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MAJOR GENERAL JOSEPH HOOKER, U. S. A. 
 
THE EQUESTRIAN STATUE OF 
 MAJOR GENERAL JOSEPH HOOKER 
 
 ERECTED AND DEDICATED BY THE 
 COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS 
 
 PRINTED BY ORDER OF THE GOVERNOR AND COUNCIL 
 
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CONTENTS 
 
 Portrait of General Hooker Frontispiece 
 
 Order of Council appointing an editor of the memorial 5 
 
 Engraving of the monument 7 
 
 Introduction 9 
 
 The Honorary Committee 25 
 
 Inscription upon the monument 37 
 
 Ceremonies incident to the unveiling of the statue 39 
 
 Prayer by the Reverend Arthur Little, Chaplain 41 
 
 Address of His Honor Curtis Guild, Jr. 47 
 
 Address of His Excellency the Governor, John L. Bates 51 
 
 Poem by Sherman 55 
 
 Order of parade 6! 
 
 Program of exercises at Mechanics* Hall 109 
 
 Invocation of Reverend Edward A. Horton, Chaplain 1 1 5 
 
 Opening remarks by Governor Bates 119 
 
 Governor Bates* introduction of General Charles P. Mattocks 125 
 
 Oration of General Charles P. Mattocks 127 
 
 Governor Bates* introduction of General Miles 169 
 
 Address by Lieutenant General Nelson A. Miles, U.S.A. 171 
 Governor Bates introduction of Major General Oliver O. 
 
 Howard, U.S.A. 175 
 
 Address by Major General Oliver O. Howard, U.S.A. 177 
 
 The tribute to General Daniel E. Sickles 183 
 Governor Bates introduction of Major General Thomas L. 
 
 Rosser, U.S. A. 187 
 
 Address by Major General Thomas L. Rosser 189 
 
 General Hooker s record 193 
 
Cmrnnanrotalllj of 
 
 COUNCIL CHAMBER 
 
 Wednesday, July 15, 1903 
 
 /^RDERED : That Francis Hurtubis, Jr., Private Secretary 
 ^^ to His Excellency the Governor, be authorized to edit 
 and publish a report of the proceedings incident to the erec 
 tion, unveiling and dedication of the equestrian statue of Major 
 General Joseph Hooker, the expense attending the same to 
 be paid out of the appropriation authorized by chapter forty- 
 four of the Resolves of the year nineteen hundred and three. 
 
 A true copy. 
 
 Attest : 
 
 Edward F. Hamlin, 
 
 Executive Secretary 
 
STATUE OF MAJOR GENERAL JOSEPH HOOKER 
 
I NTRODUCTION 
 
T has been aptly said that we do not erect 
 monuments to men that we may not forget 
 them, but because we cannot forget them. 
 From time immemorial all races in all stages of civ 
 ilization have entertained respect for the dead. It is 
 a universal sentiment, founded upon admiration for 
 the character or deeds of the departed. It is a 
 noble sentiment, for it keeps alive the memory of 
 those beloved, and incites the building of imperish 
 able memorials which serve as an inspiration for the 
 living. 
 
 It is in obedience to this sentiment that the people 
 of Massachusetts, through their representatives in the 
 General Court of the year 1896, resolved that there 
 be paid out of the treasury of the Commonwealth, 
 to be expended under the direction of the Governor 
 and Council, a sum not exceeding fifty thousand dol 
 lars, for the purpose of erecting in Massachusetts an 
 equestrian statue, in bronze, of the brave and distin 
 guished soldier of the Union, Major General Joseph 
 Hooker. 
 
DEDICATION OF HOOKER STATUE 
 
 Introduction j n compliance with the provisions of that Resolve 
 (chapter forty-three of the Resolves of the year 
 eighteen hundred and ninety-six), it was voted by the 
 Governor and Council, on January fifth, eighteen hun 
 dred and ninety-eight, that Messrs. Daniel Chester 
 French and Edward C. Potter be authorized to 
 produce a full-sized model of an equestrian statue 
 of Major General Joseph Hooker, subject to the 
 approval of the Governor and Council when com 
 pleted. Accordingly on March thirtieth, eighteen 
 hundred and ninety-eight, an agreement was entered 
 into between the Commonwealth and Messrs. French 
 and Potter, for the creation and erection of the 
 statue. 
 
 During the month of August, nineteen hundred and 
 two, the model of the equestrian statue was submitted 
 to the Governor and Council for their inspection, and 
 was by them approved on the twenty-seventh of that 
 month. 
 
 In November of the same year, Messrs. Norcross 
 Brothers, of Worcester, Massachusetts, were authorized 
 by the Governor and Council to provide a pedestal 
 for the Hooker statue, and Messrs. Brite and Bacon, 
 of New York city, were selected as the architects of 
 the pedestal. 
 
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 The pedestal, which is fourteen feet in height, is Introduction 
 built of granite, quarried at Stony Creek, Connecticut. 
 The blocks of which it is constructed vary in size 
 from six to twelve feet in length, averaging two feet 
 in height, the bottom course being ten feet eleven 
 inches in width by nineteen feet seven inches in. 
 length. The main die of the pedestal is six feet six 
 inches wide by fifteen feet two inches long. Upon 
 the front of the pedestal is carved a medallion, with 
 a wreath of laurel leaves around it. Upon the medal 
 lion is imposed in bronze the Coat of Arms of the 
 Commonwealth of Massachusetts, modeled by Daniel 
 Chester French, the sculptor of the statue. 
 
 The cap of the main die, or pedestal, is com 
 posed of a plain cornice, supported by a modified 
 bracket course of slight projection, with guttae, or 
 drops, on its under side. Above this main die 
 is placed the pedestal, immediately underneath the 
 bronze statue, four feet eight inches in width on the 
 front and thirteen feet four inches in length. Upon 
 the front of this is inserted bronze letters forming the 
 word HOOKER. These bronze letters are fitted 
 into the granite, which is first cut out to receive them, 
 with bronze pins extending well into the material. 
 The finish upon the surface of the granite is what 
 
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 Introduction i s known as "rubbed" surface, which brings out all 
 the color of the granite without giving gloss. The 
 statue, which is the joint creation of Messrs. French 
 and Potter, is fifteen feet high from the plinth to the 
 top of the head of the rider. It was cast in bronze 
 by the Bonney-Bonnard Company of New York. It 
 is supposed to represent General Hooker surveying 
 a battlefield from an eminence. 
 
 The horse, which is the work of Mr. Potter, is a 
 very spirited looking and highly vitalized animal. It 
 does not derive its life-like energy and spirit from any 
 meretricious device of attitude, for it is not prancing, 
 nor is it lifting one foot from the ground. It is 
 standing, yet not motionless. In viewing it, one can 
 not but feel that there is in the animal the potency 
 of speed, endurance and steadiness. His head is 
 superb. It is full of nerve, expression and quality. 
 Looking at the horse from any point of view, it is 
 magnetic thrilling with life. 
 
 In his portrayal of Hooker, Mr. French has dis 
 played ability equal to that of his associate. He does 
 not typify Hooker as a conqueror, egotistically exulting 
 in victory; he has rather symbolized in his figure the 
 thought of staunch and abiding devotion to a cause, 
 a devotion which counts no cost, never wavers, in 
 
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 defeat or in triumph is equally steady and loyal the Introduction 
 ideal of soldierly fidelity. 
 
 In a word, the work commends itself for its dignity 
 and spirit. There is a unity of purpose and feeling 
 in the group, a fine relationship between the man 
 and the horse, void of bombast and flourish ; it is 
 military in sentiment, yet it has none of the unpleasant 
 aspects of warfare. 
 
 By a Resolve of the General Court of the year 
 nineteen hundred and three, it was provided that there 
 be allowed and paid out of the treasury of the Com 
 monwealth, to be expended under the direction of the 
 Governor and Council, a sum not exceeding twenty- 
 three thousand dollars, for paying the expenses con 
 nected with the dedication of the statue of Major 
 General Joseph Hooker, which is to be placed in 
 the State House grounds. 
 
 In April nineteen hundred and three, His Excel 
 lency the Governor appointed the Lieutenant Gov 
 ernor and the members of the Executive Council a 
 committee to make arrangements for the dedication 
 of the statue. 
 
 His Honor Lieutenant Governor Curtis Guild, Jr., 
 was selected as chairman of the general committee, 
 while the chairmen of the sub-committees were desig- 
 
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 Introduction nated as f ollows : invitations and receptions, Councillor 
 David F. Slade; ceremonies and literary exercises, 
 Councillor Arthur A. Maxwell; observation stands 
 and decorations, Councillor Jeremiah J. McNamara; 
 catering, Councillor David I. Robinson; parade, Coun 
 cillor Richard W. Irwin; police and carriages, Coun 
 cillor Walter S. Watson ; transportation, Councillor 
 Arthur H. Lowe; printing, Councillor Edwin R. 
 Hoag. Captain Isaac P. Gragg, of Boston, was 
 appointed Secretary of the committee. 
 
 June twenty-fifth having been determined as the 
 day for the dedication of the statue, His Excellency 
 the Governor issued the following proclamation: 
 
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 Commonwealth of Massachusetts 
 
 Executive Department 
 
 Boston, June 22, 1903 
 
 To thf Citizens of Boston : 
 
 On Thursday next the Commonwealth is to dedicate a statue 
 to commemorate the services of Major General Joseph Hooker. 
 This monument is erected to indicate the appreciation that Mas 
 sachusetts has not only for the great commander whose name it 
 bears, but also for the brave men who represented Massachusetts 
 and the cause o the Union in the civil war. Thousands of 
 veterans are to visit this city on that day and to join in the 
 dedication exercises and in the parade. The state departments 
 will be closed. His Honor the Mayor has directed that city 
 hall be closed, and I hereby suggest and earnestly recommend 
 that similar action be taken by our citizens, and that all places 
 of business be closed ; and that our people emphasize their 
 appreciation of the services of the Union soldiers, the living 
 and the dead, by making the day in effect a holiday, and by 
 fitting decorations throughout the city, and especially along the 
 route of the procession. 
 
 JOHN L. BATES 
 
 Introduction 
 (Proclamation 
 by Governor 
 Bates) 
 
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 Introduction As a mark of respect for the memory of General 
 Hooker, the North Atlantic fleet, including the battle 
 ships Indiana and Texas, the historic old Hartford, 
 and the torpedo boat destroyers Chauncey, Dale, Bain- 
 bridge, Barry and Decatur, under the command of 
 Rear Admiral James H. Sands, lay at anchor in 
 Boston harbor on the day of the dedication of the 
 monument. 
 
 June twenty-fifth was a " gray day ; " the atmos 
 phere was moist and chilly. But while the weather 
 conditions were not altogether agreeable, they had 
 little, if any, effect in dampening the interest or enthu 
 siasm of the people in the celebration. 
 
 It is estimated that fifteen thousand men, including 
 detachments of the army and navy of the United 
 States, the entire Massachusetts Volunteer Militia, vet 
 erans of the Mexican, the Civil and the Spanish wars, 
 members of General Hooker s various commands, the 
 Massachusetts Division of Sons of Veterans, rep 
 resentatives of the town of Hadley, the Ancient and 
 Honorable Artillery Company, the Boston Fusileer 
 Veteran Association, the Boston School Cadet Brigade, 
 and other organizations and distinguished guests and citi 
 zens, paraded through the streets of Boston, and were 
 greeted at every step by multitudes of citizens lining 
 the route. 
 
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 At the request of the Committee of the Council, Introduction 
 and by the special courtesy of the War Department, 
 the colors of General Hooker s old regiment, the First 
 Artillery, U. S. A., were carried in the parade. 
 
 Among the distinguished visitors who rode in car 
 riages in the parade were Lieutenant General Nelson 
 A. Miles, Major General Daniel E. Sickles, Major 
 General Oliver O. Howard, Major General Wesley 
 A. Merritt, Major General John R. Brooke, Major 
 General Alexander S. Webb, Major General Joseph 
 C. Breckenridge, Colonel John G. Butler, Brigadier 
 General Nathan A. M. Dudley, Rear Admiral Mor 
 timer L. Johnson, Rear Admiral James H. Sands, 
 Lieutenant Thomas P. Magruder, Rear Admiral N. 
 Mayo Dyer, Colonel Percival C. Pope, U.S.M.C., 
 Major General Joshua L. Chamberlain, Brigadier 
 General Samuel M. Mansfield ; Hooker s surviving staff 
 officers: Brigadier General Joseph Dickinson, Brigadier 
 General Paul A. Oliver, Lieutenant Colonel Albert 
 S. Austin, Major Edwards H. Pratt, Major Robert 
 M. McDowell, Brigadier General George W. Balloch, 
 Lieutenant Colonel Charles L. Young, Captain Nathan 
 Bickford; Brigadier General Charles P. Mattocks, 
 Orator; Rev. Edward A. Horton, Chaplain; Rev. 
 Arthur Little, Chaplain; Daniel Chester French, 
 
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 Introduction Sculptor; Edward C. Potter, Sculptor; officers of 
 New England Association, Medal of Honor Legion, 
 and officers of Society of California Pioneers. 
 
 Colonel John L. Tiernon, U.S.A., commanded the 
 United States forces, which acted as an escort to the 
 state troops and to the veterans. His Excellency John 
 L. Bates, Governor and Commander-in-Chief, com 
 manded the parade, while Major General William A. 
 Bancroft, M. V. M., retired, Brigadier General United 
 States Volunteers, acted as Grand Marshal of the 
 Veterans* Column. 
 
 At nine o clock A.M., the ceremonies of unveiling 
 the statue were held, in the presence of an immense 
 and impressive gathering. Near the statue in the State 
 House park were massed the members of the Hooker 
 brigade, carrying their old brigade colors and regi 
 mental battle flags, the 2d and 33d Massachusetts 
 Veteran Associations, John A. Andrew Post 15, and 
 Joseph Hooker Post 23 of the Grand Army of the 
 Republic, General Joseph Hooker Command No. 9, 
 Union Veteran s Union, and the Society of the Army 
 of the Potomac. The foregoing organizations, during 
 the unveiling ceremonies, were under the command of 
 Major William A. Smith. 
 
 His Honor Curtis Guild, Jr., chairman of the com- 
 
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 mittee in charge of the celebration, called the assem- Introduction 
 blage to order and presented the Rev. Arthur Little of 
 Dorchester, who offered prayer. Upon the conclusion 
 of the prayer, the chairman, in behalf of the monument 
 committee, briefly narrated the history of the statue and 
 formally tendered it to the Commonwealth through its 
 Chief Magistrate. Master Joseph Hooker Wood, a 
 grandnephew of General Hooker, loosed the cord 
 that bound the flags and veiling, and the beautiful 
 creation of the sculptors was revealed amid the cheers 
 of the multitude and the blasts of bugles sounding a 
 major-general s call. At the same moment the guns 
 of Light Battery A, M.V.M., stationed on the Com 
 mon, thundered thirteen times, and the simple cere 
 monies attending the unveiling were completed. His 
 Excellency the Governor then accepted the statue on 
 behalf of the Commonwealth. 
 
 At the close of the unveiling ceremonies Master 
 Brainard Hooker Treadwell, another grandnephew of 
 General Hooker, representing the relatives, placed 
 upon the pedestal of the statue a beautiful wreath of 
 laurel. 
 
 Punctually at eleven o clock Governor Bates, riding 
 at the head of the Massachusetts troops, ordered 
 the column to advance, and one of the largest and 
 
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 Introduction most brilliant military pageants that Boston has wit 
 nessed in a generation proceeded upon its long 
 march. This is the only occasion recorded where 
 every branch of the United States sea and land forces 
 were represented in Boston. The route of the parade 
 was through Arlington to Boylston streets, to Park 
 Square, to Columbus avenue, to West Newton and to 
 Tremont streets, to Winter, to Summer, to High and 
 to Pearl streets, to Post Office Square, to Water, to 
 Washington, to School, to Beacon and to Charles 
 streets, to the Common. The intense interest of the 
 people is best evidenced by the fact that at least a 
 million spectators lined the route. Besides the huge 
 grand-stand at the State House, a special stand was 
 provided at Post Office Square for disabled veterans, 
 being in charge of Past Commanders Peter D. 
 Smith, George W. Creasey and Silas A. Barton 
 of the Grand Army of the Republic of Massa 
 chusetts. 
 
 When the procession reached the State House, His 
 Excellency the Governor, mounted upon his handsome 
 black horse, accompanied by his entire military staff, 
 wheeled into position to review the marching column. 
 Brigadier General Dalton occupied the position on the 
 Governor s left, and the commanding officers of the 
 
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 several divisions took positions on his right, in turn, as Introduction 
 their divisions marched past. On the Common, and 
 at the grand-stand in Post Office Square, rations were 
 issued to all organizations participating. At Faneuil 
 Hall, and at Wesleyan Hall, banquets were held re 
 spectively by the Hooker Brigade and by veterans of 
 the 20th Army Corps. 
 
 The aged veterans of the Mexican War, Hooker s 
 comrades in his earlier service, were provided by the 
 Commonwealth with a special banquet at their head 
 quarters. This occasion was the first in which official 
 recognition has ever been given by the Commonwealth 
 to those serving in the Mexican War. 
 
 At seven o clock in the evening, exercises in com 
 memoration of the services of General Hooker were 
 held in Mechanics Hall, at which six thousand people 
 were present. The great hall was beautifully deco 
 rated with red, white and blue bunting, intertwined 
 with stars and stripes. Over the stage was a large 
 picture of General Hooker, draped with an American 
 flag. Around the upper balcony were pictures of Pres 
 ident McKinley, President Roosevelt, General Grant, 
 President Harrison, President Arthur, President Lin 
 coln, General Kearny, and Governor Andrew, and 
 around the lower balcony, in large gilt letters, were 
 
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 Introduction chronologically arranged the names of the battles in 
 which General Hooker had taken a prominent part. 
 In addition to the interesting programme provided 
 for the evening, there were four pleasant surprises. 
 Three of these were brief addresses by Lieutenant 
 General Miles, Major General Howard, and Major 
 General Thomas L. Rosser, who served in the Con 
 federate Army and later in the Union Army in the 
 Spanish war. The fourth was the announcement by 
 His Excellency John L. Bates, chairman of the even 
 ing exercises, that there was in the hall an old 
 drum which had been beaten on Lookout Mountain, 
 and one who was a drummer boy with Hooker. 
 He then presented both to the assemblage. The 
 drummer boy, named Michael Welch, was of Com 
 pany G, of the old 33d Massachusetts. He beat the 
 assembly on the old drum, and was loudly encored. 
 He responded, accompanied by a fifer who had served 
 in the Spanish war. 
 
 Shortly after seven o clock, the hour scheduled for 
 the exercises to begin, an overture, " Recollections of 
 the War," was performed by the First Corps Cadets 
 Band, under the conductorship of Mr. John M. Flock- 
 ton. Governor Bates then advanced to the front of 
 the stage and presented the Rev. Edward A. Horton, 
 
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 a naval veteran of the Civil war, who invoked divine Introduction 
 blessing. 
 
 The prayer was followed by a song, "The Battle 
 Cry of Freedom," by the Grand Army chorus, Colonel 
 William M. Olin, conductor. The next feature was 
 an impressive assembly of colors. One hundred color- 
 bearers of the Massachusetts Grand Army posts, under 
 command of Colonel J. Payson Bradley, marched to 
 the stage from the rear of the hall, where they had 
 been standing, and, after certain evolutions, remained 
 standing, while Miss Adah Campbell Hussey sang the 
 " Star Spangled Banner," assisted by the Grand Army 
 chorus. The color-bearers then deposited their flags 
 and marched to the seats at the front of the hall, which 
 had been reserved for them. Immediately following this, 
 Governor Bates introduced Brigadier General Charles P. 
 Mattocks, the orator of the occasion. Upon the con 
 clusion of General Mattocks* oration, the Grand Army 
 chorus sang "We Old Boys," the band played "Amer 
 ican Airs," and the exercises closed by the assemblage 
 singing "America." 
 
 Among the surviving relatives of General Hooker 
 present on the occasion were Mrs. George R. Han- 
 ford, Mrs. John H. Treadwell and Mr. Brainard 
 Hooker Treadwell of Watertown, N. Y., Mr. Henry 
 
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 Introduction M. Hooker, Miss Mary D. Hooker, Mrs. Joseph 
 Hooker Wood, and Master Joseph Hooker Wood of 
 Chicago, 111., Mr. and Mrs. John H. G. Gilbert, 
 Colonel Edward Hooker Gilbert and Miss Elizabeth 
 V. Gilbert of Ware, Mass., Mr. and Mrs. James H. 
 Hinsdale, Miss Elizabeth W. Hinsdale and Miss 
 Mary L. Hinsdale of Pittsfield, Mass., Mr. and Mrs. 
 Harold W. Hanford and Mr. Frank G. Hinsdale of 
 New York City, Mr. and Mrs. Frank W. Forbes 
 and Mr. Henry Hooker Forbes of Westboro, Mass., 
 Mr. and Mrs. Frank W. Woodward and Miss 
 Grace Hooker Woodward of Northampton, Mass. 
 
 The special guests of the Commonwealth, includ 
 ing surviving generals of the Army of the Potomac, 
 General Hooker s staff officers and the members of 
 the Hooker family were quartered at the Hotel Bruns 
 wick during their stay in Boston, at the expense 
 of the Commonwealth. 
 
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THE HONORARY COMMITTEE 
 
THE HONORARY COMMITTEE 
 
 His Excellency JOHN L. BATES, Governor of Massachusetts 
 Hon. WILLIAM H. MOODY, Secretary of the Navy 
 
 THE SENATORS 
 Hon. George F. Hoar Hon. Henry Cabot Lodge 
 
 Hon. George H. Lyman, Collector Port of Boston 
 
 THE REPRESENTATIVES 
 
 Hon. George P. Lawrence Hon. Samuel W. McCall 
 
 Hon. Frederick H. Gillett Hon. John A. Keliher 
 
 Hon. John R. Thayer Hon. William S. McNary 
 
 Hon. Charles Q. Tirrell Hon. John A. Sullivan 
 
 Hon. Butler Ames Hon. Samuel L. Powers 
 
 Hon. Augustus P. Gardner Hon. William S. Greene 
 
 Hon. Ernest W. Roberts Hon. William C. Levering 
 
 EX-GOVERNORS OF MASSACHUSETTS 
 
 Hon. George S. Boutwell 
 
 Hon. William Claflin Hon. John Q. A. Bracket! 
 
 Hon. John D. Long Hon. W. Murray Crane 
 
 Hon. William M. Olin Hon. Edward S. Bradford 
 
 Secretary of the Commonwealth Treasurer and Receiver General 
 
 Hon. Henry E. Turner Hon. Herbert Parker 
 
 Auditor of Accounts Attorney General 
 
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 The Honorary Rear Admiral Mortimer L. Johnson, U. S. N. 
 
 Commandant Boston Navy Yard 
 
 Colonel John L. Tiernan, U. S. A. 
 Commander defenses of Boston Harbor 
 
 Brigadier General Samuel Dalton, Adjutant General 
 Brigadier General Robert A. Blood, Surgeon General 
 Brigadier General William H. Brigham, Inspector General 
 Brigadier General Frederick W. Wellington, Commissary General 
 Brigadier General Henry S. Dewey, Judge Advocate General 
 Brigadier General Thomas R. Mathews 
 Brigadier General Jophanus H. Whitney 
 
 Major General Benjamin F. Peach, Retired 
 Major General William A. Bancroft, Retired 
 Brigadier General Benjamin F. Bridges, Retired 
 Brigadier General Edgar R. Champlin 
 
 MASSACHUSETTS LEGISLATURE 
 Hon. George R. Jones, President of the Senate 
 Hon. James J. Myers, Speaker of the House of Representatives 
 
 JOINT COMMITTEE ON MILITARY AFFAIRS 
 
 Senate 
 
 Hon. Charles S. Clerke, Chairman 
 Hon. Perlie A. Dyar Hon. Elisha T. Harvell 
 
 House of Representatives 
 
 Joseph F. Pitman James C. D. Clark 
 
 Daniel W. Davis Maurice D. Power 
 
 James Critchton Frank W. Fenno 
 
 Winthrop E. Perry Dennis H. Finn 
 
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DEDICATION OF HOOKER STATUE 
 
 COMMITTEE ON WAYS AND MEANS J}, e Honorary 
 
 Senate Committee 
 
 Hon. Elisha T. Harvell, Chairman 
 
 Hon. William A. Nye Hon. Samuel Cole 
 
 Hon. Edward L. Osgood Hon. George R. Wallace 
 
 COMMITTEE ON WAYS AND MEANS 
 
 House of Representatives 
 Benjamin C. Dean, Chairman 
 
 Fordis C. Parker Royal S. Ripley 
 
 John E. O Neil Edgar W. Warren 
 
 Arthur W. Hatch William B. Jackson 
 
 Edwin J. Mills Heman A. Harding 
 
 Frank P. Bennett Richard Olney, 2d 
 
 CITY OF BOSTON 
 
 Hon. PATRICK A. COLLINS, Mayor 
 
 Alderman James H. Doyle President Arthur W. Dolan 
 
 Chairman Common Council 
 
 Alderman James F. Nolan Alderman Henry A. Frothingham 
 
 Alderman Edward L. Quigley Alderman Charles H. Slattery 
 
 Alderman Martin M. Lomasney Alderman Frederick W. Farwell 
 
 Alderman Patrick Bowen Alderman Joseph I. Stewart 
 
 Alderman Hugh W. Bresnahan Alderman Fred E. Bolton 
 
 Alderman John Y. Flanagan Alderman Edward J. Bromberg 
 
 MAYORS OF MASSACHUSETTS CITIES 
 
 Hon. Parker S. Davis, Beverly Hon. Edward Glines, Somerville 
 
 Hon. John H. H. McNamee, Cam- Hon. John P. Feeney, Woburn 
 
 bridge Hon. Edward F. Fletcher, Worcester 
 
 Hon. Edward E. Willard, Chelsea Hon. Charles H. Coulter, Brockton 
 Hon. James H. Loomis, Chicopee Hon. Charles H. Blood, Fitchburg 
 
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 The Honorary 
 Committee 
 
 Hon. Charles Bruce, Somerville 
 Hon. George Grime, Fall River 
 Hon. Arthur B. Chapin, Holyoke 
 Hon. Charles E. Howe, Lowell 
 Hon. Henry W. Eastman, Lynn 
 Hon. Charles L. Dean, Maiden 
 Hon. Charles S. Baxter, Medford 
 Hon. Sidney H. Buttrick, Melrose 
 Hon. James F. Carens, Newburyport 
 Hon. John W. Weeks, Newton 
 Hon. Frank D. Stafford, North Adams 
 Hon. Joseph N. Peterson, Salem 
 
 Hon. James E. Tolman, Gloucester 
 Hon. Henry R. Watson, Haverhill 
 Hon. Alexander L. Grant, Lawrence 
 Hon. Walter B. Morse, Marlboro 
 Hon. Charles S. Ashley, New Bedford 
 Hon. Henry C. Hallett, Northampton 
 Hon. Harry D. Sisson, Pittsfield 
 Hon. Charles M. Bryant, Quincy 
 Hon. Everett E. Stone, Springfield 
 Hon. Richard E. Warner, Taunton 
 Hon. Murray D. Clement, Waltham 
 
 HOOKER MEMORIAL COMMITTEE 
 
 Brevet Brigadier General Thomas Sherwin, U. S. V., Chairman 
 
 Brevet Captain Isaac P. Gragg, U. S. V., Secretary 
 
 Brigadier General William A. Bancroft, U. S. V. 
 
