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 DEDICATION 
 
 OF THE 
 

DEDI^ATIQN'^T-^MONUMENT! 
 
 — OF THE — 
 
 7th, 10th and 37th Mass. Vols., 
 At Gettysburg, Pa., 
 
 October 6, i886. 
 
 WITH THE 
 
 DEDICATORY ADDRESS. 
 
 By JAMES L. BOWEN, 
 
 President of the 37th Regiment Association. 
 
 SPRINGFIELD, MASS., 1886. 
 
 PCBLISHED FOR THE COMMI'ITEE, 
 
 By James L. Bowen. 
 
SPRINGFIELD, ."ilASS. : 
 
 The Homestead Job Pkint. 
 
 
©EDICATORY IdDRESS. 
 
 Mr. President, Comrades, Ladies and 
 Gentlemen : 
 
 Qtanding in this scene of peace and 
 prosperity, looking forth over these 
 smiHng valleys and beautiful villages, 
 breathing the air of unity and concord 
 which enwraps our entire land, from the 
 Lakes to the Gulf and from the Atlantic 
 to the Pacific, it is not easy at once to 
 transport ourselves, even in imagination, 
 back to the days of civil strife, three and 
 twenty years ago, and especially to that 
 feverish season of suspense, those crucial 
 hours of the first and second and third of 
 July, 1863, when over and around these 
 hills and valleys hung the battle clouds of 
 the most momentous contest ever fought 
 on American soil. 
 
 Yet as we come to this spot to dedicate 
 these monuments, in order to realize that for 
 
which they stand, and what they imply, it is 
 necessary that we should temporarily leave 
 the present with its joys and brightness and 
 in fancy go back to those other days and 
 scenes. We would not reawaken if we 
 could the keen anguish of the former years, 
 now soothed and softened by Time's effacing 
 fingers ; the intense anxiety straining at the 
 heart cords is happily only a memory ; least 
 of all would we revive the passion and the 
 fury of those days of deadly strife when the 
 hand of brother was raised against brother. 
 It is not to perpetuate these that w^e have 
 erected here our monuments ; it is instead to 
 mark an epoch in the world's history, a 
 turning point in the destiny of a nation. 
 
 In some form or another and for one 
 purpose or another the memorial stone has 
 been erected through all the ages of the 
 past ; especially has its mission been to 
 commemorate notable events and illustrious 
 lives. Such are the shafts at Bunker Hill, at 
 Baltimore, at Washington, and the one soon 
 to be erected at Bennington. Such is the 
 monument in yonder National cemetery, 
 
watching over the graves of nearly 4000 
 illustrious men who died along these hills 
 and slopes because they loved their country. 
 Illustrious men, did I say? That in deed 
 and in truth they were ; for while their lives 
 may have been very humble and of little 
 momeiu as the great world counts importance, 
 we should never forget, comrades and friends, 
 that to each and every one of these men his 
 life was his all, and in giving that he gave as 
 freely and as nobly as the most eminent 
 citized and renowned patriot — gave all that 
 he had and was on earth. 
 
 Correlative and supplementary to that 
 greater monument, we have placed these 
 lesser ones, to show that organizations with 
 which we were identified, and whose name 
 and fame had become dear to us, bore part 
 — not alone in what was done on this spot, 
 but here and elsewhere in all that great 
 struggle which had here its culmination and 
 turning point. Here may be said to have 
 been in every sense the central point in the 
 great war of the rebellion ; these hights form 
 a vantage ground, so to speak, from which 
 
we may look back to the beginning 
 and hear the firing of the first gun at 
 Sumter; may witness the surrender at 
 Appomattox, the grand review at Washington 
 and the fading from the vision of the scenes 
 of blood and conflict. In point of time, the 
 battle of Gettysburg stood midway ; two 
 years had elapsed since the shot that 
 awakened every loyal heart was fired, — 
 years in which the cause of Union and 
 liberty had trembled in doubt ; two years 
 still in the future was the day when the 
 steadily waning power of the rebellion 
 should utterly collapse, and the old flag 
 should float unstained and in triumph. 
 
 So while we group our monuments. here, 
 primarily to mark phases of this supreme 
 conflict in which we had an immediate 
 interest, ' in a broader sense they stand for 
 all that had gone before and all that was to 
 come in which the respective organizations 
 had borne or were to bear part. And 
 when years hence the aged survivor of these 
 regiments or his descendants gaze upon 
 these mementoes, they will recall, not alone 
 
the march to* Gettysburg, but he of the 
 Seventh Regiment will think as well of 
 Marye's Hights and Salem Church ; if of 
 the Tenth he will recall Fair Oaks and 
 Malvern Hill and the Angle at Spottsylvania ; 
 to the Thirty-seventh will come memories of 
 the Wilderness, of Winchester, of Petersburg 
 and of Sailor's Creek — he will remember all 
 the brave who laid down their lives, who 
 suffered wounds or disease or imprisonment, 
 and their memory shall become to him a 
 more sacred and hallowed one as. he stands 
 here and drinks in the inspiration of the 
 realization of all for which these men offered 
 themselves. 
 
 Appreciating the importance that attaches 
 and ever must attach to this battle, knowing 
 how often in the future the student of 
 history, the intelligent citizen, the interested 
 sons and daughters of those who fought and 
 perhaps died here, will turn to this spot to 
 study the story of the battle and to imbibe 
 lessons of patriotism, Massachusetts as a 
 commonwealth led the way in providing that 
 the positions occupied by her sons should be 
 
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 marked by enduring monuments for each 
 and every organization taking part in the 
 battle. We say that Massachu-setts was the 
 first state to provide that the position of her 
 every regiment, battery and independent 
 company should be suitably marked, and we 
 are proud that to the old Bay State, in this 
 direction as in* so many others, it was given 
 to lead. Other states have followed the 
 example, as still others will do ; and I hope 
 that in the years to come many of us may 
 wander again over these hills and through 
 these valleys, finding here tablets to mark 
 the spot where all the regiments and 
 batteries fought, — not alone of those who 
 wore the blue, but as well of those heroic 
 souls who fighting against us, against progress, 
 against destiny even, poured out their blood 
 with a heroism which shall crown their 
 names and their memories as long as time 
 shall last. 
 
