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Logan 
 

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COMMISSIONERS 
 
 HENRY W. BLODGETT. 
 WILLIAM C. GOUDY* 
 ROBERT T. LINCOLN 
 WILLIAM H. HARPER 
 JOHN R. WALSH 
 WILLIAM S. MORRIS 
 
 RICHARD S. TUTHILL 
 JOHN M. PALMER 
 MILTON HAY* 
 MELVILLE W. FULLER 
 OLIVER A. HARKER 
 GEORGE W. SMITH 
 
 EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE 
 
 HENRY W. BLODGETT 
 ROBERT T. LINCOLN 
 RICHARD S. TUTHILL 
 JOHN R. WALSH 
 WILLIAM H. HARPER 
 
 * Deceased 
 
CONTENTS 
 
 PAGE 
 
 Introduction ....... 7 
 
 Biographical Sketch of John A. Logan . . 27 
 The Monument and the Sculptor ... 37 
 
 LORADO Taft 
 
 The Unveiling ....... 45 
 
 Invocation ....... 47 
 
 Rev. Dr. Arthur Edwards 
 
 Presentation by the Commission . . 53 
 
 Henry W. Blodgett 
 
 Acceptance for the State .... 63 
 Governor John R. Tanner 
 
 Oration ....... 73 
 
 George R. Peck 
 
 The Parade . . . . . . . gi 
 
Introduction 
 
The death of General Logan in December, 
 
 1886, was quickly followed by a determination 
 to perpetuate his memory and to express fit- 
 tingly the love and honor in which he was 
 held by the people of his state. It fell to the 
 lot of William H. Harper, of Chicago, to take 
 the first step in this direction. Mr. Harper, 
 on his return from the funeral of General 
 Logan in Washington, conceived the idea that 
 the state of Illinois should erect a statue of 
 the third hero whom she had presented to the 
 country, and thus enroll permanently along 
 with the names of Lincoln and of Grant that 
 of their worthy comrade, John A. Logan. 
 
 A bill was accordingly drawn up, and, largely 
 through the efforts of Hon. Chas. E. Fuller, 
 the Republican leader of the house, it was 
 passed by the general assembly in January, 
 
 1887. By this bill, $50,000 was appropriated, 
 and a commission of twelve, old friends and 
 associates of General Logan, was named to 
 erect a monument in Chicago. Two members 
 of this Commission, Milton Hay and William 
 
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C. Goudy, died before the completion of its 
 work, and their places were not filled. The 
 other members were : 
 
 Henry W. Blodgett Melville W, Fuller 
 
 Robert T. Lincoln John R. Walsh 
 
 John M. Palmer Oliver A. Harker 
 
 Richard S. Tuthill William A. Morris 
 
 William H. Harper George W. Smith 
 
 On February 12, 1887, the Commissioners 
 met and organized by electing the following 
 officers : Henry W. Blodgett, president ; John 
 R. Walsh, treasurer, and Richard S. Tuthill, 
 secretary. Later an executive committee was 
 chosen, consisting of the officers of the Com- 
 mission with the addition of William H. Harper 
 and Robert T. Lincoln. 
 
 The important questions of the site of the 
 proposed monument and of the sculptor of 
 the statue were long and carefully considered. 
 The first was settled in favor of the location 
 generously offered by the South Park com- 
 missioners, who likewise contributed, at a total 
 cost of nearly $14,000, the foundation of the 
 monument. The even more weighty problem 
 of the choice of a sculptor was solved in Sep- 
 tember, 1888, by the selection of Augustus 
 St. Gaudens, a choice justified in advance 
 by his supreme reputation among American 
 
artists and in the result by the best among 
 the many excellent statues of the city. 
 
 At the session of the general assembly in 
 January, 1889, the money, appropriated two 
 years before, was reappropriated, an action 
 necessary under the constitution of the state. 
 The magnitude of the work devolving on 
 the Commission may be best seen in the 
 years which elapsed before the completion 
 of its task. Many minor, but important 
 questions arose from time to time, all of 
 which were successfully settled, and finally, 
 in May, 1897, the Executive Committee settled 
 on July 22 for the day of the unveiling and 
 appointed William H. Harper chairman of a 
 committee of arrangements. With due con- 
 sideration -of the duties of this committee, 
 it was determined that it should include 
 a number of the ablest and most repre- 
 sentative men of Chicago. On them would 
 be placed the responsibility, not merely of 
 crowning the work of the Commission in 
 unveiling the statue erected by its efforts, but 
 of making Logan Day, as it came fittingly to 
 be called, not only a city, but a state, and 
 almost a national, holiday, on which Americans 
 laight honor in General Logan the memories 
 of a great struggle and the self-sacrificing 
 
devotion of hundreds of thousands of his fel- 
 low-volunteers. 
 
 The Committee on Arrangements was ac- 
 cordingly appointed to include the following : 
 
 William H. Harper, 
 Chairman 
 
 J. H. Wood, 
 Vice- Chairman 
 
 R, T. Perry, 
 Secretary 
 
 Carter H. Harrison 
 R. H. Hall 
 John C. Black 
 Joseph Stockton 
 RoBT. N. Pearson 
 John C. Smith 
 J. N, Reece 
 H. A. Wheeler 
 H. L. Turner 
 Geo. M. Moulton 
 Marcus Kavanagh 
 James A. Sexton 
 Robert C. Clowry 
 a. l. schimpff 
 f. w. buskirk 
 Thomas E. Young 
 J. Hodgkins 
 
 E. A. Blodgett 
 L. B, Mitchell 
 James L. High 
 J. S. Dunham 
 Francis A. Riddle 
 Chas. G. Dawes 
 Chas. E. Fuller 
 Melville E. Stone 
 A. J. Earling 
 William A. Alexander 
 E. G. Pauling 
 Jesse Holdom 
 Edward F. Cragin 
 William P. Williams 
 Wm. H. Crocker 
 J. H. Strong 
 J. P. Sherwin 
 
 To facilitate the work of this committee, 
 various subcommittees were selected, and to 
 the energies of these, largely augmented by 
 the untiring efforts of Mr. Harper, chairman of 
 the Committee on Arrangements, the success 
 
of the unveiling must largely be attributed. 
 The Committee on Finance consisted of John 
 R. Walsh, Carter H. Harrison, H. A. Wheeler, 
 Charles G. Dawes, E. F, Cragin, J. T. Dickin- 
 son, and J. H. Strong. Through their efforts 
 a fund was raised, which, in conjunction with 
 the interest on the state appropriation, paid 
 the expenses of the day, the state appropria- 
 tion going as a whole in payment of the statue 
 itself. The subscriptions thus raised amounted 
 to nearly ^5,000, and the interest allowed on 
 money deposited to a like amount. The entire 
 expenses of the Commission were nearly 
 ^74,000 : viz., ^50,000 from the state for the 
 statue, $14,000 from the South Park commis- 
 sioners for the pedestal and foundation, and 
 the above g 10,000, approximately, for the 
 expenses of July 22. 
 
 Since the plans for Logan Day included the 
 presence of a large number of state and fed- 
 eral troops, and of tens of thousands of other 
 visitors, the securing of transportation cour- 
 tesies was highly desirable, and this duty was 
 assigned to a subcommittee made up of J. H. 
 Wood, F. W. Buskirk, and George M. Moul- 
 ton. The efficiency of these gentlemen was 
 evident in the outcome, and was heartily sec- 
 onded by the railway and steamship lines, 
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whose generous cooperation helped to make 
 Logan Day an event, not merely for the city, 
 but for many visitors from the rest of Illinois 
 and from neighboring states. 
 
 Among many striking features of the 22d 
 of July, the imposing parade of nearly seven- 
 teen thousand men will long remain in mem- 
 ory. Two thousand United States troops, six 
 thousand of the National Guard of Illinois, 
 five thousand of the Grand Army of the Repub- 
 lic, thousands of Knights Templar and Knights 
 of Pythias, and more in number than a full 
 regiment of the post-office employes, partici- 
 pated in the parade. The general arrangements 
 were made by Joseph Stockton, J. N. Reece, 
 and Joseph A. Sexton. The Subcommittee 
 on Military Organizations — H. A. Wheeler, 
 R. H. Hall, Marcus Kavanagh, and J. L. High 
 — secured through the courtesy of the Secretary 
 of War and of the governor of Illinois the pres- 
 ence of the state and federal contingents. The 
 cordial assistance of the commander-in-chief, 
 T. S. Clarkson, was offered the Committee 
 on the Grand Army of the Republic, which 
 included A. L. Schimpff, C. A. Partridge, John 
 C. Black, Robert N. Pearson, L. B. Mitchell, 
 and E. A. Blodgett. The Committee on the 
 Knights Templar and the Knights of Pythias, 
 
who formed so striking a part of the parade, 
 was composed of J. P. Sherwin, T. E. Young, 
 W. H. Crocker, and John C. Smith. 
 
 Sharing with the parade itself the interest of 
 thousands of visitors and giving to the unveil- 
 ing a most effective background, the naval 
 display on Logan Day will not soon be for- 
 gotten. In this again the committee — J. S. 
 Dunham, J G. Keith, and W. M Egan — found 
 ready support, first of all in the courtesy of 
 the Secretary of the Treasury, Hon. Lyman 
 J. Gage, himself a citizen of Chicago, who 
 ordered the presence of the revenue cutters, 
 and then in the owners of scores of yachts, 
 sloops, and schooners, of which the graceful 
 outlines, gay with flags and bunting, gave a 
 finishing touch to the beauty of the display. 
 
 The securing of entertainment for the guests 
 of the day was intrusted to another committee, 
 including W. A. Alexander, Jesse Holden, Wil- 
 liam P. Williams, E. G. Paulding, and J. H. 
 Strong. Ever hospitable, the people of the 
 city showed themselves doubly so on this occa- 
 sion, and especially the great hotels, whose 
 managers were foremost in a whole-souled 
 cooperation with the Commissioners. 
 
 A committee, of which Thomas B. Bryan 
 was chairman, was appointed to receive Mrs. 
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Logan and her family, and the other guests, 
 with fitting honors. Its members were : 
 
 John R. Brooke 
 Shelby M. Cullom 
 Wm. E. Mason 
 P. S. Grosscup 
 Charles B. Farwell 
 Wm. Sooy Smith 
 W. J. Calhoun 
 F. W. Peck 
 
 H. N. HiGINBOTHAM 
 
 h. h. kohlsaat 
 Kirk Hawes 
 A. L. Chetlain 
 Marvin Hughitt 
 Martin J. Russell 
 Wm. Penn Nixon 
 John McArthur 
 E. A. Otis 
 R. W. Patterson 
 GusTAVus F. Swift 
 W. J. Chalmers 
 Morris Rosenbaum 
 Frank G. Logan 
 PoRTus B. Weare 
 Carter H. Harrison 
 Victor F. Lawson 
 f. w. gunsaulus 
 P. D. Armour 
 Charles Fitz-Simons 
 John J. Mitchell 
 
 W. G. PURDY 
 
 Fred. S. James 
 A. C. McClurg 
 Washington Hesing 
 Chas. Counselman 
 Geo. M. Pullman 
 Lloyd J. Smith 
 E. P. Ripley 
 Richard S. Lyon 
 A. R. Reynolds 
 John Cudahy 
 W. C. Seipp 
 G. B. Shaw 
 C. H. Chappell 
 John T. Dickinson 
 Wm. a. Giles 
 Eugene Cary 
 J. C. Welling 
 A. C. Bartlett 
 Geo. B. Swift 
 M. J. Carpenter 
 W. C. Brown 
 A. H. Revell 
 C. C. Hilton 
 H. A. Parker 
 J. H. Moore 
 J. W. Ellsworth 
 R. S. Critchell 
 S. W. Allerton 
 W. C. Newberry 
 Huntington W. Jackson 
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E. G. Keith J. C. Buckner 
 
 H, H, Thomas Norman Williams 
 
 RoswELL Miller O. D. Wetherell 
 
 Abner Taylor Chester M. Dawes 
 
 The last subcommittee, which directed the 
 decorations of the streets and buildings, had 
 a membership proportionate to the importance 
 of its duties : 
 
 E. A. BiGELOW, Chairman 
 
 Geo. H. Jenney Wm, Dickinson 
 
 Elmer Barrett John H. Curtis 
 
 Justice Chancellor J. A. Burhans 
 
 Harry Niblock Percival Steel 
 
 W. H. Chamberlain John Bonnell 
 
 Geo. F. Brown Geo. E. Watson 
 
 A. E. Anderson John T. Shayne 
 
 W. H. DiFFLEY John H. Johnson 
 
 The success of Logan Day, however, lies 
 not altogether with the Commission, and the 
 committees which so cordially aided it. Every 
 citizen of Chicago felt that he was in and of 
 the celebration, and all, from least to greatest, 
 shared in the result. Hundreds of thousands 
 gathered around the veiled statue and cheered 
 the march of the troops. The governor of the 
 state had summoned the National Guard. The 
 mayor declared the 22d of July a public holi- 
 day, and through his chief of police made 
 feasible the unmarred beauty of the parade. 
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The newspapers of the city joined heartily in 
 the work. The great commercial and indus- 
 trial organizations gave their aid. Business 
 houses and private citizens contributed liber- 
 ally of time and money, until, in brief, all 
 Chicago must be thanked for the stirring 
 memories of the day. And not Chicago alone. 
 The President of the United States, detained 
 after his acceptance by the pressing duties of 
 an extra congressional session, was repre- 
 sented by Hon. Russell A. Alger, the Secretary 
 of War, and sent the following telegram : 
 
 Executive Mansion, 
 Washington, D. C, July 22, 1897. 
 
 General Russell A. Alger, Secretary of 
 War, Chicago : Please convey to Mrs. Logan, 
 and also to the committee in charge of the 
 ceremonies, my profound regret that I cannot 
 be present to do honor to the memory of the 
 gallant volunteer soldier of two wars, and 
 distinguished statesman — my personal friend, 
 whose life and work today receives crowning 
 honor. General Logan's achievements form 
 a part of the most brilliant record of the 
 reunited nation, and will live forever in its 
 history. 
 
 William McKinley. 
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The senators and representatives from Illi- 
 nois were constant in their efforts at Washing- 
 ton to insure the success of the dedication. 
 
 The governors of many states, with their 
 staffs, joined in these honors to their comrade. 
 
 The Societies of the Armies of the Cumber- 
 land, of the Potomac, and of the Tennessee 
 showed once again their memories of '6i, and 
 the Loyal Legion proved that its members had 
 not forgotten the loyalty of the dead. Nor 
 was it the blue alone. The wearers of the 
 gray were not behind in reverence to the 
 bravery of Logan, and their presence sug- 
 gested the fuller triumph of the cause for 
 which he fought. These honored Logan the 
 volunteer, and Logan the statesman was hon- 
 ored, too. Veterans of the war recalled the 
 stirring times of battle strife. Survivors of 
 the famous Hundred and Three remembered 
 the scenes of political struggle, and each and 
 all joined in praising the man who fought 
 fairly and succeeded honestly in both contests 
 alike. 
 
 All these, with the soldiers of General Lo- 
 gan's own regiment, the 31st Infantry of 
 Illinois, gathered not only to honor his mem- 
 ory, but to greet again his beloved widow. 
 The presence of Mrs. Logan and her children 
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and grandchildren infused a thrill of tender- 
 ness through all the ceremonies. Statesman 
 and grizzled veteran wept as they grasped 
 the cordial hand of her who had been the 
 loving and helpful companion of the man 
 whom they loved and honored, and whose life 
 was so bright an ornament in the history of 
 their common state. 
 
 Such was the aim of Logan Day, and thus 
 the Commissioners endeavored to fulfill the 
 trust they had received from the state. This 
 souvenir of July 22, 1897, may suggest the 
 feelings of the people of Illinois for John A. 
 Logan. It can only suggest these. No one 
 who was not here, from the time the first 
 honored guests were welcomed to Chicago 
 with fitting honors to the moment when, 
 grateful and impressed, they took their 
 departure, can know how great was the wave 
 of patriotic feeling, and how intense the spirit 
 of devotion, not only to the memory of Logan, 
 but also to the country which he served. Such 
 an occasion is an inspiration to the people. 
 The sentiment which lives in the speeches of 
 that day is a tonic which can only prove as 
 wholesome to those who listened and to those 
 who now may read as is the sight of the statue 
 at whose unveiling they were delivered. 
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Among man}'' expressions of regret from 
 those who could not attend, the following 
 telegram from Senator William E. Mason and 
 letter from Senator S. M. Cullom were read at 
 the unveiling by the secretary of the Commis- 
 sion, Richard S. Tuthill : 
 
 Washington, D. C, July 22,1897. — Henry 
 W. Blodgett, Chairman : The condition of 
 public business makes it impossible for me to 
 be with you on this great occasion for Illinois. 
 I feel sure I will honor Logan's memory better 
 by honest application to public business than 
 in any other way. This would meet the 
 approval of the dead general, and I hope will 
 meet your approval and that of my many 
 friends whom I had hoped to meet today at 
 Chicago. William E. Mason. 
 
