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RANGE ONE.
Jeremiah McCann.
Davitl SiiUivan.
Patiick Dorgan.
John KoiTnedy.
Thinmis Wells.
Charles Gilbert.
Jolin W. Porter.
William Barry.
Fniiicis L. Harrison.
Genrge F. Boole.
Robert Whitsett.
Henry Burns.
William Carline.
Jabez J. Lewis.
Chas. E. Batchelder.
John rv'icholson.
Tlioiiias Ilatlieway.
Justin C. Douty.
I>ewis Gaul, Jr.
Edgar Colburn.
Freeman Fremuht.
David Smith.
John Z. Lowell.
Robert Logan.
Thomas iMcGuire.
Charles Hoyden.
Tlionias Allen.
Dennis Donovan.
Jolin Carr,
James Christiansen.
G. JI. Gilley.
Rufus Raymond.
John Hunt.
John McMahon.
Marcus M, Sullivan-
Timothy D. Williams
Samuel Lightbody.
Robert Lindsey.
John M. Russell.
Francis Richardson.
Orin C Hussey.
Richard Hickson.

RANGE TWO.
Jolin C. Carlton.
Daniel R. Bray.
Chas. R. Hervey.
Albert Green-wood.
Oliver C. Bixby.
John Durcne.
James Thompson-
John Turner.
William McGawley.
Patrick Laughlin.
Hlorris CarniichaeL
Julius Lorio.
Michael Fiiilcy.
Edward BriiytVm.
Charles Delmont.
Joseph Patterson.
James McCormick.
Jolm Currj'.
Charles A. Dickey.
Joel Masury.
James Walsh.
John Friedrich-
Daniel McDonald.
Patrick Gannon.
William Bro-wn.
Richard Burns.
Jeremiah Cooney.
Robert Saunders.
Charles J. Doyle.
Thomas Wilsfn.
Edmund Cleary.
Henry Davis.
Daniel McFee.
Joseph Higgins.
Moses Osgood.
RANGE THREE.
John Barry.
David Richards.
Charles H. Reynolds,
James Donovan.
John Hart.
JJoah E. Barlow.
James Brain.
Richard Seymour.

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ERECTION AND DEDICATION

SOLDIEES' Am SAILOES' MONUMENT

ARMY AND NAVY LOT,

MOUNT HOPE CEMETERY,

BELONGING TO THE

CITY OF BOSTON,

CITY DOCUMENT No. 80.

BOSTON:
PRINTED BY ORDER OF THE CITY COUNCIL.
1867.

CITY OP BOSTON.

In Board of Aldermen, July 8, 1867.
Ordered : That the Trustees of Mount Hope Cem
etery be, and they hereby are, authorized to present in
priat a memorial statement of the services attending the
dedication of the Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument iu
Mount Hope Cemetery on the 3d instant, and that the
expense of the same be charged to the appropriation for
printing. Read t'wice and passed.
Sent down for concurrence. CHAS. W. SLACK, Chairman.

Concurred.

In Common Council, July 11, 1867.
WESTON LEWIS,
President.

Approved July 12, 1867. OTIS NORCROSS, Mayoi-.
A true copy. Attest, S. F. McCLEARY, City Clerk.

SOLDIERS' ATfD SAILORS' MONUMENT.

THE INCEPTION OF THE MEMORIAL.
The sentiments of the citizens of Boston were from
the outset warmly enlisted in favor of the most ener
getic prosecution of the late war for nationality. Her
sons were among the very first to proceed to the earliest
battle-grounds, and there sanctify with their blood the
great cause of freedom and unity. She put forth the
greatest and most unceasing efi"ort. during the whole con
tinuance of that mighty struggle, to keep her quotas full;
and all classes of the community gladly united in sus
taining the common cause to the very last. The fami
lies of her soldiers, whose deeds of valor reflected credit
upon their parent city in nearly all the great battles
that signalized that momentous period of the nation's
struggle for existence, as well as of those who laid down
their lives for their principles, were ever kindly cared
for and generously maintained by the municipal govern
ment. Munificent contributions to the resources of the
Sanitary and Christian Commissions were never wanting,
especially in times of the greatest need ; and the hospi
tality of the city was extended on manifold occasions,
with boundless liberality, to those regiments which passed

b SOLDIERS AND SAILORS MONUMENT.
through Boston to their homes after their allotted term
of service had expu-ed. In short, it may be confidently
asserted that no city in the Union, throughout the war,
evinced a more fervent patriotism or a greater spirit
of self-sacrifice in bearing uncomplainingly the onerous
burdens entailed by a persistent adherence to the cause
of loyalty and of right.
In this connection it may not be out of place to
mention, in attestation of the above, the number of
soldiers and sailors furnished by Boston in support of
the national cause.
The whole number of men credited to the quota of
Boston amounted to 26,119 ; whilst her expenditures for
" war expenses " during the last seven years amount to
$2,511,387.50; of which large sum |1,947,500.00 still
constitutes part of the funded debt.
As Mount Hope Cemetery is the property of the city
of Boston, and its affairs are administered by a Board of
Trustees, of whom a majority are members of the City
Council, it was very natural that they should reflect the
feelings of their constituents, as well as carry out their
own, in ascribing the greatest meed of honor and of
praise to the brave ones who had deserved so well of
the republic. It was fitting, indeed, that the living
soldier should be greeted with admiring plaudits in
Faneuil Hall, and invited to partake lavishly of the
city's hospitality, whilst the Mayor and other orators
extended to him the most flattering welcome ; but those
humble men who, mostly " unhonored and unsung,"
had found their final resting-place in Mount Hope,
appeared to the Trustees in ofiice in 1865 to have

SOLDIERS AND SAILORS MONUMENT. 7
the strongest claims to recognition at their hands, and
they felt their memories should be rescued from unde
served oblivion. A number of these had already been
interred in the cemetery ; some belonged to other parts
of the country, and even to foreign lands, so that no
relatives or friends were eager and anxious to cause the
record of their faithful life and honorable death to be
transmitted to posterity in a permanent form. Their
graves, therefore, remained undesignated by any device
calculated to remind the passer-by of the fact that the
remains of some Union soldier or sailor were there
buried, perhaps at his very feet.
Actuated by these views and feelings, the Board of
Trustees for the above-mentioned year determined to
address themselves to the City Council for appropria
tions suflicient to enable them to erect a durable memo
rial which should forever after evince the lasting respect
and esteem felt by the city of Boston for those who had
died for the Union; feeling certain that the government
would not decline to authorize an expenditure of public
money in so deserving a cause. It is hardly necessary
to mention in this place that these expectations were
entirely fulfilled, and that the different requests detailed
below were always complied with in the most cordial
and unhesitating spirit.
On the 3d of July, 1865, the following order was
passed by the Board of Aldermen, and, after having been
unanimously concm-red in by the Common Council, was
approved by His Honor the Mayor, Frederic W.
Lincoln, Jr., July 8, the same having been presented to
the Board by Alderman Charles F. Dana, who was at

8 SOLDIERS AND SAILORS MONUMENT.
that time the Chairman of the Trustees of Mount Hope
Cemetery :
Ordered, That the Trustees of Mount Hope Cemetery be, and
they hereby are, instructed to select forth'with a lot in the
cemetery in a suitable location, and cause the same to be
properly graded and prepared, said lot not to contain less than
2500 square feet, and to be known henceforth as the
"SOLDIERS' LOT."
On the completion of the same, the Trustees 'will cause the
remains of tlie soldiers deposited at the present time in the lot
in the cemetery appropriated for that purpose to be removed to
the Soldiers' Lot, and there interred ; and a sum not exceeding
five thousand dollars is hereby appropriated, to be charged to
the appropriation for Military Expenses, foi- the purpose of
suitably enclosing said Soldiers' Lot and erecting a proper
memorial-shaft thereon — the same to be prepared under the
joint supervision of the Committee on Cemeteries, the Committee
on Military Affairs, and the Trustees of Mount Hope Cemetery.
At a meeting of the Board of Trustees on the 11th of
July, an offer of a lot of land contiguous to the cemetery,
suitable for the erection thereon of a monument, was
made by its owner. Gen. Horace B. Sargent, himself
heroically distinguished during the late war ; but at the
succeeding meeting, (July 18,) the offer was respectfully
declined, the desire being to erect the memorial within
the grounds of the cemetery, and any enlargement then
not being deemed expedient.
At the same meeting of the Trustees, on the 11th of
July, Messrs. Solomon B. Stebbins, Henry L. Dalton
and Joseph P. Paine were appointed a Committee to

