made 
 so great an outlay of its funds it meant business, and it desired the 
 fullest and most confidential relations with the southern people and be 
 assured that the return would be reciprocal in every respect. 
 
 He was very much in earnest and his remarks were greeted with great 
 applause.
 
 ... 
 
 May 2g-June 2, 1895. 
 
 BIOGRAPHIC: 
 
 Eppa Hunton was born in Fauquier county, Va., September 23, 1823; educated, studied and practiced law. 
 Commonwealth attorney of Prince William county, Va., 1849-62; elected member state convention 1861 
 
 Colonel Eighth Virginia infantry May 8, 1861; promoted brigadier general P. A. C. S. August 9, 1863, after battle of Gettysburg. 
 Elected to and served as member of the XXXXIII., XXXXIV., XXXXV. and XXXXVI. Congresses, United States. Elected 
 
 by the House of Representatives a member of the celebrated "electoral commission" in 1876. 
 Appointed United States senator May 28, 1892, to fill unexpired term, and subsequently elected thereto by the legislature of 
 
 Virginia. 
 Resides and practices law at Warrenton, Va.
 
 Gen. Cox: "The next toast 'The Soldier in Polities' will receive the 
 attention of a distinguished general who is a senator in Congress from 
 Virginia, and having served with him in Congress and known him long 
 and well as statesman and by reputation as soldier, I can endorse his 
 head, heart and arm, and consequently take great pleasure in presenting 
 to you Gen. Eppa Hunton." 
 
 BRIG.-GEN. EPPA HUNTON, 
 
 Of Virginia. 
 
 Gen. Hunton: "Mr. President, Ladies and Gentlemen 1 wish I 
 deserved all the kind and complimentary things my friend, Gen. Cox, has 
 said of me. I can only claim that in an humble way I have tried to do 
 my whole duty in every position I have occupied through life. 
 
 "The soldier in politics is well illustrated by the ability and con- 
 scientious discharge of duty which characterized the course of Gen. Cox 
 in the Congress of the United States. I had the honor to serve with 
 him four years, and I beg leave to say he was faithful to the high trust 
 reposed in him by his constituents, and discharged his duty with ability 
 and fidelity. His course in politics was as diverse from mine as was 
 our convictions and conduct during the war. We differed radically in 
 war and in peace (of course I was right and he was wrong), but I never 
 failed to accord to him the same honesty of conviction I claim for 
 myself and gladly yield to him much more ability in discharge of his 
 convictions. (Applause.) 
 
 "Mr. President, if you take as true what Gen. Cox has said of me, 
 what I have said of him, and which you know to be true, I need not 
 further elaborate the character of 'the soldier in politics.' A good 
 soldier is most apt to be good in every position he is called to fill. 
 
 "Mr. President, I have been very much touched by the reception 
 given to us as ex-Confederates in Chicago and here. By the generous 
 and persevering efforts of Gen. Underwood a monument had been 
 erected to the Confederate heroes who died in prison at Camp Douglas, 
 and I and other ex-Confederates were invited to Chicago to take part in 
 its dedication. How beautiful and touching was the conception. After 
 the war had ended thirty years, a monument is erected in Chicago to the 
 heroes who had fought these same people, and had given their precious 
 lives to the honesty of their convictions. 
 
 "When I stood upon the stand and surveyed the vast multitude of 
 Union men who participated in the ceremony of honoring heroic devo- 
 tion to duty, I thought there could be no stronger evidence to the world
 
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 that there was a complete reconciliation between the sections than the 
 scene before me. No word was uttered, no sound was heard that grated 
 harshly on the ear of anyone, whether he had worn the gray or the blue. 
 
 "That beautiful monument will stand forever as incentive to duty 
 even at the peril of life and of the generous magnanimity of the victors in 
 that great struggle, that for four years shook this continent. It will be 
 a standing menace to those who would keep alive sectional hatred, and 
 ought to palsy the tongue that would deal in invective against a heroic 
 but vanquished people. 
 
 "At the banquet that preceded the services in the beautiful cemetery 
 the speeches, whether made by Confederates or Unionists, all breathed 
 the same spirit of good will and kindly regard. 
 
 "We left that beautiful city filled with pleasant memories of our visit, 
 and with hearty good wishes for Chicago and its people, who had hon- 
 ored themselves by their generous conduct to Confederate dead, and had 
 in so many ways honored us as their guests. 
 
 "Before leaving Chicago we were further greatly honored by an 
 invitation through your Chamber of Commerce to enjoy the hospitality 
 of this beautiful city. No reception could be kinder than yours. No 
 hospitality could exceed that which you have accorded us. You have 
 met us in your Chamber of Commerce, you have shown us the beauties 
 of your city and its suburbs and now you are here in the banquet hall to 
 greet us with good cheer and eloquent speeches. I shall always 
 remember Cincinnati in great kindness and cherish the memory of this 
 visit which has not been marred by a single unpleasant incident. 
 
 "I feel that I have some right to stand on Ohio ground and say fellow 
 citizens. I hail from the mother of states, dear. Old Virginia, and I 
 recall that to form the confederacy of states and afterward the. more per- 
 fect Union, Virginia gave to the Federal government territory enough 
 to form five states, including La Belle Ohio. I can start from the long 
 bridge across the Potomac and travel through Cincinnati and Chicago 
 and on to the father of waters and never take my foot off the soil which 
 once belonged to Virginia. She was and always has been generous and 
 patriotic. (Applause.) 
 
 "I could not help thinking that when these five states poured out their 
 brave volunteers during the war to devastate her land and destroy her 
 people, Old Virginia might have cried in the language of King Lear, 
 'How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child.' 
 
 "But the war is over; we are no longer enemies but friends. For 
 thirty years I have been a law abiding citizen of the United States, and 
 expect ever to remain such. I would never have been in the halls 
 of. Congress beside my distinguished friend from Ohio, and afterward
 
 in the United States Senate, if I could not in truth and in fact have 
 been a true citizen of the United States, anxious as one of the law- 
 makers to make this government, the best the world ever saw. 
 
 "But I never mean to go back on my Confederate record. I never 
 mean to put my face in my hands, and my hands in the dust and cry 
 'peccavi-peccavi.' I should not only forfeit my own self respect, but that 
 of the true Union soldier who fought with a conviction of right no 
 greater or stronger than mine. 
 
 "I am glad to be with you here to-night and to witness in Cincinnati, 
 as I did in Chicago, the kind feelings of both cities for the dear people 
 of the south. 
 
 "One word to the ladies who have graced this occasion with their 
 presence and beauty. They are for the most part from the southland 
 and they are types of the mothers, wives, sisters and daughters who did 
 so much to alleviate the horrors of war, and to cheer the brave in deeds 
 of patriotic devotion to a cause they loved so well. 
 
 "Woman was 'last at the cross and first at the tomb.' So our dear 
 women were ever during the war engaged in acts of heroic devotion to 
 the sick and wounded, and never turned a deaf ear to the cry of pain or 
 distress. God bless the true hearted women of our whole country. 
 
 "I shall feel regret at taking leave of those in this city who have been 
 so kind to us. I shall carry with me to my dear Virginia home, the most 
 pleasant recollections of this visit, and pray God to bless with prosperity 
 the Cities of Chicago and Cincinnati." (Great applause.) 
 
 Gen. Cox: "To the toast, 'The Old have Forgiven, the Young have 
 Forgotten,' I invite your attention to the response by our own soldier- 
 orator, Gen. Michael Ryan, whom I now have the pleasure to present." 
 
 BRIG.-GEN. MICHAEL RYAN, 
 Of Cincinnati. 
 
 Gen. Ryan: "Afr. Chairman, Ladies and Gentlemen As a member 
 of the Cincinnati Chamber of Commerce, and as an American who 
 glories in the heroic deeds of Americans, I join with my fellow citizens 
 in welcoming to Cincinnati the Confederate generals who participated in 
 the late war. Some people say that we ought to forget the late civil 
 strife. We ought, and do forget the hatreds it engendered, the heart 
 burnings and the sorrows; but the glories of that war we will never 
 forget. In that four years of war are crowded more tremendous battles, 
 more brilliant feats of arms, more heroic deeds, than in any half century 
 of the world's history. And it was all American valor. When Greek
 
 June i, 1895. 
 
 BIOGRAPHIC: 
 
 Michael Ryan was born in Ireland, October 8, 1845, and immigrated to America and settled in Ohio in 1853. Educated at St. 
 Xaviers college, Cincinnati, Ohio. 
 
 Engaged in the pork packing business when quite a young man. 
 
 Has held many positions of honor and trust, among them president of the Cincinnati board of aldermen; exposition com- 
 missioner; quartermaster-general on Gov. Hoadley's staff: president of the Cincinnati Abattoir Company; president 
 of the Cincinnati Chamber of Commerce, and at present Assistant U. S. Treasurer, at Cincinnati, Ohio.
 
 met Greek in battle in the olden times, a display of almost superhuman 
 bravery and courage was looked for, but the stories we have read of 
 ancient valor pale into insignificance before what occurred when the 
 north and south crossed swords and American blood poured out in tor- 
 rents and dyed crimson the American soil. (Applause.) It is not necessary 
 to speak of the motives which actuated the men of the south in taking up 
 arms. One thing you proved on a hundred battlefields: You believed 
 you were right, you believed in the justice of your cause, for there is no 
 greater, nobler, or grander test of man's sincerity than when he freely 
 and willingly yields up his life for the faith that is in him. It was from 
 no lack of courage or devotion to your cause that you yielded at last. 
 It was from sheer exhaustion, only when nothing else was left for brave 
 men to do, that you furled the banner that you had fought under so long 
 and heroically and accepted the arbitrament of the sword. While the 
 north takes pride and glory in the superb achievements of our rank and 
 file, our brave boys in blue who went forth at the Nation's call and saved 
 our glorious Union from disruption yes, made it possible for this country 
 to be what she is to-day, the grandest, the proudest nation on the face of 
 the earth, and while dear to the American heart will ever be the names of 
 Grant, Sherman and Sheridan and the rest of the glorious roster of heroes; 
 yet, as a brave and generous people, we would be lacking in national 
 spirit if we did not also hold in esteem and admiration those glorious souls 
 who led the opposing forces: Lee, Jackson, Johnston, and the others. 
 (Great applause.) May we not well ask in the pride of our hearts if 
 the sections of our country when warring in civil strife produced such 
 armies and such heroes, what foreign foe could withstand us when 
 united, as we are to-day? Is it not a fact that side by side against the 
 common enemy, would be found the sons of the men who wore both the 
 blue and the gray, emulating the heroism and valor of their sires in 
 defense of a common country and one glorious flag? Thank God for 
 all this! True, it took thesouth some time to recover from the wounds 
 and the heartburnings of the war; but you cannot keep such people down 
 long. You brave men who waged such a heroic fight and lost all but 
 honor, determined to forgive and forget and on the ruins of your broken 
 and prostrate country to build up a New South, which in commerce and 
 trade and the arts of peace, would rise to a higher, a grander plane than 
 the old south could ever have attained. We, here in Cincinnati, were 
 the first to feel the throb of returning vitality to the south. We had faith 
 in your great country and its wonderful resources. We had faith in the 
 energy and enterprise of the southern people and we did not hesitate to 
 expend the immense sum of $20,000,000 in the construction of a mag-
 
 May ag-June 2, 1895. 
 BIOGRAPHIC: 
 
 Robert W. Hunter was born in Virginia, received a good education and studied law. 
 
 About the beginning of hostilities between northern and southern states, he volunteered in the Confederate army, 
 April 18, 1861, as lieutenant of the Berkeley Border Guards, afterward Company D., Second Virginia regiment of 
 infantry, Stonewall Brigade; became adjutant of the regiment June, 1861, and frequently acted as assistant adjutant- 
 general of the brigade. 
 
 Served with the Stonewall Brigade until the battle of Gettysburg, July, 1863, when he was appointed major and A. A. G. 
 of Gen. Edward Johnson's division, Ewells' corps; was transferred to Gen. John B. Gordon's division May 12, 
 1864; served for a time with Gen. R. E. Lee and afterward as A. A. G. of Second corps, Army of Northern Virginia, 
 November 4, 1864, and surrendered with Gen. Gordon at Appomattox. 
 
 Lawyer by profession; three times a member of the Virginia legislature; delegate to Democratic national convention and 
 elector for his Congressional district. 
 
 Inspector of public land service during President Cleveland's first administration. 
 
 Assistant attorney, department of the interior, June, 1895 Resides at Washington, D. C.
 
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 nificent highway with which to bring your trade and commerce to our 
 doors. (Hear! hear!) There is not a man here who has the best interests 
 of the city at heart who regrets the investment. We are more than any 
 other city, interested in the growth of the south. We believe this city 
 of ours has a splendid future but that future depends in a great measure 
 on the development, growth, and prosperity of the New South. Our fate 
 is almost inseparably bound up with yours; what is good for you is good 
 for us, and therefore we must work hand in hand together. So, now my 
 friends, the City of Cincinnati opens her heart and her homes to you. 
 With generous friendship we extend to you the right hand of honest, 
 friendly feeling and good fellowship, and we want you to feel that when- 
 ever you are within the portals of our good old city, you are at home in 
 the house of your friends." (Prolonged applause.) 
 
 Gen. Cox: "To the sentiment, 'The Patriotic South,' I am pecu- 
 liarly fortunate in being able to present to you a typical southerner and 
 Virginian, and the very officer who bore the last flag of truce, at Appo- 
 mattox, Maj. R. W. Hunter." 
 
 MAJ. ROBERT \V. HUNTER, 
 Of Virginia. 
 
 Maj. Hunter delivered an admirable address in response to the patri- 
 otic sentiment assigned him, and in his attractive southern way, empha- 
 sized the noble feelings entertained throughout his section in the past by 
 its accepting the issue of the war, and asserted that the south was now 
 as patriotic as any other part of the Nation. He also stated that it was 
 true that he had carried the last flag of the Confederacy, a flag of truce, 
 at Appomattox; that the surrender there was only made after human 
 powers had become exhausted, and the problem of the possibility of 
 further armed resistance was no longer susceptible of solution; and that, 
 as a fact, when the remnants of the southern army laid down their arms 
 they did so with the good faith their subsequent actions as loyal citizens 
 indelibly proved. He enlarged upon his theme, displaying eloquence 
 and pathos, but his real forte is his inimitable fund of anecdote, which he 
 used to very great advantage and frequently had his audience in roars of 
 laughter. Continuing in such channels he said: 
 
 "There have been many things told of that surrender, but here is one 
 that has reference to this fellow here, Gen. Kyd Douglas. We had sur- 
 rendered, when Gen. Gordon heard a great rattle of musketry. 'Hunter,' 
 he yelled, 'what fool is that? Go and stop him.'
 
 June i, 1895, 
 
 BIOGRAPHIC: 
 
 Melville Augustus Cochran was born in Maine, July r8, 1836; received a good education, and enlisted as a volunteer for the 
 United States army May i, 1861; elected second lieutenant of his company, but the troops were declined by the secretary 
 of war. Appointed captain Sixteenth infantry, U. S A. (regulars), August 5, 1861, and, after two months' recruiting duty, 
 served in the field and in Confederate prisons until March i, 1865, when he was exchanged. Escaped twice from prison, 
 but was recaptured each time. 
 
 Brevetted major for gallant and meritorious service in battle of Chickamauga, September 20, 1863, where he was captured; and, 
 after the close of the war, was transferred to Second infantry, April 17, 1869. Promoted major Twelfth infantry March 4, 
 1879, lieutenant colonel Fifth infantry May 31, 1883, and colonel Sixth infantry July 14, 1890. After the civil war he 
 served in the south until 1876; when, at the outbreak of the Nez Perces Indian war, his regiment was ordered west, and 
 he served in Idaho, Washington, Arizona, Montana, the Dakotas and Texas, until 1890, and was then transferred to Fort 
 Thomas, Ky., where he at present commands.
 
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 "I rode over, and who do you think was doing it? Why, my old 
 friend, Douglas. I said to him: 'Douglas, are you commanding this 
 army or Gen. Lee? He has surrendered.' Why, he was only a major 
 then, and I believe if it had lasted a few days longer he would have been 
 a major-general. (Laughter and applause.) 
 
 "But there is now no more patriotic man than Douglas." 
 The rest of the talk was full of witty remarks and fetching stories, but 
 he did not forget to make proper acknowledgment to his entertainers and 
 the cause that the banquet represented. The audience was delighted 
 and he, on taking his seat, received a re-echoing round of applause. 
 
 Gen. Cox: "In the absence of the general of the army, we are fortunate 
 in having with us the renowned commandant of Fort Thomas, the 
 government's military post that graces the Kentucky hills on the beautiful 
 Ohio river near by, and I have the honor to present to you Col. M. A. 
 Cochran, who will respond to 'The Army and Navy.'" 
 
 COL. M. A. COCHRAN, 
 
 United States Army. 
 
 Col. Cochran: "Mr. Chairman, Ladies and Gentlemen I am called 
 upon as a substitute for that distinguished soldier, the commanding 
 general of the army, Lieut. -Gen. Schofield, who had been selected to 
 respond to the toast 'The Army and Navy.' No one regrets more than I 
 do his absence on this occasion. The complimentary introduction of the 
 toastmaster makes it necessary for me to fill the gap as best I can. 
 
 "The army and navy represent, under certain circumstances, the 
 power of the Executive of this great Nation. When considered in their 
 ratio to the population of the states, or compared with like organizations 
 of European nations, they appear small and insignificant, and unequal 
 to the task of maintaining our respect as a first-class power at home or 
 abroad. 
 
 "The trite saying, 'In time of peace prepare for war,' seems to be 
 neglected by us. We have an army of only 25,000, and our navy is 
 even more insignificant. Our large cities are unprotected, and in case 
 of sudden war and it always comes suddenly and unexpectedly could 
 easily be placed under contribution by any first-class European power. 
 It is true that during the past few years appropriations for seacoast 
 defense have been made by the Congress, but these have not been large 
 enough, so that at the present rate it will be many years before we will
 
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 be in a satisfactory condition in this respect. Our navy should be built 
 up as rapidly as possible till equal to that of any other nation, and 
 our army should" at once be made at least twice its present size, and so 
 organized as to be capable of expansion at the will of the President, to 
 meet any sudden emergency likely to occur. 
 
 "This occasion reminds us that in the next war we who were enemies 
 in the last will be shoulder to shoulder, and vieing with each other in 
 defense of country and flag." (Great applause.) 
 
 Gen. Cox: "The last toast is 'The Soldier in Peace and War,' and the 
 response to it will be made by one of our most distinguished guests, who, 
 instead of carrying the last flag of truce, is charged with ordering the 
 firing of the last volley of the war. I present and introduce Gen. H. 
 Kyd Douglas." 
 
 MAJ.-GEN. H. KYD DOUGLAS, 
 
 Of Maryland. 
 
 Gen. Douglas is an exceedingly ready speaker, and has the advantage 
 of a personnel to impress and draw his audience. His response to the 
 toast, "The Soldier in Peace and War," was exceedingly catchy, to the 
 point, and at times very flowery, and his rhetorical display and manner 
 of describing the soldier, flushed with excitement in battle as compared 
 with the same individual in the citizen's pursuits of peace, were listened 
 to with breathless silence, and his peroration culminated in so many 
 pithy expressions that the audience simply pronounced his effort superb. 
 As an incident of more than passing interest to the Queen City citizens 
 he related a correspondence with a Cincinnati merchant just after the 
 beginning of the war, in substance as follows: 
 
 "I came through here before getting into the war, and I want to see 
 a member of the Chamber of Commerce of this city who sent a certain 
 telegram. He got a telegram from a southern planter saying: 'Send 
 me a hundred barrels of flour.' The war had commenced. That Cincin- 
 nati man replied: 'Eat cotton, damn you.' I want to see that man. 
 He is all right. I'll bet he was a fighter. I want him to see me 
 to-morrow, but I'll bet now he'll trust me for a hundred barrels of flour." 
 
 Gen. Douglas is a forcible as well as eloquent talker, witty and 
 pathetic, and his address was certainly one of the best of the evening. 
 It bristled with love for the old cause and the old leaders, and with the 
 honest patriotism of the man of the south to-day. His memorial homage 
 to Lee was greeted with cheers, and his tribute to the women of the 
 south elicited rounds of applause.
 
 J93 
 
 At the conclusion of Gen. Douglas' speech the ladies arose and were 
 given the exquisite flowers that decorated the table. Good-night and 
 happiest dreams were wished them, and, with their departure, the *^\ 
 
 brightness of the royal occasion faded out into the shadows of pleasantest H ^ 
 
 recollections, as the party retired shortly after midnight. 
 
 [Extract from the Cincinnati Tribune, June 2, 1895.] 
 
 The banquet was a fitting climax to the day of Queen City hospitality, for is not 
 
 this great municipality the gateway through which the stern northerner passes to meet 
 his soft-tongued hospitable brother of the warm, langorous south? Is it not here that 
 they seem to meet on neutral ground? Here it is neither north nor south, east nor west, 
 for the census places the center of population within a few miles of this City of 
 Cincinnati. Then who is there to say that the banquet at the Grand last night could 
 have been given in a better place, speaking geographically, commercially and socially? 
 Surely Cincinnati is the place where the northern veteran can cordially grasp the hand 
 of his southern brother and say: "Brother, it was a family quarrel. You were a brave 
 and worthy antagonist. Shake!" And it may be said that brothers were never so 
 brotherly as they were last night, yet thirty-three years ago some of the very men that 
 were calmly eating beside their northern friends were bent on the capture of the fair 
 city in which they were so hospitably entertained yesterday. But all this has passed. 
 It is not forgotten, it never will be so long as the participants live; but each year tempers 
 the feeling; resentment dies slowly away, and in its place is rising a feeling of comrade- 
 ship and national brotherly love that has even now united the north and the south with 
 bonds that will never again be broken. 
 
 The guests were royally fed and royally entertained. They were made to feel that 
 there was no north or south, but just one great big country full of mighty good people, 
 all glad to join hands and develop the Arcadian .richness of one of the greatest countries 
 in the world. Commercially the outlook is stupendous, and Cincinnati last night 
 introduced her brightest and her best business men to the residents of the country 
 which is beginning to be a veritable mart of trade and a center of manufacturing. It 
 was a banquet that Cincinnati may well feel proud over, and it is not saying too much 
 to say that it has tied the city to the south in the tightest of commercial bands, for now 
 that the acquaintanceship has begun so auspiciously trade will be bound to follow. 
 
 President Glenn welcomed the guests on behalf of the Chamber of Commerce. He 
 announced that when the people of Cincinnati heard that these generals were to pass 
 through Cincinnati it was determined to capture them, and the act was done. Mr. 
 Glenn then reviewed the conditions that made Cincinnati the gateway to the south, and 
 in eloquent words bid the guests welcome, both now and in the future, and closed by 
 gallantly paying his respects to the ladies. 
 
 Gen. John C. Underwood, who labored so faithfully to gather the funds for the 
 erection of the monument to the Confederate dead at Chicago, responded to Mr. Glenn's 
 address of welcome eloquently and earnestly. He plead for peace and good-will. 
 "Thirty years after the war is time enough to hold animosity." The address was 
 vigorously applauded, as it deserved to be. 
 
 The tenor of all the speeches was the same pleas for peace, for brotherly love, for 
 a burying of the past.
 
 CAPT. H. B. LITTLEPAGE. 
 
 DURING THE SIXTIES. 
 
 V A 
 
 May ag-June 2, 1895. 
 
 BIOGRAPHIC: 
 
 H. Beverly Littlepage was born in King William county, Va., March 8, 1841. Educated in common school until 1854, in Rum- 
 ford Academy 1854-7 and then at United States Naval Academy until April 19, 1861, when he resigned and joined the 
 Confederate navy. 
 
 Midshipman C. S. N., May, 1861; master, April, 1862; second lieutenant, September, 1863; first lieutenant, June, 1864; brevet 
 captain 1865. Served on the C.-S. ironclad steamer Meirimac during her whole career; rescued and carried her flag to 
 Drewry's Bluft and assisted in repelling the Federal navy in its attempt to force passage to Richmond. Afterward served 
 on C. S. S Chattahoochee and Atlanta. Ran the blockade at Charleston, S. C., May 23, 1663, and under special orders 
 served abroad eighteen months; when, returning, ran blockade at Wilmington, N. C., December, 1864; ordered as first 
 lieutenant to C. S. S. Virginia, flagship of the James river squadron; and served later in the naval brigade commanded 
 by Admiral Semmes. 
 
 Engaged in U. S. Navy Department, compiling Confederate naval records.
 
 '95 
 ARMORED WAR SHIPS. 
 