 It is in pursuance of this action by our 
 state that these memorial stones of the 
 Seventh and Tenth and Thirty-seventh 
 Massachusetts Regiments have been placed 
 
on this field, the appropriate locations having 
 been decided upon by the committees of 
 the several regiments in consultation with 
 the government historian of the battle. 
 Colonel John B. Bachelder, also a citizen of 
 Massachusetts. It may seem necessary to 
 explain why this particular spot was fixed 
 upon, where the brigade took no active part 
 in the contest, and only formed a supporting 
 line, while on other parts of the field it was 
 more severely tested. We must remember 
 in this connection that not all battles are 
 won by the fiercest encounters or through 
 those operations which entail the greatest 
 sacrifice of life ; and it was on this principle 
 that the Second Brigade, Third Division, 
 Sixth Army Corps, on the spot where their 
 monuments have been placed (or strictly 
 speaking at a point just in the rear of that 
 location), by their timely presence at a 
 critical instant of time, with the loss of but 
 one man killed, contributed to an important 
 result in the fortunes of the field. To 
 illustrate this fully, and to show by what 
 strenuous exertions these regiments were 
 
here, just where they were needed and at 
 the time when their presence could be made 
 most helpful, it will be necessary that we go 
 back from the time of the battle and 
 accompany them as they march to the field. 
 The brigade had been first to cross 
 Franklin's bridges at the opening of the 
 battle of Fredericksburg, and last to return 
 to the Falmouth side when the further 
 prosecution of that disastrous contest had 
 been abandoned. It had foundered through 
 the mire and miser\' of the Mud march. It 
 had occupied the winter camps where, 
 especially in the case of the Thirty-seventh 
 Regiment, disease had proved more deadly 
 than the battle. It had stormed Marye's 
 Hights on the memorable 3d of May, 1863, 
 which the Seventh Regiment may well 
 remember with pride, when it so gallantly 
 led the brigade and won for itself 
 imperishable renowm. On that self-same 
 day the brigade had rendered noble sendee 
 at Salem Church, where it had checked the 
 almost triumphant legions of McLaws and 
 sent them back to the shelter of the forest 
 
from which they had emerged. For 24 
 hours, lying in the open field at the extreme 
 front, a thin line of blue, with no better 
 protection than a few rails, it had held the 
 enemy's strong force at bay while ten times 
 its number of Confederates gathered at its 
 fi-ont and closed in upon the flanks till only 
 a single avenue of escape remained. Through 
 this the regiments effected a retreat more 
 brilliant in execution than gratifying in the 
 necessity, reaching the bridge in safet}-. 
 regaining the Falmouth side of the river 
 once more, — A^ith the sad consciousness that 
 all the heroic la\-ing down of hfe had been 
 but a waste, and that the campaign which 
 had begun with such magnificent promises 
 of brilliant victory had ended in discreditable 
 failurej — for which neither the Sixth Corps 
 nor its gallant commander, the honored 
 Sedgwick, could be held blamable. 
 
 Do you wonder why I recite these pre\ious 
 incidents, and what bearing they may have 
 upon the presence of the Second Brigade at 
 Gettvsburg? Let us remember that it was 
 thro' -h the school of such disheartening 
 
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 experiences as these to which I have referred 
 that the approaches to Gettysburg were 
 made. Defeat, disappointment, disaster — 
 these three words seemed to summarize the 
 experiences of the brave old Army of the 
 Potomac up to that hour. Where it had 
 won victories on the field, as it had 
 repeatedly done, the fruits of such victories 
 had never been adequately realized. I do 
 not in this connection reflect upon any 
 commander — I do • not seek to place the 
 responsibility — I only refer to the 
 indisputable fact that I may attest in behalf 
 of my comrades of the rank and file of that 
 noble army the full and glorious measure of 
 their patriotism. What had these men to 
 gain — but exposure and suffering, sickness 
 and wounds, captivity and death? Selfish 
 consideration they had none save that their 
 country, threatened with disruption and by the 
 hand of a relentless foe, needed their aid— and 
 their lives it might be. We are often times told 
 that the old army became demoralized and 
 disheartened during this period to which I 
 have referred. While in one sense and to a 
 
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 certain degree this may have been true, in 
 the larger degree and the better sense it was 
 not true. The sufificient answer to such 
 assertions is found in the unshrinking charge 
 after charge at Fredericksburg, the undaunted 
 heroism of Chancellorsville and the attendant 
 battles by the Sixth Corps^ and especially in the 
 dearly-bought victory won on these hills of 
 Gettysburg ! These battles were fought by 
 men who had consecrated themselves to the 
 service of their country under the 
 commanders who should be set over them 
 by the constituted authorities ; they regretted 
 mistakes, they grew impatient of delays, it 
 might be ; they did not delight in war, and 
 even on the field of carnage shrank from its 
 horrors ; but if duty called they could go 
 unshrinkingly forth to death — and with an 
 army whose foundation was such manhood 
 as this, confident of the justice of their cause 
 and trusting that in his own good time the 
 God of Battles would lead them to complete 
 success, there could possibly be but one final 
 result. 
 
So when the bugles woke the sleepmg camp 
 before hght of the morning of the 4th of June, 
 and with eight days' rations the Sixth Corps 
 took its way once more to Frankhn's crossing, 
 there was the usual cheerful obedience to 
 orders, the ever present hope that this time 
 something worthy the effort would result. 
 Then it was that Eustis's Brigade began its 
 part in the Gettysburg campaign, four full 
 weeks before the meeting of the rival armies 
 on these hights. For ten days, almost 
 without sleep by night or day, now on one 
 side of the Rappahannock and then on the 
 other, building fortifications, standing or lying 
 on the skirmish line, now exchanging shots and 
 anon tobacco and coffee with the Confederate 
 picket lines, ever alert, never sure at one 
 moment what the next might have in store, the 
 Sixth Corps was engaged in demonstrations 
 intended to assist in uncovering the real 
 purpose of the enemy. Then in a pouring 
 rain on the night of the 13th the pickets 
 were withdrawn, the bridge was recrossed 
 and with a few hours' rest the command 
 faced to the north and began its part in that 
 
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 series of masterly moves by which " Fighting 
 Joe Hooker" outgeneraled the Southern 
 commander, forced the invaders to take a 
 different route than they had intended, and 
 finally brought them to this historic spot and 
 to defeat. 
 
 Those participating will remember the 
 marches which ensued, beginning with seas of 
 mud through which the wheeled vehicles 
 went only by spasms, and the tired soldiers 
 — wearied and needing rest even when 
 the march began — picked their way as best 
 they could. But the summer sun quickly 
 dried the mud into dust that brought yet 
 greater torture for the marching columns. 
 There was scarcely halt by day or night till 
 the defenses of Washington were reached 
 and Eustis's Brigade sank weary on the 
 ground near Fairfax Station. There one day 
 of rest was enjoyed, when beneath a burning 
 sun the regiments marched to Fairfox Court 
 House, the exhausted men dropping all along 
 the way from sun-stroke, and for six days the 
 brigade bivouacked on the wide expanse of a 
 shadeless plain, whose sands glowed beneath 
 
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 the fierce rays of a summer sun, while a 
 single roily, muddy spring furnished 
 thousands of men with the few mouthfuls 
 of un drinkable water they were able to 
 obtain. Glad of any change the brigade 
 moved to Centerville and reheved troops 
 that immediately marched away to the 
 northward. On the morning of the 26th 
 of June, the Seventh and Tenth and Thirty- 
 seventh, with the other regiments of the 
 brigade, followed. Five days later the Sixth 
 Corps halted *a hundred and twenty-five 
 miles from the weather-worn intrenchments 
 of Centerville. Rain had fallen nearly every 
 day, some of the time heavily ; but over the 
 slippery roads, torn by thousands of wheels 
 and pulverized by tens of thousands of hoofs 
 and feet, through beating storm and 
 sweltering heat, the determined corps had 
 made an average day's march of 25 miles 
 for five days in succession ! 
 