SOLDIERS AND SAILORS MONUMENT. 9
carry the wishes of the City Council into practical effect ;
and, on motion of the latter gentleman, twenty-five hun
dred feet of land next adjoining the lot to be selected
for the soldiers and sailors were ordered to be reserved
for a period not exceeding ten years for the prospective
enlargement of the lot, should the exigencies of the city
require it. A lot of land between Greenwood avenue
and Heber walk, (as designated on the plan of the cem
etery,) was then selected for the memorial lot, and the
Superintendent, Mr. Charles M. Atkinson, directed to
properly grade and prepare the same forthwith for the
contemplated purposes of the city.
At the meeting of the Trustees on the 18th of
July, it was voted that the City Council be respectfully
requested to change the name of the place selected from
the " Soldier's Lot " to the " Army and Navy Lot," and,
accordingly, the following order received the approval
of the Mayor on the 24th of July, 1865 :
Ordered, That the name of the lot recently set apart in
Mount Hope Cemetery by order of the City Council as the
" Soldiers' Lot," be changed to the
"ARMY AND NAVY LOT."
At the same meeting of the Trustees, it was further
voted that the burials in the monumental lot be limited
to those soldiers and sailors who die in Boston, and to
those comprised in the quota of Boston who may die
without the city.
The Committee charged with the execution of the
order of the City Council in reference to the monument,
2

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at once advertised for suitable designs from architects
and others, and subsequently for bids from contractors
and builders to do the work required. The Committee
and the Board were unanimous in giving the preference
for the design to Mr. Edward R. Brown, of the City
Engineer's department of the City of Boston, while with
like unanimity they selected the Granite Railway Com
pany, operating at Concord, N. H., as the contractors for
the erection of the obelisk.
Soon after this decision, the following communication
from the Trustees to the City Council was made, under
date of Sept. 19th :
Gentlemen: The undersigned, in behalf of the Trustees of
Mount Hope Cemetery, has the honor to submit the following
statement in reference to an order recently passed by your
body. The order in question instructed the Trustees to cause
a suitable lot in the cemetery to be prepared and graded for
the reception of the remains of soldiers and sailors who shall
have served in the late war, and appropriated the sum of five
thousand dollars for the purpose of erecting thereupon a proper
monument. In accordance with the above a space of twenty-
five hundred square feet has been laid out in a desirable part of
the cemetery, and an appropriate design adopted by a sub-com
mittee of the Board, who also advertised for bids to do the
work required. They have decided to accept the lowest of
these; but, as it will involve a total expenditure of eleven
thousand dollars, they would respectfully submit to the City
Council the expediency of appropriating for this purpose the
further sum of six thousand dollars.
In behalf of the Trustees, C. P. DANA, Chairman.

soldiers' and sailors' monument. 11
Ordered, That in addition to the amount heretofore appropri
ated for this purpose, there be allowed the further sum of six
thousand dollars for the completion of the monument in the
Army and Navy Lot, at Mount Hope Cemetery, and that the
same be charged to the appropriation for war expenses.
This order was promptly passed by the City Council,
and approved by the Mayor, September 25, 1865.
In the year 1866, a new Board of Trustees of
Mount Hope Cemetery having been chosen by the City
Council, the Committee in charge of the monument
was constituted as follows : Messrs. Solomon B. Steb
bins, Henry L. Dalton and Charles W. Slack.
At a meeting of the Trustees, April 26, 1866, it was
stated by the Chairman of the Committee on the
Monument that, in consequence of the rapidly increasing
number of bodies interred m. the Army and Navy
Lot, it would be necessary to consider the expediency
of enlarging the lot, and of applying to the City
Council for an additional appropriation to meet the
expense of such enlargement. An estimate of the
Granite Railway Company of the additional cost for
curbing, in view of an enlarged lot, had been obtained,
which, with the expense of grading, &c., would make
the sum necessary to be procured $2000. It was
thereupon voted that the Chairman of the Board be
requested to ask the City Council for the additional
appropriation named; which was done on the 30th of
the same mouth.
In response to this request of the Trustees, on the
26th of May, 1866, the following order, having been
passed by the City Council, received the approbation

12 soldiers' and sailors' monument.
of the Mayor, increasing the amount appropriated for
the monument :
Ordered, That the additional sum of two thousand dollars be
placed at the disposal of the Trustees of Mount Hope Cemetery
and charged to the appropriation for War Expenses; such
sum to be used for the purpose of enlarging the Army and Navy
Lot. In consonance with this order a new lot of land was
selected by the Trustees for the Army and Navy lot,
and a beautiful and commanding site, fronting to the
westward, on the corner of Greenwood and Channing
avenues, very near the centre of the grounds, and
overlooking Eorest Hills Cemetery and the intervening
valley, was designated for the purpose. With wise
forethought, a space of ground of equal size, in the
rear and contiguous to the lot, was reserved for the
future needs of the city in this particular should occa
sion requke.
At this time it was confidently hoped that the monu
ment and lot would be in such a state of forwardness as
to warrant its dedication on the 3d of July following, —
one year from the date of the original proposition for
the memorial, and the anniversary of the victory of Get
tysburg, a battle most momentous in deciding the nation
ality of the republic. With this view, the participation
of the city government was requested in the services of
the dedication, and Messrs. John S. Tyler and Daniel
Davies, of the Board of Aldermen, and Messrs. Clement
Willis, Weston Lewis, and Christopher A. Connor, of
the Common Council, were appointed to cooperate with

soldiers' and sailors' monument. 13
the Trustees in the proposed dedication. It was found,
however, soon after, that it would be impossible for
the stone-cutters to get their work finished in season
for the dedication on the approaching anniversary of
Gettysburg ; and the services were therefore necessarily
deferred till the ensuing season.
On the 3d of July, however, the Mayor, Board of
Trustees, the Committee on Cemeteries on the part of
the City Council, and a few invited guests, visited the
Cemetery and the site for the monument, and were
highly gratified at the progress of the work, and the
attractive appearance of the cemetery grounds.
It became apparent, as the work progressed, that a
still further sum would be required to complete the
setting of the monument, grading the grounds, removing
the remains already interred from the first-selected lot,
and defraying the expenses of the dedication ; and
accordingly, on the 24th of December, the Chau'man
of the Trustees was dkected to ask for a further ap
propriation of $2,500 to complete the memorial.
This request, like the preceding one for an increase of
means, was favorably received by the city government,
the committee to whom the application was referred being
pleased, in their favorable report, to speak of "the good
taste and economy thus far manifested in the erection of
this memorial." Accordingly, on the 4th of January,
1867, the following order, having been passed, received
the approval of the Mayor :
Ordered, That the additional sum of two thousand five hun
dred dollars be placed at the disposal of the Trustees of Mount
Hope Cemetery and charged to the appropriation for War