 United States Senate, 
 Washington, D. C, July 20, 1897. 
 
 Hon. H. W. Blodgett, Chicago, 111. : My 
 dear Sir — I had expected until yesterday that 
 I could be present on the occasion of the un- 
 veiling of the statue of the late gallant soldier 
 and statesman, General Logan. Conditions 
 in Congress will detain me here. I very much 
 regret it. I cannot allow this occasion to pass. 
 
however, without giving expression to a few 
 words suitable to the occasion : 
 
 The life and services of General Logan 
 will be remembered in the generations and 
 centuries to come. The death of a great man, 
 while it may enshroud a nation in sorrow, is 
 but the beginning of his life in history. 
 
 The passing of the patriot and hero from 
 his work to his reward is the occasion for the 
 world to close its balance sheet and to enter 
 its judgment upon his earthly career. Yet the 
 verdict is not always complete at the moment 
 of his death. 
 
 A hundred years have been too few for 
 more than a beginning in the study of the 
 heroism, the patriotism, and the wisdom of 
 the Father of his Country. 
 
 Thirty years have been a period all too brief 
 for even a preface to the work which shall 
 describe the life of Abraham Lincoln. His 
 history has not yet been written ; his life story 
 has not yet been told, and will still be new in 
 the centuries to come. 
 
 But what shall I say of the life whose charm 
 and influence have been gone from us but a 
 brief ten years ? Almost everybody in our 
 state remembers the striking figure, the spark- 
 ling eye, and manly voice of that son of lUi- 
 
nois who gave up his life on the day following 
 the Christmas of 1886. The people knew him 
 and loved him. 
 
 The statesmen who knew him in the senate 
 — the political forum of the world — have paid 
 him the honors which he so justly earned. 
 The volunteer soldiers have joined their love 
 with their tears in every hamlet of the land. 
 At every Union soldier's tomb, in every part 
 of the country where Memorial Day has ever 
 been observed, there rises an annual invocation 
 in honor alike of the patriot soldiers of the 
 Union and of the hero who is to rest beneath 
 the statue you are to unveil. There are to 
 repose the ashes of the soldier who originated 
 the beautiful ceremony of decorating with a 
 memorial of flowers the graves where a mil- 
 lion young men of America lie buried. 
 
 Not very far from the spot, by the side of 
 the peaceful lake, where the Logan monu- 
 ment is erected, I remember a time when 
 multitudes of people gathered to welcome 
 home to Illinois and to Chicago the returning 
 hero, Logan. That spontaneous demonstra- 
 tion in honor of the soldier statesman was for 
 the living Logan, The great multitudes who 
 will assemble from all parts of the state to wit- 
 ness the ceremony on Thursday next are 
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honoring the same Logan, who, although dead, 
 still lives in the hearts of the people. 
 
 The place is historic ground. Not historic, 
 perhaps, in the sense that the ancient places in 
 Europe and Asia are renowned. But it is to 
 be always remembered as the place where, in 
 the very childhood of the Northwest Territory, 
 the pioneers of the frontier settlement of Fort 
 Dearborn yielded up their lives to savage 
 violence and baptized the soil with their blood. 
 
 And in a very recent day, the ground not 
 far away, along the same lake front, was made 
 radiant and beautiful by such a wonderful 
 gathering of the triumphs of peace, progress, 
 and industry as the world had never seen. 
 
 I first knew General Logan in the legislature 
 of 1856 and 1857. I knew him as a colleague 
 in both houses of Congress, and I came to 
 love and admire him. He was always ready 
 and resolute, prompt and forcible. He was a 
 remarkable man, a powerful leader. For 
 thirty years I enjoyed the honor of his ac- 
 quaintance, and during all that time we were 
 often together and associated in public affairs. 
 
 It has been said that the use of language is 
 
 to conceal the thoughts of men. Not so with 
 
 Logan. He wore no mask as he stood before 
 
 the people. It has been said of him that the 
 
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words of Homer's poetic hero might fitly have 
 been Logan's : 
 
 For I hate with perfect hatred, 
 Hate him like the gates of hell, 
 
 Who within him one thought harbors, 
 While his lips another tell. 
 
 Another great man, once the idol of the 
 people of Illinois and for fourteen years a 
 senator from Illinois, lies buried upon the 
 shore of Lake Michigan, in Chicago. Above 
 the form of Stephen A. Douglas stands the 
 beautiful shaft erected in his honor. 
 
 And another — a near neighbor in death as 
 in life — a senator of the United States for 
 nearly twenty years from his chosen state, 
 Illinois — Lyman Trumbull, rests in his final 
 home close by the borders of your city. 
 
 These three senators, each in his time the 
 custodian and guardian of the public wel- 
 fare — men who in the past have had to do 
 with the vitality, the very life of the Prairie 
 State — are at rest beneath its soil. Each and 
 all of them have engraved their names on the 
 tablets of their country's honor and glory. 
 Their work was not bounded by state lines, 
 but was coextensive with the nation itself. 
 
 No rivalry is here. In eternal peace — in 
 sacred love — for all future time, these states- 
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men sleep. It matters little where they were 
 born — they were all Illinoisans — they were 
 all Americans. But of Logan alone can it be 
 said that, from birth to death, he was always 
 a citizen of Illinois. Much as he prided him- 
 self upon his citizenship of our great state, 
 much as he admired our prairies and our 
 rivers, our citizens, our institutions, and our 
 people, yet, above all, and immeasurably over 
 all, and in his view, the grandest heritage 
 which he gloried in was the country he loved, 
 with its beautiful emblem — the flag of the 
 
 United States. 
 
 Respectfully yours, 
 
 S. M. CULLOM. 
 
 This eloquent tribute from a lifelong friend 
 of Logan, his fellow-member in the legislature 
 of Illinois and in both houses of the national 
 Congress, expresses well the sentiment of his 
 state, and it is in the same spirit that the Com- 
 mission offers this memorial of the 22nd of 
 July, 1897. 
 
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Sketch of John A. Logan 
 
John Alexander Logan was born in Jackson 
 county, Illinois, February 9, 1826; his father, 
 Dr. John Logan, came from Ireland when a 
 young man and settled in Maryland, but 
 removed to Kentucky, thence to Missouri, 
 and finally to Illinois, The son was educated 
 at a common school and under a private tutor. 
 This instruction was supplemented, in 1840, 
 by attendance at Shiloh College. When war 
 with Mexico was declared, he volunteered as 
 a private, in the 1st Illinois Infantry, and 
 was soon chosen a lieutenant. He did good 
 service as a soldier, and for some time was 
 acting quartermaster of his regiment. After 
 his return from Mexico he began the study of 
 law with his uncle, Alexander M, Jenkins, and 
 in 1849 was elected clerk of Jackson county, 
 but resigned to continue the study of law. In 
 185 1 he was graduated at Louisville Uni- 
 versity, admitted to the bar, and became his 
 uncle's partner. He soon grew popular, and 
 his forcible style of oratory, pleasing address, 
 and fine voice secured his election to the 
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legislature in 1852 and again in 1856. At the 
 end of his first term he resumed practice, with 
 such success that he was soon chosen prose- 
 cuting attorney for the third judicial district. 
 In 1852 he removed to Benton, Franklin 
 county, Illinois. He was a presidential elec- 
 tor in 1856 on the Buchanan and Breckin- 
 ridge ticket. In 1858 he was elected to 
 Congress from Illinois as a Douglas Democrat, 
 and was reelected in i860. In the presiden- 
 tial campaign of that year he earnestly advo- 
 cated the election of Stephen A. Douglas ; 
 but, on the first intimation of coming trouble 
 from the South, he declared that, in the event 
 of the election of Abraham Lincoln, he would, 
 if need be, "shoulder his musket to have him 
 inaugurated." In July, 1861, during the extra 
 session of Congress that was called by Presi- 
 dent Lincoln, he left his seat, overtook the 
 troops that were marching out of Washington 
 to meet the enemy, and fought in the ranks of 
 Colonel Richardson's regiment in the battle 
 of Bull Run, being among the last to leave 
 the field. Returning home in the latter part 
 of August, 1 86 1, he resigned his seat in Con- 
 gress, organized the 31st Illinois Infantry, and 
 was appointed its colonel in September of that 
 year. At Belmont, in November, he led a suc- 
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cessful bayonet charge, and his horse was shot 
 under him. He led his regiment in the attack 
 on Fort Henry ; and at Fort Donelson, while 
 gallantly leading the assault, received a wound 
 that incapacitated him for active service for 
 some time. After his recovery he reported 
 for duty to General Grant at Pittsburg Land- 
 ing, and was made a brigadier general of vol- 
 unteers in March, 1862. He took an important 
 part in the movement against Corinth, and sub- 
 sequently was given the command at Jackson, 
 Tennessee, with instructions to guard railroad 
 communications, which he did with consum- 
 mate vigilance. In the summer of 1862 his 
 constituents urged him to become a candidate 
 for reelection to Congress, but he declined, 
 saying in his letter: "I have entered the field 
 to die, if need be, for this government, and 
 never expect to return to peaceful pursuits 
 until the object of this war of preservation has 
 become a fact established." 
 
 During Grant's northern Mississippi cam- 
 paign General Logan commanded the third 
 division of the 17th Army Corps under Gen- 
 eral McPherson, and was promoted major 
 general of volunteers, to date from November 
 26, 1862. He participated in the battles of 
 Port Gibson, Raymond, Jackson, and Cham- 
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pion Hills. In the siege of Vicksburg he 
 commanded McPherson's center, and on June 
 25 made the assault after the explosion of the 
 mine. His column was the first to enter the 
 captured city, and he was appointed its mili- 
 tary governor. He succeeded General W. T. 
 Sherman in the command of the 15th Army 
 Corps in November, 1863. In May, 1864, he 
 joined Sherman's army, which was preparing 
 for its march into Georgia, led the advance of 
 the Army of the Tennessee in the fight at 
 Resaca, repulsed Hardee's veterans at Dallas, 
 and drove the enemy from his line of works at 
 Kenesaw Mountain. General Sherman says in 
 his report of the battle of Atlanta, speaking of 
 General McPherson's death : " General Logan 
 succeeded him and commanded the Army of 
 the Tennessee through this desparate battle 
 with the same success and ability that had 
 characterized him in the command of a corps 
 or division." In fact, it was mainly his skill 
 and determination that saved Sherman's army 
 from a serious disaster during that engage- 
 ment. After the fall of Atlanta, September 
 I, 1864, he went home and took an active part 
 in the presidential campaign of that year. He 
 rejoined his troops, who had accompanied 
 General Sherman in his famous "March to the 
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Sea," at Savannah, and remained in active serv- 
 ice with Sherman's army till the surrender of 
 General Joseph E. Johnston, April 26, 1865. On 
 May 25 he was appointed to the command of 
 the Army of the Tennessee, and led its troops in 
 the grand review in Washington at the close of 
 the war; but as soon as active service in the 
 field was over, he resigned his commission, 
 saying that he did not wish to draw pay when 
 not on active duty. He was appointed min- 
 ister to Mexico by President Johnson, but 
 declined. In 1866 he was elected "congress- 
 man-at-large," by a majority of over fifty 
 thousand, from Illinois to the XLth Congress 
 as a Republican, and served as one of the man- 
 agers in the impeachment trial of President 
 Johnson. He was reelected to the XLIst Con- 
 gress, and did good service as chairman of the 
 committee on military affairs in securing the 
 passage of an act for the reduction of the 
 army. He was reelected to the XLIId Con- 
 gress, but before the body convened he was 
 chosen by the Illinois legislature United States 
 senator for the term beginning March 4, 1871. 
 He succeeded Vice-President Wilson as chair- 
 man of the senate committee on military 
 affairs at the beginning of the third session of 
 the XLIId Congress. After the expiration of 
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his term of service, March 3, 1877, he resumed 
 the practice of law in Chicago. He was again 
 returned to the senate, and took his seat on 
 the convening of that body in extra session, in 
 March, 1879. Both in the house and senate 
 General Logan maintained his reputation as a 
 brilliant and able debater, and as a useful 
 working member. 
 
 At the Republican national convention in 
 Chicago, in June, 1884, on the first ballot for a 
 candidate for President, General Logan re- 
 ceived a highly complimentary vote. After 
 the subsequent nomination of Mr. Blaine, Gen- 
 eral Logan was nominated for Vice-President 
 and made an able campaign in behalf of the 
 Republican ticket. He died at his home in 
 Washington, D. C, December 26, 1886. When 
 General Logan's sudden death was announced 
 to him, James G. Blaine thus briefly summa- 
 rized his character: "General Logan was a 
 man of immense force in a legislative body. 
 His will was unbending, his courage, both 
 moral and physical, was of the highest order. 
 I never knew a more fearless man. He did 
 not quail before public opinion when he had 
 once made up his mind any more than he did 
 before the guns of the enemy when he headed 
 a charge of his enthusiastic troops." 
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In private life he was a sincere, earnest 
 friend, and a faithful and loving husband and 
 father. 
 
 He was the idol of his own party and com- 
 manded the respect and admiration of his 
 political opponents. The deep affection in 
 which he was held by the people of his native 
 state is attested by the appropriation which 
 the legislature made for the erection of a statue 
 to his memory. 
 
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The Monument and the Sculptor 
 
 LORADO TAFT 
 
Augustus St. Gaudens has been to our little 
 band of native sculptors what Paul Dubois has 
 been to the army of French workers in the 
 plastic arts. He is our acknowledged head 
 and leader. With his return from the Parisian 
 studio and the unveiling of the Farragut, a new 
 influence came into American art. Ward and 
 other sturdy spirits had already emancipated 
 themselves from the dominion of modern Ital- 
 ian sculpture. These men stand as pioneers 
 of a new and really national art, but each 
 stands alone. It was reserved for St. Gaudens 
 to gather about him a group of devoted disci- 
 ples, to discover among them creative powers 
 of exceptional promise, and in ever-increasing 
 circles of influence to turn the attention of 
 our people to the beautiful art of which he is 
 master. 
 
 In this way St. Gaudens has done a remark- 
 able work, one concrete expression of which 
 we beheld with amazement at the Columbian 
 Exposition. No one, not even the sculptors 
 themselves, would have believed it possible to 
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make such use of sculptural decorations in this 
 country — to produce works so vast and so 
 good in the short space of time at command. 
 St. Gaudens alone had the imagination to fore- 
 see, the power to enlist the enthusiasm of 
 others, the skill to solve the practical prob- 
 lems, and, happily, the convincing eloquence 
 to carry the day with those in control. The 
 result was that dream of beauty in which the 
 sculpture was only second to the magnificent 
 architecture, giving to the ensemble its final and 
 highest grace. Its memory is as real today as 
 was its presence then ; its potency for good will 
 not wane for many a year. 
 
 St. Gaudens has used bronze almost exclu- 
 sively as his medium. His handling of this 
 material cannot be surpassed. An artist finds 
 in it a delight which it is impossible to express 
 in words. The writer has occasionally discov- 
 ered in eastern museums and churches memo- 
 rial tablets with which he was unfamiliar. So 
 great is our master's prestige that nearly every- 
 thing done in this line suggests at first glance 
 his treatment, and would raise a momentary 
 query in the mind. If, upon closer inspection, 
 the workmanship was found to be in the 
 slightest degree careless or open to criticism, 
 it was not his; if it bore the most careful 
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scrutiny and was "just right," it was sure to be 
 signed somewhere, in letters microscopic, Au- 
 gustus St. Gaudens, To the professional eye, 
 however, it needed no signature ; he alone 
 could do it ! 
 
 The same thought came over me as I 
 climbed last summer the steps which lead up 
 to the gallant Logan. I felt the emotion which 
 comes to one in the presence of a masterpiece 
 — a great idea triumphantly voiced. The 
 effect of the statue as a whole is superb ; a 
 marvelous harmonizing of the dash and impet- 
 uosity of the subject with the inexorable 
 limitations of monumental art. Vitality and 
 containment are here united in perfect balance. 
 Nearer approach brings the same aesthetic pleas- 
 ure which we find in our sculptor's smallest 
 relief. Each stroke is as it should be. Nothing 
 is neglected, yet nothing is over-insistent. All 
 detail is subordinated to the general result. 
 Even the brazen wreaths about the base, so 
 admirably decorative, do not cry out for recog- 
 nition. 
 