 NAVY Di 
 WASHINGTON, May 28, 1895 
 
 NAVY DEPARTMENT, ) 
 
 John C. Underwood, Maj -Gen. Commanding: 
 
 MY DEAR GENERAL In reply to your kind request that I should respond to the 
 toast to the C. S. Navy, and relate the Merrimac's career, upon the grand occasion of 
 the unveiling of a Confederate monument in Chicago, I beg to state that her career was 
 too statistical to be made interesting in a speech within your limits. I submit my 
 remarks as a matter of history. The main facts are taken from my journal kept at the 
 time and are verified by the record. Facts should hurt no one. 
 Affectionately and fraternally yours 
 
 H. BEVERLY LITTLEPAGE. 
 
 THE MERRIMAC AND MONITOR, 
 By CAPT. H. BEVERLY LITTLEPAGE 
 Of Virginia. 
 
 The 8th and gth of March, 1862, marked two of the most startling 
 and important engagements in the annals of naval warfare. The 
 Merrimac's guns on the eighth sounded the death knell of the then existing 
 navies of the world. Her guns and the Monitor's on the ninth proclaimed, 
 in tones of thunder, the birth of the new navies wooden ships were no 
 longer war ships. 
 
 Large prizes were offered for impenetrable armors and like prizes for 
 irresistible projectiles. There was hurrying everywhere to keep apace 
 with the new conditions illustrated by the Merrimac, the creation of a 
 nation yet unborn. 
 
 A SHORT SKETCH OF THE MERRIMAC AND HER CAREER. 
 
 Upon the hasty evacuation of Norfolk by the United States forces 
 on the 2Oth of April, 1861, among the ships burned, was the frigate 
 Merrimac. She was rescued from the flames by the Virginia state 
 troops, there assembling, when she had burned almost to the water's 
 edge. About one month later she was floated and docked, and ten 
 months after became an armored ram, rechristened "Virginia," better 
 known as the "Merrimac." 
 
 On the 8th day of March, 1862, the Merrimac about 11:00 a. m., 
 started for Hampton Roads. A little after i :oo p. m. she passed out of
 
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 the Elizabeth river. Immediately there was great commotion among 
 the shipping at Fortress Monroe, the merchant craft getting out of the 
 way, and the war ships preparing for action; among the latter were the 
 frigates Minnesota, forty-eight guns; St. Lawrence, fifty guns; Roanoke, 
 forty guns; Brandywine, fifty guns, besides numerous gunboats carrying 
 from one to five guns each. As soon as the Merrimac reached fair 
 channel-way, she headed for Newport News, distant ten miles from the 
 mouth of Elizabeth river and six miles from Fortress Monroe, all in plain 
 view, where lay quietly at anchor the frigate Congress, fifty guns, and 
 Cumberland, twenty-four guns, under cover of a strongly fortified 
 shore battery of twenty guns. The Merrimac was really an experiment. 
 Her sides were inclined at an angle of thirty-four degrees and consisted 
 of eighteen inches of heart-pine, four inches of oak and four inches of 
 iron, in rolled plates. Her battery of ten guns: Two y-inch rifles, 
 two 6. 4-inch rifles, and six Q-inch smooth bore, of which last, two 
 were arranged for hot shot. She also had a cast-iron prow. 
 
 With her ten guns she was about to engage some of the most powerful 
 war ships then known, carrying more than three hundred heavy guns, 
 besides the shore battery at Newport News. The action began in earnest 
 about 2:40 p. m., when the Merrimac exchanged broadsides at 400 yards 
 with the Congress as she passed her on her way to ram the Cumberland, 
 which vessel she reached a few minutes later, and when within fifty 
 yards, fired a seven-inch rifled percussion shell at her water line; this was 
 returned with a broadside from the Cumberland which would literally 
 have driven to the bottom any other ship afloat, except the Monitor, 
 which appeared on the scene a day later. The Merrimac dashed on 
 through the rafts and spars arranged to sheer her off and struck the 
 Cumberland with her prow, under her starboard fore chains. The Cum- 
 berland hung for a few moments upon the Merrimac's stem, then glided 
 off and filled rapidly, and in fifteen or twenty minutes had settled to her 
 topsail yards, her flag still flying at her peak and her last guns firing as 
 they disappeared beneath the water. The Merrimac's armor had been 
 heavily slushed and in the pouring rain of shell she seemed to be frying 
 from one end to the other, and the burning grease and sulphur which 
 filled her close quarters was calculated to make an old tar quake for his 
 hereafter which seemed then to be close at hand. 
 
 The Merrimac moved sluggishly with her keel dragging in the mud. 
 As the smoke settled over and around her, the thousands of spectators 
 on shore supposed she had gone to the bottom. So sure were those on 
 the Congress of it, that they cheered lustily. When a little breeze 
 cleared the smoke away, the Congress saw the fate of the Cumberland
 
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 and the Merrimac heading for her. She slipped her cable, set sail, and 
 endeavored to escape, but in doing so grounded with her head inshore. 
 The Merrimac followed with all speed and took position about two hun- 
 dred and fifty yards under her stern. The Minnesota, St. Lawrence, and 
 Roanoke were bearing down as rapidly as possible and must soon be in 
 the action. The Congress fought as gallantly as a ship could fight under 
 the circumstances. Her stern guns were all soon dismounted, and she 
 was utterly helpless under the fearful raking fire of the Merrimac's 
 broadsides. 
 
 Being on fire in many places from the Merrimac's hot shot and shell, 
 she relunctantly struck her colors and signaled for assistance. 
 
 Many of her gallant crew perished in her flames, but most of them 
 escaped ashore or were taken prisoners. Fortunately for the Minnesota, 
 she grounded in the north channel where the Merrimac could not reach 
 her. The St. Lawrence and Roanoke soon took in the situation, deliv- 
 ered their broadsides as they rounded, and escaped back to Fortress 
 Monroe. The Merrimac took position as near as she could get to the 
 Minnesota, fired a few broadsides across the bar, but darkness soon com- 
 pelled her to return to her moorings off Sewell's Point. The burning 
 Congress lighted up the Roads until midnight when her magazine 
 exploded, then the darkness on one side was intensified with gloom and 
 on the other radiant with joy. Such is war! 
 
 Early the next morning all were astir on the Merrimac and eager to 
 return and finish the Minnesota if our guns could reach her. Owing to 
 the smallness of the Merrimac's ports her guns could only range about 
 one mile. Soon as light enough we discovered what appeared to be a 
 raft alongside the Minnesota. The crew thought she was sending 
 machinery and munitions ashore. As soon as we put our glasses upon 
 her, we recognized what was then called "Ericsson's Battery" (of which 
 we had an exact cut and description), better known afterward as the 
 "Monitor." 
 
 She had been built especially to fight the Merrimac. Had the order 
 of Hon. Secretary Welles been obeyed, she should have been in the 
 Potomac river below Alexandria. However that may be, she was on 
 the "ground" and full of fight, although she had by the merest chance 
 escaped going to the bottom in a topsail breeze off the Delaware Capes. 
 
 The Merrimac proceeded to attack the Minnesota, lying at the 
 extreme range of her guns. 
 
 The Monitor opened fire with her eleven-inch guns and advanced to 
 within 500 yards, when she stopped, but continued firing as if to test the 
 effect of our shots.
 
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 Being totally unprepared for fighting an armored vessel, having 
 nothing but shells for our guns, we declined to develop the situation. 
 She soon after advanced and attempted to cross our bows. The Merri- 
 mac advanced at full speed and rammed her, but soon discovered that 
 she had struck her with her naked stem causing her (the Merrirnac) to 
 leak. Her prow was afterward found in the Cumberland. This probably 
 saved the Monitor from the Cumberland's fate. After a fearful combat 
 of five hours, when they were frequently only a few yards apart, the 
 Merrimac succeeded in dislodging the Monitor's pilot house and blinding 
 and otherwise disabling her gallant commander who then gave the order 
 to sheer off. 
 
 The Monitor hauled over the bar where the Merrimac could not pur- 
 sue her, as the Merrimac drew more than twice as much water, 223^ feet 
 against 10^ feet. The Merrimac had already been hard and fast 
 aground for twenty to thirty minutes trying to reach the Minnesota and 
 did not care to experiment longer with the uncertain middle ground or 
 bar. About 1:00 o'clock p. m. to all appearances the Monitor had 
 retired from the action, as stated by the gallant commander of the Min- 
 nesota, and the Merrimac returned to Norfolk, as there was nothing 
 above Fortress Monroe within reach of her guns. She immediately 
 went into dock for repairs; her prow had been left in the Cumberland, 
 two of her guns had been shot off, one at the muzzle and the other near 
 the trunnions, her smokestack a sieve, and her armor elbowed and in 
 ridges, besides, she was to be equipped for fighting an armored vessel. 
 Within one month she was ready. Her armor was intact and extended, 
 a wrought-iron steel-pointed prow replaced the lost cast-iron one, two 
 good guns replaced those shot in two, wrought and chilled iron, steel- 
 pointed bolts replaced the shells, boarding parties with sledge hammers 
 and malleable wedges for the Monitor's turret, the cable coiled forward 
 to be taken around the turret and shackled, the most combustible 
 material to be broken through her turret and ventilators and fired, 
 and lastly a gang with a tarpaulin to envelop her upon a cry for quarters. 
 Upon the Merrimac's return to Hampton Roads on the nth of April, no 
 one on her doubted that she would either leave the Monitor at the bot- 
 tom or bring her back to Norfolk. 
 
 The Monitor was then lying at the mouth of the Elizabeth river, 
 publishing to the world that she was blockading the Merrimac. Unfor- 
 tunately for the Merrimac the army steamer White (flag of truce boat) 
 deserted on the day before (April 10) and exposed the Merrimac's prep- 
 arations and plans; so when the Monitor saw her coming on the morn- 
 ing of April ii she slipped her cable and hugged the shores at Fortress
 
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 Monroe. The Merrimac signaled her tenders, the Jamestown and 
 Raleigh, to go in and cut out a brig and some schooners lying above the 
 Fortress. They did so, took them in tow, and were heartily cheered by 
 the British ship Rinaldo and the French ship Gassendi as they passed 
 in with the prizes The Monitor and other powerful ships did not inter- 
 fere. The Merrimac remained in the roads the whole day, and after- 
 ward returned at frequent intervals, until the evacuation of Norfolk, 
 caused by the advance of McClellan's army upon Richmond via the 
 peninsula. 
 
 The most daring exploit of the Merrimac was on May 8, 1862. She 
 was on that morning lying at the navy yard preparing to ascend James 
 river in obedience to orders from the department. She had her fires 
 banked until about 1:00 p. m. when a terrific bombardment was heard off 
 Sewell's Point and the shells were seen streaking and exploding over 
 that battery which had been virtually abandoned, only four guns and 
 some decoys left. The Merrimac's fires were immediately hauled and 
 she hastened to the conflict. Upon rounding Craney island the ironclads 
 Monitor, Naugatuck, and Steven's Battery, were seen close inshore, 
 another line composed of the United States steamers Susquehanna, seven- 
 teen guns; Dacotah, six guns; Seminole, five guns, and San Jacinto, 
 twelve guns. Just beyond the attacking squadron, but in plain view, 
 were the flagship Minnesota, forty-eight guns; Cayuga, six guns; James- 
 town, twenty-two guns; St. Lawrence, fifty guns, and the powerful fast 
 steamers Vanderbilt, Baltimore, Illinois, and Arago, especially arranged 
 and equipped for running the Merrimac down. The Merrimac continued 
 on at full speed and as soon as she got within range of the nearest 
 vessels, in obedience to a signal from the flagship, they all proceeded at 
 full speed beyond Fortress Monroe, the Merrimac continuing the pur- 
 suit until opened on by the forts. 
 
 When Norfolk was evacuated by the Confederates on the nth of 
 May, 1862, the Merrimac was blown up by her own crew. Having seen 
 the Galena, Monitor, and other vessels pass up James river they hurried 
 to Drewry's Bluff, hoisted their old flag, and upon the appearance of those 
 vessels on the morning of the i5th of May, together with the crews of 
 the Confederate States' vessels then in the river, had four guns on the 
 bluff. The vessels came into action beautifully. The Galena was struck 
 twenty-eight times and penetrated eighteen; the rest fared little better. 
 They hastily retired. The officers and crew of the Merrimac were soon 
 disbanded, as an organization, and formed into nuclei for our young 
 navy.
 
 MAJ.-GEN. L. L. LOMAX, 
 
 DURING THE SIXTIES. 
 
 L. 
 
 May ag-June 2, 1895. 
 
 SEE FOLLOWING PAGE.
 
 2OI 
 
 GENERAL ATTENDANCE. 
 
 There were many distinguished people present who took no active 
 part in the ceremonies, although they strengthened the party of guests 
 by their character and in numbers. Among them were : 
 
 MAJ.-GEN. L. L. LOMAX, 
 
 Of Virginia, 
 
 A cavalry officer of distinction who served with the Army of Northern 
 Virginia and who is now engaged in the Confederate war records office 
 at Washington City. The half-tone engraving presenting a correct 
 likeness of this officer and an etching giving his appearance during the 
 sixties, is to be seen on the preceding page, and a skeleton sketch of 
 his life will be found in the following: 
 
 BIOGRAPHIC. 
 
 Lunsford Lindsay Lomax was born in Virginia in 1835; received early education at 
 Norfolk, Va., and graduated at United States Military Academy, in 1856. 
 Commissioned in United States army: 
 
 Brevet second lieutenant, Second cavalry, July-i, 1856, second lieutenant First 
 cavalry, September 30, 1856; first lieutenant, March 21, 1861; resigned commission 
 April 25, 1861. 
 
 Commissioned in Confederate States army: 
 
 Captain state forces of Virginia; lieutenant-colonel and assistant inspector-general, 
 1861-63; colonel Eleventh Virginia cavalry, February 8, 1863; brigadier-general P. A. 
 C. S., July 23, 1863; major-general P. A. C. S., August 10, 1864. 
 
 COL. J. B, ERWIN, 
 
 Of South Carolina. 
 
 Entered the Confederate army in 1861 as aid-de-camp on the staff of 
 Gen. Robert Toombs. After Gen. Toombs' retirement he volunteered 
 as a private. He was present at the passage of the secession ordinance 
 by South Carolina, and saw the firing of the first gun of the civil war, 
 and surrendered at Appomattox. He has served in both houses of the 
 legislature of South Carolina and is now engaged in the war records 
 office in Washington, D. C.
 
 May 2g-June 2, 1895. 
 
 SEE FOLLOWING PAGE.
 
 203 
 LIEUT. -COL. WHARTON J. GREEN, 
 
 Of North Carolina. 
 
 Entered the Confederate army as private and rose to be lieutenant- 
 colonel commanding Second North Carolina battalion. Captured at 
 Roanoke island, wounded at Little Washington and later wounded 
 and captured at Gettysburg and detained a prisoner of war at Johnson's 
 island until near the close of hostilities. Member of the XLVIII and 
 XLIX Congresses. 
 
 LIEUT.-COL. W. F. BEASLEY, 
 
 Of New York. 
 
 Entered the Confederate service in 1861; made lieutenant Company H 
 Forty-eighth North Carolina troops, 1862; major Fifth battalion August, 
 1864; lieutenant-colonel Seventy-first North Carolina regiment, Decem- 
 ber 7, 1864. He is now a Maryland man and claims Baltimore as 
 home, though his business location is as recorded above and he attended 
 the dedication as the accredited representative of the ex-Confederate 
 association of New York City. 
 
 CAPT. JOHN WATERS DREW, 
 Of Washington, D. C. 
 
 Although a citizen of the District of Columbia, where he is actively 
 engaged in business, he still cherishes the ties given birth and estab- 
 lished by his army life in Virginia; and his genial disposition, frank and 
 open manner made him a favorite wherever he went, so much so, that 
 all will be glad to read the following sketch: 
 
 BIOGRAPHIC. 
 
 John Waters Drew was born in Washington, D. C., May 3, 1842. 
 
 Educated at Columbia College, that city. 
 
 Enlisted in Company F, First Virginia infantry, C. S. A., April, 1861; promoted 
 captain of the Twenty-third Virginia cavalry in 1862; engaged in the battles of 
 Manassas, Seven Pines, Coal Harbor, Seven Days' fight around Richmond and through 
 the entire campaigns in the valley of Virginia during 1863-64. 
 
 Was captured at the battle of Winchester September 19, 1864, and released July, 1865- 
 
 Since the war he has been successfully engaged in the drug business.
 
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 SERGT.-MAJ. S. A. CUNNINGHAM. 
 
 DURING THE SIXTIES. 
 
 h^&4AA~/ 
 
 May 29-31, 1895. 
 
 SEE FOLLOWING PAGE.
 
 205 
 
 The "press" of the south was represented through the presence of 
 the editor and proprietor of the military organ that reaches the veteran 
 soldiery throughout its sunny clime, thereby insuring the Confederate 
 Veteran, the official organ of the "United Confederate Veterans," 
 "United Daughters of the Confederacy" and "Sons of Veterans" in 
 Dixie land a voice in the heralding of the procedures of the great 
 occasion by 
 
 COL. S. A. CUNNINGHAM, 
 
 Of Tennessee, 
 
 Who publishes his periodical in the City of Nashville, having established 
 it there three years ago. He was a boy soldier during the war and has 
 spent many of his mature years in journalism, with varying fortunes, all 
 culminating in the great success his "monthly" has justly met with. As 
 a soldier during the civil war, because of his youth, he was the "pet" of 
 the regiment and after the bloody battle of Franklin, where he displayed 
 judgment and courage beyond his years, his valor drew him even nearer 
 to the rank and file of the command. The engraving on the opposite 
 page correctly represents him as he appears at present and the etching 
 shows the boy soldier in his "teens." His determined effort now to 
 keep alive events of historic importance through the medium of his 
 periodical is worthy of the highest commendation, and the following out- 
 line of the man will be found interesting: 
 
 BIOGRAPHIC. 
 
 Sumner Archibald Cunningham was born in Bedford county, Tenn., July 21, 1843; 
 educated at Richmond College, Tennessee, 1859-61, and completed education after the 
 war in 1865. 
 
 Enlisted as private in Company B, Forty-first regiment infantry, Tennessee volun- 
 teers, November 4, 1861. Engaged in the battle of Fort Donelson, where the entire 
 regiment was captured February 16, 1862. Imprisoned at Camp Morton, Indianapolis, 
 and exchanged at Vicksburg, September, 1862. 
 
 Took part in the following battles: Springdale and Raymond, Miss., siege of Vicks- 
 burg, Port Hudson and Jackson, great battle of Chickamauga and the Johnston-Sherman 
 loo days' fighting in Georgia, and under Hood in the bloody engagement at Franklin 
 and disasters that followed. Promoted to first sergeant of his company, and served much 
 of his time as sergeant-major of the regiment. 
 
 Engaged in journalism after the war, owned the Chattanooga Daily Times, 1876-80. 
 and was connected with other daily and weekly papers of Tennessee. 
 
 Established the Confederate Veteran in January, 1893, of which he is editor and 
 proprietor.
 
 206 
 
 COL. A. J. WEST, 
 
 Quartermaster General of Georgia, 
 
 Was another of the distinguished ex-soldiers present, a captain in the 
 Confederate army during the war and was engaged in all of the battles 
 fought by the Western army, except when disabled by the many wounds 
 received. At Perry ville, Ky. , he was very severely wounded and dis- 
 tinguished himself for bravery on that sanguinary field. Since the war 
 his military tendencies and executive ability have brought him to the 
 front in the state militia, where he has rendered much valuable service, 
 being at present the supply executive on the gubernatorial staff. He 
 wears the jeweled-scar insignia of his distinguished battle record and 
 enjoys the military bearing so marked in the southern soldier. 
 
 MAJ. J. L. McCOLLUM, 
 Of Georgia. 
 
 One of the prominent representatives from the "empire state of the 
 south," was the accomplished superintendent of the Western & Atlantic 
 railroad. He, also, was a Confederate soldier and won laurels at the 
 front and is now a railroad man of that prominent activity which has 
 made the "great battlefield route of Georgia, " the popular channel of 
 travel between Chattanooga and Atlanta. He it was who aided so mater- 
 ially in collecting and transporting the many refrigerator carloads of 
 flowers from the south with which the Confederate monument, Douglas 
 prison interment trenches and the graves of the few Union soldiers 
 buried in Oakwoods cemetery were decorated. 
 
 MAJ. J. M. COUPER, 
 Of Georgia, 
 
 Was also of the Georgia party, and is assistant postmaster of Atlanta. 
 He was a distinguished Confederate soldier during the sixties and came 
 to Chicago to attend the dedication as one of the committee from the 
 central south. 
 
 COL. W. R. LYMAN, 
 
 Of Louisiana. 
 
 This accomplished officer, with a bevy of ladies, represented New 
 Orleans, and was instrumental in securing the carload of flowers that 
 was sent from that city. He is one of the most prominent and influ- 
 ential of the Crescent City's business men, and distinguished himself as 
 a soldier during the war.
 
 207 
 
 COL. T. W. CAMPBELL, 
 
 Of Kentucky. 
 
 This gentleman was an officer of the Union army during the sixties and 
 by his military ability and meritorious conduct reached the grade of 
 lieutenant-colonel of volunteers. He served in various commands and 
 was during a period of 1864-5 provost-marshal at Bowling Green, Ky., 
 where the author was required to report to him under conditions of his 
 parole; and, notwithstanding the restrictions imposed and some mutual 
 misunderstandings at the time, a fast friendship grew out of the official 
 intercourse and exists between the former captor and captive, so sincere 
 that of all the guests in attendance none were more welcome or more 
 enthusiastically received, and the greatest personal gratification to the 
 writer was the presence of his friend who formerly held him prisoner. 
 After the war Col. Campbell was U. S. assessor of income tax in Ken- 
 tucky, and later connected with the government pension bureau of the 
 state, and is now actively in business in Louisville, Ky. 
 
 COM. J. E. MONTGOMERY, 
 
 Of Louisiana, 
 
 Was one of the attendants possessing a naval record; an original 
 steamboat captain of the western waters, he had constructed under 
 his direction and commanded many of the palatial steamers that graced 
 the Ohio and Mississippi rivers during the fifties, and, therefore, with 
 his extensive constructive and river experience, he easily obtained a 
 prominent place in the Confederate navy, and by merit rose to the 
 position he occupied at the close of the war. 
 
 COL. J. S. BELKNAP. 
 Of New York. 
 
 This officer commanded the Eighty-fifth regiment New York vol- 
 unteers, United States army, during a portion of the past hostilities; and 
 so thoroughly did he endorse the fraternizing movement that he attended 
 and took part in the Confederate memorial parade and subsequent 
 ceremonies. 
 
 ASSISTANTS AT HEADQUARTERS. 
 
 Chas. R. Macloon, as press agent and reportorial assistant, was of 
 the greatest possible service in publishing and promulgating information 
 of various characters, his services and those of the office force at the 
 Palmer House headquarters were invaluable, and to the members of such 
 operative staff the greatest appreciation is hereby expressed.
 
 9 '***? 
 
 MAJ.-GEN. E. C. WALTHALL, 
 
 DURING THE SIXTIES. 
 
 May, 1895. 
 
 SEE FOLLOWING PAGES.
 
 209 
 
 GENS. WALTHALL AND JACKSON. 
 
 Two of the most prominent Confederate generals of the Western 
 army, now living, and who gave countenance to the erection of a Con- 
 federate monument in Chicago are Maj.-Gen. E. C. Walthall, United 
 States senator from Mississippi, and Brig. -Gen. Wm. H. Jackson, the 
 noted proprietor of "Belle Meade Farm" near Nashville, Tenn. 
 
 These officers distinguished for their military ability, soldierly tact 
 and personal gallantry, were unable to attend the ceremonies at Chicago 
 much to the regret of those who were present, for all desired to see 
 and again press the hands of the two men who were most active in cover- 
 ing the retreat of Hood's army, after the disastrous Tennessee campaign 
 and battles about Nashville. 
 
 The following condensation of historic publications will be found 
 interesting: 
 
 "On December 20, 1864, Gen. Hood sent to Gen. Walthall a request to call and see 
 him immediately; and as Gen. Walthall approached army headquarters, he met Gen. 
 Hood, mounted, and he (Hood) substantially said: 'Walthall, things are in a bad con- 
 dition. I have resolved to reorganize the rear guard. Forrest says he can't keep the 
 enemy off of us any longer without a strong infantry support, but says he can do it with 
 the help of 3,000 infantry with you to command them. You can select any troops in the 
 army. It is a post of great honor, but one of such great peril that I will not impose it 
 -on you unless you are willing to take it, and you had better take troops that can be 
 relied upon, for you may have to cut your way through to get to me after the main army 
 gets out. The army must be saved, come what may, and, if necessary, your command 
 must be sacrificed to accomplish it.' Gen. Walthall in reply said: 'General, I have 
 never asked for a hard place for glory, nor a soft place for comfort, but take my chances 
 as they come. Give me the order for the troops, and I will do my best. Being the 
 youngest major-general in the army, I believe, my seniors may complain that the place 
 was not offered to them, but that is a matter between you and them;' and Hood said, 
 'Forrest wants you, and I want you.' Gen. Forrest rode up during the conversation and 
 said: 'Now we will keep them back.' And Hood gave verbal orders for Walthall to 
 take any troops he wanted. 
 