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Expenses ; such sum to be used for the purposes of finishing the
setting of the stone for the Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument,
removal of bodies of deceased soldiers and sailors to the new
lot, and for grading and sodding the grounds, and dedicating
the monument the ensuing season.
Upon the election of a new Board of Trustees in
1867, Mr. Joseph P. Paine was joined with Messrs.
Stebbins and Slack as the Committee on the Monument,
and under then* direction the work was rapidly forwarded.
The 3d of July, as the Trustees of the pre'dous year
arranged, was determined upon for the services of
dedication. At the meeting of the Trustees on the 7th of May,
it was voted that the duty of formally yielding the
custody of the monument to the Mayor of the City
be assigned to Mr. Solomon B. Stebbins, who, for three
years had been at the head of the Committee on the
Monument, and that its reception from the City in
behalf of the Trustees, be intrusted to the Chairman of
the Board, Mr. Charles W. Slack. At the same
meeting further arrangements were made for the services
of dedication by the appointment of the following
committees :
On Invitations — Messrs. Charles W. Slack and
Charles Caverly, Jr.
On Exercises — Messrs. Charles W. Slack, Solomon
B Stebbins and Charles Caverly, Jr.
On Platform and Decorations — Messrs. Thomas
GoGiN and Joseph P. Paine.
On Conveyances — Messrs. Solomon B. Stebbins,
Thomas Gogin and Joseph P. Paine.

soldiers' and sailors' monument. 15
These Committees, with much promptness and suc
cess, attended to their respective duties. Special invita
tions for attendance and conveyance were issued to all
the living past Mayors of the City, past Trustees of the
Cemetery, the Mayor of Eoxbury, the Selectmen of
West Eoxbury and Dorchester, the officers of the sev
eral rural cemeteries in the vicinity of Boston, the
officers of the Massachusetts Horticultural Society, the
Trustees and Directors of the several Societies and Fra
ternities having lots within the cemetery, the principal
officers of the late volunteer army from Boston and
vicinity, and prominent lot-owners ; with general invita
tions to the soldiers and sailors of the city in the late
war, and the public generally.

THE DAY OF COMMEMOEATION.
The day selected for the services proved one of the
loveliest of the season, — in truth, a perfect summer's
day. The bright sunlight, the warm temperature, the
clear atmosphere, — each was complete in itself ; while
the luxuriant foliage of the cemetery, freshened by
recent rains, was one vast tribute, in living green, to
the memory of the departed.
At an early hour in the afternoon, the interested
participants in the ceremonies began to arrive at the
grounds. First came the children from the public
schools — sixty-two in number — who were to con
tribute the vocal music for the occasion, under the

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guidance of Mr. Joseph B. Sharland, Teacher of Music
in the Grammar Schools of the City — in two rustic
wagons furnished by Messrs. Powers, Cook & Company ;
then numerous lot-owners, with their families ; large
numbers of relatives and friends of the deceased heroes,
and the residents of the vicinity, generally in private
conveyances. Lastly, by special arrangements of the
Trustees with the Boston and Providence Eailroad
Corporation and Messrs. J. H. Hathorne & Company,
extra cars and coaches conveyed the larger number of
attendants from the city ; the former by rail to Forest
Hills Station, and the latter from thence to the cemetery
grounds. It was estimated by careful observers that
fully one thousand persons were in attendance at the
services. The monument was tastefully adorned with evergreen
and white fiowers, the plinth being heavily festooned ;
and upon each grave was placed a beautiful bouquet
of fresh flowers from the conservatory of the cemetery.
These last were the grateful tribute of James Morton,
the florist in charge. All the floral decorations were
under the direction of the Superintendent, Mr. Samuel
A. B. Bragg. At the four corners of the lot, the
national colors were elevated to the proper height upon
staffs provided temporarily for the purpose. The whole
appearance of the enclosure and memorial-stone was
tasteful, appropriate and eminently suggestive.
The services of dedication were conducted upon a
raised platform within a rustic arbor, erected on Green
wood and Channing avenues, to the south and west of
the monument-lot. The green boughs afforded a most

the day of commemoration. 17
grateful protection from the rays of the afternoon sun,
while numerous seats furnished accommodation to a
very large proportion of the attendants.
The scene within and around the enclosure was
impressive and peculiar. Before the participants was
the simple yet elegant monument, hung with laurel and
lilies ; in its shadow, to the eastward, the eighty-flve
graves of the martyrs, each strown with flowers ;
beyond, a background of living green ; and the wide
borders, on either side of the lot, profuse with floral
adornment. On the platform, at the angle formed by
the avenues, sat the Mayor and other city officers, with
invited guests ; to their right, several of the sur'nving
rank and file of the volunteer army in the late war ; in
the rear, the children of the public schools, in neat
attire, and with happy, interested faces ; while to the
left were stationed the large concourse of friends, rela
tives and sympathizers of the departed, with the public
generally.

THE SEEVICES OF DEDICATION.
Mr. Charles Caverly, Jr., of the Board of Trustees,
representing in part the Common Council, announced
the order of services in the following words :
remarks of councilman caverly.
Ladies and Gentlemen : The duty of presiding over
this assembly, on this interesting and patriotic occasion,
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18 soldiers' and sailors' monument.
in the absence of the Chairman of the Board of Trus
tees, — who participates in the services in a different
capacity, — devolves upon me. This duty, though simple,
is cheerfully performed. The order of exercises will be
found upon the printed programme. Before intro
ducing them, however, you will be favored with music
by Gilmore's Band, to which you will please now give
attention. Gilmore's Band of flfteen pieces, who had volun
teered their very acceptable aid for the occasion, pre
luded the services with " Ellsworth's Funeral March,"
followed by " Eoslin Castle," — both of which were
played with great feeling, — when the dedicatory exercises
were begun by the singing of the following original
hymn, by the choir of children, the words being fur
nished by Mr. Sharland, to a trio adapted from the
opera of " Luiiine," by Wallace :
ORIGINAL HYMN.
Peace to the memory of the brave !
Tranquil may their slumbers be !
Peace to the dead, the noble dead, —
Soldier, peace to thee !
Peace to the braves who, resting here,
Gave their lives for rights most dear !
O'er these graves, with falling tear.
We their mem'ry bless !
The Band then played the "Dead March in Saul,"
after which the Eev. Warren H, Cudworth, Chaplain

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of the late Fu'st Massachusetts Eegiment of Infantry,
(recruited mainly from Boston,) offered the following
address to the Throne of Grace :
prayer of rev. warren h. cudworth.
God of odr Fathers, and our God ! We desire to
come into Thy presence, and to call upon Thy name, with
grateful reverence and filial adoration that Thou hast
vouchsafed unto us the privilege of assembling in this
place, to-day, to perpetuate the remembrance of our
noble and heroic dead. We desire to thank Thee that
in the hour of our country's need and peril her sons on
land and sea were not found recreant to the duties con
nected with her defence and rescue; but that from
every State, city and town, from every village, shore
and hill-side, they started up to maintain, at the
hazard of their lives, her freedom and unity, her rights
and laws.
We would acknowledge, with devout appreciation of
Thy wisdom and goodness, that providential control of
human affairs so signally manifested during our recent
war, which turned the plans of rebellion into fool
ishness, and brought substantial and enduring good
out of seeming but transitory evil. We rejoice to
believe that when we cried unto Thee during sea
sons of disaster and defeat. Thou didst incline Thine
ear to hear, and didst finally save our land from
destruction. Aid us to recognize with profound feeling the obli
gations we are under to the gallant dead who, beneath