 Brigadier General Wilmon W. Blackmar, M. V. M. 
 
 Major Frederick W. Carpenter, M. V. M. 
 
 Chaplain A. St. John Chambre, U. S. V. 
 
 Hon. John Conness 
 
 Hon. Edwin U. Curtis 
 
 Eben S. Draper, Esq. 
 
 Captain Charles E. Fillebrown, U. S. V. 
 
 Colonel Edward Hooker Gilbert, M. V. M. 
 
 Past Commander John E. Gilman, G. A. R., Dept. of Mass. 
 
 Brevet Brigadier General John W. Kimball, U. S. V. 
 
 Hon. John D. Long 
 
 Past Commander Joseph B. Maccabe, Past Com.-in-Chief, S. of V. 
 
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 Brigadier General Thomas R. Mathews, M. V. M. The Honorary 
 
 Hon. George A. Marden Committee 
 
 Brevet Lieutenant Colonel Albert A. Pope, U. S. V. 
 
 Captain Spencer W. Richardson, U. S. V. 
 
 Brevet Brigadier General Henry S. Russell, U. S. V. 
 
 Brevet Major William P. Shreve, U. S. V. 
 
 Captain William A. Smith, U. S. V. 
 
 Past Commander Joseph W. Thayer, G. A. R., Dept. of Mass. 
 
 Major William H. Turner, U. S. V. 
 
 NEW ENGLAND ASSOCIATION OF MEXICAN WAR VETERANS 
 
 Brevet Brigadier General Samuel E. Chamberlain, U. S. V., President 
 
 Edward W. McGlenen, Esq., Secretary 
 
 Lieutenant Colonel Edwin Collins, U. S. A., Retired 
 
 Captain George W. Murch 
 
 Captain Charles W. Gilbert 
 
 J. Watts Robinson 
 
 David T. Wood 
 
 HOOKER S OLD BRIGADE 
 
 Brevet Brigadier General Joab N. Captain William H. Brown 
 
 Patterson Captain L. Edward Jenkins 
 
 Brevet Brigadier General Thomas ^ Ueutenant Joseph R Dalton 
 
 H. Dunham 
 
 _ , _ , First Lieutenant Frank C. Wasley 
 Brevet Bngadier General rrank S. 
 
 Sergeant Joseph H. Brown 
 
 Lieutenant Colonel Daniel S. Lamson Sergeant James Nicol 
 Brevet Major George E. Henry Henry C. Hall 
 
 Captain Charles W. C. Rhoades Charles R. Mansfield 
 
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 The Honorary TWENTIETH ARMY CORPS ASSOCIATION 
 
 Committee 
 
 Brevet Major John R. Fox Corporal Albeit C. Stacy 
 
 Captain Joseph P. Thompson J. Varnum Abbott 
 
 Sergeant John C. Metcalf William H. Hall 
 
 Corporal Samuel Canning John R. Merritt 
 
 MASSACHUSETTS COMMANDERY MILITARY ORDER 
 OF THE LOYAL LEGION 
 
 Colonel Norwood P. Hallowell, U. S. V., Commander 
 
 First Lieutenant Henry J. Spooner, U. S. V., Senior Vice-Commander 
 
 Past Assistant Paymaster Edward Sherwin, U. S. N., Junior Vice-Commander 
 
 Colonel Arnold A. Rand, U. S. V., Recorder 
 
 Rev. Edward Everett Hale, D.D., Chaplain 
 
 Rear Admiral N. Mayo Dyer, U. S. N., Retired 
 
 Rear Admiral George H. Wadleigh, U. S. N., Retired 
 
 Brevet Major General Charles J. Paine, U. S. V. 
 
 Brevet Major General George H. Nye, U. S. V. 
 
 Brevet Brigadier General Charles Francis Adams, U. S. V. 
 
 Brevet Brigadier General Joseph H. Barnes, U. S. V. 
 
 Brevet Brigadier General William F. Draper, U. S. V. 
 
 Brevet Brigadier General Nathan A. M. Dudley, U. S. V. 
 
 Brevet Brigadier General Francis A. Osborne, U. S. V. 
 
 Brevet Brigadier General John C. Palfrey, U. S. V. 
 
 Brevet Brigadier General Charles L. Peirson, U. S. V. 
 
 Brevet Brigadier General Alfred P. Rockwell, U. S. V. 
 
 Brevet Brigadier General Hazard Stevens, U. S. V. 
 
 Brevet Brigadier General Stephen M. Weld, U. S. V. 
 
 Colonel Henry C. Cook, U. S. A., Retired 
 
 Colonel Thomas R. Livermore, U. S. V. 
 
 Brevet Colonel Thomas F. Edmands, U. S. V. 
 
 Brevet Colonel John F. Marsh, U. S. V. 
 
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 Brevet Lieutenant Colonel William R. Driver, U. S. V. The Honorary 
 
 Major Edward T. Bouve, U. S. V. Committee 
 
 Major Charles G. Davis, U. S. V. 
 
 Brevet Major Charles B. Amory, U. S. V. 
 
 Surgeon Henry O. Marcy, U. S. V. 
 
 Chaplain Arthur Little, U. S. V. 
 
 Captain Gustave Magnitzky, U. S. V. 
 
 Captain Charles Storrow, U. S. V. 
 
 Acting Volunteer Lieutenant C. Webster Wilson, U. S. N. 
 
 First Lieutenant James N. North, U. S. V. 
 
 William Endicott, Esq. 
 
 Frank E. Peabody, Esq. 
 
 Charles A. Lamson, Esq. 
 
 Conrad Reno, Esq. 
 
 Brevet Major General Henry L. Abbott, U. S. V. 
 Brigadier General Samuel Breck, U. S. A. 
 Colonel Elijah Walker, U. S. V. 
 
 DEPARTMENT OF MASSACHUSETTS GRAND ARMY 
 OF THE REPUBLIC 
 
 Dwight O. Judd, Commander Wilfred A. Wetherbee, Past Dept. 
 
 Lucius Field, Senior Vice Com- Commander 
 
 mander John E. Gilman, Past Dept. Corn- 
 James H. Wolff, Junior Vice Com- mander 
 
 mander Peter D. Smith, Past Dept. Corn- 
 Alfred S. Roe, Inspector mander 
 
 Embury P. Clark, Chief Mustering Silas A. Barton, Past Dept. Corn- 
 Officer mander 
 
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DEDICATION OF HOOKER STATUE 
 
 The Honorary Philip S. Moxom, Chaplain Wilmon W. Blackmar, Past Dept. 
 Committee Edwaid P. Preble, Assistant Adju- Commander 
 
 tant General George E. Harrington 
 
 Augustus B. R. Sprague, Past Dept. Edward A. Horton 
 
 Commander James F. McKenzie 
 
 George W. Creasey, Past Dept. J osiah Pickett 
 
 Commander Edward T. Raymond 
 
 Charles D. Nash, Past Dept. Com- Allison M. Stickney 
 
 mander Samuel B. Shapleigh 
 
 DEPARTMENT OF MASSACHUSETTS UNION VETERAN S UNION 
 
 Daniel W. Gould, Department Com- Henry J. Earle, 2d Deputy Com 
 mander mander 
 
 Walter A. Eames, Deputy Com- George Reed 
 
 mander Charles W. Wood 
 
 MASSACHUSETTS COMMANDERY NAVAL ORDER OF THE 
 UNITED STATES 
 
 Lieutenant Thomas Amory DeBlois, late U. S. N., Vice Commander 
 Acting Volunteer Lieutenant F. Stanhope Hill, late U. S. N., Recorder 
 Acting Assistant Paymaster John Read, late U. S. N. 
 Acting 2d Assistant Engineer Paul H. Kendricken, late U. S. N. 
 
 KEARSARGE ASSOCIATION OF NAVAL VETERANS 
 
 Andrew Houghton, Admiral Com- Patrick J. Bench, Lieutenant Com 
 manding mander 
 
 Benjamin F. Sanborn, Commodore Henry Landtt, Ensign 
 John Sullivan, Chaplain 
 
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DEDICATION OF HOOKER STATUE 
 
 NAVAL AND MILITARY ORDER OF THE SPANISH WAR J^ Honorary 
 
 Committee 
 Colonel William A. Pew Lieutenant Colonel Arthur B. Denny 
 
 Colonel Charles Pfaff Lieutenant Colonel Otis H. Marion 
 
 Colonel Charles K. Darling Major Edward H. Eldredge 
 
 Colonel James A. Frye 
 
 MASSACHUSETTS DEPARTMENT LEGION OF SPANISH 
 WAR VETERANS 
 
 Paul R. Hawkins, Commander Benjamin B. Osthues, Inspector Gen- 
 George H. Manks, Senior Vice Com- eral 
 
 mander Richard R. Flynn 
 
 Thomas L. Hayes, Junior Vice Com- Thomas F. Sullivan 
 
 mander George T. Latimer 
 
 Frederick A. Walker, Adjutant Gen- j-j. A. McGoldrick 
 
 William J. Curtis 
 
 Lorenzo B. Crowley, Paymaster Gen- ,, A T- i i 
 
 Henry A. Treuthardt 
 eral 
 
 George F. Keenan, Quartermaster 
 General 
 
 MASSACHUSETTS DIVISION SONS OF VETERANS 
 
 Orra L. Stone, Commander Guy A. Ham 
 
 John E. Gilman, Jr. Willard Howland 
 
 Edwin R. Olin D. Murray Travis, Past Division 
 
 George E. Hunt Commander 
 
 SOCIETY OF CALIFORNIA PIONEERS OF NEW ENGLAND 
 
 Gorham D. Gilman, President Stephen W. Foster, Secretary 
 
 Isaac S. Pear, Treasurer Hon. John Conness 
 
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DEDICATION OF HOOKER STATUE 
 
 The Honorary TOWN OF HADLEY, MASS. (Gen l Hooker s Birthplace) 
 
 Committee 
 
 Franklin Bonney, M. D. H. Clement Russell, Esq. 
 
 O. W. Prouty, Esq. John S. Barstow, Esq. 
 
 Francis S. Reynolds, Esq. 
 
 Colonel August H. Goetting, M. V. M. 
 
 Colonel James G. White, M. V. M. 
 
 Lieutenant Colonel George H. Benyon, M. V. M. 
 
 Major Thomas Talbot, M. V. M. 
 
 Major Oliver H. Story, M. V. M. 
 
 Captain J. Stearns Gushing, A. & H. A. Co. 
 
 Adjutant Roger Wolcott, M. V. M. 
 
 Adjutant William B. Stearns, M. V. M. 
 
 J. H. Grenville Gilbert, Esq. 
 
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INSCRIPTION 
 
 UPON THE HOOKER MONUMENT 
 
NAME AND SEAL UPON THE MONUMENT 
 
CEREMONIES 
 
 INCIDENT TO THB 
 
 UNVEILING OF THE STATUE 
 
 OF 
 
 MAJ.GEN. JOSEPH HOOKER 
 
PRAYER 
 
 BY REVEREND ARTHUR LITTLE 
 
REVEREND ARTHUR LITTLE 
 Chaplain First Vermont Heavy Artillery 
 
PRAYER 
 
 BY REVEREND ARTHUR LITTLE 
 
 LMIGHTY GOD, our Heavenly Father, 
 in whom we live and move and have 
 our being, and from whom all right 
 desires proceed, help us as we approach into Thy 
 presence, to make sincere confession of all our sins, 
 and grateful acknowledgment of all Thy mercies. 
 C.We thank Thee for that loving Providence which 
 has led us to this impressive hour. 
 d.Most distinctly has Thy guiding hand been seen in 
 all the events of our nation s history, from the begin 
 ning until now. And nowhere more signally than in 
 the history of this ancient Commonwealth. 
 C^The ground on which we stand is holy ground 
 hallowed by great memories and great deeds, the birth 
 place and cradle of civil and religious freedom, the 
 home of popular government, and the sanctuary of 
 religion and learning. 
 
 CU n obedience to an instinct implanted in our hearts 
 by Thee, we meet here this morning to recall the 
 
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DEDICATION OF HOOKER STATUE 
 
 Prayer J ee( ] s anc ] honor the memory of one of Massachusetts* 
 distinguished sons. We devoutly thank Thee, O God, 
 for the home in which his childhood and youth were 
 spent, for his early devotion of himself to his country s 
 service, for his fervid patriotism, for his sagacious leader 
 ship, for his coolness and courage in the hour of battle, 
 for his patience and perseverance in the time of disas 
 ter and defeat, for his magnanimity in the hour of 
 victory, for his distinguished part in saving the nation 
 and establishing peace. For his sake, for our sake, 
 for the country s sake, we remember him to-day. 
 CJn order that those qualities which made him a true 
 patriot, a gallant soldier, and a noble man may be 
 kept alive and reproduced in the lives of coming gen 
 erations, with gratitude to God for such a man, we 
 reverently place this statue in this consecrated spot, 
 and give it into the custody of this Commonwealth. 
 Here may it stand, through sunshine and through storm, 
 in defiance of the elements, as a fitting memorial of this 
 great defender of the nation for centuries to come. 
 And, as successive generations of children and youth, 
 men and women, look upon this heroic figure, now 
 immortalized in bronze, may they recall distinctly the 
 causes which constrained this gallant soldier to un 
 sheathe his sword. May they, O God of battles, 
 
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DEDICATION OF HOOKER STATUE 
 
 realize that, while all wars are cruel, and most wars Prayer 
 unjust, sometimes it is only by a resort to arms that 
 liberty can be preserved, a nation saved, and lasting 
 peace be secured. 
 
 C^Heavenly Father, to Thee we commend the Presi 
 dent of the United States, the Governor of this Com 
 monwealth, our army and navy, the survivors of the 
 War of the Rebellion, and all the citizens of this great 
 nation. 
 
 d.May we, henceforth, unitedly and earnestly labor to 
 the end that peace and prosperity may continue, and 
 that all the results for which this great soldier and all 
 other loyal soldiers fought, during four agonizing and 
 bloody years, may be realized and made good to 
 every citizen of every color, throughout the length and 
 breadth of this great Republic. 
 
 dGrant us this, we humbly entreat Thee, O God, 
 with the forgiveness of all our sins, through Jesus 
 Christ our Lord. Amen. 
 
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K 
 
 ADDRESS 
 
 OF 
 
 His HONOR CURTIS GUILD, JR. 
 
 LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR OF MASSACHUSETTS 
 
HIS HONOR CURTIS GUILD, Jr., LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR 
 
ADDRESS 
 
 OF HIS HONOR CURTIS GUILD, JR. 
 
 LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR OF MASSACHUSETTS 
 
 OUR Excellency: By chapter 43 of the 
 Resolves of 1896, approved March 28 by 
 Acting Governor Wolcott, the General 
 Court of Massachusetts provided for the equestrian 
 statue in bronze which we dedicate to-day. The 
 details of its construction and location were left by 
 this resolve to the Governor and Council. 
 
 On January 5, 1898, the Council of that year 
 selected Daniel C. French and Edward C. Potter to 
 prepare, respectively, the models of man and horse, 
 which were later approved by the same Council and 
 by Governor Wolcott. In the same year, 1898, the 
 site for the monument was chosen and approved. 
 
 By chapter 44 of the Resolves of the present year, 
 approved April 9, 1903, the Governor and Council 
 were also placed in charge of the dedication of the 
 statue. The Lieutenant Governor and the members of 
 the Council were at once appointed by Your Excel- 
 
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 Address l enc y as a committee to carry the resolve of the Gen 
 eral Court into effect. 
 
 As chairman of that committee, I have the honor to 
 report to you the completion and erection of the statue 
 on the site selected and prepared by our predecessors 
 in accordance with the action of the General Court. 
 
 It is further my high privilege on the part of the 
 Committee in charge now officially to transfer to you, 
 the Chief Magistrate of the Commonwealth, this mon 
 ument, erected by the people of Massachusetts in mem 
 ory of the daring and devotion of the leader that 
 Massachusetts gave to the armies of the Union Major 
 General Joseph Hooker. 
 
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ADDRESS 
 
 OF 
 
 His EXCELLENCY JOHN L. BATES 
 
 GOVERNOR OF MASSACHUSETTS 
 
HIS EXCELLENCY JOHN L. BATES, GOVERNOR 
 
ADDRESS 
 
 OF HIS EXCELLENCY JOHN L. BATES 
 
 GOVERNOR OF MASSACHUSETTS 
 
 N behalf of the Commonwealth, I accept 
 this monument and thank you, sir, the 
 committee, the artists, and all whose work 
 has contributed to the perfection of this noble memorial. 
 
 Joseph Hooker was a descendant of several genera 
 tions of Massachusetts yeomanry. Here he was born, 
 and here he spent his childhood and youth, but the 
 breadth of the continent was not too vast a sphere 
 for the activities of his manhood. 
 
 Trained in the nation s school of the soldier, he 
 was ready to serve her whenever and wherever the 
 nation needed him. Early in the great contest for the 
 perpetuity of the union he attained distinction, and 
 through merit advanced from command to command, 
 until he led a vast host the army of the Potomac. 
 
 Never in the rear, but always leading his troops, 
 sharing their dangers and beloved by them; always 
 seeking the enemy, whether in the valley or on the 
 
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 Address mountain, beneath or above the clouds, self-reliant, re 
 sourceful, intrepid, impetuous, he was a fighter with his 
 sword always drawn, a hero of battles, a soldier and 
 a patriot. 
 
 To his memory, and to the memory of the one 
 hundred and forty-six thousand, seven hundred and 
 thirty brave, true, irresistible men whom this state sent 
 forth to engage in that greatest of all conflicts of 
 arms, is this monument dedicated. Here, sitting in the 
 saddle of bronze, may the commander ever direct the 
 attention of the world to the fact that Massachusetts 
 does not forget her defenders, and may he order to 
 the front in all generations of our citizenship, the best 
 impulses, the noblest ideals, the highest traits of 
 character. 
 
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 SCULPTORS 
 
POEM 
 
 BY STEPHEN OLIN SHERMAN 
 
THE LAST SALUTE TO HOOKER 
 
 BY STEPHEN OLIN SHERMAN 
 
 IN bronze immortal, and with fame secure, 
 The hero on his charger sits to-day, 
 As when he with a courage strong and sure, 
 Faced serried ranks in butternut and gray; 
 His steadfast purpose, loyalty and pluck, 
 
 His leadership when fighting men were few, 
 The Yankee grit that never yet has struck, 
 Entitle him to honors here anew. 
 
 What field in our great struggles does not bear, 
 
 Enshrined with mighty deeds, his glorious name! 
 What heart in all the land that does not wear 
 
 His valor as its proudest oriflamme! 
 In glades of Contreras, in Tennessee, 
 
 In Georgia woods, Virginia s reeking mire, 
 On Lookout Mountain, and confronting Lee, 
 
 Tis flaming forth in lines of living fire. 
 
 Now as he rides his war steed straight and tall, 
 
 And vet rans pass him in their last review, 
 They seem to hear the brazen trumpets call, 
 
 While sounds again the rattling drum s tattoo; 
 They hear the minie whistle, and the shell, 
 
 Victorious shouts along the surging line, 
 The booming guns, the loud, defiant yell, 
 
 The shrapnel s crash amid the oak and pine. 
 
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 Poem The bugle blares South Mountain s on once more, 
 
 And grizzled men who knew their leader well, 
 Recall the oath they once so firmly swore, 
 
 To follow him e en to the gates of hell; 
 They see the grimy gunners on the mound, 
 
 Once more they smell the powder and the smoke, 
 Again they hear the old familiar sound, 
 
 The musket s rattle, and the sabre stroke. 
 
 Serene he sits. Above the battle s roar, 
 
 He guides it ever with a master hand, 
 Regardless of the work that is before, 
 
 His only thought a reunited land; 
 And as he rode at Fair Oaks on the plain, 
 
 Manassas, and Chantilly, Malvern Hill, 
 So now he leads his legions once again, 
 
 In spite of years their old commander still. 
 
 By Rappahannock s swollen tide, and higher 
 
 Where the old flag triumphant kissed the clouds, 
 The frowning Ridge a flaming fringe of fire, 
 
 With forest leaves the soldiers only shrouds; 
 And well these names may make the victors cheer, 
 
 Awakening love for country joined again 
 With bands of steel that makes it doubly dear, 
 
 The work of Hooker and his gallant men. 
 
 But some are missed who fought where Kearny died, 
 
 And where Antietam s little church still shows, 
 How Lee, Hill, Jackson all our strength defied, 
 
 And held their ground in spite of mighty blows; 
 And those now here are aged, bent and grey, 
 
 Beneath the burden of advancing years, 
 And Underwood, and Devens where are they? 
 
 To join with us in these victorious cheers! 
 
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 Some are invisible to mortal eye Poem 
 
 But all are here, the old commanders brave, 
 As when the lurid lightnings in the sky 
 
 Found Cowdin of the First as prompt to save 
 The flag as in the old militia days; 
 
 With Wyman who was killed on Glendale s field 
 Where Hooker held the road, and Hinks whose ways 
 
 Were those of courage never known to yield. 
 
 See! Webster is among these heroes too, 
 
 The leader of the Twelfth, intrepid son 
 Of "Godlike Daniel," he who fought anew 
 
 To shield the honor that his father won; 
 Marston and Cogswell, they who served so well 
 
 With Hooker in the field, and Blaisdell brave 
 Who in grim Petersburg s sulphurous hell 
 
 Gave up his life, and found a soldier s grave. 
 
 Sickles, Howard, Miles are in line once more 
 
 With Merritt, Brooke, and Webb, they all have brought 
 Fuel for our altar fires, and will pour 
 
 A new libation to the one who fought 
 At Williamsburg unaided, held at bay 
 
 Magruder in the woods that battle week; 
 Who cheered his legions on that bloody day 
 
 At New Hope Church, and led at Peach Tree Creek. 
 
 The loyal staff that served in East and West, 
 
 In flesh or spirit are as close to-day, 
 As when they eager rode at his behest 
 
 On field or march stern orders to convey; 
 Though Butterfield the chief no more will plan 
 
 To move the columns as in former days 
 Where guns of Hunt and Reynolds held the van 
 
 And Hooker won his bright immortal bays. 
 
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DEDICATION OF HOOKER STATUE 
 
 Poem Lawrence and Candler, Hooker s gallant aides, 
 
 Alert and fearless in the leaden rain, 
 If duty done but glorified their blades, 
 
 With Dickinson and Hall are here again; 
 Le Due and Balloch in the field once more, 
 
 McDowell, Oliver, and Pratt as true 
 As when they heard the cannons awful roar, 
 
 Where soldiers grim their duty only knew. 
 
 The ruddy lads who left their homes to fight, 
 
 And died beneath the starry flag they loved, 
 The men who shielded us by day and night, 
 
 When patriot hearts were long and sternly proved, 
 Are all in line, triumphant shouts are heard 
 
 From cheering thousands on the crowded route, 
 Where plaudits loud, and each exultant word, 
 
 Are but a part of Hooker s last salute. 
 
 An inspiration this for future times, 
 
 For generations that are yet unborn, 
 The writer s pen, the poet with his rhymes, 
 
 And those who grandest legends can adorn, 
 As Hooker has his country s glowing page, 
 
 The paladin who could both fight and plan, 
 With heart inspired by patriotic rage, 
 
 Our proudest boast A Massachusetts Man. 
 
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BRIG.-GENL. JOPHANUS H. WHITNEY- 
 
 BRIG.-GENL. THOMAS R. MA-THEWS 
 M.V./W. 
 
 HIS EXCELLENCY 
 JOHN I. BATE 5 
 
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 /IDJT.-GENERAL 5AMUEL DALTON 
 M.VM. 
 
 Oi COL JOHN!. TIERNON, A.C. 
 
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ORDER OF THE PARADE 
 
 * * * 
 
 MOUNTED POLICE 
 
 UNITED STATES FORCES 
 
 DETACHMENT OF THE UNITED STATES ARMY 
 
 Colonel JOHN L. TIERNON, A. C, Commanding 
 
 Staff Captain Thomas E. Merrill, A. C., Aide ; First Lieutenant Walter 
 Cox, Assistant Surgeon, U. S. A. 
 
 BATTALION COAST ARTILLERY 
 
 Captain OTHO W. B. FARR, A. C., Commanding 
 
 Second Lieutenant Richard I. McKenney, A. C., Adjutant 
 
 Tenth Band, Artillery Corps 
 
 Eighty-third Company. First Lieutenant Alfred A. Starbird, Second Lieu 
 tenant Gordon Robinson 
 
 Seventy-seventh Company. First Lieutenant Richard H. Williams, Second 
 Lieutenant James E. Wilson 
 
 Forty-sixth Company. Second Lieutenant Albert L. Rhoades 
 
 Seventy-sixth Company. First Lieutenant Guy T. Scott, Second Lieutenant 
 Charles E. Wheatley 
 
 167 officers and men 
 
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DEDICATION OF HOOKER STATUE 
 
 Order of the BATTALION NINTH INFANTRY 
 
 Major ROBERT J. C. IRVINE, Commanding 
 Staff First Lieutenant Clinton C. Kinney, Adjutant ; Second Lieutenant 
 
 Emery T. Smith, Q. M. and C. S. 
 
