November 11, 1908 (Wednesday)

131st P.V.I. 35th Reunion at Fredericksburg, Virginia and dedication of the monument erected by the State of Pennsylvania to commemorate the charge of General Humphreys' Division on Marye's Heights, December 13, 1862.

DEDICATORY CEREMONIES
FREDRICKSBURG, VIRGINIA
NOVEMBER 11th, 1908
11 A.M. THE ASSEMBLY
MUSIC TANSILL'S DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA BAND

INVOCATION The Rev. J. Richards Boyle, D.D

Captain and Assistant Q.M., U.S. Volunteers
ADDRESS OF WELCOME Major Robert W. Hunter,
Representing Hon. Claude A. Swanson, Governor of Virginia
ADDRESS OF WELCOME Judge John T. Goolrick
In behalf of the Confederates
ADDRESS AND TRANSFER OF MONUMENT TO THE
GOVERNOR OF THE COMMONWEALTH
OF PENNSYLVANIA
George F. Baer, President of the Commission
UNVEILING OF MONUMENT Miss Letitia A. Humphreys
Daughter of the late Major General A.A. Humphreys
MUSIC Star Spangled Banner
RECEPTION OF MONUMENT BY THE GOVERNOR OF PENNSYLVANIA AND TRANSFER TO THE CARE OF THE UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT
Hon. Edwin S. Stuart
ACCEPTANCE ON BEHALF OF UNITED STATES
GOVERNMENT
Robert Shaw Oliver, Assistant Secretary of War
ADDRESS Colonel Alexander K. McClure
MUSIC Tansill's Band
BENEDICTION The Rev. Patrick H. Brennan
of the Gesu Church, Philadelphia (Corporal Co. D. 134th Reg.)

(Note: Vandine Martz probably attended this dedication; we have two reunion medals. -rjm)

    
Left: Ribbon reads "Dedication Memorial Fredricksburg Va."



References

Transcript of Dedicatory Proceedings, J.B. Lippencott, Co, Philadelphia, 1908     

www.greencastlemuseum.org/fredericksburg-memorial.html

www.waymarking.com/waymarks/WM9YBJ_Humphreys_Monument_Fredericksburg_VA


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