Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 June 1895 — THEY MET IN PEACE. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

THEY MET IN PEACE.

ANIMOSITIES OF WAR BURIED AT OAKWOODS. Bine Joins with the Gray in Dedicating a Monument and Decorating Soldiers’ Graves—American Heroes All—Funeral of Secretary Gresham. - - - - r* ~ V ' ---- -- 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 vanquish--ed * 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 warriors from the North and cavaliets 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 tire 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 (5,000 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 years faced each other in bloody strife

pledged anew their faith in a common eountry and a common flag beside the pallid shaft which marks the eternal camping ground of fallen soldiers who pined and died beside the great Northern lake, brave and uncomplaining victims 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 1862 and 1865. The men held yiere under the restraints which be--all 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 consequence '5,000 of them were liberated by death and were buried in Oakwoods cemetery 4ft 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 ih 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.

HAMPTON. LONGSTREET.

CONFEDERATE SHAFT AT CHICAGO.