 Chicago has been most fortunate in obtain- 
 ing two of St. Gaudens' greatest works " to 
 hold and possess, we and our heirs forever." 
 To appreciate the greatness of his art we 
 should contrast these two statues and realize 
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what delineation of character is here. With 
 what a masterly choice of pose and look has 
 the artist epitomized the life of these two 
 noble but dissimilar types ! Psychologically, 
 the Lincoln and the Logan statues present an 
 analysis no less remarkable than is the tech- 
 nique which has given it visible expression. 
 
 In the presence of a great collection of art 
 works, as in a library of thousands of volumes, 
 one is sometimes thrilled by the thought of 
 the amount of time and toil expended in 
 their production. Here, on the other hand, 
 while not unmindful of the years which these 
 treasures of our young city have cost, we may 
 exult as we contemplate in imagination the 
 audience which our greatest sculptor addresses 
 — the myriads of human beings who shall look 
 upon these monuments, who may be inspired 
 by them in other days ! A mighty army, an 
 ever-hastening stream advances toward us 
 through the dim perspective of centuries yet 
 unborn. Toward us ? No ; we, too, move 
 with it. Never a pause is vouchsafed us in 
 the silent lock-step of the ages. 
 
 But these remain ! They will stand when 
 we and our children and our children's chil- 
 dren are returned to the dust. Happy the 
 man who has thus linked his name with immor- 
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tality, who has created these forms so noble, 
 so enduring, and so worthy of eternity. We 
 salute them as we pass, and though they return 
 not our greeting, they give us something bet- 
 ter. A virtue goes out from them. He who 
 looks upon them is, perforce, braver and truer 
 and stronger. 
 
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The Unveiling 
 
Invocation 
 
 ARTHUR EDWARDS 
 
Almighty God, Maker of the heavens and 
 the earth, King of kings. Lord of lords, Creator 
 of all men, and Father of all spirits : 
 
 We worship Thee this day as the source 
 of all our benefits and blessings. We thank 
 Thee for our conscious lives, for our republic, 
 for our homes — which are the foundations of 
 the republic ; for our churches and our schools, 
 and for all the moral forces which have shaped 
 the nation of which we are a part. 
 
 We thank Thee for the literature, the just 
 laws, the sciences, the liberal benefactions, the 
 mutual human trust, and the generous impulses 
 which procure and preserve amity and peace 
 among civilized peoples. 
 
 We thank Thee for the manliness, courage, 
 devotion, and conscientious convictions which 
 made possible our brave men and heroic women 
 in the years when armies took the field against 
 us, and dared to assail that for which our fore- 
 fathers suffered and died. 
 
 We thank Thee for our noble mothers, wives, 
 sisters, and daughters, and for their undying 
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patriotism and love manifested when they sadly 
 but gladly permitted their fathers, husbands, 
 brothers, and sons to leave their dear ones to 
 the care of God and risk their all upon the 
 field of battle. 
 
 While we are assembled here today, may 
 God make vivid, emphasize, and impress upon 
 this great congregation a sense of the priceless 
 value of all that for which women have suffered 
 at home, and of that for which men were will- 
 ing to yield all save their sacred honor. 
 
 Pardon all our sins ; remit the guilt of that 
 in our national laws or habits or indulgences 
 for which we may have become responsible 
 through our ignorance or by our indifference 
 to the bounden duties of citizenship. 
 
 Revive within us a just appreciation of all 
 that which by Thy blessing has preserved the 
 nation until this day. Reawaken us to the con- 
 ditions upon which God will alone continue 
 our national life. We pray Thee to increase 
 the number of our honest, God-fearing office- 
 bearers, and to graciously rebuke and remove 
 from power all those who have abused their 
 sacred trusts. 
 
 Grant Thy special blessings upon the family 
 whose heroic husband and father is named by 
 every voice in the nation today. May our 
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grateful memories rival even this bronze in 
 commemorating heroic and patriotic deeds. 
 We pray Thee to stimulate our gratitude toward 
 all those who fought for the republic, and to 
 quicken the spirit of genuine patriotism in 
 every American heart. 
 
 Impress each one of us with the sense of 
 personal responsibility for our homes, for our 
 nation, and for the continued existence of Chris- 
 tian civilization upon the earth. 
 
 Help us to serve Thee by serving our fellow- 
 men, and in the end bring us to the better king- 
 dom above — through Him who hath loved us 
 and gave Himself for us. Amen. 
 
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Presentation by the Commission 
 
 HENRY W. BLODGETT 
 
On the loth day of February, 1887, the 
 legislature of Illinois passed an act making 
 an appropriation for the erection of a monu- 
 ment to the memory of the distinguished 
 citizen and soldier of our state, Major General 
 John A. Logan. 
 
 The act constituted Henry W, Blodgett, 
 William C. Goudy, Robert T. Lincoln, John 
 M. Palmer, Milton Hay, Richard S. Tuthill, 
 William H. Harper, Melville W. Fuller, John 
 R.Walsh, Oliver A. Harker, William S. Morris, 
 and George W. Smith commissioners to erect 
 such monument, and provided that the site for 
 the same should be selected by the widow of 
 General Logan in the city of Chicago, or else- 
 where in the state of Illinois, and authorized 
 the fixing of such site in any public park or 
 boulevard. 
 
 The work delegated by the act to the Com- 
 missioners was necessarily one which required 
 much time and study on the part of the mem- 
 bers — none of whom had had any experience 
 in matters of that kind. 
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As the first step in the duty before them 
 the Commissioners decided that the monument 
 should be a bronze equestrian statue of General 
 Logan ; and, after careful inquiry and exami- 
 nation of the work of several other sculptors, 
 Mr. Augustus St. Gaudens, of the city of New 
 York, who had established his claim as an 
 artist of high merit by his marvelous statue of 
 Abraham Lincoln in Lincoln Park, Chicago, 
 was selected as the artist to design and execute 
 the monument ; and Mrs. Logan, under author- 
 ity given her, selected a site for the monument 
 in Jackson Park, in the southern part of the 
 city of Chicago. Soon after this selection had 
 been made, Jackson Park was designated as the 
 place for holding the World's Fair of 1892, 
 and it became impossible to proceed with the 
 erection of the monument in that park until 
 after the close of the Fair and the removal of 
 the Fair buildings and structures. Criticism 
 was also made upon the propriety of locating 
 the monument in a public park so far from the 
 center of the city, where it would be compara- 
 tively inaccessible to the general public, and 
 a few months since, by the consent of Mrs. 
 Logan and the board of commissioners of the 
 South Park and the Lake Front Park, the site 
 was changed to a point on the east side of 
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Michigan Avenue opposite the terminus of Eld- 
 ridge Court, where it has been erected and is 
 now ready for unveiling. 
 
 Your Commissioners are satisfied that the 
 change of site and the delay in the completion 
 of the monument have operated to secure a 
 better work of art and a far better location 
 for the monument. The artist has had ample 
 time to study his subject and embody in endur- 
 ing bronze the Logan of the battlefield and 
 of history. The great artist, unlike the daily 
 drudge at his toil, must wait for the inspiration 
 which comes only at times to genius, and your 
 Commissioners feel assured that the time the 
 artist has been allowed by the circumstances 
 referred to has been well and profitably spent. 
 
 Most of the present generation of Illinois 
 knew Logan and have a distinct memory of his 
 form and features, as well as a high apprecia- 
 tion of his heroism as a soldier and his fidelity 
 as a patriot, and we need no bronze statue to 
 quicken our love and gratitude toward him. 
 
 But this monument is for generations who 
 shall come after ours, and who, we hope, may 
 be inspired by this idealization of the living 
 man to imitate his heroic and patriotic life. 
 
 In turning this work over to the public of 
 after-ages, I am constrained to make brief men- 
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tion of an incident in General Logan's career 
 which came directly under my own knowledge, 
 and the facts of which rest now entirely with 
 me, all the other actors being dead. 
 
 It will be remembered by all who were old 
 enough to take note of public affairs at the 
 time that after the overt acts of rebellion in 
 the spring of the early summer of 1861, and 
 when the forces of the Union and the Confed- 
 eracy were arrayed against each other in front 
 of Washington, a special session of Congress 
 was called by President Lincoln to meet on 
 the Fourth of July. 
 
 Like many others, I went to Washington, 
 arriving there on the morning of Sunday, July 
 3. I took a room at Willard's Hotel, and after 
 breakfast went to the old National Hotel on 
 Pennsylvania Avenue, between Willard's and 
 the Capitol. There I met several of the Dem- 
 ocratic members of Congress from Illinois, and 
 among them Mr. Logan. We had some brief 
 conversation of special importance, and I 
 returned to my hotel. About 3 o'clock in the 
 afternoon I went again to the National and 
 took a seat in the public room, waiting for a 
 gentleman from New York city, whom I 
 expected to meet there. I had not waited 
 long when I saw Logan coming down the 
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stairs. Having known him quite well for sev- 
 eral years, I noticed at once that he was very 
 much excited. He saw me and came directly 
 to my seat, clutched me by the arm and said : 
 "Blodgett, I was going to look for you. Come 
 with me." We passed out of the hotel and 
 across the avenue and along to the entrance 
 to the Botanical Garden. We went into the 
 garden and into one of the unoccupied green- 
 houses, where we found seats. Up to this time 
 neither of us had said a word as to the object 
 of the interview, but as soon as we were alone 
 he said, earnestly and solemnly: "Blodgett, 
 war — a long, bloody war — is inevitable ; " and 
 then he said that he had hoped up to the last 
 hour that some plan of reconciliation which 
 would avert a war and save the Union could 
 be agreed upon, and that some Democratic 
 members of Congress had sent Henry May, 
 then a member of Congress from Maryland, to 
 Richmond to obtain from the Confederate 
 leaders the terms upon which they would 
 agree that the revolted states should resume 
 their places in the Union ; that Mr. May had 
 returned from Richmond that morning and 
 had just made his report to the gentlemen 
 interested in his mission. It was that the 
 Confederate President had said to him: "Go 
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back and tell your friends that if Lincoln had 
 sent to us by your hand a blank sheet of paper, 
 with his signature at the bottom, and a request 
 that we write above it the terms and condi- 
 tions on which we would return to the Union, 
 all we would write over it would be 'uncondi- 
 tional separation.' " 
 
 "Now," said Logan, "that ends all hope of 
 compromise and settlement, and the only 
 alternative is to fight to the bitter end for the 
 preservation of the Union, and I want you to 
 go with me at once to the White House, where 
 I intend to tender my services to Mr. Lincoln, 
 to raise a regiment in my own Illinois district, 
 and go into the field." 
 
 We walked directly up the avenue and 
 passed into the garden in the rear of the White 
 House. It being Sunday, we knew that visit- 
 ors were not, as a rule, admitted, but hoped 
 we might see some members of the family, or 
 some of the clerks who knew us and could 
 secure our admittance. Fortunately we saw 
 Mr. Lincoln himself sitting in one of the win- 
 dows, and as soon as he recognized us he called 
 out to us to come in, and an attendant came 
 out to show us the way. We were received 
 very cordially, and Logan, without any prelim- 
 inaries, said to the President that he had come 
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to tender his services to do all in his power to 
 save the Union ; and that he wanted leave to 
 raise a regiment in his own district and get 
 into the fight as soon as possible. 
 
 Mr. Lincoln cordially thanked him for his 
 offer, but told him that he could do his country 
 better service for the next few weeks by stay- 
 ing in his place in Congress and giving his 
 support to such legislation as was needed to 
 put the nation on a war footing, Mr. Lincoln 
 adding that there were a great many northern 
 Democrats in Congress who needed the sup- 
 port and example of an energetic leader and 
 party associate like Logan. He, however, 
 assured Logan that he should have authority 
 to raise a regiment as soon as he could be 
 spared from Congress. 
 
 I do not know how long Logan remained in 
 Congress after that interview with the Presi- 
 dent, but the records show that the 31st 
 Illinois, with Logan as colonel commanding, 
 was mustered into the service of the United 
 States on the eighth day of the following Sep- 
 tember, and I know, not only from what Mr. 
 Lincoln said at that interview, but afterward, 
 that he fully appreciated the ardent patriotic 
 impulse which prompted Logan to throw him- 
 self with all his zeal and vigor into the military 
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service of his country ; and we all know, for it 
 is part of our recorded history, how fearlessly 
 and ably he served his country and the cause 
 of freedom until the Union was saved, and how 
 richly he earned the monument we here unveil 
 tohim today. 
 
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Acceptance by the State 
 
 GOVERNOR JOHN R. TANNER 
 
The lessons of this hour are impressive. 
 Each citizen should carry from this place, not 
 only a renewed faith in free institutions, but a 
 strengthened determination to live up to those 
 high models of duty and patriotism with which 
 the history of our country so richly abounds. 
 
 Most gladly do I, as the humble represen- 
 tative of this commonwealth, accept, in behalf 
 of the people, this monument to the memory 
 of one of Illinois' most beloved and gifted 
 sons. And, in accepting this memorial for the 
 great state that Logan so truly loved and so 
 long served, I shall make my few words 
 accord, so far as I can, with the historical les- 
 sons which the life and career of John A. 
 Logan so pointedly teach to the rising genera- 
 tions of Americans. I will not attempt to 
 glorify or to further exalt the name of Logan. 
 That he has already done for himself beyond 
 any man's power to add to or to diminish. By 
 word and by deed, by character and by cour- 
 age, and through untiring devotion and 
 supreme service to his fellow-citizens, he won 
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for his own great name a place upon the 
 brightest and best pages of American history. 
 Generations yet unborn, with full hearts and 
 tear-dimmed eyes, will read that splendid story 
 of patriotism, devotion, and courage, and those 
 who are prone to despair of the cause of liberty 
 and good government will here take heart and 
 learn a higher faith in the goodness and wis- 
 dom of mankind. It is said the greatest 
 statues require the least drapery, and certainly 
 the great characters of history can gain very 
 little from words and phrases of mere eulogy. 
 A great fame which rests upon supreme 
 achievements for mankind, and which takes 
 hold firmly upon the hearts and souls of men, 
 asks nothing from the tinsel of mere speech. 
 That thing called notoriety often owes its 
 existence to what is written and said, but fame 
 — real fame — has its enduring foundation 
 upon that which has been done. It is the deed 
 of a hero which praises him. Men of vanity 
 and self-importance often wrangle desperately 
 tor a little standing room in the dim vale of 
 historical oblivion, but Logan was content to 
 do the simple and unconscious duty of the 
 hour ; and with a serene confidence he left to 
 his country and to time the keeping of his 
 matchless fame. He rested his cause upon the 
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good opinion of his fellow-men, and this 
 splendid monument, surrounded here today by 
 an immense outpouring of the men and women 
 who love and honor his memory, is ample 
 proof that he did not trust his countrymen in 
 vain. 
 
 It is, indeed, fitting that we should gather 
 from all quarters of this imperial state and 
 from every section of this free republic to 
 dedicate a memorial here in this city of Gen- 
 eral Logan's home, among the people who in 
 his lifetime knew and loved him — a memorial 
 which shall tell to the multitudes who will visit 
 this spot in time to come that the spirit of 
 patriotism and of gratitude is not wanting in 
 the hearts of the American people. This 
 statue which we dedicate today will tell to all 
 who gather here that Logan and the great 
 work that Logan did for his country and the 
 world can never be forgotten either in Illinois 
 or within the limits of this great republic as 
 long as the spirit of civil liberty dwells among 
 our people. 
 
 At the day of his death Logan possessed in 
 the United States the largest and most devoted 
 personal following that any man has had since 
 Lincoln and Grant passed from mortal view ; 
 and now, more than ten years after this man 
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was followed to the tomb by a mourning na- 
 tion, the people have built and dedicated to 
 his memory this magnificent memorial. Why 
 has this been done? Why is the name of 
 Logan revered by the American people ? Not 
 aimlessly have our citizens given of their sub- 
 stance for this purpose, and not without ade- 
 quate reason have they left their various 
 callings and gathered today about this shrine 
 to give expression to their faith and their 
 gratitude. It is because there is a lesson in 
 this heroic life and in this exalted career. It 
 is what this man did and what he was, and 
 what he stands for in American history, which 
 is thus typified and embalmed in bronze, rather 
 than the mere personal outlines of his form, 
 now passed away. 
 