 Then the exhausted soldiers, who had 
 already performed a series of marches 
 rarely equaled in history, rested for 
 something like 24 hours. The corps had 
 
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 reached Manchester, more than 30 miles 
 from the spot where we now stand, and in 
 the rear of Pipe Creek occupied the right of 
 the position in which General Meade hoped to 
 fight the impending battle. It was not so to 
 be. Even while the weary battalions of the 
 Greek Cross were tleaning their muskets 
 and resting their limbs, the advance of the 
 two armies had met beyond Seminary Ridge 
 and the great battle of the war had begun. 
 General Meade had not meant to fight at 
 Gettysburg — General Lee had not meant to 
 fight at Gettysburg ; but may we not reverently 
 believe that a Power greater than the power 
 of any earthly commander had directed the 
 movements of the armies of earth? 
 
 Far away at Manchester the boom of the 
 cannon was heard, and the idling soldiery 
 speculated indifferently as to its cause. x\s 
 the day waned the sounds ceased, and were 
 scarcely given further thought. The dusk of 
 evening was gathering, the shelter tents had 
 been pitched, and the tired men were 
 already stretched beneath them or lounging 
 in the vicinity, anticipating a refreshing 
 
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 night's rest, when about head-quarters came 
 a quick bustle, orderhes dashed here and 
 there, bugles rang, drums beat, the little 
 villages of canvas disappeared as by magic, 
 and the quickly formed column filed out on 
 the highway. The Sixth Corps had begun 
 the most famous march in its history. 
 
 To do full justice to the effort which 
 followed we must not forget the circumstances 
 under which it was made. We must recollect 
 that the men began the long march at an 
 hour when they were to wrap themselves in 
 their blankets for much-needed rest and 
 sleep. The few hours' respite which they 
 had enjoyed had been merely sufficient to 
 reveal the extent of the exhaustion which 
 their previous long marches had induced. 
 And worst of all, so far as the physical 
 comfort of the soldier was concerned, the 
 recent change in commanders and in 
 methods in the commissary department had 
 left the men without food in their haversacks ; 
 so that when this march began scarcely one 
 in ten had rations sufficient for a single meal. 
 
 Under such circumstances the heroes of 
 
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 the Sixth Corps turned their faces toward 
 the battle-field. I need not recall the long 
 night march ; how the head of the column 
 mistook the road and before the error was 
 discovered and the steps retraced added six 
 or eight miles to the distance ; the incessant 
 plodding of men almost asleep as they 
 moved ; the final coming of morning light 
 and the brief stop beside a pleasant 
 water-course where a few of the more 
 energetic had time to make a cup of coffee ; 
 then the warning of the bugles and the 
 resumption of the march before there was 
 opportunity to bathe the swollen feet or the 
 dust-filled eyes. The sun arose, mounting 
 higher and higher, and the interminable 
 hours of the forenoon dragged away while 
 the column moved on and on and on. 
 
 Only the participant in like experiences 
 can realize the misery of the ceaseless 
 march through the long, sultry hours. It 
 was a broiling July day. The sun poured 
 down with merciless, unbroken heat, and 
 the dust that rose in great clouds from the 
 highway enveloped man and horse, general 
 
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 and private soldier alike, in its all-embracing 
 mantle of torture. How the exhausted 
 lungs panted for one cool, pure breath ! 
 Panted only to be mocked by the bitter, 
 burning, dust-laden air that seemed to come 
 from the mouth of a furnace. What wonder 
 that the sun-stroke was omnipresent along 
 the line — that strong men gasped and 
 staggered and fell, while the thick blood 
 burst from mouth and nostrils, and the 
 tortured frame was placed tenderly in some 
 shaded nook by comrades whose visions 
 swam and who trembled on ,the verge of a 
 like fate? Yet the winding column never 
 paused, for not the life of one man but the 
 life of the nation was at stake that day. 
 
 Late in the afternoon the column crossed 
 Rock Creek, and how welcome was the halt, 
 even in the open field, on the gowing hill-top, 
 where the sinking sun still poured its 
 scorching rays. Roll-call showed how 
 admirably the men had responded to the 
 demand upon them. The Thirty-seventh 
 regiment, with its quota of over 600 that 
 had set out the night before, showed but 
 
seven absent, and all these, with the 
 exception of one deserter, were in their 
 places before the battle ended, and by a 
 strange fatality nearly every one was killed 
 or wounded the following day. 
 
 All who have followed the history of the 
 battle know the story of the coming of the 
 Sixth Corps to the field. It was the last to 
 arrive, as the distance it must march was so 
 much greater, and when its cloud of dust 
 down the Baltimore pike was first noticed there 
 was a momentary fear that the Confederate 
 cavalry had gained the Union rear. Then 
 the headquarters flag was descried, and 
 sight of the Greek Cross was never more 
 welcome. "The Sixth Corps is coming!" 
 went from lip to lip, and hearts that had 
 been anxious grew strong and confident. 
 Before the footsore, weary men had time for 
 rest their services were needed to reinforce 
 the Union left, hard pressed by Longstreet's 
 Corps, and at the call the men struggled to 
 their feet. Kevin's Brigade, which had led 
 the corps on that memorable day, scarcely 
 paused beside the pike, but on to the left it 
 
went to give assistance to the suffering Third 
 Corps. Over the slope it hastened into the 
 fight. Eustis's Brigade came next in hne, 
 and halting on the hot hill-top it had barely 
 realized how terrible had been the 20 hours' 
 march when it, too, heard the ringing call 
 to duty, sprang to its feet and in a moment 
 was moving across the fields toward Little 
 Round Top. When half way a second 
 message came back from General Sedgwick, 
 who at the front was watching the fortunes 
 of the day. "Tell Colonel Eustis to bring his 
 brigade here as soon as possible ! ^' The 
 Thirty-seventh, leading the column, heard 
 the word and broke at once into a double- 
 quick. The Tenth followed and the Seventh, 
 while the men of Rhode Island were not 
 less prompt at the call. There was no 
 laggard step in all the brigade. Bayonets 
 were fixed as the command dashed forward, 
 and with a precision that would have done 
 credit to the drill field the brigade swung 
 into line of battle with the right resting near 
 the headquarters of the brave Sedgwick, just 
 to the rear of the spot where the monuments 
 now stand. 
 
But the conflict was dying out. Longstreet's 
 battalions were shattered by the terrible 
 contest they had already made, and in one 
 of his reports he says that riding forward to 
 reconnoiter and seeing the strong lines of 
 fresh troops coming into position he 
 reluctantly gave the order to abandon the 
 contest. Yes, there were strong lines of fresh 
 troops there ; they had marched more than 
 i6o miles in six days to reach that spot, 
 crowni^ig the effort with a continuous journey 
 of almost 40 miles to enable them to present 
 that firm front at that important moment ; 
 and though their advent was not greeted by 
 a fresh effusion of blood, but rather by the 
 sparing of further slaughter, on that position 
 we place our monuments and dedicate them 
 in reverent memory of that magnificent 
 effort — and of all its associate efforts and 
 experiences. 
 