 Gen. Walthall selected eight brigades, estimated at 3,000 effectives, but really only 
 i, 600 strong. And Walthall's infantry division formed of the skeleton brigades, with a 
 condensed division of cavalry under Brig. -Gen. Wm. H. Jackson, the whole under com- 
 mand of Lieut. -Gen N. B. Forrest, succeeded in checking the pursuit made by the Union 
 forces, and enabled the army to cross the Tennessee river in comparative safety. Too 
 much praise cannot be given both Gens. Walthall and Jackson and their determined 
 commands for their skill, fortitude and dashing bravery. 
 
 The following biographic sketches will convey something of the characters of the 
 commanders specially named:
 
 BRIG.-GEN. W. H. JACKSON, 
 
 DURING THE SIXTIES. 
 
 May, 1895. 
 
 SEE FOLLOWING PAGE.
 
 21 I 
 MAJ.-GEN. E. C. WALTHALL, 
 
 of Mississippi. 
 
 BIOGRAPHIC. 
 
 Edward Gary Walthall of Grenada, Miss., was born in Richmond, Va., April 4, 
 1831; received an academic education and studied law at Holly Springs, Miss 
 
 Admitted to the bar and commenced the practice of law at Coffeeville, Miss , in 1852; 
 district attorney 1856-61; resigned in spring of 1861 and entered the Confederate army. 
 
 Lieutenant, Fifteenth regiment infantry, Mississippi volunteers; lieutenant-colonel 
 of that regiment, April, 1861; colonel, Twenty-ninth regiment infantry, Mississippi 
 volunteers, April n, 1862; brigadier-general, P. A. C. S., December 13, 1862; major- 
 general, P. A. C. S., June 6, 1864; participated in all the battles of the Western army. 
 
 Practiced law 1865-85; delegate-at-large to national Democratic convention 1868, 
 76, 80 and 84; United States senator, by appointment March 12, 1885, and by election 
 January, 1886, for unexpired term; re-elected January, 1888, and again January, 1892; 
 resigned in January, 1894, on account of ill health; resumed his seat March, 1895, by 
 virtue of his election in 1892; re-elected and term of service will expire March 3, 1901. 
 
 BRIG.-GEN. WM. H. JACKSON, 
 
 Of Tennessee. 
 
 BIOGRAPHIC. 
 
 William Hicks Jackson was born at Paris, Tenn., October i, 1835, his parents being 
 natives of Virginia; graduated at the United States Military Academy in 1856. 
 
 Commissioned in the United States army: Brevet second lieutenant, mounted 
 rifles, July i, 1856; second lieutenant, December 30, 1856. 
 
 Instructor at cavalry school, Carlisle, Pa., one year; on frontier service 1857-61, and 
 resigned May 16, 1861; serving under Cols. Chas. May and W. W. Loring. 
 
 Commissioned in Confederate States army: Captain, battery of artillery, Tenn- 
 essee volunteers, May to November, 1861; colonel, Seventh regiment cavalry, Tenn- 
 essee volunteers, 1862; brigadier-general P. A. C. S., December 29, 1862; division and 
 corps commander and commissioner for parole of troops, at later periods of the war. 
 
 Promoted for gallantry and effectiveness at battle of Holly Springs, Miss., and 
 recommended for promotion because of his bravery and skill in commanding the cavalry 
 covering Gen. Hood's retreat, etc. 
 
 Planter after the war; he organized the National Agricultural Congress and, as the 
 outgrowth of its first meeting at Nashville, Tenn., were the organization of all other 
 farmers' associations in the United States. 
 
 President of National Agricultural Congress of the Farmers' Association of Tenn- 
 essee and of the Bureau of Agriculture for that state. 
 
 First president of the Safe Deposit, Trust and Banking Company; president of the 
 electric street railroad, and of the gas company, all of Nashville; and chairman of 
 the executive committee of the proposed Tennessee Centennial exposition in 1896. 
 
 Is the hospitable owner and resides at " Belle Meade," near Nashville.
 
 MRS. SARAH BELL WALLER, 
 
 1862-5. 
 
 MRS. SARAH BELL WALLER, 
 Died, December 13, 1883. 
 
 SEE FOLLOWING PAGE.
 
 2I 3 
 
 THE GOOD SAMARITANS OF CAMP 
 DOUGLAS PRISON. 
 
 The ladies, now deceased and thus specially referred to, were most 
 active in the relief of the distressed prisoners confined in Camp Douglas; 
 and the following accounts of their philanthropic and Christian actions 
 enrich the history of the noble deeds of women. 
 
 MRS. SARAH BELL WALLER, 
 
 Miss Sarah Bell Langhorne, daughter of John T. and Eliza B. Langhorne, was born 
 November 17, 1821, in Maysville, Ky., her father being a Virginian, and descendant of 
 Sir William Langhorne, the first earl of Gainsborough, Hampstead Heath, near London, 
 England, and her mother the daughter of Col. Devall Payne of Kentucky, a great-uncle 
 of Gen. Robert E. Lee, and the great-grandson of Sir John Payne of Wales. Miss 
 Langhorne received an excellent education and an early religious training, and on May 
 3, 1837, married Henry Waller, Esq. Mr. Waller practiced law in Maysville, and 
 resided there and in Mason county, Ky., until November, 1860, when he moved his 
 family to Chicago, and dwelt on Ashland avenue over twenty years. Mrs. Waller was 
 noted for her fine social qualities, mental attainments, kindness of heart and determined 
 character, which attractions won for her admiring associates in whatever circle she 
 moved. An eminently handsome woman, intelligent, graceful and dignified she possessed 
 great resolution and a high sense of justice, and, withal, an energetic diplomacy that 
 generally enabled her to succeed in whatever she undertook. 
 
 During the civil war of 1861-65 Mrs. Waller was the most untiring, persevering and 
 efficient friend of the Confederate soldiers confined as prisoners of war in Camp Douglas, 
 which prison stockade, from the beginning to the close of the war, she visited every few 
 days with clothing for the ragged veterans, and delicacies and hospital stores for the 
 sick. Her work was accomplished with system, in a thoroughly honorable and business 
 way under permission from the commanding officer of the prison. Many thousands of 
 thinly clothed prisoners of war were brought to Camp Douglas in mid-winter, and 
 coming from a warm climate and being totally unprepared for the extreme rigor of the 
 inclement weather on the shore of Lake Michigan, thousands contracted pneumonia 
 from exposure, and, the disease becoming epidemic, hundreds died. Mrs. Waller and 
 her assistants, among them notably, Mrs. Mary B. Morris, of Chicago, enlisting in the good 
 work friends in Kentucky, Maryland and New York, obtained generous donations which 
 enabled them to comfortably clothe most of the destitute prisoners, not with uniformity, 
 but by utilizing every possible article of clothing donated from afar, or that might and 
 could be purchased. Yet to shoe the ten to twenty thousand prisoners was a seeming 
 impossibility. However, this good Samaritan woman was equal to the emergency, and 
 finding among the southern prisoners a score or more shoemakers willing to work, she, with 
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 shoe shop, and through the labor of her prisoner workmen, with tools and material she was 
 enabled to furnish, the old shoes were repaired and such new shoes made as sufficed to 
 supply the totally destitute and others in greatest need of them. That problem was no 
 sooner solved than the question of furnishing trousers to the thousands became an almost 
 hopeless task, made more difficult because of the mandate from the secretary of war, 
 prohibiting the outside furnishing of prisoners with clothing other than of "butternut 
 color." Mrs. Waller secured a sample of butternut colored jeans and a piece of blue 
 kersey, experimented with success, and finally discovered that the blue cloth could be 
 dyed so as to produce a fairly good butternut color. At first 300 pairs of condemned 
 Federal blue pantaloons were purchased, and, through the dying process, they were 
 converted into regulation butternut garments. This problem was solved, and by 
 furnishing the needy with portions of raiment at a time, she finally obtained reasonably 
 comfortable clothing for the destitute. 
 
 The prisoners from Arkansas Post, Fort Donelson, Island No. 10, Shiloh, and 
 from most of the battlefields in Kentucky, Tennessee and Mississippi, who were con- 
 fined in Camp Douglas, will undoubtedly ever remember Mrs. Waller and her lady 
 assistants with sincerest gratitude and affection. When it is remembered that the Chicago 
 surroundings at that time were among the bitterest in the north, and that Mrs. Waller 
 was handicapped by arbitrary rules and restrictions from the war office in Washington, 
 the great perseverance, determination and bravery of this whole souled, noble woman in 
 the untiring energy of her humane purpose (faithfully discharged through four long 
 years), is deserving of memorial mention here, the monumental tablet being written on 
 the hearts of thousands of sufferers made glad by her ministrations, a noble heritage 
 to philanthropic charity and true Christian love. 
 
 MRS. MARY B. MORRIS. 
 
 Mrs. Mary B. Morris was the daughter of Col. Blackburn of Woodford county, Ky. , 
 and sister of Gov. Luke P. Blackburn and the present Senator Jos. C. S. Blackburn of 
 that state. She was the accomplished wife of Judge Buckner S. Morris, and resided in 
 Chicago previous to and during the war between the states. 
 
 She was a most charming and noble woman, with a heart that was filled with love 
 and charity. Little wonder then when she saw the pitiable condition of the Confederate 
 prisoners of war, many of whom were related to her by the ties of consanguinity, all by 
 the ties of friendship, that she should take a deep interest in their welfare, and do all in 
 her power to relieve their wants, and add to their comfort. This she did with a gen- 
 erous and lavish hand, visiting Camp Douglas daily, bringing with her clothing, hats and 
 shoes, and distributing them among the prisoners all of whom were in sore need.of them. 
 She continued these visits until the gates of the prison were closed against her, and all 
 others 
 
 She will always be held in grateful remembrance by the men who were prisoners of 
 war at Camp Douglas, who survive their great benefactress.
 
 MAJ.-GEN. LEWIS B. PARSONS. 
 
 DURING THE SIXTIES. 
 
 May, 1895. 
 
 SEE FOLLOWING PAGE.
 
 217 
 
 PROMINENT PERSONS 
 
 WHO HAVE COUNTENANCED THE 
 
 MONUMENTING OF DECEASED CONFEDERATES 
 
 AS HISTORIC PARTS OF AMERICAN SOLDIERY. 
 
 Endorsement by one of the most important Union officers: 
 MAJ.-GEN. LEWIS B. PARSONS, 
 
 Of Illinois. 
 Chief of Rail and River Transportation U. S. A., during the civil war. 
 
 Many letters were written to Gen. Underwood by Gen. Parsons 
 direct, but the following, transmitting a donation to the monument fund 
 through Gen. John C. Black, is so full ot noble sentiments that it is 
 reproduced here for the edification of all who may have the pleasure of 
 reading it: 
 
 Gen. John C. Black: 
 
 MY DEAR GENERAL I am glad to see a monument is being erected in cosmopolitan 
 Chicago in memory of the Confederate dead, for which I enclose a small contribution (a 
 check for $10.00 is referred to). Brave men ever respect bravery in friend or foe, and 
 all the more when accompanied with great sacrifices and suffering for a cause believed to 
 be just, though history may render a different verdict. And, surely, rarely have men 
 been more daring, or periled more, or suffered more, or given stronger evidence of acting 
 from conviction than did those who wore the gray. Again, as we desire a perfect 
 restored Union a Union based on hearts, as well as on laws, and more than on conquest, 
 every motive of interest as well as of kindred prompts to fraternal action. 
 
 To err is human, to forgive is divine. I hope that the time is not far distant when on 
 a common commemoration day the blue and the gray may join in placing flowers on the 
 graves of their fallen brothers. Does truest loyalty forbid the tribute of a flower aye, of 
 a tear? Does an Englishman in reading of the daring deeds of the War of the Roses 
 pause before applauding to consider on which side they occurred? 
 
 Twin monuments throughout our land will in ages to come be but tributes to heroic 
 deeds of men of a common origin, brothers of a gallant race; evidences, too, that from 
 conflicts past has arisen a stronger nationality, a higher and better civilization, based on 
 what alone can he enduring charity a common brotherhood, the foundation of an 
 enlightened Christianity, challenging the respect and admiration of mankind. As always, 
 
 Very truly yours, 
 
 LEWIS B. PARSONS. 
 
 BIOGRAPHIC. 
 
 Lewis Baldwin Parsons was born in Genessee county, N. Y., April 5, 1818. He 
 received a collegiate education and was graduated "A. B." by Yale in 1840, with "A. M." 
 conferred in 1843, and "LL. B." by Harvard in 1844.
 
 May 29-31, 1895. 
 
 SEE FOLLOWING PAGES.
 
 219 
 
 City attorney of Alton, 111., 1846-48. Attorney and president Ohio & Mississippi 
 railroad, 1854-61 and 1877-78. 
 
 Commissioned in the United States army: Captain of volunteers, October 31, 1861; 
 colonel and A. D. C. to Maj.-Gen. Halleck, April 4, 1862; brigadier-general, May n, 
 1865, by autographic order of President Lincoln, for special services rendered; brevet- 
 major-general, April 30, 1866. 
 
 He had charge of rail and river transportation of the Armies of the United States; 
 and his successful movement of large bodies was pronounced by Secretary of War 
 Stan ton, "without a parallel." 
 
 Member of G. A. R. and companion of Loyal Legion. His whole character is 
 broad, liberal and elevated. 
 
 INTERESTING INCIDENTS. 
 
 Some ten years after the final interment of the Camp Douglas prison 
 Confederate dead in the government plot of Oakwoods cemetery, 
 Chicago, a thicket of saplings and sprouts had grown so entirely over 
 the three acres as to hide the mounds of the grave-trenches and make 
 a forest-wild nook in the limits of that silent city of the dead. 
 
 On the 3Oth of May, 1876, Decoration Day, Whittier Post, No. 10, 
 G. A. R. of Chicago, Capt. Charles R. E. Koch, commanding, and Milliard 
 Post, No. 34, G. A. R. of Englewood, Capt. J. T. Foster, command- 
 ing, joined in decorating the graves of Union soldiers buried in Oak- 
 woods, and, after such ceremonies were completed, the united bodies of 
 Grand Army veterans under the command of Capt. Koch (senior 
 officer), marched to the "Confederate thicket" and, trampling the under- 
 brush, pushed through the rank growths of young trees, briars and 
 weeds and strewed northern flowers over the graves of the southern 
 soldiers there buried; and Comrade DeWolff of Hilliard Post offered a 
 short and appropriate sentiment, setting forth the spirit in which such 
 visitation was made. 
 
 This was the first recognition of the Confederate dead in Chicago, 
 and all praise is due Capt. (now colonel) Koch and his associates for 
 the conception and execution of such humane movement. 
 
 The following incidents are related and illustrate the character of : 
 
 COL. CHAS. R. E. KOCH, 
 Of Chicago. 
 
 When Gen. John B. Gordon visited Chicago in 1891, the First regiment infantry, 
 I. N. G., Col. Chas. R. E. Koch commanding, served as special escort to the dis- 
 tinguished southerner; and the colonel in his liberality of feeling, directed the regi- 
 mental band master to arrange a march in which "Dixie" and "Yankee Doodle" should 
 be blended, as a musical tender of the "hand-shake over the bloody chasm." The
 
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 harmonic effusion was thoroughly appreciated by every one who heard it, for all recog- 
 nized in it an emphasis and refrain of Gen. Grant's dictum: "Let us have peace." 
 
 Capt. John Geo. Ryan, Confederate States cavalry, was a prisoner of war on parole 
 in July, 1865, and was making arrangements at Memphis, to go into the newspaper busi- 
 ness at Pine Bluff, Ark., when on the 22d of that month he was arrested, placed in con- 
 finement and taken to the old Capitol prison, Washington, D. C., under the accusation of 
 being the missing John H. Surratt, one of J. Wilkes Booth's co-conspirators in the assas- 
 sination of President Lincoln. 
 
 In September 1865 a number of prisoners were turned over to Capt. C. R. E. Koch 
 provost marshal of the western district of Mississippi at Vicksburg, and one of them, of 
 slender build and fragile look, was handcuffed and wore a ball and chain fastened to his 
 ankles. This unusual weight of iron caused the provost marshal to conclude that the party 
 must be a great criminal, but on looking over the roll of prisoners he learned that there 
 was no charge whatever entered up against this man. Having no right to hold anyone 
 without an accusation, he at once reported the case to Gen. H. W. Slocum, then com- 
 manding the Department of Mississippi, who directed that the prisoner be held pending 
 an inquiry from the war department at Washington, whence he came. 
 
 Capt. Koch thoroughly believing the prisoner's story, that he was not the missing 
 Surratt, which he took pains to substantiate through his detective force, ordered the 
 iron fetters removed at once and gave him as good quarters as historic jail No. i 
 afforded, and as time progressed placed Capt. Ryan under parole and allowed him to 
 spend the afternoons out of jail, on condition that he would return at sundown to be 
 locked up. 
 
 It was not till some time in November that instructions came from Washington 
 ordering that J. G. Ryan "be released from military custody and be suffered to resume 
 the status of an ordinary prisoner of war under parole." This order was promptly 
 executed by the provost marshal, but as the "mysterious prisoner" represented that he 
 was without means to proceed to Memphis and resume his business prospects that had 
 been so suddenly cut off in July by United States officers, the provost marshal informed 
 him that as the United States had captured him at Memphis he would receive trans- 
 portation and subsistence to that place. To procure this he (the provost marshal) 
 reported the details of the case to Gen. Osterhaus, the district commander, and 
 asked that, as an act of simple justice, the quartermaster department be ordered to- 
 furnish the necessary transportation. This was flatly refused, the general stating that 
 the government was not then "furnishing transportation to rebels." Capt. Koch 
 consequently interceded with the managment of the theater for a benefit of his quondam 
 prisoner, which resulted in quite a liberal purse being presented to Capt. Ryan to 
 enable him to return to his former base of operation. It is needless to say the provost 
 marshal and his friends assisted in the financial success of the benefit performance. 
 
 The district commander shortly after recommended every officer serving on his- 
 staff for brevet rank promotion except the provost marshal, thereby disregarding nearly 
 four years of loyal service in the cause of the Union, with several special commendations 
 for merit, because of his "unwarranted sympathy fora rebel," and the captain naturally 
 asks, was that justice? Such are the prejudices in times of war, of patriotic, good, 
 able, and, under ordinary circumstances, generous men, that bitterness is not always- 
 quickly obliterated. 
 
 Capt. Ryan, years after, settled in Chicago, the home of Capt. Koch, and he never 
 permitted an opportunity to escape him to refer to the courtesies and kindness received 
 in 1865, and his constant expressions of gratitude have always been a rich recompense 
 for the loss of the brevet commission, to the former provost marshal.
 
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 BIOGRAPHIC. 
 
 Charles R. E. Koch was born in Polish Prussia, April 24, 1844. whence his parents 
 emigrated and settled in Wisconsin while he was very young; received a common school 
 education, and went to Chicago alone, in 1859; and studied dentistry in 1860-61. 
 At the outbreak of the civil war he enlisted as a private in Company G, Seventy-second 
 Illinois volunteer infantry (Chicago's first Board of Trade regiment) August, 1862; was 
 promoted corporal, sergeant and first sergeant of his company. 
 
 Commissioned captain Forty-ninth United States colored infantry, November 5, 
 1863; was detached and acted as aid to Gen. Lorenzo Thomas, adjutant-general United 
 States army, until January, 1864. Provost marshal of Yazoo City, Miss., May, 1865; 
 promoted provost marshal of the western district of Mississippi, with headquarters 
 at Vicksburg, August, 1865, which position he held until honorably mustered out of 
 the service March 23, 1866. 
 
 Returning to Chicago, he resumed his studies, and eventually entered the practice 
 of dentistry. 
 
 He was one of the organizers and the first presiding officer of the Union Veteran 
 club, in January, 1877, and was chosen captain of a volunteer company of Union and 
 Confederate veterans recruited to protect Chicago at the time of the riots that year. 
 
 Connected with the Illinois National Guard: 
 
 Private First infantry, August, 1877; captain, October, 1877; major, April, 1886; 
 lieutenant-colonel, February, 1888; colonel, April, 1889 November, 1893. 
 
 Member Illinois State Board of Dental Examiners, September, 1886; became 
 secretary and afterward president of the board; the president National Association of 
 State Boards of Dental Examiners, in 1890, and was honored by the dental department 
 of Washington University, St. Louis, Mo., with degree of D. D. S., in 1889. 
 
 Member of G. H. Thomas Post No. 5, G. A. R. ; has been post commander, 
 inspector-general and adjutant-general of the Department of Illinois, G. A. R.; is an 
 associate member of the Military Service Association of the United States and member 
 of the military order of the Loyal Legion, and the Society of the Army of the Tennessee. 
 
 HON. JOHN T. MORGAN, 
 
 United States Senator from Alabama. 
 
 WASHINGTON, D. C., May 8, 1895. 
 Gen. John C. Underwood, Chicago, III. : 
 
 MY DEAR GENERAL I would esteem it a duty, as well as a high privilege, to be 
 present at the dedication of the monument in Chicago to the Confederate soldiers who 
 sleep in Oakwoods cemetery, if I could make my circumstances bend to my wishes. 
 
 Where they grasped the hand of death in proof of their devotion to their ciuse, is a 
 fitting place for a memorial of their heroism. Those who love the highest examples of 
 human sacrifice, when made in obedience to heartfelt convictions, will feel honored by 
 the presence of this monument in their midst. It is to a noble enemy that the true 
 soldier loves to do honor. To the heroic friend who has died in a cause that we 
 espoused, we add the tribute of affection. In the expression of both sentiments toward the 
 dead, we celebrate our own estimate of the virtues that cause men even to die for what 
 they believe to be their rights and tributes. I cannot be present to unite with you in 
 this expression of your admiration and love of the Confederate dead at Chicago, but my 
 most earnest sympathies will be yours. Sincerely yours, 
 
 JOHN T. MORGAN.
 
 Commander-in-Chief, G. A. R , 1895. 
 
 SEE FOLLOWING PAGE.
 
 ENDORSEMENT BY THE HIGHEST G. A. R. OFFICIAL, 
 GEN. THOMAS G. LAWLER. 
 
 MWfl 
 
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 May 29-31, 1895. 
 
 SEE FOLLOWING PAGE.
 
 225 
 
 PROMINENT PERSONAGES 
 
 WHO CONTRIBUTED TO THE 
 
 CONFEDERATE MONUMENT FUND 
 
 AND OTHERWISE GAVE MATERIAL AID 
 TO THE MOVEMENT. 
 
 A. O. SLAUGHTER, 
 
 Of Chicago. 
 
 Among the wealthy gentlemen of Chicago who contributed most 
 liberally toward the erection of the monument over the remains of the 
 southern soldiers buried in Oakwoods cemetery, is Mr. Slaughter, whose 
 excellently engraved portrait appears on the previous page. He in the 
 beginning donated a very large amount, in fact, the greatest outlay of 
 money given to the purpose, by any one individual, for which he is 
 hereby tendered grateful thanks by the author, and will ever be appreci- 
 atively and affectionately remembered by the southern people. The 
 following will give, in synopsis, outlines of his life: 
 
 BIOGRAPHIC. 
 
 Arthur Orville Slaughter was born in Scott county, Ky., August 31, 1841. His 
 parents immigrated to Kentucky from Orange and Culpepper counties, Va., and 
 when he was four years old they moved to Lafayette county, Mo. He received his 
 principal education at the University of Missouri. He espoused the cause of the south 
 at the beginning of the civil war, and served under Gen. Sterling Price, in the Missouri 
 state guards. Having lost his interest in much property through the emancipation of his 
 father's slaves by the government, he at the close of the war went to Chicago and 
 engaged in the banking business, which he has continuously and successfully conducted 
 ever since. He is a cultivated, enterprising and whole-souled citizen, alive to the interests 
 of the great city, his adopted home, and ever recollecting and cherishing the land and 
 people of his youth. 
 
 PHILIP D. ARMOUR, 
 Of Chicago, 
 
 Is another, among the most prominent, who gave early and liberally to 
 the erection of a shaft over the Confederate dead in Chicago, 
 having contributed to that granite testimonial in Oakwoods in the unos- 
 tentatious direct manner, that characteristically stamps all of his 
 philanthropies. To him, as to the others, the sincerest thanks are 
 hereby tendered.
 
 May, 1895. 
 
 SEE FOLLOWING PACK.
 
 227 
 
 POTTER PALMER, 
 
 Of Chicago. 
 