 I will tell you briefly, fellow-citizens, what 
 I think this occasion and this demonstration 
 really means. It means that John A. Logan 
 is, in the public mind, the very embodiment of 
 the militant patriotism of the United States ; 
 that he is and will ever be to the people the 
 greatest of the volunteers in the cause of 
 nationality and liberty ; the preeminent citizen- 
 soldier — the representative, above all others, 
 of the volunteers who fought and conquered 
 in the ranks for the Union cause. Not trained 
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and educated to fight battles, not a warrior by- 
 occupation, but rather by nature and surround- 
 ings a man of gentleness and peace, he sprang 
 with the quick instincts of a patriot to the 
 defense of his country in a supreme crisis, 
 and, seizing the trailing banner of the republic, 
 bore it onward to victory and glory. Logan 
 represents preeminently the military power 
 which resides in the people. He represents 
 that safeguard of popular government which 
 was found during the rebellion, in the sturdy- 
 courage and patriotism of the citizen-soldiery 
 of the United States. I do not say that Logan 
 represents no other thing and no other idea, 
 but I do say that he furnishes the most dis 
 tinguished example of a citizen-soldier to be 
 found in the history of the world. 
 
 His splendid career is before us today for 
 review. We see him, in the spring of 1861, 
 rend the political associations and friendships 
 of a lifetime, and, leaving his seat in the 
 Congress of the United States, he shouldered 
 a musket, and we behold him rush to the res- 
 cue of his imperiled country. From that hour 
 we recognize him marching with a gallantry- 
 unsurpassed in the very vanguard of the ad- 
 vancing line of bayonets borne by the Union 
 hosts, until the supreme moment when the 
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rebellion expired and the flag of the Union 
 floated triumphantly to the breeze at Appo- 
 mattox. We see him by the bivouac fires of 
 the Tennessee ; we see him at Vicksburg ; we 
 see him riding like a belted knight on the 
 twenty-second day of July, 1864, at the 
 battle of Atlanta, when gallant McPherson 
 fell, and springing like the god of war to the 
 command of the Army of the Tennessee ; and 
 we see him with Sherman at the head of the 
 old 15th Corps cleaving the groaning rebel- 
 lion in twain from Atlanta to the sea. 
 
 Wherever danger threatened or duty called, 
 this gallant man of the people was at the front, 
 treading always the path to honor and to glory. 
 In no man was the spirit of American patriot- 
 ism ever more nearly incarnate than in General 
 Logan. He was of heroic mold. He brought 
 to the cause he espoused a cool head, but a 
 warm and impatient heart. No man with such 
 furious impulses as he possessed has ever 
 combined with them, as he did, the cool intel- 
 lect to direct his course in the paths of wis- 
 dom. He possessed that rare quality which, 
 it has been said, "gazes like the eagle and 
 strikes like the thunderbolt." 
 
 He was born to lead and to be followed, 
 and no man was ever followed with a higher 
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enthusiasm than that with which the Union 
 volunteers followed the immortal Logan to 
 victory. 
 
 When Logan went to the aid of the Union, 
 he took with him all the hosts of this state 
 who lingered in the borderland of doubt and 
 distrust. His call was like the slogan of 
 Roderick Dhu, and in it was the contagion 
 which produced the great uprising for the 
 Union throughout Illinois. Doubt fled, and 
 duty to country rose supreme, as the black 
 eagle of Illinois, armed and mounted for the 
 fray, dashed to the front, and called to his 
 bewildered and doubting countrymen to fol- 
 low. 
 
 Time would fail me to speak of the splendid 
 career of General Logan in civil life. As a 
 statesman he was wise, courageous, and incor- 
 ruptible, but even these qualities did not pro- 
 tect him from bitter calumny. Often assailed 
 by a portion of the venal and venomous press 
 of his own city as if he had been a criminal, 
 because it could not control and own him, he 
 yet demonstrated to the world that he could 
 neither be driven nor bullied, and, above all, he 
 demonstrated that he who fearlessly performs 
 his duty will have at last the support of good 
 and thoughtful men. 
 
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The virtues and deeds of such men should 
 be garnered and preserved in our national 
 treasure-house, that they may stand as a per- 
 petual inspiration to all our people. Logan 
 labored with supreme ability to maintain the 
 Constitution and the laws. National preser- 
 vation and national supremacy are but equiva- 
 lent words for law and order. Abraham 
 Lincoln was right when he said that secession 
 was the "essence of anarchy ;" and whenever 
 in the future the spirit of sedition shall raise 
 its head in this fair land ; whenever plausible 
 demagogues shall whisper in the ears of the 
 vicious or the unfortunate that their govern- 
 ment has robbed them, that their courts are 
 an organized system of oppression, and that 
 only the rich and the great can receive benefit 
 from our laws and institutions, we will point 
 to this monument which commemorates the 
 deeds of this man of the people ; we will 
 appeal to that heroic life, to that supreme serv- 
 ice rendered to all classes and conditions of 
 men by this heroic character, and from this 
 great and shining example we will renew our 
 courage and receive inspiration sufficient to 
 meet every peril which may beset the land 
 which Logan loved and which he did so much 
 to save. 
 
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Oration 
 
 GEORGE R. PECK 
 
Illinois is proud and happy. Waiting 
 patiently for a fitting time, she opens all her 
 welcoming gates and bids the world take note 
 what breed of men she rears. Here is the 
 product of her soil, and here she brings a 
 mother's exultant heart to be enshrined. This 
 great city, the lake with all its breadth of 
 waters, the prairies stretching outward to the 
 west, and the sky, mingling light and cloud 
 in an ever-changing picture, are resplendent 
 witnesses of' the scene. The event, the hour, 
 and the man are historic. 
 
 Once, upon a day like this, the pulse of 
 summer was beating hot and fierce, when a 
 great leader fell, as leaders must fall if it be so 
 appointed. Some are here to whom it seems 
 but yesterday. They remember the clustering 
 pines, the thickets dark with the foliage of 
 July, the spires of Atlanta wooing them for- 
 ward yet a little farther ; and they remember, 
 too, as they will remember always, the mes- 
 sage, speeding like an arrow in its flight, that 
 told how McPherson lay dead in his harness, 
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ere yet his fame had passed its dawn. Surely, 
 I am not wrong in saying that never was this 
 nation in more deadly peril than when the 
 Army of the Tennessee was left like some great 
 rudderless ship in the grasp of the storm. 
 
 "Of what avail are men," says Carlyle, 
 "when we must needs have a man?" But the 
 man came ; nay, he was already there, flashing 
 as was his wont, in that imperious way which 
 scorns to parley with fate, but subdues it with 
 a glance. On that day — July 22, 1864 — John 
 A. Logan was born to immortality. 
 
 Here we place his image for all generations. 
 Here we salute the soldier, the statesman, and 
 the man, in memory of that sublime moment 
 when he took into his keeping the flag, the 
 issue, and the cause. 
 
 Anniversaries are harmonies ; and, in ob- 
 serving them, we set history to music. On 
 that day none looked forward to this. But 
 time has a magician's hand, and, when it has 
 transformed real things into dreams, touches 
 the dreams and, straightway, they are real 
 again. Behold the bronze epic ! Anna virum- 
 que to all who shall gaze on these heroic fea- 
 tures. Out of the past the battle of Atlanta 
 comes back distinct and clear, though then but 
 a weltering struggle. The years give us the 
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perspective ; and now we see, as we could not 
 when the smoke of battle was over us, that 
 devoted army — which was the incarnate West 
 — desperately facing the foe, while one great 
 thought filled every heart: " Logan is here!" 
 In their agony, having no other refuge, they 
 took council of faith, and bravely trusted that 
 all would go well if he guided their fortunes. 
 
 Art has a subtle vision. It worships beauty 
 and therein, if we but knew it, shows its wis- 
 dom. Poems and songs are links which unite 
 it to nature, and to human nature, which is the 
 flower of all things. It puts light and color 
 upon canvas, only that the picture may speak 
 the universal language. It shapes ideals into 
 form, as Phidias carved in the rude marble 
 those dreams of beauty that haunted him when 
 he thought of Marathon. How can we ever 
 forget, while this brave figure guards the city's 
 front, that art is the true minister of life ? Its 
 noblest conceptions rise from events which 
 have moral grandeur in them ; from illumined 
 moments, when some soul has reached its 
 highest exaltation. Seeing that they are 
 beautiful, it keeps them so forevermore. 
 
 And yet, art does not create beauty, but 
 only serves it. The gleam of a sword, the 
 bright colors of a flag carried forward with the 
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advancing line, the depths of eyes "with the 
 flame of battle in them," are true artistic 
 inspirations ; but they inspire only because 
 they have a meaning, visible not to sight but 
 to insight. 
 
 The soldier in battle does not, consciously, 
 arrange dramatic situations. When John A. 
 Logan, summoned of destiny, rode along 
 those bleeding lines, beautiful in the deep 
 sense that makes the heroic always beautiful, 
 he little thought of the banners that wave for 
 him today. Goethe declared that genius could 
 always be known by its doing first the duty 
 that was nearest. The Greeks believed that 
 ships steered by the gods always came to port ; 
 but a truer knowledge counts upon the practi- 
 cal skill and courage of the man at the helm. 
 
 That day at Atlanta had none of the roman- 
 tic surroundings which give artificial renown 
 to battlefields. No pyramids, hiding the grim 
 secrets of the centuries, looked down upon 
 them. It was not Lodi, where a general could 
 dash across a bridge to victory. There were 
 no narrow paths to glory. It was breast-to- 
 breast fighting, such as seldom comes in any 
 war ; a confused mass, struggling against an 
 enemy that was everywhere. And in the 
 midst of them was Logan — chief, not because 
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of his epaulets, but because the command had 
 fallen on one who knew what to do and could 
 not breathe until it was done. 
 
 He is past all flattery. Shall we call him 
 brave ? Others have worn that crimson badge. 
 Great men become types. The people single 
 them out with the ready common sense which 
 belongs to no man, but to all men. Whatever 
 is heroic they can make classic. Logan is Our 
 Great Volunteer. So they have named him, 
 and so he will be known when we are forgot- 
 ten. His place in the war is secure. The 
 chroniclers of the future will write of him as 
 Froissart did of the knights and heroes of 
 mediaeval times. It is, and will be always, a 
 glorious story. 
 
 The profession of arms is an inspiring one. 
 There is a luster upon it which, in every 
 age, has attracted chivalric spirits and made 
 them happy to be its ornaments and its exem- 
 plars. The scholar, whether in business, in 
 politics, or in war, is almost always superior 
 to his untrained rival. Grant and Sherman 
 and Sheridan illustrate the advantage which a 
 country possesses that has in its service men 
 instructed in military knowledge. But a puis- 
 sant nation, such as came into the meditations 
 of John Milton, when it rouses itself from 
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sleep, vaults over scholastic rules, and puts men 
 into its ranks, little regarding the methods 
 which are taught in schools. Science has 
 always found its way into columns that move 
 forward. Caesar and Marlborough and Fred- 
 erick were great commanders ; but those who 
 read with seeing eyes perceive that generals 
 only lead men, and that battles, however 
 planned, are usually determined by the plain 
 courage of the rank and file. 
 
 In calling him The Great Volunteer, we have, 
 unwittingly, done injustice to Logan. He was 
 not a mere fighter. He had the rare genius of 
 leadership. Ask those who served with him, 
 and they will answer: "Men whom Logan led 
 never turned back." Only a comprehensive 
 mind can take events as they come and mold 
 them to its will, as if they had been ordered 
 in advance. Regiment, Brigade, Division, 
 Corps, Army — these are the steps he took, 
 and never tripped nor faltered. 
 
 The real proof of genius is the manner in 
 which high responsibilities are met. Abraham 
 Lincoln, in the school of Sangamon, was hardly 
 a prophecy of him who became the foremost 
 man of all this world. Galena and Appomat- 
 tox are wide apart ; but Grant spanned them. 
 The law of growth rules, and only those who 
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can rise to occasion are great. Measure Logan 
 by this unfailing test, and he becomes colos- 
 sal. Emerson tells, in a familiar line, how 
 Michael Angelo "wrought in sad sincerity;" 
 but so in truth does every man who, in the 
 stress of duty, builds domes or carves statues 
 or fights battles. 
 
 Let us see Logan under the light that reveals 
 motives and acts. The summons that came, 
 in the spring of i86i, found us, as such a 
 summons always does, unprepared. Peace is 
 never quite ready for war. It was the month 
 of flowers, 
 
 " When proud-pied April, dressed in all his trim, 
 Hath put a spirit of youth in everything." 
 
 The seed was waiting to be dropped into the 
 earth; the sun, swinging round to the north, 
 was calling every field and farm to the oft 
 repeated, but never comprehended, mystery of 
 a new birth. The blow fell while we were 
 welcoming the buttercups ; and it gave such a 
 hurt as we never felt before. It was cruel 
 beyond all our imaginings, for it seemed to 
 write Failure as the end of everything for 
 which we had hoped. Thus it touched our 
 pride as well as our affections. More than 
 all, it brought the deepest grief to those 
 
who were best able to appreciate its latent 
 meanings. 
 
 John A. Logan, only thirty-five years of age, 
 was already a striking figure in our national 
 politics. He sat in the house of representa- 
 tives, that body which touches the people at 
 every point, and in it he was a tribune. Him- 
 self triumphantly reelected the preceding 
 autumn, he had seen his party beaten, his 
 adored leader, Douglas, defeated, and — what 
 to him was infinitely worse — his country hope- 
 lessly drifting into civil war. In those sad days 
 every heart had its own sorrow. No one can 
 doubt that he remembered, as true men do, 
 his party ties ; the friends who had been so 
 stanch ; his boyhood service in the war with 
 Mexico ; and those nameless tender affections 
 which link strong natures to the scenes of 
 childhood. Mayhap, too, he thought of a 
 future overcast and clouded, of shattered 
 hopes, and plans that never could be realized. 
 Then came the test. John A. Logan was, in 
 the heart of him, gold. Out of the crucible 
 the metal flowed ; melted, indeed, but melted 
 into fineness. He was not the man to cower 
 before any responsibility, for in his veins was 
 that rich Celtic blood which makes the reso 
 lute, onward character. 
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"O well for him whose will is strong ! 
 He suffers, but he will not suffer long ; 
 He suffers, but he cannot suffer wrong." 
 
 Logan cut the knot, as brave men do. He 
 went into the war before he had a legal right, 
 and fought at Bull Run under no appointment 
 but that of his own undaunted heart. On that 
 ill-starred day grave statesmen were ponder- 
 ing at the Capitol, as they had never pondered 
 before. Doubtless the record of Congress 
 shows that Logan was absent without leave. 
 But out beyond the Potomac he was fighting, 
 musket in hand, in the ranks of the fated army 
 of the Union. He had deserted the house to 
 be a volunteer for the war. They tell of him 
 yet, as he pressed forward through the smoke, 
 in the silk hat he had forgotten to change, but 
 which never became him so much as when it 
 towered that day over his swarthy face, and 
 those eyes which were, indeed, the windows 
 of his soul. 
 
 After Bull Run he went back to his home in 
 southern Illinois, facing friend and foe alike, 
 with the defiant note which told them — what 
 they already knew — that, come what might, he 
 was for the Union and the war. That day he 
 conquered "Egypt." Everywhere he sowed 
 the words that Douglas had uttered: "There 
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can be but two parties, patriots and traitors," 
 Then came the regiment he raised, and, after 
 that, in a brave, orderly sequence, Belmont, 
 Donelson, Corinth, Vicksburg, Atlanta, and — 
 
 PEACE, 
 
 Something, perhaps, I ought to say of his 
 nature as a man ; the nature that ruled him, as 
 temperament always does, in field, in camp, 
 and in senate. He was not easily controlled. 
 There was iron in his blood ; and there was 
 fire, too, which, when he was aroused, blazed 
 into a consuming wrath. But this is his 
 glory : the self-willed, dominant temper al- 
 ways yielded submissively to the stronger 
 spirit of patriotism. 
 
 Take one or two examples, of the many, 
 which illustrate this sublime characteristic. 
 When Logan had fought the battle of Atlanta 
 and saved a day that was lost ; when he had 
 shown the consummate qualities of a great 
 leader, he thought, and had a right to think, 
 he might keep what he had won — the com- 
 mand of an army that loved him. For less 
 than he had done Napoleon made men mar- 
 shals of the empire, and bade them be the 
 companions of Davout and Ney and Mas- 
 sena. But it was not to be. The Army of 
 the Tennessee was given to another ; and 
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Logan went back to his corps, making no 
 sign. 
 
 " My nature is subdued 
 To what it works in," 
 
 wrote Shakespeare, in that sonnet which, critics 
 say, revealed his inmost heart. No words can 
 more truly show us Logan's heart ; for all he 
 did, or hoped, or aspired to was subdued by 
 one master passion, his country. 
 