 On this spot, then, let them stand, in 
 memory of the sons of Massachusetts, who 
 as a part of the great loyal army here as 
 elsewhere at duty's call, with their comrades 
 from every other loyal state, welcomed 
 
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 wounds and suffering, yielded up without 
 repining limb or life, if the sacrifice was 
 demanded, that humanity's cause should 
 move forward and not backward. 
 
 God's ways are not our ways. We look 
 back over the score and more of years that 
 have elapsed since these hills trembled with 
 the roar of hostile cannon, and our hearts 
 bleed afresh as we recall those scenes of 
 consecration and sacrifice. But with the 
 light of the later day we see coming forth 
 from the fiery crucible the pure gold of a 
 grander and better national life ; up from the 
 baptism of blood there rises a nation 
 redeemed and purified. We mourn for 
 noble Hves laid down in this sacred cause, 
 but we hold to-day as their price our common 
 heritage of a united country, its interests 
 and destinies no longer threatened by 
 sectional lines and jealousies, but fostered 
 and unified by all the blessings which have 
 followed the travail of those days of war. 
 The dawn which assured this better era first 
 shed its brightness over these hills of 
 Gettysburg, and all who in those memorable 
 
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 hours of battle stood here contributed to 
 the grand result. 
 
 It is in recognition of these facts that the 
 various monuments dot this battle-field. As 
 part of a common legacy we have placed 
 here the memorials of the Seventh and 
 Tenth and Thirty-seventh Massachusetts 
 Regiments, that they may help to tell the 
 great, complete story of the battle. One by 
 one the men who composed these regiments 
 are dropping from the earthly roll, but when 
 the last survivor shall have gone, the 
 monuments will remain to silently give their 
 testimony. The impress of time will be 
 written on their surfaces in stain and 
 corrosion ; but no less eloquent shall be 
 their voiceless story. May all who coming 
 here look upon them go away with a stronger 
 and purer patriotic fire burning in their 
 hearts ! May the breezes which sweep over 
 this sacred spot bear to every son of America 
 the constant realization of the blessing 
 which is his in this government — so 
 appropriately epitomized in the words of 
 the immortal Lincoln, "Of the pecjple, by 
 
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 the people, for the people," — till the dearest 
 possession of the generations succeeding us 
 shall be the legacy secured by the deeds 
 which these stones commemorate. 
 
 Then indeed shall those brave men over 
 whose graves in yonder cemetery this 
 Battle-field association and all the citizens 
 of our common country keep tender watch, 
 with all their comrade martyrs, not have 
 died in vain. Then in truth shall every sigh 
 of agony breathed by suffering ones, and 
 every drop of blood shed in this sacred 
 cause, prove the seed of a nobler civilization, 
 whose beneficent influence shall reach all 
 humanity, to sweeten and brighten and 
 bless. 
 
 
liSTQRY i .Monuments. 
 
 During the session of 1883, largely through 
 the influence of Colonel John B. Bachelder 
 of Hyde Park, the Legislature of-. Massachu- 
 setts passed a resolve appropriating $5000 
 ''for the purchase of additional grounds of 
 special interest upon the battle-field of 
 Gettysburg, for acquiring right of way as 
 contemplated by the act incorporating said 
 [Battle-field Memorial] Association, and for 
 preserving and beautifying said battle-field." 
 This act was approved May 29, iS8;^, and in 
 August following a meeting of representatives 
 of the various Massachusetts commands 
 engaged in the battle was called at the State 
 House, where the action taken and that 
 proposed were fully explained by Colonel 
 Bachelder. It was at that time intended 
 that under the head of "preserving and 
 beautifying" the battle-field the position of 
 each ^slassachusetts organization engaged 
 
should be marked for each day of its presence 
 at the battle by the placing of iron tablets. 
 In order to determine the various locations 
 satisfactorily, it was decided that a general 
 excursion of Massachusetts veterans and their 
 friends should be made to the field, to fix 
 upon the positions that should be marked, 
 and a committee to carry out the plan was 
 chosen, consisting of Colonel Charles H. 
 Hovey (13th) of Roxbury, Joseph W. Thayer 
 ( 1 2th) of Chelsea, T. J. Hastings (15th) of 
 Worcester, James L. Bowen (37thj of 
 Springfield, and Milbrey Green (ist Battery) 
 of Worcester, to which Colonel Bachelder 
 was added by virtue of his interest in all 
 pertaining to the battle-field. 
 
 This excursion with 133 members left 
 Massachusetts on the evening of October 
 23, and reaching Gettysburg the following 
 evening passed the 25th and 26th in the 
 work of inspecting the ground, locating and 
 marking positions occupied during the 
 battle. Eustis's Brigade was represented 
 on this occasion by Colonel Franklin P. 
 Harlow, Captain Zeba F. Bliss and W. T. 
 
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 \\'ilde of the Seventh oSIassachusetts, Joel H. 
 Hendrick and S. K. Hindley of the Tenth, 
 James L. Bowen, S. F. Wood, Cyrus W. 
 Cross, Dwight M. Chapman, and Wilham F. 
 Abbott of the Thirty-seventh. The interests 
 of their regiments being identical, these 
 members acted in concert and decided on 
 the position near Little Round Top where 
 the brigade first formed line of battle on 
 reaching the field, lying through the night, 
 as the location for the second day of the 
 battle — the first of their presence. The 
 positions for the third day were fixed on the 
 Taneytown road, where in passing from the 
 center toward the left the brigade encountered 
 a very severe artillery fire which killed and 
 wounded over thirty members of the Thirty- 
 seventh in a few moments. Subsequently, 
 through the efforts of Colonel Bachelder, 
 permission was granted the brigade to move 
 its tablets for the second day forward to the 
 Battle-field Avenue, directly in front of the 
 position where the regiments lay in line of 
 battle, and there the tablets were placed by 
 Colonel Bachelder the following spring. 
 
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 In the mean time, the Legislature of 
 Massachusetts had by a resolve approved 
 March 25, 1884, voted to each organization 
 from the state the sum of S500 to assist in 
 the erection of monuments on the field. 
 The three regiments of the brigade, therefore, 
 accepted this proffered assistance toward the 
 expense of more satisfactory memorials than 
 the tablets at first proposed would have been, 
 and decided after consultation with the 
 members of the several committees and 
 Colonel Bachelder that they should be 
 erected to mark the second day's position, 
 as being the more important historically. 
 The granite shafts, accordingly took the 
 place of the tablets along the Avenue near 
 the Rosensteel buildings, the directors of the 
 Battlefield Memorial Association assenting to 
 the location with the provision that tablets 
 should be erected stating the exact location 
 of the line of battle in the rear. The 
 monument of the Second Rhode Island, 
 forming the left of the brigade, has since been 
 added, completing the brigade line. Between 
 it and the monument of the Seventh 
 
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 Massachusetts Regiment that of the First 
 Massachusetts Cavalry has been erected, — a 
 location which meets with criticism. 
 