 Another of Chicago's liberal citizens is Mr. Palmer, and the photo- 
 engraving on the preceding page is a superb likeness of him. He 
 it was who, at the very commencement of the monument movement, 
 subscribed liberally to the proposed memorial as a contribution from his 
 wife and himself; and later, when the plans for dedicating the monument 
 were being perfected, and he in Europe, it was through his special 
 courtesy, flashed over the trans-Atlantic cable, that the manager of the 
 Palmer House extended an invitation to entertain all the Confederate and 
 Federal guests on the occasion of the dedication of the Confederate 
 monument in Chicago; and such hospitable service was rendered, and 
 for which fullest thanks are thus publicly extended to him. He is a 
 pronounced, determined man, broad in thought and generous by action, 
 and withal, one of the most perfect types of Chicago's thorough 
 business men; and the following concise sketch embraces the salient 
 points of his character. 
 
 BIOGRAPHIC. 
 
 Potter Palmer's career during his many years' residence in Chicago has been not 
 unlike that of the city itself. 
 
 He came of English family, his ancestors being among the first settlers of New 
 England. About the beginning of the present century his grandparents moved to New 
 York. Potter Palmer was born on a farm on the west bank of the Hudson. Up to the 
 time he was 18 years old he attended school, and at that age he entered a country store 
 and bank in Durham County, N. Y. A few years af cerward, having managed to accumu- 
 late a little money, he went into business for himself. He soon turned his eyes toward 
 the west and with a rare foresight saw that Chicago, then little more than a big village, 
 was to become a great metropolis. Immigrating to that city he embarked in commerce 
 by starting a dry goods store on Lake street forty years ago; he soon built up a business 
 which had the largest trade enjoyed by any house, not in Chicago alone, but of the 
 entire west; and, after thirteen years of remarkable success, disposed of his interests to 
 Field & Leiter. 
 
 In 1865, although not yet 40 years old, he retired from active business but continued 
 to operate largely in real estate. When the fire of 1871 wiped out the business portion 
 of the city Mr. Palmer is estimated to have lost $2,000,000, but in a short time he com- 
 menced the work by which his name is best known to Chicagoans. 
 
 He is a true, public-spirited citizen and has taken a great interest in the welfare 
 of Chicago; is probably as well known as any man in the city, and his successful busi- 
 ness record is one of the most remarkable in the west.
 
 May 26-31, 1895. 
 
 SEE FOLLOWING PAGE.
 
 229 
 
 H. N. HIGINBOTHAM, 
 Of Chicago. 
 
 Among the first to give a helping hand toward the erection of the 
 Confederate monument was Mr. Higinbotham, through a liberal sub- 
 scription to the construction fund thereof. 
 
 Besides the material aid thus rendered, he has constantly counten- 
 anced and every way endorsed the harmonizing movement looking to 
 the bringing about of friendliest relations between the northern and 
 southern sections, and, as a special instance of his efforts in that 
 direction, is cited the dove presentation scene in St. Paul's Universalist 
 church, the Sunday before Decoration Day, May 30, 1895, and with the 
 view of presenting the facts thereof, the following letter is published: 
 
 John C. Underwood, Esq., Chicago: 
 
 MY DEAR SIR Replying to your request for a statement of the meeting between 
 the Grand Army Post and the organization of Confederate soldiers that took place in 
 St. Paul's Universalist church the Sunday prior to May 3oth, 1895, I beg to say that 
 the occasion was one of very great pleasure to the congregation and the two organiza- 
 tions. At the conclusion of the ceremonies the pastor, Rev. A. J. Canfield, requested 
 the audience to remain seated until the two organizations had filed out of the church, 
 stating as a reason that it would avoid considerable confusion. At the close of his 
 remarks, and being seated immediately adjoining the two organizations, I stated that, 
 at the risk of the confusion, I would like very much to have the two bodies remain in 
 the church in order that they might meet each other personally and some of the 
 members of the congregation as well. My request was granted, and met with the 
 hearty approval of all present. The mingling of the two bodies with the congregation 
 and with each other was a memorable occasion and very much enjoyed by all parties. 
 Comrade Sanford of the G. A. R. Post, took occasion to present a beautiful white 
 dove to the commander of the ex-Confederate Association, Col. Stewart. The presenta- 
 tion and the reply were both felicitous, and I am sure the occasion was one long 
 to be remembered by the members of both organizations, and augmented the kindly 
 feeling that already existed. 
 
 Regretting that I am unable to give you a better statement of the facts, and trusting 
 that from this statement you will be able to make such reference to the occasion as will 
 be satisfactory to yourself, I am, with respect, 
 
 Very truly yours, 
 
 H. N. HIGINBOTHAM. 
 BIOGRAPHIC. 
 
 Harlow N. Higinbotham was born on a farm near Joliet, 111., October 10, 1838; 
 educated in the common schools of Illinois. He enlisted as a private in the Chicago 
 Mercantile Battery of Illinois volunteers, U. S. A., August, 1862, but, on account of his 
 peculiar fitness, was almost immediately transferred to the quartermaster's department, 
 and served his entire enlistment as chief clerk to the ranking quartermaster in different 
 divisions of the army, where his expert services were most in demand; and was mustered 
 out of the army in December, 1864. Returning to Chicago he engaged in commerce, and 
 for thirty-five years has been connected with the mercantile establishment of Marshall 
 Field & Co. and its predecessors. A director and president of the World's Columbian 
 exposition.
 
 May 29-31, 1895. 
 
 SEE FOLLOWING PAGE.
 
 231 
 
 LYMAN J. GAGE, 
 Of Chicago. 
 
 Assistance in the general movement was rendered by many, and 
 among the liberal and patriotic hearts that beat responsive to the call 
 was that of Mr. Gage, who ever gave encouragement and by his 
 ability, tact and sound judgment materially aided in the successful 
 completion of the author's arduous task, self imposed. The prominent 
 features of his character are encompassed within the biographic notes 
 appended, and are no less true than the perfect likeness to the man that 
 the engraved art work on the foregoing page portrays. 
 
 BIOGRAPHIC. 
 
 Lyman J'udson Gage was born in the village of De Ruyter, N, Y. , June 28, 1836. 
 Received early education through four years' tuition in an academy and, at 15 years 
 of age, obtained a clerkship in the post-office at Rome,, N. Y., and soon after was 
 detailed as mail route agent on the Rome and Watertown railroad. When 18 years old 
 he became a junior clerk in a bank, on a very limited salary, and, through eighteen 
 months' close attention to various routine duties, obtained an insight into the banking 
 business. 
 
 He immigrated west and arrived in Chicago, October 3, 1855, 19 years old, without 
 friends or means. He obtained a clerkship in the lumber business with varied duties 
 of keeping books and handling lumber, which position he retained three years and 
 finally, in August, 1858, became bookkeeper in the Merchants' Savings Loan and Trust 
 Company; the next year he was advanced to the position of cashier, which place he 
 filled nearly seven years and obtained great financial experience He was invited to and 
 accepted the cashiership of the First National Bank in 1867; and, in May, 1883, was 
 made its vice-president and practically directed the policy and managed the bank. He 
 was elected president of the bank in January, 1891, which position he still holds, 
 devoting his time and energies to the active management of the bank with which he has 
 been connected for more than a quarter of a century. The great banking ability he has 
 displayed, gives him first rank as an eminent financier; and was fully recognized by the 
 profession, through his election as president of the American Bankers' Association in 
 1882 and re-election for two successive terms. He is thoroughly imbued with the 
 interests of Chicago and is always active in the city's advancement. As first president 
 of the World's Columbian exposition he infused great vitality in that magnificent enter- 
 prise, and was forced to relinquish the presidency in consequence of increasing bank 
 duties, but remained a director on its board to the successful close and was the main 
 organizing and stimulating power that opened the purses and treasuries of Chicago. 
 
 As president of the Commercial club and director and treasurer of the Art Institute, 
 etc., he has maintained his high standing, and is both popular and influential in the 
 widest scope, from the top to bottom of the great city's vast population, being regarded 
 as a broad, liberal, conscientiously just man, elevated and urbane
 
 May 26-31, 1895. 
 
 SEE FOLLOWING PAGE.
 
 233 
 
 CHAS. B. FARWELL, 
 
 Of Chicago. 
 
 One of the well-known men of Chicago, who believes in the absolute 
 reuniting of the sections to the formation of a perfectly harmonized 
 Nation, in conversation with the author, in substance said: "If I could 
 have my way, I would destroy all monuments commemorating inter- 
 necine strife and entirely obliterate every evidence of the fact that there 
 had been a civil, sectional war in the country, that the descendants of 
 both northerner and southerner might as far as possible forget that the 
 blood of their forefathers had ever been spilled in fratricidal battles." 
 And in response to a letter requesting a written communication corrob- 
 orating his verbal statement, made prior to the dedicatory services here- 
 inbefore described, he has written the following: 
 
 John C. Underwood, Esc/., Chicago: 
 
 DEAR SIR I have yours in which you ask me to write my views, which I expressed 
 to you on a former occasion, in regard to the late civil war. 
 
 In a word, I think that the evidences of that war and its recollections on both sides 
 should be put far behind us and as speedily forgotten as possible. 
 
 I might add to this, but what I think is all included in the above sentence. 
 
 Yours veiy truly, C. B. FARWELL. 
 
 In his expression of good feeling toward the south, he goes some- 
 what further than many of his associates, and evinces a broadness of 
 character that would so bury the unpleasant past as to combine all 
 elements within a swelling tide of completest union, without marks or 
 invidious distinctions of any character, about which to discuss in 
 unprofitable debate. 
 
 Such is the man! See on the preceding page the broad and benevolent 
 features of his Websterian face, and read the outline of his life as 
 follows: 
 
 BIOGRAPHIC. 
 
 Charles B. Farwell was born in Steuben county, N. Y., July i, 1823. Received 
 early education at Elmira Academy, New York. Immigrated to Illinois when 15 years 
 old and moved to Chicago in 1844. County clerk of Cook county from 1853-61. Elected 
 to Congress in 1870. Re-elected to Congress in 1872, '74 and '80, in all four terms, and 
 declined further election. Elected United States senator January 19, 1887, to fill 
 vacancy caused by death of Senator Logan. 
 
 Engaged in wholesale mercantile business in Chicago since January, 1865.
 
 /_ 
 
 May 29-31, 1895. 
 
 SEE FOLLOWING PAGE.
 
 235 
 WASHINGTON HESING, 
 
 Postmaster of Chicago. 
 
 Among the gentlemen of Chicago who gave countenance to the move- 
 ment looking to the dedication of the monument erected over the Con- 
 federate soldiers buried in Oakwoods cemetery, and who subsequently 
 gave assistance and aid thereto, was Mr. Hesing, and because of his 
 being the most prominent government official of the city, the support 
 thus early rendered was of great value. 
 
 He has ever been active in everything pertaining to harmonizing 
 the formerly opposing elements of the country, and with the broad ideas 
 that he has always advanced for the betterment of all sections 
 of the Nation, much good has been done toward reuniting the people. 
 
 In consequence of his long editorial and managing charge of the 
 Staats Zeitung, and later as the government official in charge of the city's 
 mails, he is one of the most prominent, best known and influential per- 
 sonages of Chicago. The sincerest thanks are hereby extended to him 
 for his acts in the premises; and believing that a sketch will be interest- 
 ing, attention is invited to the following: 
 
 BIOGRAPHIC. 
 
 Washington Hesing was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, May 14, 1849, and his parents 
 moved to Chicago in 1854. Received early education at Kinzie school, Chicago; then 
 went to Europe and attended school at Osnabrueck, Hanover; in 1861 he attended the 
 old University of Chicago, thence he went to St. Mary's of the Lake, where he studied 
 two years and entering Yale University in 1866, graduated with honors in 1870 and 
 returned to Chicago. Attended lectures two years at Berlin and Heidelberg, Germany, 
 on international law, political economy, history, literature and general subjects pertain- 
 ing to journalism. Became a member of the editorial staff of the Staats Zeitung, Chi- 
 cago, in 1871, and by ability and journalistic capacity arose to the position of managing 
 editor, which he still holds. 
 
 In 1871 he became a member of the board of education, rearranged and established 
 the method of German studies in all the schools of Chicago. 
 
 President of the county board of education in 1880; postmaster of Chicago 1894 . 
 
 Among the many other stanch advocates of the movement and 
 liberal contributors to the monument fund are Messrs. Cyrus H. McCor- 
 mick, who started early a subscription paper with a round donation, which 
 was supplemented by donations from C. F. Gunther, G. H. Wheeler for 
 the Chicago City railway, W. A. Alexander and many others, the roster 
 thereof with a statement of the amounts of their respective contributions 
 is given in full detail in the account of receipts and disbursements pub- 
 lished in the addendum, and the fullest meed of thanks is extended to 
 all, for such material aid and other appreciated services.
 
 
 
 June i, 1895. 
 
 SEE OPPOSITE PAGE.
 
 237 
 
 COMPLIMENTARY TRANSPORTATION 
 
 OF 
 
 GUESTS FROM ALL PARTS OF THE COUNTRY, GUN CARRIAGES AND 
 MANY CARLOADS OF FLOWERS FROM 
 THE SOUTH. 
 
 VALUABLE ASSISTANCE RENDERED. 
 
 In order to dedicate the monument to the Confederate dead at Chi- 
 cago with national eclat, it was requisite to so formulate plans as to 
 insure the attendance upon the occasion of renowned southern and 
 northern generals and other distinguished personages; and to do that 
 successfully, it was necessary to obtain assistance from long lines of 
 transportation, including special car privileges, and complimentary hotel 
 service in the great city wherein the memorial shaft stood erected. 
 Such needs seemed to have been realized by many individuals and 
 corporations having power to render most appreciative services, of which 
 special mention is hereinafter consecutively made. 
 
 The first material courtesy was received from the Cleveland, Cincin- 
 nati, Chicago & St. Louis ("Big Four") railway, through the proper 
 officers under instructions from its president: 
 
 M. E. INGALLS, 
 
 Of Cincinnati. 
 
 In the use of freight trains to transport gun carriages for the cannon 
 comprising the field battery appropriated by the government, and by a 
 further proffer to haul refrigerator cars of flowers donated by the south, 
 with which to ornament the burial grounds. Such services were 
 rendered and afterward supplemented by President Ingalls' order to 
 transport the special cars, containing the dedicatory party between 
 the Cities of Chicago and Cincinnati, and, in fact, to furnish every 
 character of courtesy to the guests from the various sections of the 
 country. How the complimentary service was performed was assured by 
 the magnificent appointments of the line extending the favor; which, 
 through its safety, comfort and speed, wheeled the distinguished party 
 between two of its terminal cities, during a night of great pleasure, and 
 the impressions made by the many hospitable receptions were such, that 
 the waters of Lake Michigan and the beautiful Ohio river, the fertile 
 plains of Illinois and picturesque hills of Kentucky all ornamented the 
 recollection of a most enjoyable excursion. And, for which, grateful 
 thanks are heartily tendered.
 
 May, 1895. 
 
 SEE OPPOSITE PAGE.
 
 239 
 
 The broadness of the man, through whose favor the foregoing 
 referred to courtesies became possible, is axiomatic; and in acknowl- 
 edgment thereof it is fitting to present the following outline sketch of 
 
 his life: 
 
 BIOGRAPH 1C. 
 
 Melville Ezra Ingalls was born in Harrison, Me , September 6, 1842. The son 
 of a farmer, he attended the district school in the winter and labored on the farm during 
 other seasons. At the age of 16 he passed an examination and became a school 
 teacher. He was county school master for six years and devoted his spare time to study 
 and in 1860 he graduated with honors from Bridgton academy and entered Bowdoin 
 college, Maine. He entered Harvard Law School in 1862 and began the practice of law 
 in 1864 at Gray, Me.; whence he moved to Boston, Mass., continued professional 
 practice and entering politics, was elected state senator in 1867. Declining renomination 
 he became a corporation counsel, and in 1871 was appointed receiver of the Indian- 
 apolis, Cincinnati & La Fayette railroad, and moving to Cincinnati, Ohio, took charge of 
 the affairs of that company. He conducted its business so successfully, that upon its 
 reorganization as the Cincinnati, Indianapolis & St. Louis railway in 1880 he became 
 its president and remained in such capacity until 1889; when, upon the consolidation of 
 the road with the Cleveland, Chicago, Cincinnati & Indianapolis and Indianapolis & St. 
 Louis railways, he was elected president of the three companies united in the Cleve- 
 land, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis railway, commonly known as the "Big Four 
 Route," which position he still holds. From 1881 to 1883 he was president of the Ken- 
 tucky Central railroad, and since 1888 he has served as president of the Chesapeake & 
 Ohio railroad. The excellent equipment of these railways, their safety, and the popu- 
 larity of the routes, reflect great credit upon his controlling management; and he 
 justly stands the peer of any railroad magnate throughout the country. 
 
 He was president of the Cincinnati exposition in 1880, and gives material assistance 
 and great encouragement to the city's famous musical organizations. He maintains seven 
 or eight flourishing branches of the Railroad Young Men's Christian Association at 
 principal points on the railroads he controls. 
 
 He is a man of liberal and advanced ideas and devoted to the interests of his 
 adopted city; was one of the founders and is president of the Cincinnati Art Museum 
 and also of the Technical School; is a marked public speaker and considerate, careful, 
 determined and courteous in all things. 
 
 The largest party of ex-Confederates that attended the monument 
 dedication came from the Capital City of Washington; and that such a 
 body of about forty people might be properly conveyed to the great 
 northwestern metropolis and then returned to the District of Columbia, 
 was a difficult problem to solve, one not susceptible of solution except by 
 the aid of a great trunk line railway; and it was solved through the 
 favor of the third vice-president of the Baltimore & Ohio railroad: 
 
 CHAS. K. LORD, 
 
 Of Baltimore, 
 
 Who, with characteristic liberality, carrying out the generous policy 
 ever followed by the grand old transportation company, of which he is
 
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 May 29-31, 1895. 
 
 SEE FOLLOWING PAGE.
 
 241 
 
 officer, proffered such assistance as enabled the author to extend the 
 courtesies of that line to the distinguished party having with it the 
 soldier-statesman orator of the dedicatory occasion; and the ladies and 
 gentlemen who filled the special palace car have reason to long remember 
 the pleasures of the trip, encompassing as it does the exquisite scenery 
 of the far-famed Alleghany mountains, the rich fields and beautiful land- 
 scapes between the tidewaters of the historic Potomac river and the 
 turbid waves of Lake Michigan; and from the "Queen City," on the 
 Kentucky border of Ohio back to the handsomest Capital City of all the 
 nations on earth. The "royal blue train," which numbered among its 
 elegant sleeping cars the one so richly freighted, rolled along its beautiful 
 course to the delight of the southern guests who were being so com- 
 fortably transported: and such were the enjoyable accommodations of 
 the train and road that the party arrived in Chicago, after the extensive 
 rail ride in extremely warm weather, but little fatigued or distressed 
 because of the heat and long travel. 
 
 The magnitude of this courtesy carries with it the fullest apprecia- 
 tion from the participants, for which sincerest thanks are hereby extended, 
 and, in recognition of the attributes of the man, a concise sketch is pub- 
 lished as follows: 
 
 BIOGRAPHIC. 
 
 Charles King Lord was born at Hoosac Falls, N. Y., May 14, 1848. Entered rail- 
 road service October i, 1865. and has since been consecutively, to October, 1871, a clerk 
 in the general ticket office of the Indianapolis, Cincinnati & La Fayette railroad; 
 October, 1871, to April i, 1873, general ticket agent same road; April i, 1873, to October 
 i, 1874, assistant general passenger agent, and October, 1874, to December i, 1879, 
 general passenger agent of the St. Louis, Kansas City & Northern railroad; December 
 i, 1879, to May i, 1880, general ticket agent of the Wabash, St. Louis & Pacific railway; 
 May, 1880, to March, 1888, general passenger agent of the Baltimore & Ohio railroad; 
 March, 1888, to date, third vice-president same road 
 
 Of the railroads that gave very material assistance was the Illinois 
 Central, President Fish and other officers giving every aid in their power, 
 for which favor and service the sincerest thanks are expressed; but the 
 active manager and second vice-president of the company: 
 
 J. T. HARAHAN, 
 Of Chicago, 
 
 Was the most instrumental in the movement, with early courtesy prof- 
 ferring the use of its trains for the conveyance of guests from the gulf 
 states, the transportation of refrigerator cars of flowers and the move- 
 ment of the military to and from the cemetery on the dedicatory occasion 
 and, consequently, special thanks are hereby extended to that officer.
 
 May-June, 1895. 
 
 SEE FOLLOWING PAGE.
 
 243 
 
 How liberally and well the obligation was performed under his direc- 
 tion is now a matter of record, of which the great roadway may well 
 be proud, for the main service in conveying so many thousands of people 
 so comfortably in such a short space of time is work that can be 
 successfully accomplished by but few railways in the country. As 
 illustrative of the life of this active railroad man, see the following 
 sketch: 
 
 BIOGRAPHIC. 
 
 James Thomas Harahan was born in Lowell, Mass., in September, 1843. At the 
 outbreak of the war he enlisted as a United States volunteer and served in First regi- 
 ment Massachusetts infantry (now known as the "Old First"), Army of the Potomac, 
 until the battle of Williamsburg and, after that, in a New York battery. He was a 
 private soldier and took part in all the battles in which the Army of the Potomac was 
 engaged from "Bull Run" to "Spottsylvania," serving from 1861 to summer of 1864, 
 inclusive. Entered railway service fall of 1864, as switchman at Alexandria, Va.; sub- 
 sequently employed in shops of Orange & Alexandria railroad, same place, six months; 
 afterward six months engine dispatcher and engineer same road and place; fall of 1865 
 to summer of 1866, yardmaster Nashville & Decatur railroad, Nashville, Tenn.; 
 1866 and 1867, conductor construction train same road; 1868 and 1869, conductor Clarks- 
 ville division Louisville & Nashville railroad; part of 1869 and 1870, yardmaster Louis- 
 ville, Cincinnati & Lexington railroad one year; also for a time conductor passenger 
 train same road; 1870 to August, 1872, in charge Shelby railroad; August, 1872, to 1879, 
 roadmaster Nashville & Decatur railroad; 1879 to 1881, superintendent Memphis line, 
 Louisville & Nashville railroad; 1881 to December, 1883, superintendent New Orleans 
 division, same road; December, 1883, to July i, 1884, general superintendent Louisville & 
 Nashville railroad south of Decatur; July i, 1884, to January i, 1885, general manager 
 entire line, same road; January i, 1885, to April i, 1885, general superintendent Pitts- 
 burg division Baltimore & Ohio railroad; April i, 1885, to October, 1885, assistant general 
 manager Louisville & Nashville railroad; October, 1885, to October, 1888, general 
 manager, same road; October, 1888, to November i, 1890, successively as assistant general 
 manager Lake Shore & Michigan Southern railway, general manager Chesapeake & 
 Ohio railway and general manager Louisville, New Orleans & Texas railway; November 
 i, 1890, to date, second vice-president Illinois Central railroad. 
 
 Attended International Railway Congress held in London, England, in June, 1895, 
 as a delegate from the American Railway Association; is an admirable railroad man and, 
 as the practical general manager of the Illinois Central railroad, has made the greatest 
 success of his life as thoroughly evidenced by the fine condition of that property under 
 his active management. 
 
 He is a stanch determined man, a fast friend and true to every purpose. 
 
 GEORGE M. PULLMAN, 
 
 Of Chicago. 
 
 The splendid triumph of Mr. Pullman in the construction of the 
 palace sleeping car and the development of the extensive sleeping car 
 system which bears his name, has given great comfort and convenience
 
 244 
 
 to the traveling public throughout the continent. While this fact evi- 
 dences great inventive, mechanical and business ability, it does not fully 
 show the character of the man. He is a man of elevated sentiments in 
 all things; ever ready and willing to assist legitimate enterprise and 
 extremely generous in individual and collective charities. He is a 
 national patriot of pronounced stamp, but so liberally broad by nature 
 that he can view and consider the actions of opposing elements from 
 their standpoints. It was his courteous act, in recognition of bravery 
 and fortitude, which supplied the sleeping car accommodations to Con- 
 federate generals and other personages, who as guests, attended the 
 dedication of the Confederate monument in Chicago. 
 
 BIOGRAPHIC. 
 
 George Mortimer Pullman was born in Chautauqua county, N. Y., March 3, 1831. 
 He received an ordinary country school education, and at the age of 14 was employed 
 in a country store, and three years later he went to Albion, N. Y., where he entered 
 into the cabinet making business with an elder brother. He varied this line of work 
 during the next ten years by undertaking contracts of various sorts, among them the 
 moving of warehouses and other buildings along the line of the Erie canal, which at that 
 time was being widened by the state. 
 