 Later, when the war was almost over and 
 the inevitable triumph was plainly visible, there 
 came to him an opportunity which would have 
 been a trial and a temptation to most men. 
 But it was not to him. Grant sent him to 
 relieve Thomas, and, in doing so, gave notice 
 to all the world that Logan was fit for high 
 command. It was one of the most picturesque 
 situations of the war. The Army of the Poto- 
 mac was holding the Confederacy by the 
 throat, while Sherman, marching to the sea, was 
 cutting all its veins and arteries. Meanwhile, 
 Thomas, with beleaguered Nashville at his 
 back, was making ready, slowly but surely, for 
 the blow that should kill. Grant, the Imper- 
 turbable, watching the movements of the 
 armies, was, for once, impatient, and could 
 wait no longer. He called for his Thunder- 
 bolt, and sent Logan to make the fight. I 
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could name men, with stars on their shoulders, 
 who would have seized that opportunity to 
 humiliate the brave Virginian whom men called 
 The Rock of Chickamauga. He, like Logan, 
 had become a type. He was a synonym for 
 enduring courage which stays forever in its 
 place. 
 
 But Logan, hastening to the field where 
 Thomas and Hood were preparing for their 
 last grapple, stopped at Louisville ; not because 
 it was best for his own fortunes, but because 
 it was right. He, who would have flown to 
 any place where danger lay, halted at that 
 supreme moment. He ruled his own soul ; 
 and his conduct shines with a great light when 
 we read, in Sherman's Memoirs, that less than 
 six months before, after the death of McPher- 
 son, Thomas — conscientiously, no doubt — 
 remonstrated warmly against giving the com- 
 mand of the Army of the Tennessee to 
 Logan. The day Logan halted on his way to 
 Nashville brought him the noblest revenge 
 that ever one brave man had over another. In 
 his pocket was the order which gave him the 
 right to supersede the general who had said 
 he ought not to command the Army of the 
 Tennessee. It is like some story of old 
 romance. Both now are gone. Their armies 
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will never camp again, but the nation loves 
 and honors the two men who were thus drawn 
 together in those last great days. The world 
 will long remember that brave deed when 
 Logan stopped at Louisville and left Thomas 
 to go forward, in his own way, to a victory 
 which was like Cromwell's Crowning Mercy. 
 
 This day is dedicated to Logan as a soldier 
 He won it from the calendar and made it his 
 own. But, in the midst of all its pageantry, 
 let us not forget that he was a statesman in the 
 most trying times of our history. It is not 
 for me, at such a moment, to discuss any 
 question of party opinion. Logan was a man 
 of positive views ; plain, direct, and uncom- 
 promising. For what he believed to be right 
 he was as fearless in the senate as on the field. 
 He was for freedom, and for all those great 
 amendments to the Constitution that made 
 freedom organic in this nation ; he was for 
 equality before the law ; he was for the com- 
 mon soldier who had felt the wound, which is 
 the soldier's best decoration ; he was for the 
 national honor on land and sea ; for the army 
 and navy, and for force, if need be, to defend 
 every right which ought to be recognized with- 
 out force. 
 
 He loved Illinois, and Illinois loved him — 
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the son she had nursed in her own cradle. He 
 was loyal to her and faithful to the uttermost ; 
 but he believed, as this great state has always 
 believed, that "the soil of Illinois is the soil 
 of the United States." 
 
 It is little to say that he was honest. Through 
 all his great career he went unscathed, and no 
 man ever whispered in his ear a thought of 
 personal gain. If anyone had ventured, he 
 would have seen, in that flashing eye, such a 
 warning as made the slave, sent to kill Caius 
 Marius, fly quaking from the presence of him 
 who had been consul. 
 
 If we listen, we shall hear an echo of all we 
 do today. The people, everywhere, are think- 
 ing of him, because he always thought of 
 them. It is an old lesson, and a good lesson. 
 We never needed it more than now. If he 
 were alive, what voice would ring like his for 
 civic honor ? What form would lead like his 
 the nation, the state, and the city ? Nothing 
 was too great, nothing too small, if only it 
 were right, for him to espouse. To all the 
 duties of peace he brought the same brave 
 determination that made him great in war. 
 
 He, more than any other, created the Grand 
 Army of the Republic — that organization 
 which makes us remember what we are prone 
 
to forget. Here his form will sleep forever, 
 guarded by them and by those who follow 
 them. I greet you, comrades, who now again 
 attest your fealty to him and to the nation 
 for whose honor you so often followed him to 
 victory. 
 
 It was he who gave us the sweet observance 
 of Memorial Day. Only a poet could have 
 thought it ; only a poet could have made it 
 come true. It is, beyond all others, our dear- 
 est holiday; our festival of memory, love, and 
 beauty. We shall keep it forever, with all the 
 flowers that grow upon prairies and in gardens 
 and on mountain sides. And there will be 
 tears. 
 
 Is it not something to remember, and to be 
 proud of, that, in this great ceremony, those 
 who followed another flag have come to pay 
 their tribute to the Citizen -Soldier ? Men of 
 the South, the Grand Army welcomes you ; the 
 Loyal Legion welcomes you ; Illinois welcomes 
 you ; and all the North greets you with an 
 open hand. Every soldier is thankful that he 
 has lived to behold such omens of the future. 
 Side by side we march today, and all men see 
 at last how well blue and gray become each 
 other, when, together, they bear the flag of 
 union, liberty, and peace. 
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Here we make a sacred place. Here we 
 consecrate a name already consecrated in our 
 bravest annals. We give the statue to the 
 world, in presence of the wife he loved and 
 honored, and whom we love and honor. No 
 friend was ever so true and devoted as this 
 wife of his youth, who became the wife of his 
 fame. She lives in the proud and tender 
 memory of days that cannot return. This is 
 to be their everlasting resting-place ; and here 
 generations will bow reverently by the dust of 
 those whom God joined together. Their chil- 
 dren and their children's children learn in all 
 these majestic rites how great a name they 
 bear. 
 
 Illinois has kept her trust. This great com- 
 monwealth hails today the noble image she 
 has carried in her heart so long. It is worthy 
 of her, worthy of him who wrought it, and 
 worthy of him whose features it embodies 
 He is not ours alone ; but yet we claim him 
 first. In coming years, the throngs that crowd 
 the avenue will see a silent figure always on 
 duty. They will know — and all the world 
 will know — it is Logan. 
 
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The Parade 
 
Eight platoons of police, ninety-six men ; Lieutenant 
 William Cudmore 
 
 MAJOR GENERAL JOHN R. BROOKE, 
 
 Commanding 
 
 MAJOR EDWARD C. YOUNG, I. N. G., 
 Chief of Staff 
 
 PERSONAL STAFF 
 
 Captain W. V. Richards, i6th Infantry, 
 Aid-de-camp 
 
 Captain A. G. C. Quay, Assistant Quartermaster, 
 Aid-de-camp 
 
 First Lieutenant James T. Dean, 14th Infantry, 
 Aid-de-camp 
 
 department staff 
 
 Colonel Merritt Barber, 
 
 Assistant Adjutant General 
 
 Colonel James G. C. Lee, 
 
 Assistant Quartermaster General 
 
 Colonel George W. Candee, 
 
 Assistant Paymaster General 
 
 Lieutenant Colonel Albert Hartsuff, 
 Deputy Surgeon General 
 
 Major George E. Pond, 
 
 Quartermaster 
 
 Captain Oskaloosa M. Smith, 
 
 Commissary of Subsistence 
 
 First Lieutenant Joseph E. Maxfield, 
 Signal Corps 
 
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ACTIVE AIDS 
 
 First Lieutenant Hugh T. Reed, U. S. A. 
 Second Lieutenant Roy B. Harper, U. S. A. 
 Lieutenant M. J. Foreman, L N. G. 
 Lieutenant J. R, McAndrews, L N, G. 
 Lieutenant Leo Wampold, L N. G. 
 Lieutenant E. C. Butler, L N. G. 
 Lieutenant Archibald Watt, L N. G. 
 Amos Pettibone 
 Frank W. Campbell 
 
 HONORARY AIDS 
 
 General M. R. M. Wallace 
 General C. S. Bentley 
 Colonel W. L. Barnum 
 Colonel Freeman Conner 
 Colonel Douglas Hopeman 
 Colonel C, R. E. Koch 
 Colonel J. Mason Loomis 
 Colonel S. H. Fuller 
 Major William E. Furness 
 Major C. E. Hambleton 
 Captain A. C. McAuley 
 Captain T. E. Milchrist 
 Captain I. P. Rumsey 
 Captain Charles F. Smith 
 Captain James McElroy 
 Captain Holmes Hoge 
 
 Captain D. H. Gile 
 Arthur Dixon 
 H. V. Freeman 
 David P. Jones 
 D. H. Kochersperger 
 Frank A. Johnston 
 George V. H. Moseley 
 George C. Ball 
 Edwin A. Potter 
 H. R. Pearson 
 William D. Fullerton 
 Robert D. Foote 
 Walter H. Chamberlain 
 Philip S. Post 
 Robert P. Walker 
 R. T. Perry 
 
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FIRST DIVISION 
 
 Grand Army of the Republic 
 
 Band 
 
 U. S. Grant Post No. 28, G. A. R. (General Logan's Post), 
 
 escorting the Commander-in-chief ; Z. R. 
 
 WiNSLOW, Commander ; 200 men 
 
 THADDEUS S. CLARKSON, 
 
 Commander-in-chief Grand Army of the Republic, 
 
 Marshal of the Veteran Division 
 
 Charles E. Burmeister, Adjutant General 
 Colonel A. J. Burbank, Quartermaster General 
 J. Gary Winans, Senior Aid-de-camp 
 
 AIDS 
 
 John A. Pierce 
 H. Waldo Howe 
 W. R. Bradley 
 L. B. Coupland 
 F. S. Capron 
 C. J. Souter 
 C. E. Offield 
 Fred. Ebersold 
 C. F. Fairbank 
 H. S. Deitrich 
 A. H. McCrackin 
 J. J. Ryan 
 A. J. Brachtendorf 
 C. B. Wilson 
 
 H. C. Cook 
 C. H. Tobbetts 
 W. D. Mills 
 M. D. Birge 
 W. P. Rend 
 C. E. Vaughan 
 Martin Conrad 
 L. W. Campbell 
 H. D. Fulton 
 W. H. Bean 
 James Marshall 
 H. P. Barnum 
 H. H. Gage 
 C. F. Matteson 
 
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J. L. Manning 
 W. W. Bell 
 W. H. Rose 
 C. B. Kimball 
 H. F. Garry 
 Charles Fleetwood 
 J. M. Vernon 
 John McLarin 
 J. J. Healy 
 A, P. Camp 
 M. W. Phalen 
 G. W. Grover 
 J. N. VanOsdel 
 J. B. Mark 
 Charles F. Barnes 
 
 Wm. B. Reeber 
 E. Kirk, Jr. 
 J. S. McCleland 
 Kirk Hawes 
 R, B. Chappe 
 J. H. Wood 
 A. F. Walcott 
 J. G. King 
 J. G. Everest 
 Riley Darnell 
 H. C. Hoffman 
 G. G. Pierce 
 James H, Hubbard 
 John Ampey 
 J. L. Locke 
 
 VETERAN ORGANIZATIONS 
 
 Band. 
 
 Veterans of the 31st Illinois (General Logan's 
 Regiment) ; General R. N. Pearson, commanding ; 1 50 
 men. 
 
 Veterans of the 19th Illinois Regiment; Captain 
 T. N. Beatty, commanding ; 50 men. 
 
 Veterans of the 24th Illinois Regiment ; Lawrence 
 Mattern, commanding ; 50 men. 
 
 Veterans of the 57th Illinois Regiment; Nelson 
 Flansbury, commanding ; 30 men. 
 
 Battalion of Sons of Veterans, escorting Department 
 
 Commander, Colonel C. R. Clark ; A. L. Guilford, 
 
 Adjutant. First Company — John A. Logan Camp No. 
 
 26, Rockford ; Captain W. H. Countryman. Second 
 
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Company — Kilpatrick Camp No. i66, Chicago; Abe 
 Lincoln Camp No. 29, Chicago ; Captain W. L. Ekvall. 
 Third Company — General George A. Custer Camp No. 
 6, Chicago; Chicago Camp No. i, Oak Park Camp 
 No. 254; Captain W. T. Church. Fourth Company — 
 Ellsworth Camp No. 87, South Chicago Camp No. 24, 
 Andrew J. Guilford Camp No. 362, Chicago ; Captain 
 C. H. Bedell. 
 
 A. L. SCHIMPFF, Department Commander. 
 
 Henry T. Barnum, Senior Vice-Commander. 
 
 D. W. Bunker, Junior Vice-Commander. 
 
 Rev. A. K. Tullis, Chaplain. 
 
 J. R. Corbus, Medical Director. 
 
 C. A. Partridge, Adjutant. 
 
 C. B. Wilson, Quartermaster. 
 
 W. T. Boyd, Chief of Staff. 
 
 H. G. Reeves, Judge Advocate. 
 
 N. N. Coons, Bugler, 
 
 Band. 
 
 Rockford Post No. i, Rockford ; Thomas G. Lawler, 
 Past Commander-in-chief, Commander ; 100 men. 
 
 Band. 
 
 George H. Thomas Post No, 5, Chicago ; Bradley 
 Dean, Commander ; 250 men. 
 
 Bartelson Post No. 6, Joliet ; Michael Colmer, Com- 
 mander ; 50 men. 
 
 General W. D. Hazen Post No. 7, Chicago ; George 
 B. Trayes, Commander ; 30 men. 
 
 Potter Post No, 12, Sycamore; Warren F. Peters, 
 Commander; 20 men. 
 
 Band. 
 
 Aurora Post No. 100, Aurora ; N. J. Thomas, Com- 
 mander; 100 men, 
 
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Band. 
 
 Stevenson Post No. 30, Springfield ; B. R. Hierony- 
 mus. Commander ; 100 men. 
 
 Drum corps. 
 
 George A. Custer Post No. 40, Chicago ; William 
 J. Smith, Commander ; 100 men. 
 
 James T. Shields Post No. 45, Chicago ; Miron 
 Rhodes, Commander ; 25 men. 
 
 Band. 
 
 Veteran Post No. 49, Elgin ; John S. Dunser, Com- 
 mander ; 100 men. 
 
 Drum corps. 
 
 John Brown Post No. 50, Chicago ; Charles Dumond, 
 Commander ; 40 men. 
 
 Band. 
 
 Colonel John Bryner Post No. 67, Peoria ; Elliott 
 Callendar, Commander. 
 
 Streator Post No. 68, Streator ; S. McFeely, Com- 
 mander. 
 
 Band. 
 
 Abraham Lincoln Post No. gi, Chicago ; S. E, Wood, 
 Commander. 
 
 Woodstock Post No. 108, Woodstock; Frank E. 
 Hanaford, Commander ; 40 men. 
 
 A. R. E. Burnside Post No. 109, South Chicago ; 
 George W. Richards, Commander ; 30 men. 
 
 Dunham Post No. 141, Decatur; W. F. Calhoun, 
 Commander ; 80 men. 
 
 Band. 
 
 W. T. Sherman Post No. 146, Bloomington ; Guy 
 A. Carleton, Commander ; 60 men. 
 
 Seth E. Earle Post No. 156, Ottawa; W. K. Stewart, 
 Commander ; 40 men. 
 
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Hurlbut Post No. 164, Belvidere ; A. C. Fassett, 
 Commander ; 60 men. 
 
 Nunda Post No. 226, Nunda ; George Beckley, 
 Commander ; 20 men. 
 
 T. W. Sweeney Post No. 275, Barrington ; S. F. 
 Elvidge, Commander ; 30 men. 
 Band. 
 
 Kilpatrick Post No. 278, Austin ; M. V. B. Coho, 
 Commander ; 70 men. 
 
 Merritt Simonds Post No. 283, De Kalb ; D. D. 
 Brown, Commander ; 30 men. 
 Drum corps, 
 
 James A. Mulligan Post No. 306, Chicago ; James P. 
 Costello, Commander ; 60 men 
 
 Waukegan Post No. 374, Waukegan ; G. B. Shats- 
 well, Commander ; 75 men. 
 
 General Lewis Blenker Post No. 376, Chicago ; 
 George H. E. Lewis, Commander ; 25 men. 
 
 Walter Blanchard Post No. 386, Naperville ; Joseph 
 Kochley, Commander ; 40 men. 
 
