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Show Mr n , ;r 1 ff EQUESTRIAN STATUE OF GENERAL k4 1 Ji I SLOCVM ERECTED AT GETTYSBURG H ' Tho part which tlio stnto nnd city H. of Now York took In tho battlo of H Gettysburg was celebrated on tho bat- H tlcflold with peculiarly iinprcsslvo H eervlcos Friday of last wcolc. Tho H coremony had for Its climax tho un- H volllng thrro of an equestrian Btattio H of Gen. Ilonry Warner Slocum, which .stands whoro ho stood on that raemor- H ablo Friday, July 3, thlrty-nlno years H Tho pcoplo of tho llttlo borough of Gettysbuig havo become used to H statues, monuments, rounlons nnd ox- ', cursloiiH over hIiico Abraham Lincoln, ; on November 19, 1SG3, beforo tho grass had hud tlmo to grow over tho blood of tho battle, dedicated a groat fl national cemetery there, with Its mns- H slvo central mouumunt and Its three B uud n 4ialf thousand gruvos. Every summer some historic society or 'association 'as-sociation of veterans assembles there or Bomo state erects a now monument to its dead. Hundreds of excursion-Ists excursion-Ists go thither to roam over tho historic his-toric hills nnd ridges, and hear again tho story of Pickett's chnrgo. Tho Btatuo of (Jon. Slocum takes first rank among tho monuments of this historic battleground. It Is an equestrian flguro of bronzo on a granite gran-ite pedestal. Rronzo nnd pedestal, tho monument measures 31 feet from baso to tip. Tho statue Itself Is 15 feet C Inches high nnd 10 feet C Inches long. On tho western pinto of tho Btatuo nro tho words which Gen. Slocum ut-tored ut-tored at the council of wnr held on July 2, tho night preceding tho fin:-day fin:-day of battle. They are: "Stay and Fight It out." |