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the sod upon so many battle-fields, and under the waters
along so many shores, now sleep in honorable graves
that we and all future generations may receive the
blessings of liberty and union, one and inseparable, now
and forever !
Aid us to realize how much of hardship and exposure,
of hunger and thirst, of sickness and suffering, of out
rage and imprisonment, of ignominy and insult, of
wounds and death, the privileges by which we are
surrounded have cost, that we may appreciate their
inestimable value, and see that they are transmitted
undiminished to the future.
Accept the act of solemn consecration which has
brought us from our homes to this last resting-place
of the brave departed slumbering around us ; and
may the memorial column we have erected on
this spot to perpetuate the record of their fidelity,
their self-sacrifice and their patriotism, never fail to
awaken in all beholders feelings of heartfelt grati
tude to them, and to incite others to exhibit the
same virtues in their day and generation, to the end
of time.
Crown with speedy and enduring success, we beseech
Thee, the efforts now being made throughout the land
to heal the wounds caused by the recent sad and
sanguinary war. Eestore harmony and good feeling
to all those who have been discordant and inimical, and
hasten the time when the separate States of this great
country, united and concordant, shall march on with
undivided and unbroken front to the accomplishment of

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the grand end for which we have been called into being
as a nation.
Comfort the families, relatives and friends of those
who have found graves in this place, and strengthen
them from on high to endure the bereavement which
has separated them from husbands, fathers, sons or
brothers on earth ; leading all through the influences of
Thy grace to prepare themselves for a blissful reUnion
in the life everlasting !
Speed the Time, O Lord, when the nations of the
earth shall learn war no more ; when throughout all
lands and across all waters peace shall everywhere
prevail, and good-will towards men become the promi
nent feature of all human dealings and relationships,
national and individual.
Command thy blessing upon those in authority over
us, whether in the nation, the state, or the city. With
especial favor regard the Mayor and other officers
connected with the city government of Boston, and
endue them with the wisdom requisite to the faithful
and fearless discharge of all their duties. May our
nation, our state, our city, never lack the men needed
to stand by the great principles of freedom, of union,
and of universal human equality before the law; the
men needed, perchance, like the honored dead about
us, to die for the maintenance and transmission of these
principles to posterity.
And unto Thee, O God, will we accord all homage and
all praise forever, through Jesus Christ, our Lord. Amen !
The Band then played the " Daniel Webster Funeral

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March," which was succeeded by the singing of the
following hymn, by the choir of children :
A NATIONAL INVOCATION.
God bless our native land ;
Firm may she ever stand
Through storm and night ;
When the wild tempests rave,
Ruler of wind and wave.
Do thou our country save
By thy great might !
For her our pray'r shall rise
To God above the skies :
On him we wait.
Thou who art ever nigh.
Guarding with watchful eye,
To thee aloud we cry :
God save the state !
Mr. Solomon B. Stebbins, Chairman of the Com
mittee of Construction, of the Board of Trustees, was
then introduced, and read the committee's report as
follows :
REPORT OF THE CONSTRUCTION COMMITTEE, BY MR. S. B.
STEBBINS.
Mr. Mayor : The committee to whom was intrusted
the order of the City Council, passed July 3, 1865,
directing the Trustees of the cemetery to lay out and
enclose a suitable lot for the interment of the remains
of the soldiers and sailors of Boston who died in the
war of the rebellion, and to erect thereon a proper
memorial-shaft, having executed the trust committed to
their care, respectfully submit for the approval and
acceptance of the City Council the monument and

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enclosure which you, as chief magistrate of the city,
have been invited to formally dedicate this day.
From the various designs presented for the monument
and other stone- work, the committee unanimously adopted
that furnished by Mr. Edward E. Brown, of the City
Engineer's department. The lot is situated upon Green
wood avenue, and measures seventy-five feet front by
fifty feet in depth, and is enclosed by a massive granite
curb, the posts of which at the four corners terminate
in a pyramid of cannon-balls. The ascent to the lot is
by four steps, with curved buttresses, and posts sur
mounted by mortars. The path within the enclosure is
laid' out in the form of a Latin cross, marked by a low
granite edge-stone. The monument stands in the centre
of the cross, and is thirty-two feet in height. The
front and rear die of the pedestal is panelled, the front
bearing the inscription :
TO THE jMEMOEY
OF THE
SOLDIERS AND SAILORS
ov
BOSTON,
WHO PELL IN DEFENCE OF THEIR COUNTRY
AND LIBBETY IN THE REBELLION WHICH
ENDED IN 1865, THIS MONUMENT
IS GRATEFULLY DEDICATED
BY THE
CITY OF BOSTON.
The rear bears the inscription :
The courage jcsd devotion shown by the soldiers and sailoks
during the war for american nationality ha^ve made their name
the gloey and pride of the nation.
Erected by order of the City Council :
A. D. 1865.

24 soldiers' and sailors' monument.
On the right flank is an emblem, in has-relief of the
army. The left flank bears a has-relief emblematic
of the navy. The city seal is cut on the front face
of the shaft. The monument and curb is of the best
quality of flne-hammered Concord granite, and was
furnished by the Granite Eailway Company. The
setting of the stone-work was thoroughly done by Mr.
Martin L. Whitcher. The entire cost of the monu
ment and curbing, together with the grading and other
expenses, will not exceed fifteen thousand five hundred
dollars. There have been interred in the lot the
remains of eighty-five soldiers and sailors, whose names,
with their age, and the date of their death and burial,
are as follows : RANGE ONE.
Name. Death.^ 'When Died. Age. 'When Buried.
1. Jeremiah McCann, Boston. Jan. 22, '67. 24 Jan. 23, '67.
2. David Sullivan, " Feb. 13, '67. 27 Feb. 15, '67.
3. Patrick Dorgan, " Jan. 20, '67. 42 Jan. 23, '67.
4. John Kennedy, " Mar. 17, '67. 41 Mar. 20, '67.
5. Thomas Wells, " May 24, '67. 23 May 25, '67.
6. Charles Gilbert, " Jan. 3, '67. 39 Jan. 6, '67.
7. John W. Porter, " Dec. 27, '66. 18 Dec. 28, '66.
8. William Barry, " Dec. 3, '66. 40 Dec. 4, '66.
9. Francis L. Harrison, " Jan. 8, '66. 33 Jan. 10, '66.
10. George F. Boole, " Nov. 5, '66. 20 Nov. 6, '66.
11. EoBERT Whitsett, " Oct. 19, '66. 21 Oct. 21, '66.
12. Henry Burns, " Oct. 12, '66. 27 Oct. 13, '66.
13. William Carline, " Oct. 7, '66. 35 Oct. 8, '66.
14. Jabez J. Lewis, " Sept. 25, '66. 32 Sept. 26, '66.
15. Chas. E. Batchelder, " Apr. 25, '66. 21 Apr. 26, '66,
16. John Nicholson, " Apr. 16, '66. 22 Apr. 17, '66.
17. Thomas Hathewat, " Feb. 21, '66. 42 Feb. 22, '66.

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Name. ^^'"'tu"^ Death.
18. Justin C. Douty, Boston.
19. Lewis Gaul, Jr. "
20. Edgar Colburn, "
21. Freeman Fbemuht, "
22. David Smith, «
23. John Z. Lowell, Gal'p's Isld.
24. Robert Logan, Boston.
25. Thomas McGuire, "
26. Charles Hayden, "
27. Thomas Allen, "
28. Dennis Donovan, "
29. John Carr, "
30. James Christiansen, "
31. G. M. Gilley, "
32. Rufus Raymond, "
33. John Hunt, "
34. John McMahon, "
35. Marcus M. Sullivan, "
36. Timothy D. Williams, "
37. Samuel Lightbody, "
38. Robert Lindsey, "
39. John M. Russell, "
40. Francis Richardson, "
41. Orin C. Hussey, "
42. Richard Hickson, " range
1. John C. Carlton, Boston.
2. DaiSiel R. Bray, "
3. Chas. R. Hervey, W.Rox'y.
4. Albert Greenwood, Bos'n.
5. Oliver C. Bixby, Out of city.
6. John Ddrenb, Boston.
7. James Thompson, "
8. John Turner, "
9. William McGawley, "
4

'When Dif

a.