 Company H. Captain Mark L. Hersey, Second Lieutenant Charles G. 
 Sturtevant 
 
 Company L. First Lieutenant Easton R. Gibson, Second Lieutenant George 
 W. Harris 
 
 Company G. First Lieutenant Willis P. Coleman, Second Lieutenant Herbert 
 L. Evans 
 
 Company M. Captain Frederick L. Palmer, Second Lieutenant Girard L. 
 McEntee, Jr. 
 
 1 72 officers and men 
 
 TWENTY-SEVENTH LIGHT FIELD BATTERY 
 
 Captain JOHN CONKLIN, Commanding 
 
 First Lieutenant Charles M. Bunker, Second Lieutenant Richard Furnival 
 85 officers and men 
 
 SQUADRON SECOND CAVALRY 
 
 Major DANIEL C. PEARSON, Commanding 
 
 Staff First Lieutenant George P. Tyner, Adjutant Q. M. and C. ; Fir&t 
 
 Lieutenant Willard F. Truby, Assistant Surgeon, U. S. A. 
 Troop A. Captain Edward P. Orton 
 
 Troop B. Captain Herbert H. Sargent, First Lieutenant George Garity, 
 
 Second Lieutenant Howard R. Smalley 
 Troop C. Captain Frederick S. Foltz 
 Troop D. Captain John S. Winn, First Lieutenant George F. Bailey, 
 
 Second Lieutenant Moss L. Love 
 
 368 officers and men 
 
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DEDICATION OF HOOKER STATUE 
 
 DETACHMENT OF THE UNITED STATES NAVY Order of the 
 
 Parade 
 Lieutenant Commander JOHN G. QUIMBY, U. S. N., Commanding 
 
 Staff Ensign John W. Greenslade, U. S. N., Adjutant ; Paymaster Ziba W. 
 Reynolds, U. S. N., Quartermaster ; Assistant Surgeon Robert E. Hoyt, 
 U. S. N., Medical Officer 
 
 BATTALION MARINE CORPS 
 
 Band U. S. Marine Corps 
 Captain GEORGE C. REID, Commanding 
 First Company. Captain Carl Gamborg-Andresen 
 Second Company. Second Lieutenant Louis G. Miller 
 Third Company. Second Lieutenant Frank J. Schwable 
 Fourth Company. Second Lieutenant William E. Smith 
 Fifth Company. Second Lieutenant Berton W. Sibley, U. S. F. S. Texas 
 160 officers and men 
 
 FIRST BATTALION SEAMEN U. S. F. S. TEXAS 
 
 Band of U. S. F. S. Texas 
 
 Lieutenant LOUIS M. NULTON, U. S. N., Commanding 
 Midshipman Prentiss B. Bassett, Adjutant 
 
 First Company. Lieutenant Gilbert Chase, Midshipman Andrew C. Pickens, 
 Midshipman Arthur H. Rice 
 
 Second Company. Ensign Joseph K. Taussig, Midshipman William P. 
 Sedgewick, Jr., Midshipman George M. Baum 
 
 Third Company. Midshipman Walter N. Vernon, Midshipman Cleon W. 
 Mauldin, Midshipman Roland R. Riggs 
 
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DEDICATION OF HOOKER STATUE 
 
 Order of the SECOND BATTALION SEAMEN U. S.S. INDIANA AND HARTFORD 
 
 Band U. S.S. Indiana 
 Lieutenant GEORGE R. MARVELL, U. S. N., Commanding 
 
 Midshipman Edwin O. Fitch, Jr., Adjutant 
 First Company. Lieutenant Lucius A. Bostwick 
 Second Company. Lieutenant John R. Edie 
 Third Company. Lieutenant Charles E. Courtney 
 Fourth Company. Ensign Zachariah H. Madison 
 400 officers and men 
 
 MASSACHUSETTS VOLUNTEER MILITIA 
 
 His Excellency Governor JOHN L. BATES, Commander-in-Chief 
 Staff Brigadier General Samuel Dalton, Adjutant General; Brigadier Gen 
 eral Robert A. Blood, Surgeon General ; Brigadier General William H. 
 Brigham, Inspector General ; Brigadier General Fred W. Wellington, 
 Commissary., General ; Brigadier General Henry S. Dewey, Judge Advo 
 cate General ; Colonel James G. White, Inspector General Rifle Practice ; 
 Lieutenant Colonel William C. Capelle, Assistant Adjutant General ; 
 Lieutenant Colonel Edward J. Gihon, Assistant Inspector General; 
 Lieutenant Colonel George H. Benyon, Assistant Inspector General; 
 Lieutenant Colonel Paul R. Hawkins, Assistant Inspector General ; Lieu 
 tenant Colonel Walter C. Hagar, Assistant Inspector General ; Lieutenant 
 Colonel Frederick B. Carpenter, Assistant Inspector General ; Lieutenant 
 Colonel John Perrins, Jr., Assistant Inspector General; Major Frank B. 
 Stevens, Assistant Quartermaster General ; Major Henry Hastings, Aide- 
 de-Camp ; Major Charles Hayden, Aide-de-Camp ; Major Ainsley R. 
 Hooper, Aide-de-Camp; Major William M. Clarke, Aide-de-Camp 
 Sergeant Richard Lawrence, Color Bearer, Governor s Colors 
 
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DEDICATION OF HOOKER STATUE 
 
 FIRST BRIGADE Order of the 
 
 Brigadier General THOMAS R. MATHEWS, Commanding 
 Staff Lieutenant Colonel Walter L. Sanborn, Assistant Adjutant General ; 
 Lieutenant Colonel Otis H. Marion, Medical Director; Major Arthur 
 L. Spring, Assistant Inspector General ; Major William B. Emery, 
 A. I. G. R. P.; Captain Walter H. Woods, Quartermaster; Captain 
 William O. Webber, Engineer ; Captain Bordman Hall, Judge Advocate ; 
 Captain William T. Ulman, Provost Marshal; Captain Edward Glines, 
 Aide-de-Camp ; Captain Charles Kenney, Aide-de-Camp 
 
 SIGNAL CORPS 
 Lieutenant Christopher Harrison, Signal Officer, Commanding 
 
 SECOND REGIMENT INFANTRY 
 Colonel EMBURY P. CLARK, Commanding 
 
 Second Regiment band, 40 pieces 
 
 Lieutenant Colonel Edwin R. Shumway 
 
 Majors Frederick G. Southmayd, Henry B. Fairbanks, and Frederick E. 
 
 Pierce 
 
 Staff Captain Edward E. Sawtell, Adjutant ; Captain William E. Parsons, 
 Quartermaster ; Major Ernest A. Gates, Surgeon ; Captain Abram C. 
 Williams, Assistant Surgeon ; First Lieutenant Thomas B. Shaw, Assistant 
 Surgeon ; Captain Archibald C. Edson, Paymaster ; First Lieutenant Wil 
 liam S. Warriner, I. R. P. ; First Lieutenant Charles B. Hitchcock, 
 Commissary ; Frank L. Phalen, Chaplain 
 Battalion Adjutants. Lieutenants Henry H. Parkhurst, Paul J. Norton, and 
 
 Delevan R. Nichols 
 Company A, Worcester. Captain Edwin G. Barrett, First Lieutenant Moses 
 
 H. Tisdell, Second Lieutenant Fred H. Lucke 
 
 Company B, Springfield. Captain Thomas F. Burke, First Lieutenant John 
 J. O Connell 
 
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 Order of the Company C, Worcester. Captain Phineas L. Rider, First Lieutenant Fred- 
 
 Parade erick M. Clark, Jr., Second Lieutenant Herbert H. Warren 
 
 Company D, Holyoke. Captain Frank D. Phillips, First Lieutenant Alfred 
 
 F. Foote, Second Lieutenant Alfred F. Reed 
 Company E, Orange. Captain Edwin R. Gray, First Lieutenant Fred S. 
 
 Weymouth, Second Lieutenant Harry L. Doane 
 Company F, Pittsfield. Captain John Nicholson, First Lieutenant Robert K. 
 
 Willard, Second Lieutenant Wellington K. Henry 
 Company G, Springfield. Captain William C. Hayes, First Lieutenant 
 
 Edward J. Leyden, Second Lieutenant William Butement 
 Company H, Worcester. Captain Harry C. Young, First Lieutenant Clar 
 ence E. Smith, Second Lieutenant Frederick B. Jordan 
 Company I, Northampton. Captain Chester W. French, First Lieutenant 
 
 Albert G. Beckman, Second Lieutenant Charles S. Riley 
 Company K, Springfield. Captain Fred A. Jenks, First Lieutenant David 
 
 A. Turner, Second Lieutenant Winfred A. Sabine 
 Company L, Greenfield. Captain Lyman W. Griswold, First Lieutenant 
 
 Hugh E. Adams, Second Lieutenant Herbert N. Kelley 
 Company M, Adams. Captain James A. Campbell, First Lieutenant Sydney 
 
 H. Cliffe, Second Lieutenant William O Brien 
 
 760 officers and men 
 
 SIXTH REGIMENT INFANTRY 
 
 Colonel CHARLES K. DARLING, Commanding 
 
 Sixth Regiment band, 40 pieces 
 Lieutenant Colonel George H. Priest 
 
 Majors Cyrus H. Cook, Warren E. Sweetser and Isaac N. Marshall 
 Staff Captain Walter M. Lindsay, Adjutant ; Captain Stanwood G. Sweet 
 ser, Quartermaster; Major George F. Dow, Surgeon; Captain Herman 
 H. Gross and Lieutenant Joseph S. Hart, Assistant Surgeons; Captain 
 Fred E. Bolton, Paymaster; First Lieutenant Archibald McMillan, 
 I. R. P. ; First Lieutenant Lewis G. Hunton, Commissary ; Rev. James 
 De Wolf Perry, Jr., Chaplain 
 
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 Battalion Adjutants. First Lieutenant Franklin G. Taylor, First Lieutenant Order of the 
 William N. Decker and First Lieutenant John S. McNeilly Parade 
 
 Company A, Wakefield. Captain John H. McMahan, First Lieutenant 
 Harvey G. Brockbank, Second Lieutenant Alton R. Sedgley 
 
 Company B, Fitchburg. Captain James C. Smith, First Lieutenant Frank 
 V. Gilson, Second Lieutenant Charles E. Akeley 
 
 Company C, Lowell. Captain Colby T. Kittredge, First Lieutenant Gardner 
 W. Pearson, Second Lieutenant John H. Kelsey 
 
 Company D, Fitchburg. Captain Andrew J. Whelan, First Lieutenant 
 William H. Dolan, Second Lieutenant Jeremiah J. McDowell 
 
 Company E, South Framingham. Captain Herbert W. Damon, First 
 Lieutenant George W. Sullivan, Second Lieutenant Frederic M. Kendall 
 
 Company F, Marlboro. Captain Frank E. Cutter, First Lieutenant Elden 
 L. Holt, Second Lieutenant Ernest A. Howe 
 
 Company G, Lowell. Captain William Fairweather, First Lieutenant George 
 S. Howard, Second Lieutenant Pearl T. Durrell 
 
 Company H, Stoneham. Captain William D. Desmond, First Lieutenant 
 Duncan M. Stewart, Second Lieutenant Thomas A. Ireland 
 
 Company I, Concord. Captain John W. Hagerty, First Lieutenant Walter 
 Sohier, Second Lieutenant James W. Bryon 
 
 Company K, Southbridge. Captain Harry L. Hathaway, First Lieutenant 
 Ralph H. Brigham, Second Lieutenant Ruy W. Warren 
 
 Company L, Boston. Captain George W. Braxton, First Lieutenant William 
 B. Gould, Jr., Second Lieutenant J. Holman Pryor 
 
 Company M, Milford. Captain John F. Barrett, First Lieutenant Charles 
 H. Kimball, Second Lieutenant William G. Pond 
 
 765 officers and men 
 
 69 
 
DEDICATION OF HOOKER STATUE 
 
 Order of the FIRST REGIMENT HEAVY ARTILLERY 
 
 Parade 
 
 Colonel JAMES A. FRYE, Commanding 
 
 First Regiment band, 49 pieces 
 
 Lieutenant Colonel Charles B. Woodman 
 
 Majors Perlie A. Dyar, George F. Quinby and Charles P. Nutter 
 
 Staff Captain Roger Wolcott, Adjutant ; Captain C. Wilder Holmes, 
 Quartermaster ; Major Howard S. Dealing, Surgeon ; Captain William 
 A. Rolfe, Assistant Surgeon; First Lieutenant Joseph C. Stedman, 
 Assistant Surgeon; Captain Horace B. Parker, Paymaster; First Lieu 
 tenant John M. Portal, I. R. P. ; Captain J. Stearns Gushing, Com 
 missary ; First Lieutenant John A. Curtin, Signal Officer ; First Lieutenant 
 John B. Paine, Range Officer ; First Lieutenant R. Sever Ha.e, Aide- 
 de-Camp 
 
 Battalion Adjutants. First Lieutenants Willard M. Foster, James E. Totten 
 and James E. Bunting 
 
 Company A, Boston. Captain James H. Smyth, First Lieutenant Olin D. 
 Dickerman, Second Lieutenant Harry J. Kane 
 
 Company B, Cambridge. Captain Walter E. Lombard, First Lieutenant 
 Marshall Underwood, Second Lieutenant Benjamin B. Shedd 
 
 Company C, Boston. Captain Charles F. Nostrom, First Lieutenant John 
 D. R. Woodworth, Second Lieutenant Arthur E. Hall 
 
 Company D, Boston. Captain Joseph H. Frothingham, First Lieutenant 
 Norman P. Cormack, Second Lieutenant Frederick Spenceley 
 
 Company E, New Bedford. Captain Joseph L. Gibbs, First Lieutenant 
 John C. De Wolfe, Second Lieutenant Ernest L. Snell 
 
 Company F, Taunton. Captain Norris O. Danforth, Second Lieutenant 
 Alonzo K. Crowell 
 
 Company G, Boston. Captain Albert B. Chick, First Lieutenant John P. 
 Wiley, Second Lieutenant William B. Hill 
 
 70 
 
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 Company H, Chelsea. Captain Walter L. Pratt, First Lieutenant William Order of the 
 
 Renfrew, Second Lieutenant Bertie E. Grant 
 Company I, Brockton. Captain George E. Horton, First Lieutenant Samuel 
 
 B. Sampson, Second Lieutenant Chas. H. Edstfn 
 Company K, Boston. Captain Frederic S. Howes, First Lieutenant Albert 
 
 A. Gleason, Second Lieutenant Conrad M. Gerlach 
 Company L, Boston. Captain Fred. M. Whiting, First Lieutenant Clifford 
 
 L. Harris, Second Lieutenant Alton L. French 
 Company M, Fall River. Captain David Fuller, First Lieutenant Frederick 
 
 W. Harrison, Second Lieutenant William J. Meek 
 767 officers and men 
 
 FIRST BATTALION LIGHT ARTILLERY 
 
 Major LAWRENCE N. DUCHESNEY, Commanding 
 
 First Light Artillery band, 35 pieces 
 
 Staff First Lieutenant H. Bradford Lewis, Adjutant; First Lieutenant Wil 
 liam H. Hennessey, Quartermaster; First Lieutenant Henry B. Clapp, 
 Paymaster ; Major John F. Harvey, Surgeon ; First Lieutenant Arthur 
 W. May, Veterinary Surgeon (acting) 
 
 Battery B, Worcester. Captain Herbert W. Haynes, First Lieutenant William 
 T. Gould, First Lieutenant William E. Sayles, Second Lieutenant 
 Edward W. Wheeler 
 
 Battery C, Lawrence. Captain Charles F. Sargent, First Lieutenant John 
 S. Powell, First Lieutenant Alexander S. McGregor, Second Lieutenant 
 Urban W. Marshall 
 
 210 officers and men 
 
 CAVALRY 
 
 Troop F, Chelmsford. Captain John J. Monahan, First Lieutenant Edward 
 
 H. Keyes, First Lieutenant Arthur G. Scoboria, Assistant Surgeon 
 
 90 officers and men 
 
 71 
 
DEDICATION OF HOOKER STATUE 
 
 Order of the SECOND BRIGADE 
 
 Brigadier General JOPHANUS H. WHITNEY, Commanding 
 Staff Lieutenant Colonel Hugh Bancroft, Assistant Adjutant General ; 
 Lieutenant Colonel Charles C. Foster, Medical Director; Major Harry 
 P. Ballard, Assistant Inspector General ; Major Oliver H. Story, 
 A. I. R. P. ; Captain Albert L. Wyman, Quartermaster ; Captain Charles 
 R. Gow, Engineer; Captain Roland H. Sherman, Judge Advocate; 
 Captain Morton E. Cobb, Provost Marshal ; Captain Albert C. Warren, 
 Aide-de-Camp ; Captain William S. Youngman, Aide-de-Camp 
 
 SIGNAL CORPS 
 First Lieutenant Walter C. Stevens, Commanding 
 
 FIFTH REGIMENT INFANTRY 
 Colonel WILLIAM H. OAKES, Commanding 
 
 Fifth Regiment band, 36 pieces 
 Lieutenant Colonel Murray D. Clement 
 
 Majors Willis W. Stover, Willard C. Butler and Francis Meredith, Jr. 
 Battalion Adjutants. First Lieutenants Henry D. Warren, Alexander P. 
 
 Graham and Frederick A. Walker 
 
 Staff Captain Henry L. Kincade, Captain Arthur C. Wyer, Quarter 
 master ; Major Charles W. Galloupe, Surgeon ; Captain Francis Magurn, 
 Assistant Surgeon ; Henry L. Dealing, Assistant Surgeon ; Captain Charles 
 T. Dukelow, Paymaster ; First Lieutenant Robert McMeekin, I. R. P. ; 
 Captain Charles W. Knapp, Commissary ; Joseph Garden, Chaplain 
 Company A, Charlestown. Captain Mark E. Smith, First Lieutenant Roland 
 
 W. Bray, Second Lieutenant William W. Wilson 
 Company B, Cambridge. - Captain Charles W. Facey, First Lieutenant 
 
 Patrick J. McNamara, Second Lieutenant George T. Jones 
 Company C, Newton. Captain Ernest R. Springer, First Lieutenant George 
 F. Guilford, Second Lieutenant Thomas E. Wye 
 
 72 
 
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 Company D, Plymouth. Captain Arthur E. Lewis, First Lieutenant Charles Order of the 
 
 E. Nauman, Second Lieutenant Henry L. Sampson 
 
 Company E, Medford. Captain James C. D. Clark, First Lieutenant Orville 
 J. Whitney, Second Lieutenant Arthur S. Hall 
 
 Company F, Waltham. Captain Clifford E. Hamilton, First Lieutenant John 
 
 F. Williams, Second Lieutenant Sidney E. Brown 
 
 Company G, Woburn. Captain Thomas McCarthy, First Lieutenant Francis 
 H. Marion, Second Lieutenant George S. Cutler 
 
 Company H, Charlestown. Captain Valentine E. Gilson, First Lieutenant 
 George T. Latimer, Second Lieutenant F. C. Hyde 
 
 Company I, Attleboro. Captain William H. Goff, Jr., First Lieutenant Fred 
 W. Northrop, Second Lieutenant Lawrence W. Cook 
 
 Company K, Hingham. Captain Walter L. Bouve, First Lieutenant Edward 
 B. Pratt, Second Lieutenant Elmer L. Curtiss 
 
 Company L, Maiden. Captain Frank F. Cutting, First Lieutenant James H. 
 Mann, Second Lieutenant Clarence A. Perkins 
 
 Company M, Hudson. Captain James P. Clare, First Lieutenant Harry C. 
 Moore, Second Lieutenant Charles H. Groves 
 
 705 officers and men 
 
 EIGHTH REGIMENT INFANTRY 
 Colonel WILLIAM A. PEW, Jr.. Commanding 
 
 Eighth Regiment band, 40 pieces 
 
 Lieutenant Colonel Edwin W. M. Bailey 
 
 Majors William Stopford, Frank A. Graves and Edward H. Eldredge 
 
 Battalion Adjutants. First Lieutenants Charles M. Mclsaac and Alexander 
 L. Cochrane 
 
 73 
 
DEDICATION OF HOOKER STATUE 
 
 Order of the Staff Captain Stephen W. Sleeper, Adjutant ; Captain Charles F. Wonson, 
 
 Quartermaster; Major Thomas L. Jenkins, Surgeon; Captain Frank P. 
 T. Logan, Assistant Surgeon ; First Lieutenant Charles S. Butler, Assistant 
 Surgeon ; Captain James C. Barr, Paymaster ; First Lieutenant A. Preston 
 Chase, Commissary ; Milo Hudson Gates, Chaplain 
 
 Company A, Charlestown. Captain Thomas F. Brennan, First Lieutenant 
 
 Andrew T. Wilson, Second Lieutenant Edward J. McBride 
 Company B, Everett. Captain Elbridge L. Sweetser, Jr., First Lieutenant 
 
 Charles H. Hillman, Second Lieutenant George A. Kyle 
 Company C, Cambridge. Captain Charles H. Cutler, First Lieutenant Harry 
 
 N. Stearns, Second Lieutenant Francis J. Lounsbury 
 Company D, Lynn. Captain Charles T. Hilliker, First Lieutenant Thomas 
 
 J. Cobey, Second Lieutenant William W. Cann 
 Company E, Beverly. Captain Charles B. Burnham, First Lieutenant Ralph 
 
 S. Whiting, Second Lieutenant Thomas W. Holdsworth 
 
 Company F, Haverhill. Captain David F. Whittier, First Lieutenant Harry 
 B. Campbell, Second Lieutenant George M. G. Nichols 
 
 Company G, Gloucester. Captain Gerard M. Kincaide, First Lieutenant 
 Julius F. Dier, Second Lieutenant John E. Ratcliffe 
 
 Company H, Salem. Captain George N. Jewett, First Lieutenant Ernest C. 
 White, Second Lieutenant William H. Perry 
 
 Company I, Lynn. Captain P. Frank Packard, First Lieutenant William C. 
 
 Jones, Second Lieutenant George E. Hanson 
 Company K, Somerville. Captain Herbert W. Whitten, First Lieutenant 
 
 William A. Bradford, Second Lieutenant Edwin S. Ross 
 Company L, Lawrence. Captain Eugene Larrive, First Lieutenant James E. 
 
 Connors, Second Lieutenant George A. Armitage 
 
 Company M, Somerville. Captain George I. Canfield, First Lieutenant 
 Joseph E. Wiley, Second Lieutenant Louis L. Hannaford 
 
 650 officers and men 
 
 74 
 
DEDICATION OF HOOKER STATUE 
 
 NINTH REGIMENT INFANTRY Order of the 
 
 Parade 
 Colonel WILLIAM H. DONOVAN, Commanding 
 
 Ninth Regiment band, 40 pieces 
 
 Lieutenant Colonel Lawrence J. Logan 
 
 Majors George F. H. Murray, John J. Sullivan and Joseph J. Kelley 
 
 Battalion Adjutants. First Lieutenants Benjamin F. Flanigan, Joseph J. Foley 
 and Martin J. Healey 
 
 Staff Captain William J. Casey, Adjutant ; Captain Daniel J. Murphy, 
 Quartermaster; Major John P. Lombard, Surgeon; Captain James E. 
 McGourty, Assistant Surgeon; First Lieutenant Jeremiah A. Cronin, 
 Assistant Surgeon; Captain John P. Kane, Paymaster; First Lieutenant 
 John T. Golden, I. R. P. ; First Lieutenant Patrick H. McGrath, Com 
 missary; James Lee, Chaplain 
 
 Company A, Boston. Captain George M. Rogers, First Lieutenant Edward 
 L. Logan, Second Lieutenant Frederick C. Frost 
 
 Company B, Boston. Captain James F. Walsh, First Lieutenant John J. 
 Hickey, Second Lieutenant James A. Guthrie 
 
 Company C, Boston. Captain Thomas F. Quinlan, First Lieutenant Maurice 
 Bowlen, Second Lieutenant Michael L. King 
 
 Company D, Boston. Captain John H. Dunn, First Lieutenant John J. 
 Dwyer, Second Lieutenant Thomas F. Sullivan 
 
 Company E, Boston. Captain John J. Barry, First Lieutenant Daniel P. 
 Sullivan, Second Lieutenant Cornelius J. Murphy 
 
 Company F, Lawrence. Captain Patrick A. Sands, First Lieutenant Frank 
 L. Donovan, Second Lieutenant Michael S. Boles 
 
 Company G, Worcester. Captain Jeremiah Moynihan, First Lieutenant Mat 
 thew E. Hines, Second Lieutenant John F. Hurley 
 
 Company H, Boston. Captain John J. Hayes, First Lieutenant Patrick H. 
 Sullivan, Second Lieutenant Francis J. Odermatt 
 
 75 
 
DEDICATION OF HOOKER STATUE 
 
 Order of the Company I, Boston. Captain James A. Cully, First Lieutenant John F. 
 
 Delaney, Second Lieutenant John F. Mclnnis 
 
 Company K, Clinton. First Lieutenant Robert McRell, Commanding, Second 
 Lieutenant Edward J. Scanlon 
 
 Company L, Natick. Captain John F. Kenealy, Second Lieutenant Charles 
 G. Green 
 
 Company M, Lowell. Captain Philip McNulty, Second Lieutenant Bernard 
 F. McArdle 
 
 772 officers and men 
 
 BATTERY A, LIGHT ARTILLERY 
 
 Captain Samuel D. Parker, First Lieutenant William Amory, 2d, First Lieu 
 tenant Henry B. Sawyer, First Lieutenant John White Cummin, Assistant 
 Surgeon, Second Lieutenant Charles S. Dole 
 
 85 officers and men 
 
 FIRST BATTALION CAVALRY 
 Major WILLIAM A. PERRINS, Commanding 
 
 Staff First Lieutenant John W. Hall, Adjutant; First Lieutenant John C. 
 Kerrison, Quartermaster; Major George Westgate Mills, Surgeon; First 
 Lieutenant Arthur W. May, Veterinary Surgeon ; First Lieutenant Alfred 
 M. Blinn, Paymaster; First Lieutenant Albert J. Walton, I. R. P. 
 
