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COMPANY F.
Privates-Cabanis, Rainey C .; Neal. Charies N.
COMPANY O.
Privates-Hatch, Frank L .; Neai, Charies.
COMPANY I. Private-Hopkins, Charles R. E.
COMPANY K.
Privates-Cain, Daniel P .; Crowder, George E. ; Deniinger, Phares E. ; Green, John G. ; Saffer, Fred L.
COMPANY M.
Recruit-Burke, Jamcs.
SIXTH REGIMENT INFANTRY.
Officers.
Regimentai Band-Frank B. ifenney, A. B. McCos- ker, Charies L. Owens. Ifenry Weinhold.
COMPANY B.
Privates-Daihey, Charles N .; Zigler, Everet.
COMPANY H.
Recruits-Henney, Frank B .; McCosker, A. B.
COMPANY I.
Private-Baker, John.
COMPANY M.
Private-Owens, Charles L.
SEVENTH REGIMENT INFANTRY.
Officer.
Major-Eben Swift (iater appointed Licutenant Colonel Ninth filinois).
COMPANY A. Privates-O'Brien, John F. ; Stille, Benjamin F. ; Waish, Patrick J.
COMPANY F.
Private-Hayden, Frederick B.
COMPANY L. Officer.
Second Lieutenant-Eben Swift, Jr. Private-Hodge. Thomas H.
COMPANY M.
Privates- Auburn, George; Andrews, Edmund A. ; Burke, John A .; Bogdin, John; Baumgardner, Ogden M. ; Dawson, Martin ; Dougherty, William J .; Fitz- simmons, James H .; Faick, Eimer; Ilogie, Warren G .; Hllderhrand, fferman; fferz, Charies ; ffornow, Tony ; fluggins, Burt ; Iditz, Michael ; Keating, James W .; Keating, John; Klyve, John ; Lietzan, John ; La- Porte, George ; Ludwig, Paul ; McMahon, J. Edward ; Martiny, Adolph ; Merrili, Arthur C .; Owens, Dennis ; Olson, John O .; Peterson, Frank ; Roszelle, Stephen G .; Roocks, Fred ; Rogge, Henry ; Russell, ffenry A .; Sievers, Wilhelm ; Ulrich, August ; Weis, John ; Wiley. Frank ; Warwick, William II .; Yeley, William.
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EIGHTII REGIMENT INFANTRY.
COMPANY C.
Private-Dulf, Frederick.
COMPANY G.
Privates-Jackson, Lebert; Walker, Nelson.
COMPANY H. Officers.
Captain-William D. Hodge.
First Lieutenant-Richard C. Ross.
First Sergeant-Oliver Curtis.
Quartermaster Sergeant-Henry Williams.
Sergeants-Abraham L. Morgan, Henry A. Broady, Joseph Richardson, Frank L. Lewis.
Corporals-Joseph L. Morgan, Harry H. Ross, WIIl- iam II. Farmer, Elias S. Kirby. George Burton, Ed- ward R. Wormley, David F. Edwards, Charles Rose, Luther King, Frank Burns, George J. Beard, James C. Hatcher.
Musicians-Frederick J. Parker, fra King. Privates-Alexander, George ; Bland, Aubry ; Brown, Allen ; Brown, Belton ; Brown, Daniel ; Burks, Walter S .; Burton, Milus, Jr. ; Blakeman, Robert ; Carter, Glles ; Dickens, Harry C .; Donnigan, William K. H .; Edwards, Joseph H .; Ensaw, Charles W .; Farmer, John W., Jr .; Ford, Frank N .; Giles, David E. ; Greenleaf, Elijah ; Hall, Robert ; Harris, George; Hicks, WIIliam ; Hill, Henry Harris ; Ifolman, Ralph ; Hubbard, James A .; Johnson, Arthur D .; Jones, John ; Kirby, Paul J. ; Loomls, George ; Loomis, Will- lam F .; Lucas, James M. ; Mahr, David ; Mahr, Ma- jor ; Marshall, George W. ; Marshall, Leonard ; Mil- ler. Henry ; Mennard. Hardy W. ; Payton, Willlam ; Petitt, Willlam ; Pollard, Willlam H. ; Reden, New- man ; Ricketts, Benjamin F. ; Robinson, James ; Ross, Charles E. ; Smith, William T .; Vernon, Frank ; Wal- ton, James C .; Washington, Fred ; Washington, Rob- ert E. ; Watkins, Charles G .; Webb, James L. ; Will- lams. John ; Williams, Noah W .; Williams, Reuben B. ; Wright, Robert N. : York, William.
