Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 June 1892 — TO THE PATRIOT DEAD. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

TO THE PATRIOT DEAD.

STATUES OF HEROES IN MARBLE AND BRONZE. A Week Made Memorable by the Unveiling of Many Monuments—“High-Water-Mari” Memorial Service* at Gettysburg —People of Prominence Present. Shaft* to Tlielr Memory. Time Is lending its halo as the years increase the perspective of those troublous times, times when “troops of heroes undistinguished died,” and we of a later generation are arising more and more to that worship, ever the incentive to a fresh love of country, which a later generation showed for Washington, for Wellington, for Blueher, or in the dimmer past for an Arnold Winkelried. On

Decoration Day three monuments of especial note were unveiled, and later in the week another was dedicated on the field of the battle of Gettysburg. All of these unveilings this year were made occasions of note, occasions for the outpouring of a younger generation's gratitude and appreciation. At Richmond the men who fought under Gen. A. P. Hill revealed the marble presentment of the Southern hero to the public eye. At Lenox, Mass., the statue of a revolutionary hero, Gen. Paterson, was unveiled, and at Rochester the denizens of that entire section of the State listened to what the orators of the day said in praise of the soldiers who fell in the civil war. Then came the capstone of the week’s events, the dedication of the “High-Water Mark” monument at Gettysburg on the very spot where Hail’s and Harrow’s brigade attacked Longstreet’s column on July 3, 1863. Tli© Rochester Monument. The monument at Rochester is splendidly designed and is the outcome of a movement started nearly twenty years ago by citizens of that place. It is nearly forty-three feet in height, witli a ground base twenty-two feet square. The base of the monument rises about eleven feet above this and the shaft is a magnificent piece of solid granite about ten feet in height. At the four corners of the base are bronze figures emblematic of the four departments of the servioe—the cavalry, the artillery, the infantry and the navy. These are of heroic size. The sides of the monument bear appropriate bas-reliefs. Hill Monument, Richmond. At Richmond, the ceremonies attending the unveiling of the Gen. A. P. Hill

monument took on the nature of a State celebration. Col. W. H. Palmer, Gsn. Harry Heth, and other officers under Hill raised the fund for this marble and bronze embodiment, and they took a prominent part in the services. Gen. •lames A. Walker, of Wytheville, Ya., was the orator of the day, and General Harry Heth the Chief Marshal. The widow and two daughters of Gen. Hill attended the unveiling. The Governor and staff had seats of honor. At the unveiling all the civic organizations of the county took part. Among the noted guests were Secretary of War Elkins and Frederick Douglass. At Gettysburg. “High-Water Mark” Monument receives its name from the old copse of scrub-oak trees on Cemetery Ridge at Gettysburg, where the Confederate army began its retreat on that fateful July 3. It was the "high-water mark" of the rebellion, and from the moment that Longstreet fell back dates the decline of the Confederate cause. The Monument Association has inclosed the copse of trees with a high Iron fence to protect it from relic-hunters. The

monument stands on the east side of the copse and was erected by the States of Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Delaware, Pennsylvania, West Virgiania, Ohio, Michigan and Minnesota. Troops from all of these States fought and repulsed the famous assault. An open bronze book surmounts the monument. It weighs 1,272 pounds and is supported by a pyramid of cannon balls. The left page bears a legend describing the as3#nit and that on the right tells of the

repulse. The whole rests on a highly polished plinth and base of Maine and Massachusetts granite with a massive weter table of Gettysburg granite. The dedication services excelled in interest any that have yet taken place on the famous battle-field. The Huckley Gift Uncovered. ' At Muskegon, Mich., the soldiers’ monument erected by Charles H. Hackley was unveiled and the entire city turned out in honor of the event. The monument is seventy-five feet high and of pink Rhode Island granite. It rests on a base of several steps, the lower one ! thirty-four feet square. Upon the four | corners of the pedestal are placed bronze figures, each seven feet six inches in height, representing respectively privates in the navy, artillery, infantry, and cavalry service. The shaft is surmounted by a bronze figure of victory holding alolt a flag, the figure fourteen feet in height. Unveiled at Farmington. Arnid the music of two bands and a large chorus of voices, the eloquence of native orators, and the plaudits of the people, the line soldiers’ monument was unveiled at larmington, 111., in the presence of soldiers, sons of veterans, and citizens from a 1 the countryaround. Farmington, the first tov,n in lutton County to respond to the call to arms in 1861, was, in 1892, the first to testify its regard for the defenders of the Union. The monument was presented to the soldiers by Mayor Brown on behalf of the citizens, and was dedicated by the local Grand Army post. In Memory of Pa ter non. To Dr. Thomas Egleston is due most of the credit for the splendid monument which w r as dedicated at Lenox in memory of Gen. John Paterson. He is a grandson of that revolutionary hero and, together with other members of his family, fyas secured the erection of a fitting monument in the heart of Lenox and near the spot where the hero onoe resided. The bronze presentment of the General stands upon a granite shaft on which is engraved the story Of his active life, of his school-days at Yale, his work in the Provincial Congress of 1774 and 1775 and of his quick response to the call to arms after the battle of Lexington. It tells that he crossed the Delaware with Washington, narrowly escaping death at Saratoga, and was

prominent in the council of Monmouth in 1778.

SOLDIERS' MONUMENT AT ROCHESTER.

UNVEILED AT RICHMOND.

HIGH-WATER MONUMENT AT GEITYSBURG.

MONUMENT AT LENOX, MASS.