| Show OF GENE ItAL N 14 1 the the state and city of new york took in the battle of gettysburg was celebrated on the battlefield tle field mith peculiarly services friday of last week the ceremony had for its climax the un veiling there of an eques titan statue of oc gen henry ilai wainer ner slot um which stands chere lie he stood on that memorable liday july 3 nine deais eais ago ahe people of the little borough baloug bo of gettysburg have become used to statues monuments enty reunions and ex ca ever since abraham lincoln Lin oln on november 19 1863 before the gras grams had had time to glow over the blood af the battle dedicated a great national cemetery there with its mas maa sive elvo central monument and its three and a halt thousand graves every summer some historic society clety or association of veterans assembles there or some state erects a now monument to its dead Ilund hundreds rods of excursion ista go thither to loam over the hla his hills and ridges and heat beai again the story of picketts chalkl chai chat kl ftp I 1 ahe lie status of gen t falo cinn takes list lank among the 0 of this his toile it 1 an equestrian figmic of blonze allun e on a gian ite pedestal an and pedestal the monument measures 31 ctet aiom base baab to up tip ahe sta statue tile iteck Is 15 feet 6 inches high and 10 feet 6 inches long on the western plate of the statue ate aie the words which gen ut at the council of war nar held on july 2 the night pie preceding ceding tile the aln 1 day of battle they fue stay and fight it out |