 The Monument of the Tenth Regiment. 
 
 The Tenth Regiment Association, at its 
 reunion held at Northampton, June 21, 1884, 
 appointed H. M. Converse of Warren and 
 Joel H. Hendrick and S. K. Hindley of 
 Springfield a committee to select the design 
 for a monument and secure its construction 
 and erection on the proper site. As the men 
 who composed the Tenth Regiment were 
 almost wholly from Western Massachusetts, 
 it was felt that the memorial to be erected to 
 them should itself be a product of that part 
 of the state. The design adopted was 
 originated by Captain J. K. Newell of 
 Springfield and was intrusted to the artist M. 
 H. Mosman of Chicopee for perfection and 
 reproduction in granite and bronze. The 
 monument is one of the most artistic on the 
 field. The square granite pedestal, 6 feet 6 
 
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 inches in height, bears the inscription on 
 finely polished panels, "loth Massachusetts ; 
 2d Brigade, 3d Division, 6th Corps. July 2, 
 1863." Surmounting the granite is a fine 
 bronze design, representing a stack of muskets 
 with fixed bayonets. Resting on the stone 
 and rising in a pyramid within the stack are 
 a drum, knapsack, cartridge box and canteen, 
 the two latter dependent from the guns. The 
 total hight to the points of the bayonets is 
 13 feet 6 inches, and the structure cost, 
 including the turfing of the ground, $1002.25. 
 The granite was furnished by the Chester 
 Granite Company, by whom it was dressed 
 and finished. The monument was placed in 
 position early in October, 1885. 
 
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 The Monument of the Thirty-seventh 
 Regiment. 
 
 The Thirty-seventh Regiment Association, 
 at its annnal meeting at Westfield, September 
 19, 18S4, voted to accept the offer of the 
 state to assist in the erection of a monument 
 to the regiment at Gettysburg, and appointed 
 a committee to carry out the details, 
 consisting of James L. Bowen of Springfield, 
 S. E. Nichols of Buffalo, N. Y., H. ]\L Abbott 
 of Northampton, Andrew L. Bush of 
 Westfield, A. G. Taylor of Springfield, 
 (since deceased,) Joshua A. Loomis of 
 Easthampton and George C. Clapp of 
 Northampton. This comnlittee, after in- 
 specting numerous designs, unanimously 
 decided upon one drawn expressly for the 
 regiment by Miller & Luce of Boston, at 
 whose works in West Quincy the monument 
 was made. The shaft represents the trunk 
 of a tree, against which lean a brace of 
 muskets and a stand of colors, the folds of 
 the flag enwrapping a portion of the trunk, 
 
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 while from a branch hangs a knapsack ; the 
 whole finely chiseled from a single block 
 of granite. The shaft rests upon a double 
 base, on the upper of which in large raised 
 letters, very handsomely polished, is the 
 inscription : "37th Mass. 2d Brig. 3d Div. 
 July 2, 1863." A scroll at the foot of the 
 tree bears the Greek Cross badge of the 
 Sixth Corps. The entire structure is placed 
 upon a large native bowlder, the top of which 
 was dressed down to receive the monument 
 which rises about nine feet above the rock. 
 It was placed in position early in July, 1885. 
 Its cost was $800. 
 
 The Monumenx of the Seventh Regiment. 
 
 The monument of the Seventh Regiment 
 was constructed from a design by Lieutenant 
 Harrie A. Cushman of Taunton, Secretary of 
 the "Regimental Association, and was made 
 and placed on the field by John B. Sullivan 
 of Taunton. The base, 18 inches high, 4 
 feet wide and 5 feet long, is of High Rock 
 
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 granite from Wrentham, Mass., and bears a 
 die 3 feet wide, 4 feet long and 4 feet high 
 of Concord Granite. On the top of the 
 monument, finely worked in the granite, is 
 the Greek Cross of the Sixth Corps, with 
 crossed muskets, sword and a soldier's 
 regulation cap bearing the figure 7. On 
 the front panel is the inscription : "7th Mass. 
 Inf'y ; 2d Brig., 3d Div., 6th Army Corps." 
 The monument cost the amount of the state 
 allowance — $500 — and was procured and 
 placed under the direction of Lieutenant 
 Colonel Franklin P. Harlow and Lieutenant 
 H. A. Cushman, being the first monument 
 erected to a Massachusetts regiment under 
 the act of the Legislature, and Lieutenant 
 Cushman being the first to obtain from the 
 state treasury the allowance for the purpose. 
 
Tlie Excarsten te Setly^barg. 
 
 At a meeting of the joint committees of 
 the Tenth and Thirty-seventh Regiments it 
 was decided that an excursion for the purpose 
 of dedicating the monuments of those 
 regiments should be had ; the first full week 
 of October, 1886, was selected as the time, 
 and the matter of making all necessary 
 arrangements was placed in the hands of 
 Comrade James L. Bowen, President of the 
 Thirty-seventh Regiment Association. It 
 was also voted that Mr. Bowen be asked to 
 deliver the dedicatory address for the two 
 Associations. Invitations were extended to 
 the Seventh Massachusetts and Second Rhode 
 Island Associations to join lilie party and 
 participate in the exercises. This was 
 accepted on the part of the Seventh Asso- 
 ciation by its President, James G. Church of 
 Brockton, who appointed a committee to 
 represent his regiment and and requested that 
 the dedicatory address by Mr. Bowen should 
 
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 also include in its scope the Seventh Regiment. 
 A general Rhode Island Excursion being 
 already in contemplation for the second week 
 of October, no action was taken by the 
 regiment from that state toward joining its 
 Massachusetts comrades. 
 
 Careful preparations were made to insure 
 for all participants an enjoyable excursion, 
 complete in its details and at the lowest 
 possible cost. The presence and services of 
 Colonel Bachelder (almost indispensable to a 
 perfect comprehension of the various features 
 of the battle) were secured, a general program 
 of movements about the field was arranged 
 and teams and special trains were engaged 
 so that the time should be fully utilized and 
 the various points of interest systematically 
 and inexpensively visited. Mr. Yingling, 
 proprietor of the Eagle Hotel at Gettysburg, 
 undertook to arrange for the comfortable 
 quartering of the entire party at his hotel and 
 in boarding house near by. Besides these 
 arrangements for the party while at Gettysburg 
 great pains were taken to secure the most 
 favorable terms from the various transportation 
 
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 companies, not only for the passage of the 
 excursion proper but from those routes over 
 which participants would pass in joining the 
 main body. A side trip was also arranged 
 from Philadelphia on the return to Washington 
 and Fredericksburg, Va. Special rates were 
 arranged for with the Pennsylvania, New York, 
 New Haven & Hartford, Boston »Sc Albany, 
 Connecticut River, New Haven & North- 
 ampton and Housatonic Railroads, the New 
 Haven and the Bridgeport steamer companies. 
 The excursion proper started from Spring- 
 field at 7.50 p. m., Monday evening, October 
 4, going by rail to New Haven and thence by 
 steamer to New York. Delegations joined 
 the party at Hartford, New Haven and Jersey 
 City in considerable numbers while two were 
 taken on at Philadelphia. Soon after reaching 
 the dock at New York the party w^ere met 
 by Mr. John H. Markley, the efficient and 
 gentlemanly traveling passenger agent of the 
 Pennsylvania Railroad, who as the represent- 
 ative of his company was indefatigable 
 during the journey to and from Gettysburg 
 in caring for the comfort of the travelers. 
 