 Company A, Boston. Captain Frank T. Hitchcock, First Lieutenant Fred. 
 G. Havlin, Second Lieutenant William E. Housman 
 
 Company D, Boston. Captain William H. Kelley, First Lieutenant Eugene 
 A. Coburn, Second Lieutenant Samuel T. Sinclair 
 
 145 officers and men 
 
 76 
 
DEDICATION OF HOOKER STATUE 
 
 NAVAL BRIGADE Ordef of ^ 
 
 Parade 
 Captain GEORGE R. H. BUFFINTON, Commanding 
 
 Naval Brigade band, 40 pieces 
 Lieutenant Commanders William B. Edgar and James H. Dillaway, Jr. 
 
 Staff Lieutenant Guilford C. Hathaway, Brigade Adjutant ; Lieutenant James 
 P. Parker, Ordnance Officer; Lieutenant Herbert C. Talbot, Equip 
 ment Officer; Lieutenant James Marshall, Paymaster; Lieutenant Com 
 mander S. Virgil Merritt, Surgeon; Lieutenant Thomas R. Armstrong, 
 Engineer; Lieutenant (J. G.) Bertram C. Edwards, Assistant Engineer; 
 Lieutenant (J. G.) David G. Eldredge, Assistant Surgeon ; Lieutenant 
 (J. G.) Dennis F. Sughrue, Assistant Surgeon ; Lieutenant (J. G.) Orland 
 R. Blair, Assistant Surgeon ; Lieutenant Thomas S. Prouty, Assistant 
 Paymaster 
 
 Company A, Boston. Lieutenant David H. Sughrue, Lieutenant (J. G.) 
 Bradford A. Pierce, Ensign William J. McLaughlin 
 
 Company B, Boston. Lieutenant Daniel M. Goodridge, Lieutenant (J. G.) 
 Dudley M. Pray, Ensign Benjamin A. Hodgden 
 
 Company C, Boston. Lieutenant Charles H. Parker, Lieutenant (J. G.) 
 Lewis E. Felton, Ensign William A. Lewis 
 
 Company E, Lynn. Lieutenant Fred H. Turnbull, Ensign Arthur F. Gary 
 
 Company F, Fall River. Lieutenant William H. Beanie, Lieutenant (J. G.) 
 Milton I. Dean, Ensign John T. Nelson 
 
 Company G, New Bedford. Lieutenant Edward E. Baudoin, Lieutenant 
 (J. G.) Harold S. Bowie, Ensign Rufus A. Soule, Jr. 
 
 Company H, Springfield. Lieutenant Jenness K. Dexter, Lieutenant (J. G.) 
 Charles S. Axtell, Ensign James M. Ropes 
 
 Company I, Fall River. Lieutenant Richard P. Borden, Lieutenant (J. G.) 
 William M. Olding, Ensign Miner W. Wilcox 
 475 officers and men 
 
 77 
 
DEDICATION OF HOOKER STATUE 
 
 Order of the FIRST CORPS OF CADETS 
 
 Parade Lieutenant Colonel THOMAS F. EDMANDS, Commanding 
 
 First Corps of Cadets band, 40 pieces 
 
 Major Thomas Talbot 
 
 Staff First Lieutenant William B. Stearns, Adjutant ; First Lieutenant Alfred 
 
 J. Rowan, Quartermaster ; Major Charles M. Green, Surgeon ; First 
 
 Lieutenant David Cheever, Assistant Surgeon ; First Lieutenant Frank F. 
 
 Phinney, Paymaster ; First Lieutenant William A. Hayes, I. R. P. 
 
 Company A, Boston. Captain Franklin L. Joy, First Lieutenant Charles 
 
 E. Loud, Second Lieutenant John Lavalle 
 Company B, Boston. Captain F. Elliott Cabot, First Lieutenant Charles H. 
 
 Cole, Jr., Second Lieutenant Edward H. Hoyt 
 Company C, Boston. Captain John A. Blanchard, First Lieutenant Jesse F. 
 
 Stevens, Second Lieutenant Boylston L. Williams 
 
 Company D, Boston. Captain Charles H. Rollins, First Lieutenant William 
 S. Simmons, Second Lieutenant Holton B. Perkins 
 265 officers and men 
 
 SECOND CORPS OF CADETS 
 Major ANDREW FITZ. Commanding 
 Second Corps of Cadets band, 30 pieces 
 
 Staff First Lieutenant Lawrence W. Jenkins, Adjutant; First Lieutenant 
 Ira Vaughn, Quartermaster; Major J. William Vose, Surgeon; First 
 Lieutenant Benj. F. Sturgis, Jr., Assistant Surgeon; First Lieutenant 
 Edward A. Maloon, Paymaster; First Lieutenant Robert Robertson, 
 I. R. P., Elvin G. Prescott, Chaplain 
 Company A, Salem. Captain George E. Symonds, First Lieutenant James 
 
 M. Clark, Second Lieutenant Harry R. Peach 
 
 Company B, Salem. Captain Arthur N. Webb, First Lieutenant Edward 
 T. Graham, Second Lieutenant John G. Burbeck 
 
 78 
 
DEDICATION OF HOOKER STATUE 
 
 Company C, Salem. Captain John E. Spencer, First Lieutenant Frank S. Order of the 
 
 Perkins, Second Lieutenant Eugene T. Redmond 
 Company D, Salem. Captain Charles F. Ropes, First Lieutenant James N. 
 
 Clark, Second Lieutenant Harry S. Perkins 
 190 officers and men 
 
 AMBULANCE CORPS 
 
 Captain Robert Eddy Bell, Commanding, First Lieutenant Christopher E. 
 Williams, Second Lieutenant Charles K. Keene 
 
 79 
 
THE VETERAN COLUMN 
 
DEDICATION OF HOOKER STATUE 
 
 VETERAN S COLUMN Order of the 
 
 Parade 
 MOUNTED POLICE 
 
 Major General WILLIAM A. BANCROFT, M. V. M., Retired 
 
 Brigadier General U. S. V., Grand Marshal 
 
 Staff Captain Augustus G. Reynolds, U. S. V., Chief of Staff; Aides, 
 Brigadier General Henry Parsons, M. V. M., Retired ; Colonel Samuel 
 A. Johnson, M. V. M., Retired ; Colonel Frank L. Locke, M. V. M., 
 Retired ; Colonel G. Frank Frost, M. V. M., Retired ; Colonel Walter 
 
 F. Peck, M. V. M., Retired; Lieutenant Colonel Elmore E. Locke, 
 M. V. M., Retired; Major Frederick P. Barnes, M. V. M., Retired; 
 Major Philip Little, M. V. M., Retired; Major Ambrose Bancroft, 
 U. S. V. ; Major William H. Goff, U. S. V. ; Captain Lester Leland, 
 U. S. V.; Captain Reuben W. Ropes, M. V. M.. Retired; Captain 
 Walter C. Wardwell ; Captain Augustus N. Rantoul ; Captain Doris 
 
 A. Young; Lieutenant Horace D. Litchfield; Lieutenant Colonel Robert 
 
 B. Edes, Commissary, M. V. M., Retired ; Lieutenant Colonel Horace 
 
 G. Kemp, Quartermaster, M. V. M., Retired ; Major Henry G. Jordan, 
 Engineer; Colonel William H. Devine, Surgeon, M. V. M., Retired 
 
 Sergeant Beverly Rantoul, Color Bearer (Red, White, Blue, and Yellow Guidon) 
 
 FIRST DIVISION 
 
 Major WILLIAM A. SMITH. U. S. V.. Division Marshal 
 Staff Captain Charles W. C. Rhoades, U. S. V., Chief of Staff; Aides, 
 Brevet Brigadier General Joab N. Patterson, U. S. V. ; Brevet Brigadier 
 General Thomas H. Dunham, U. S. V. ; Major Richard T. Lombard, 
 U. S. V. ; Brevet Major Brownell Granger, U. S. V. ; Brevet Major 
 William P. Shreve, U. S. V. ; Captain Joseph P. Thompson, U. S. V. ; 
 Captain Henry N. Comey, U. S. V.; Captain Edward G. Tutein, 
 U. S. V. ; Brevet Captain Isaac P. Gragg, U. S. V. ; George V. Buehler, 
 Surgeon 
 
 Sergeant John H. Blanchard, Color Bearer (Red Guidon) 
 
 83 
 
DEDICATION OF HOOKER STATUE 
 
 Order of the HOOKER S OLD BRIGADE 
 
 Parade 
 
 CARTER S BAND 
 
 Colonel EDWIN L. BAILEY, 2d N. H. Vok, Commanding 
 
 Staff First Lieutenant George H. Howard, 16th Mass. Vols. ; First Lieu 
 tenant Charles H. Shute, 2d N. H. Vols. ; Hospital Steward, Oscar 
 Cram, 1 1th Mass. Vols.; Sergeant Edwin Montgomery, 26th Pa. Vols. ; 
 William G. Bird, 1st Mass. Vols.; John W. Adams, 2d N. H. Vols., 
 Chaplain 
 
 First Sergeant Peter F. Rourke, Color bearer, llth Mass. Vols. (carrying the 
 old brigade battle flag, First Brigade, Second Division, Third Army Corps) 
 
 First Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry Association. Brevet Major 
 George E. Henry, Commanding; First Lieutenant Joseph H. Dalton, 
 Adjutant 204 men 
 
 Eleventh Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry Association. Captain 
 William H. Brown, Commanding; Sergeant Joseph H. Brown, Adju 
 tant 92 men 
 
 Sixteenth Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry Association. Brevet 
 Major Jonas F. Capelle, Commanding; Sergeant Major William H. 
 Cloudman, Adjutant 1 20 men 
 
 Twenty-sixth Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry Association. Captain 
 Albert Magnin, Commanding 9 men 
 
 Second New Hampshire Volunteer Infantry Association. Captain 
 Frank C. Wasley, Commanding; First Lieutenant Milan D. Spaulding, 
 Adjutant 110 men 
 
 Carriages containing Colonel Elijah Walker, 4th Maine Vols., Lieutenant 
 Colonel Daniel S. Lamson, 16th Mass. Vols., Lieutenant Colonel Charles C. 
 Rivers, llth Mass. Vols., Captain Ebenezer W. Stone, 1st Mass. Vols., 
 Brevet Colonel U. S. Vols., Major U. S. A., Retired, Hon. Frank B. Fay. 
 U. S. Sanitary Commission 
 
 84 
 
DEDICATION OF HOOKER STATUE 
 
 SOCIETY OF THE ARMY OF THE POTOMAC Order of the 
 
 Parade 
 AMERICAN BAND OF LOWELL 
 
 Major General John R. Brooke, U. S. A., Retired, President 
 
 Colonel Charles E. Hapgood, Commanding 
 
 Societies of the 1st, 2d, 3d, 5th, 6th, 9th, llth, 12th and Cavalry Corps, 
 Army of the Potomac, 32d Mass. Vol. Infantry Association 250 men 
 
 SOCIETY OF THE TWENTIETH ARMY CORPS 
 
 WINTHROP BAND 
 Sergeant John C. Metcalf, 2d Mass. Vols., Commanding 
 
 Varnum Abbott, 33d Mass. Vols., Adjutant 
 Second Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry Association. William 
 
 H. Hall, President; John R. Merritt, Secretary 82 men 
 Thirty-third Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry Association. Charles 
 
 F. Bennett, President; Albert C. Stacy, Secretary 95 men 
 Delegations from the 27th Indiana, 3d Wisconsin, 7th Ohio, 107th New 
 York, 46th Pennsylvania, 5th Connecticut, 29th Pennsylvania, 149th New 
 York and 150th New York regiments Volunteer Infantry, of the 20th 
 Army Corps 100 men 
 
 DISTINGUISHED GUESTS IN CARRIAGES 
 
 Lieutenant General Nelson A. Miles, U. S. Army 
 
 (with Cavalry Out-riders, M. V. M.) 
 
 Major General Daniel E. Sickles, U. S. A., Retired 
 Major General Oliver O. Howard, U. S. A., Retired 
 Major General Wesley Merritt, U. S. A., Retired 
 Major General John R. Brooke, U. S. A., Retired 
 Major General Alexander S. Webb, U. S. A. 
 Major General Joseph C. Breckenridge, U. S. A., Retired 
 
 85 
 
DEDICATION OF HOOKER STATUE 
 
 Order of the Brevet Major General Joshua L. Chamberlain, U. S. V. 
 Parade Brigadier General Samuel M. Mansfield, U. S. A., Retired 
 
 Brevet Brigadier General Nathan A. M. Dudley, U. S. V. 
 
 Lieutenant Colonel John G. Butler, Ordnance Corps, U. S. A. 
 
 Lieutenant Colonel Samuel Reber, U. S. A. 
 
 Cadet Sherman Miles, U. S. A. 
 
 Master Joseph Hooker Wood 
 
 Rear Admiral Mortimer L. Johnson, U. S. N. 
 Rear Admiral James H. Sands, U. S. N. 
 Rear Admiral N. Mayo Dyer, U. S. N., Retired 
 Colonel Percival C. Pope, U. S. M. C. 
 Lieutenant Thomas P. Magruder, U. S. N. 
 
 GENERAL HOOKER S SURVIVING STAFF OFFICERS 
 Brevet Brigadier General Joseph Dickinson, U. S. V. 
 Brevet Brigadier General Paul A. Oliver, U. S. V. 
 Brevet Brigadier General George W. Balloch, U. S. V. 
 Lieutenant Colonel Albert S. Austin, U. S. V. 
 Brevet Lieutenant Colonel Charles L. Young, U. S. V. 
 Major Robert M. McDowell, U. S. A. 
 Major Edwards H. Pratt, U. S. V. 
 Captain Nathan Bickford, U. S. V. 
 
 Brigadier General Charles P. Mattocks, U. S. V., Orator 
 Rev. Edward A. Horton, Chaplain 
 Rev. Arthur Little, Chaplain 
 Daniel C. French, Sculptor 
 Edward C. Potter, Sculptor 
 
 OFFICERS OF THE CONGRESSIONAL MEDAL OF HONOR 
 ASSOCIATION OF NEW ENGLAND 
 
 William H. Howe, President Charles W. Reed 
 
 Frank M. Whitman, P. N. C. Patrick J. Kyle 
 
 86 
 
DEDICATION OF HOOKER STATUE 
 
 OFFICERS OF THE SOCIETY OF CALIFORNIA PIONEERS Order of the 
 
 OF NEW ENGLAND Parade 
 
 Gorham D. Gilman, President Hon. John Conness 
 
 Isaac S. Pear, Treasurer Stephen W. Foster, Secretary 
 
 REPRESENTING SOCIETY OF THE ARMY OF THE POTOMAC 
 
 Brigadier General Horatio C. King, Brevet Major Charles A. Hopkins 
 
 Secretary Brevet Captain Nathan Appleton 
 
 Chaplain Joseph H. Twitchell 
 
 SECOND DIVISION 
 
 MASSACHUSETTS DEPARTMENT GRAND ARMY OF THE REPUBLIC 
 
 REED S CHELSEA BAND 
 
 Joseph Hooker Post 23, East Boston 
 
 (escort to Department Commander) 
 
 Bradford H. Blinn, Commander, Thomas Mclrney, Senior Vice Commander, 
 
 Joseph Rossiter, Junior Vice-Commander 
 Dwight O. Judd, Department Commander, Division Marshal 
 Staff Edward P. Preble, Assistant Adjutant General; Horace E. Marion, 
 Medical Director; Philip S. Moxom, Chaplain; Elisha T. Harvell, 
 Assistant Quartermaster General ; Alfred S. Roe, Inspector ; George F. 
 Hall, Judge Advocate; Past Department Commanders Austin S. Cush- 
 man, Charles D. Nash, George H. Innis, James K. Churchill, Eli W. 
 Hall, Wilfred A. Wetherbee, Wilmon W. Blackmar; J. Payson 
 Bradley, Acting Chief of Staff; Aides, William N. Abbott, Charles S. 
 Anthony, William B. Arnold, Melvin Beal, John Beck, Samuel W. 
 Benson, Joseph A. Chapin, Frank P. Clark, Ellery C. Crocker, A. B. 
 C. Deming, Ruel W. Dunbar, Charles H. Frye, John J. Gallagher, 
 Oliver Houghton, George H. Maynard, Collinwood C. Millar, Newton 
 S. Noyes, Charles H. Premiss, Milton F. Roberts, George M. Rice, 
 George G. Smith, Joseph W. Spaulding, Ezra Wilder 
 
 Daniel D. Poole, Color Bearer, Post 199 (White Guidon) 
 
 87 
 
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 Order of the RIGHT WING DEPARTMENT MASSACHUSETTS G. A. R. 
 
 Worcester Brass Band 
 Lucius Field, Senior Vice- Department Commander 
 
 William H. Bartlett Post 3, Taunton. Alonzo M. Shaw, Commander, 
 George H. Park, Senior Vice-Commander, Gilman Q. Leavitt, Junior 
 Vice-Commander 
 
 U. S. Grant Post 4, Melrose. Lewis A. Young, Senior Vice-Commander, 
 Albert A. Carleton, Junior Vice-Commander 
 
 General Lander Post 5, Lynn. William H. Goodwin, Commander, 
 Thomas B. Homan, Senior Vice-Commander, George F. Putnam, Junior 
 Vice-Commander 
 
 Charles Russell Lowell Post 7, Boston. John McDonough, Commander, 
 Stephen F. Keyes, Senior Vice-Commander, Hugh Curran, Junior Vice- 
 Commander 
 
 E. W. Pierce Post 8, Middleboro. Warren B. Stetson, Commander, 
 Walter H. Smith, Senior Vice-Commander, Henry R. Ellis, Junior 
 Vice-Commander 
 
 George H. Ward Post 10, Worcester. Woodbury C. Smith, Commander, 
 Daniel E. Denny, Senior Vice-Commander, L. W. K. Van DeMark, 
 Junior Vice-Commander 
 
 Abraham Lincoln Post n, Charlestown. Frederick L. Fiske, Com 
 mander, George H. Huff, Senior Vice-Commander, Alfred U. Prescott, 
 Junior Vice-Commander 
 
 Fletcher Webster Post 13, Brockton. George W. Packard, Com 
 mander, Walter L. French, Senior Vice-Commander, Daniel G. Hill, 
 Junior Vice-Commander 
 
 John A. Andrew Post 15, Boston. James F. McKenzie, Commander, 
 Charles H. Nason, Senior Vice-Commander, Christopher O Brien, Junior 
 Vice-Commander 
 
DEDICATION OF HOOKER STATUE 
 
 Howard M. Warren Post 12, Wakefield. Jacob B. Wiley, Commander, Order of the 
 Horatio Bumpus, Senior Vice-Commander, William O. Mansfield, Junior arade 
 Vice-Commander 
 
 Major E. F. Fletcher Post 22, Milford. Edward E. Cook, Commander, 
 James W. Burke, Senior Vice-Commander, Joseph W. Pedrick, Junior 
 Vice-Commander 
 
 Thomas G. Stevenson Post 26, Roxbury. Luther W. Bixby, Com 
 mander, William B. Gove, Senior Vice-Commander, Joseph S. Stevens, 
 Junior Vice-Commander 
 
 E. P. H. Rogers Post 29, Waltham. James Beatty, Commander, James 
 L. Wellington, Senior Vice-Commander, Theodore K. Holbrook, Junior 
 Vice-Commander 
 
 William H. Smart Post 30, Cambridgeport. A. Otis Chamberlin, 
 Commander, Charles P. Cox, Senior Vice-Commander, William Megroth, 
 Junior Vice-Commander 
 
 Washington Post 32, South Boston. John Mahoney, Commander, Wil 
 liam McCarthy, Senior Vice-Commander, Stephen M. Clark, Junior 
 Vice-Commander 
 
 Phil. H. Sheridan Post 34, Salem. Benjamin C. Nichols, Commander, 
 Charles H. Frye, Senior Vice-Commander, William T. Lander, Junior 
 Vice-Commander 
 
 Theodore Winthrop Post 35, Chelsea. Joseph J. Gilman, Commander, 
 William A. Gardner, Senior Vice-Commander, Edwin H. Butts, Junior 
 Vice-Commander 
 
 B. F. Butler Post 42, Lowell. Michael H. McCue, Commander, 
 John J. Dolan, Senior Vice-Commander, James McCarty, Junior Vice- 
 Commander 
 
 George S. Boutwell Post 48, Ayer. Sanford B. Preble, Commander, 
 John Turck, Senior Vice-Commander, William W. Wentworth, Junior 
 Vice-Commander 
 
 89 
 
DEDICATION OF HOOKER STATUE 
 
 Order of the LEFT WING DEPARTMENT MASSACHUSETTS G. A. R. 
 
 Parade 
 
 Northampton band 
 
 James H. Wolff, Junior Vice- Department Commander 
 
 Colonel Allen Post 45, Gloucester. Sidney Gardner, Commander, John 
 H. Ingersoll, Senior Vice-Commander, Reuben Perry, Junior Vice- 
 Commander 
 
 Major How Post 47, Haverhill. John F. Cook, Commander, Charles 
 Butters, 2d, Senior Vice-Commander, Frank A. Dow, Junior Vice- 
 Commander 
 
 Richard Borden Post 46, Fall River. John Gilbert, Commander, Peter 
 M. Garrity, Senior Vice-Commander, Samuel P. Durfee, Junior Vice- 
 Commander 
 
 Charles H. Stevens Post 53, Leominster. Charles Powers, Commander, 
 Charles Joy, Senior Vice-Commander, Charles S. Damon, Junior Vice- 
 Commander 
 
 Charles Beck Post 56, Cambridge. John S. Sheridan, Commander, Arno 
 W. Glidden, Senior Vice-Commander, William H. H. Howe, Junior 
 Vice-Commander 
 
 Reynolds Post 58, Weymouth. George P. Lyon, Commander, Bradford 
 Hawes, Senior Vice-Commander, Asa B. Pratt, Junior Vice-Commander 
 
 Charles Ward Post 62, Newton. George L. Keyes, Commander, Chris 
 topher C. Patten, Senior Vice-Commander, William T. Sheperds, Junior 
 Vice-Commander 
 
 General Wadsworth Post 63, Natick. Alphonso B. Pierce, Commander, 
 Bartholomew T. Healy, Senior Vice-Commander, Samuel J. Thomas, 
 Junior Vice-Commander 
 
 S. C. Lawrence Post 66, Medford. Allison M. Stickney, Commander, 
 Winslow Joyce, Senior Vice-Commander, Isaac H. Gardner, Junior 
 Vice-Commander 
 
 90 
 
DEDICATION OF HOOKER STATUE 
 
 Benjamin Stone Post 68, Dorchester. Daniel L. Weymouth, Com- Order of the 
 mander, Rodney W. Greenleaf, Senior Vice-Commander, Charles A. 
 Vinal, Junior Vice-Commander 
 
 McPherson Post 73, Abington. David Warren, Commander, Michael 
 J. Hart, Senior Vice-Commander, Jesse H. Jones, Junior Vice- 
 Commander 
 
 J. P. Gould Post 75, Stoneham. Alby J. Warren, Commander, George 
 W. Newhall, Senior Vice-Commander, Richard Tibbetts, Junior Vice- 
 Commander 
 
 Collingwood Post 76, Plymouth. Nathaniel M. Davis, Commander, 
 Walter H. Finney, Senior Vice-Commander, William B. Taylor, Junior 
 Vice-Commander 
 
 Paul Revere Post 88, Quincy. John W. Hersey, Commander, Charles L. 
 Orne, Senior Vice-Commander, Thomas Ring, Junior Vice-Commander 
 
 General E. W. Hincks Post 95, Saugus. Charles D. Fisk, Commander, 
 Charles H. Mansfield, Senior Vice-Commander, John E. Stocker, Junior 
 Vice-Commander 
 
 J. H. Chipman, Jr., Post 89, Beverly. Thomas F. Whiting, Com 
 mander, Warren Shaw, Senior Vice-Commander, George P. Irving, 
 Junior Vice-Commander 
 
 Ward Post 90, Danvers. Isaac E. Frye, Senior Vice-Commander, Wil 
 liam E. Osborn, Junior Vice-Commander 
 
 General James L. Bates Post 118, Swampscott. John I. Adams, 
 Commander, Daniel C. Beckett, Senior Vice-Commander, Benjamin H. 
 Phillips, Junior Vice-Commander 
 
 George G. Meade Post 1 19, Lexington. George N. Gurney, Commander, 
 George H. Cutter, Senior Vice-Commander, Charles G. Kauffman, 
 Junior Vice-Commander 
 
 Timothy Ingraham Post 121, Hyde Park. Walter C. Bryant, Com 
 mander, George E. Noyes, Senior Vice-Commander, John R. Bond, 
 Junior Vice-Commander 
 
 91 
 
DEDICATION OF HOOKER STATUE 
 
 Order of the Parker Post 123, Athol Centre. Henry W. Harris, Commander, Henry 
 
 p Brock, Senior Vice-Commander, Lyman B. Hastings Junior Vice- 
 Commander 
 
 Robert A. Bell Post 134, Boston. Joseph H. Smith, Commander, Wil 
 liam H. Hopkins, Senior Vice-Commander, Edward A. Ditmas, Junior 
 Vice-Commander 
 
 Williard C. Kinsley Post 139, Somerville. George M. Houghton, Com- 
 mander, Edwin M. Norton, Senior Vice-Commander, James H. Chase, 
 Junior Vice-Commander 
 
 C. L. Chandler Post 143, Brookline. Benjamin E. Corlew, Commander, 
 Augustus S. Lovett, Senior Vice-Commander, Henry K. Paine, Junior 
 Vice-Commander 
 
 Charles W. Carroll Post 144, Dedham. Charles E. Lewis, Commander, 
 William H. Clements, Senior Vice-Commander, Otis S. Guild, Junior 
 Vice-Commander 
 
 Major G. L. Stearns Post 149, Charlestown. James Crogan, Com 
 mander, Sylvester C. Maloney, Senior Vice-Commander, Patrick J. 
 Bench, Junior Vice-Commander 
 
 General H. G. Berry Post 40, Maiden. Robert Morrison, Commander, 
 George J. Hunt, Senior Vice-Commander, George F. Hollis, Junior 
 Vice-Commander 
 
 Francis Washburn Post 92, Brighton. Joseph H. Haskell, Commander, 
 E. Frank Stearns, Senior Vice-Commander, Archibald B. Collier, Junior 
 Vice-Commander 
 
 G. W. Berry Post 31, Scituate. George O. Vinal, Commander, Albert 
 Clapp, Senior Vice-Commander, George S. Bates, Junior Vice- 
 Commander 
 