 In 1859 he came to Chicago and undertook and accomplished what was then a 
 novel work, the raising of entire blocks of brick and stone buildings. All this experi- 
 ence gave him a wide field of observation, stimulated his inventive powers, and developed 
 natural executive qualities of a high order. Between 1859 and 1862 he remodeled 
 several passenger coaches into sleeping cars, which contained many new devices. These 
 cars ran on the Chicago & Alton and Galena and Chicago Union railroads. From these 
 experiments he worked out detailed plans, with additional improvements, which he set 
 about putting into execution on a thorough and comprehensive basis. The result of 
 many months of hard and loyal labor was the car "Pioneer," which was completed in 
 1865, and took its place at once as the most perfect car that had been produced up to 
 that time; and there has never been a time since, when the latest Pullman cars were 
 not the highest achievement in vehicles for passenger transportation. 
 
 It was generally thought that their largely increased cost would preclude their ever 
 coming into general use; but Mr. Pullman realized that the American people desired the 
 best of everything, and the outcome of the enterprise demonstrated the accuracy of his 
 judgment. 
 
 This principle has never been departed from by him and is the ruling maxim of the 
 great company of which he is the founder and chief executive. 
 
 From modest beginnings in the early sixties the Pullman Company has developed into 
 one of the largest and most widespread industries in the world. It has a paid up capital 
 of $36,000,000. It never "passes a dividend," and is conducted on such strict business 
 principles that its stock is recognized as a safe investment for the funds of educational 
 and charitable institutions, and of women and of trust estates; indeed, more than one- 
 half of its stockholders belong to these classes, and of this half more than three-fourths 
 are women 
 
 For many years the shops of the company were located in different cities, but the 
 manufacturing business of the company developed to such an extent that in 1879 Mr.
 
 245 
 
 Pullman decided to build a plant on a far greater scale than then existed, and to concen- 
 trate the principal part of the manufacturing business To carry out this plan, he pur- 
 chased a large tract of land near Chicago, bordering on Lake Calumet, and about four- 
 teen miles south of the center of the city. Here extensive works were constructed and 
 fitted with the latest and best machinery and appliances, and with a producing capacity 
 of 300 sleeping cars, 625 passenger cars, 12,000 freight cars and 1,000 street cars per 
 year. When the works are running to their full capacity about 5,500 men are employed; 
 at present 4,900 are on the rolls. 
 
 Pullman has been called a "model town," and the term is surely not misapplied. In 
 carrying out the general plan every care has been taken to make the sanitary conditions 
 perfect by a water supply and an extensive and scientific system of sewerage; the streets are 
 paved and well lighted and there are a number of parks and open places properly orna- 
 mented with trees, shrubbery and flowers, all of which are kept in perfect repair and 
 cleanliness by the company at its own expense. There are 1,750 houses and tenements 
 built upon the most modern plan, with all conveniences. These are rented at moderate 
 and reasonable rates and are of sizes to suit the convenience and means of all classes. 
 There are some large apartment buildings in which flats, ranging from two to five rooms, 
 are rented; -the cheapest of these apartments, consisting of two rooms, are let for $3.50 
 per month. There are a number of fine churches of all denominations, a pretty theater, 
 one of the most attractive in the country, seating 800 people; a savings bank, splendid 
 public schools, with nearly one thousand pupils; markets and stores of all kinds, con- 
 ducted by private parties; a fine public library, lake water, gas, electric lights, fire pro- 
 tection and an excellent drainage system, which insures the most healthful conditions. 
 
 [The following comment from a southern journal, the Atlanta Consti- 
 tution, in its issue of December 22, 1895, may be appropriately quoted 
 in this connection.] 
 
 " Such wonderful development as all this indicates can better be understood by 
 knowing something of the personality of the man who first conceived the idea, and who, 
 by skill, patience, close attention to details, untiring industry and a rugged character, 
 from humble beginnings, has achieved one of the marvelous successes of the century. 
 All these characteristics and many others become apparent from a close study of Mr. 
 Pullman's strongly marked face. Slow to adopt a policy, he is slower yet in abandoning 
 it. Progressive, almost to a'fault, he is conservative in his methods and never changes 
 his policy except after the most mature deliberation. 
 
 "It is only by knowing something of the characteristics of this remarkable man 
 that we can understand how, during the memorable strike at Pullman, in 1894, which 
 involved the greater portion of all the railroads in the country, he maintained his posi- 
 tion and settled the broad principle that the owners of a business are the men to shape 
 its policy, and not professional agitators, whose only real labor consists in fomenting 
 trouble. Had a weaker course been pursued by the company many questions that are 
 now settled forever, most important among which is the supremacy of national law, 
 would have still remained subject to the assaults of self-created and irresponsible 
 leaders. The company, which had made sacrifices in order to keep its shops running at 
 a time when industry in general was paralyzed, found itself confronted with a demand 
 to deal with outside parties who had no relation to its business and very properly refused 
 to allow outside interference with its affairs. The immediate sequence was one of the 
 greatest conflicts between the forces of disorder and the strong arm of the law that has 
 occurred during recent years. The result is history. The highest courts of the country 
 have passed upon the supremacy of the law and its guardianship of property rights, and
 
 SEE PAGE 248. 
 
 June i, 1895.
 
 247 
 
 lasting benefits have been achieved, not alone for the town of Pullman, with its hive of 
 busy and contented workers, but for the country at large, workingmen as well as 
 employers." 
 
 OTHER TRANSPORTATION COMPANIES. 
 
 In addition to the railroads specially mentioned because of the 
 magnitude of the service they rendered, other lines furnished transporta- 
 tion in advantageous degrees owing to their locations and the possibili- 
 ties of using their systems successfully, viz: 
 
 The "Cincinnati Southern railway" rendered valuable assistance in 
 the transportation of gun carriages, refrigerator cars of flowers and in 
 passenger courtesies. 
 
 The "Chicago & Eastern Illinois," "Louisville & Nashville," "Nash- 
 ville, Chattanooga & St. Louis" and "Western & Atlantic" railroads, 
 the "Southern Railway" and the "Central Railroad of Georgia," all 
 contributed toward the transportation of the cars of flowers and in 
 passenger favors. 
 
 "The Louisville, New Albany & Chicago;" "Atlanta & West Point" and 
 "Missouri, Kansas & Texas" railroads extended every favor in their power 
 and supplied complimentary transportation whenever it was needed. 
 
 The "Chicago & Northwestern" railway proffered to transport troops 
 from Fort Sheridan, but the service was not required; however, the 
 courtesy remained and was appreciated the same as if it had been 
 rendered. 
 
 The "Adams Express Company" transported the monumental tablet 
 and many packages free, and was otherwise very attentive so as to pre- 
 vent the loss of flowers through delays, etc. 
 
 To each and every one of them, the fullest meed of thanks is hereby 
 publicly expressed. 
 
 THE SOUTHERN GRANITE COMPANY. 
 
 In the movement toward erecting the monument, very great assist- 
 ance was received early from the Southern Granite Company, because of 
 the friendly acquaintance of the author with the officers thereof and the 
 proximity of its headquarters to his residence city. The company was 
 organized in 1886 in Cincinnati, with George Moerlein, one of the 
 wealthiest and most generous business men of that city as president, 
 and J.A. Eberhardt, general manager; consequently, it was natural that 
 it should make a close figure on the construction of the work, which was
 
 248 
 
 done in competition therefor, arid the largest donation to the monument 
 fund was from the said company. 
 
 President Moerlein died in August, 1891, and the company was reor- 
 ganized with his widow, Mrs. Caroline Moerlein, as president and Maj. 
 J. A. Eberhardt, vice-president and general manager; and this new 
 organization was also most liberal in accepting a large payment, in the 
 face value of drafts on sundry subscribers to the monument fund, without 
 recourse on the payer. For the original most liberal donation and the 
 after material assistance, through accepting uncollected subscriptions,, 
 the sincerest thanks are tendered. 
 
 MRS. CAROLINE MOERLEIN, 
 Of Cincinnati. 
 
 BIOGRAPHIC. 
 
 Caroline Werner was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, July 21, 1860; received a good 
 education and married George Moerlein the wealthy brewer. She is a most public 
 spirited and charitable woman, possessing great executive and business ability and is 
 thoroughly patriotic to her native city. She was appointed by Gov. McKinley one of 
 the lady commissioners from Ohio to the Atlanta exposition in 1895. The state having 
 made no appropriation for expenses, her co-appointees declined to serve; and Mrs. 
 Moerlein alone, at private cost of several thousand dollars, fitted up a room in the 
 Women's building which she named "the Cincinnati room," collected art works produced 
 only by women of Cincinnati, such as paintings, statuary, pottery, etchings, china 
 paintings, needlework, etc., etc. The room was honored by ten medals and diplomas; 
 and Mrs. Potter Palmer, of Chicago, while at the Atlanta exposition pronounced it the 
 most artistic and finest room of the entire exposition. She is amiable, resolute and gen- 
 erous in character; and the handsome engraving on page 246 fitly represents the 
 lovely woman. 
 
 MAJ. J. A. EBERHARDT, 
 
 Of Cincinnati. 
 
 BIOGRAPHIC. 
 
 John Adolph Eberhardt was born November 8, 1844, in Germany. Came to- 
 America with parents when 8 years old and settled in New York City. Received a 
 college education. Enlisted in the Federal army at 17 years of age and serving with the 
 Union army in Virginia, was successively promoted until March, 1865, when he was 
 brevetted major, "for long and faithful service and gallant conduct in the field." After 
 the war he settled in Cincinnati and is one of the "Queen City's" most active and stanch 
 business men.
 
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 THE EX-CONFEDERATE ASSOCIATION OF CHICAGO, 
 CAMP No. 8, U. C. V. 
 
 (By an Officer of the Camp.) 
 
 This association was organized, it might be said, at the grave of that 
 great and illustrious commander, U. S. Grant, for the first meeting 
 was held for the purpose of taking part in the funeral ceremonies held 
 in Chicago, while Gen. Grant was being laid to rest in the far east, 
 August 8, 1885. 
 
 About fifty ex-Confederates assembled and marched in the funeral 
 procession, in a driving rain, not one man falling out of line. After the 
 march was over, it was suggested that an association be formed for 
 social intercourse, and for the further purpose of caring for the graves 
 of their old comrades, 6,000 of whom lay beneath the sod at Oakwoods 
 cemetery, and to ultimately erect a monument over their dust, and dedi- 
 cate it to their memory. With this purpose always in view, they secured 
 permission from the secretary of war to erect the monument (the lot 
 where their comrades are buried belonging to the government). 
 
 Then came the hard part, the raising of the funds with which to 
 build it. After awhile they succeeded in getting Gen. John B. Gordon 
 to come to Chicago and deliver a lecture, the proceeds of which to be 
 applied to that purpose. From this lecture the munificent sum of $1,500 
 (including interest) was realized, owing to the exertions made by the 
 members of the association in selling tickets for it. 
 
 After this, the association was merged into a camp of United Con- 
 federate Veterans and is now known as Chicago Camp No. 8, U. C. V. 
 
 A short time after the camp was formed, it was ordered by the gen- 
 eral commanding the U. C. V. Association to recommend a comrade to 
 be appointed major-general, who was to be in command of the northern 
 division. In accordance with this order, Gen. John C. Underwood was 
 selected; and with the $1,500 previously raised by and in the hands of 
 the camp as a nucleus, Gen. Underwood, assisted by several members 
 of the camp, raised the balance of the funds necessary to erect the 
 monument, which was dedicated May 30, 1895. 
 
 And so at last, after a long struggle, The ex-Confederate Association 
 of Chicago saw the noble purpose for which it was organized accom- 
 plished, and the hope which it fondly cherished and which has held it 
 together for so many long years fully realized. For to-day stands above 
 the sacred dust of comrades, dedicated to their memory, one of the most 
 magnificent monuments in our land.
 
 252 
 
 OFFICIAL DOCUMENTS. 
 
 WAR DEPARTMENT, } 
 
 QUARTERMASTER GENERAL'S OFFICE. !- 
 
 WASHINGTON, D. C., August 31, 1887. \ 
 Mr. M. R. Scullin, Chicago, III. : 
 
 SIR Referring to your communication of the iyth instant, requesting permission 
 on behalf of The ex-Confederate Association at Chicago, 111., to erect a memorial to 
 the Confederate dead, buried in the government lot in Oakwoods cemetery, near that 
 city, I am directed by the quartermaster-general to inform you that the honorable 
 secretary of war has approved the request, under such regulations or instructions as 
 the quartermaster-general may deem proper. 
 
 The papers have been referred to Col. J. D. Bingham, assistant quartermaster- 
 general, U. S. army, chief quartermaster, Division of the Missouri, Chicago, 111., who 
 will select the site if thought advisable. Very respectfully, 
 
 Your obedient servant, 
 (Signed) J. G. CHANDLER, 
 Deputy Quartermaster-General, U. S. Armv. 
 
 HEADQUARTERS DIVISION OF THE MISSOURI, 
 
 OFFICE OF THE CHIEF QUARTERMASTER, 
 CHICAGO, ILL., September 5, 1887. 
 
 Mr. M. K Scullin, Assistant Secretary, ex-Confederate Association of Chicago : 
 
 SIR Your letter of the i7th ultimo, addressed to Maj. S. A. Jones, Washington 
 D. C., in relation to a monument for the Confederate dead buried at Oakwoods, near this 
 city, has been referred to me. 
 
 The honorable secretary of war has granted permission to erect the memorial, as 
 requested, under such instructions as the quartermaster-general may deem proper. 
 
 I shall be glad to see you at Room No. 403, Pullman Building, at 11:00 o'clock a. m. 
 on any day that may be convenient to you, in order to arrange for the designation of a 
 proper site for the monument. Very respectfully, 
 
 Your obedient servant, 
 (Signed) J. D. BINGHAM, 
 Assistant Quartermaster-General, U. S. Army, Chief Quartermaster. 
 
 THE EX-CONFEDERATE ASSOCIATION OF CHICAGO, \ 
 
 "CAMP No. 8, UNITED CONFEDERATE VETERANS," 
 CHICAGO, March 26, 1892. ; 
 
 STATEMENT: 
 
 Net proceeds, Gen. John B. Gordon's lecture for benefit of monu- 
 ment to be erected to the memory of prisoners of war who died 
 
 at Camp Douglas . $1,414.61 
 
 Additional subscriptions 25 . oo 
 
 Interest on above now on deposit in Illinois Trust and Savings Bank 49-79 
 
 Total amount to credit of ex-Confederate Ass'n monument fund $1,489.40 
 
 (Signed) S. J. SULLIVAN, 
 
 Treasurer . 
 
 This amount was turned over to Gen. John C. Underwood, and is part 
 of the $1,587.91 credited to receipts in his detailed account on page 258.
 
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 POWERS AND AUTHORITY. 
 
 THE Ex-CONFEDERATE ASSOCIATION OF CHICAGO, ) 
 
 "CAMP No. 8, UNITED- CONFEDERATE VETERANS," > 
 CHICAGO, June 26, 1891. ) 
 
 Resolved, That Comrade John C. Underwood be appointed a committee of one, with 
 power to take any necessary action, to raise funds for the purpose of building a monu- 
 ment over the 6,000 Confederate dead in Oakwoods cemetery, Chicago. 
 
 (Signed) JNO. W. WHITE, 
 
 ATTEST : President. 
 
 (Signed) R. LEE FRANCE, 
 
 Secretary. 
 
 HEADQUARTERS i 
 
 UNITED CONFEDERATE VETERANS, |- 
 NEW ORLEANS, LA., November 21, 1891. ) 
 
 GENERAL ORDERS No. 22. 
 
 I. In order to properly and faithfully carry out the "benevolent and historical" 
 objects of this organization, as has been requested, the general commanding deems it 
 necessary to form two divisions in the northern states, one east and one west of the line 
 of the Alleghanies, each to be officered by a major-general, who will be appointed by 
 him upon the recommendation of the Confederate Veteran camps in Chicago, 111., and 
 in New York City, to be made not later than December 15, 1891. 
 
 II. It will be the duty of these major-generals, when appointed, to organize camps 
 and take steps to care for and assist the disabled, indigent, helpless and distressed 
 -ex-Confederate soldiers and sailors in their respective departments, and to protect their 
 -widows and orphans; also to have charge of the Confederate dead buried at Gettysburg, 
 Fort Warren, Camps Morton, Chase, Douglas, Oakwoods cemetery at Chicago, Johnson's 
 island, Cairo and all other points; to care for and have the graves of the known and 
 unknown dead annually decorated, to preserve and protect the headstones; also to obtain 
 and compile the names and commands of all the Confederate dead buried at every point 
 in the north, which lists this association will publish through the medium of its camps 
 all over the south, so as to give relatives and friends correct information of the last 
 resting places of these southern heross, their and our beloved dead, thus rescuing their 
 names from oblivion and handing them down in history. 
 
 In this philanthropic and holy work the general commanding and these head- 
 quarters will render all possible aid. 
 
 By order of J. B. GORDON, 
 
 General Commanding. 
 (Signed) GEO. MOORMAN, 
 
 Adjutant-General and Chief of Staff . 
 
 HEADQUARTERS \ 
 UNITED CONFEDERATE VETERANS, v 
 NEW ORLE\NS, LA., December 19, 1891. j 
 
 GENERAL ORDERS No. 26.. 
 
 I. The general commanding heartily approves the recommendation of The ex-Con- 
 iederate Association, Chicago Camp No. 8, and John C. Underwood of Chicago, is hereby 
 appointed major-general of the division in the northern states west of the line of the 
 Alleghanies, to date from December 7, 1891.
 
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 II. Maj-Gen. John C. Underwood will carry out the provisions of general orders 
 No. 22, from these headquarters, and his attention is especially directed to the "benevo- 
 lent and historical" features of it. ***** 
 
 By order of J B. GORDON, 
 
 General Commanding. 
 (Signed) GEO. MOORMAN, 
 
 Adjutant-General and Chief of Staff. 
 
 HEADQUARTERS UNITED CONFEDERATE VETERANS, 
 
 ADJUTANT-GENERAL'S OFFICE, 
 NEW ORLEANS, LA., April 13, 1892. 
 
 Maj.-Gen John C. Underwood, Commanding Division of the Northwest, United Con- 
 federate Veterans, Chicago, III. : 
 
 GENERAL You are hereby directed to proceed to, and assume command of, the 
 Division East of the Alleghanies which includes Maryland, Delaware and the District of 
 Columbia; also to the States of Kentucky and West Virginia, assigned to your command 
 temporarily by order of Lieut. -Gen. E. Kirby Smith, all of which you will take charge 
 of temporarily for the purpose of organizing camps and for monumental work. 
 
 By order of GEN. J. B. GORDON. 
 (Signed) GEO. MOORMAN, 
 
 Adjutant-General and Chief of Staff. 
 
 EX-CONFEDERATE ASSOCIATION OF CHICAGO, \ 
 
 CAMP No. 8, U. C. V. \ 
 
 On motion of Comrade Forester, duly seconded, it was 
 
 Resolved, That this camp approve of all steps taken by Gen. John C. Underwood, 
 and that he has full liberty and power to do all that he may think proper in connection 
 with raising funds for and in building monument over our dead in Oakwoods cemetery. 
 
 Resolved, That the treasurer of Camp No. 8 is hereby instructed to turn over to 
 Gen. John C. Underwood, whenever he desires him to do so, all funds now held by him. 
 
 Carried unanimously. 
 
 ATTEST: (Signed) R. LEE FRANCE, 
 
 August 6, 1892. Secretary. 
 
 HEADQUARTERS UNITED CONFEDERATE VETERANS, \ 
 
 ADJUTANT-GENERAL'S OFFICE, ( - 
 NEW ORLEANS, LA., December 12, 1892. ] 
 
 Maj.-Gen. John C. Underwood, Commanding, Chicago, III.: 
 
 GENERAL By direction of the general commanding, the Division of the Northwest 
 at present commanded by you, with the Division East of the Alleghanies which includes 
 the District of Columbia, Maryland, and Delaware, are formed into a provisional depart- 
 ment under your command, to which, with consent of Lieut. -Gen. E. Kirby Smith, com- 
 manding Department East of the Mississippi, the States of Kentucky and West Virginia 
 are also temporarily assigned. 
 
 Maj.-Gen. Underwood is hereby fully authorized to appoint his staff commensurate 
 with his command, and is urged to push the formation of camps monumental and 
 benevolent work in the territory named in this order. 
 
 By command of GEN. J. B. GORDON, 
 
 Commanding U. C. V. 
 (Signed) GEO. MOORMAN, 
 
 Adjutant-General and Chief of Staff.
 
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 UNITED CONFEDERATE VETERANS, 
 TEMPORARY OFFICE OF THE COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF, 
 
 WASHINGTON, D. C., February 16, 1893. 
 SPECIAL INSTRUCTIONS. 
 
 I. Maj.-Gen. John C. Underwood, commanding the Provisional Department of 
 the North, embracing all the northern states from ocean to ocean and the States of 
 Kentucky, West Virginia, Maryland and the District of Columbia, is hereby instructed 
 to merge organized bodies of ex-Confederates existing within the limits of his department, 
 under the general organization of the United Confederate Veterans, without disturbing 
 their rules for local self-government. 
 
 II. He will transmit to the adjutant-general the rosters of memberships as they 
 are furnished him, together with the applications for memberships by the various 
 bodies in the United Confederate Veterans, properly signed by the commanding officers 
 of such bodies, and charter fee of two (2) dollars in each case. 
 
 III. In the. formation of new camps in the northern and border southern states he 
 will exercise discretion in each particular premise, form brigades, divisions and appoint 
 commanders therefor. 
 
 Official: (Signed) J. B. GORDON, 
 
 (Signed) JOS. WHEELER, General Commanding, 
 
 Commissary-General, Acting Aid-de-Camp. 
 
 EX-CONFEDERATE ASSOCIATION OF CHICAGO, ) 
 
 CAMP No 8, U. C. V. \ 
 
 At a meeting held May 20, 1893, Gen. John C. Underwood was authorized to collect 
 a fund to be applied to contingent expenses connected with unveiling of our monument. 
 
 (Signed) R. LEE FRANCE, 
 CHICAGO, May 22, 1893. Secretary. (Seal.) 
 
 Gen. John C. Underwood having been placed in charge in 1891, 
 accepted the authority to erect a monument, obtained by the ex-Con- 
 federate Association, ratified by orders from the Commander, U. C. V., 
 had the following pertinent communications with government officials: 
 
 HEADQUARTERS DIVISION OF THE MISSOURI, 
 
 OFFICE OF THE CHIEF QUARTERMASTER, 
 
 CHICAGO, ILL., May 9, 1893. 
 Gen. John C. Underwood, Chicago, III. : 
 
 DEAR SIR In reply to your verbal inquiry of yesterday, I have the honor to furnish 
 you with the following copy of an extract from the instructions of the quartermaster- 
 general, dated August 29, 1892, viz.: 
 
 "There is however, no objection to his (Gen. Underwood) improving the lot in 
 Oakwoods cemetery as requested, provided that no part of the expense therefor, be made 
 a charge against the United States, and that the plans for the repair and improvements 
 proposed, be first submitted to, and approved by the chief quartermaster, Department 
 of the Missouri, Chicago, 111., who has charge of the soldiers' lot in the cemetery named, 
 as has been done in similar cases." 
 
 The thinning out of the trees, cleaning off and beautifying the ground in which the 
 Confederate dead are buried, and constructing the monument upon the site selected for 
 the purpose at the center of the lot, are approved. 
 
 Very respectfully, 
 
 (Signed) J. D. BINGHAM, 
 Assistant Quartermaster-General, United States Army, Chief Quartermaster.
 
 [PUBLIC NO. 29.] 
 
 An Act to authorize the secretary of war to issue four condemned iron guns and projectiles to the 
 officer in charge of the government lot in Oakwoods cemetery, near Chicago, 111. 
 
 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of 
 America in Congress assembled, That the secretary of war is hereby authorized to issue 
 four condemned iron guns and projectiles to the officer in charge of the government lot 
 in Oakwoods cemetery, near Chicago, 111., in which are buried both Union and Confed- 
 erate dead; and that he be authorized to expend them in ornamenting said lot. 
 
 Approved, January 25, 1895. 
 
 OFFICE OF THE CHIEF OF ORDNANCE, ) 
 
 UNITED STATES ARMY, 
 WASHINGTON, D. C., February 18, 1895 ) 
 
 Gen. yohn C. Underwood, U. C V., Etc.: 
 
 SIR I have the honor to acknowledge receipt of your letter of the nth inst., 
 enclosing a copy of the Act of Congress approved January 25, 1895, authorizing the 
 secretary of war to issue four condemned iron guns and projectiles to the officer in 
 charge of the Government lot in Oakwood cemetery near Chicago, 111., in which are 
 buried both Union and Confederate dead, and requesting that in selecting the cannon 
 therein referred to that four guns having a battle record, and captured from the 
 Confederate States be issued, together with a supply of projectiles of like caliber 
 sufficient to make four piles, and sufficient twelve-pounder projectiles to make a pile on 
 each side of the principal entrance to said burial lot, be furnished under the provisions 
 of the above cited act, and, in reply, to inform you that the following have this day 
 been ordered issued to Col. M. I. Luddington, quartermaster's department, United 
 States army, Chicago, 111., the officer in charge of said burial lot, viz: 
 FROM FRANKFORD ARSENAL: 
 
 Four three-inch rifles. 
 FROM ROCK ISLAND ARSENAL: 
 
 760 three-inch shell, for the construction of four piles, and 728 twelve-pounder 
 solid shot, for the construction of two piles, one on each side of the entrance to 
 said lot. 
 