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 Most of the party, taking the Fulton Ferry 
 on leaving the boat, crossed to Brooklyn, 
 whence they were transferred by the Annex 
 boat to the Jersey City station of the 
 Pennsylvania Railroad, where they break- 
 fasted and at 9.16 o'clock set forth by special 
 train. Stopping at Philadelphia for dinner, 
 the party sped through the fertile agricultural 
 region of Southern Pennsylvania, by way of 
 Harrisburg, reaching Gettysburg shortly 
 before 6 p. m. 
 
 ^lore delightful October weather never 
 favored an excursion party than was enjoyed 
 on this occasion, and it was improved to the 
 full by the visitors to the historic field. 
 While a few "flocked by themselves" to visit 
 scenes in which they had a special interest, 
 the great body of the party joined in the 
 program which had been arranged in advance. 
 Wednesday forenoon was accordingly given 
 up to a visit to the National Cemetery and 
 the right of the Union line from that point, 
 Colonel Bachelder, who had joined the party 
 at Jersey City, giving descriptions of the 
 events pertaining to the several locations from 
 
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 East Cemetery Hill, on Gulp's Hill at the 
 monument of the Twenty-third Pennsylvania 
 Regiment, and at the Second Massachusetts 
 monument near Spangler's Spring. This trip 
 was made by most of the party on foot, and 
 at its termination all returned to town for 
 dinner. 
 
 At 2 p. m., a special train was taken over 
 the Battlefield Railroad for Little Round Top 
 and the party generally joined with the 
 One Hundred and Thirty-ninth Pennsylvania 
 Association, who had reached town with an 
 excursion party during the previous night, in 
 the dedication of their monument, which 
 stands in the field almost directly in front of 
 and but a few hundred yards from those of 
 Eustis's Brigade. At the close of the 
 exercises at the monument. Colonel Bachelder 
 briefly described the incidents ofthe battle 
 in that vicinity, when the party returned to 
 the train and to the town for supper. 
 Arrangements had meantime been made for 
 a joint meeting in the evening at the 
 Gettysburg Rink of the two visiting Associ- 
 ations, instead of the separate meetings which 
 
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 their original programs had contemplated. 
 Accordingly, at an early hour all the seating 
 capacity of the building was taken up, and 
 back of the seats hundreds were standing. 
 
 The exercises of the Massachusetts 
 delegations came first. Captain Joshua A. 
 Loomis of the Thirty-seventh presiding, and 
 prayer being offered by Chaplain George F. 
 Smith of Post 86, G. A. R. After music by 
 the band the dedicatory address for the three 
 Massachusetts monuments was delivered by 
 Mr. Bowen, at the conclusion of which the 
 monuments were formally surrendered to the 
 Gettysburg Battlefield Memorial Association 
 by representatives of the different commands, 
 President Church speaking for his Association 
 and Treasurers H. M. Abbott of the Thirty- 
 seventh and Joel H. Hendrick of the Tenth 
 for their respective committees. The latter, 
 in closing his remarks said : "The men 
 representative of a regimental committee 
 cannot adequately charge your x\ssociation 
 with this duty, nor can these citizens of our 
 state who unite with us in these ceremonies ; 
 neither can these comrades who here wore 
 
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 the Blue 23 years ago. But, with whatever 
 of authority there may be in unanimity of 
 sentiment, Massachusetts herself bids, ' Take 
 care of yonder sacred trophies. See that no 
 enemies less invincible than time and the 
 elements destroy a memorial which marks 
 the place where my sons stood in defense of 
 the Union.' " 
 
 Hon. David A. Buehler, vice-president 
 of the Association, receiving the trusts, 
 responded eloquently, paying a glowing 
 tribute to the Old Bay State and the 
 patriotism of her sons. 
 
 During this part of the exercises a small, 
 beautiful cannon with complete carriage had 
 stood on the front of the stage. It had 
 been made by citizens of Gettysburg from 
 relics gathered on the field for presentation 
 to Colonel Bachelder, and had awaited the 
 presence of the Massachusetts citizens to 
 give an especial zest to the occasion. The 
 presentation now took place, S. McC. Swope, 
 Esq., in a speech of rare power and 
 eloquence tendering the beautiful gift in 
 behalf of his fellow-citizens, and the 
 
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 recipient making appropriate acknowledg- 
 ment. By the kindness of Colonel Bachelder, 
 arrangements were made by which the 
 cannon was exhibited at the Springfield 
 Grand Army fair the following week, while 
 on its way to the Colonel's home at Hyde 
 Park. 
 
 The meeting was then turned over to the 
 Pennsylvania party, the dedicatory address 
 for the monument of their regiment being 
 delivered by Major Samuel Harper of 
 Pittsburg, Judge F. H. Collier, colonel of 
 the regiment following with remarks warm 
 with fraternal regard for the Massachusetts 
 comrades. Vocal and instrumental music, 
 rounded out an evening of rare enjoyment. 
 
 After breakfast Thursday morning the 
 party to the number of 196 took carriages 
 furnished by Ziegler & Holtzworth and drove 
 to the scene of the opening of the battle, 
 July I, 1863, where the beginning of the 
 fight was described by Colonel Bachelder. 
 Thence the procession took its way to the 
 '' Webster Regiment " monument, where the 
 later deeds of the first day's battle were 
 
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 depicted ; thence back through the town and 
 along the Emmittsburg road to the scene of 
 the Sickles fight, passing the Peach Orchard, 
 the Wheat-field, stopping at the Devil's Den 
 for another descriptive lecture and a 
 photograph, and following the Avenue back 
 to the scene of Pickett's final charge and 
 repulse, the details of which were graphically 
 described by Mr. Bachelder, with many 
 interesting incidents in his experience as 
 historian charmingly interwoven. From this 
 point the party drove to the town, dismissing 
 the carriages, and after dinner again took a 
 special train on the Battlefield railroad, 
 landing at the rear of Little Round Top, 
 whence the party proceeded first to the 
 monuments of Eustis's Brigade. Several 
 fine photographic views were made at the 
 monuments, both of general groups about 
 each of the memorials and of the survivors 
 of each regiment beside their respective 
 monuments. Repairing to the summit of 
 Little Round Top, the party listened to 
 another of Colonel Bachelder's admirable 
 descriptions, closing very satisfactorily the 
 general field excursions of the party. 
 