Recruits-Bennett, Robert ; Hogan, Charles ; Hat- cher, 'Charles E .; Watts, Everett.
COMPANY I.
Privates-Gaskin, Simon ; Maxwell, Charles ; Thompson, William W.
COMPANY K.
Officer.
Corporal-Benjamin T. Curtis.
Privates-Curtis, Joel ; Eaves, George; Johnson, Albert W.
COMPANY L.
Wagoner-Willlam Nobel.
Privates-Menderson, Otrees ;
McCurry, Soney ;
Park, Jay W .; Smith, John W ..
COMPANY M.
· Private-Combs, Delacey.
NINTH REGIMENT INFANTRY.
Officers.
Lieutenant Colonel-Eben Swift. Musician-Grant Timmerman (probably Zimmer- man).
COMPANY F.
Privates-Dudley, Charles ; Johnson, Emil C.
COMPANY G.
Privates-Johnson, James W. ; Norris, Bunn ; Saner, Fred F.
Recrult-Wililams. Waiter C.
COMPANY H.
Corporals-Ilarry Dowling, John P. Kirby.
Privatcs- Brunart, Charles A .; Carver, Charles V .; Glaven, Maurice ; Gooch. James E.
COMPANY I.
Private-Ausmus, Philip. COMPANY L.
Wagoner-Oscar C. Elliott. Recruit-Crouch, Cloyd C.
FIRST CAVALRY.
Officer.
Major- John S. Ilurt.
TROOP C. Officers.
Corporal-Jay G. Ragland.
Blacksmith-Peter F. Eastwood.
Privates-Bradrick, Melvin D .; Deyo, John ; Hen- erdine, Thomas S .; Kerkoff, Theodore M. ; LIbby, George H .; Muller, Bernhard; Varty, Lester A.
TROOP D.
Officers.
Captain-Willlam If. Roberts.
First Lieutenant-John G. Talbot.
Second Lieutenant-Henry Bunn.
First Sergcant-Thomas B. Curran.
Sergeants-John E. Dalbey, Samuel D. Scholes, Jr .; Frederlck E. Whitmer.
Corporals-Rainey C. Cabahis, Herman P. Rankin, Jesse C. PickreII.
Trumpeters-Vincent Y. Dallman, William R. Hay. Privates-Andrews, Otis II .; Arnold, George C .; Adams, Charles ; Adams, Elisha B. ; Ashcraft, Henry R .; Bryant, Harry S .; Broadway, James C. ; Buck- thorpe, Ribert R. ; Bullard, Robert A .; Colby, Charles P .; Cantrall, McDonald ; Cloyd, Willls; Carter, John G .; Claffey, William L. ; Davidson, Arthur H. ; Elllott, Frank S .; Edwards, Harvey C .; Furrow, Willlam F. ; Foster, Harry P .; Frakes, Herschel ; Gough, Charles E .; George, William E .; Gibson, John E .; Hltt, James B. ; Hockenhull, Robert ; Ingram. George; James, William D .; Jones, Clarence A .; Jacoby, George H. ; Jones, George ; Killlon, Claud D .; Kirkpatrick, Jean P. ; Keller, Willlam J .; Levering. Paul C .; McWher- ter, Joseph D .; McPherson. Herman E. ; McLoud, Clarence P. ; Moorhead, WlIllam C .; Mann. Frank S. ; Neff, Rudolph H. ; Neidergang, Willlam II. ; Nevins, Frederick R. ; Odam, Charles H .; O'Leary, Thomas L. ; Pride, Charles A. ; Parks, William II. ; Powers, Claud C .; Putman, Walter; Parsons. Charles P. ; Ridgely, John A .; Sharpe. George A .; Spaulding, Robert B .; Seaman, Charles; Savage, Edwin J .; Smieding, George; Sparks, David A .; Songer, Arthur L. : Stewart, Ira L. ; Stretch, Newton B .: Sammons, Willlam H .; Trulson, Louls M .; Tanner, Thomas F. : Taylor, Ollver Guy ; TIpton, John M. ; Tillson, Will- iam O .; Thompson. Benjamin R. : Thomas, Clarence S. ; Todd, Percy C .; Vorhees, John W. ; Wilkin, George ; Wing, Raymond C. ; Young, William II.