Age.

When Buried.

Jan. 27,

'66.

34

Jan.

29,

'66.

Dec. 24,

'65.

19

Dec.

27,

'65

Nov. 9,

'66.

31

Nov.

10,

'66

Jan. 15,

'66.

22

Jan.

16,

'66

Nov. 27,

'65.

45

Nov.

28,

'65

July 9,

'65.

29

July

11,

'65

Apr. 30,

'65.

40

May

1,

'65

Dec. 17,

'65.

46

Dec.

19,

'65

Dec. 18,

'65.

26

Dec.

19,

'65

Dec. 6,

'65.

19

Dec.

8,

'65

Dec. 2,

'65.

30

Dec.

3,

'65

Nov. 29,

'65.

23

Nov.

30,

'65

Oct. 28,

'65.

32

Oct.

30,

'65

Sept. 30,

'65.

21

Oct.

2,

'65

July 5,

'65.

47

July

6,

'65

Aug. 7,

'65.

28

Aug.

9,

'65

June 16,

'65.

38

June 18,

'65

May 17,

'65.

26

June 17,

'65

Apr. 18,

'65.

39

Apr.

19,

'65

Mar. 9,

'65.

33

Mar.

10,

'65

Feb. 26,

'65.

26

Feb.

28,

'65

Mar. 29,

'65.

37

Apr.

3,

'65

Jan. 3,

'65.

25

Jan.

4,

'65

Oct. 25,

'64.

33

Oct.

26,

'65

Jan. 16,

'65.

24

Jan.

17,

'65

TWO.

Dec. 9,
'64.
37
Dec.
11,
'64
Dee. 2,
'64.
24
Dec.
2,
'64
Dec. 15,
'64.
52
Dec.
17,
•'64
Nov. 12,
'64.
29
Nov.
15,
'64
July 30,
'64.
36
Nov.
30,
'64
Jan. 28,
'65.
21
Jan.
80,
'65
Sept. 25,
'64.
34
Sept
26,
'64
Oct. 25,
'64.
45
Oct.
26,
'64
July 17,
'64.
21
July
18,
'64
26

soldiers and sailors monument.

^^^^- ^ilZh! When Died.
10. Patrick Laughlin, Boston. Sept. 9, '64.
11. Morris Carmichael, " Aug. 19, '64.
12. Julius Lorio, " May 25, '64.
13. Michael Finley, " July 1, '64.
14. Edward Bra-tton, " July 9, '64.
15. Charles Delmont, " Apr. 11, '64.
16. Joseph Patterson, " Apr. 5, '64.
1 7. James McCormick, " May 15, '64.
18. John Curry, " Apr. 16, '64.
19. Charles A. Dickey, » May 21, '64.
20. Joel Masury, " May 18, '64.
21. James Walsh, " Feb. 19, '63.
22. John Friedrich, " Apr. 13, '64.
23. Daniel McDonald, " Mar. 7, '64.
24. Patrick Gannon, " May 6, '67.
25. William Brown, " Feb. 11, '64.
26. Richard Burns, " Jan. 27, '64.
27. Jeremiah Cooney, " Feb. 11, '64.
28. Robert Saunders, " Feb. 2, '63.
2g. Charles J. Doyle, " Mar. 20, '63.
80. Thomas Wilson, " Apr. 5, '63.
31. Edmund Cleaey, " June 15, '63.
32. Henry Davis, " Feb. 23, '63.
33. Daniel McFee, " Aug. 11, '63.
34. Joseph Higgins, " June 24, '63.
35. Moses Osgood, " Nov. 7, '63.

1. John Barry,
2. David Richards,
3. Charles H. Reynolds,
4. James Donovan,
5. John Hart,
6. Noah E. Barlow,
7. James Brain,
8. Richard Seymour,

RANGE THREE.
Boston. Dec. 12, '62.
" June 7, '63.
Feb. 4, '64.
Jan. 3, '64.
Jan. 15, '64.
Oct. 31, '63.
May 5, '63.
Dec. g, '62.

Age. 34
46 2525

'When Buried.
Sept. 11, '64
Aug. 20
May 25
July 2

44 July 11
Apr. 13
Apr. 4
May 17
Apr. 17
May 21
May ig
Feb. ig
Apr. 15
Mar. 8
May 7
Feb. 12
Jan. 28
Feb. 12
Feb. 4
Mar, 20
Apr. 6
June 16
Feb. 23
Aug. 12
June 26
Nov. 8

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'64 '64'64'64'64'64'64 '63'64'64'67
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34 Dec. -12, '62
2g June g, '63
38 Feb. 5, '64
38 Jan, 4, '64
23 Jan. 16, '64
26 Nov. 2, '63
50 May 6, '63
38 Dec. g, '62

soldiers' and sailors' monument. 27
Not all of the honored dead who hallow and conse
crate this ground belonged in Boston, or formed part of
the quota of the city. Many of these men, enlisted in
other States, and returning from service sick or wounded,
found a welcome in our Soldiers' Home on Springfield
street, where grateful hands kindly cared for them
while they lived, and at death brought them to this
beautiful garden of the dead, where they rest by the
side of our own departed heroes. AU died for their
country, and are alike deserving of the highest
homage we can pay. We have chosen this anni
versary day, so dear to us for the -victories achieved
at Gettysburg, as most fitting and proper to enshrine
the memories of our fallen braves. With gratitude
we dedicate this granite shaft to their memory ; with
aff'ection we strew their graves with flowers. How
plain our remembrance compared with the lives and
deeds we commemorate ! The services and memories
of this hour should inspire us to dedicate ourselves
with renewed fidelity to the cause for which they
died ; and thus shall we most honor and render
undying the name and fame of the American soldier
and sailor.
Mr. Mayor : The monument you dedicate to-day,
beautiful in design and endiu-ing in structiu-e, will ever
express the gratitude of our municipality to the patri
otism and heroic deeds of those who fell in defence of
their country and liberty.
His Honor Otis Norcross, Mayor of Boston, ac
cepted the monument in behalf of the city, and trans-

28 soldiers' and sailors' monument.
mitted its custody to the Board of Trustees, in the fol
lowing words :
remarks of mayor NORCROSS.
Mr. Chairman and Gentlemen of the Construc
tion Committee : In behalf of the City Council and
the citizens" of Boston I accept with gratification and
pride the monument which you have in so felicitous a
manner delivered to me. The work you were commis
sioned to do was, I know, not an ungrateful task. Your
devotion to it, and the success of your labors, are attested
by the substantial, beautiful and appropriate structure
before us. For the care and attention you have bestowed
upon it you have an ample reward in the consciousness
of a sacred duty well performed, and in the thanks of
your constituents.
Gentlemen of the City Council and Fellow-Citi
zens : This inclosure has been set apart as a burial-place
for our brave men who, either on the land or on the sea,
bore the flag of our country in the sanguiuary conflicts
of the late civil war, and this monument has been erected
to mark the place where their mortal remains repose,
and to manifest to their friends now living, and to suc
ceeding generations^ our appreciation of their valor and
patriotism and our gratitude for their heroic achievements.
Already nearly one hundred interments have been made
in this ground, including twenty removals from the cem
etery upon Copp's Hill. Some who sleep here fell on the
field of battle ; others, after the final triumph of our
arms, were returning to their homes in neighboring States,
became exhausted from wounds received or disease con-

soldiers' and sailors' monument. 29
tracted in the service, and, unable to proceed farther on
their homeward journey, lingered and died, after receiv
ing from our people such sympathy and alleviation of
their sufferings as their condition permitted; and still
others went out from our own city, and, having performed
their whole duty in the cause of the country, and wit
nessed the triumphant vindication of that cause, returned
before their spirits departed from earth to meet the wel
come of friends and the ovations of their fellow-citizens.
The living companions-in-arms of the deceased are
entitled, after they shall have finished their mortal
course, to the honor of burial in the same consecrated
place. Humbly invoking the blessing of heaven upon our
proceedings, we now dedicate this enclosure and this
monument to the patriotic and holy purpose for which
they have been prepared. The day is eminently appro
priate to this duty. It is the anniversary of the battle
of Gettysburg ; the field where the select of the rebel
troops, on a bold and victorious march, were met by our
hitherto flying forces, repulsed with great slaughter, and
driven to inglorious and disastrous flight. Like the sur
render at Saratoga in the war of the Eevolution, this
was a turning-point in our military fortunes. Soon
afterward followed the capitulation at Vicksburg, and
then a series of the most remarkable marches and
engagements recorded in military history, with victory
almost uninterruptedly resting upon our banners, until
the final surrender of General Lee closed the eventful
struggle. Four years since a part of the immortal field of