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 The evening was devoted to a gathering in 
 the court-house, which was filled with 
 members of the excursion and citizens of 
 the town. Mr. Bowen presided and the 
 evening was given up to remarks of an 
 informal character, the principal speakers 
 being General Henry S. Briggs and Colonel 
 Joseph B. Parsons, the first and last 
 commanders of the Tenth Resfiment, 
 Colonel Bachelder, and Hon. David A. 
 Buehler of Gettysburg. The latter spoke 
 eloquently, treating at some length of lessons 
 to be drawn from the war, and not forgetting 
 to compliment Massachusetts and New 
 England in his earnest, whole-hearted 
 manner. 
 
 Some members of the party had already 
 set out for home, or to pursue special trips 
 in some other direction, but more than 165 
 took the special train on the return Friday 
 morning at 8 o'clock and bade adieu to the 
 historic battle-field. A few miles out the 
 excursion of John A. Andrew Post, G. A. R., 
 was passed, bound for the town which the 
 party had just left. At Philadelphia a 
 
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 division took place, some 75 members of 
 the party joining the side trip to Washington, 
 while the remainder continued the homeward 
 journey. 
 
 The south-bound section quartered princi- 
 pally at the St. James and National Hotels. 
 During the following afternoon the general 
 sight-seeing was interrupted most agreeably 
 by a special reception given to the party at 
 the White House by President Cleveland, 
 the arrangements for which were kindly made 
 by Colonel John L. Rice, postmaster at 
 Springfield, Mass. Late that afternoon over 
 30 of the party took cars for Fredericksburg, 
 Va., and passed the following day very 
 pleasantly in and about that city, visiting 
 many points of interest, including the 
 National Cemetery on Marye's Hights, the 
 battle-field of Salem Church and those 
 nearer the city, while a few made excursions 
 to Chancellorsville and Spottsylvania. Num- 
 bers of ex-Confederates were met at 
 Fredericksburg, who without exception gave 
 a cordial greeting to the visitors and showed 
 them many courtesies. 
 
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 The return to Washington was made 
 during the evening of the loth, and from 
 that time the organized character of the 
 excursion disappeared. The party broke 
 into small squads, each making such 
 disposition of the time as best met 
 individual tastes and opportunities, and 
 returning home by various trains as 
 inclination or duty prompted. With scarcely 
 an exception the verdict of the participants 
 was that the time and money spent for the 
 trip had been well invested. The weather 
 had been superb, no accident l:iad marred 
 the pleasure of the occasion, the arrangements 
 generally proved satisfactory, while many 
 incidents not on the program had given a 
 pleasant variety to the experiences of a 
 well- filled week. 
 
Rs^ter 0f ExcarMsn. 
 
 COMMITTEE. 
 
 James L. Bowen, Chairman, (E, 37th) Springfield 
 Joel H. Hendrick, (F, 10th) 
 
 James G. Church, (B, 7th) Brockton 
 
 Hubbard M. Abbott, (G, 37th) Northampton 
 
 Joshua A. Loomis, (E, 37th) Easthampton 
 
 W. H. Gurney, (K, 7th) Whitman 
 
 Peter King, (46th Mass.) 
 
 Mrs. Peter King, 
 
 M. T. Lazell, 
 
 Moses Warriner, 
 
 B. F. Thompson, 
 
 W. D. Phelps. 
 
 Mrs. W. D. Phelps, 
 
 Winthrop Howard, (4:2d Mass.) 
 
 Col. John L. Bice, 
 
 (2d N. H., 7oth U. S. C. T.) 
 Allen Bice, (age 6) 
 Mrs. Helen N. Packard, 
 Gurdon Bill, 
 
 Springfield 
 
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 George R. Price, (5th Mass. Bat.) Springfield 
 
 J. C. Condon, (Bat. C, 5tli U. S. Art.) 
 
 Frank H. Bowen, " 
 
 Mrs, Juliaette Walker, " 
 
 Job Dearnley, " 
 
 Charles G. Whiting, « 
 
 E. A. Newell, (46th Mass.) 
 
 P. Norton, (17th Conn.) Merrick 
 
 I. W. Coomes, (I, 37th) Longmeadow 
 
 Thomas F. Cordis, (46th Mass.) " 
 
 Henry Hall, (D, 37th) East Longmeadow 
 
 Oliver Wolcott, " 
 
 George A. Bray, (20th N. Y. S. M.) Holyoke 
 
 Reran Ryan, (A, 10th) 
 
 W. F. Wheelock, (1st Mass. Cav.) 
 
 Samnel Snell, " 
 
 Charles Tower, (46th Va., Conf.) 
 
 H. R. Tower, 
 
 E. C. Hanks, (F, 37th) South Hadley Falls 
 Charles Church, (o2d Mass.) " " " 
 
 F. E. White, 
 
 Burritt Judd, (52d Mass.) " " " 
 
 H. C. Russell, (F, 37th) North Hadley 
 
 F. P. Wheeler, (F, 37th) Hadley 
 Mrs. F. P. Wheeler, 
 
 R. F. Underwood, (31st Mass.) Mount Tom 
 
 Mrs. R. F. Underwood, " " 
 
 A. P. Barton, (o2d Mass.) Granby 
 
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 R. G. Carter, North Amherst 
 
 C. H. Brewster, (Acljt. 10th) Northampton 
 
 A. G. Carley, 
 
 Col. J. B. Parsons, (10th) 
 
 C. H. Heald, (2cl Mass.) 
 
 Mrs. C. H. Heakl, 
 
 Calvin B. Kingsley, (C, 10th) 
 
 Mrs. CalvmB. Kmgsley, 
 
 John Strong, 
 
 Robert H. Gallivan, 
 
 N. S. Cornwell, (C, 10th) 
 
 Mrs. N. S. Cornwell, 
 
 Alvin Rust, (C, 10th) 
 
 S. B. Parsons, 
 
 Oscar F. Ely, 
 
 Samuel Lloyd, 
 
 H. L. Williams, 
 
 Edward H. Wade, (14th Conn.) 
 
 Mrs. Edward H. Wade, 
 
 Frank C. Clapp, (52d Mass.) 
 
 Jeremiah Brown, (52d Mass.) 
 
 Mrs. Jeremiah Brown, 
 
 S. R. Cooley, 
 
 George L. Cooley, (F, 37th) 
 
 S. B. Fuller, Florence 
 
 George F. Smith, (31st Mass.) " 
 
 O. M. Smith, 
 
 George H. Ray, (18th Conn.) 
 
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 (I. F. Miller, 
 
 Mrs. G. F. Miller, 
 
 Edward M. Ferry, (52d Mass.) 
 
 Mrs. Edward M. Ferry, 
 
 Mrs. J. A. Loomis, 
 
 S. C. Wood, (27th Mass.) 
 
 A. S. Chapman, 
 
 Joseph P. Coburn, (G. 10th) 
 
 J. H. Howard, (C, 10th) 
 
 C. S. Shattiiek, 
 
 William Bancroft, 
 
 Talcott Bancroft, (D, 37th) 
 
 M. H. Vincent, (H, 10th; 
 
 E. F. Wiley, (F, 37th) 
 Jason Mann, (16th Vt.) 
 Mrs. Jason Mann, 
 
 A. F. Cobb, 
 
 M. J. Benjamin, (22d Mass.) 
 
 F. C. Walworth, 
 
 J. F. Bartlett, (H, 10th) 
 
 Mrs. J. F. Bartlett, 
 
 Charles Henry, 
 
 John M. Wells, (GOth Mass.) 
 