 I also enclose duplicate blue prints showing plan and elevation of the several piles 
 of projectiles. These drawings will enable you to prepare the stone bases for the piles. 
 
 Respectfully, 
 (Signed) D. W. FLAGLER, 
 
 Brigadier-General, Chief of Ordnance. 
 
 [Letter of February 25, 1895.] 
 Gen. "John C. Underwood, U. C. V. , Etc. ' 
 
 SIR In reply to yours of the 22d inst., I take pleasure in stating that I have to-day 
 ordered the 316 eight-inch shell and four ten-inch shot to be shipped to Chicago for you 
 from the Allegheny arsenal, Pittsburg, Pa. The returns show no ten-inch solid shot on 
 hand, but it is possible as many as four of them may be found. If so, they will be sent.
 
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 If not, the ten-inch shell will be sent. I think from our conversation that you can use 
 the latter by placing the fuse hole down. 
 
 I hope to find time to-morrow to send you the information you request in regard to 
 the manner in which I fitted up the Confederate cemetery at Rock Island arsenal. 
 
 Respectfully, 
 
 (Signed) D. W. FLAGLER, 
 Brigadier-General, Chief of Ordnance. 
 
 HEADQUARTERS DIVISION OF THE MISSOURI, 
 
 OFFICE OF THE CHIEF QUARTERMASTER, 
 CHICAGO, ILL., May 18, 1895. 
 
 Gen. John C. Underwood, Commanding Northern Department U. C V. : 
 
 DEAR SIR Referring to the matter of a tablet which you desire to erect in the 
 government lot in Oakwoods cemetery, the quartermaster-general of the army informs 
 me that he sees no objection in the enclosed paper, and you are authorized to cause such 
 tablet to be -placed there. Very respectfully, 
 
 (Signed) M. I. LUDINGTON, 
 Assistant Quartermaster-General, United States Armv, Chief Quartermaster. 
 
 ENCLOSURE: 
 
 The Confederate dead here buried in concentric trenches were all private soldiers. 
 
 The monument to their memory is of Georgia granite, stands forty feet from the 
 ground to top of statue -and was erected in July, 1893, with funds mainly subscribed by 
 liberal citizens of Chicago and camps of the United Confederate Veterans. 
 
 The bronze panels of the pedestal "die," represent: On the east face, "THE CALL 
 TO ARMS;'' on the west face, "A VETERAN'S RETURN HOME;" and on the south face, 
 "A SOLDIER'S DEATH DREAM." 
 
 The bronze statue surmounting the battlemented capital of the column is a realistic 
 representation of a Confederate infantry soldier after the surrender. The face expresses 
 sorrow for the thousands of prison dead interred beneath. 
 
 The cannon, shot and shell ornamenting this government lot, in which both Union 
 and Confederate dead are buried, were furnished by the war department under 
 authority of an Act of Congress approved January 25, 1895. 
 
 [Letter of August 5, 1895.] 
 Gen. John C. Underwood, Commanding United Confederate Veterans, Chicago, 111. : 
 
 GENERAL The quartermaster-general of the army, in letter dated August i, 
 1895, informs me that authority is granted for you to have erected, without cost to the 
 United States, a suitable flag-staff, on the government lot in Oakwoods cemetery, in this 
 city, with a view of occasionally flying the national colors over the graves of the Camp 
 Douglar prison dead interred therein as recommended by me. 
 Reference is had to your letter dated June 14, 1895. 
 
 Very respectfully, 
 (Signed) M. I. LUDINGTON, 
 Assistant Quartermaster-General, United States Army, Chief Quartermaster.
 
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 JOHN C. UNDERWOOD, M. G., U. C. V. IN OFFICIAL 
 ACCOUNT WITH HIMSELF 
 
 AS OFFICER IN CHARGE AND SPECIAL COMMITTEE OF ONE TO RAISE FUNDS, 
 
 ERECT AND DEDICATE A MONUMENT OVER THE CONFEDERATE 
 
 DEAD IN OAKWOODS CEMETERY, CHICAGO, ETC. 
 
 DETAIL OF CASH, SERVICE AND MATERIAL DONATED, AND THE 
 DISPOSITION THEREOF. 
 
 RECEIPTS. 
 To DR. 
 
 Cash from the ex-Confederate Association, Camp No. 8, U.C. V , 
 Chicago (the net proceeds of Gen. Gordon's lecture, with 
 
 interest), etc $1,587.91 
 
 Cash credit from the Southern Granite Company, Cincinnati, 
 
 Ohio, account of contract award to build monument. 2,000 . oo 
 
 Cash from A. O. Slaughter, Chicago 1,500.00 
 
 " Potter Palmer and wife, Chicago 500.00 
 
 " Armour & Co., per P. D. A., Chicago 350.00 
 
 " H. N. Higinbotham, Chicago 200.00 
 
 " Cyrus H. McCormick, Chicago 200.00 
 
 " " C. F. Gunther, Chicago 200.00 
 
 " " The Chicago City R'y, per G. H. Wheeler, President 200.00 
 
 " W. A. Alexander, Chicago 125.00 
 
 ' Chas. L. Hutchinson, Chicago 100 . oo 
 
 " Samuel Baker, Chicago 100 . oo 
 
 " Lambert Tree, Chicago 100.00 
 
 " " Chas. T. Yerkes, Chicago 100.00 
 
 " " The Southern Society of Chicago, per J. C. U., 
 
 President 85 . 22 
 
 Cash from Siegel, Cooper & Co. , Chicago 25 . oo 
 
 Cash through Col. Samuel J. Sullivan, Department Staff: 
 
 From Sprague, Warner & Co., Chicago $100.00 
 
 " W. F. McLaughlin, Chicago 100.00 
 
 " W. H. Colvin, Chicago 100.00 
 
 " L. C. Malley, Chicago 50 . oo 
 
 " W. M. Hoyt Company, Chicago 50.00 
 
 " L. J- McCormick, Chicago 50.00 
 
 Walter T. Chandler, Chicago .... 50.00 
 
 ' ' Theo. Noel, Chicago 50 . oo 
 
 " D. B. Scully, Chicago 25.00 
 
 " H. N. May, Chicago 25.00 
 
 " N. Martin & Co., Chicago 25.00 
 
 Carried forward $625 . oo $7, 373 . 1 3
 
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 Brought forward. $625 .00 $7, 373 . 1 3 
 
 From Merriam, Collins & Co., Chicago 25 oo 
 
 " McNeill & Higgins Company, Chicago 25.00 
 
 John A. Tolman Company, Chicago 25.00 
 
 Sundry other sources 11.00 711.00 
 
 Cash through Col. R. H. Stewart, Department Staff: 
 
 From R. H. Stewart, Chicago 100.00 
 
 T. B. Blackstone, President C. & A. R R., Chicago 100.00 
 
 " J. J. McCarthy, Chicago 25.00 
 
 Frank Remien, Chicago 15.00 
 
 Mrs. John H. Bass. Fort Wayne, Ind 50.00 
 
 Sherman, Williams & Co., Cleveland, Ohio 25.00 
 
 " Sundry other sources 30.00 345.00 
 
 Cash from percentage, account sale of refreshment privilege. . 46.50 
 Cash through John S Hannah, Chicago: 
 
 From Lamson Bros. & Co , Chicago 50 . oo 
 
 " Carrington, Hannah & Co., Chicago 50.00 
 
 1 ' Henry Botsford, Chicago 25 . oo 
 
 " Chas. Counselman, Chicago 25.00 150.00 
 
 Cash through Gen. C S. Bentley: 
 
 From The Fairbank Canning Company, Chicago 25.00 
 
 " Schwartz, Dupee & Co., Chicago 25.00 50.00 
 
 Cash through sundry northern sources: 
 
 From Lieut. -Col. Geo. Forrester, Division Staff, various 
 
 Chicago contributions 11.00 
 
 From Lieut. -Col. R. L. France, Division Staff, contribu- 
 tion of H. W. Finch, Chicago 10.00 
 
 From Gen. John C Black, account contribution of Gen. 
 
 Lewis B. Parsons, Flora, 111 10.00 
 
 Cash from Dennis Minogue, Chicago 6.00 
 
 "' " T. B. Stringfield, Sheldon, Iowa i.oo 
 
 " Mr Sabin, Chicago, per Miss Lucy Lee Hill ... . i.oo 39-oo 
 Cash through U. C. V. and other southern sources: 
 
 From Camp Gen. LeRoy Stafford. No. 3, Shreveport, La. 10.00 
 
 " " N. B. Forrest, No. 4, Chattanooga, Tenn... 10.00 
 
 Fred Ault, No. 5, Knoxville, Tenn 10.00 
 
 " Veteran Confederate States Cavalry, No 9, 
 
 New Orleans, La 25 . oo 
 
 From Camp Ward Confederate Veteran Association, 
 
 No. 10, Pensacola, Fla 85 . oo 
 
 From Camp Baton Rouge, No. 17, Baton Rouge, La ... 15.00 
 " " Ben Humphreys No. 19, Crystal Springs, 
 
 Miss 75 oo 
 
 From Camp Robert A. Smith, No 24, Jackson, Miss 10.00 
 
 "" " Walthall, No. 25, Meridian, Miss 10.00 
 
 From Camp Confederate Historical Association No. 28, 
 
 Memphis, Tenn 25 . oo 
 
 Carried forward " $275 oo $8,714 . 63
 
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 Brought forward $275 . oo $8,714 . 63 
 
 From Camp Vicksburg, No. 32, Vicksburg, Miss 25 . oo 
 
 " " Maj. Victor Maurin, No. 38, Donaldson- 
 
 ville, La 25.00 
 
 From Camp Stonewall Jackson, No. 42, McKenzie Tenn. 10.00 
 
 " " John C. Upton, No. 43, Huntsville, Texas.. 55-o 
 
 " Felix K Zollicoffer, No. 46, Knoxville.Tenn. 5.00 
 
 Albert Sidney Johnston, No. 48, Tyler, Texas 10.00 
 
 " Montgomery, No. 52, Rosedale, Miss 10.00 
 
 Dibrell, No. 55, Lewisburg, Tenn 10 oo 
 
 R. E. Lee, No. 58, Jacksonville, Fla , 25.00 
 
 Rockwall, No 74, Rockwall, Texas 5.00 
 
 " Forbes, No. 77, Clarksville, Tenn 10.00 
 
 " Pat Cleburne, No 88, Cleburne, Texas ... 15.00 
 
 " Nassau, No. 104, Fernandina, Fla 10.00 
 
 Magruder, No. 105, Galveston, Texas 35-QO 
 
 " " John H Morgan, No. 107, Ardmore, I. T. . 10.00 
 " Shackleford-Fulton, No 114, Fayetteville, 
 
 Tenn 10.00 
 
 From Camp Bell County ex-Confederate Association, No. 
 
 122. Belton, Texas 10.00 
 
 From Camp John W. Caldwell, No. 139, Russellville, Ky. 10.00 
 
 Gen. Joseph Finnegan, No. 149, Sanford, Fla. 10.00 
 
 " Sul Ross, No. 164, Bonham, Texas 50.00 
 
 " " Washington City Confederate, No. 171, 
 
 Washington, D. C 20 . oo 
 
 From Camp E. Kirby-Smith, No. 175, St. Augustine, Fla. 10.00 
 
 Winchester Hall, No. 178, Berwick, La.... 5.00 
 
 ' " R. E. Lee, No. 181, Richmond, Va 
 
 (per Lieut. -Col. R L. France $10) 35 .00 
 
 From Camp Roger W. Hanson, No. 186, Winchester, Ky. 5.00 
 " " Cabell, No. 202, Alma, Ark. (per Miss F. M. 
 
 Scott) 5 . oo 
 
 From Camp John Wallace, No. 209, Van Buren, Ark. 
 
 (per Miss F. M. Scott) 10.00 
 
 From Camp Jeff. Davis, No. 213, Conway, Ark 10.00 
 
 " " McMillan, No. 217, Chipley, Fla 10.00 
 
 Pat Cleburne, No. 222, Waco, Texas 25.00 
 
 Sumter, No. 250, Charleston, S. C 25.00 
 
 " " Cape Fear, No. 254, Wilmington, N. C.... 5.00 
 
 Elmore County, No. 255, Wetumpka, Ala.. 5.00 
 
 " " Jos. E. Johnston, No. 267, Greenville, Texas 5-oo 
 
 A. P. Hill, No. 269, Texarkana, Texas 5.00 
 
 " " Emma Sansom, No. 275, Gadsden, Ala ... 10.00 
 
 " " I. W. Garrett, No. 277, Marion, Ala 10.00 
 
 Wm. Hart, No 286, Alvin, Texas 5.00 
 
 " " Gracie, No. 291, Verbena, Ala 10.00 
 
 Carried forward $840 . oo $8 : 714 . 63
 
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 Brought forward $840.00 $8,714.63 
 
 Prom Camp R. C. Pulliam, No. 297, Greenville, S. C. . . 10.00 
 
 Jefferson Lamar, No. 305, Covington, Ga...' 10.00 
 
 " Ruffin, No. 320, Troy, Ala 10.00 
 
 T. J Bullock, No. 331, Lovvndesboro, Ala.. 10.00 
 
 Dick Anderson, No 334, Sumter, S. C 10.00 
 
 " James D. Nance, No. 336, Newberry, S. C. 10.00 
 " Omer R. Weaver, No. 354, Little Rock, Ark 
 (from individual members, per Miss. 
 
 F.M.Scott) 26.00 
 
 From Camp Egbert J. Jones, No. 357, Huntsville, Ala.. 25.00 
 
 " " Pat Cleburne, No. 363, Paradise, Texas... 5.00 
 
 J. E. Johnston, No. 377, Grand View, Texas 5.00 
 " " John Bowie Strange, No. 464, Charlottes- 
 
 ville, Va 25.00 
 
 From Camp Page Pullen, No. 512, Glouchester C. H.,Va. 5-oc 
 
 " J. F. Hill, No. , Clarksville, Ark 10.00 
 
 " Leonidas Polk, No , Columbus, Tenn.. 10.00 
 
 " Twentieth Tenn. Infantry, J. W. White, Sec'y.... 16.00 
 
 " Ark. Congl. Delegation (per Miss F. M. Scott). ... 10.00 
 
 ' ' Third Missouri Battery 5 . oo 
 
 " Third North Carolina Infantry Association 5.00 
 
 " Confederate Veteran Association of Kentucky 25 oo 
 
 Cash through Miss Fannie M. Scott, Van Buren, Ark.: 
 
 From T. H Simms, Van Buren, Ark $15.00 
 
 " various sources, amounts aggregating 9.00 
 
 " C. T. McKinney, Ozark, Ark 5.00 
 
 " J. M. Lucy, Pine Bluff, Ark 2.00 
 
 " Cols. Patridge and Gunter, Ark 2.00 
 
 " Geo. Vaughan, Arkansas i 50 
 
 " Mrs. C. R. Breckenridge, Arkansas.. i oo 35-50 
 Cash from Lieut. John Cussons, Va., at Confed- 
 erate Con., Birmingham, Ala 25.00 
 
 Cash from Gen. W A. Chipley, Pensacola, Fla 25 .00 
 
 " Senator Pasco, Ocala, Fla 20 . oo 
 
 " Mrs. J. ]. Dickinson, Ocala, Fla . 20.00 
 
 " J. E. Moseley, Alton, Mo 15.00 
 
 Hon. D. J. Fox, Mayor, Birmingham, Ala 10.00 
 
 " " Mrs. S. E. Brewer, Tenn., at Confederate Con , 
 
 Birmingham, Ala. (per Col. S. A. Cunningham) 10.00 
 Cash from Miss Amanda C. Childress, New Orleans, La. 
 
 (receipted bill) 10 . oo 
 
 Cash from Dr. A. S. J. Stovall, Elberton, Ga 8.00 
 
 " A. T Goodloe (sundry subs.), Chapel Hill, Tenn.. 6.00 
 
 " " Net from six subs, per Robt. Bean, Forestburgh, Tex. 5-92 
 
 Cash from C. W. Frazer, Memphis, Tenn 5.00 
 
 Carried forward. $1,267.42 $8,714.63
 
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 Brought forward $1,267.42 $8,714.63 
 
 Cash from S. D. Van Pelt and Capt. Alex. Tribble, collections 
 
 from drop box at P. O. , Danville, Ky 5 
 
 Cash from J. W. Barr, Winchester, Va 5.00 
 
 " " Misses A. and M. Lubbock, Texas, at Confederate 
 
 Con., Birmingham, Ala 5.00 
 
 Cash from Miss Anna Maul, Ala., at Confederate Con , Bir- 
 mingham, Ala 5 . oo 
 
 Cash from Gen. A. T. Watts, Texas, at Confederate Con., 
 
 Birmingham, Ala 5 . oo 
 
 Cash from Col. Jno. P. Hickman, Nashville, Tenn 3-oo 
 
 " W. W. Pate, Kingston, Texas 2.00 
 
 " Capt. F. M. Colston, Baltimore, Md. (per R. L. 
 
 France) 2 . oo 
 
 Cash from Judge W. L. Dulaney, Bowling Green, Ky i .00 
 
 " " Lamar Fontaine, at Confd. Con., Birmingham, Ala i.oo 
 
 " " Old Soldier, " " " i.oo $1,302.42 
 Cash credit through sale of subscriptions without recourse: 
 
 Draft on Camp Gen. Leroy Stafford, No.3,Shrevep't, La. 10.00 
 
 " " " Raphael Semmes, No. n, Mobile, Ala... 50.00 
 
 " " " Turney, No. 12, Winchester, Tenn 10.00 
 
 ". " Ben Humphreys, No. 19, Crystal Springs, 
 
 Miss 10 . oo 
 
 Draft on Camp Sterling Price, No, 31, Dallas, Texas . . . 50.00 
 
 Frank Cheatham, No. 35, Nashv'le, Tenn 25.00 
 
 " " " John Ingram, No 37, Jackson, Tenn.... 10.00 
 
 " " " Barnard E. Bee, No. 84, Aiken, S. C. . . . 10.00 
 
 Mildred Lee, No. 90, Sherman, Texas... 25.00 
 
 Jno. B. Hood, No. 103, Austin, Texas... 10.00 
 
 " " Winnie Davis, No. io8,Waxahatchie, Tex 10.00 
 
 Col. Dud Jones, No 121, Mt. Pleasant " 10.00 
 
 Bowl'g Green, No. 143, Bowl'g Green, Ky 10.00 
 
 " " " Lomax, No. 151, Montgomery, Ala 25.00 
 
 Bessemer, No. 157, Bessemer, Ala 5.00 
 
 R. E. Lee, No. 158, Fort Worth, Texas.. 25.00 
 
 " " " Fulton Co., Ga., No. 159, Atlanta, Ga.. 150.00 
 
 " " " Hill County, No. 166, Hillsboro, Texas.. 10.00 
 
 " " " John R. Cooke, No. 184, West Point, Va 10.00 
 
 " " " Dick Dowling, No. 197, Houston, Texas. 50.00 
 
 " " " Franklin K. Beck, No. 224, Camden, Ala. 10.00 
 
 " " " W. A. Percy, No 239, Greenville, Miss. 35 .00 
 
 " " " Chas M. Shelley, No. 246, Talladega, Ala 10.00 
 
 " " " ElmoreCo., No. 255, Wetumpka, Ala... 5.00 
 
 " " " Pelham, No. 258, Anniston, Ala 10.00 
 
 " " " Lee County, No. 261, Opelika, Ala 10.00 
 
 Carried forward. $ 595-QO $10,017.05
 
 263 
 
 Brought forward $595 .00 $10,017 .05 
 
 Draft on Camp Lake Co. , Confederate Veterans' Associa- 
 tion, No. 279, Umatilla, Fla 10.00 
 
 Draft on Camp E. A. O'Neill, No. 298, Florence, Ala 10.00 
 
 " " " Tom Hendman, No 318, Newport, Ark. 10.00 
 
 " " " Walker, No 335, Spartanburg, S. C.... 10.00 
 
 " " " John James, No. 350, St. Stephens, Ala. .. 10.00 
 
 " " " Abner Perrin,No.367,Edgefield C.H..S.C 10.00 
 " " " R. H. G. Gaines, No. 370, Lower Peach 
 
 Tree, Ala 10.00 
 
 Draft on Camp Thos. H. Hobbs, No. 400, Athens, Ala. . 10.00 
 
 " " " Lee, No. 401, Alexander City, Ala 10.00 
 
 " " " J. B. Kershaw, No. 413, Cheraw, S. C. . . 10.00 
 
 " " *'** Secession, No. 416, Abbeville, S. C 10.00 
 
 " Tom Coleman, No. 429, Union town, Ala. 10.00 
 
 " " " N. B. Forrest, No. 430, Scottsboro, Ala. 5.00 
 
 " " " D. Wyatt Aiken, No 432, Greenwood, S.C. 10.00 
 
 " R. G. Prewitt, No. 439, Chester, Miss. . . 5.00 
 
 " Manning Austin, No. 454, Simpsonville, 
 
 S. C 5.00 
 
 Draft on Camp John C. Brown, No. 468, El Paso, Texas 25.00 
 
 " McDaniel, No. 487, Carroll ton, Ga 5-oo 
 
 " Emanuel Finley, No. 498, Calera, Ala .. 5.00 
 
 " " " J. Ed Murray, No. 510, Pine Bluff, Ark. 10 oo 
 
 Benning, No. 511, Columbus, Ga 10.00 
 
 " " " Standwiddie, No. 514, Indian Territory. 10.00 
 " " Clayton, Sons of Veterans of Birming- 
 ham, Ala 25 . oo 
 
 Draft on Camp Sons of Veterans of Union town, Ala. 5.00 
 
 " Lieut.-Gen. W. L. Cabell, Dallas, Texas 10.00 
 
 " Confederate Veteran Association 20.00 
 
 " State Division, U. C. V., Texas 100.00 
 
 " State of North Carolina, U. V. C 100.00 
 
 " " Surviving Members Fourth Alabama Regiment 25.00 1,090.00 
 Cash paid and exchange value of obligations assumed and 
 
 donated by John C. Underwood, to balance 504.21 
 
 Carried forward to recapitulation table $11,611.26
 
 264 
 
 DISBURSEMENTS. 
 BY CR. 
 
 Amounts paid the Southern Granite Company: 
 
 Said Company's subscription to monument $2,000.00 
 
 Amount expended advertising in ths south 21 . 45 
 
 Amount in hand paid $ 200 . oo 
 
 Amount in hand paid 200.00 
 
 Amount in hand paid 100.00 
 
 Amount in hand paid 3,000.00 
 
 Amount in hand paid 500.00 
 
 Amount in hand paid 1,000.00 
 
 Amount in hand paid 400 . oo 
 
 Amount in hand paid 150.00 5,550.00 
 
 Amount paid Geo. O. Clinch, on order 440.21 
 
 Amount credited by transfer of sundry subscriptions 
 of U. C. V. Camps, etc., covering errors (if any) 
 and without recourse 1,090.00 
 
 Amount cash and exchange paid by J. C. U. per- 
 sonally ($256. 08 and $200.00) 466.08 $9, 567. 74 
 
 Amounts variously paid, viz: 
 
 Chattanooga Car and Foundry Company 150.00 
 
 Cohen & Co , printers 292 . 50 
 
 Office expenses 90 . 25 
 
 Stationery 95-85 
 
 Postage 1892-4 ... 2 19 . 76 
 
 Telegrams during back years 17 . 45 
 
 Expressage " " " 19 .78 
 
 Stenographic services 1892-4 141 .30 
 
 Four years' traveling expenses promoting movement. 563.77 
 
 Sundries, remodeling, boxing and handling statue, 
 etc., painting ordnance, special assistants, lobby- 
 ing and various small incidentals 442 . 86 
 
 Miss A. C. Childress (receipted bill), credit balance 10.00 2,043.52 $11,611.26- 
 
 Carried forward to recapitulation table $11,611.26 
 
 Wa have examined the above accounts of Gen. John C. Underwood and find them 
 correct, and approve of the disbursements made by him. 
 
 ( R. LEE FRANCE, 
 (Signed) - R. H. STEWART, 
 
 / SAMUEL J. SULLIVAN. 
 Finance Committee of Camp No. 8, U. C. V. 
 