 George A. Custer Post 70, Millbury. Arthur H. Batchelder, Com 
 mander, David Herlihey, Senior Vice-Commander, Henry A. White, 
 Junior Vice-Commander 
 
 92 
 
DEDICATION OF HOOKER STATUE 
 
 Dahlgren Post 2, South Boston. Robert F. Gerald, Commander, Ben- Order of the 
 jamin L. Arey, Senior Vice-Commander, Edwin S. Wheeler, Junior 
 Vice-Commander 
 
 Frederick Hecker Post 21, Boston. Theodore Leutz, Commander, Jacob 
 Nagel, Senior Vice-Commander, Michael Erhardt, Junior Vice-Com 
 mander 
 
 General W, F. Bartlett Post 99, Andover. John B. A. Russell, Com 
 mander, George K. Dodge, Senior Vice-Commander, Henry C. Hitch 
 cock, Junior Vice-Commander 
 
 Franklin Post 60, Franklin. Fred A. Hartshorn, Commander, David W. 
 Corson, Senior Vice-Commander, Daniel W. Fisher, Junior Vice- 
 Commander 
 
 Francis Gould Post 36, Arlington. Jacob O. Winchester, Commander, 
 Alexander H. Seaver, Senior Vice-Commander, Henry Bradley, Junior 
 Vice-Commander 
 
 James A. Garfield Post 120, Lowell. Augustus W. Boodry, Commander, 
 Francis W. Craigin, Senior Vice-Commander, Royal S. Ripley, Junior 
 Vice-Commander 
 
 Otis W. Wallace Post 106, Rockport. James H. Breen, Commander, 
 Charles L. Dunlap, Senior Vice-Commander, Nathaniel Richardson, 
 Junior Vice-Commander 
 
 Captain E. T. Dresser Post 158, Housatonic. James Hefferman, Com 
 mander, Oscar A. Sweet, Senior Vice-Commander, George T. Oakes, 
 Junior Vice-Commander 
 
 James A. Perkins Post 156, Everett. James L. House, Commander, 
 
 Freeman A. Langley, Senior Vice-Commander, Harvey Kellogg, Junior 
 
 Vice-Commander 
 W. L. Baker Post 86, Northampton. John P. Thompson, Commander, 
 
 Gary H. Emerson, Senior Vice-Commander, Calvin B. Kingsley, Junior 
 
 Vice-Commander 
 
 93 
 
DEDICATION OF HOOKER STATUE 
 
 Order of the John A. Hawes Post 159, East Boston. Stephen D. Snow, Commander, 
 
 rarade John A. Wheeler, Senior Vice-Commander, John H. Lawson, Junior 
 
 Vice-Commander 
 
 Henry Bryant Post 98, Cohasset. Charles A. Gross, Commander, 
 Horace E. Sampson, Senior Vice-Commander, Leander W. Grace, 
 Junior Vice- Commander 
 
 General J. G. Foster Post 163, South Framingham. Davis P. Howard, 
 Commander, Charles P. Haskell, Senior Vice-Commander, George A. 
 Bartlett, Junior Vice-Commander 
 
 John Rogers Post 170, Mansfield. John Hannifen, Commander, Reuben 
 Purdy, Senior Vice-Commander, George Fiske, Junior Vice-Commander 
 
 Old Concord Post 180, Concord. Cyrus W. Benjamin, Commander, 
 Hiram P. Worthley, Senior Vice-Commander, Asa Jacobs, Junior Vice- 
 Commander 
 
 John A. Logan Post 186, Cambridgeport. James H. Hodgkins, Com 
 mander, David A. Stevens, Senior Vice-Commander, Lewis J. Cook, 
 Junior Vice-Commander 
 
 Veteran Post 194, Reading. Lamburtus W. Krook, Commander, Lucius 
 C. Curtis, Senior Vice-Commander, William A. Hunter, Junior Vice- 
 Commander 
 
 Boston Post 200, Boston. William S. Whitney, Commander, Benjamin 
 Proctor, Senior Vice-Commander, Charles L. Turner, Junior Vice- 
 Commander 
 
 General W. T. Sherman Post 208, Wareham. Cornelius Hegerty, 
 Commander, George A. Thompson, Senior Vice-Commander, David 
 S. Swift, Junior Vice-Commander 
 
 Alfred C. Monroe Post 212, East Bridgewater. John S. Soper, Com 
 mander, Charles E. Allen, Senior Vice-Commander, Isaac H. Lincoln, 
 Junior Vice-Commander 
 
 C. C. Phillips Post 14, Hopkinton. George F. Manning, Commander, 
 Mark T. Hatch, Senior Vice-Commander, Edwin A. Newton, Junior 
 
 Vice-Commander 
 
 3,500 men 
 
 94 
 
DEDICATION OF HOOKER STATUE 
 
 THIRD DIVISION Order of the 
 
 Parade 
 Brevet Brigadier General Morris Schaff, U. S. V., Division Marshal 
 
 Staff General Thomas L. Rosser of Virginia, Major General, C. S. A., 
 Brigadier General U. S. V., Chief of Staff ; Aides, Lieutenant Hanson 
 B. Black, U. S. A., Lieutenant Paul D. Bunker, U. S. A. ; D. T. Cal- 
 lahan, N. V. C., Regular Army and Navy Union ; Benjamin Ostheus, 
 I. G., Legion Spanish War Veterans ; Mr. Frederick Tudor, Mr. Wil 
 liam H. Goodwin, Mr. Harrison Hale Schaff, Mr. Charles B. Amory, 
 Jr., Mr. Harrison Mifflin 
 
 Sergeant Henry Richardson, Color Bearer (Blue Guidon) 
 BOSTON POSTAL ASSOCIATION BAND 
 
 UNION VETERAN S UNION 
 Past Com. Dennis Linnehan, Commanding 
 
 Staff Department Commander, Daniel W. Gould ; Deputy Department 
 Commander, Walter A. Eames; Second Deputy Department Com 
 mander, Henry J. Earle; Aides, William H. Chamberlain, Albion C. 
 Colby, George E. Kirby, James Standish, Henry F. Chandler, Henry 
 F. Ayers, John A. Watson 
 
 GENERAL JOSEPH HOOKER COMMAND No. 9 
 
 Thomas McNally, Colonel Commanding 
 Henry P. Gates, Lieutenant Colonel; Charles H. Welsh, Major 
 
 Delegations from Hancock, Fair Oaks, Wauhatchie, Burnside, Logan and 
 Appomattox commands 
 
 200 men 
 
 95 
 
DEDICATION OF HOOKER STATUE 
 
 Order of the KEARSARGE ASSOCIATION OF NAVAL VETERANS 
 
 Parade KEARSARGE ASSOCIATION BAND 
 
 Andrew Houghton, Rear Admiral, Commanding 
 
 Staff Paul H. Kendricken, Ex-Commodore ; Benjamin F. Sanborn, Ex- 
 Commodore; Benjamin P. Hodgkins, Commander; Patrick J. Bench, 
 Lieutenant Commander; Henry Landt, Lieutenant Commander; Samuel 
 Ellis, Lieutenant ; Henry Seigle, Lieutenant ; John P. Bear, Lieutenant ; 
 Michael H. Enwright, Lieutenant ; John Martin, Lieutenant ; William J. 
 Walsh, Ensign; Horace S. Everett, Surgeon; Thomas H. Grinnell, 
 Paymaster ; William H. Gaskin, Chief Engineer ; James Sullivan, Chaplain 
 
 First Company. Commodore Thomas Ryan 
 Second Company. Captain Dennis Murphy 
 Third Company. Lieutenant Patrick J. Donovan 
 Fourth Company. Ensign Isaac D. Baker 
 184 men 
 
 ROBERT GOULD SHAW VETERAN ASSOCIATION 
 
 FIFE AND DRUM CORPS 
 Wesley J. Furlong, Major Commanding 
 
 Frederic F. Murray, Adjutant 
 
 Company A. John G. N. R. Powell, Commander 
 Company B. Emanuel Walker, Commander 
 50 men 
 
 REGULAR ARMY AND NAVY UNION 
 TRIMOUNTAIN GARRISON No. 98 
 
 MISSION CHURCH BAND 
 Dennis M. Calnan, Commander 
 
 John Cosgrove, Vice-Commander; John S. Kenney, Adjutant; Edward J. 
 Nagle, Paymaster; John Watson, Quartermaster; Hugo Johanson, Sur 
 geon; Stephen J. Houghton, Chaplain 
 
 96 
 
DEDICATION OF HOOKER STATUE 
 
 GENERAL R. S. McKENZIE GARRISON Order of the 
 
 Thomas J. Roche, Commander 
 
 John W. Curran, Senior Vice-Commander; Edward Reavy, Junior Vice- 
 Commander; Thomas Cauley, Adjutant; George Smith, Paymaster; 
 John Guinan, Quartermaster; Henry Clark, Chaplain 
 109 men 
 
 LEGION OF SPANISH WAR VETERANS 
 Junior Vice-Commander-in-Chief Thomas L. Hayes, Commanding 
 
 Staff Neil F. Carroll, Adjutant General G. O. D., John A. Mahoney, 
 Chief of Staff; Rev. P. B. Murphy, Chaplain-in-Chief ; William F. 
 Ryan, Assistant Adjutant General ; Joseph Martin, Assistant Inspector 
 General ; William F. Murray, Jr., Past Assistant Adjutant General ; 
 John F. Riley, Chaplain, Camp No. 4 ; Hugh Wyllie, Commander, 
 Camp No. 1 ; Charles F. Bogan, Adjutant, Camp No. 14; Louis Epple, 
 Ensign, Camp No. 1 ; John J. Corliss, Adjutant, Camp No. 31 ; Wil 
 liam P. Kenibbs, Chaplain, Camp No. 1 ; G. O. W., John J. Burns 
 G. J. WHITTIN CAMP BAND 
 
 George J. Whittin Camp No. 1, Boston. Richard R. Flynn, Commander 
 
 Major M. J. O Connor Camp No. 4, South Boston. John J. Clark, Senior 
 Vice-Commander 
 
 Ensign Worth Bagley Camp No. 6, Charlestown. Herman Knickmeister, 
 Adjutant, Commanding 
 
 Leslie F. Hunting Camp No. 12, Boston. J. Leo McDonald, Commander 
 
 Roxbury Camp No. 13, Boston. Hugh McGoldrick, Commander 
 
 Colonel Fred. B. Bogan Camp No. 14, Charlestown. John J. Dwyer, Junior 
 Vice-Commander, Commanding 
 
 General P. J. Sanger Camp No. 16, Lynn. James J. Jeffres, Commander 
 
 Clarence L. Bartol Camp No. 18, Marblehead. Fred H. Osgood, Commander 
 FIRST BATTALION NAVAL BRIGADE BAND 
 
 Captain John Drum Camp No. 21, Boston. Michael F. Hearney, Junior 
 Vice-Commander, Commanding 
 
 97 
 
DEDICATION OF HOOKER STATUE 
 
 Order of the Ponce Camp No. 23, Southbridge. Ulysses L. Goodale, Commander 
 
 Parade 
 
 Roger Walcott Camp No. 26, Boston. Henry A. Truethardt, Commander 
 
 Walter G. Chadbourne Camp No. 27, Chelsea. Jere Taylor, Senior Vice- 
 Commander, Commanding 
 
 Phillip Connealley Camp No. 29, Natick. Daniel J. Murphy, Commander 
 General S. C. Lawrence Camp No. 31, Medford. Albert C. Gray, Com 
 mander 
 
 Edward N. Cunningham Camp No. 32, Brighton. Patrick Barry, Commander 
 Leon E. Warren Camp No. 33, Stoneham. Charles E. Mellen, Senior 
 Vice-Commander, Commanding 
 
 739 men 
 
 MAJOR P. J. GRADY COMMAND 189 
 N. A. and N. Spanish War Veterans, East Boston 
 
 Michael J. Murphy, Captain; John C. Gibbins, First Lieutenant; Charles 
 
 J. Donahue, Second Lieutenant 
 
 75 men 
 
 MASSACHUSETTS DIVISION, SONS OF VETERANS 
 
 (Detachments from the sixty or more camps present were consolidated into a 
 provisional regiment for the occasion) 
 
 SALEM BRASS BAND 
 Orra L. Stone, Division Commander 
 
 Staff George M. Tucker, Senior Vice-Commander; W. Wallace Gardner, 
 D. C. ; D. Murray Travis, Past Dept. Commander ; Albert E. Leighton, 
 Division Adjutant; Wilbur L. Litchfield, Division Quartermaster; W. 
 A. Hartshorn, D. M. O.; David W. Colburn, Camp 28, Special 
 Marshal 
 
 Aides to Division Commander, Jacob W. Powell, Chief Aide, Commanding 
 Surplus Camp Officers, Captain Samuel A. Pickering, Camp 78, Commanding 
 
 98 
 
DEDICATION OF HOOKER STATUE 
 
 First Company. Captain Harry J. Perry, Camp 1, Commanding Order of the 
 
 Second Company. Captain Fred C. Spaulding, Camp 4, Commanding 
 Third Company. John I. Bryant, Camp 35, Commanding 
 Fourth Company. Captain George H. Wakefield, Camp 41, Commanding 
 Fifth Company. Captain Frank A. Littlefield, Camp 56, Commanding 
 Sixth Company. Lieutenant Henry H. Burrows, Camp 30, Commanding 
 Seventh Company. Captain Charles H. Perry, Camp 94, Commanding 
 Eighth Company. Captain William G. Wood, Camp 80, Commanding 
 Ninth Company. Captain Edwin A. Holmes, Camp 30, Commanding 
 Tenth Company. Lieutenant Henry E. Potter, Camp 28, Commanding 
 
 525 men 
 
 THE NEW ENGLAND ASSOCIATION OF VETERANS 
 OF THE MEXICAN WAR 
 
 (in four-horse tally-ho coaches) 
 
 Brevet Brigadier General Samuel E. Chamberlain, President 
 Second Illinois Volunteers, First U. S. Dragoons, 74 Barre Plains, Mass. 
 
 Captain George W. Murch, Adjutant First Mass. Volunteers, 78 Togus, Me. 
 Captain Charles W. Gilbert, First Mass. Volunteers, 75 Salem, Mass. 
 Peter M. Goff, First Mass. Volunteers, 73 Everett, Mass. 
 David T. Ward, First Mass. Volunteers, 76 Waltham, Mass. 
 Geo. H. Coy, First Mass. Volunteers, 73 Cambridge, Mass. 
 Lieutenant Colonel Edward Collins, U. S. Engineers, 78 Dorchester, Mass. 
 John F. Marsh, Ninth U. S. Infantry, 75 Springfield, Mass. 
 Azra Grinold, Ninth U. S. Infantry, 78 Spencer, Mass. 
 Alonzo Crosby, Ninth U. S. Infantry, 73 Cliftondale, Mass. 
 Thomas F. Davis, Ninth U. S. Infantry, 79 Nashua, N. H. 
 James A. Goodhue, Ninth U.S. Infantry, 77 Avon, Conn. 
 Cornelius J. Richardson, First U. S. Mounted Rifles, 83 East Vassalboro, 
 
 Me. 
 James Austin, First U. S. Artillery, 81 West Lynn, Mass. 
 
 99 
 
DEDICATION OF HOOKER STATUE 
 
 Order of the Franklin F. Follansbee, First U. S. Artillery, 78 Nashua, N. H. 
 Parade Patrick F. Haney, First Regiment U. S. Voltigeurs, 82 Boston, Mass. 
 
 Albert C. Clapp, Louisiana Mounted Volunteers, 73 Hyde Park, Mass. 
 
 J. Watts Robinson, First Missouri Infantry, 75 Annisquam, Mass. 
 
 William Francis, First Virginia Volunteers, 73 Woburn, Mass. 
 
 James T. Searles, U. S.S. Mississippi and Naval Battery, 80 Lowell, Mass. 
 
 William H. Haines, U. S.S. Cumberland, 74 Everett, Mass. 
 
 Rafael Coll, U.S. Sloop Albany, 79 Somerville, Mass. 
 
 Ezekiel B. Brown, U. S.S. Wachusett, 83 Togus, Me. 
 
 Charles H. Wyman, U. S.S. Columbus, 73 Lynn, Mass. 
 
 Mr. Edward W. McGlenen, Secretary 
 
 Note. The Ninth U. S. Infantry was recruited entirely in New England. 
 
 THE TOWN OF HADLEY 
 Barge containing delegation from Hadley, Mass, (birthplace of General Hooker) 
 
 Dr. Franklin Bonney, Geo. H. Clark, O. W. Prouty, Selectmen F. S. 
 Reynolds, H. C. Russell and J. S. Barstow, Veterans George M. Crafts, 
 Alden J. Gilbert, Lyman W. Hibbard, Edward Johnson, Frederick B. 
 Kentfield, Horace L. Richardson, Henry J. Russell, Lucius D. Smith, 
 Joseph F. Smith, Lewis W. West, Francis P. Wheeler, Charles H. 
 White, R. H. Hibbard 
 
 FOURTH DIVISION 
 
 Colonel Charles Pfaff, M. V. M., Retired, Division Marshal 
 Staff Captain Charles H. Lake, Chief of Staff; Captain John S. Keenan, 
 M. V. M., Retired, Q. M. and C. ; Aides, Major Frank H. Briggs, 
 M. V. M., Retired ; Captain Howland S. Russell ; Sergeant Henry 
 P. Wilmarth, A. & H. A. Co. ; Lieutenant Frank S. Wilson ; Cadet 
 Lieutenant Lewis W. Croke, Boston School Brigade; J. Otis Leman, 
 Orderly 
 
 Beverly Rantoul, Color Bearer (Yellow Guidon) 
 
 100 
 
DEDICATION OF HOOKER STATUE 
 
 ANCIENT AND HONORABLE ARTILLERY COMPANY Order of the 
 
 NORWOOD BAND Parade 
 
 Captain Commanding, Colonel Sidney M. Hedges 
 Flankers to Commander, Lieutenant John E. Cotter. Captain Edward W. Abbott 
 
 Acting First Lieutenant, John D. Nichols 
 
 Acting Second Lieutenant, Captain Edwin R. Frost 
 
 Acting Adjutant, Colonel Alexander M. Ferris 
 
 Staff Captain Jacob Folder, Acting Chief of Staff; E. Dwight Hill, 
 Surgeon; William L. Willey, Quartermaster; Captain George E. Hall, 
 Commissary; George A. Perkins, Judge Advocate; Frank M. Johnson, 
 Assistant Surgeon ; Walter D. Shurtleff, Assistant Surgeon ; Frank A. 
 Davidson, Assistant Surgeon; George H. Allen, Assistant Paymaster; 
 Rev. William H. Ryder, Chaplain ; Lieutenant Thomas J. Tute, Acting 
 Sergeant Major; Lieutenant Edward Sullivan, Quartermaster Sergeant; 
 Henry F. Wade, Commissary Sergeant; Fred H. Putnam, Hospital 
 Steward 
 
 First Company of Infantry. Sergeant D. B. H. Power, Commanding 
 Second Company of Infantry. Sergeant Ira P. Smith, Commanding 
 Third Company of Infantry. Sergeant Joseph J. Feeley, Commanding 
 Fourth Company of Infantry. Sergeant R. Whiteman Bates, Commanding 
 Veteran Company of Infantry. Major G. Howard Jones, Commanding 
 First Company Artillery. Sergeant Charles H. Porter, Commanding 
 Second Company Artillery. Sergeant John A. W. Silver, Commanding 
 Third Company Artillery. Sergeant Benjamin Cole, Jr., Commanding 
 Fourth Company Artillery. Sergeant Franklin A. Wyman, Commanding 
 Fifth Company Artillery. Acting Sergeant Harry Hamilton, Commanding 
 Sixth Company Artillery. Acting Sergeant Frederick A. McKenzie, Com- 
 manding 
 
 175 men 
 
 101 
 
DEDICATION OF HOOKER STATUE 
 
 Order of the FUSILIER VETERAN ASSOCIATION 
 
 Parade WOBURN BRASS BAND 
 
 Major William J. Gillespie, Commanding 
 
 Captain Albert C. Sawyer, Adjutant 
 
 Staff Major Charles T. Chapin, Chief of Staff; Major Charles P. Bean, 
 Surgeon; William B. Cutler, Assistant Surgeon; Captain William F. 
 Sinclair, Quartermaster; Captain Thomas J. Kelley, Paymaster; Captain 
 John B. McKenna, Judge Advocate; Captain John T. Sellon, Com 
 missary ; Captain Charles H. Langill, Engineer ; Captain John S. Damrell, 
 Chaplain; Fred. A. Fales, Secretary 
 
 First Company. Captain Charles E. Whitney ; Lieutenant Albert W. Guptill 
 Second Company. Captain Frank H. Collins; Lieutenant Mark S. Brown 
 Third Company. Captain Peter S. Dowd ; Lieutenant William E. Martin 
 Fourth Company. Captain John W. Allston; Lieutenant William P. Collins 
 
 153 men 
 
 BOSTON SCHOOL CADET BRIGADE 
 The Lieutenant Colonels of the three Regiments commanded the Brigade for 
 
 one-third of the route each 
 
 Brigade Staff Cadet Lieutenant Colonel Arthur J. Hennigan, Cadet Lieu 
 tenant Colonel James T. Cronin, Cadet Major Rufus G. Pendleton 
 
 FIRST REGIMENT 
 
 Cadet Lieutenant Colonel Harold B. Grouse 
 
 Staff Cadet Regimental Adjutant Albert H. Roth, Cadet Regimental Q. M. 
 John H. Lindsay, Cadet Captain E. Dexter Boles, Cadet Captain Edward 
 H. Wilkinson, Cadet Captain Herbert C. Elton, Cadet Regimental Sergeant 
 Major Charles W. O Keefe 
 
 Cadet Drum-Major LeRoy A. Dorman 
 
 BOSTON MUNICIPAL BAND 
 FIRST REGIMENT DRUM CORPS, E. H. S. 
 
 102 
 
DEDICATION OF HOOKER STATUE 
 
 FIRST BATTALION Order of the 
 
 (English High School) Parade 
 
 Cadet Major Harold W. Smith 
 Cadet Battalion Adjutant Harry J. J. Blake 
 Cadet Battalion Sergeant Major Francis J. Norton 
 Company A. Cadet Captain, Jacob Swartz; Cadet Lieutenants, John J. 
 
 Fitzpatrick, Albert G. Wolff 
 Company B. Cadet Captain, Alfred J. Eichler; Cadet Lieutenants, Carl 
 
 W. Johanson, Arthur D. Anderson 
 Company C. Cadet Captain, Edward J. Geishecker ; Cadet Lieutenants, Saul 
 
 C. Kahn, George Reinherz 
 
 Company D. Cadet Captain, Cornelius J. Donovan; Cadet Lieutenants, 
 Vincent H. Jacobs, Simon M. Daniels 
 
 SECOND BATTALION 
 
 (English High School) 
 
 Cadet Major George W. Boland 
 
 Cadet Battalion Adjutant Joseph G. Homer 
 
 Cadet Battalion Sergeant Major Philip Levy 
 
 Company E. Cadet Captain, James J. Sullivan ; Cadet Lieutenants, Stephen 
 
 L. Maloney, Henry C. Turner 
 Company F. Cadet Captain, Allie Silverstein ; Cadet Lieutenants, Morris 
 
 M. Aisner, Lazarus Radio 
 
 Company G. Cadet Captain, Lloyd P. Williamson; Cadet Lieutenants, 
 Herman A. Mintz, George I. Matthews 
 
 THIRD BATTALION 
 
 (Charlestown and East Boston High Schools) 
 Cadet Major, M. Francis McGrath, Charlestown 
 Cadet Adjutant, Matthew J. Lambert, East Boston 
 Cadet Sergeant Major, John F. Toland, Charlestown 
 
 103 
 
DEDICATION OF HOOKER STATUE 
 
 Order of the Company E (Charlestown). Cadet Captain, Willard L. Prescott ; Cadet 
 Parade Lieutenants, George E. Ward, Albert C. Ward 
 
 Company H (East Boston). Cadet Captain, Oliver E. Story; Cadet Lieu 
 tenants, William F. Whitehead, Charles W. Rollins 
 
 Company I (East Boston). Cadet Captain, M. Joseph Naiherseg; Cadet 
 Lieutenants, William T. Bennett, John W. Thornton 
 
 FOURTH BATTALION 
 (South Boston High School) 
 
 Cadet Major, John M. J. Neagle 
 Cadet Adjutant, William J. Byrnes 
 Cadet Sergeant Major, Harry G. Mitchell 
 
 Company A. Cadet Captain, Daniel V. O Flaherty; Cadet Lieutenants, 
 
 James E. Rush, Matthew J. Gorham 
 Company B. Cadet Captain, Martin B. V. Buckley; Cadet Lieutenants, 
 
 Walter I. Baxter, John A. Mullen 
 Company C. Cadet Captain, John S. Pickett; Cadet Lieutenants, Francis 
 
 G. L. Guindon, Herbert E. Bishop 
 
 SECOND REGIMENT 
 
 Cadet Lieutenant Colonel William J. Shanahan 
 
 Staff Cadet Regimental Adjutant Frederick W. Newcomb ; Cadet Regimental 
 Q. M. Joseph F. Wogan ; Cadet Lieutenant Edward A. Meserve ; 
 Cadet Lieutenant John J. Long ; Cadet Regimental Sergeant Major Joseph 
 A. Hayes; Cadet Regimental Q. M. Sergeant Wendell W. Faunce 
 
 Cadet Drum Major Frederick H. Stewart 
 
 TEEL S BAND 
 SECOND REGIMENT DRUM CORPS 
 
 104 
 
DEDICATION OF HOOKER STATUE 
 
 FIRST BATTALION Order of the 
 
 (Boston Latin School) Parade 
 
 Cadet Major Elmer E. House 
 
 Cadet Battalion Adjutant Arthur A. Andrews 
 
 Cadet Battalion Sergeant Major Walter M. Stone 
 
 Company A. Cadet Captain, Arnold W. Heath ; Cadet Lieutenants, Philip 
 P. Marion, Joseph H. Hutchinson 
 
 Company B. Cadet Captain, Harold E. Wilson ; Cadet Lieutenants, Edmund 
 G. White, Frank L. Baxter 
 
 Company C. Cadet Captain, William A. Hanley ; Cadet Lieutenants, Joseph 
 S. Pfeffer, Edwin A. Meserve 
 