30 soldiers' and sailors' monument.
Gettysburg was consecrated as a cemetery for those who
had fallen so heroically upon it. In the solemn and
impressive ceremonies of that occasion a leading part
was taken by one of the most gifted and eloquent sons
of Massachusetts, who has himself since gone to " that
undiscovered country from whose bourne no traveller
returns." His grateful fellow-citizens, whom he has so
often entranced by his oratory, instructed by his wisdom,
and benefited by his public and private acts, are procur
ing a statue which shall carry down to posterity the rep
resentation of his personal appearance among us. He
has himself erected a monument to his memory " more
enduring than brass " and more beautiful than chiselled
marble. This hour teaches us important lessons. We stand
here over the mouldering bodies of men who laid down
their lives that the nation might live, and its free institu
tions be made perpetual. While we lament the great
sacrifice, we rejoice in the advance which has been made
in liberty and civilization.
The chief cause of our national discord has been
removed, and now let us strive, under the favor of Divine
Providence, to make the peace we have attained lasting
and unbroken ; to allay sectional asperities ; to cultivate
sentiments of nationality and kindness ; to revive our
prostrate industry ; and to promote by all possible means
whatever tends to individual advancement or national
prosperity and renown. Let us be as prompt to dis
charge our duties as to exact our rights, and ever bear
in mind that organized bodies, whether political, indus
trial, religious or social, can insure harmony and a satis-

soldiers' and sailors' monument. 31
factory measure of success only by charity and mutual
forbearance. There must always be differences of opin
ion as to measures of public policy and questions of con
stitutional interpretation, but we should never forget
that we are one people, whose success, honor and hap
piness are inseparable.
Gentlemen of the Board of Trustees of Mount
Hope Cemetery : With you and your successors in office
rests the responsibility of preserving this monument and
improving this enclosure, which are now committed to
your keeping. The honor of the city is concerned that
they shall be protected and cared for, so as to assure the
friends and surviving comrades of the deceased who
shall in future years visit these grounds that the feeling
of gratitude which prompted their dedication remains an
abiding sentiment with the people of Boston. It will be
your duty to pro-Ndde not only that the monument
shall receive no injury, but that the grounds we
have this day consecrated shall be improved and made
attractive by such means as good taste shall dictate.
The more certainly to insure the constant perform
ance of this duty allow me to suggest the expediency
of setting apart from each annual appropriation for
the cemetery such an amount as may be necessary
for this object. This will constantly remind you of
the sacred trust whicli you have accepted, and be an
example which future Boards of Trustees will be
likely to follow.
Mr. Charles W. Slack, of the Board of Alder
men, and Chairman of the Board of Trustees of Mount

32 soldiers' and sailors' monument.
Hope Cemetery, then made the following response in
behalf of the Trustees :
remarks of alderman slack.
Mr. Mayor : The responsibility which you impose on
the Board of Trustees of Mount Hope Cemetery in the
committal of this monument to their custody is accepted
cordially from a sense alike of duty and patriotism. To
their eye it is an emblem of the stability and generosity
of the city which we love — a token equally of revolu
tionary renown, present loyalty, and future devotion to
liberty and law.
The citizen soldier, leaping to the defence of an
imperilled nationality, is the noblest product of repub
lican institutions, for he teaches that all that the wisdom
of the statesman and the vntue of the people have devised
for the common good is defended with the most precious
of offerings, his life. Before us, with the soft sunlight
of this summer day alternating with the grateful shadow
of the passing clouds, beneath these greenest of swards,
flecked with the brilliant hues of garlands, lie eighty-
five of these heroes, who took their lives in their hands
and went forth to battle for the ideas which our republic
represents, and, their duty done, laid them down cheer
fully that the nation might endure.
It is no ordinary occasion, therefore, that brings us
together to-day to do honor to their memory, while we
dedicate the obelisk that shall tell of their patriotism
and prowess. Though simple in its details, it yet
speaks fully our gratitude. We honor profoundly the
men who tendered this great service to their country.

soldiers' and sailors' monument. 33
Our eyes moisten as we remember their deeds. Our
hearts beat quicker at the story of their fortitude and
bravery. Behind their self-devotion we discern the
greatness of the hazard involved in the contest. Noth
ing less than the mastery of a continent, the freedom of
a race, the existence of republican institutions forever-
more, were the stakes for which they so valiantly
fought and so nobly fell.
It is not necessary that we should recall the separate
struggles in which these and other sons of Boston
quickened with holy inspiration. Whether those con
tests were of temporary disaster or full-measured suc
cess, we feel that for such a cause as they fought the
humblest effort was an aspiration ; every shot fired or
blow struck, an invocation for liberty and right. Alter
nate success and disaster did, indeed, vary the fortunes
of the great contest upon which they entered ; but we
now gratefully recognize that that good Providence
which guides the destinies of states as of individuals
led us to heights of moral excellence as well as to fields
of martial renown. When we decreed justice to all,
making shackles fall, and enfranchisement the great
sentiment of the war, then was vouchsafed to us — at
Gettysburg and Vicksburg — such momentous victories
that far grander glories than ever before discerned were
added to the natal-day of the Eepublic.
We stand here to-day on the anniversary of one of
those great successes to our arms when, after three days
of Titanic effort on each side of the contending hosts,
¦victory, unquestioned, undimmed, and all-reaching in
results, came to our banners. It is now seen by many
5

34 soldiers' and sailors' monument.
minds to have been the pivotal struggle of the great
contest. With our success, the world knew that the
nation was to live, and republican institutions not perish
from the earth. It guaranteed as long as the nation
should endure a home for the oppressed of all lands
within the bosom of our continent. It proclaimed louder
than the roar of its guns that it is the wisest statesman
ship to present in national affau's a great moral issue.
It heralded, for the encouragement of the doubter every
where, that God and Justice on your side are weightier
than artillery, and swifter than the advance of brigades.
All honor again to the men who fell so heroically with
this grand idea within and behind then ! — an incentive
than which none could be sublimer ! — contending often
better than they knew for the establishment of principles
which are now rapidly regenerating this nation, and
which, despite old prejudices, are making us a homo
geneous, fraternal and all-powerful people. God grant
to their perfect enthronement in all hearts a speedy con
summation !
But not alone to the fallen are these honors. This
monument tells equally eloquently the story of the hero
ism of those who live — scarred, wounded, fatigued —
to receive the plaudits of their countrymen. Springing
from the quiet vocations of peace to assume the stern
duties of war, they have, with like readiness, their task
well done, resumed the habiliments of peace. Medals
and like insignia may not distinguish them. The uni
form of blue in which they proudly marched and fought
may be laid aside. Though wanting outward badges of
distinction, not less are they cherished in the hearts of

