Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 June 1895 — THEY MET IN PEACE. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

THEY MET IN PEACE.

ANIMOSITIES OF WAR BURIED AT OAKWOODS. Bine Join* with the Gray in Dedicating a Monument and Decorating Boldiera’ Gravee—American Heroea All— Funeral of Secretary Gresham. Former Foes in Reunion. Memorial Day in Chicago was like nothing in the history of nations. It sent in the same line the victor and the vanquished, each with garlands 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 waiTiors from the North and cavaliers from the South forgot entirely revengeful bitterness by such a kind of 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. They stood with bared heads in the presence of 6,000 graves of victims of their own Douglas prison or shouted in salvos of patriotism at the sight of the thinned ranks hunting the humble mounds marked by a flag. It was this unique feature that brought to the city a crowd which barely found standing room in the stretch of territory dedicated to the ceremony. Thursday the surviving veterans of the two mighty armies which for four long yearn faced each other in bloody strife

pledged anew their faith in a common country and a common flag beside the pallid shaft which marks the eternal camping ground of fallen soldiers who pined and died beside the great Nortllfym lake, brave and uncomplaining of merciless civil war. It was a scene long to be remembered, and may be regarded as the final epitaph upon the tomb of sectional strife and sectional estrangement At Cottage Grove avenue and Thirtyfifth street, then at the outskirts, but now In the heart of this city, a stockade was built during the civil war and named Camp Douglas, and there many thousands of Confederate prisoners were confined between the years 1802 and 1565. The men held there under the restraints which befall captives of war had spent their lives in the balmy climate of the sunny South and the rigors of a Northern winter told upon them severely. As a consequent 5,000 of them were liberated by death and were buried in Oakwoods cemetery at Cottage Grove avenue and Sixty-seventh street. It was to the memory of these thousands who died in a military prison in an enemy’s country that the monument was dedicated by their comrades and opponents in arms on the spot where they lie buried. It is the first monument to Confederate dead erected in the North, the event was perhaps without a parallel in history. It does not appear that anywhere else on the face of our round globe within a period of thirty years after the

close of a bitterly fought war, the vanquished have ever before erected a monument in the memory of their comrades in arms in the heart of the victor’s territory. Especially has the sight ever been witnessed of the victors heartily joining the vanquished in doing honor to the valor of the vanquished dead. Gen. Wade Hampton delivered the dedicatory address. THE D,AY IN NEW YORK. Grand Army Parade Reviewed by Prominent Officials. Veterans of the Union army in New York city celebrated “the day of the dead” under favorable conditions. The

parade of the Grand Army members starting from the Plaza at Fifth avenue and Fifty-ninth street showed sadly the ravages which thirty years have made in the ranks of the volunteers of 1861-65. The reviewing stand at Twenty-fifth street was occupied by exPresident Harrison, Gov. McKinley, Gov. Morton and Mayor

Strong. While reviewing the parade Gov. Morton was overcome by the heat and fainted. Memorial Day in Washington. Decoration Day in all the great national cemeteries which belt the capital and in which so many thousands of the Union dead lie buried was commemorated by appropriate exercises. For the first time in several years, the weather was clear and beautiful. The absence of the President and his cabinet, escorting the remains of Comrade Gresham to their resting place in the West, deprived the day of some of its expected features. The numerous Btatues of heroes of the war in the public squares of the city were draped with flags and hung with wreaths and garlands. All the public departments were closed. At St. Louis. Memorial Day was fittingly observed in St. Louis. The Grand Army men were out in force. All were decorated with nosegays and the national colors, and the sound of music could be heard from long before noon. Flags floated at half-mast from many staffs and the general appearance of the city indicated that the observance of Memorial Day was increasing rather than decreasing. Specials from points in other States are to the effect that Mamorial Day was generally ob•aiYefc

HAMPTON.

LONGSTREET.

CONFEDERATE SHAFT AT CHICAGO.

LEVI P. MORTON.