 Company D. Cadet Captain, Frank D. Littlefield ; Cadet Lieutenants, John 
 T. Tobin, Francis J. Comerford 
 
 SECOND BATTALION 
 (Boston Latin School) 
 
 Cadet Major William B. Mahar 
 
 Cadet Battalion Adjutant Arthur R. Taylor 
 
 Cadet Battalion Sergeant Major Frank W. Johnson 
 
 Company E. Cadet Captain, Thomas J. Hanlon, Jr. ; Cadet Lieutenants, 
 Carl S. Downes, Charles J. O Donnell 
 
 Company F. Cadet Captain, Earle H. McMichael ; Cadet Lieutenants, 
 William J. A. Bailey, Maurice Griinberg 
 
 Company G. Cadet Captain, Frederick McAvoy ; Cadet Lieutenants, John 
 G. Long, William F. Temple 
 
 Company H. Cadet Captain, Frederick H. Middleton; Cadet Lieutenants, 
 Charles J. Mundo, Rufus C. Folsom 
 
 105 
 
DEDICATION OF HOOKER STATUE 
 
 Order of the THIRD BATTALION 
 
 Parade (Roxbury and West Roxbury High Schools) 
 
 Cadet Major Charles R. Joy. Roxbury 
 Cadet Adjutant Gilmore C. Dickey, Roxbury 
 Cadet Sergeant Major Edward Frew, Roxbury 
 
 Company A (Roxbury). Cadet Captain, James P. Mountain; Cadet Lieu 
 tenants, Joseph Beal, Charles H. Brackett 
 
 Company B (Roxbury). Cadet Captain, Charles B. Wiggin ; Cadet Lieu 
 tenants, Charles F. Graham, Francis W. Garret 
 
 Company C (Roxbury). Cadet Captain, Thomas A. Thorn ; Cadet Lieutenants, 
 John V. Peard, George W. Tilley 
 
 Company G (West Roxbury). Cadet Captain, Daniel T. Curtin, Jr.; Cadet 
 Lieutenants, George E. Ware, Gordon F. Stewart 
 
 THIRD REGIMENT 
 
 Cadet Lieutenant Colonel Everett W. Abbott 
 
 Cadet Regimental Adjutant Max Weiss, Cadet Regimental Q. M. Chester F. 
 Gibbons, Cadet Captain Henry T. Haley, Cadet Captain Gaeteno Praino, 
 Cadet Regimental Sergeant Major John E. O Brien 
 
 CHRISTO COLUMBO BAND 
 THIRD REGIMENT DRUM CORPS 
 
 FIRST BATTALION 
 (English High School) 
 
 Cadet Major Herbert C. York 
 
 Cadet Battalion Adjutant Harry H. Hunter 
 
 Cadet Battalion Sergeant Major Frederick J. Carroll 
 
 Company A. Cadet Captain, Albert G. Emery; Cadet Lieutenants, Mont 
 gomery S. Gibson, Jr., Russell J. Hammond 
 
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 Company B. Cadet Captain, Harold L. Carter ; Cadet Lieutenants, George Order of the 
 A. Simpson, Morris E. Wyner 
 
 Company C. Cadet Captain, Paul S. Mosser; Cadet Lieutenants, Matthew 
 W. Robertson, James C. Hammond 
 
 Company D. Cadet Captain, Charles A. Hagman; Cadet Lieutenants, 
 Richard W. Milzner, William P. Callahan 
 
 SECOND BATTALION 
 (English High School) 
 
 Cadet Major Charles E. Barry 
 
 Cadet Battalion Adjutant Daniel J. Buckley 
 
 Cadet Battalion Sergeant Major Fred. W. Watts 
 
 Company E. Cadet Captain, William A. Tobin ; Cadet Lieutenants, Ber 
 nard Polimer, Lawrence P. Duffy 
 
 Company F. Cadet Captain, Simon Kaplan ; Cadet Lieutenant Abraham E. 
 Pinanski 
 
 Company G. Cadet Captain, William S. Winslow; Cadet Lieutenants, Wil 
 liam J. McAuliffe, Harold G. Gallagher 
 
 THIRD BATTALION 
 (Brighton High School) 
 
 Cadet Major John G. Macdonald 
 Cadet Adjutant Alfred C. DeLang 
 Cadet Sergeant Major Arthur E. Skillings 
 
 Company F. Cadet Captain, Frank J. Reynolds ; Cadet Lieutenants, Fred 
 E. Stearns, Charles M. Fetherston 
 
 Company M. Cadet Captain, Ernest W. Turner; Cadet Lieutenants, J. 
 Baldwin Bruce, Francis E. J. Burns 
 
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 Order of the FOURTH BATTALION 
 
 (Dorchester High School) 
 
 Cadet Major Follett I. Isaacson 
 Cadet Adjutant Charles J. Cullen 
 Cadet Sergeant Major Arthur W. Ross 
 
 Company A. Cadet Captain, Francis E. H. Walter; Cadet Lieutenants, 
 Gustavus F. Sargent, Joseph W. Butler 
 
 Company B. Cadet Captain, Walter T. Wiley; Cadet Lieutenants, Harry 
 
 A. Clarke, Albert E. Schallenbach 
 
 Company C. Cadet Captain, Harry C. Drown; Cadet Lieutenants, Paul 
 G. White, Harry C. Knox 
 
 Company D. Cadet Captain, Robert M. Everett ; Cadet Lieutenants, Charles 
 F. B. Lewis, H. Reginald Hurd 
 
 Company E. Cadet Captain, George W. Barker; Cadet Lieutenants, Carl 
 E. Brazer, Curtis E. Huebner 
 
 Company F. Cadet Captain, Paul H. Heimer; Cadet Lieutenants, Ralph 
 
 B. Jacobs, Gerard T. Chapin 
 
 Brigade strength, about 2,300 
 Mounted police 
 
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PROGRAM OF EXERCISES 
 
 AT 
 
 MECHANICS HALL 
 
ERECTED BY THE 
 
 COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS 
 IN COMMEMORATION OF THE SERVICES 
 
 MAJ. GEN. JOSEPH HOOKER, U. S. A. 
 
 MECHANICS HALL, BOSTON 
 JUNE 25, 1903 
 
PROGRAM 
 
 Presiding Officer, His Excellency JOHN L. BATES 
 Overture "Recollections of the War" Beyer 
 
 FIRST CORPS CADETS BAND 
 Mr. John M. Flockton, Conductor 
 
 Invocation 
 
 REV. EDWARD A. HORTON 
 
 vSong "Battle-Cry of Freedom" George F. Root 
 
 GRAND ARMY CHORUS 
 
 Assembly of the Colors 
 
 MASSACHUSETTS GRAND ARMY POSTS 
 
 5olo "The Star Spangled Banner" Francis Scott Key 
 
 MISS ADAH CAMPBELL HUSSEY 
 Assisted by Grand Army Chorus 
 
 Oration 
 
 GENERAL CHARLES P. MATTOCKS 
 
 Song "We Old Boys" John L. Parker 
 
 GRAND ARMY CHORUS (P St St L ** n) 
 
 Band "American Airs" 
 
 Hymn "America" Rev. S. F. Smith, D.D. 
 
 (All are requested to rise and join in singing the hymn) 
 
 My Country ! tis of thee, My native country, thee. 
 
 Sweet land of Liberty, Land of the noble, free. 
 
 Of thee I sing; Thy name I love ; 
 
 Land where my fathers died ! I love thy rocks and rills, 
 
 Land of the pilgrims pride ! Thy woods and templed hills. 
 
 From every mountain side My heart with rapture thrills 
 
 Let freedom ring ! Like that above. 
 
 Our fathers God! to Thee, 
 Author of liberty, 
 
 To Thee we sing. 
 Lone may our land be bright 
 With freedom s holy light, 
 Protect us by Thy might, 
 
 Great God, our King! 
 
 FINALE 
 
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INVOCATION 
 
 BY REV. EDWARD A. MORTON 
 
REVEREND EDWARD A. HORTON 
 United States Navy 
 
INVOCATION 
 
 BY REV. EDWARD A. HORTON 
 
 LMIGHTY GOD, from whom cometh 
 every gift, bestow upon us now the 
 spirit of reverence and a grateful heart. 
 C.We thank Thee for this goodly land, the home of 
 liberty and justice. Thou didst give it to a faithful 
 few, and now it teems with millions. For the heroes 
 of that noble past, from which our blessings flow, 
 we thank Thee. 
 
 CLF r wise men who guided our affairs through 
 trying times to conditions of peace and power, and 
 who by their statesmanship made our nation honor 
 able in the earth, we thank Thee. 
 CLFor poets who have sung our country s glories, 
 and for eloquent lips that have set forth the ideals 
 of our people, we thank Thee. 
 
 CL Above all, at this moment, we remember with love 
 and esteem those valiant ones who sprang to the 
 defence of the nation s life, who were bold in face of 
 
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 Invocation f oeSj an( j wno counted their lives as of no account 
 in the cause of freedom and union. 
 CLThey are with us now, those departed comrades. 
 We feel the inspiration of their devotion, and we are 
 comforted by the thought of their immortal valor. 
 May their examples never fade from the vision of 
 American youth. May their sacrifices always be 
 recalled when duty slumbers, or when public virtue 
 loses sway. May the perils of our land always be 
 turned aside by the patriot s spirit, kindled to righteous 
 service by the power of our great inheritances. 
 C.Upon the forces of our Republic, on land and 
 sea, may Thy blessing rest. Let them be representa 
 tives of the people, indeed, protecting the weak, 
 enforcing justice, creating brotherhood. So shall the 
 flag we cherish ever bear to all the world the 
 message of a free, happy people, whose God is 
 the Lord of just battles, and the King of holy peace. 
 CLThis consecration of ourselves we ask, that home 
 and church and State may abound with goodness, 
 and Thy Kingdom, O God, come to all mankind. 
 Amen. 
 
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OPENING REMARKS 
 
 BY GOVERNOR BATES 
 
OPENING REMARKS 
 
 BY GOVERNOR BATES 
 
 ETERANS, and friends of the Veterans: 
 We have here this evening an old drum. 
 It was beaten on Lookout Mountain. We 
 have with us one who was a drummer boy under 
 General Hooker. The drummer boy will now beat 
 the assembly on the old drum. 
 
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& 
 
 ORATION 
 
 BY GENERAL CHARLES P. MATTOCKS 
 
 OF PORTLAND, MAINE 
 
BRIGADIER GENERAL CHARLES P. MATTOCKS, U. S. V. 
 
INTRODUCTION OF GENERAL MATTOCKS 
 BY GOVERNOR BATES 
 
 THIS hour is devoted to great deeds and great men. The 
 one that is next to address us is a hero of two wars and 
 a commander in both. One who was twice brevetted for 
 gallantry on the field, he wears a medal of honor won at 
 Sailors Creek. He was a friend of our General Hooker. 
 It is with great pleasure that I present to you General Charles 
 P. Mattocks as the orator of this occasion. 
 
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ORATION 
 
 BY GENERAL CHARLES P. MATTOCKS 
 
 OF PORTLAND, MAINE 
 
 HERE is a voice from the tombs sweeter 
 than song; there is a remembrance of 
 the dead to which we turn from the 
 charm of the living." To-day many of you look back 
 to the trying scenes through which you passed while 
 following the good and evil fortunes of the gallant 
 soldier in whose honor we have met. More than 
 two thousand years ago a distinguished writer said, 
 "To have the same likes and the same dislikes is 
 the surest bond of friendship." This may be true of 
 a certain kind of friendship the sentimental kind 
 but those of us who have felt the touch of elbow as 
 we rushed on in the mad charge upon a valiant and 
 stubborn foe, or watched by the side of a dying 
 comrade, and have again and again seen a life im 
 perilled to save another life, have found that to have 
 
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 Oration shared a common danger in a cause to which our 
 lives were pledged is the strongest and most enduring 
 bond of friendship, calling forth the highest and best 
 sentiments of the human soul. To-day, I gazed for 
 the first time upon the grand work of the sculptor, 
 which is to hand down to future generations the 
 lineaments of one, who, in sharing dangers common to 
 us all, took to himself the fullest measure, and, as he 
 rode along our lines or led us in the deadly charge, 
 was to us the ideal commander. As I stood charmed 
 and spell-bound before the beautiful statue, the dial 
 upon the clock turned back more than forty years, 
 and I saw, not a dumb, lifeless form, chiseled against 
 the peaceful sky, but a living, resolute and determined 
 general riding upon his panting steed along our lines, 
 amidst the cheers of the soldiers as shot and shell 
 and pattering bullets fell around him, inspiring the fire 
 of patriotism by his presence that ideal general 
 that incarnation of soldierly qualities whose mere 
 name was a watchword for brave and gallant deeds 
 General Joseph Hooker. 
 
 When I first saw General Hooker I looked upon 
 him with that blind and enthusiastic admiration which 
 a youthful soldier is apt to have for his superior. 
 Now, as I turn my eyes toward the setting sun in 
 
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 life s pathway, and look back and compare the won- Oration 
 derful military record of General Hooker with that of 
 other distinguished soldiers, I feel that the Common 
 wealth of Massachusetts is doing but a simple act of 
 justice in causing to be handed down to her future 
 sons a fitting and enduring remembrance of one of 
 the most illustrious of her children. The men who 
 fought with Hooker have naught to say against other 
 generals, but they are determined that his military 
 record shall go down into history aright. He always 
 himself declared that, when the true facts of Chancell- 
 orsville should be known, history would do him 
 justice. It is no place here to discuss the particulars 
 of that unsatisfactory battle, because such a discussion 
 would result in bitter and useless controversies, but 
 the old soldiers of Hooker desire, I might say, de 
 mand, the privilege of believing in their favorite as an 
 ideal general, and as the most distinguished in the 
 Civil War of the many brilliant officers sent to the 
 front who could claim Massachusetts as a birthplace. 
 For this proud honor we will ever contend, and, 
 judging from the liberality of the Legislature of Massa 
 chusetts in rendering the present reunion possible, and 
 the enthusiasm of this vast audience, I believe we 
 shall attain the object of our wishes. 
 
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 Oration Major General Hooker was born at Hadley, Mass., 
 November 13, 1814, and was of pure Massachusetts 
 ancestry, which traces back in the Commonwealth to 
 1689. His grandfather served in the French and 
 Indian War of 1 755, and, as Captain of the Green 
 wich Company of Minute Men of the Revolution, 
 marched to Cambridge in April, 1 775. He served 
 at the siege of Boston, and with the Continentals at 
 Morristown, N. J., in the winter of 1 776-7. The 
 general s mother was Mary Seymour of Hadley, a 
 most estimable woman. Joseph was the only son and 
 the youngest of four children. 
 
 In 1833 he was appointed a cadet at the U. S. 
 Military Academy at West Point, and graduated in 
 July, 1837, being twenty-eighth in rank in a class of 
 fifty. Like Grant and Sheridan he was not distin 
 guished for high scholarship, but at this early age 
 displayed soldierly qualities of a high order. 
 
 Immediately upon graduation he was appointed a 
 second lieutenant of artillery and assigned to Company 
 F of the 1st regiment, and served in Florida until 
 August, 1838, when his regiment was ordered to the 
 Maine frontier on account of disputed lines between 
 the United States and Great Britain, and for a while 
 he was stationed at Portland, where he became a 
 
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great favorite socially. He is to-day remembered by Oration 
 many of the former belles of that city as a handsome 
 and attractive young officer. After garrison duty at 
 several interior points he was appointed adjutant at 
 the Military Academy at West Point, in 1841, and 
 adjutant of his regiment five years later, which latter 
 position he held until May 11,1 846. 
 
 Upon the breaking out of the war with Mexico 
 he was granted leave of absence from his regiment, 
 and served upon the staffs of Brigadiers-general Persi- 
 fer F. Smith, Thomas L. Hamer, Gideon J. Pillow, 
 Caleb Gushing, and George Cadwalader. 
 
 As acting assistant adjutant-general upon the staff 
 of General Hamer he greatly distinguished himself. 
 He was peculiarly fitted for the duties of this posi 
 tion, as he had already served in the Florida War in 
 that capacity. While serving upon the staff he led 
 a company of the 9th infantry and a small detach 
 ment from other companies under a heavy fire at the 
 National Bridge. 
 
 Upon the reorganization of the army under Scott, 
 for the advance upon the city of Mexico, Hooker, 
 who had then been made a captain by brevet, was 
 transferred to the staff of General Pillow, who then 
 commanded a division; and on the final advance to 
 
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 Oration Churubusco was chosen to receive the flag of surren 
 der at the convent. 
 
 At the assault upon the rugged heights of Chapul- 
 tepec, a forerunner of that greater assault led by him 
 at Lookout Mountain, he was among the first to 
 pass over the scaling ladder into the Mexican works. 
 Pillow says of him, " Captain Hooker, my adjutant- 
 general and chief of my staff, was distinguished 
 throughout this action by his activity, energy, and 
 gallantry." In his report to the Secretary of War, 
 Scott especially commended young Hooker for his 
 distinguished services upon the staffs of Pillow and 
 Cadwalader. For his gallant conduct at the assault 
 upon the heights of Chapultepec, Hooker received the 
 brevet of lieutenant-colonel. He was later transferred 
 to the staff of a distinguished Massachusetts soldier, 
 General Caleb Cushing. Political and personal quar 
 rels had crept in among the higher officers serving in 
 the Mexican War to such an extent that the senior 
 generals were relieved from duty and ordered to at 
 tend a Court of Inquiry at Washington, in June, 1 848. 
 The bitterest quarrel of all was that between General 
 Pillow and General Scott as to the battle of Con- 
 treras, and Hooker s testimony, being fearlessly in favor 
 of Pillow and against Scott, created a feeling between 
 
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 himself and General Scott, who had previously so Oration 
 highly commended him, which was never outgrown 
 by the old veteran. 
 
 Hooker s conduct in the Mexican War clearly 
 pointed to a future distinguished career should oppor 
 tunity ever offer to him to exercise the wonderful 
 qualities which he possessed. His record as com 
 pared with that of others of his age and rank was 
 most distinguished. So far as a brief examination of 
 the subject has made me familiar with the military 
 records of his companions in that brilliant success of 
 our army, I find but one name having the credit of 
 three brevets for meritorious service and gallantry in 
 action, the name of Joseph Hooker. 
 
 The Mexican War, with its brilliant campaigns and 
 our unvarying successes, was a school in which we 
 educated for our Civil War many of our most dis 
 tinguished officers. In the recent war with Spain 
 nearly all the officers of high rank received their prac 
 tical training in that great conflict between the North 
 and South, serving both for and against our flag, and 
 finally, by uniting the followers of Grant and Lee we 
 gained in the Spanish War more than has ever been 
 accomplished in any war in the same length of time. 
 It was not the mere conquering of a foreign foe that 
 
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 Oration j ias ma de the results valuable, but the reuniting of 
 two sections in loyalty to a common flag, under 
 whose folds we hold with equal honor the names of 
 George Dewey and Fitzhugh Lee, Joseph Wheeler, 
 and Nelson A. Miles. 
 
 At the close of the Mexican War, Hooker was 
 promoted to captain in the first artillery, but declined 
 to qualify, and was later assigned as assistant adjutant- 
 general of the Pacific division, which took him to 
 California, where he served in this capacity for about 
 two years, when he received a leave of absence for 
 two years more, and at the end of that period 
 resigned. 
 
 Hooker s resignation was not occasioned by want of 
 love of the duties of an active soldier. Brilliant as 
 was his career in Mexico while in the face of the 
 enemy, he, like many others of our young and energetic 
 officers who served in that war, became tired of the 
 duties of garrison life. The prospects of long service 
 and slow promotion in the artillery arm of the service 
 in time of peace did not appeal to his energetic and 
 ambitious nature. There were others who pursued the 
 same course; in fact, at the breaking out of the Civil 
 War, Burnside was a manufacturer in Rhode Island; 
 Grant was a tanner in Illinois ; Stonewall Jackson was 
 
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 a teacher of a military academy in Virginia; Sherman Oration 
 held a similar position in Louisiana, and McClellan had 
 become president of a railroad in New Jersey. Hooker, 
 upon resigning from the army, purchased a farm in 
 Sonoma County, California, and for several years en 
 gaged in the humble but honorable occupation of a 
 farmer. 
 
 During two years of this time, however, he was a 
 superintendent of military roads in Oregon, and did 
 some military surveying. General Halleck was a major- 
 general of California militia at the same time Hooker 
 was a colonel. 
 
 Hooker thus lived quietly and unknown in California 
 until the beginning of the Civil War. Soon after 
 the firing upon Fort Sumter, believing that his previ 
 ous experience might be of service to the government, 
 Colonel Hooker proceeded to Washington to tender 
 his services to the President. The old feeling be 
 tween himself and General Scott at first prevented 
 the acceptance of the services. He had actually de 
 spaired of any appointment, and, in this condition, 
 called upon President Lincoln, when that oft-repeated 
 and now historic dialogue took place. He was in 
 troduced to the President by mistake as " Captain 
 Hooker," but he explained to the President that he 
 
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 Oration j^j once j^j ^ [JQJJQJ o f b em g a lieutenant-colonel 
 in the United States Army, and that he had hoped 
 that he might be of service to the government in its 
 hour of need. He said that he had seen the fight at 
 Bull Run, and that he believed that he would make 
 a better brigadier-general than any the President had 
 there. The President, with that keen instinct which 
 always characterized him, at first astounded by the 
 boldness of the declaration, soon saw that there was 
 in this almost disappointed man sufficient material for 
 high command ; he said, " Colonel, not * Captain * 
 Hooker, stay, I have a regiment for you." The regi 
 ment turned out to be a brigade, and within a few 
 days he was made a brigadier-general of volunteers and 
 assigned to a brigade. 
 
 At this very time Grant was seeking an appoint 
 ment in vain, and had gladly taken up clerical work 
 in connection with the organization of troops in Illinois, 
 when finally he also attracted attention and was made 
 colonel of a regiment. 
 
 Immediately upon his appointment Hooker discovered 
 that Daniel E. Sickles, who had raised five regiments 
 in New York for the war, had fed and clothed them 
 for more than two months, and had brought them to 
 a high standard of drill and discipline, was refused a 
 
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 commission even as a colonel, because it was feared, Oration 
 or at least pretended to be feared, by extreme parti 
 sans, that it was dangerous to entrust the command of 
 Federal troops to an uncompromising Democrat. Sickles 
 had not then led his corps in the wheat field at 
 Gettysburg where he fell, amid leaden hail, from a 
 wound that was almost fatal. 
 
 October 61 Hooker was assigned to the afterwards 
 famous 2d division of the 3d corps, then serving 
 under Heintzelman. The battle of Williamsburg was 
 the first to show to the country the fighting qualities 
 of the Army of the Potomac. The 3d division of 
 the 3d corps was commanded by the gallant Kearny, 
 who went down to his death at Chantilly. At Wil 
 liamsburg the 3d corps was baptized in blood, and 
 the Third Corps Union, the oldest social organization 
 of the Army of the Potomac, holds its anniversanes 
 upon the 5th of May, the date of the battle. It was at 
 this battle that Hooker obtained the title of "Fighting 
 Joe Hooker." Strange as it may seem to those who 
 admire him under that name, a title that has given 
 inspiration to his followers in many a fight, it never 
 pleased Hooker himself. He felt that it reflected 
 upon his candor, carefulness, and skill as a general. 
 
 Throughout the severe and discouraging marches 
 
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 Oration an d the bloody contests of the Peninsula, Hooker 
 maintained himself at the head of his division with most 
 consummate skill. For his gallantry at Williamsburg 
 he was highly commended by General Heintzelman. 
 While Hooker was hard pressed, Kearny came forward 
 with his division, and then and there the Hooker and 
 Kearny divisions formed a friendship which was after 
 wards more strongly cemented in every battle in which 
 the 3d corps was engaged. Williamsburg was a 
 glorious victory for our arms. The conduct of 
 Hooker and his division at Fair Oaks, Seven Pines, 
 Glendale, Malvern Hill, and the " Seven Days Battle," 
 was highly commended by McClellan. Hooker him 
 self always maintained that at that time McClellan 
 could have reached Richmond before the Confederate 
 troops in Pope s front could have prevented it, but 
 McClellan thought otherwise, and Hooker, as a faith 
 ful subordinate, buried his own opinions, obeyed his 
 superior, and served him well. Before our army left 
 Harrison s Landing, Hooker again begged McClellan 
 to march to Richmond, but a withdrawal was ordered. 
 Hooker joined Pope, then in command of the army 
 of Virginia; the enemy had been between Pope and 
 Washington ; Hooker and Kearny were in the battles 
 of Manassas and Chantilly and prevented Lee s ad- 
 
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 vance upon Washington. Hooker, in recognition of 
 his gallant services, was now placed in command of 
 the 1st corps and distinguished himself again, this time 
 at the battle of South Mountain. The battle of An- 
 tietam followed, and here Hooker undertook the diffi 
 cult task of leading the Federal right wing, which he 
 did most gallantly. Throughout the severest of the 
 fighting, Hooker seemed to be in every portion of his 
 command at once. Always well to the front, there 
 was no time when he was not actually under fire, 
 riding back and forth upon his white horse, for which 
 he was famous, that compact, handsome, soldierly figure 
 was to his own men an inspiration, and for his enemies 
 a shining mark, but it seemed as though no bullet 
 could hit him, for the air was almost alive with them. 
 
 Seeing a point of woods well to the front, which 
 he determined to gain, he started forward mounted, 
 when he was struck in the foot by a minie ball. 
 Three men were shot down by his side at the same 
 time, and still he kept on, until, weak and fainting from 
 loss of blood, he fell from his horse, not until, how 
 ever, he had given the final order, which carried the 
 woods which he was seeking. 
 
 To no man more than Hooker should be given the 
 credit of the Antietam battle. Here, as at Williams- 
 
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 Oration burg, his conduct so impressed his men that ever after 
 his presence was an inspiration, and they were ready 
 to follow him to the death. After a few weeks of 
 patient suffering he was again able for active service. 
 During his illness President Lincoln was a constant 
 visitor by his side. 
 