 E. L. Gooding Post No. 401, Lockport ; Wm. F. 
 Wardle, Commander ; 50 men. 
 Band. 
 
 Whipple Post No. 414, Kankakee; A. T. Keeble, 
 Commander ; 100 men. 
 
 Godfrey Weitzel Post No. 425, Chicago ; Edwin P. 
 Mann, Commander ; 50 men. 
 Band. 
 
 George H. Meade Post No. 444. Englewood ; W. C. 
 Eakins, Commander ; 100 men. 
 
 Winfield Scott Post No. 445. Chicago ; Hermann 
 Held, Commander ; 60 men. 
 Drum corps. 
 
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L. H. Drury Post No. 467, Grand Crossing ; H. E. 
 Brandenburg, Commander ; 80 men. 
 
 Naper Post No. 468, Downers Grove ; P. S. Rogers, 
 Commander; 25 men. 
 
 E. S. Kelly Post No. 513, Wheaton ; John A. 
 Dollinger, Commander ; 40 men. 
 
 Drum corps. 
 
 General Silas Casey Post No. 555, Chicago; James 
 R. Gillett, Commander ; 40 men. 
 
 Band. 
 
 General W. S. Hancock Post No. 560, Chicago ; 
 John H. Colvin, Commander; 100 men. 
 
 Washington Post No. 573, Chicago ; Thomas T. 
 Thirsk, Commander ; 75 men. 
 
 Farragut Post No. 602, Chicago; E. P. Murdock, 
 Commander ; 60 men. 
 
 Band. 
 
 Phil Sheridan Post No. 615, Oak Park; F. D. 
 Thompson, Commander; 100 men. 
 
 Hiram McClintock Post No. 667, LaGrange ; D. A. 
 Lyon, Commander; 50 men. 
 
 Wilcox Post No. 668, Chicago ; George E. Wilson, 
 Commander ; 30 men. 
 
 Lake Forest Post No. 676, Lake Forest ; Calvin 
 Durand, Commander ; 25 men. 
 
 Drum corps. 
 
 Dominick Walter Post No. 701, Chicago; Nicholas 
 Stump, Commander ; 30 men. 
 
 America Post No. 708, Chicago ; William E. Win- 
 holtz. Commander ; 40 men. 
 
 General Edward Hatch Post No. 713, Chicago; 
 Peter Schriener, Commander; 30 men. 
 
 Band. 
 
Harvey Post No. 724, Harvey ; Albion Patee, Com- 
 mander ; 60 men. 
 
 Cumberland Post No. 737, Rogers Park ; C. H. 
 Ceperley, Commander ; 40 men. 
 
 Julian White Post No. 740, Chicago ; George C. 
 Abbott, Commander ; 40 men. 
 
 Benjamin F. Butler Post No. 754, Irving Park ; 
 Oscar L. Barbour, Commander ; 60 men. 
 
 Band. 
 
 Chicago Post No. 770, Chicago ; John H. Miller, 
 Commander; 70 men. 
 
 Desplaines Post No. 780, Desplaines ; Albert M. 
 Filkins, Commander ; 40 men. 
 
 Band. 
 
 Columbia Post No. 706, Chicago, escorting Con- 
 federate Veterans' Battalion ; Major Charles H. McCon- 
 nell. Commander ; 130 men. 
 
 Band. 
 
 Camp 8, United Confederate Veterans of Chicago ; 
 Colonel George Forrester, Commander ; Theodore Noel, 
 President, Vice-Commander ; 200 men. 
 
 Other Grand Army Posts ; J. H. Culvert, Past Com- 
 mander of Nebraska, Commander. 
 
 Band. 
 
 General John A. Logan Post No. 540, Evanston, 
 escort to visiting posts; John R. Fitch, Commander; 
 150 men. 
 
 Burnham Post No. 276, Lowell, Ind. ; John Clark, 
 Commander; 100 men. 
 
 Wilcox Post No. 4, Milwaukee ; 50 men. 
 
 Hammond Post, Hammond, Ind. ; 50 men. 
 
 Elkhart Post, Elkhart, Ind. ; 40 men. 
 
 Chicago Union Veterans' Association ; John L. Man- 
 ning, Marshal; 150 men. 
 
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SECOND DIVISION 
 
 United States Troops 
 
 COLONEL JOHN S. POLAND, Commanding 
 
 SEVENTEENTH INFANTRY 
 
 CAPTAINS— 
 
 Lyster M. O'Brien Charles St. J. Chubb 
 William P. Rogers James D. Nickerson 
 James E. Pilcher 
 
 first lieutenants— 
 
 Edward Chynoweth James H. Frier 
 Robert W. Dowdy Lucius L. Durfee 
 Charles D. Clay Henry G. Lyon 
 
 William C. Wren 
 
 second lieutenants— 
 
 Benj. F. Hardaway Thomas L, Smith 
 David P. Cordray Verling K. Hart 
 Dennis M. Michie Alexander T.Ovenshine 
 William D. Davis Ira L. Reeves 
 
 Noncommissioned Staff and Band — 24 enlisted men. 
 Company A — 46 enlisted men. 
 Company B — 47 enlisted men. 
 Company C — 49 enlisted men. 
 Company D — 46 enlisted men. 
 Company E — 45 enlisted men. 
 Company F — 47 enlisted men. 
 Company G — 51 enlisted men. 
 Company H — 50 enlisted men. 
 
 Hospital Corps Detachment, U. S. Army — 3 enlisted 
 men. 
 
 Total, 21 officers and 408 enlisted men. 
 
NINETEENTH INFANTRY 
 
 COLONEL SIMON SNYDER, Commanding 
 
 Lieutenant Colonel Charles C. Hood 
 Lieutenant Colonel Clarence E. Bennett 
 Major Robert M. O'Reilly 
 First Lieutenant Frank McIntyre, Adjutant 
 First Lieutenant Evan M. Johnson, Jr., 
 
 Quartermaster 
 
 Band. 
 
 Company A — Captain Charles A. Vernou, First 
 Lieutenant Edward P. Lawton. Enlisted men, 51. 
 
 Company B — Captain John G. Leefe, First Lieuten- 
 ant Harris L. Roberts, Second Lieutenant Jasper E. 
 Brady, Jr. Enlisted men, 53. 
 
 Company C — Captain Charles T. Witherell, Second 
 Lieutenant James Ronayne. Enlisted men, 52. 
 
 Company D — Captain Alexander McC. Guard, First 
 Lieutenant Samuel A. Smoke, Second Lieutenant George 
 H. Steel. Enlisted men, 50. 
 
 Company E — Captain Francis H. French, First 
 Lieutenant Arthur B. Foster. Enlisted men, 53. 
 
 Company F — Captain William P. Evans, First 
 Lieutenant Benjamin M. Purssell, Second Lieutenant 
 John Howard. Enlisted men, 53. 
 
 Company G — Captain Edmund D. Smith, Second 
 Lieutenant Frank B. Watson. Enlisted men, 51. 
 
 Company H — Captain Charles B. Hall, Second 
 Lieutenant Frederick G. Lawton, Enlisted men, 53. 
 
 Company I — First Lieutenant Edward T. Winston, 
 Second Lieutenant Henry E. Fames. 
 
 Company K — -First Lieutenant Woodbridge Geary. 
 
 Total, 28 officers and 443 enlisted men. 
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FOURTH INFANTRY 
 COLONEL ROBERT H. HALL, Commanding 
 
 Lieutenant Colonel A. H. Bainbridge 
 
 Major G. S. Carpenter 
 
 Captain William Stephenson 
 
 First Lieutenant G. B. Duncan, Adjutant 
 
 First Lieutenant Charles McQuiston, 
 
 Quartermaster 
 
 Company A — Captain S. A. Wolf. Enlisted men, 50. 
 
 Company B — Captain H. E. Robinson, Second Lieu- 
 tenant J. J. Bernard. Enlisted men, 47. 
 
 Company C — Captain L. A. Lovering, First Lieu- 
 tenant B. E. Holley, Second Lieutenant William 
 Brooke. Enlisted men, 46. 
 
 Company D — Captain Carver Rowland, First Lieu- 
 tenant G, E. French, Second Lieutenant R. R. Stogsdall. 
 Enlisted men, 53. 
 
 Company E — Captain B. O. Price, First Lieutenant 
 F. B. Andrus, Second Lieutenant U. S. Jarvis. Enlisted 
 men, 50. 
 
 Company F— Captain G. O. Webster, Second Lieu- 
 tenant Daniel Duncan. Enlisted men, 52. 
 
 Company G — Captain E. H. Browne, Second Lieu- 
 tenant J. S. Switzer. Enlisted men, 53. 
 
 Company H — Captain J. W. Bubb, Second Lieu- 
 tenant J. C. Castner. Enlisted men, 54. 
 
 Total, 29 officers and 434 enlisted men. 
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TWENTY-SECOND INFANTRY 
 
 LIEUTENANT COLONEL JOHN H. PATTERSON, 
 
 Commanding 
 
 Major William M. Van Horne 
 
 Captain Charles F. Kieffer, Assistant Surgeon 
 
 First Lieutenant Herman Hall, Adjutant 
 
 captains— 
 
 Benjamin C. Lockwood Alfred C. Sharpe 
 
 William H. Kell John J. Crittenden 
 
 Frank B. Jones 
 
 first lieutenants— 
 
 Edward O. C. Ord William M. Swaine 
 
 Henry C. Hodges George J. Godfrey 
 
 George H. Patten Walter L. Taylor 
 
 Tredwell W. Moore Harold L. Jackson 
 Wilson Chase 
 
 second lieutenants— 
 
 Robert L. Hamilton Peter W. Davison 
 
 Albert C. Dalton Isaac Newell 
 
 William H. Wassell Frederick W. Lewis 
 
 Detachment Hospital Corps — 5 enlisted men. 
 
 Field Staff and Band — 25 enlisted men. 
 
 Company A — 49 enlisted men. 
 
 Company B — 47 enlisted men. 
 
 Company C — 51 enlisted men. 
 
 Company D — 53 enlisted men. 
 
 Company E — 51 enlisted men. 
 
 Company F — 50 enlisted men. 
 
 Company G — 51 enlisted men. 
 
 Company H — 53 enlisted men. 
 
 Total, 24 officers and 435 enlisted men. 
 
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FIRST CAVALRY 
 MAJOR CHARLES B. VIELE, Commanding 
 
 Troop C — First Lieutenant U. F. Davis, Second 
 Lieutenant R. C. Williams. Enlisted men, 48. 
 
 Troop G — Captain R. P. V. Wainright, Second 
 Lieutenant W. U. Whitman. Enlisted men, 46. 
 
 THIRD CAVALRY 
 MAJOR HENRY WESSELLS, Commanding 
 
 Captain Charles B. Ewing, Assistant Surgeon 
 First Lieutenant Parker W. West, Adjutant 
 
 Troop A — Captain James O. Mackay, First Lieu- 
 tenant Arthur Thayer, Second Lieutenant C. E, Haw- 
 kins. Enlisted men, 44. 
 
 Troop B — -Captain D. H. Boughton, First Lieutenant 
 C. A. Hedekin. Enlisted men, 42. 
 
 Troop D — Captain George F. Chase, Second Lieu- 
 tenant Kirby Walker. Enlisted men, 42. 
 
 Troop H — Captain G. H. Morgan, Second Lieu- 
 tenant O. W. Bell. Enlisted men, 43. 
 
 Troop I — First Lieutenant T. B. Dugan, Second 
 Lieutenant John Morrison. Enlisted men, 42. 
 
 Troop K — Captain G. K. Hunter, First Lieutenant 
 J. Y. M, Blunt. Enlisted men, 44. 
 
 Total, 22 officers and 331 enlisted men. 
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ARTILLERY 
 
 Second Regiment, Light Battery A — Captain G. S. 
 Grimes, First Lieutenant John Ostheim, First Lieutenant 
 John Conklin, Jr., Second Lieutenant O. W. B. Farr, 
 Second Lieutenant J. L. Nolton. 
 
 Total, 5 officers and 60 enlisted men. 
 
 NAVAL 
 
 CAPTAIN A. B. DAVIS, Commanding 
 
 Crews of the Revenue Cutters " Gresham " and 
 " Fessenden." 
 
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THIRD DIVISION 
 
 Visiting Governors 
 
 GOVERNOR JAMES A. MOUNT Indiana 
 
 STAFF 
 
 Brigadier General James K. Gore, Adjutant General ; 
 Brigadier General B.A. Richardson, Quartermaster 
 General ; Colonel Charles E. Wilson, Colonel W. 
 T. Durbin, Colonel William J. Robie, Colonel 
 
 B. F. Dickson, Colonel Charles Kable, Colonel 
 George E. Rockwell, Colonel James R. Marx 
 Henry, Colonel A. R. Beardsley, Lieutenant Colonel 
 W. J. Henly, Lieutenant Colonel D. A. Coulter, 
 Lieutenant Colonel C. C. Schrieder, Lieutenant 
 Colonel A. W. Lyon, Lieutenant Colonel S. T. 
 Murdock, Lieutenant Colonel R. B. Harrison, 
 Lieutenant Colonel W. T. Gott, Lieutenant Colonel 
 
 C, A. Carlisle, Major L. M. Dunlap, Major Hiram 
 Havland, Major Sherman Trout, Major R. L. 
 Kennedy, Major G. W. Krietenstein, Major L. R. 
 Gigniliat, Colonel Harold C. McGrew, Inspector 
 General; Lieutenant William T. May, U. S. A, 
 
 GOVERNOR SILAS A. HOLCOMB Nebraska 
 
 STAFF 
 
 Brigadier General P. H. Barry, Chief of Staff ; Major 
 Edmon C. Fechet, U.S.A.; Colonel Herko Koster, 
 Colonel Walter Moise, Colonel R. Emmett Giffen, 
 Surgeon General ; Colonel W. H. Barnes, Colonel 
 J. M. Burress, Colonel J. G. Maher, Colonel Fred 
 Miller, Colonel Emil Harris. 
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OFFICERS NEBRASKA NATIONAL GUARD— 
 
 Brigadier General C. J. Bills, Colonel William Bischof 
 Colonel J. P. Bratt, Lieutenant Colonel G. R. 
 Colton, Major G. E. Pitchett, Captain E. H. Tracy, 
 Captain J. H. Culver, Captain C. F. Collins, Captain 
 G. E. Haase, Captain J. F. Zellinger, Captain C. A. 
 Vickers, Lieutenant C. M. Keefer, Standard Bearer 
 James Fochet. 
 
 GOVERNOR GEORGE W. ATKINSON 
 
 West Virginia 
 
 STAFF 
 
 General J. M. Appleton, Adjutant General ; General 
 Malcolm Jackson, Judge Advocate ; General D. 
 Mayer, Surgeon General ; General W. J. Cowden, 
 Paymaster General ; Colonel M. Kirkheimer, 
 Colonel W. L. Gould, Colonel George Curtin, Lieu- 
 tenant Douglas Settle, U. S. A. 
 
 GOVERNOR EDWARD SCOFIELD Wisconsin 
 
 STAFF 
 
 General F. W. Byers, Colonel M. R. Doyon, Colonel 
 Harry S. Fuller, Colonel A, L. Kreutzer, Colonel 
 W. J. Anderson, Colonel W. H. Patton, Colonel 
 W. J. Boyle, Colonel W. C. Brummer, Colonel S, 
 W. HoUister, Colonel Hoyt A. Winslow, Colonel 
 Arthur C. Keyes, Colonel G. D. Breed, Colonel W. 
 C. Gintry, Colonel W. K. Coffin, Colonel S. J. 
 Murphy, Jr., Colonel H. H. Coleman, Colonel W. 
 A. Brown, Colonel L. W. Stephenson, Colonel W 
 H. Young, Colonel George A. Whiting, Colonel 
 George W. Wing. 
 
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FOURTH DIVISION 
 
 Illinois National Guard 
 
 GOVERNOR JOHN R. TANNER, Commanding 
 
 STAFF 
 
 Adjutant General J. N. Reece 
 Assistant Adjutant General James B, Smith 
 Inspector General J. R. B. Van Cleave 
 Inspector Rifle Practice H. S. Deitrich 
 
 Colonel Frank L. Smith 
 Colonel W. S. Eden 
 Colonel Edwin Nortop 
 Colonel W. D. Wiman 
 Colonel J. W. Gates 
 Colonel R. T, Higgins 
 Colonel Randolph Smith 
 Colonel Sargent McKnight 
 Colonel John Lambert 
 Colonel F. H. Smith 
 Colonel S. T. Littler 
 Colonel H. B. Maxwell 
 Colonel W. H. Glasgow 
 Colonel C. W, Kopf 
 Colonel Joseph Leiter 
 Colonel H. M. Hall 
 Colonel I. H. Lesem 
 Colonel C. E. Bleyer 
 Colonel W. M. Crillev 
 Major Swift, U. S. A. 
 