 Edwin Stratton, (F, 37th) 
 
 Samuel D. Conant, 
 
 W. H. A'dams, (G, 10th) 
 
 Mrs. W. H. Adams, 
 
 Elliott ! Gillett, 
 
 Florence 
 Easthampton 
 
 Hatfield 
 
 (( 
 
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 Chesterfield 
 
 Conway 
 
 Sunderland 
 
 Montao'ue 
 
 Tun 
 
 Falh 
 
 Greenfield 
 
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 (( 
 
 Orange 
 Shelburne Falls 
 
S. F. KimbaU, (B, 10th) Xoitli Adams 
 
 Mrs. S. F. KimbaU, " " 
 
 L. J. Clark, 
 
 Mrs. L. J. Clark, 
 
 James C. Chalmers, (G, 37th) Adams 
 
 Reuben A. Whipple, (8th Mass.) 
 
 Charles F. Savles, (o3d Mass.) " 
 
 O. Fred Smith, (G, 37th) 
 
 H. H. Wellington, (o3d Mass.) 
 
 Thomas Riley, (D, 10th) « 
 
 John Hammond, (125 X. Y.) « 
 
 F. A. Morey, South Williamstown 
 
 Miss Morey, ': '• 
 
 Jesse Prickett, (E, 10th) Pittsfield 
 
 Mrs. Jesse Prickett, " 
 
 Gen. Henry S. Briggs, (10th) " 
 
 W. B. Rice, 
 
 Daniel J. Dodge, (Q. M. 37th) 
 
 Mrs. Xancy X. Dodge, " 
 
 C. H. Fuarey, (C, 37th) West Stockbridge 
 
 William M. Kniffin, 
 
 (Pay'r Dep.) 
 James P. Carpenter, 
 
 (16th X. Y. Cav.) 
 C. W. Kniffin, (49th Mass.) 
 V. R. Truesdale, 
 
 James S. Moore, " " 
 
 Levi Huntley, (B, 37th) Great Barriugton 
 
William H. Mansfield, 
 
 J. A. Brewer, 
 
 A. L Hubbell, 
 
 A. J. Hunt, (1st Mass. Cav.) 
 
 Frank H. Wright. 
 
 H. W. Sikes. (C, 37th) 
 
 W. H. BaHey, (C, 37th) 
 
 William J. Simmons, (E, 37th) 
 
 F. D. Loomis, 
 
 Mrs F. D. Loomis, 
 
 J. D. CacUe, 
 
 Adam Swan, (K, 10th) 
 
 Cornelius Sackett, (K, 10th) 
 
 Mrs Cornelius Sackett, 
 
 Andrew Campbell, (46th Mass. 
 
 Theodore Manee, (33d X. Y.) 
 
 J. R. :Mnier, (33d Mass.) 
 
 A. W. Lewis. (46th Mass.) 
 
 Frank Midlen, 
 
 C. E. Peck, 
 
 William H Bridgman. 
 
 James Xoyes, 
 
 Byron W.'charles, (46th Mass. 
 
 S.^ W. Bridge, (2d X. H.) 
 
 George Bliss, (34th Mass.) 
 
 F. Drury, (age 87) 
 
 George A. Drury, 
 
 James A. Black* (3-2d Mass.) 
 
 Great Barrington 
 
 Sheffield 
 
 Van Deusenville 
 
 Dalton 
 
 Westfield 
 
 Wilbraham 
 
 Belchertown 
 
 Brimfield 
 
 Warren 
 
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 D. W. Ainsworth, 
 
 Ware 
 
 F. P. Clark, 
 
 (( 
 
 George Fairbanks, 
 
 (( 
 
 John Osgood, (6th N. H.) 
 
 (( 
 
 George S. Marsh, 
 
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 S. A. Spooner, (31st Mass.) 
 
 " 
 
 Col. John B. Bachelder, 
 
 Hyde Park 
 
 Mrs. John B. Bachelder, 
 
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 Charles B. Frhik, 
 
 Roslindale 
 
 E. R. Pearson, (F, 37th) 
 
 Boston 
 
 E. E. Kelly, (I, 7th) 
 
 (( 
 
 A. M. Pierce, 
 
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 John L. Parker, (22d Mass.) 
 
 Lynn 
 
 Levi Cole, (K, 7th) 
 
 Brockton 
 
 E. F. Howard, (H, 7th) 
 
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 Mrs. E. F. Howard, 
 
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 J. A. Leach, (K, 7th) 
 
 Whitman 
 
 Jerome Washburn, (38th Mass.) 
 
 « 
 
 Jacob L. Batchelder, 
 
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 John C. Chace, (F, 7th) 
 
 Taunton 
 
 F. R. Washburn, 
 
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 Alfred A. Seaverns, (E, 7th) 
 
 North Scituate 
 
 Charles E. Staples, (C, 7th) 
 
 New Bedford 
 
 Earl P. Bowen, (A, 7th) 
 
 Fall River 
 
VERMONT. 
 
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 Henry Burnliam, (16tli Vt.) Putney 
 
 Frank Burnham, 
 
 Walter Crawford, 
 
 F. L. Pierce, 
 
 Mrs. F. L. Pierce, 
 
 George H. Phillips, (14tli Vt.) 
 
 Mrs. George H. Phillips, 
 
 L. P. Bailey, (16th Vt.) 
 
 Mrs L. P. Bailey, 
 
 Samuel A. Shattuck, (2d Vt.) Westminster West 
 
 CONNECTICUT. 
 
 William H. Looniis, (K, 10th) Rockville 
 
 Mrs. William H. Loomis, 
 
 G. N. Brigham, (14th Conn.) 
 
 Mrs. G. N. Brigham, 
 
 Francis Goodell, 
 
 Henry J. Marshman, 
 
 William H. Andross, 
 
 John J. Schwartz, 
 
 Fred A. Farley, (F, 37th) Pine Meadow 
 
 Walter S. Case, New Hartford 
 
 I. W. Charter, (14th Conn.) East Haddam 
 
 A. F. Fargo, (A, 10th) Bridgeport 
 
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 S. E. Joslin, 
 
 George H. Holmes, (A, 10th) 
 
 East Thompson 
 Xew Britain 
 
 T. C. Lawton, (Surg. 37th) Providence, R. I. 
 
 S. S. Williams, (C, 10th) 
 
 William H. Rnssell, 
 
 William Bliss, (G, 37th) 
 
 J. M. Faurey, (C, 37th) 
 
 P. R. Brown, (o2d Mass.) 
 
 New York City 
 
 Troy, N. Y. 
 
 Vineland, N. J. 
 
 Philadelphia, Penn. 
 
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