 McClellan had now again been removed from the 
 command of the Army of the Potomac, and Burnside 
 was ordered to succeed him. He divided the army 
 into what was known as three grand divisions of two 
 corps each. At Fredericksburg these grand divisions 
 were to be commanded by Sumner on the right, 
 Hooker in the center, and Franklin on the left. The 
 center grand division was composed of the 3d corps 
 under Stoneman, and the 5th under Butterfield. At 
 Fredericksburg the exigencies of the occasion were 
 held by Burnside to justify the sending of the 3d 
 corps to the left wing, and the 5th corps into Fred 
 ericksburg to reinforce the right wing. Hooker, prac 
 tically bereft of his command, went in with the 5th 
 corps. He did not believe it possible to carry Marye s 
 Heights by storm, and so stated to Burnside. Burn- 
 side thought otherwise, and history has recorded the 
 barren results of a brave, but foolhardy assault. The 
 troops were finally withdrawn from the right bank of 
 
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 the Rappahannock, and Fredericksburg passed into his- Oration 
 tory as defeat for the Federals. A second attempt to 
 move southward in the following winter, known as "The 
 Mud Campaign," added no lustre to the Army of the 
 Potomac; in fact its results but intensified the piques 
 and jealousies which already pervaded that hard-worked 
 army, especially among the higher officers. The con 
 dition of the Army of the Potomac, with its bicker 
 ings and dissensions, had become intolerable both to 
 Burnside and the President. So exasperated was 
 Burnside that he issued an order, subject to the ap 
 proval of the President, dismissing three general officers 
 and discharging from duty with the Army of the 
 Potomac five others. The order was sent to the 
 President by Burnside, with a request that it be ap 
 proved or that his own resignation be accepted. The 
 order was not approved, but Burnside s resignation as 
 commander of the Army of the Potomac was promptly 
 accepted. Then the President selected a new com 
 mander in the person of General Hooker, whom he 
 had always admired. Never was the magic influence 
 of a single man more clearly shown than when Hooker 
 assumed command of the Army of the Potomac. The 
 higher officers had such piques and quarrels among 
 themselves as never before or since undermined the 
 
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 Oration morale of that or any other army of the United States. 
 Soldiers, as well as officers, although it was not appar 
 ent to the ordinary observer, had become disheartened 
 and discouraged by the frequent changes in command 
 ers and the unsatisfactory results of their own brave 
 fighting. A bright flame of enthusiasm was fast dwin 
 dling into a flickering torch. Patriotism, discipline, and 
 fidelity to the government were all that prevented the 
 army from disintegrating and becoming useless as a 
 means of suppressing the rebellion. Upon Hooker s 
 appearance as a commander of the Army of the Poto 
 mac the scene changed. The cavalry was organized 
 into a corps by itself. An examination of the rolls of 
 the regiments disclosed the painful fact that there were 
 absent from duty more than 3,000 officers and 80,000 
 men. Desertions were occurring at the rate of several 
 hundred a day. Many officers, some of them high 
 in command, had opposed the policy of the Govern 
 ment, especially the emancipation proclamation. Hooker 
 changed all this. Furloughs were freely granted. The 
 number of drills was increased. He gave the cavalry 
 abundant opportunity to distinguish itself on small ex 
 peditions. Three months of time were thus spent in 
 reorganizing and improving the army. To remedy 
 the evils mentioned was one of the first acts of 
 
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 Hooker, who, with the aid of his indefatigable chief Oration 
 of staff, General Butterfield, caused absentees to return, 
 deserters to be punished, and a system of discipline 
 hitherto unknown to be inaugurated. Each corps, 
 division and brigade was designated by different badges 
 and standards, so that their respective commanders 
 could pick out their men in action or upon the march. 
 Next came the battle of Chancellorsville. Hooker de 
 termined to seek battle with the enemy upon the south 
 side of the Rappahannock. 
 
 This is no time or place to attempt to determine 
 who was responsible for the disaster of Chancellors 
 ville. To revive such a discussion would only inten 
 sify a bitter controversy, which can bear no fruit. 
 The future historian must determine such questions as 
 these. All concede that Hooker as a corps com 
 mander was an ideal general, but many of his critics 
 contend that he had not the capacity for the com 
 mand of an army. While allowing every man 
 the full exercise of his own judgment and the free 
 expression of his own opinion, I have never yet sub 
 scribed to this conclusion, but contend that, up to the 
 time of Hooker s accident at Chancellorsville, which 
 practically disabled him from further command, he had 
 done nothing which indicated that he might not have 
 
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 Oration successfully fought out the battle. His original plan 
 of campaign was practicable. The enemy had not 
 anticipated that he would attempt to cross two such 
 rivers as the Rapidan and the Rappahannock. Hooker 
 concluded to throw upon Lee s right wing three corps 
 under Sedgwick, at a point a few miles below Fred- 
 ericksburg, and to push a strong force across the Rap 
 pahannock at other points. His intention was, after 
 crossing the river and having Fredericksburg between 
 the two wings of his army, to capture that city and 
 envelop Lee s army, which, as he assumed, would be 
 in his front. He crossed the river as arranged, at 
 different points, having three corps as his left wing 
 and four as his right. The very fact that he was 
 enabled to cross at so many different points demon 
 strates most clearly, although it has been denied, that 
 the enemy was not fully posted as to his movements. 
 Sedgwick was progressing favorably, holding Lee at 
 Fredericksburg, while Hooker was preparing to come 
 down upon him from Chancellorsville. The battle 
 opened in earnest on the 2d day of May, and with 
 favorable prospects for the Federals. Suddenly there 
 was discovered in our front and passing to our right 
 a heavy column of the enemy s troops. This was the 
 famous flank movement of Stonewall Jackson. Sickles 
 
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 was at once ordered to attack this column, which he Oration 
 did with considerable success, but the column was 
 not discovered early enough to actually enable our 
 forces to succeed. Hooker always claimed to have 
 sent a dispatch to Howard on the right to be in 
 readiness for Jackson s attack, but Howard declared 
 that he did not receive it seasonably. Suffice it to 
 say that the attack was made on the right of the 
 Federal line with all the vigor for which Stonewall 
 Jackson and his men were famous. The flank was 
 turned, and what might have been the rout of the 
 whole of that part of the army was prevented by the 
 steadiness of one of Howard s divisions and his ar 
 tillery and the opportune arrival of our cavalry, to 
 gether with the personal daring and efforts of General 
 Howard himself, who, mounted, and holding an Amer 
 ican flag against his breast upon the side which 
 had an empty sleeve, tried to keep back the wavering 
 lines. The assault, while successful, so far weakened 
 Jackson s men that they were hardly in condition for 
 an active movement immediately after. Here occurred 
 what has been known as "The Midnight Charge." 
 A part of the 3d corps, which had attacked Jackson s 
 column as it advanced to our right, now turned upon 
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 Oration and struck our rear. In the darkness of the night, 
 Jackson, finding his lines needed strengthening, was 
 riding forward with a few of his staff to place A. 
 P. Hill s corps in position, when suddenly he fell 
 from his horse, mortally wounded. It has never been 
 definitely decided whether the fatal shot came from 
 his own men or our own. General John B. Gordon, 
 a most distinguished Confederate officer, who gave us 
 no end of trouble during the war and who has, ever 
 since, by his tongue and pen, attempted to heal the 
 wounds of the conflict, admits in a recent magazine 
 article that there is still grave doubt as to which troops 
 fired the fatal shot. Those of us who have often 
 witnessed the daring and skill of Stonewall Jackson, 
 and have since the war learned more of his manly 
 and christian character, do not desire to press the 
 claim that we were the means of his death. Up to 
 the time of Jackson s onslaught Hooker had been suc 
 cessful. The loss of the enemy exceeded his; Sedg- 
 wick s movement on the left of the line had been 
 satisfactory; our lines had been reformed during the 
 night. After that, Stuart, who succeeded Jackson, 
 abandoned the plan of doubling up our right and 
 made his assaults in our immediate front. We still 
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 two corps, aggregating 35,000 men, who had prac- Oration 
 tically not been engaged at all, but just at this time 
 when it required the greatest skill of the commander, 
 a most unfortunate accident happened to General 
 Hooker. He had already sent an order to Sedg- 
 wick to march upon Chancellorsville, believing that 
 he would reach the scene of action in time to 
 carry the battle. Sedgwick, it is true, did not reach 
 the Chancellorsville grounds within the time expected, 
 but he finally captured Fredericksburg and carried the 
 enemy s centre at Marye s Heights, all prior to eleven 
 o clock the next morning. Hooker charged Sedgwick 
 with tardiness, which claim was sustained by the 
 Congressional Committee on the Conduct of the War. 
 On the morning of the 3d of May General Hooker 
 was standing on the steps of the portico of the Chan 
 cellorsville house, where he had his headquarters. 
 The battle was then at its height. The general was 
 leaning against a pillar which was struck by a solid 
 shot, which split it in two, throwing one part against 
 the general. He was hurled to the ground insensible, 
 and the rumor of his death flew like wildfire among 
 the troops. To counteract the effects of this rumor 
 the general persisted in mounting and riding along 
 his lines. At no time after this accident was Hooker 
 
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 Oration fa t o command; in fact, he should have absolutely 
 and finally turned the command over to General 
 Couch, as he did for a few hours, but his hardy 
 courage and persistent will would not allow him. On 
 the night of the 4th a council of war was held. 
 The river had been made dangerous by a rain storm; 
 rations were then not sufficient for more than a day s 
 fighting; but even at this late hour the situation was 
 not gloomy enough to prevent a majority of a council 
 of war voting to remain on the south side of the 
 river. Hooker decided otherwise, and the river was 
 recrossed. In his then mental and physical condition 
 it was perhaps well that the army was withdrawn. 
 It has been said that a greater general would not 
 have allowed Lee to flank him, and yet we find that 
 Hooker seasonably sent word to the right flank to 
 prepare for this attack, and if our troops, when re 
 covering in a measure from the sudden onslaught, did 
 finally succeed in checking Jackson s pushing on further, 
 is it not reasonable to suppose that, if they had been 
 properly handled to the end, the disaster might have 
 been prevented? There is no evidence that Hooker 
 was wanting in foresight, unless we might claim that 
 he should have formed his army at a right angle on 
 the right. He did what is ever done, formed in the 
 
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 face of the enemy ready to do him battle. When he Oration 
 saw that a flank movement was attempted he took 
 the same precautions that any other general would 
 have taken. That he was bitterly criticised may per 
 haps have resulted from one great defect in his own 
 character, and that was, his proneness to criticise 
 others. He may have stirred up enmities which 
 brought to him their bitter fruit. Measured by losses 
 in battle Chancellorsville was not so serious a disaster 
 as one might suppose. The Union loss was a little 
 more than 1 7,000, while the Confederate loss was a 
 little more than 1 2,000 ; the proportion of loss accord 
 ing to the number of troops engaged was about the 
 same in the Union and Confederate armies. 
 
 One might have supposed that the result of Chan 
 cellorsville would have ended the career of Hooker 
 as an army commander, but his staunch and stalwart 
 friend, President Lincoln, who stood by him until he 
 himself fell by the assassin s hand, saw fit to continue 
 him in command of the Army of the Potomac, which 
 had already suffered sufficiently from the frequent 
 changes in its commanders. Hooker, with that honest 
 nature which was characteristic of him, admitted his 
 failure at Chancellorsville, although he always denied 
 the causes as given by others. He declared it as his 
 
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 Oration purpose to retrieve the renown he had lost, and im 
 mediately prepared for another campaign. Within a 
 few days after the Chancellorsville battle he asked 
 permission of the President to attack again. His in 
 fantry had already been reduced by the discharge of 
 nine months and two years men, and he asked for 
 new regiments to take their places. This request was 
 neither refused nor granted. The President, however, 
 discouraged an immediate movement. 
 
 At this time the morale of the Confederate army 
 was at its best. The northern papers had begun to 
 attack the northern army. When it was discovered 
 that there was an unusual activity in the Confederate 
 army, Hooker, with that foresight which characterizes 
 a great general, telegraphed the President that he 
 believed the purpose of Lee was to again go North. 
 Hooker desired the privilege of attacking the enemy 
 in the rear as soon as he might make his onward 
 movement. This plan the President disapproved, and, 
 in conjunction with Halleck, advised an attack in 
 flank. On the third of June the Confederates for the 
 second time turned their steps northward, and Hooker 
 prepared to follow them. Fully realizing the necessity 
 of having under his command all available troops, and, 
 as he had already been promised those at Harper s 
 
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 Ferry, he renewed his request for them. These, to Oration 
 the number of about 1 1 ,000, were withheld from him. 
 Hooker knew very well that this action was brought 
 about through the instrumentality of Halleck, whose 
 hostility to him had been demonstrated on other oc 
 casions, and felt that he would not be fully supported 
 if the campaign should continue. Smarting under what 
 he considered a broken promise and an act of gross 
 injustice, he immediately tendered his resignation as 
 commander of the Army of the Potomac. Its sub 
 sequent history, including the glorious victory at Gettys 
 burg, is too well known to be repeated here. While 
 we give to Meade all possible credit, the campaign 
 had been planned by Hooker; the troops had been 
 forwarded just as Hooker directed, and when Hooker 
 left the army his place alone was rilled ; the same 
 staff continued to do duty at headquarters, and all 
 the details of the campaign were carried out sub 
 stantially as already planned. It is touching to recall 
 the fact that Hooker put forward but one request, 
 and that was that he might be given, even under 
 Meade who succeeded him, the command of the 
 corps which Meade had to give up to take command 
 of the army. Even this was denied him. His duty 
 to his country and the instincts of a true soldier tri- 
 
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 Oration umphed over all personal feelings which he must 
 naturally have had, and he declared that it was far 
 better to sacrifice one or all of the generals in the 
 army than to have a want of harmony among those 
 to whom was entrusted the command and manage 
 ment of the troops. He declared in a letter to the 
 President that General Meade was a good officer and 
 a brave man, and would command his army well, 
 and thus, sad and sorrowing but not defiant, this 
 noble officer bade adieu to his companions-in-arms 
 with whom he had served, and many of whom he 
 had led to glorious victory in some of the hardest 
 fought battles of the war. He left behind him an 
 example of noble daring and lofty patriotism, and on 
 the weary march and in the fierce contests subsequent 
 to his removal the spirit of Hooker was always with 
 the men he had commanded. 
 
 It would naturally be supposed that the removal of 
 Hooker from the Army of the Potomac would end 
 his career as a soldier; that both his own disappoint 
 ment and the irritation of the administration at his 
 course would prevent his being tendered any further 
 command of importance. Our Western troops at this 
 time were in need of aid, and it was decided to send 
 to Rosecrans, then operating in the vicinity of Chatta- 
 
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 nooga, the 1 1 th and 1 2th corps, and in an almost Oration 
 incredibly short space of time these troops of veterans, 
 with Hooker at their head, were transferred from Vir 
 ginia to Tennessee. The battle of Wauhatchie pro 
 claimed once more Hooker as a successful general. 
 The grand old General Thomas " The Rock of 
 Chickamauga" declared that Hooker and his troops 
 deserved great credit for their brilliant success in driv 
 ing the Confederate army from every position which 
 they attacked. Soon after came the famous battles of 
 Lookout Mountain and Missionary Ridge. The 
 Eleventh Corps was detached from Hooker s com 
 mand and sent to reinforce Grant s left centre near 
 where the general battle was soon to occur, leaving 
 to him only one division. Fortunately for Hooker and 
 the country, a portion of the troops ordered out for the 
 assault on Missionary Ridge were unable to cross the 
 Tennessee on a bridge which had been laid for that 
 purpose, and they thus fell under Hooker s command. 
 Fourteen hundred feet above the plain, Lookout 
 Mountain raises its massive head and looks out over 
 five different states. Like a sturdy sentinel its grand 
 and lofty peaks stand out against the clear sky to 
 guard the silent bivouac of the thousands who died 
 almost at its very foot in the hard fighting of Chicka- 
 
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 Oration mauga and Chattanooga, Chickamauga, where the 
 death roll exceeded that of Waterloo, and Chatta 
 nooga where the greatest of American generalship 
 and the dash and daring of American troops were 
 shown to an astonished world. At the foot of the 
 mountain and between it and Missionary Ridge is a 
 level plain where lay the Federal army, panting like 
 hounds in a leash to be let loose; Confederate sol 
 diers stretched along the tops and sides of the mountain 
 and the ridge ready at a minute s notice to hurl death 
 into the assaulting column. It had been determined 
 to make an assault along the main line, but no one 
 had dreamed of scaling the rugged sides of Lookout 
 Mountain. 
 
 Thomas, who knew the mettle of Hooker, got per 
 mission from Grant for Hooker to take two divisions 
 besides his own and make what was named in 
 the order as a "demonstration" upon Lookout Moun 
 tain, which in military language would be a movement 
 simply to divert the enemy while the general engage 
 ment was going on. Hooker s "demonstration" was 
 something that had never been dreamed of by either 
 the Federals or Confederates. The method of carry 
 ing out the "demonstration" was wholly Hooker s. 
 Hooker with his three divisions moved around the 
 
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 base of the mountain. Towering around their heads Oration 
 were rocks piled upon each other, leading, like a 
 giant s stairway, to the walls and pits of the plateau 
 and palisades high above, these latter points being 
 held by the Confederates against Hooker and his men, 
 while the Federals had already placed a battery on 
 Moccasin Bend, just opposite and within easy range, 
 when suddenly a cloudy mist settled slowly down 
 upon the plateau and enveloped the Confederates. 
 Meanwhile, Hooker pushed on with his men, his pres 
 ence not being known even by the Confederates 
 themselves, until the two lines were within a few 
 yards of each other, when, with the boom of artillery 
 and the pattering of the musket balls, the opposing 
 forces fought each other in the clouded darkness, 
 while old Lookout raised its head in the clear sky 
 above and the troops below could see nothing, could 
 hear nothing, except the booming of the artillery and 
 the rattle of small arms; but everybody knew that a 
 gallant fight was being made because Hooker and 
 his men were there, but no one could dream what 
 might be the result, and so the sun set upon a wait 
 ing and anxious army in the valley below. The ele 
 ments had conspired to make it a dreary and dismal 
 night, and even the moon was in an eclipse, as if to 
 
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 Oration add to the weirdness of the scene. When upon the 
 rising of the sun the next morning there appeared 
 upon the top of Lookout Mountain, against a clear 
 sky, the victorious standards of Hooker, a shout went 
 up from the plain below to the very heavens above, 
 and "with the sound of many voices" there was 
 given to the painter and poet a scene such as was 
 never before witnessed upon the continent, and, in the 
 future ages, when the traveler shall feast his eyes 
 upon the magnificent view from Lookout Mountain he 
 will not need to be told, for he will already have 
 read it, and will whisper reverently to himself, "It was 
 here that Hooker fought the battle above the clouds." 
 After the capture of Lookout Mountain, with the cap 
 ture of Missionary Ridge the next day, the rout of 
 the enemy was complete. 
 
 Time will not permit to follow Hooker through all 
 the brilliant fighting in which he engaged in the 
 Western army, as a commander of the 20th corps. 
 Afterward at Snake Creek he carried two strong re 
 doubts, and at Resaca, at the head of his corps, he 
 again distinguished himself. At Peach Tree Creek, 
 which was his last battle, Hooker rode up to a 
 wavering line and by words of cheer and encourage 
 ment turned it back upon the enemy, and the day 
 
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 was won. This battle had much to do in the for- Oration 
 warding of the march to Atlanta. 
 
 But here again was disappointment. Hooker felt 
 that in the advance upon the Confederates at Mis 
 sionary Ridge Sherman had been a little slow in 
 pushing forward his part of the line, and foolishly so 
 expressed himself, a folly for which he was soon to 
 pay the penalty. McPherson had fallen and the 
 Army of the Tennessee must have a new commander. 
 Hooker expected to be appointed. The President 
 desired to have him appointed, but Sherman objected 
 and prevailed. This too, after General Thomas had 
 declared that the column under Major General Hooker 
 "deserved great credit for their brilliant success in 
 driving the enemy from every position which they 
 attacked," and that "the bayonet charge up a steep 
 and difficult hill, over 200 feet high, completely routing 
 the enemy and driving him from his barricades on its 
 top, will rank among the most distinguished feats of 
 arms of this war." 
 
 When Hooker failed of appointment to the com 
 mand of the Army of the Tennessee he asked to be 
 relieved from duty, and in his letter said, "justice and 
 self-respect alike require my removal from an army 
 in which rank and service are ignored." 
 
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 Oration ^\ s Hooker rode away, upon being relieved, his 
 old soldiers gathered about him, and bade him a sad 
 farewell, as the tears streamed down cheeks which 
 had never paled in the red line of battle. 
 
 Soon after this he was placed in command of the 
 Northern Department, with headquarters at Detroit, but 
 held no further command during the war. 
 
 October 4, 1865, General Hooker was united in 
 marriage with Miss Olivia Groesbeck, daughter of the 
 late John H. Groesbeck of Cincinnati. 
 
 After the General s health failed his wife went 
 abroad with him, and it is said the cause of her own 
 final sickness was her exertions in caring for him. 
 She died at Watertown, N. Y., July 15, 1868. 
 
 In 1867 General Hooker had a stroke of paralysis, 
 resulting from his Chancellorsville accident, and was 
 finally retired from the service as a full major-gen 
 eral in the regular army. He never recovered from 
 the paralytic shock, but ever afterwards was obliged 
 to use a cane and be assisted by a servant when he 
 went away from home. He died October 31, 1879, 
 at Garden City, N. Y., at the age of 64. 
 
 General Gordon, a most gallant Confederate officer, 
 says of Hooker that "he was one of the brilliant 
 soldiers of the Union Army, * and that "his move- 
 
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 ment at Lookout Mountain through the dense under- Oration 
 brush, up the rocky steeps and limestone cliffs was 
 executed with celerity by the commander and his 
 men." 
 
 Hooker has been condemned for sensitiveness, but 
 I will let him defend himself in his own words. In 
 writing the Secretary of the Treasury, Chase, he said: 
 " If my services in this rebellion do not merit reward 
 they certainly have been such as should shield me 
 from punishment. Many of my juniors are in the 
 exercise of independent commands, while I am here 
 with more rank piled on top of me than a well man 
 can stand up under, with a corporal s guard for a 
 command." 
 
 As an instance of General Hooker s foresight, I 
 point with pride to the fact that General Butterfield, 
 that magnificent soldier who served so long as chief- 
 of-staff in the Army of the Potomac, is authority for 
 the statement that before the army crossed the Poto 
 mac to enter upon the Gettysburg campaign, Hooker, 
 upon being criticised for not attempting to prevent 
 Lee s crossing the river, pointed out upon the map the 
 very points at which he would cross and declared 
 that the Confederate army would repeat the tactics 
 of the preceding year. "Why," said Hooker, "rather 
 
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 Oration t j ian p reve nt his crossing I would lay the bridges and 
 present arms to his troops as they cross." Hooker 
 declared he must keep the enemy between himself 
 and the range of mountains leading from the Potomac 
 to the Gettysburg section, and would fight him in the 
 vicinity of Gettysburg. "If," said he, "Lee escapes 
 with his army the country is entitled to it and should 
 have my head for a football," and to-day many loyal 
 admirers of Meade himself believe that if Hooker had 
 been commander of the Army of the Potomac at the 
 end of the three days battle at Gettysburg, Lee 
 would not have been allowed to leave on his south 
 ward march with his army intact. 
 
 After the battle of Antietam, McClellan wrote a 
 private letter to Hooker in which he said, "Had you 
 not been wounded when you were, I believe the 
 result of the battle would have been the entire de 
 struction of the rebel army; for I know that with 
 you at its head, your corps would have kept on until 
 it gained the main wall. As a slight expression of 
 what I think you merit, I have requested that the 
 brigadier general s commission rendered vacant by 
 Mansfield s death be given you." General Hooker s 
 commission as brigadier general in the regular army 
 bears the date of this letter. 
 
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 General Sickles, the honored commander of our Oration 
 old 3d corps, has well described Hooker as being 
 "in conception, audacious, original and acute; in ex 
 ecution, energetic but prudent; severe in discipline but 
 generous in praise; quick to recognize ability and 
 merit in friend or foe." 
 
 The skill of the artist cannot be measured by a 
 single merit or single defect of the picture. The 
 sum-total of the good qualities and the sum-total of 
 the bad must be weighed against each other, and so 
 of human character. To condemn Hooker for a few 
 glaring faults would be as unjust as to unduly elevate 
 him for a few great virtues. 
 
 It is with Hooker s character as a general that we 
 have to do. Many of his greatest faults were such 
 as we find in all great soldiers. Was he ambitious? 
 So was Alexander. Was he vain? So was Caesar. 
 Was he impatient and persistent? So was Napoleon. 
 As an organizer of troops he was the equal of Grant. 
 As a cool and farseeing strategist he certainly resem 
 bled Sherman. As a leader in an impetuous charge 
 he was the equal of the fiery Sheridan. As a com 
 mander beloved and almost worshipped by his soldiers, 
 he had no superior. Like Sickles, Howard and Miles, 
 who honor this occasion by their presence, his wounds 
 
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 Oration were received when he was at the very forefront of 
 the righting. 
 
 Had he something of vanity as to his dress and 
 personal appearance? So had the great admiral, 
 Nelson, when at Trafalgar he pinned upon his breast 
 the medals he had won and said : " In honor I won 
 them and in honor I will die with them." So had 
 the Earl of Cardigan, when in ermine and fine laces 
 he charged at the head of the "gallant six hundred" 
 at Balaklava. 
 
 Hooker was at times a merciless critic, but read 
 to-day his testimony given in 1863 before the Con 
 gressional Committee, and see how impartial history 
 has, since the clouds have cleared away, confirmed 
 his opinions as to the great conflicts of the first two 
 years of the war. 
 
 Hooker loved his men and his men loved him. 
 The affection of soldiers for their general is no mean 
 test of the merits of the general himself. Pass through 
 the rank and file of the Army of the Potomac to-day 
 and as many of them as are alive will give you as 
 just and accurate an opinion of the merits and de 
 merits of the various generals under whom they have 
 served as any class of men with whom I have ac 
 quaintance. Measured by this standard, no one would 
 
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 rank higher than Hooker. His skill and bravery were Oration 
 evident to all, but only those who knew him well had 
 any idea of the extreme sensitiveness and tenderness 
 of his nature. He was always sensitive perhaps 
 unduly so as to anything which affected the good 
 name of his command, whether it were a brigade, 
 division, or the whole army. He rivalled in bravery 
 the young and fiery Kearny, who, as he rode along 
 his lines with his bridle rein between his teeth, while 
 he grasped his sword with one arm, the other having 
 been shot away, had many a time come to the relief 
 of Hooker. They had become the strongest of 
 friends, yet this friendship, cemented under fire, came 
 near an end because Hooker thought that on one 
 occasion Kearny had not given due credit to Hook 
 er s troops. 
 