Recruits-Conner, WIIl E .; Foster, Willlam J .; Gowin, Willlam H. ; Holmes, James W. ; Houston, Charles B .; Hoadley, IIllery E. ; Mashman, George J .; Ingalls, Louis J .; Jess. Rohert E. ; Lichtlg. Bernard : O'Connell, Ilenry J. ; Wells, Lee C .; Womach, Henry
TROOP F.
Privates-McDuffee, Charles; May, Charles T .; Seydel, Louls V. TROOP II.
Recruit-Mortimer, Charles.
TROOP K. Officers.
Second Lieutenant-Fred Boyer. First Sergeant-Frank N. Dalbey.
Sergeants-Thomas W. Guinan, James C. Cooper. Recrults-Billington, John: Carver, Jamcs F. : Cherryholmes. Harry L .: Harris. Frank D .; Ingram, James F. : Jourdon, Iloratlo ; Krimmel. George; Scy. bert, George; Siler. Willlam O .; Wood, Elon.
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TROOP L.
Privates-Bailey, Harry F .; Chambers, George; Gardiner, Gideon ; ilyde, Warren H .; ilallam, Harry G .; Jennings, John W .; Jarvis, Burt M. ; Krahling, John; Rand, David W .; Smith, Frank L. ; Stateler, Cliff ; Sullivan, John L .; Umbach, Henry.
Recruit-Smith, James T.
LIGIIT ARTILLERY BATTERY A. Private-Stokes, Albert W.
CHAPTER XLIV.
THE LINCOLN CENTENNIAL
CELEBRATION OF THE ONE HUNDREDTII ANNIVER- SARY OF THE BIRTH OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN- SOME PRELIMINARY EXERCISES OF THE DAY- PLANTINO OF THE LINCOLN GRAND ARMY TREE AND DEDICATION OF THE LAW OFFICE TABLET- RECEPTION AT THE
OOVERNOR'S MANSION- SOME DISTINGUISHED QUESTS-REV. T. D. LOOAN'S ADDRESS IN THE OLD LINCOLN CIIURCH-GATH- ERINO AT THE LINCOLN MONUMENT-IMMENSE ASSEMBLAGE AT THE TABERNACLE-AMBASSA- DORS JUSSERAND AND BRYCE, AND SENATOR DOLLIVER AND W. J. BRYAN THE SPEAKERS- EVENINO BANQUET AND IMPOSING EXERCISES IN THE ARMORY BUILDING-MESSRS. JUSSERAND, BRYCE, DOLLIVER AND BRYAN ORATORS ON THIS OCCASION-QUOTATIONS FROM THEIR ADDRESSES -THE LINCOLN MONUMENT-ITS HISTORY AND DESCRIPTION. .
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(By Judge J Otis Humphrey.)
The General Assembly of Illinois, in special session at Springfield in October, 1907, adopted a series of resolutions in recognition of the pro- priety of the celebration by the State of Iiiinois, of the hundredth anniversary of the birth of "the greatest of all American statesmen," to be heid In the city of Springfield on the 12th day of February, 1909, and authorized the Governor to appoint a commission consisting of fifteen representative citizens of the State "to have charge of all arrangements for the same." This commission, acting in cooperation with the Lin-
coin Centennial Association, an incorporated or- ganization, made arrangements and issued a program for a series of exercises to be heid, at the time mentioned, in honor of the memory of Abraham Lincoln. Each separate event was a distinct success and the numbers In attendance · were limited in every instance by the capacity of the bulidings in which the services were held.
SOME INTRODUCTORY EVENTS .- Taking these events in the order of thelr occurrence, was the planting, early In the morning of the 12th, by the veterans of Stephenson Post, G. A. R., of an elm tree in the court house square, dedicated to the memory of Lincoln and named, "The Lin- coln Grand Army Tree," after which they marched In a body to the Lincoln Tomb, at Oak Ridge Cemetery.
At 9 o'clock the same morning a meeting was held in the court house square under the aus- pices of the Sons of the American Revolution, for the dedication of a bronze tabiet, to mark the site of Lincoln's first law-office at No. 109 North Fifth Street, Springfield, opposite aud west of the present court house, but originaliy the first State house. This tablet hore the in- scription, "Site of the First Law Office of A. Lincoln, 1837-1839 .- Springfield Chapter, Sons of American Revolution." Judges Cartwright of the Iliinois Supreme Court, and Creighton, of the Circuit Court, Springfield, delivered the addresses on this occasion.
At 10 A. M. the guests of the Commission called at the Executive Mansion and had a brief reception by Governor and Mrs. Deneen. The guests included the only living member of the Lincoln family, Hon. Robert T. Lincoln; Am- hassadors Jusserand and Bryce, representing France and Engiand, the iate Senator Dolllver of Iowa, and Hon. William J. Bryan of Ne- braska, the speakers of the day.