soldiers' and sailors' monument. 35
the people. They are of that great commonalty of
energy, courage, worth, patriotism, and popular power,
by which our nation was saved. So gigantic was the
rebellion, so vast the theatre of war, so numerous the
heroes, that the bravery of even the most eminent
almost fails to become individualized in the general
review. The traditions of family and the narratives of
companions shall do justice to these men. Though occa
sions and dates may pass from the memory, yet in the
breasts of the participants, and in the heart of the nation
at large, will it be ever known that it was to the forti
tude and devotion of the mass of our people that victory
was finally won.
This monument stands, therefore, for the dead and the
living in the great contest for nationality ! It stands to
typify the enduring fidelity of all to a common country.
It will receive the earliest glints of the morning sun ;
the signet of our city's power on its front will hold to
the last its parting rays. Beneath the effulgence of noon
day, and under the stars of night ; in summer's heats and
winter's storms ; at all times, as seasons come and go, —
it will stand, firm, majestic, enduring, to tell of all that
was sacrificed, all that was hoped, all that is secured !
May it ever inspire the young and strengthen the old to
deeds of high patriotism !
Its ppsition, too, is equally suggestive. Of the city,
yet without its limits, it tells of twenty-six thousand
soldiers sent by the city of Boston to the war, a large
portion of whom, not native to its soil, yet sought
within its devious thoroughfares the comforts of a home
earned as the reward of varying toil. This beautiful

36 soldiers' and sailors' monument.
valley, with its grateful landscape shut in by these
undulating hills, recalls the scenes of their youth to
large numbers of our population. Away from the din
of the city, the meditative mind finds here that quiet
which assimilates so well with noble deeds. These
slumberers that surround us, who fell amid the kindly
attention of kinship, gladly make room in this rural
retreat for those who, from the roar and shock of battle,
come hither to share with them the peace of the grave.
The numerous company of the charitable and humane
who, while living, sought the good of the community,
and who, in death, have had pious rites solemnized to
their memory, proclaim from tablet and mound that
there is no beneficence so blessed as that of a redeemed
country. And even the floral munificence, which now
as ever marks these fragrant grounds, by stem and
petal, in leaf and flower, speaks from the great heart of
Nature to say, Welcome and beauty forevermore to
those who die for liberty and right !
The individual history of each of these soldiers for
the Union it is impossible here to tell. They represent
all conditions of social and army life, — the youthful
brave, with the dew of his mother's kiss upon his fore
head, early falling in the first assault, and the stalwart
veteran, bronzed by four years' exposure, who success
fully combated till the final victory was proclaimed.
From the first battle at Manassas Plains to the sur
render by the banks of the Appomattox, all the princi
pal contests of the war are historied by these sleeping
heroes. From the swamps of the Chickahominy and
the heights of Lookout Mountain ; from the camps of

soldiers' and sailors' monument, 37
the Potomac, Eappahannock, York and James; from
beyond the tortuous Mississippi, along the borders of
the Gulf, and all the vast expanse between ; from the
prison limits of Belle Isle and Andersonville ; by the
bullet and by the deadly miasma ; by accident, starva
tion and exhaustion ; through the portal of battle-field,
hospital and private home ; from the ships of war that
floated proudly at sea or fought gallantly by the shore,
— came, the shadowy procession of later martyrs that
have passed to earthly rest. The solemn roll-call has
been heard on every fleld of renown, and has gathered
the host that to-day, in part, we honor. Who, then,
shall make up the long list of incidents — filial, pater
nal, neighborly — that are associated with this glorious
company] What tongue narrate the story of each,
with pause for the heart-throbs of nearest and dearest
that shall beat with the recital] Whose eloquence
fittingly voice the great lesson of constancy, suffering
and heroic death ] The rural town, whose dead of the
war are comparatively few, can give these details, so
full of sad interest ; but the populous city, counting her
fallen by hundreds, must be general in its allusions,
comprehensive in its description. To the numberless
throng, then, whose deeds are unforgotten, though their
names are not heard ; who abide in fame, though then-
sepulchre is unrecognized; whose dust far away is
mingled with the stranger soil, — pay we now the
respect due heroism and merit the most exalted.
The inscriptions which have been placed upon the
monument are simple and eloquent; the emblazonry
appropriate and suggestive. The art of the architect

38 -soldiers' and sailors' monument.
and the patriotism of the city have made these silent
stones speak of the past and the future. " The mem
ory of these martyrs ; the noble names which yet have
gathered only their first fame ; whatever good grows out
of the war to the country ; the largest results ; the
future power and genius of the laud ; will go on clothing
this shaft with daily beauty and spiritual life." There
are those in this company the mists in whose eyes will
hardly allow the reading of the words or the observance
of the escutcheons borne upon the column. But instinct
ively they know their full purport! There are those
here, too, who share more than others the inheritance
of fame which the obelisk yields, — the companions-in
arms of the brave men slumbering beneath ! To you
and your associates, my friends, this regenerated nation
owes more than it can ever bestow, can ever even
acknowledge ! Great were your sacrifices , but not greater
than the gratitude of those whose hearths, liberties and
nationality you maintained. Your honors are won ; for
" you can hardly be called again to see fields as terrible
as those you have already trampled with your victories,"
This monument will have its own history. It will
rank with the inspiration that caused the nation to leap
as one man at the memorable call of the President;
with that generosity that impelled the tender of means
more profuse than the treasury could accept ; with the
patriotism that was vitalized by volunteering beyond the
control of the ministry of war ! It will stand with the
Sanitary Commission and its hundreds of fairs all over
the land ; with the sweet charity of women running
unceasingly from the points of their needles or over-

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flowing in stores of comfort and convenience ; with the
surgings of public assemblies, rallying anew to cheer
the army and replete its ranks ! It will be associated
with the flags of the regiments traced all over with the
names of battle-fields ; with the returning legions hailed
with thundering applause and the welcome of civic
magistrates ! It becomes a part of the war, — our monu
mental insignia of universal well-doing, proclaiming a
general devotion to the institutions of our fathers ! It
will mark a new era in the history of the nation,
enunciating the theory that only by the entire free
dom of every individual is the fullest safety to the
State assured; that deprivation of rights to the least
of its members is danger to the whole ! It will tell of
the virtue and constancy of the people, which shall
remain so long as the deeds of the past are remem
bered ! Whatever the mutations of time, or the
changes of parties ; however far we may fall short in
securing all to which the great contest entitles us, — we
can come up to this ediflce from the turmoil of business
and political life, and have our gratitude deepened, our
loyalty quickened, our patriotism reenkindled ! It will
thus doubly honor the past and ennoble the present !
Here, then, let it stand ! Illustrating a war for union,
nationality and the rights of man, it will be honorable
to ourselves and grateful to our posterity ! Faithfully
holding to the principles it represents, we may defy
future treason from within or aggression from without ;
infidel to its inspirations, it will be creditable only as
commemorating the vktues of the dead to the shame of
the living ! With the blood of our brethren cementing

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its granite, and their bones serving for its foundation-
stones, the holiest associations of this hour and presence
enjoin upon us loyalty, justice and truth !
The response of Alderman Slack was followed by the
Band's playing "Eest, Spirit, Eest!" and the hymn,
"Our Native Land," by the choir of children, — the
latter as follows : HYMN.
Brothers, to our native land
Let us vow both heart and hand !
Let it be our keenest pleasure ;
Let it be our dearest treasure !
We will ever bravely stand
To protect our native land.
And though many a heart may break.
Struggling for its glory's sake.
Still our pure and holy fire
Never, never can expire !
We will ever bravely stand
To protect our native land.
The Chaplain, Eev. Mr, Cudworth, then pronounced
the following Benediction :
benediction of rev. MR. CUDWORTH.
May God, the Father over all, through all, and in us
all, accept the act and utterances of this day and place,
and henceforth vouchsafe his blessing unto our country
and aU her children to the end of time. Amen !
The services of dedication were closed with this bene
diction.

