Taft Praises Regulars at Gettysburg Monument Unveiling
Secretary Dickinson transfers the Regular Army memorial to the Gettysburg National Park Commission on a battlefield ceremony. President Taft addresses the crowd praising regulars and stressing their role in national defense as Helen Taft unveils the granite shaft amid a formal salute and commemorations by the Gettysburg Park Commission.
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Artillery and Cavalry Deploy Across Field in Battle
The artillery of 26 batteries was distributed among the Army Corps to positions of need. Brig. Gen. Henry J. Hunt commanded the artillery while four cavalry regiments under Brig. Gen. Wesley Merritt held the right flank. Casualties included 12 officers and 159 enlisted killed. 62 officers and 861 enlisted wounded. 6 officers and 275 enlisted missing.
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Taft Returns From Gettysburg After Memorial Day Observances
President Taft arrived in Washington at 8 15 p m accompanied by Charles Taft Helen Taft Capt Butt and Assistant Secretary Mescheler after Memorial Day events at Gettysburg where he had invited War Secretary Dickinson Gen Bell and others to ride in his car on the return trip. Delays occurred as excursion trains moved crowding the rails.
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Veterans Mourn G A R Commander Noah Tebbetts
Noah Tebbetts 65 former Brookyn attorney and Civil War veteran died at 69 South Oxford Street after a grip illness. He led U S Grant Post 144 G A R in memorial exercises and fought at Port Hudson and Peters burg before serving as Bank Commissioner and New Hampshire Republican official. Survived by a sister.
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Bronx tenement children stage historic dress parade in park
More than a thousand parents watched Settlement kids from the East Side perform old world folk dances in Bronx Park. Eddie, a seven year old rescued from hunger, sat in the crowd after a long recovery. royalty crowned the 14 year old Fannie Rosenberg as Queen in a festive procession.
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Children Scatter Flowers at Bay Memorial on Staten Island
Joseph S. Decker Camp of the Spanish War Veterans led Memorial Day activities in Washington park Stapleton with about 200 veterans. After services, 25 school children were rowed to the bay to scatter flowers for Civil War sailors, as four Grand Army posts decorated graves in Staten Island cemeteries.
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Lincoln statue unveiled in Hodgenville ceremony
In Hodgenville Kentucky on May 31 a statue of Abraham Lincoln was unveiled. Three miles away lies Lincoln birth farm. Mrs Ben Hardin Helm of Louisville a Lincoln relative pulled the cord dropping the drapery as the President statue sat in a chair. Thousands witnessed the ceremony.
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Colorado College football star Charles H. B. Jack dies at Denver
Charles H. B. Jack former Colorado College tackle died in Denver from injuries suffered in the 1906 Thanksgiving Day game. He played for CC several years ago and passed away last night.
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