Reference has already been made to the meet- ing of the veterans of the Grand Army of the Republic, at the Lincoln Tomb at Oak Ridge Cemetery, which followed the reception at the Executive Mansion, The veterans, accompanled by a military band, pitched their tents, built a camp fire, and served as Guard of Honor during the day. Many visitors, singly and in groups, found their way to the monument during the day.
At 10:30 A. M. religious exercises began In the St. John's Evangelical Church, formerly the First Presbyterian, which Mr. Lincoin was ac-
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customed „to attend from 1849 to 1861. The principal event of this occasion was an address hy Rev. Thomas D. Logan, pastor of the First Presbyterian church, iu response to and disproof of the clalm that Mr. Lincoln, in his later and most important officiai life, was an "Infidel."
Just hefore noon, the guests of the Commis-, sion, together with the State and city officials, Justices of the Supreme Court, members of the State Commission and Centenuial Association, with many citizens of Springfield and visitors from distant polnts, visited the tomb of Lincoln. Ambassadors Bryce and Jusserand were present ou this occasion, but there were no formal cere- monies, the visitors, with uncovered and bowed heads, approaching the tomb and paying a silent tribute to the memory of the honored dead. This was one of the impressive events of the day as it showed the respect in which the name and memory of Abraham Lincoln were held, not only hy his own countrymen, but by the rep- resentatives of principal foreign nations of the world.
MEETING AT THE TABERNACLE .- In the after- noon began the more imposing events of the day. The first of these was a meeting held in a temporary structure calied "The Tabernacle," which was packed to its fullest capacity by eight to teu thousand people, while many others were were unable to obtain admission for want of room. Gov. Deneen acted as President on this occasion, introducing successively as speakers, Ambassadors Jusserand and Bryce, with Sen- ator Dolliver and Mr. Bryan. The chosen topics of the respective speakers were: "France's Es- teem for Lincoln," by M. Jusserand; "Lincoln as One of the People," hy Mr. Bryce; "Lincoln the Champion of Equal Rights," by Senator Dol- liver, and "Lincoln as an Orator," by Mr. Bryan. Each speaker was listened to with profound in- terest and attention by the vast audience, and it is safe to say that no similar assemblage, in Illinois or elsewhere, was ever more deeply moved by the eloquence and true appreciation of character displayed than were the former friends and associates of Abraham Lincoln and his admirers of a later generation in his home city, as they listened on this occasion to the honors paid to his memory and his achievement as the perpetuater of freedom and preserver of the Unlon.
EVENING BANQUET AND ADDRESSES .- The cen- tral and most Imposing feature of the day's cele-
vratiou came on the evening of the 12th, which began with a banquet In the large Armory Bulld- ing, participated In hy 850 members and guests of the Centennial Association, seated at seventy- one tables, while the'galleries were filled with spectators aud auditors, including a large rep- resentation of Daughters of the American Revo- lution and of famliies of veterans of the Civii War. The Armory hall was brilliantly illum- inated, conspicuous among the decorations be- iug the national colors of France and of Eng- land, mingled with those of the United States. Judge J Otis Humphrey presIded as toastmas- ter, the French and the British Ambassadors and Messrs. Dolliver and Bryan again being the speakers, as they had been at the Taberuacle iu the afternoon, whlle letters of regret from Senator Cullom and Booker T. Washington were read with a poem ("Our Leader") by Mr. Charles Henry Butler. The addresses were all especially impressive, as were those of the af- ternoon.
After taking note of the close relationship between the names of Washington and Lincoln, and the value of what they wrought in connec- tiou with American history, Ambassador Jus- serand, discussing the subject, "Abraham Lin- coln as France Regarded Him," continued :
"No romance of adventure reads more like a romance than the true story of Lincoln's youth and of the wanderings of his family from Vlr- giuia to Kentucky, from Kentucky to Indiana, and from Indiana to the newly formed State of Illinois. . · His instinct, his good sense, his personal disinterestedness, his warmth of heart for friend and foe, his high aims led him through the awful years of anguish and blood- shed, during which ceaselessly increased the fields decked with tombs, and no one knew whether there would he one powerful nation or two weaker ones, the odds were so great. They led him through the worst and through the hest homes, and that of triumph found him none other than what he had ever been before, a man of duty, the devoted servant of his country with deeper furrows on his face and more mel- ancholy In his heart. And so, after having saved the nation, he went to his doom and fell, as he had long foreseen, a victim to the cause for which he fought. . The memory of . the great man whom we try to honor today, is as fresh in everybody's mind as if he had only just left us. 'It is,' says Plutarch, 'the fortune
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of ail good men that their virtue rises in glory after their death, and that the envy which any evil man may have conceived against them never survives the envious.' Such was the fate of Abraham Lincoln."