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The large company then sought the various convey
ances for their homes, Gilmore's Band generously fur
nishing appropriate music while the participants were
leaving the grounds.

APPENDIX.
The following letters were received from those, spe
cially invited, who were unable to be present on the
occasion of the dedication of the monument :
Boston, July 2, 1867,
C. W. Slack and C. Caverly, Jr., Bsqs.
Gentlemen : I regret exceedingly my inability to accept your
kind and thoughtful invitation to be present to-morrow afternoon
at the consecration of the monument at Mount Hope Cemetery.
As one of the Trustees from its purchase by the city for a
period of seven years, I shall ever feel a just degree of pride in
all efforts which are made by the city to adorn and beautify the
same, and thus render it attractive to our citizens generally.
Yours, respectfully,
BRADLEY N. CUMINGS.

Boston, July 1, 1867.
Chas. W. Slack, Esq., Chairman.
My Dear Sir : I beg to thank you for an invitation to attend
the dedication of the Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument at Mount
Hope. Residing out of the city, at present, it will not be con-

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venient for me to attend, — a matter of little importance to any
one but myself.
Having had the honor to serve with you on the Committee
charged with the supervision of the erection of the monument, I
am happy to congratulate you on the successful completion of
this act of municipal duty.
Long after you and I, and our associates in the City Govern
ment, shall be forgotten, this granite shaft will receive the hom
age of millions yet unborn, who will regard it, not merely as
marking the resting-place of a few of the brave men who gave
their lives to their country, but as an object commemorating the
severest struggle for liberty the world has ever known.
Repeating my thanks for your kind attention,
I am yours truly,
JOHN S. TYLER.

Commonwealth op Massachusetts,
Office of Surgeon-General, Boston, July 1, 1867.
Hon. Charles W. Slack, Charles Caverly, Jr., Esq.,
Committee on Invitations, City of Boston.
Gentlemen: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt
of your kind invitation to attend and take part in the dedicatory
ceremonies of the monument commemorative of the sailors and
soldiers who fell in defence of their country during the late war.
Having been brought in close contact witli the families of those
who thus gloriously fell, I have had full opportunity to judge of
the cheerfulness of the sacrifices which actuated our soldiers,
and the patient resignation of those who have survived them.
My interest and sympathy for those who have suffered is still
keen and sincere; and for this reason I regret that circum
stances prevent the acceptance of your kind invitation. I am,

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however, glad of the opportunity through you of bearing my
record to the cordial and cheerful cooperation the City of Bos
ton gave me during the war and since, in all measures originated
and carried out for the relief of those who suffered in the good
cause. It is also pleasurable to recall the pleasant relations existing
between this department and the city government during and
since the war, and I thank them for all the kindly courtesies
extended to me.
With sentiments of personal regards for the committee,
I am, gentlemen.
Very respectfully, Your obedient servant,
WM. J. DALE,
Surgeon- Genera I.

Custom House, Surveyor's Office,
Boston, July 1, 1867.
Sirs : I have the pleasure of acknowledging the receipt of your
circular of June 28, in behalf of the Board of Trustees of Mount
Hope Cemetery, inviting me to attend the ceremonies of ded
ication of a monument erected by the city, commemorative of
the soldiers and sailors from Boston who lost their lives in the
recent war.
I feel honored by the invitation, and hope it will ever be an
honor to the living to honor such noble dead ; and I shall cer
tainly feel it a privilege as well as a solemn duty to be present
on the afternoon of the 3d if I possibly can.
I knew the character of the Boston soldiers who fell in this
war. As Captain in the 2d Mass. Infantry, I raised a Boston
company in an essentially Boston regiment. As Colonel after
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under my command. They were like all other Massachusetts men
in the army, substantially, and I do not think any greater com
pliment could be paid them. Massachusetts men were especially
relied on everywhere, and I never heard of a case where their
commanders were ever disappointed in them ; and in all the hard
fought battles during the bloody war, where they proved their
bravery and their manhood, if one were to be singled out where
they especially earned the gratitude of the country I think it was
Gettysburg, the anniversary of which you so fittingly select for
these dedicatory services. Any one who was in that great battle
as I had the fortune to be, could have read in men's faces a stern
determination to win a victory there or die. Too many, alas !
had to die before the victory of Gettysburg was won. The City
of Boston does well to commemorate the loss of such men.
I thank you for remembering me in such connection with my
fallen comrades. Truly your obedient servant,
A. B. UNDERWOOD,
Late Brevt.-Maj.-Gen. U. S. Vols.
Hon. Charles W. Slack,
Charles Caverly, Jr., Esq.,
Committee, etc.

Boston, July 2, 1867,
My Dear Sir : I very much regret that a business engage
ment out of the city to-morrow will prevent me from accepting
the invitation with which I have been honored by your committee
to attend the inauguration of the Soldiers' Monument, erected
by the City of Boston, iu Mount Hope Cemetery. No city iu
the Union responded more promptly and enthusiastically to the
call for troops to defend the liberties and to preserve the laws
of the country, at the outbreak and during the continuance of the

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recent war, than did Boston, and the glorious old Commonwealth
of which it is the Capital. The Massachusetts men were the
first to shed their blood in the maintenance of the laws, and the
first organized troops to reach the Capitol of the nation when
it was in peril of immediate capture by the rebels. Of the valor,
devotion and good discipline of our troops, of their sacrifices,
their perils, and the number of slain where the fight was thickest
and the danger greatest, impartial history -will preserve a record
alike honorable to them and to the city and state.
The people without distinction were spontaneous and untiring
in furnishing every necessity and comfort for the soldiers and
sailors in service and in hospitals during the war ; and it is but
the common dictate of humanity and gratitude, that every pro
vision which a generous community can make should be employed
to take care of the remains, and to perpetuate the memory, of
those who perished in the common cause by land and by sea.
No citizen will grudge the pittance of expense which falls to
his share of such memorials ; and posterity will be gainers by
having a spot where their patriotism may be refreshed and their
loyalty renewed to the latest generations. It is only necessary,
in order that we may have a foretaste of the feelings by which
they will be inspired when visiting the resting-places of departed
patriots, at Mount Hope and elsewhere, that we now make a
brief pilgrimage to Arlington Heights, or the Soldiers' Rest at
Washington, or to those now verdant battle-fields, with their
cemeteries attached, where repose, in the silence of death,
unnumbered thousands of the slain !
By all means, take care of the bodies of the dead soldiers and
sailors, and multiply the fitting memorials of their deeds.
I am, dear sir.
Very truly yours, ALBX'R H. RICE.
Hon. Charles W. Slack,
Chairman.

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Boston, July 2, 1867.
Charles W. Slack, Esq.
My dear Sir : I trust you will not ascribe my absence to
morrow from the ceremonies at Mount Hope Cemetery to any
want of sympathy with the occasion or with the government of
the city.
The preservation in perpetual memory of the names and fate
of the soldiers and sailors who fell in defence of their country
and liberty in the Great Rebellion, — by commemorative monu
ments in our churches and other places sacred to religion or to
patriotism, — is most becoming in the survivors, and is a pious
service to posterity. The dead are already immortal. May the
solemn dedication of the monument, reared to the men of Bos
ton who fell for their country, renew the profound impressions of
Gratitude and of Duty which belong to the recollection of their
career! and may the column which bears their names stand a
mute witness, to a thousand generations, of the beauty and
triumph of virtue !
The relation I bore to the Commonwealth during the war, and
the intimate association I enjoyed with the leading officers of its
municipalities, recall to my mind, and prompt an allusion, to the
cordial sympathy of effort and feeling, lasting through struggling
and weary but hopeful years, between myself and the gentleman
who has so recently retired from the mayoralty of Boston, and
who must contemplate this monument with peculiar emotion.
I am, with faithful regards, yours,
JOHN A. ANDREW.

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