SECOND BRIGADE 
 
 BRIGADIER GENERAL JAMES H. BARCLAY, 
 Commanding 
 
 STAFF 
 
 Lieutenant Colonel Frank L. Hatch 
 Lieutenant Colonel Henry Davis, Jr. 
 Lieutenant Colonel George M. S. Kelly 
 Lieutenant Colonel William F. Dose 
 Major George N. Kreider 
 Captain Lincoln DuBoies 
 Captain John H. McCreery 
 First Lieutenant Robert B. Loose 
 First Lieutenant John A. Orendorff 
 
 FOURTH INFANTRY 
 
 LIEUTENANT COLONEL JOHN B. WASHBURN 
 Commanding 
 
 STAFF 
 
 Major Thomas McCord, Surgeon 
 Captain H. S, Parker, Adjutant 
 Captain B. F, Coop, Assistant Surgeon 
 Captain G. H. Damron, Inspector 
 Captain John E. McNutt, Chaplain 
 First Lieutenant Albert Snyder, 
 
 Quartermaster 
 
 Band and drum corps. 
 
first battalion 
 
 Major Louis E. Bennett 
 
 First Lieutenant F. L. Reed, Adjutant 
 
 Company A, Areola — Captain Edward A. Elliott, 
 First Lieutenant Joseph B. Barricklow, Second Lieu- 
 tenant Rice J. Moore. 
 
 Company B, Newton — Captain E. Wood Hirsch, 
 First Lieutenant Wm. H. Hollowell, Second Lieutenant 
 Lyman Harris. 
 
 Company C, Carbondale — Captain Eugene A. Barton, 
 First Lieutenant Frank L. London, Second Lieutenant 
 Frank H. Feeter. 
 
 Company D, Belleville — Captain Eddy P. Rogers, 
 First Lieutenant Charles F. Krebs, Second Lieutenant 
 Ferdinand J. Schrader. 
 
 SECOND BATTALION 
 
 Major S. A. D. McWilliams 
 
 First Lieutenant L. B. Washburn, Adjutant 
 
 Company E, Mattoon — Captain Charles E. Rudy, 
 First Lieutenant Frank E. Norwell, Second Lieutenant 
 Richard L. Wright. 
 
 Company F, Mount Vernon — Captain Neil P. Pavey, 
 First Lieutenant Edmund Duffer, Second Lieutenant 
 Perl Legge. 
 
 Company G, Effingham — Captain Claude E. Ryman, 
 First Lieutenant John Berry, Second Lieutenant George 
 E. Johnson. 
 
 Company H, Paris — Captain William H. Slanker, 
 First Lieutenant William H. Barr, Second Lieutenant 
 William N. Piper. 
 
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third battalion 
 
 Captain Samuel S. Houston 
 
 First Lieutenant Harry J. White, Adjutant 
 
 Company I, Vandalia — Second Lieutenant Louis B. 
 Washburn. 
 
 Company K, Centralia — Captain George B. Sherwin, 
 First Lieutenant A. S. Brewer. 
 
 Company L, Olney — Captain Frank Muench, First 
 Lieutenant Isaac Wilson, Second Lieutenant RoUa 
 Hensley. 
 
 Company M, Champaign — Captain William R. 
 Courtney, First Lieutenant Jasper R. Prater, Second 
 Lieutenant Edwin B. Ellis, 
 
 Total, 49 officers and 650 enlisted men. 
 
 FIFTH INFANTRY 
 COLONEL JAMES S. CULVER, Commanding 
 
 STAFF 
 
 Lieutenant Colonel Frank P. Wells 
 Major John C. Cabanis 
 Major Fred B. Nichols 
 Major Walter Colladay 
 Major Milton R. Keeley, Surgeon 
 Captain Theodore Ewert, Adjutant 
 Captain Charles T. Orner, Assistant Surgeon 
 Captain Harry M. Smith, L R. P. 
 Captain W. W. Weedon, Chaplain 
 Captain W. Lee Capps, Quartermaster 
 First Lieutenant R. H. Abbott, 
 
 Adjutant First Battalion 
 First Lieutenant Alfred L. Castle, 
 
 Adjutant Second Battalion 
 First Lieutenant A. J. Gallagher, 
 
 Adjutant Third Battalion 
 
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Company A, Pittsfield — Captain William C. Ware, 
 First Lieutenaut Harry B. Hatch, Second Lieutenant 
 V. C. Perkenpaugh. 
 
 Company B, Taylorville — Captain Charles A. Parish, 
 First Lieutenant Mark F. Fulton, Second Lieutenant 
 Clifton G. Magner. 
 
 Company C, Springfield — Captain Michael F. 
 O'Brien, First Lieutenant Frank H. Hamilton, Second 
 Lieutenant Noble F. Barnum. 
 
 Company D, Bloomington — Captain Edward Y. 
 Miller, First Lieutenant Harvey A. Waltz, Second 
 Lieutenant Ellroy Bowman. 
 
 Company E, Petersburg — Captain James C. Walters, 
 Second Lieutenant Albert F. Speaker. 
 
 Company F, Quincy — Captain Harry D. Blasland, 
 First Lieutenant Henry L. Whipple, Second Lieutenant 
 John McLellan. 
 
 Company G, Pekin — Captain Eugene L. Conklin, 
 First Lieutenant Edward H. Mullen, Second Lieutenant 
 William W. Sellers. 
 
 Company H, Decatur — Captain J. Frank Cassel, 
 Second Lieutenant Louis G. Chandler. 
 
 Company I, Jacksonville — Captain Ed. C, Vickery, 
 First Lieutenant John H. McDonnell, Second Lieutenant 
 William D. Doying. 
 
 Company J, Delavan — Captain James E. Watkins, 
 First Lieutenant Clarence H. Ball, Second Lieutenant 
 William T. Dickson. 
 
 Company L, Peoria — Captain Edward H. Couch, 
 First Lieutenant Edward L. Frabe, Second Lieutenant 
 Frank R, Pacey. 
 
 Company M, Canton — Captain Louis H. Gillett, 
 First Lieutenant Bernard H. Taylor, Second Lieutenant 
 Frank D. Tanquary. 
 
 Total, 48 officers and 700 enlisted men. 
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FIRST BRIGADE 
 
 BRIGADIER GENERAL HARRIS A. WHEELER, 
 Commanding 
 
 STAFF 
 
 First Lieutenant Willis Counselman 
 First Lieutenant Gilbert M. Weeks 
 Lieutenant Colonel William N. Pelouze 
 Lieutenant Colonel Leroy T. Steward 
 Lieutenant Colonel John Milton Oliver 
 Lieutenant Colonel Frank H. Ray 
 Lieutenant Colonel James E. Etheridge 
 Major Joseph H. Barnett 
 Major R. G. Clarke 
 
 FIRST INFANTRY 
 COLONEL HENRY L. TURNER, Commanding 
 
 STAFF 
 
 Lieutenant Colonel George V. Lauman 
 
 Major Joseph B. Sanborn 
 
 Major Edgar B. Tolman 
 
 Major James H. Eddy, Jr. 
 
 Captain H. W. Thomas 
 
 Captain William G. Willard 
 
 Captain Edwin J. Wight 
 
 Captain William L, DeRemer 
 
 Captain Adolphus L. Bell 
 
 First Lieutenant B. F. Patrick, Jr. 
 
 First Lieutenant Willis J. Wells 
 
 First Lieutenant William J. Sanderson 
 
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Bugle and drum corps. 
 
 Company A — Captain Taylor E. Brown, First Lieu- 
 tenant James Miles, Second Lieutenant Edward Davis. 
 
 Company B — Captain Walter H. McComb, First 
 Lieutenant Charles H. Errington, Second Lieutenant 
 Frederick B. Hart. 
 
 Company C — Captain Anson L. Bolte, First Lieu- 
 tenant Everett W. Peckham, Second Lieutenant Dorrell 
 McGowan. 
 
 Company D — Captain Edward J. Dimmick, First 
 Lieutenant William J. Birge, Second Lieutenant Joseph 
 C. Pollock. 
 
 Company E — Captain William F. Knoch, First 
 Lieutenant Edgar C. Sturges, Second Lieutenant Frank 
 L. Cheney. 
 
 Company F — Captain Oliver D. Steele, First Lieu- 
 tenant Adolph J. Rosenthal, Second Lieutenant Arthur 
 M. Chamberlin. 
 
 Company H — Captain Wallace H. Wigham, First 
 Lieutenant Charles H. Warren, Jr. ; Second Lieutenant 
 John M. Curran. 
 
 Company I — Captain Charles B. Sandham, First 
 Lieutenant William H. Chenoweth, Jr., Second Lieu- 
 tenant David P. Barrett. 
 
 Company K — Captain Thomas W. Cole, First Lieu- 
 tenant Barnard J. Baumer, Second Lieutenant Benjamin 
 J. Moore. 
 
 Company L — Captain Alexander M. Daniels, First 
 Lieutenant William C. Gibhardt, Second Lieutenant 
 Bruce P. Barney. 
 
 Company M — Captain Edward H. Switzer, First 
 Lieutenant Francis B. Laramie, Second Lieutenant 
 Percy C. World. 
 
 Total, 49 officers and 750 enlisted men. 
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SECOND INFANTRY 
 COLONEL GEORGE M. MOULTON. Commanding 
 
 STAFF 
 
 Lieutenant Colonel William D. Hotchkiss 
 Major G. Frank Lydston, Surgeon 
 Captain Malcom Gunn, Assistant Surgeon 
 Captain Stephen B. Thompson, L R. P. 
 Captain Frederick W. Laas, Quartermaster 
 Captain Horace W. Bolton, Chaplain 
 Lieutenant Freeman, Acting Adjutant 
 
 Band. 
 
 Bugle and drum corps. 
 
 FIRST BATTALION 
 
 t 
 
 Major James E. Stewart, Commanding 
 First Lieutenant Charles P. Wright, 
 
 Battalion Adjutant 
 
 Company D — Captain William A. Chadwick, Second 
 Lieutenant Harry A. Slavick. 
 
 Company B — Captain Frank E. Waska, First Lieu- 
 tenant Thomas J. McConologue, Second Lieutenant 
 Chesley R. Perry. 
 
 Company A — Captain Ossian C. Van Zandt, First 
 Lieutenant John Bauder, Second Lieutenant Edward L. 
 Canfield. 
 
 Company C — Captain Thomas I. Mair, First Lieu- 
 tenant Herbert E. Powell, Second Lieutenant Andrew 
 E. Paulsen. 
 
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SECOND BATTALION 
 
 Major William P. Dusenberry, Commanding 
 First Lieutenant John W. McConnell, 
 
 Battalion Adjutant 
 
 Company H — Captain John J. Garrity, First Lieu- 
 tenant Elmer E. Beatty, Second Lieutenant Walter J. 
 Durand. 
 
 Company E — Captain William W. Tompkins, First 
 Lieutenant Frank W. Mechener, Second Lieutenant 
 Henry Nussbaumer. 
 
 Company F — Captain James H. Stansfield, Second 
 Lieutenant Bernard J. Burns. 
 
 Company G — Captain Willis McFeely, First Lieu- 
 tenant John R. Mayeski, Second Lieutenant Jesse S. 
 Garwood. 
 
 THIRD battalion 
 
 Major Holman G. Purinton, Commanding 
 First Lieutenant Bestor G. Brown, 
 
 Battalion Adjutant 
 
 Company K — Captain Albin A. Benning, First Lieu- 
 tenant Henry J. Freeman, Second Lieutenant Alfred 
 Leury. 
 
 Company L — Captain Gordon H. Quinn, First Lieu- 
 tenant Clarence C. Bartlett, Second Lieutenant John 
 W. Swatek. 
 
 Company I — Captain D. Milton Jones, First Lieu- 
 tenant George M. Martin, Second Lieutenant Robert 
 E. Orr. 
 
 Company M — Captain John McFadden, First Lieu- 
 tenant Frederick E. Koehler, Second Lieutenant Andrew 
 E. Ericson, 
 
 Total, 33 officers and 823 enlisted men. 
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SEVENTH INFANTRY 
 COLONEL MARCUS KAVANAGH, Commanding 
 
 STAFF 
 
 Lieutenant Colonel Daniel Moriarity 
 
 Major George Meehan 
 
 Major Garrett J. Carroll 
 
 Major Lawrence M. Ennis 
 
 Major Thomas J. Sullivan 
 
 Captain Edward A. Kelly, Chaplain 
 
 Captain G. William Mahoney 
 
 Captain Michael E. Cassidy 
 
 Captain Jeremiah S. Hyland 
 
 Captain Michael H. Hoey 
 
 First Lieutenant Thomas M. Kavanagh 
 
 First Lieutenant John F. Ryan 
 
 First Lieutenant Joseph G. Kirwan 
 
 Band. 
 
 Drum and bugle corps. 
 
 Company A — Captain W. Edward Hoinville, First 
 Lieutenant Joseph Moore. 
 
 Company B — Captain Patrick O'Connor, Second 
 Lieutenant J. J. Geraghty. 
 
 Company C — Captain Timothy M. Kennedy, Second 
 Lieutenant Charles E. Gilbert. 
 
 Company D — Captain Martin Duhig, First Lieu- 
 tenant Edward H. White, Second Lieutenant Richard 
 Kelleher. 
 
 Company E — Captain Daniel T. Cotter, First Lieu- 
 tenant Patrick O. Mahoney, Second Lieutenant Joseph 
 Stanton. 
 
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Company F — Captain J. J. Lisk, First Lieutenant D. 
 J. Crowley. 
 
 Company G — Second Lieutenant John T. Stanton. 
 
 Company H — Captain William J. Carroll, First Lieu- 
 tenant James L. Malley, Second Lieutenant Stephen D. 
 Kelly. 
 
 Company I — Captain Joseph E. G. Ryan, First Lieu- 
 tenant John J. Thomas. 
 
 Company K — Captain John T. McCormick, First 
 Lieutenant George F. Connolly, Second Lieutenant 
 Thomas R. Quinlan. 
 
 Company L — Captain John M. Clasby, First Lieu- 
 tenant Harry M. White, Second Lieutenant Maurice 
 Holway. 
 
 Company M — Captain James Clark, First Lieu- 
 tenant Thomas P. Ryan, Second Lieutenant James 
 Connolly. 
 
 Total, 42 officers and 466 enlisted men. 
 
 FIRST BRIGADE SIGNAL CORPS 
 CAPTAIN WILLIAM J. LLOYD, Commanding 
 
 NINTH BATTALION 
 MAJOR C. BUCKNER, Commanding 
 
 STAFF 
 
 Captain W. A. Jones, Inspector 
 Captain J. M. Croker, Surgeon 
 Captain J. F. Thomas, Chaplain 
 Lieutenant D. M. Jackson, Quartermaster 
 Captain J. H. Johnson, Adjutant 
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Band and drum corps. 
 
 Company A — Captain J. S. Marshall, First Lieu- 
 tenant T. R. Van Pelt, Second Lieutenant C, Brown. 
 
 Company B — Captain A. Thomas, First Lieutenant 
 G. T. Baker, Second Lieutenant G. R. Scott. 
 
 Company C — Captain C. L. Hunt, First Lieutenant 
 W. H. Poole, Second Lieutenant Fred Bartlow. 
 
 Company D — Captain R. L. Jackson, First Lieu- 
 tenant W. T. Jefferson, Second Lieutenant H. Lane. 
 
 Total, 1 8 officers and 388 enlisted men. 
 
 THIRD BRIGADE 
 
 BRIGADIER GENERAL ANDREW WELCH, 
 Commanding 
 
 STAFF 
 
 Lieutenant Colonel Walter S. Frazier 
 Lieutenant Colonel Ira C. Copley 
 Lieutenant Colonel E. J. Sell 
 Lieutenant Colonel Jacob Plain 
 Major Charles C. Carter 
 Major David A. Belden 
 Captain W. S. Campbell 
 First Lieutenant L. F. Beach 
 First Lieutenant Carl C. Bullock 
 
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THIRD INFANTRY 
 COLONEL FRED BENNETT, Commanding 
 
 STAFF 
 
 Lieutenant Colonel Walter Wildt 
 
 Major Edward J. Sill 
 
 Major F. A. Jackson 
 
 Major Arthur E, Fisher 
 
 Captain John B. Shaw 
 
 Captain George W. Connell 
 
 Captain John R. Hoffman 
 
 Captain W. G. Bowen 
 
 Captain G. W. Connell 
 
 Captain H, B, Smith 
 
 First Lieutenant J. G. McClaughrey 
 
 Band. 
 