Discussing as his theme, "The Character and Career of Lincoln," Mr. Bryce acknowledged the surprise which came to Engiand, in his under- graduate days as a student in Oxford Univer- sity, when the nomination of Lincoln for the Presidency was announced, instead of that of William H. Seward. "I recollect," said Mr. Bryce, "how it siowiy dawned upon Europeans in 1862 and 1863, that the President could he no ordinary man, because he never seemed cast down by the reverses which befeli his armies ; because he never let himseif he hurried into premature action nor feared to take so boid a step as the Emancipation Proclamation was when he saw that the time had arrived. And, above all, I remember the shock of awe and grief which thrilled all Britain when the news came that he had perished hy the buliet of an assassin. There have heen not a few murders of the heads of States in our. time, hut none smote us with such horror and such pity as the death of this great, strong and mercifui man in the moment when his long and patient efforts had heen crowned with victory, and peace had just begun to shed her rays over a iand laid waste by the march of armies. Both among you and with us his fame has continued to rise tili he has now hecome one of the grand- est figures whom America has given to the worid's history, to he a giory first of this coun- try, then also of mankind.
"To you, men of Illinois, Lincoin is the most famous and worthy of all those who have adorned your commonwealth. To you, citizens of the United States, he is the President who carried you through a terrihie conflict and saved the Union. To us in Engiand he is one of the heroes of the race whence you and we spring. We honor his memory as you do, and it is fit- ting that one who is privileged liere to repre- sent the land from which his forefathers came, shonid hring on hehalf of England a tribute of admiration for him and of thankfuiness to the Providence which gave him to you in your hour of need. Thus will the memory of Lincoin live and endure among you, gather- ing reverence from age to age, the memory of one who saved your republic by his wisdom,
his constancy, his faith in the people and in freedom-the memory of a piain, simple man, yet crowned with the knightly virtue of truth- fuiness, honor and courage."
In discussing "The Art of Government," Mr. Bryan expressed speciai recognition of Lin- coln's "sense of responsibility," his "self-con- troi," his "humility," and disregard for "self- made greatness," his "courage," "patience" and "fideiity," deciaring that, "As the representative of the people, he acted for them, doing, as their representative, what they would have him do; hut Lincoln's hold upon the people was due to the fact that he never assumed to think for them. He was content to think with them on the questions that affected the Government and their welfare." (In other words, it might be said, with at least equal accuracy, that the people thought with Lincoln, because they were influenced by his logical argument and sound judgment, without even the suggestion of any dictation on his part.)
Senator Doiiiver, in his address, taking for his topic, "Our Heroic Age," took cognizance of two periods in American history when, in ai- iusion to two groups in the audience, he re- marked :
"There are two little groups of people whose coming into this chamher has touched my heart. One of them sits yonder in the haicony, the Daughters of the American Revolution.
We are here in our little way trying to preserve and helping. perpetuate the memory of Abraham Lincoin. . These young women (the D. A. R.) are doing a finer thing even than that. They are perpetuating the unknown heroism, the unrecorded service of men who, in the foun- dation of our institutions, gave their lives, with wiiling hearts, to the defense of puhiic liberty. And yonder in the galiery sits a little group of veterans who, after ail, made the ser- vices of Abraham Lincoln possible in the dark days of the Civil War."
Referring to the forecasts of disunion which threatened the nation hefore the days of Lin- coln's most active official iife, Mr. Dolliver said :
"Even our greatest statesmen were in the dark. Daniel Webster said, in his greatest speech, 'God grant that upon my vision that curtain may not rise.', . Said Henry Ciay, 'I implore, as the best blessing that Heaven can bestow upon me on earth, that if the dire-
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ful and sad event of the dissolution of the na- tion shaii happen, I may not be spared to be- hold the heart-reuding spectacle.' .
