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'JDEDICATION OF THE MoKU-• * • .MKXT OF THE 145til P, TVOn the Utli iiisl. the survivors of the 146th I?n. Vols. dedicated tlieir regimental fnetnoml hioiiumontnt Gettysburg, in accordance Avfth previous arrangements. The ceremonies took place at 2 p. m., and in a drenching rain. Still, I he boys stood viiler on this occasion,as the}' stood lire twenty-six ' years before. '; .' ‘ '' •'.TUoiia ivni'» mvnifint: fill t.llift ih'filllitlsor being made* bad not been successful, theconfederate forces under Longstreet, inspired With their success when the third corps, over* whelmed by numbers, retired from its advanced position la more or less disorder,mustnecessarily have swept around the base ami right of Little Hound top Into the rear ot the Union line, from ttie latter point to Cemetery Hldge and Culp’s Hill, making an entire change of the union line a strategic necessity, und this too with Longstreet on their left and rear and Ewell and Hill confronting themon their right and center. Under these circumstances I lie confederate army must have won the victory. Little Hound Top woiild have been valueless to the Union army with the Untoh line broken anywhere between that and L'cmctfWv Hidge, and such would ba*« been the result but for that charge through the wheat field on the afternoon of July 2.Neither time nor the propriety of this occasion will permit tne to narrate the history of our regiment from that time until the clnso of the wan it is sufficient to say flint, immediately upon entering the service* It becume a part, of the grand old army of the Pototnae under McClellan, Burnside, Hooker, Meade and Grant, sharing In all its victories and dm feats; III all its marches and contests with the best, disciplined army led i*y the mostronowu* ed field marshals of the Keoellimi,atid Inscribing upon Its colors the name oT every Impor-tant. battle 'fought by the Army of the Potanins from AnHotam until the Union flag wav** ed In triumph over the loe at Appomattox, 'Comrades, ovci a quarter of a century has passed since our regiment stood for the Uuion Qiaiid the tumult and carnage of battle, where we stand to-day. As we look down the beautiful Valley, over the quiet village aud upon the green summits of the distant mountains, our hearts III! with rapture that peace, trlum** pliant peace, spreads her benign shadows and sunshine over our beloved land, and that liberty and union are still and forever will be otiu and inseparable*Many of our comrade's in arras fell upon this and other battlefields of the war; many, since then, have halted in their life march, and crossed the broad river to rest upon the unseen and eternal shores bcyohd. For the lust tlmo for. many, and perhaps for all of us, we are holding out'annual reunion upon the field of Gettysburg. In the years 10 come, as the shadows of life's close gather about us, the scenes which we hern behold and in which we ar« participating, will be a pleasant memory to us all, and may we return to our homes Inspired with an enlarged 'loyally to our com* mot t country, and to our good old com moo-burg the eft® cdurgglof the-fntigultithe gfii of exist States^ATheOf ft p\ihg» iy my, iticlttirgtlidd ADofitlij'iW.hfjp(he fcii!us lit®ovor'tbest ftis ;Supon,Ibroti$iThe]triuneofIMv__. I . **•?Mr. Ksi.ro n g emitoil)yperfo't*‘BrbrSii
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Shenango Valley News
Greenville, Pennsylvania, US
Fri, Sep 20, 1889
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