 CHICAGO, April 19 1894, and October 26, 1895.
 
 265 
 
 RECEIPTS AND DISBURSEMENTS OF FUND RAISED BY 
 CHICAGO CITIZENS' COMMITTEE. 
 
 RECEIPTS. 
 
 DR. 
 
 Cash from Ferdinand W. Peck ......................... $100.00 
 
 " " Henry L. Turner ..... ................. 100.00 
 
 " " Alexander H. Rsvell ....................... 100.00 
 
 R. L. Henry ............................. 100.00 
 
 " " H. G. Self ridge ......................... 100.00 
 
 " " -W. D. Kerfoot ............................ 100.00 
 
 " " J.J.Mitchell .............................. 100.00 
 
 C. L. Hutchinson .......................... 100 . oo 
 
 " " John R. Walsh ............................ 100 . oo 
 
 " - " Geo. Schneider ............................. 100 . oo 
 
 " " L. Z. Leiter ............................... 100.00 
 
 " " C. A. Chapman ............ ..... ......... 100.00 
 
 " " E. F. Lawrence ............................ 100 . oo 
 
 " " Chas. Counselman .......................... 100.00 
 
 " " R. A. Waller ........................ . ..... 100.00 
 
 " " J. C. Black ............................. 100.00 
 
 " " Armour & Co .............................. 100.00 
 
 " " Willoughby , Hill & Co ..................... 100 . oo 
 
 " " G. B. Shaw ................................ 100.00 
 
 " " N. W. Harris .............................. 100.00 
 
 " " Martin A. Ryerson ......................... 100 . oo 
 
 " " A. C. Bartlett .............................. 100.00 
 
 " " Otto Young ................................ 100.00 
 
 " " A. M. Rothschild ........................... 100 oo 
 
 C.J.Blair ................................. 100.00 
 
 " " C. W. Corwith ............................. 100 . oo 
 
 " Carson, Pirie, Scott & Co ................... 100 . oo 
 
 " " M. McLeich ............................... 100 oo 
 
 " " H. H. Porter .............................. 100 . oo 
 
 " " C. H. McCormick .......................... 100.00 
 
 " " H. H. Kohlsaat ............................ 100.00 
 
 " " John Dupee ............................... 100 . oo 
 
 " " Lyman J. Gage ........................ 50.00 
 
 " " C. F. Gunther ............................. 50.00 
 
 " " Francis Beidler ...... , ..................... 50.00 
 
 " " Washington Hesing ........................ 50 . oo 
 
 " " Seigel, Cooper & Co ........................ 50.00 
 
 " " Geo. F. Kimball Company .................. 50 . oo 
 
 " " Wm. H. Harper ..... ...................... 50.00 
 
 Carried forward. ............. ........... $3, 550 . oo
 
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 Brought forward $3, 550 . oo 
 
 Cash from N. B. Ream 50.00 
 
 " " F. S. Winston 50.00 
 
 " " Rand, McNally & Co 50 . oo 
 
 " " W. T. Baker 50 . oo 
 
 F. C. Josclyn 50.00 
 
 " " F. J. Kennett 50.00 
 
 " " L. D. Kneeland 50 . oo 
 
 " W. J. Wilson 50.00 
 
 '' " Owen F. Aldis 50.00 
 
 Joy Morton 50 . oo 
 
 " C. T. Trego 50 . oo 
 
 " " D. H. Burn ham 50.00 
 
 " E. L. Lobdell 50.00 
 
 " J. Harley Bradley 50.00 
 
 " M. D. Wells 50.00 
 
 " " P. J. Sexton 25.00 
 
 " Adolph Nathan 25 . oo 
 
 " " W. B. Judson 25.00 
 
 " " Geo. E. Marshall 25.00 
 
 " " C. P. Kimball Company 25 .00 
 
 " " E S. Lacey 25 . oo 
 
 E. H. Ream 25.00 
 
 " " Byron L. Smith 25.00 
 
 " " M. L. C. Funkhouser 25.00 
 
 " " E. H. Pearson 25 . oo 
 
 " F. H. Dummer 25.00 
 
 " A. C. Soper 25.00 
 
 Knight & Marshall 20 . oo 
 
 " " E. E. Maxwell 10 . oo 
 
 " C F. Hills 10.00 
 
 " " Unknown subscriber 10.00 
 
 " " Sale of seventy-four banquet tickets at $6.00. . 444.00 $1,544.00 
 
 Carried forward to recapitulation table $5,094.00 
 
 Examined and found correct. 
 
 (Signed) HENRY L. TURNER, 
 
 Secretary Citizens' Committee. 
 
 DISBURSEMENTS. 
 
 BY. 
 
 Disbursed by Treasurer Turner, through J. C. Underwood: 
 Amount paid Oakwoods Cemetery Association, on 
 order So. Granite Co., account 
 construction of monument founda- 
 tion $432 . 26 
 
 Amount paid Chattanooga Car and Foundry Co. . 140.80 
 
 J. L. Fulton & Co., for foundations 175.00 
 
 Carried forward. 
 
 $748.06
 
 26; 
 
 Brought forward $ 748 .06 
 
 Amount paid W. S. Jackson, for grand stand. . . . 225 oo 
 
 " for decorating grand stand 25.00 
 
 " Gallagher Floral Company 150.00 
 
 " Western Bank Note Company . ... 504.00 
 
 " Rand, McNally & Co 9-35 
 
 ' ' Leroy Payne &^Co 304 50 
 
 " Imperial- Arion Octet 100 oo 
 
 ' ' Palmer House 67 . 45 
 
 " Barrett's Bindery 3 .50 
 
 ' ' for stationery 8 50 
 
 " postage 29.00 
 
 " " telegrams 15-79 
 
 " " expressage 1.15 
 
 " " stenographic services 141.40 
 
 " " office assistant 60.00 
 
 " J. C. U. ($100 and $244 94) refund- 
 ing expenses 344 . 94 
 
 Amount paid Arthur Dixon Transfer Company. . 35 .00 
 
 " B. F. Jenkins 15-5 
 
 ,' " " refunding expenditures of guests.. 20.00 
 
 " for special assistance 15.00 
 
 " " newspapers for guests 6.60 $2,829.74 
 
 Disbursed by Treasurer Turner, direct 
 Amounts paid, viz: 
 
 Kinsley & Bauman, account banquet 1,036. 12 
 
 C. H. Smiley, account refreshments at armory 174.00 
 
 Pullman Band, account music at cemetery. . 521.00 
 Rogers & Wells, Dunwell & Ford and Geo E. 
 
 Cole, for stationery, printing, etc 72.50 
 
 Hibbard, Spencer & Bartlett, for cartridges 48.20 
 
 M. L. Allen, for reporting speeches at banquet 48 . 25 
 
 Postage stamps 50.00 
 
 Clerical service 8 . oo 
 
 Various amounts paid for sundry services, etc., 
 
 reported in aggregate by Col. Turner. . . 230.27 
 
 Cash on hand as reported by Col. Turner. .. 75-92 $2,264.26 $5,094.00 
 
 Carried forward to recapitulation table $5,094.00 
 
 CERTIFICATE. 
 
 Examined and found correct, as approved and paid under audit by R. A. Waller, 
 G. B. Shaw and R. L. Henry, finance committee. 
 
 (Signed) HENRY L TURNER, 
 
 Secretary Citizens' Committee.
 
 268 
 
 BALANCED ENTRIES OF RECEIPTS AND DISBURSEMENTS 
 
 OF DONATIONS BY CASH CREDITS ON BILLS AND IN SERVICES AND 
 MATERIALS ABSOLUTE AND ESTIMATED. 
 
 RECEIPTS. 
 TO DR. 
 
 Cash value from United States Government, by act of Con- 
 gress donating cannon, shot and shell, esti- 
 mate by Lieut. J. T. Thompson, Ord Dept. 
 
 U. S. A $3,500 .00 
 
 Cash value from The Oakwoods Cemetery Ass'n, Chicago. . . . 557-78 
 
 " Palmer House (estimate) 600.00 
 
 " Cohen &Co., Cincinnati, O., printing, etc. (est.) 300.00 
 
 " Rand, McNally & Co., Chicago (estimate).. 200.00 
 
 " Western Bank Note Company, Chicago.... 85.00 
 
 " Arthur Dixon Transfer Company, Chicago. . 79.00 
 
 " " R. H Stewart, Chicago 63.90 
 
 " Leroy Payne, Chicago 60.00 
 
 " " " R. L. France, Jr., Chicago (estimate) 30.00 
 
 " " " Chattanooga Car and Foundry Company, 
 
 Chattanooga, Tenn 25 . oo 
 
 Cash value from E W. Blatchford & Co. , Chicago 21 . 58 
 
 " " " Adams and Southern Express Companies(est.) 50.00 
 
 " " ' Jacob, Coles & Co , Chicago 10.00 
 
 A L Fife, Chicago 10.00 
 
 " " " Baltimore & Ohio Railroad (estimate) 750.00 
 
 C. C. C & St. L (Big Four) R'y (estimate). 400.00 
 
 " Illinois Central Railroad (estimate) 250.00 
 
 " Cincinnati Southern Railway (Queen and 
 
 Crescent Route) (estimate). 200.00 
 
 Cash value from L. N. A & C. R'y (Monon) (estimate) 100.00 
 
 C. & E. L, L. & N., N C. & St L., and 
 
 W. & A Railroads (estimate) 200.00 
 
 Cash value from Southern R'y, Cent. R. R. of Ga., A & 
 
 W. P. and M. K. & T. Railroads (estimate) 150.00 
 
 Cash value from Pullman Palace Car Company (estimate). . . 300.00 $7,942.26 
 
 Carried forward to recapitulation table $7,942 . 26 
 
 DISBURSEMENTS. 
 
 (BALANCED ENTRIES.) 
 BY CR. 
 
 Ordnance from United States government $3,500.00 
 
 Tablet, etc., Chattanooga Car and Foundry Co. . $25.00 
 Sundry Servicas from Oakwoods Cemetery Asso- 
 ciation 557 . 78 
 
 Carried forward $582.78- $3,500.00
 
 269' 
 
 Brought forward $582 . 78 $3, 500 . oo 
 
 Printing supplies and rosters of dead by Cohen & 
 
 Co., Cincinnati 300.00 
 
 Donation off of bill of Western Bank Note Co. . . 85.00 
 
 " Rand, McNally & Co 200.00 
 
 " Payn^&Co 60.00 
 
 " Arthur Dixon Company ... 79.00 
 
 R. H. Stewart, donating cash paid for rosters. . . 63.90 
 
 R. L France, Jr., donating services copying 
 
 rosters 30.00 
 
 E. W. Blatchford & Co., lead filling shdls, etc. . 21.58 
 
 Jacob Coles & Co., credit donation on bill 10.00 
 
 A. L. Fife, credit donation on bill 10.00 1,442.26 
 
 Complimentary transportation and entertainment 
 estimates: 
 
 Baltimore & Ohio Railroad 750.00 
 
 C. C. C. & St. L. (Big Four) Railway 400.00 
 
 Illinois Central Railroad 250.00 
 
 Cincinnati Southern R'y (Queen & Crescent). 200.00 
 
 L. N. A. & C. Railway (Monon) 100.00 
 
 C. & E. I., L. & N., N. C. & St. L and 
 
 W. A. Railroads 200 . oo 
 
 Southern R'y, Central Railroad of Georgia, 
 
 A. & W. P. and M. K. & T. Railroads. . 150.00 
 Adams and Southern Express Companies. . . 50.00 
 
 Pullman Palace Car Company 300.00 
 
 Palmer House 600.00 3,000.100 $7,942.26 
 
 Carried forward to recapitulation table $7,942 . 26 
 
 The balanced donations as above are absolute amounts by receipted bills or credits 
 
 on bills, and in estimates, by a United States army officer, prominent general passenger 
 
 agent, and an experienced hotel manager. 
 
 RECAPITULATION. 
 
 RECEIPTS, 
 
 Ag. cols. thro. Spcl. Com $11,611.26 
 
 " by Cits. Com 5,094.00 
 
 " val. of donations ... 7,942.26 
 
 Grand total $24,647 . 52 
 
 DISBURSEMENTS. 
 
 Ag. exp. by Spcl. Com $11.611.26 
 
 " Cits. Com. $5, 018.08 
 Cash held by " " 75-92 5,094.00 
 
 Ag. val. of donations (balanced). 7,942.26 
 
 Grand total $24,647.52 
 
 Total receipts in cash and values $24, 647 . 52 
 
 Less cash on hand, reported by Secretary Cits. Committee 75-92 
 
 Entire cost of monument, dedication and demonstration . . $24, 571 . 60
 
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 COMMITTEE PLACED IN CHARGE OF THE MONUMENT. 
 
 HEADQUARTERS Div. NORTHWEST, U. C. V., 
 CHICAGO, May 30, 1895. 
 
 To Each of the Five Comrades Named in CommunicatioJi : 
 
 SIR AND COMRADE You are hereby appointed a member of the monument com- 
 mittee of five, to which the care of the Confederate monument, cannon, other ordnance 
 and burial plot in Oakwoods cemetery, this city, is specially intrusted and delegated. 
 All under the rules of the said cemetery and supervising control of the U. S. Army 
 officer having charge of the government lot. 
 
 The roster of the monument committee is as follows : Col. R. H. Stewart, Col. 
 Samuel J. Sullivan, Lieut. -Col R. Lee France, Lieut. -Col. Geo. Forrester, Lieut. -Col. 
 John W. White; all officers and past officers of Camp No. 8, U. C. V. 
 
 The committee is empowered with full authority to perpetuate itself, by filling 
 vacancies therein which may occur by death, removal from the city or, in fact, from 
 any cause. 
 
 The committee's actions shall be subject to inspection by the division commander 
 and other proper U. C. V. officers. 
 
 Special orders pertinent to this commission will issus and be promulgated. 
 
 In confidence and with command, 
 
 (Signed) JOHN C. UNDERWOOD, 
 
 Major-General, U. C. V. Commanding. 
 
 GENERAL THANKS. 
 
 The author desires to thus publicly thank the various contributors to the monument 
 and other funds: Chicago Camp No. 8, and other bodies of the United Confederate 
 Veteran Federation; the Sons of Veterans U. C. V.; various committees and ladies of 
 the south that secured flowers; the Chicago Citizens' committee of 130; the First regi- 
 ment infantry, "D" Battery Light Artillery, Chicago City Troop "C," I. N. G.; the 
 Black Hussars, independent cavalry; Columbia Post No. 706, G. A. R.; associated press 
 of the general country; Gen. D. W. Flagler, chief of ordnance, U. S. A.; Gen. J. D. Bing- 
 ham, Col. M. I. Ludington and Maj. F. H. Hathaway, quartermaster department, U. S. A.; 
 the Chicago Board of Trade, various clubs and theaters of Chicago, the Chamber of Com- 
 merce and Queen City club of Cincinnati; the commandant and officers at Fort Thomas, 
 Ky., and all others not specially thanked, for support and assistance, incidental to the 
 construction and dedication of the Confederate monument at Chicago, and the reception 
 and entertainment of the guests on the great occasion of the northern-southern 
 demonstration.
 
 271 
 
 OFFICIAL COMMUNICATIONS. 
 
 CONFEDERATE CEMETERY AT ROCK ISLAND, ILL. 
 
 OFFICE OF THE CHIEF OF ORDNANCE, 1 
 v- UNITED STATES ARMY, 
 
 WASHINGTON, D. C., February 26, 1895. ) 
 Gen. John C. Underwood, U. C. V. etc.: 
 
 MY DEAR GENERAL In compliance with your request that I give you a short 
 description of my work in grading and fitting up the Confederate Soldiers' cemetery at 
 Rock Island arsenal while that arsenal was under my command, I take pleasure in 
 stating as follows: 
 
 This cemetery consists of a plot of ground 263 feet 7 inches by 266 feet 7 inches, 
 as sho%vn on accompanying map, and the burials in it were the bodies of soldiers who 
 died from sickness and wounds from the hospital attached to the military prison on the 
 island of Rock Island during our civil war. There were 1,960 buried there. Many of 
 these burials were made during the extreme cold of winter, when the ground was frozen 
 to a depth of from three to four feet, and the difficulties of excavation had left the 
 ground quite rough. It had never been nicely graded before the burials. I took com- 
 mand of the arsenal in May 1871. The temporary board fence which had been built 
 around the plot of ground was at that time broken down. There was no appropriation 
 or fund with which this cemetery could be fitted up. I had the ground nicely graded, 
 seeded and sodded by my enlisted men. I then planted a Confederate cannon at each of 
 the four corners of the plot of ground and by ordinates measured from the axes of these 
 guns, determined the actual location of each grave, made a plat of the same, numbered each 
 grave on the plat, and prepared five lists of the dead, giving the same numbers on these 
 lists that are given on the plat, so that by obtaining the names of any of the dead, by the 
 corresponding number, the exact location of each man's grave can be determined upon 
 the plot. I then laid out a walk around the plot and made the fence by running an iron 
 chain on each side between the guns and supporting it by iron posts placed about twelve 
 feet apart, leaving the chain drooping between the posts. I also planted two rows of 
 trees around the plot, one on each side of the walk, and laid out a drive, by which visi- 
 tors could reach it and pass along one side of the cemetery. I took pains to keep the 
 cemetery in nice order during my fifteen years' command of the arsenal, and I believe 
 this attention to it has been continued since. Very sincerely yours, 
 
 (Signed) D. W. FLAGLER, 
 Brigadier-General, Chief of Ordnance, U. S. A. 
 
 COURTESIES. 
 
 FIRST REGIMENT INFANTRY, I. N. G. 
 
 CHICAGO, March 27, 1895. 
 Gen. John C. Underwood, Covington, Ky. : 
 
 DEAR SIR In reference to your invitation that myself and the First regiment 
 co-operate in the dedication ceremonies of the Confederate monument in Oakwoods 
 cemetery, and the reunion of prominent generals of both the Union and Confederate 
 service on May 30, 1895, I have to say that I shall be glad to place at your disposal a
 
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 volunteer company* from the regiment for service at the cemetery in the morning and 
 will personally assume responsibility for all details of the reception to be given the 
 visiting officers at the First regiment armory in the evening, including in the pro- 
 gram, if desired, a regimental parade. I should be glad to serve on your reception 
 committee. 
 
 That you may understand my action is not only authorized but approved by my 
 superior officers, I have to add that I hold approval from Adjt.-Gen. Orendorff and Gen. 
 Wheeler. Yours very truly, 
 
 (Signed) HENRY L. TURNER, 
 
 Colonel First Infantry I. A r . G . 
 
 FIRST SQUADRON CAVALRY, I. N. G. 
 
 CHICAGO CITY TROOP, / 
 
 CHICAGO, April 6, 1895. \ 
 Gen. John C. Underwood, City: 
 
 MY DEAR SIR I have the honor to tender to you the Chicago City Troop to act as 
 an escort to the distinguished Union and ex-Confederate generals, who will visit Chi- 
 cago, May 3oth, to participate in the dedication exercises at Oakwoods cemetery. 
 
 Trusting that the escort will be accepted, and assuring you that we shall feel greatly 
 honored thereby, believe me, my dear sir. Your most obedient servant, 
 
 (Signed) M. L. C. FUNKHOUSER, 
 
 Captain Commanding. 
 
 INDEPENDENT CAVALRY. 
 
 BLACK HUSSARS, 
 CHICAGO, April 15, 1895. 
 Gen. Underwood, City: 
 
 DEAR GENERAL On behalf of the Black Hussars of the City of Chicago, I hereby 
 tender their services as escort to you for service on the 3oth of May at the unveiling of 
 the ex-Confederate monument. Yours truly, 
 
 (Signed) L. M. COPE, (Signed) T. S. QUINCEY, 
 
 First Sergeant. Captain. 
 
 FIRST BATTALION ARTILLERY, I, N. G. 
 
 HEADQUARTERS 
 "D" BATTERY, LIGHT ARTILLERY, I. N. G. 
 
 CHICAGO, May, 1895. 
 Gen. John C. Underwood, Palmer House, City : 
 
 SIR I hereby tender the courtesy of firing a national salute from Lake Front park 
 on the morning of May 30, next, as the Confederate parade passes along Michigan 
 avenue en route to Oakwoods cemetery, to dedicate the monument over the southern 
 dead there buried. 
 
 I would be glad to fire the guns at the cemetery, but it will be impossible for me to 
 do so and return in time to take part in the memorial parade in the afternoon. 
 
 Very respectfully, 
 
 (Signed) ALFRED RUSSELL, 
 
 Captain Commanding. 
 
 *The entire regiment volunteered and fired three volleys over the Confederate dead in the 
 cemeterv.
 
 273 
 
 TRI-STATE VETERANS' ASSOCIATION. 
 
 OHIO, INDIANA, MICHIGAN, 
 
 Gov. J. B. FORAKER, Gov. ISAAC P. GRAY, Gov. R. A. ALGER, 
 
 Second Vice-President. President. First Vice-President. 
 
 COLONEL J. W. YOUNGE, 
 Adjutant- General. 
 
 FORT WAYNE, Ind., May 19, 1895. 
 
 Gen. John C. Underwood, Chicago, III. : 
 
 DEAR SIR I have the honor to respectfully inform you that I have been requested 
 by the Tri-State Veterans' Association, to be present at the unveiling of the monument 
 at Chicago, May 3oth, in honor of the Confederate dead, as the representative of the 
 above association. Their fortitude, privations, courage and bravery merit our respect. 
 Braver men never drew a saber or shouldered a musket than the Confederate soldiers. 
 They were Americans, and that covers all. 
 
 I propose arriving at Chicago Wednesday night, on train No. 7, via P. Ft. W. & 
 C. R. R. (2gth instant.) Where will your headquarters be Thursday morning? 
 
 (Signed) J. W. YOUNGE, 
 Adjutant-General Tri-State Veterans' Association. 
 
 CHICAGO VETERAN ASSOCIATION, 
 
 HEADQUARTERS, 
 CHICAGO VETERAN ASSOCIATION, 
 
 CHICAGO, May 24, 1895. 
 Gen. John C. Underwood, City: 
 
 DEAR SIR The Chicago Veteran Association will hold memorial services in 
 Oakwoods cemetery at their lot, on Decoration Day, May 30, 1895, at 11:00 a. m., sharp. 
 Immediately thereafter they will proceed to the Confederate lot and decorate the graves 
 of the Confederate soldiers there interred. The association will also place near the 
 monument of the Confederate dead a magnificent floral cross, eight feet high. This 
 association has for the past fourteen years decorated the Confederate graves in Oakwoods 
 cemetery, and, in 1884, had a mound of flowers forty feet by twenty feet, upon the 
 Confederate lot, with the words "Confederate Dead." This association is heartily in 
 favor of your work, in erecting a monument in honor of brave men, and we hereby 
 pledge to you our support and sympathy. 
 
 We remain most respectfully yours, 
 
 (Signed) C. J. ANDREWS, 
 
 Secretary Chicago Veteran Association. 
 
 DECORATING COMMITTEE. 
 
 CHICAGO, June 15, 1895. 
 Gen. John C. Underwood, Major-General Commanding U. C. V.: 
 
 MY DEAR GENERAL The following is a list of the ladies and gentlemen who 
 assisted in the work of decorating on May 2gth, at Oakwoods cemetery: 
 
 Mesdames Walter F. Moring, Charles Ingrain, John P. Fitzgerald, R. Lee France, 
 S. H. Richardson, Tilden, Bailey, McChesney, Nalle, Linde. 
 Misses Cora Moring, Alice Carbin. 
 Comrades J. S. Busk, W. B. Phipps, E. G. Leitch, Bennett. 
 
 Very truly your comrade, 
 
 (Signed) B. F. JENKINS, 
 
 Major and A. D. C.
 
 274 
 
 ENDORSEMENT OF THE PROPOSED CHICAGO 
 SOUTHERN MOVEMENT. 
 
 CHICAGO, June n, 1895. 
 
 In consequence of the great success of Chicago's late friendly demonstration toward 
 the southern states, through the very cordial reception and hospitable entertainment of 
 distinguished military representatives therefrom, because of the favor and good feeling 
 in which Chicago is held throughout the entire south, and with the purpose of strength- 
 ening such reciprocal good will, Gen. John C. Underwood's plan for the business firms 
 of the city to send to the Cotton States' exposition at Atlanta, the middle to last of 
 October, a large delegation of classified representatives, to be accompanied by the 
 Directory of the late Columbian exposition, and all under the escort of the First 
 regiment infantry, I. N. G. is heartily approved. 
 
 THEREFORE, the undersigned agree to lend their aid toward furthering such move- 
 ment, with the immediate view of constituting a general committee as a basis for 
 subsequent organization and determination of collective and special interests, plans to 
 be perfected hereafter, and will endeavor to attend a preliminary meeting on call. 
 