"These men, great as they were in their day and time, did not dare to trust themselves to look into the future. It remained for a later and, iu my judgment, a better generation, to view without despair the chaos of civil strife, to walk into it, to fight the way of the nation through it, to lift up a spotless flag above it and, iu the midst of the flame and smoke of battle, to create the nation of America. That was our heroic age, aud out of it came forth our ideai heroes, Lincoln and the statesiuen that stood by his side: Grant and the great soldiers who obeyed his orders; and, behind them both, the countless hosts of the Grand Army of the Republic, through whose illustrious sacrifice of biood our weary and heavy iaden centuries have been redeemed.
"You have built here a monument, strong and beautiful, which is to bear the name and per- petuate the service of Abraham Lincoln. His centennial has put into the hearts and minds of unnumbered millions the fame which has grown in this half century, until it has become the chiefest possession of the American people and the most precious heritage that will be passed to the generations that are to come."
This practically closed the most impressive occasion ever witnessed in the city of Spring- fieid since the funeral of the Martyred President on May 5, 1865, but its memory will live in the minds of thousands who witnessed it as has that of its predecessor forty-four years earlier.
OTHER EVENTS .- Some other preliminary events connected with the Centennial were an address delivered on the afternoon of February 11th, before the faculty and students of the Springfield High School, by Gen. George W. Noble of St. Louis, a veteran of the Civil War and Secretary of the Interior under President Harrison, aud a meeting and reception on the evening of the same day in the rooms of the State Historical Society, in the State capitol, at which a number of brief addresses were deliv- ered. The subject of Gen. Noble's address was, "The Relation of Springfield to Lincoin, and the character of the United States as impersonated in Lincoin."
Ou the afternoon of the 12th, following the exercises at the Tabernacle a meeting and re- ception were held by the Daughters of the
American Revolution at the Lincolu Home, a luncheon being later served at the rooms of the Young Men's Christian Association.
LINCOLN MONUMENT
(By Maj. Edward S. Johnson, Custodiau.) From "Illinois Blue Book," 1907
Upon the 11th day of May, 1865, one mouth after the assassination of President Lincoln, the Lincoln Monument Association was formed, its object being the construction of a National Lincoln Monument, to be erected in the city of Springfield, Ill., Mr. Lincoln's home.
The names of the members of the Lincoln Monument Association in 1865, were : Goveruor R. J. Ogiesby, Oriin H. Miner, John T. Stuart, Jesse K. Dubois, James C. Conkiing, John Wii- liams, Jacob Bunn, Sharon Tyndale, Thomas J. Dennis, Newton Bateman, S. H. Treat, O. MI. Hatch, S. H. Melvin, James Beveridge and David L. Phillips.
Ground was broken on the site in Oak Ridge cemetery, September 10, 1869, and the mouu- ment was completed and dedicated October 15, 1874. The dedication was a solemn and memo- rable occasion, many thousands of distinguished people being present, including the President and Vice President of the United States. The oration, commemorative of the life and public services of the great Emancipator, was deliv- ered by Richard J. Oglesby. President Grant spoke briefly at the tomb and an original poem was read by James Judson Lord. ,
The monument was built after the accepted designs of Larkin G. Meade. an American sculp- tor living in Florence, Italy, and stauds upon an eminence in Oak Ridge Cemetery, the grounds occupying about nine acres. Its ex- terior is of Quincy (Mass.) granite; there is a square base 7% feet on each side, 15 feet 10 inches high. At the north side of the base is a semi-circular projection, the interior of which has a radius of 12 feet; it is the vestibuie of the catacomb, containing the bodies of Mr. Lincoln's wife and sons. On the south side is another semi-circuiar projection of the same size, but this is continued into the base, produc- ing a room of eliipticai shape which is called Memoriai Ifali. The base measures, including the projections, 1191% feet from norti to south
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and 721% feet from east to west. In the angles formed by the addition of these two projec- tions, are handsome flights of stone steps, two on each end. These steps are protected hy granlte ballnstrades which extend completely around the top of the base, which forms a ter- race. From the plane of this terrace rises the obelisk, which is 28 feet 4 inches high from the ground and tapered to 11 feet square at the top. At the angles of the obeilsk are four cir- cular pedestals 11 feet in diameter, rising 121% feet above the plane of the terrace. This obelisk. including the area occupied by the pedestals, is 41 feet square, while from the ob- elisk rises the shatt to a height of 92 feet. Upon the four pedestals stand groups of statu- ary representing the four branches of service : Infantry. Cavalry, Artillery and Navy. Pass- ing around the whole obelisk and pedestal, is a band or chain of shields, each representing a State, the name of which is carved upon it. At the south side of time obelisk is a square pedestal seven feet high. supporting the statue of Mr. Lincoln, the pedestal bearing the Coat of Arms of the United States.
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