 Bugle and drum corps. 
 
 Company A, Decatur — Captain J. N. St. Clair, First 
 Lieutenant Frank Beeth, Second Lieutenant Le Roy 
 Hornbeck.- 
 
 Company B, Joliet — Captain Fred W. Pearson, 
 First Lieutenant Alexander B. Hay, Second Lieutenant 
 William D. Evans. 
 
 Company C, Ottawa — Captain Sidney R. Blanchard, 
 First Lieutenant Harry H. Hardin, Second Lieutenant 
 Charles L. Gapin. 
 
 Company D, Aurora — Captain John L. Graves, First 
 Lieutenant Fred L. Thatcher, Second Lieutenant 
 Adolph Peterson. 
 
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Company E, Elgin — Captain Joseph B. Claughey, 
 First Lieutenant B. E. Gould, Second Lieutenant Jacob 
 Bodee. 
 
 Company F, Pontiac — Captain A.J. Reno, First Lieu- 
 tenant L. F. Strawn, Second Lieutenant G. F. Whitson. 
 
 Company G, Woodstock — Captain William E. 
 Eichelberger, First Lieutenant Horatio W. Wright, 
 Second Lieutenant Owen G. Mead. 
 
 Company H, Rockford — Captain William H. 
 Brogunier, First Lieutenant C. E. Almond, Second 
 Lieutenant W. H. Sarver. 
 
 Company I, Aurora — Captain Charles Greene, First 
 Lieutenant William Kline, Second Lieutenant Albert 
 Lindsey. 
 
 Company K, Rockford — First Lieutenant J. A. 
 Ruggles, Second Lieutenant E. E. Leonard. 
 
 Company L, Kankakee — Captain Enos A. Smith, 
 First Lieutenant E. F. Schneider, Second Lieutenant 
 George Tronjo. 
 
 Company M, Rochelle — Captain Edward A. Ward, 
 First Lieutenant George W. Dicus, Second Lieutenant 
 William F. Hackett. 
 
 Total, 45 officers and 750 enlisted men. 
 
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SIXTH INFANTRY 
 COLONEL D. JACK FOSTER, Commanding 
 
 STAFF 
 
 Lieutenant Colonel Edward Hittilson 
 
 Major William T. Channon 
 
 Major David E. Clarke 
 
 Major William E. Baldwin 
 
 Major Frank Anthony, Surgeon 
 
 Captain John J. Cairns, Adjutant 
 
 Captain Harrison C. Hopper, Assistant Surgeon 
 
 Captain Benjamin Eick, L R. P. 
 
 Captain A. P. Morgan, Chaplain 
 
 Captain John M. Holt, Quartermaster 
 
 First Lieutenant L, R, Gaylord, 
 
 Adjutant First Battalion 
 First Lieutenant Fred W. Porter, 
 
 Adjutant Second Battalion 
 First Lieutenant Joseph H. Showalter, 
 
 Adjutant Third Battalion 
 
 Company A, Rock Island — Captain William H. 
 McConochie, First Lieutenant Luke Hemenway, Second 
 Lieutenant George W. Flood. 
 
 Company B, Genesee — Captain John W. Reig, First 
 Lieutenant William A. Wanner, Second Lieutenant 
 James Hill. 
 
 Company C, Galesburg — Captain Leslie McGirr, 
 First Lieutenant Conrad A. Byloff, Second Lieutenant 
 Daniel E. Smythe. 
 
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Company D, Abingdon — Captain Frank W. Latimer, 
 First Lieutenant Frank R. Trevor, Second Lieutenant 
 Leonidas T. Reagor. 
 
 Company E, Sterling — Captain William F. Lawrie, 
 First Lieutenant Codicil B. Dillon, Second Lieutenant 
 Frank Wahl. 
 
 Company F, Moline — Captain Frank J. Clendenin, 
 First Lieutenant George M. Gould, Second Lieutenant 
 Marvin H. Lyon. 
 
 Company G, Dixon— Captain Philip McGrath, First 
 Lieutenant Charles E, Frisby, Second Lieutenant Henry 
 B. Trowbridge. 
 
 Company H, Monmouth — Captain William W. 
 Shields, First Lieutenant Arthur C. Mcintosh, Second 
 Lieutenant Ralph F. Herdman. 
 
 Company I, Morrison — Captain William F. Cole- 
 baugh, First Lieutenant Edward Lawton, Second Lieu- 
 tenant Ernest J. Weaver. 
 
 Company K, La Moille— Captain Albert T. Tour- 
 tillott, First Lieutenant Frank E. Dayton, Second Lieu- 
 tenaut Elmer E. Geisey. 
 
 Company L, Freeport — Captain Charles B. King, 
 First Lieutenant S. H, Ottenhausen, Second Lieutenant 
 Harry H. Yount. 
 
 Company M, Galena — Captain Henry G. Geiger, 
 First Lieutenant George Licks, Second Lieutenant 
 William James. 
 
 Total, 50 officers and 695 enlisted men. 
 
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CAVAZ/iV 
 CAPTAIN PAUL B. LINE, Commanding 
 
 Captain Pierrepont Isham, Adjutant 
 Captain William Cuthbertson, 
 
 Assistant Surgeon 
 
 Troop A, Chicago — First Lieutenant T. S. Quincy, 
 Second Lieutenant A. N. Francis. 
 
 Troop B, Bloomington — Captain W. P. Butler, First 
 Lieutenant George Hill. 
 
 Troop C, Chicago — Captain M, L. C. Funkhauser, 
 First Lieutenant F. V. Alsip. 
 
 Total, 9 officers and 135 enlisted men. 
 
 AUTJLLEIiY 
 
 MAJOR ALFRED RUSSELL, Commanding 
 Captain J. J. Ealy 
 
 Battery D, Chicago — Captain William Austin, First 
 Lieutenant A. Lindman, Second Lieutenant Samuel 
 Lawrence. 
 
 Battery D — Captain C. C. Craig, First Lieutenant 
 F. C. Henry. 
 
 Total, 7 officers and 131 enlisted men. 
 
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FIFTH DIVISION 
 
 Uniformed Societies 
 knights templar brigade 
 
 R. E. SIR EDWARD C. PACE, Grand Commander 
 Knights Templar of Illinois, Marshal 
 
 STAFF 
 
 V. E. Sir James P. Sherwin, D. G. C, 
 
 Chief of Staff 
 E. Sir James B. McFatrich, G. S. W., 
 
 Assistant Adjutant General 
 E. Sir Frederick C. Winslow, 
 
 Grand Standard Bearer 
 E. Sir William L. Orr, 
 
 Grand Captain of the Guard 
 R. E. Sir Sylvester O. Spring, P. G. C, A. D. C. 
 R. E. Sir Augustus L. Webster, P. G. C, A, D. C. 
 R. E. Sir William C, Chaffee, Grand Com- 
 mander of Kansas, A. D. C. 
 
 Band. 
 
 Oriental Consistory, S, P. R. S. — Robert M. John- 
 son, Commander-in-chief ; loo princes. 
 
 FIRST BATTALION 
 
 E. Sir William Jenkins, Grand Generalissimo, 
 Commanding 
 
 E. Sir Samuel S. Dodge, P. C, Dixon No. 21, 
 Adjutant 
 
 Band. 
 
 Apollo No. I, Chicago — E. Sir Smythe Crooks, E. 
 C. ; 130 sir knights. 
 
 127 
 
Peoria No. 3, Peoria — E. Sir David H. Tripp, E. C. 
 75 sir knights. 
 
 Joliet No. 4, Joliet — E. Sir Thomas R, Blair, E. C. 
 65 sir knights. 
 
 Blaney No. 5, Morris — E. Sir Wilham Sparr, E. C. 
 65 sir knights. 
 
 Total, 339. 
 
 SECOND BATTALION 
 
 E. Sir Robert C. Griffith, P. C, Chevalier Bayard 
 
 No. 52, Commanding 
 
 E. Sir Alfred A. Whipple, P. C, El Aksa No. 55, 
 
 Adjutant 
 
 Band. 
 
 Chicago No. 19, Chicago — E. Sir Charles F. Wat- 
 kins, E. C. ; 125 sir knights. 
 
 Beaumanoir No. 9, Decatur — E. Sir George S. 
 Durfee, E. C. ; 45 sir knights. 
 
 Ottawa No. 10, Ottawa — Sir Clarence Griggs, Gen- 
 eralissimo ; 65 sir knights. 
 
 Waukegan No. 12, Waukegan — E. Sir Silas H. 
 Brigham, E. C. ; 35 sir knights. 
 
 Crusader No. 17, Rockford— E. Sir Thomas D. 
 Reber, E. C. ; 34 sir knights. 
 
 Total, 309. 
 
 THIRD BATTALION 
 
 E. Sir Merritt B. Iott, P. C, Lincoln Park No. 64, 
 
 Commanding 
 
 E. Sir Charles J. de Berard, P. C, St. Elmo No. 65, 
 
 Adjutant 
 
 Band. 
 
 Cyrene No. 23, Centralia — E. Sir Charles C. Davis, 
 E. C. ; 45 sir knights. 
 
 128 
 
Band. 
 
 Cavalry No. 25, Woodstock — E. Sir Silas H. Calen- 
 der, E. C. ; 75 sir knights. 
 
 Bethel No. 36, Elgin — E. Sir Ernest E. Egler, E. C. ; 
 35 sir knights. 
 
 Evanston No. 58, Evanston — E. Sir Thomas L. 
 Fansler, E. C. ; 55 sir knights. 
 
 Total, 289. 
 
 FOURTH BATTALION 
 
 E. Sir Hamer H. Green, Grand Sword Bearer, 
 Commanding 
 
 E. Sir Albert F. Schoch, E. C, Ottawa No. 10, 
 Adjutant 
 
 Band. 
 
 Chevalier Bayard No. 52, Chicago — Sir George W. 
 Prickett, Generalissimo ; 84 sir knights. 
 
 Englewood No. 59, Englewood — E. Sir William O. 
 Budd, E. C. ; no sir knights. 
 
 Band. 
 
 Columbia No. 63, Chicago — E. Sir Phillip H. Mallen, 
 E. C. ; 68 sir knights. 
 
 Calumet No. 62, Chicago — E. Sir John A. Mcintosh, 
 E. C. ; 48 sir knights. 
 
 Total, 314. 
 
 Montjoie Commandery No. 53, Chicago (mounted) — 
 E. Sir Wesley J. Clizbe, Commander ; 50 sir knights. 
 
 RECAPITULATION 
 
 Field and staff officers . . . 16 
 
 Officers and sir knights in line . 1,403 
 
 Total number of musicians . . 133 
 
 Grand total . . . 1,552 
 Total number of horses, 66. 
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KNIGHTS OF PYTHIAS BRIGADE 
 
 FIRST REGIMENT OF ILLINOIS, U. R. K. OF P. 
 
 COLONEL THOMAS E. YOUNG, 
 Commanding 
 
 STAFF 
 
 Major Henry J. Way, Surgeon 
 Captain George W. Miller, Adjutant 
 Captain A. E. Carpenter, Quartermaster 
 Captain West A. Fuller, Commissary 
 Captain William C. Vail, Signal Officer 
 
 OFFICERS FROM GENERAL STAFF— 
 
 Colonel H. P. Caldwell 
 Colonel E. Bassler 
 Colonel R. L. Crescy 
 Colonel C. H. Shields 
 Major W. S. Bell 
 Major A. H. Michelson 
 Major M. C. Keck 
 Major C. H . Gushing 
 Major D, J. Monahan 
 Lieutenant A. Wold 
 
 NON-COMMISSIONED STAFF- 
 'S.. E, Evans, Sergeant Major 
 K. H. Meinung, Hospital Steward 
 
 Band. 
 
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FIRST BATTALION 
 
 Major Miles S. Cobb, Commanding 
 P. J. O'Hare, Adjutant 
 
 Company No. I — Captain J. C. Hoffman. 
 Company No. 2 — Captain Frank Shultz. 
 Company No. 5 — Captain William Adderley. 
 Company No. 67 — Captain Richard Mazer. 
 Total, 116. 
 
 SECOND BATTALION 
 
 Major William J. Morgan, Commanding 
 G. W. Hansen, Adjutant 
 
 Company No. 3— Captain G. T. Amos. 
 Company No. 12 — Captain William Clancy. 
 Company No. 56 — Lieutenant J. Keitzner. 
 Company No. 60 — Lieutenant W. W. Stevens. 
 Total, 116. 
 
 SEVENTH REGIMENT OF ILLINOIS, 
 U. R. K. OF P. 
 
 LIEUTENANT COLONEL GEORGE W. SHOTKA, 
 Commanding 
 
 Major C. W. Klinetop 
 
 Captain D. S. Harrington, Adjutant 
 
 Captain J. B. Stevens 
 
 Captain Henry Mertins 
 
 Captain A, F. Rehberg 
 
 Captain Adolph Chaim 
 
 Captain Homer W. Thope 
 
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NON-COMMISSIONED STAFF— 
 
 Samuel A. Shaw, Sergeant Major 
 Charles Hunkler, Quartermastet Sergeant 
 Frank P. Irmiter, Color Sergeant 
 Peter C. Pauly, Orderly 
 
 Band. 
 
 FIRST BATTALION 
 
 Major J. L. Sugrosser, Commanding 
 Michael Rednig, Quartermaster 
 
 Company No. 8i — Captain E. K. Bennington. 
 Company No. 82 — Captain H. Weise. 
 Company No. 83 — Captain H. C. Frese. 
 Company No. 85 — Captain W. H. Stoddert. 
 Company No. 88 — Captain S. C. Esendrath. 
 Company No. 89 — Captain N. P. Meller. 
 Company No. 84 — Captain Phil May, 
 Total, 248. 
 
 RECAPITULATION 
 
 Field and staff officers ... 30 
 
 Officers and men in line . . . 486 
 Total number of musicians . . 55 
 
 Grand total . . . .571 
 Total number of horses, 30. 
 
 RECAPITULATION OF DIVISION 
 
 Field and staff officers 
 Officers and men in line 
 Total number of musicians 
 
 46 
 
 1,889 
 
 188 
 
 Grand total . 
 Total number of horses, 96. 
 132 
 
 2,123 
 
SIXTH DIVISION 
 
 Chicago Letter Carriers 
 
 CHARLES U. GORDON, Postmaster, Marshal 
 
 John A. Montgomery, Chief of Staff 
 Henry C. Smale, Adjutant 
 
 PERSONAL AIDS 
 
 Charles A. Hanna Perry H. Smith 
 
 James McArthur 
 
 AIDS 
 
 Joseph B. Schlossman W. E. Crumbacker 
 
 T. W. Wittier George H. Haggett 
 
 J. T. McGrath James H. McCauley 
 
 George M. Colby P. T. O'Sullivan 
 
 Daniel P. Cahill Albert Jampolis 
 
 Henry Blattner Peter Newton 
 
 Peter Deidrich John Harrington 
 
 John W, Ward John Cheevers 
 
 Band. 
 
 FIRST BATTALION 
 
 General Hermann Lies, Commander 
 Company A — Captain J, E. Adams 
 Company B — Captain Lawrence LeBron. 
 Company C — Captain Fred W. Hartwick. 
 Company D — Captain John Jacobson. 
 
 SECOND BATTALION 
 William J. Major, Commander 
 Company E — Captain Evan Danden, 
 Company F — Captain F. J. Crowell 
 Company G — Captain Clark M. Stover. 
 Company H — Captain F. J. H. Wichman. 
 
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THIRD BATTALION 
 
 Henry H. Henshaw, Commander 
 
 Company I— Captain W. J. Ryan. 
 Company K — Captain James Anderson. 
 Company L — Captain J. F. McGrew. 
 Company M — Captain R. H. Norton. 
 Total, 1,275. 
 
 SEVENTH DIVISION 
 
 United States Juniors 
 
 A. A. LAMBERT, Commanding 
 
 Band. 
 
 Battalion United States Juniors. 
 
 Total, 360. 
 
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GRAND TOTAL IN PARADE 
 
 Grand Marshal and Staff 
 
 First Division — Grand Army of the Republic 
 Second Division — United States Troops . 
 Third Division — Governors of States . . 
 Fourth Division — Illinois National Guard 
 Fifth Division — Uniformed Societies . . 
 Sixth Division — Chicago Letter Carriers . 
 Seventh Division — Other Military Organizations 
 
 51 
 
 4,500 
 
 2,256 
 
 50 
 
 5.883 
 2,123 
 
 1.275 
 360 
 
 16,498 
 
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