 THE PRESS. 
 
 H. H. Kohlsaat, The Times- Her -aid and Evening Post. 
 
 R. A. Patterson, The Chicago Tribune. 
 
 Wm. Penn Nixon, The Chicago Inter Ocean. 
 
 Victor F. Lawson, The Chicago Reco rd and Evening News. 
 
 H. W. Seymour, The Chronicle. 
 
 Melville E. Stone, Associated Press. 
 
 John R. Wilson, The Journal. 
 
 F. C. Pierce, Chicago Evening Journal. 
 
 Joseph R. Dunlop, The Dispatch. 
 
 PUBLIC OFFICIALS. 
 
 His Honor, Geo. B. Swift, Mayor of Chicago. 
 
 Maj.-Gen Alfred Orendorff, Adjutant-General State of Illinois. 
 
 Brig. -Gen. Harris A. Wheeler, First brigade I. N. G. 
 
 Col. Henry L. Turner, First Regiment infantry, I. N. G. 
 
 BANKERS AND CAPITALISTS. 
 
 Lyman J. Gage, First National Bank. 
 
 John J. Mitchell, Illinois Trust and Savings Bank. 
 
 John R. Walsh, Chicago National Bank. 
 
 C. L. Hutchinson, Corn Exchange Bank. 
 
 G. B. Shaw, American Trust and Savings Bank.
 
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 Ferdinand W. Peck, Capitalist. 
 E. F. Lawrence, Capitalist. 
 Clarence I. Peck, Capitalist. 
 J. J. P. Odell, Union National Bank. 
 
 E. S. Lacey, Bankers' National Bank. 
 Chauncev J. Blair, Merchants' National Bank. 
 John W. King. Fort Dearborn National Bank. 
 Byron L. Smith, Northern Trust Company. 
 William A. Giles, Capitalist. 
 
 Francis B. Peabody, Banker. 
 
 Henry W. Leman, Title and Trust Company. 
 
 Chas. L. Willoughby, Capitalist, and of Willoughby, Hill & Co 
 
 Winston & Co., Bankers and Brokers. 
 
 F. H. Winston, Capitalist. 
 Robt. Law, Capitalist. 
 
 GRAIN, COMMISSION AND BOARD OF TRADE. 
 
 Charles Counselman of Chas. Counselman & Co. 
 
 Carrington, Hannah & Co. 
 
 Lloyd J. Smith. 
 
 L. W. Bodman. 
 
 Francis J. Kenneth. 
 
 R. W. Dunham. 
 
 U. T. Wright. 
 
 Calumet Grain & Elevator Co. 
 
 Wm. T. Baker. 
 
 W. P. McCabe. 
 
 J. H. Osborne. 
 
 Geo. T. Essix. 
 
 Theo. R. Wright. 
 
 H. W. Rogers. 
 
 William J. Doe. 
 
 P. B. Weare. 
 
 C. S. Bentley. 
 
 W. H. Crocker. 
 
 John Hill, Jr. 
 
 F. M. Scofield. 
 
 B. A. Eckhart. 
 
 E. A. Bigelow. 
 
 S G. Lynn. 
 
 Harry Raymond. 
 
 James Crighton. 
 
 W, S. Seavsrns. 
 
 Frank Marshall. 
 
 Israel P. Rumsey. 
 
 S. A. Scribner. 
 
 J. H. Hurlbut. 
 
 J. W. Richard. 
 
 Jno. J. Bryant. 
 
 Ira S. Isadore, 
 
 James Carrathers. 
 
 Buell Grain Company. 
 
 Wm. J. Pope. 
 
 Chas. T. Raymond. 
 
 Star Crescent Milling Co. 
 
 Geo. W. Stone. 
 
 Wm. H. Harpsr. 
 Ernest F. Smith. 
 F. L. Stevens. 
 J. H. Norton. 
 W. S. Booth. 
 C. W. Requa. 
 W. C. Erwin & Co. 
 Gilbert Montague. 
 John C. Nately. 
 Wm. B. Andrews. 
 John Cudahy. 
 A. W. Green. 
 Henry Batford. 
 John Gaynor. 
 F. S. Hanson. 
 J. H. Wilbury. 
 Roswell P. Fish. 
 E B. Baldwin. 
 
 Swift & Co. 
 
 PACKERS. 
 
 A. H Veeder. 
 
 A. Booth Packing Company. 
 
 Libby, McNeill & Libby. 
 
 GROCERS. 
 
 A. A. Sprague. Sprague, Warner & Co. 
 
 W. M. Hoyt & Co. 
 
 John A. Tolman Company. 
 
 Franklin MacVeagh & Co. 
 
 Reid, Murdoch & Co. 
 
 C. Jevne & Co. (Otto C. Ericson).
 
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 CONFECTIONER. 
 C. F. Gunther. 
 
 Alfred Russell & Co. 
 John Muir. 
 Wayne Low. 
 A. H Barber. 
 Wm. Martin & Co. 
 S. R. Udell & Co. 
 
 COMMISSION, FRUITS AND PRODUCE. 
 
 Washington Porter of Porter Bros. 
 
 C. W. Cornell. J. F. Fish & Co. 
 
 J. H. Johnston & Co. T. S. Randall & Co. 
 
 Earl Bros. A. H. Weaver & Co. 
 
 Price & Keith. E. R. Baker. 
 
 A. A. Kennard & Co. A. C Dow & Co. 
 
 John A. Palmer & Co. 
 
 Merrill & Eldredge. 
 
 Barnett Bros. 
 E. A. Roser & Co. 
 
 DRY GOODS. 
 
 H. N. Higinbotham of Marshall Field & Co. 
 Jno. G. Shedd of Marshall Field & Co. 
 Harry G. Self ridge of Marshall Field & Co 
 A. L. Bell of Marshall Field & Co. 
 John E. Scott of Carson, Pirie, Scott & Co. 
 
 A. McLeish of Carson, Pirie, Scott & Co. 
 A. M. Rothschild of A. M. Rothschild & Co. 
 David Mayer of Schlesinger & Mayer. 
 E. Mandel of Mandel Bros. 
 Siegel, Cooper & Co., per F. H. Cooper. 
 
 Chas. B. Farwell of J. V. Farwell & Co. 
 
 BOOTS AND SHOES. 
 
 C. M. Henderson & Co., by Martin Howard 
 
 M. D. Wells & Co. Selz, Schwab & Co. 
 
 Phelps, Dodge & Palmer Company C. H. Fargo & Co. 
 
 Geo. W. Ludlow Company, C. N. Black, treasurer. 
 
 CLOTHIERS. 
 
 Henry W. King & Co. L. C Wachsmuth & Co. 
 
 E. Rothschild & Bros. Cahn, Wampold & Co. 
 
 Guthman, Ullman & Silverman. H. G 
 
 Ederheimer, Stein & Co 
 Kahn Bros. 
 Purinton, merchant tailor. 
 
 CLOAKS. 
 Griswold, Palmer & Co. B. Israel & Co. 
 
 F. Siegel & Bros. 
 
 HATS, CAPS, GLOVES AND STRAW GOODS. 
 Keith Brothers & Co. Bush, Simmons & Co. Sweet, Dempster & Co. 
 
 MILLINERY 
 
 Edson, Keith & Co. 
 
 D. B. Fisk & Co.
 
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 FURNITURE AND HOUSE FURNISHINGS. 
 
 Alexander H. Revell of A. H. Revell & Co. . 
 
 Frank B. Tobey of the Tobey Furniture Company. ^ 
 
 A. H. Andrews of A. H. Andrews & Co. J. S. Ford, Johnson & Co. 
 
 GOLD AND SILVERWARE, JEWELRY AND PRECIOUS STONES. 
 
 Spaulding & Co , by Lloyd Miller, Treas. Hyman, Berg & Co. 
 
 C. K. Giles of Giles Bros. & Co. 
 
 CHINA AND POTTERY. 
 Burley & Tyrell. Pitkin & Brooks. 
 
 PAINTS, OILS, VARNISHES, ETC. 
 
 F. W. Devoe & C. T. Raynolds Co. Heath & Milligan Manufacturing Company. 
 
 D. R. Armstrong & Co. 
 
 DECORATORS. 
 
 The Almini Company, by Col. R. H. Stewart. J. G. McCarthy. 
 
 Chicago Decorating Company, Geo. Mart, Treas. 
 
 MACHINERY. 
 
 William J. Chalmers of Fraser & Chalmers. 
 
 McCormick Harvesting Machine Company. 
 
 Heine Safety Boiler Company, by Jas. H. Harris. 
 
 CARRIAGE MANUFACTURERS. 
 Jas. J. Andrews of C. P. Kimball Company. 
 
 HARDWARE. 
 Hibbard, Spencer, Bartlett & Co. Orr & Lockett Hardware Company. 
 
 BOOKS, STATIONERY, PRINTING. 
 
 A. C. McClurg & Co. Andrew McNally of Rand, McNally & Co. 
 
 William H. Rand of Rand, McNally & Co. T. C. Haynes of Rand, McNally & Co. 
 Western Publishing House, by H. L. Turner, President. 
 
 PAPER MANUFACTURERS AND DEALERS. 
 George H. Taylor & Co. J. W. Butler Paper Company.
 
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 MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS. 
 
 W. W. Kimball Company. Lyon & Healy. 
 
 Lyon, Potter & Co. (C. A. Potter.) 
 
 GUNS, TACKLE, WHEELS AND EVERY CHARACTER OF SPORTING GOODS. 
 
 A. G. Spalding & Bros. 
 Gormully & Jeffery Manufacturing Company, R. Philip Gormully, President. 
 
 ARCHITECTS. 
 Henry Ives Cobb. W. W. Boyington & Co. 
 
 FIREWORKS. 
 Consolidated Fireworks Company of America. 
 
 REAL ESTATE. 
 
 Dunlap Smith, Pres't Real Estate Board. 
 W. T. Block of Grant Land Association. 
 
 Louis A. Seeberger. 
 B. F. Jacobs. 
 Byron A. Baldwin & 
 R. L. Martin. 
 Jay Dwiggins. 
 W. M. Baker. 
 Edwin F. Getchell. 
 Josiah L. Lombard. 
 John A. Doherty. 
 Eugene H. Fishburn 
 Geo. L. Warner. 
 Winston & Co. 
 
 James H. Van Vlissingen. 
 W.W.Baird of Baird & Warner. 
 Co. Isaac F. Rubel. 
 
 Knott, Lewis & Co. 
 
 W. D. Kerfoot Company. 
 
 Cuthbert W. Laing. 
 
 R E Ismond. 
 
 E. C. Crane. 
 
 R. W. Hyman. 
 
 C. L. Hammond. 
 
 S. Wilmer Farwell. 
 
 S. E. Gross. 
 
 Malcom McNeill. 
 H. S. Dietrich. 
 Eugene A. Bornique. 
 Edward S. Hyman. 
 William A. Bond. 
 B. R. De Young. 
 Frederick S. Oliver. 
 Walter H. Wilson. 
 V. H. Surghnor. 
 P. L. Garrity. 
 W. H. Cairnduff. 
 
 John S Cooper. 
 Samuel B. Foster. 
 
 LAWYERS. 
 
 F. H. Wintson. 
 
 Jno. J. Knickerbocker. 
 
 Henry W. Leman. 
 
 MINISTERS OF THE GOSPEL. 
 
 Rt. Rev. Samuel Fallows, LL. D., Bishop Reformed Episcopal Church. 
 Rev. H. W. Bolton, D. D., Pastor Centenary M. E. Church. 
 Rev. Hiram W. Thomas, D. D., Pastor People's Church. 
 Rev. Jenkin Lloyd Jones, D. D., Pastor All Souls Church.
 
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 HOTELS. 
 Palmer House, Col. H. T. Brien. Mgr. 
 
 INSURANCE. 
 
 R. A. Waller. M. L. C. Funkhouser. W. A. Alexander. 
 
 Thos. S. Quincey. 
 
 DAIRY. 
 
 Central Creamery Company. 
 
 TRANSPORTATION COMPANY. 
 Gen. Joseph Stockton. 
 
 LUMBER. 
 Francis Beidler of Francis Beidler & Co. 
 
 GAS AND ELECTRIC FIXTURES. 
 C. A. Vosburgh, Mgr., W. C. Vosburgh Manufacturing Company. 
 
 PLATE GLASS. 
 Geo. F. Kimball of Geo. F. Kimball & Co. 
 
 CONTRACTOR. 
 Geo. C. Prussing. 
 
 SURVEYORS. 
 Samuel S. Greeley of Greeley-Carlson Company. 
 
 RAWHIDES. 
 The Chicago Rawhide Manufacturing Company, Wm. H. Preble, Secretary. 
 
 NEWSPAPER ADVERTISING. 
 Lord & Thomas. D. M. Lord.
 
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 CHICAGO, June 15, 1895. 
 Gen. John C. Underwood, Palmer House, Chicago: 
 
 DEAR SIR In reply to the questions you submit to me as to the feasibility of getting 
 representative bodies here in Chicago to attend the Cotton States' exposition that is to 
 be held at Atlanta, Ga., to visit said exposition during the month of October, I wish to 
 state that I am heartily in favor of such a movement, and would be very glad indeed to 
 see the directors and ex-directors of our World's Columbian exposition, also the repre- 
 sentatives of our great commercial interests, and also to have accompany such represen- 
 tative bodies some of our military, I think would be a most excellent thing, and I 
 certainly would lend all the aid I could in my humble way in furthering such an 
 enterprise. 
 
 I wish to state right here that I had a little experience with the Southern Con- 
 federacy from 1862 to 1865 and, I to-day, have a bullet in my possession that passed 
 through my left shoulder. I want to state, general, that I bear no malice. I consider 
 the war ended and all malice and everything pertaining thereto should be buried, and I 
 am most happy to join and do everything I can in any movement that will forever obliter- 
 ate any feeling, except that of brotherly love and the greatest possible harmony between 
 the north and the south, and I willingly will take pleasure in doing anything I can to 
 help you further the movement in the interest of the Cotton States' exposition. I am, 
 
 Yours very truly, 
 (Signed) WASHINGTON PORTER. 
 
 H. L. TURNER & Co., BANKERS, ETC. \ 
 CHICAGO, ILLINOIS. ) 
 
 [Extract from letter of June 15, 1895.] 
 Gen. John C. Underwood, Palmer House, Chicago; 
 
 DEAR SIR Your letter of June nth, addressed to Mr. Peck and myself, duly 
 received. 
 
 From the multitude of cordial expressions which have come to me personally from 
 different parts of the south, I am convinced that your statement that the south is just at 
 this time especially friendly to this city, is wholly true. I believe that your suggestion 
 for a convention at Atlanta between the business men of Chicago and of the south, could 
 be made of great and direct financial interest to this city. I am further convinced that the 
 especially warm feeling of the entire south toward the First regiment, for its outspoken 
 and unhesitating co-operation in the recent dedication of the Confederate monument in 
 this city, is so ardent that its services as escort would insure an overwhelming reception 
 to the party. ****** 
 
 [Letter of July 2, 1895.] 
 Gen. John C. Underwood, Palmer House, Chicago: 
 
 DEAR SIR In reply to your inquiry as to the possibility of taking the First regiment 
 to Atlanta in the latter part of October or the ist of November next, I have to say that 
 provided a sufficient interest is manifested by the business men of the city to secure the 
 consent of employers to allow the men to go, and provided the regiment is put to no 
 expense, I will take the regiment, numbering probably about seven hundred officers and 
 men, with bugle and drum corps of about forty pieces, with full equipment, .both fatigue 
 and full dress uniform and will give such parades, reviews, and exhibition drills as you 
 may deem desirable. Yours very truly, 
 
 (Signed) HENRY L. TURNER, 
 
 Colonel First Infantry, I. N . G.
 
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 PERSONAL TO THE AUTHOR. 
 PRISONER. 
 
 [From the Files in the Record and Pension Office, War Department, Washington, D. C.] 
 
 UNITED STATES PENSION AGENCY, ) 
 LOUISVILLE, KY., March 17, 1894. ) 
 To Whom It May Concern: 
 
 This is to certify that my command, the Seventeenth Kentucky (Federal) cavalry, 
 was stationed in southern Kentucky during the fall and summer of 1864, and spring of 
 1865, with headquarters at Bowling Green. I, therefore, became acquainted with 
 ex-Lieut. -Gov. John C. Underwood, then a young man, and a prisoner on parole. Mr. 
 Underwood, though a son of Judge Joseph R. Underwood, an influential Union man, 
 espoused the cause of the south, and was reported to have gone to Richmond, Va., in 
 the summer "of 1862. Upon the retreat of Bragg's army from Tullahoma, Tenn., the 
 spring of 1863, young Underwood was captured, sick, with typhoid fever, and brought in 
 a feeble condition to Bowling Green, Ky., during the early summer of that year; and, 
 while convalescing, reported to Col. Maxwell, at the time commandant of that post. 
 John C. Underwood was the only Confederate of his family, and notwithstanding the 
 strong Federal influence possessed by his father and his family ties, he refused to take 
 the oath of allegiance to the United States and succeeded in obtaining an order to be 
 put through the Federal lines into the so-called Confederate States. 
 
 He claimed to be a citizen of Virginia, but the army people suspected him of hold- 
 ing a commission in the Confederate army. Pursuant with the order for him to be put 
 through the Confederate lines south, he was sent to Nashville, Tenn., and for some rea- 
 son Gen. Granger would not pass him through his lines, and, consequently returned him 
 to Bowling Green, and he was sent to Louisville, Ky., and placed in prison, afterward 
 taken to the military prison in Cincinnati, Ohio, where he remained for some months 
 and was finally sent to Fort Warren, Boston harbor, the latter part of October, 1863, and 
 confined there until released on parole some time during the last of the summer of 1864. 
 
 I have always understood by the influence of his father's friends, Hon. Thomas C. 
 Corwin of Ohio, and Senator Chas. Sumner of Massachusetts, he secured his release, 
 President Lincoln directing the secretary of war to specially parole him. Anyway, his 
 parole required him "not to enter an insurgent state during the war without permission 
 from the secretary of war." 
 
 He was reported to have gone direct from Fort Warren to Washington to try to 
 effect his way south, and it was also stated that the Confederate commissioner of 
 exchange had proffered to make a special exchange for him, but failing in such purpose 
 he came to Bowling Green about August or September, 1864, when I commanded 
 the post. He was then, and ever, a pronounced Confederate and was very restless 
 under restraint; and some time during the fall of 1864, he again went to Washington, 
 hoping to obtain the desired exchange, but failing, returned and said that his friends 
 who helped him out of prison would not assist toward affecting his exchange that he 
 might go south 
 
 He refused and spurned every proposition to take the oath, though it would have 
 been greatly to his personal advantage to have done so, and he was so ultra in his
 
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 southern expressions that during an interview after the assassination of President 
 Lincoln angry words passed between us. He again went to Washington, I think in 
 February, 1865, to attempt his exchange, but did not succeed, and returning, was even 
 more pronounced in his southern sentiments, and was true to his cause to the end. 
 
 (Signed) T. W. CAMPBELL, 
 
 Late Lieutenant-Colonel Seventeenth Kentucky Cavalry, 
 and commandant post at Bowling Green, Ky. 
 
 OFFICIAL. COPY: ") 
 
 By authority of the Secretary of War. 
 
 (Signed) F. C. AINSWORTH, 
 
 Col., U. S. A., Chief of Office. 
 
 MILITARY POSITIONS 
 
 MARCUS J. WRIGHT, 
 Agent for the Collection of Confederate Records. 
 
 WAR RECORDS OFFICE, 
 
 WAR DEPARTMENT, 
 
 WASHINGTON, D. C., February 25, 1895. 
 Col yohn C. Underwood, Covington, Ky.; 
 
 MY DEAR COLONEL I have to inform you that the records of the Confederate army 
 show that you commenced your service in the Confederate army as a staff officer of Gen. 
 S. B. Buckner, and subsequently you were appointed a *lieutenant of engineers in the 
 Confederate States army, and afterward an appointment was made by the secretary of 
 war of the Confederate States, making George B. Hodge a colonel, and you a {lieuten- 
 ant-colonel, to raise troops for the Confederate army. This was in May, 1863. You 
 were afterward captured by the Federal army while very sick, and that your application 
 for exchange was refused by Secretary Stanton; that you were imprisoned in Louisville, 
 Ky., and in Cincinnati, and finally taken to Fort Warren, Boston harbor, where you 
 remained a prisoner nearly a year, and were specially paroled in July, 1864, and on leav- 
 ing Fort Warren you want to Washington, endeavoring to effect your exchange, which 
 was refused. Very respectfully yours, 
 
 (Signed) , MARCUS J. WRIGHT, 
 
 Agent of the War Department. 
 
 ENDORSEMENTS. 
 
 Considering the high military source of the statement, it is pardon- 
 able to make public the following: 
 
 Gen. Longstreet, on taking the southern train at Cincinnati, the 
 evening of June 2, 1895, while parting with the author, was so consid- 
 erate and kind as to say, in substance: "I regret you were captured 
 early and had not an important command during the war, for had such 
 been the case I believe you could and would have rendered valuable 
 
 *On recommendations from Maj.-Gen. S. B Buckner, C. S. A., Hon. T. H. Watts of Ala., attorney 
 general C. S., Col. G. W. C. Lee of President Davis' staff, and others. 
 
 " When a young man Lieut. -Gov. Underwood, then a lieutenant of engineers in the Confederate 
 army, served in my command. He proved efficient in the discharge of his duties." * * * * 
 
 March 6, 1893. (Signed) " S. B. BUCKNER." 
 
 tBy direction of President Davis, through instructions conveyed to Mr. Seddon, secretary of war 
 C. S., by Col. Wm. Preston Johnston of the president's staff.
 
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 service to the Confederacy; " and, subsequently, in answer to a letter 
 of thanks for his favorable opinion, he replied with this communication: 
 
 Gen. y. C. Underwood, Covington, Ky.: 
 
 MY DEAR SIR The system and. order with which you managed the large number of 
 visitors and spectators during the ceremonies of unveiling the monument to the Confed- 
 erate dead at Chicago on the 3oth of May last suggested to my mind the great advantage 
 of such order and system, could we have had it in the Confederate army during the 
 year or two of its last service in the field. 
 
 I am pleased to so state in thanking you for your untiring attentions during our 
 travels going to and returning from Chicago. Very truly yours, 
 
 (Signed) JAMES LONGSTREET. 
 
 VETERAN CORPS, 
 
 FIRST REGIMENT INFANTRY I. N. G. 
 CHICAGO, February 13, 1896. 
 
 Gen. John C. Underwood, Major-General Commanding United Confederate Veterans, 
 Room 4, 260 Clark street. City : 
 
 DEAR GENERAL At the annual meeting of the Veteran corps of the First regi- 
 ment infantry I. N. G., held at the armory on Monday evening, February 10, 1896, 
 after the historian read his report, on motion of Comrade Lawrence M. Ennis the 
 following resolution was unanimously adopted: 
 
 "Be it Resolved by the members of the Veteran corps of the First regiment 
 infantry I. N. G., at its annual meeting, that the thanks of this corps are due and are 
 hereby tendered to Gen. John C. Underwood for his energetic and enthusiastic efforts 
 which resulted in the dedication of the monument to the Confederate dead at Oakwoods 
 cemetery, Chicago, last Memorial Day, and the subsequent visit of the First regiment 
 infantry I. N. G. to Atlanta and the cities of the south." 
 
 I am yours very truly. 
 
 (Signed) FRED. N. SARGENT, 
 
 Secretary. 
 
 THE BEGINNING OF THE END. 
 
 As the result of Chicago's hospitable demonstration toward the 
 renowned ex-Confederate officers and other distinguished southern 
 visitors on the occasion of the dedication of the Confederate monument 
 in Oakwoods cemetery, May 30, 1895, the First regiment infantry, 
 I. N. G. , made a tour through several southern states, and such was its 
 enthusiastic reception by the people as it "marched through Georgia," 
 that the seed for burying the hatchet of the sixties has been thoroughly 
 sown. On the streets of Augusta, company M, Capt. Edw. W. Switzer, 
 commanding, fired volleys over the imaginary grave of the unpleasant 
 past. As the smoke from its rifles arose and became lost in the balmy 
 atmosphere of the southern clime, so should the misunderstandings,
 
 hatreds and strifes of the belligerent era be made to vanish and recollec- 
 tions be cherished only, of the honorable, valiant and noble deeds of the 
 contending elements of the country. Let the sod be turned with 
 bayonets, all wrongs buried 'neath their arch of steel; let dissensions 
 disperse and disappear as smoke, and ever recollect and herald the 
 chivalrous attainments and soldierly prowess of the opposing forces of 
 the two sections, now at peace, reunited and welded with bonds of interest 
 and love. The sun rising clear, in a cloudless sky, by its golden light 
 illuminates the bright future of the Nation.
 
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