 When Hooker was ordered to a redoubt at 
 Resaca, where other assaults had failed, and was 
 asked as to the prospects of his success, he declared, 
 " I will capture that at any cost. We are serving 
 here, but we belong to the Army of the Potomac, 
 and I owe that much to that army." 
 
 Those of you who served under the gallant Gen 
 eral Berry of Maine, who succeeded the brave 
 Hooker as a division commander, will never forget 
 
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 Oration the tragic incident when Hooker, while the battle of 
 Chancellorsville was at its height, rode along and saw 
 by the roadside the dead body of Berry, who had 
 fallen the victim of the deadly aim of a sharpshooter. 
 Hooker dismounted, approached the dead general, 
 knelt by his side and leaning over with tears in his 
 eyes kissed his forehead and said : " My God, Berry, 
 why was the man in whom I relied so much to be 
 taken away in this manner? In battle brave as a 
 lion, yet when the chord of friendship was touched he 
 became as tender as a woman. It was always thus, 
 
 The bravest are the tenderest, the loving are the daring. " 
 
 All countries in all ages have accorded a special 
 honor to their soldier dead, and it has always ap 
 peared to me that it is most fitting that these honors 
 should be paid at or near the home of the dead 
 soldier. In the bloodiest scenes of carnage, in the 
 prison, in the hospital or upon the blood-stained deck 
 of the battleship, the thoughts of the bravest turn 
 lovingly toward home. Our soldiers at Mine Run 
 when they were, as they supposed, about to start 
 upon what might have been a fatal charge, pinned 
 upon their manly breasts tiny bits of paper, upon 
 which were written the name, rank and regiment of 
 
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 the wearer, in order that their dead bodies might not Oration 
 fill nameless graves. 
 
 I have often wondered whether, upon occasions 
 like this, the dead hero can look down upon us. 
 The desire to be known after death is an instinct of 
 our nature. Hooker, in his saddest moments, always 
 declared that history would do him justice, and per 
 haps to-night he is looking thankfully on while these 
 honors, the result of the love and devotion of his 
 companions of the old 3d corps, are being paid 
 to his sacred memory. We who served with him 
 must soon pass away, but we hope to leave in the 
 minds of those who come after us, as a token of our 
 love and devotion, a lasting memory of one of the 
 bravest and purest soldiers of that conflict which 
 made us a nation and not a collection of petty 
 states. 
 
 To-day the statue of General Hooker was unveiled 
 by his grandnephew. The touching scene was rev 
 erently witnessed by the old soldiers of the great 
 general. We who followed him in his life-time with 
 undying love, and, since his death, have sought to 
 keep green his memory, now publish to the world his 
 good deeds, and confide to the good people of Massa 
 chusetts the sacred trust of perpetuating a name which 
 
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 Oration J^g f or more than two hundred years represented a 
 pure Massachusetts lineage and will go down to pos 
 terity as one of the brightest jewels in the military 
 coronet of this grand old Commonwealth. 
 
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ADDRESS 
 
 BY LIEUTENANT GENERAL NELSON A. MILES 
 
LIEUTENANT GENERAL NELSON A. MILES, U. S. A. 
 
GOVERNOR BATES* INTRODUCTION OF 
 GENERAL MILES 
 
 TV 7HEN General Mattocks had concluded, there were in- 
 *^ sistent cries from the veterans for General Howard and 
 General Miles. Governor Bates first introduced General 
 Miles, saying: 
 
 "I will not present him to you. You have introduced him 
 yourselves. Lieutenant General Miles." 
 
 The veterans rose as one man and cheered the general 
 again and again as he stepped to the front of the platform. 
 
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 BY LIEUTENANT GENERAL NELSON A. MILES 
 
 OMRADES, I shall not attempt to say 
 more than to indorse the excellent and 
 eloquent words that have been uttered 
 concerning that great commander, that heroic, chiv 
 alrous, brave patriot and soldier, General Hooker, 
 whom we all loved and whom we all respected. 
 
 It is certainly gratifying to me, a Massachusetts 
 man, to come back to my old Commonwealth and 
 listen to words of appreciation and tribute here, forty 
 years after the achievements were made, the victories 
 won by a son of Massachusetts. It convinces me 
 that the spirit of heroism is not dead, but is as much 
 alive in Massachusetts to-day as it was forty or even 
 one hundred years ago. 
 
 I have always been proud of my native State, 
 but never more so than to-day, to see this tribute 
 paid by the people of this Commonwealth to those 
 who fought for their country. 
 
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 Address Listening to the words of the orator this evening, 
 I recall one incident to which he has referred. I was 
 seriously wounded at the battle of Chancellorsville, 
 and was carried into the house where Hooker had 
 his headquarters. A shell struck the house and set it 
 on fire, and every one realized that the place had to 
 be deserted. As the shell crashed through the house, 
 one of the falling timbers struck General Hooker, 
 knocking him down. As I was being carried out by 
 two comrades, I saw General Hooker going from the 
 other side of the building, limping, scarcely able to 
 walk, and with his clothes covered with dust. And 
 yet the hero was undaunted, and was endeavoring by 
 his presence, by his act, and by his determination, to 
 hold the position and to hold the confidence of the 
 army. He was at that moment disabled, but was so 
 heroic that he would not leave the field, and remained 
 when others might have gone to the rear. I thank 
 you for this cordial greeting and wish you every 
 happiness and prosperity. 
 
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ADDRESS 
 
 BY MAJOR GENERAL O. O. HOWARD 
 
 OF BURLINGTON, VERMONT 
 
MAJOR GENERAL OLIVER O. HOWARD, U. S. A. 
 
GOVERNOR BATES INTRODUCTION OF 
 GENERAL HOWARD 
 
 \ V 7HEN General Miles concluded, the cries for " Howard ! " 
 " Howard ! " were renewed. " There are lots of com 
 manders here to-night," said Governor Bates, " and there 
 seems to be a great many among the audience. It is a 
 pleasure, in obedience to your command, to ask the one who 
 comes from Fair Oaks, where he left an arm, one who comes 
 from Gettysburg, where he was in command on the first day 
 of that fight, to say a word to you one of the last surviving 
 army commanders of the Union armies, General O. O. 
 Howard." 
 
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ADDRESS 
 
 BY MAJOR GENERAL O. O. HOWARD 
 
 OF BURLINGTON, VERMONT 
 
 OMRADES, this is the first time since 
 the great war that I have listened to 
 a review of the military career of Gen 
 eral Joseph Hooker. And I have thought how 
 thoroughly just and yet generous has been that review. 
 Our friend, the general, who has just spoken to us, 
 has said that history will do justice. That lecture we 
 have heard to-night will be a part of the history 
 of General Hooker. I should like to see a thor 
 ough biography of him written, and he will have 
 the palm as the General of Massachusetts in the war 
 for the Union, and I believe that the same conclusion 
 would be arrived at as I came to long ago, that 
 there was no general on our side who was perfect in 
 all things. There was no general that was above 
 criticism. 
 
 I loved McClellan. But, comrades, whether right 
 
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 Address or wrong, I love his memory to-day as I did then. 
 I myself think that Robert Lee was the greater 
 general of the two. And I want to say, even if 
 you go into the minutiae of criticism, you will find 
 that Robert Lee and Stonewall Jackson were more 
 to blame for Chancellorsville than anyone else. 
 
 General Hooker was a brilliant figure, and I served 
 under him all the time and every moment with 
 loyalty. I served under General Meade, and he 
 had the same loyal heart that Hooker had. I 
 don t think it necessary for us to give improper 
 criticism at this day to the detriment of any of our 
 leading generals who went forth and did the best 
 they could. 
 
 General Sickles, who always supported General 
 Hooker, did at Gettysburg a wonderful thing 
 the same thing that Wellington did at Waterloo 
 put out a force in front of his line to hold 
 on, and that holding on probably saved us the 
 field. 
 
 Whether anybody else at Williamsport, except 
 Meade, would have allowed Lee to cross the 
 river or not I do not know. But in my foolish 
 ness I do believe that divine Providence intended 
 that he should cross the river, that the Confederacy 
 
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 was not yet rotten enough to go to pieces, that it Address 
 needed Grant and Sherman and the rest to complete 
 the job. 
 
 But, when it is all done, I am glad to see up 
 there by the grand old State House a monument that 
 is a worthy one of one of the finest soldiers, one of 
 the handsomest men that used to stand before us 
 with no fear of the enemy s bullets. 
 
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THE CALL FOR SICKLES 
 
MAJOR GENERAL DANIEL E. SICKLES, U. S. A. 
 
THE CALL FOR SICKLES 
 
 O ICKLES ! " " Sickles ! " called the veterans, when the ap- 
 plause had subsided. "We want Sickles!" "I very 
 much regret," said Governor Bates, " that General Sickles is 
 not present. I am sure we all deplore the accident that 
 befell the hero of Gettysburg to-day, which has prevented his 
 attendance here this evening in honor of his old commander." 
 
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ADDRESS 
 
 BY MAJOR GENERAL THOMAS L. ROSSER 
 
 OF CHARLOTTESVILLE, VIRGINIA 
 
MAJOR GENERAL THOMAS L. ROSSER OF VIRGINIA 
 
 Major General C. S. A. 
 Brigadier General in the Spanish American War 
 
GOVERNOR BATES INTRODUCTION OF 
 GENERAL ROSSER 
 
 [ NOW want to introduce to you one of the men who 
 fought you, and who is now your friend. This is a re 
 united country, and it is with great pleasure that I present to 
 the veterans of the Union army Major General Rosser of the 
 Confederate army. 
 
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ADDRESS 
 
 BY MAJOR GENERAL THOMAS L. ROSSER 
 
 OF CHARLOTTESVILLE, VIRGINIA 
 
 HAVE never confronted so many Yankees 
 in my life. And I feel that I ought to 
 throw up my hands and surrender. It is 
 a great treat for me to be with you, and no man 
 could have been with us to-day who would not be 
 proud that he belonged to the United States of 
 America. I don t pride myself that I am a Virginian. 
 But I thank God that I am an American. And as 
 an American I stand here to-night to tell you how 
 proud I am that I can feel this way. 
 
 There are many things to say about Hooker, 
 Lee, Stonewall Jackson and many other generals. 
 But no man can say anything that will suit me ex 
 cept to say that the private soldier did his duty and 
 won the greatest victory on earth. The private 
 soldier saved this nation, and brought us under this 
 great flag. The man who will say that he wishes 
 
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 Address fa e South had won is either a fool or a hypocrite. 
 I thank God that the South did not win. And when 
 y6u talk about your great generals God Almighty 
 was the general who brought this about, and there was 
 no man who commanded the troops who was as 
 great as the troops themselves. 
 
 Forty years ago, the armies of the North and the 
 armies of the South confronted each other in fierce 
 and bloody grapple in the jungles of the Wilderness 
 about Chancellorsville, Virginia. The great man whose 
 memory we are honoring here to-day commanded one 
 of these opposing hosts. These gallant old veterans 
 who now confront me, and who marched with us 
 to-day, were there. They heard war s thunders 
 wake along the Potomac, in the Wilderness, on the 
 James and the Appomattox, and after seeing Hope s 
 promise shine on Glory s face at Gettysburg, they 
 struggled on to its glorious fulfillment at Appomattox 
 Court House. This was the Army of the Potomac, 
 the greatest army ever marshaled on the Western 
 Hemisphere. Its many commanders were failures, and 
 new ones one after another were tried, and until 
 Grant came no one had been found who was big 
 enough to handle this great army. 
 
 For the want of a proper leader it was often 
 
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 halted in its onward march to Richmond; it was often Address 
 turned back, but it was never defeated, and finally, 
 on the field of Appomattox it captured its great 
 opposing army, with its immortal commander, Robert 
 E. Lee, and furled forever the banner of the Starry 
 Cross of secession and disunion. 
 
 Now the armies of Hooker, Grant and Sherman, 
 reinforced by the armies of Robert E. Lee, Stone 
 wall Jackson and Joe Johnson are marching shoulder 
 to shoulder, and boot to boot, under the glorious 
 banner of Liberty and to the music of the spheres, 
 winning the victories of Peace, Prosperity and Happi 
 ness for all mankind. 
 
 In conclusion, let me add, that I was the first rebel 
 general who called on General Grant when he was 
 dying, and the only rebel general who has marched 
 in a procession to unveil a monument to a Union 
 soldier. 
 
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MAJOR GENERAL 
 JOSEPH HOOKER S RECORD 
 
MAJOR GENERAL 
 JOSEPH HOOKER S RECORD 
 
 Compiled from official reports and statements of the War Department, and from 
 
 General George W. Cullum s Biographical Register of the officers and 
 
 graduates of the U. S. Military Academy at West Point, N. Y., 
 
 by Isaac P. Gragg, Brevet Captain U. S. Volunteers. 
 
 Born at Hadley, Massachusetts, Nov. 13, 1814. After re 
 ceiving his education at the Hopkins Academy, of his native 
 town, upon recommendation of the Hon. George Grennell, Jr., 
 M. C., appointed to a cadetship at West Point. 
 
 Cadet U. S. Military Academy from July 1 , 1 833, to July 
 1, 1837, when he was graduated and promoted in the army to 
 
 Second Lieutenant First U. S. Artillery, 
 July i, 1837. 
 
 Served in Florida War, 1837-38; on Maine frontier, at 
 Houlton, 1838. 
 
 First Lieutenant First U. S. Artillery, 
 Nov. i, 1838. 
 
 During "Disputed Territory" controversy on the northern 
 frontier he was stationed at Swanton, Vermont, 1838-39; 
 Rouse s Point, New York, 1839-40; Maine frontier, 1840; 
 in garrison at Fort Columbus, New York, 1840-41. 
 
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 Major General Adjutant U. S. Military Academy, July i, 1841, 
 
 Joseph 
 
 ^ S ^ om wm ch position he was transferred owing to having been 
 
 commissioned as 
 
 Regimental Adjutant First U. S. Artillery, 
 Oct. 3, 1841. 
 
 In September, 1845, the regimental headquarters were re 
 moved to Pensacola, Florida, and in addition to his duties of 
 Adjutant of his regiment, he performed those of Acting Assist 
 ant Adjutant General of the troops in Pensacola Harbor, and 
 also of the First Military Department, to July, 1846. 
 
 Upon the breaking out of the Mexican War he obtained leave 
 of absence from his regiment and proceeded to the seat of war, 
 and there served in General Taylor s army as Brigade Com 
 missary on staff of Brevet Brigadier General Persifor F. Smith, 
 and as Assistant Adjutant General on staff of Brigadier General 
 Thomas L. Hamar; in latter capacity he was at the Battle of 
 Monterey, Sept. 21-23, 1846. 
 
 Brevet Captain, Sept. 23, 1846, 
 
 "for gallant conduct at the several conflicts at Monterey, Mexico." 
 
 In the organization of reinforcements for General Scott s army 
 he was, on Jan. 1 0, 1 847, assigned to the staff of Major General 
 William O. Butler as Aide-de-Camp. 
 
 Brevet Staff Captain and Assistant Adjutant 
 General, March 3, 1847. 
 
 April 25, 1 847, transferred to staff of Brigadier General George 
 Cadwalader ; on march from Vera Cruz to Pueblo participated in 
 Defense of Convoy at the National Bridge, June II, 1847, and 
 Skirmish at La Hoya, June 20, 1847. 
 
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DEDICATION OF HOOKER STATUE 
 Brevet Major, June n, 1847, 
 
 " for gallant and meritorious conduct in the affair at the National Bridge, Mexico." 
 
 On the reorganization of General Scott s army at Pueblo, he 
 was assigned to staff of Major General Gideon J. Pillow s Division 
 as Assistant Adjutant General and Chief of Staff; at battles of 
 Contreras, Aug. 19-20, 1847; Churubusco, Aug. 20, 1847; 
 Molino-del-Ray, Sept. 8, 1847, and storming of Chapultepec, 
 Sept. 13, 1847. 
 
 Brevet Lieutenant Colonel, Sept. 13, 1847, 
 
 "for gallant and meritorious conduct at the battle of Chapultepec, Mexico." 
 
 From Dec. 13, 1847, to March 1, 1848, served on staff of 
 Brigadier General Caleb Cushing in Mexico ; Assistant Adjutant 
 General of the Sixth Military Department, headquarters at St. 
 Louis, Missouri, Sept. 1 3, to Oct. 28, 1 848. 
 
 Captain First U. S. Artillery, Oct. 29, 1848, 
 
 which he declined, preferring his staff rank. 
 
 Assistant Adjutant General Pacific Division, headquarters at 
 San Francisco, California, June 9, 1 849, to Nov. 24, 1 85 1 ; 
 on leave of absence 1851-53; resigned from the army Feb. 2 1 , 
 1853. 
 
 Civil History. Farmer, Sonoma County, California, 1853- 
 58. Superintendent of military roads in Oregon, from Scottsburg 
 to Myrtle Creek, and from Myrtle Creek to Camp Stewart, 
 1858-59. 
 
 Service during the Rebellion of the Seceding States, 1 86 1 -66. 
 Brigadier General U. S. Volunteers, May 17, 1861. 
 
 Major General 
 Joseph 
 Hooker s 
 Record 
 
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DEDICATION OF HOOKER STATUE 
 
 Major General 
 Joseph ^ 
 Hooker s 
 Record 
 
 Assigned to command of a brigade, consisting of the First 
 Massachusetts Vols., Eleventh Massachusetts Vols., Second New 
 Hampshire Vols., and Twenty-sixth Pennsylvania Vols., Aug. 1 2, 
 1 86 1 , subsequently designated as the First Brigade of his division, 
 stationed at Bladensburg, Maryland, and in defenses of Washington. 
 
 Command increased to a division, Oct. 1 1 , 1 86 1 , by assignment 
 of Brigadier General Daniel E. Sickles New York Brigade, consist 
 ing of the Seventieth, Seventy-first, Seventy-second, Seventy-third, 
 and Seventy-fourth N. Y. Vols., designated as the Second Brigade. 
 
 The Second New Jersey Brigade, which became the Third 
 Brigade, was attached to the division Dec. 2, 1861, consisting of 
 the Fifth, Sixth, Seventh and Eighth New Jersey Vols., Colonel 
 Samuel H. Starr commanding ; Battery D, First New York Light 
 Artillery; Fourth and Sixth New York Light Batteries; and 
 Battery H, First U. S. Artillery were also attached to the division. 
 
 Guarded Maryland shore of the lower Potomac from Oct. 
 1861, to March, 1862, when his division was designated as the 
 Second Division, Third Army Corps, Army of the Potomac, and 
 transported to Ship Point, Virginia, early in April, 1 862 ; Siege 
 of Yorktown April 10- May 4, 1862; battles of Williams- 
 burg, May 5, 1862; Fair Oaks, June 1, 1862; Oak Grove, 
 June 25, 1862; Glendale, June 30, 1862; Malvern Hill, July 
 1 , 1 862 ; in June the division was reinforced by the Sixteenth 
 Massachusetts Vols., attached to the First Brigade, and the Second 
 New York Vols., attached to the Third Brigade, and in July by 
 the One Hundred and Fifteenth Pennsylvania Vols., attached to 
 the Third Brigade. 
 
 Major General U. S. Volunteers, July 4, 1862, 
 to date May 5, 1862. 
 
 Re-occupation and action of Malvern Hill, Aug. 5-6, 1 862 ; 
 in the withdrawal of General McClellan s army from the Penin- 
 
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DEDICATION OF HOOKER STATUE 
 
 sula, the division arrived at Alexandria, Virginia, Aug. 23, and 
 left there to reinforce General Pope s army, Aug. 26, without 
 waiting for its batteries, wagons or officers horses; battles of 
 Bristoe Station, Aug. 27, 1862; Groveton, Aug. 29, 1862; 
 Second Bull Run, Aug. 30, 1862 ; Chantilly, Sept. 1, 1862. 
 
 Assigned to command of the First Army Corps, Sept. 6, 1 862 ; 
 battles of South Mountain, Sept. 1 4, 1 862 ; Antietam, Sept. 1 6- 
 17, 1862. 
 
 Brigadier General United States Army, 
 Sept. 20, 1862. 
 
 On leave of absence, by reason of wounds received at Antietam, 
 until Nov. 1 0, 1 862 ; assigned to command of the Fifth Army 
 Corps, Nov. 5, 1 862 ; assigned to command of the Centre Grand 
 Division (Third and Fifth Corps) Army of the Potomac, Nov. 
 16, 1862; battle of Fredericksburg, Dec. 13, 1862. 
 
 Commander of the Army of the Potomac, 
 Jan. 26, 1863. 
 
 Battles of Kelly s Ford, March 17, 1863; Chancellorsville 
 Campaign, April 27~May 6, 1863, including Franklin s Crossing 
 and Fitzhugh s Crossing, April 29~May 6, 1 863 ; Chancellors 
 ville, May 1-3, 1863; Marye s Heights and Salem Heights, 
 May 3-4, 1 863 ; Gettysburg campaign, June 3-28, 1 863, in 
 cluding Brandy Station, June 9, 1863; Aldie, June 17, 1863; 
 Middleburg, June 19, 1863; Upperville, June 2 1 , 1863. 
 
 Relieved from command of the Army of the Potomac, at his 
 own request, June 28, 1 863. 
 
 On waiting orders at Baltimore, Maryland, from June 28 to 
 Sept. 24, 1 863 ; assigned to command of the Eleventh and 
 Twelfth Army Corps, Sept. 24, 1 863 ; left Washington, D. C., 
 Sept. 28, 1863, to reinforce Major General Rosecrans, arriv- 
 
 Major General 
 Joseph > 
 Hooker s 
 Record 
 
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 Major General 
 Joseph 
 Hooker s 
 Record 
 
 ing at Stevenson, Alabama, with all his artillery and transporta 
 tion wagons Oct. 3, 1863, and assigned to the Army of the 
 Cumberland. 
 
 Defeated General Longstreet at Wauhatchie Oct. 28-29, 
 1 863 ; captured Lookout Mountain, Nov. 24, 1 863 ; battles of 
 Missionary Ridge, Nov. 25, 1863; Ringgold Gap, Nov. 27, 
 1863. 
 
 Thanks of Congress, Jan. 28, 1864, 
 
 " for the skill, energy and endurance which first covered Washington and Balti 
 more from the meditated blow of the advancing and powerful 
 army of the rebels led by General Robert E. Lee." 
 
 Assigned to command of the Twentieth Army Corps, April 
 4, 1864. 
 
 Campaign to Atlanta, Georgia. Battles of Mill Creek Gap, 
 May 8, 1864; Resaca, May 14-15, 1864; Cassville, May 19, 
 1864; New Hope Church, May 25, 1864; Pine Hill, June 
 15,1 864 ; Kolb s Farm, June 22, 1 864 ; almost daily skirmishes 
 and engagements in pressing and pursuing the enemy from before 
 Kenesaw Mountain, June 23, 1 864, to the crossing of the Chatta- 
 lochie River, July 1 7, 1864; Peach Tree Creek, July 20, 1864 
 (his last battle); before Atlanta, July 21-27, 1864. 
 
 Relinquished command of the Twentieth Army Corps, owing 
 to General Sherman s opposition to his being appointed to the 
 command of the Army of the Tennessee. 
 
 On waiting orders from July 30, 1864, to Sept. 28, 1864; 
 command of Northern Department, headquarters at Cincinnati, 
 Ohio, from Sept. 28, 1864, to July 5, 1865. 
 
 Brevet Major General United States Army, 
 March 13, 1865, 
 
 " for gallant and meritorious services at the battle of Chattanooga, Tennessee." 
 
 In command of Department of the East, headquarters at New 
 York City, July 8, 1865, to Aug. 6, 1866, and Department of 
 
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 the Lakes, headquarters at Detroit, Michigan, Aug. 23, 1866, to 
 June 1 , 1 867, and as member of the Board for Retiring Disabled 
 Officers, Nov. 27, 1865, to Aug. 30, 1866. 
 
 Mustered out of volunteer service Sept. 1 , 1 866 ; on sick leave 
 of absence June 1 , 1 867, to Oct. 15,1 868. 
 
 Retired from active service Oct. 15,1 868, at his own request, as 
 
 Major General United States Army, 
 
 "for disability incurred in line of duty." 
 
 Died Oct. 3 1 , 1 879, at Garden City, Long Island, New York. 
 
 After public military funeral ceremonies in New York City, 
 General Hooker s remains were carried to Cincinnati, O., and 
 buried beside those of his wife, in Laurel Grove Cemetery. 
 
 Major General 
 Joseph 
 Hooker s 
 Record 
 
 Upon the death of General Hooker the General-in-Chief of 
 the U. S. Army issued the following order: 
 
 GENERAL ORDERS) 
 No. 98. / 
 
 HEADQUARTERS OF THE ARMY, 
 ADJUTANT GENERAL S OFFICE, 
 
 WASHINGTON, Nov. 3, 1879. 
 
 The death of Major General Joseph Hooker, U. S. Army, 
 retired, which took place at Garden City, L. I., on the 3 1 st ultimo, 
 is announced to the army. 
 
 In announcing the decease of this gallant veteran, honored with 
 thanks of Congress for " skill, energy and endurance," the General 
 takes occasion to recall to the memory of the army the distinguished 
 services rendered by General Hooker through the war with 
 Mexico, as well as in the late war. His gallantry in the former 
 gave promise of that superior courage, vigor, and skill in action 
 which has since characterized him. 
 
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 Major General 
 Joseph 
 Hooker s 
 Record 
 
 It is not necessary here to narrate his achievements ; they are 
 matters of familiar history, and his soldierly deeds may well excite 
 the admiration and emulation of his surviving comrades. 
 
 In honor to his memory, the Commanding General Military 
 Division of the Atlantic will cause minute guns to be fired at Fort 
 Columbus and the flag to be displayed at half-staff during the 
 funeral ceremonies in New York City. The like honors will be 
 paid at Newport Barracks, Ky., on the day of interment in Cincin 
 nati. The officers of the retired list are requested to wear the 
 usual badge of mourning for thirty days. 
 
 By command of GENERAL SHERMAN. 
 
 E. D. TOWNSEND, Adjut. General. 
 
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