Rev. J. H. Twichell, Hartford, chaplain Sickles Brigade; Lieutenant John C. Abbott, U. S. Signal Corps; Major C. L. Burdett, First C. N. G., engineer.

In one of the divisions came, under the escort of the Governor's foot guard, Governor Waller and staff, mounted; Captain George M. Southmayd, assistant marshal; the Lieutenant Governor, ex-Governors of the State, the State officers, the Buckingham Statue Commission, commissioners on the unveiling exercises, the orator of the day, United States Senator O. H. Platt; the sculptor, Olin D. Warner, surviving State officers of the war review, and military staff of Governor Buckingham; Judges of the Supreme and Superior Courts, Brigadier General S. R. Smith, C. N. G. and staff, military and naval guests and the mayor of Hartford, and the mayors of other cities. Another division was made up of the "Union Battalion," soldiers of other States, 1,200 strong, and a navy battalion of 300 men, besides several detachments of Sons of Veterans. Still another division was composed of the Connecticut Cavalry Association, with 250 members, led by one of our New England pastors, under the title of Brevet Brigadier General Erastus Blakeslee, followed by the First Light Battery, whose broken wheel, and numerous engagements in which it had borne an honorable part inscribed upon it, is one of the objects of interest among the treasured relics of the war; the Second Light Battery, the First Regiment Heavy Artillery, under Major General Abbott, with 570 men-the regiment so prominent in the war, and forever to be associated with Malvern Hill and Gettysburg; the Second Regiment Heavy Artillery, Colonel Jeffrey

This list of names is eminently suggestive, names of those who when young men, little more than boys, went into the war out of their patriotism, and with good abilities and good principles did their best in a cause they appreciated, and rose from one rank to another, until the State is proud to honor them, and let them represent her and her part of the work, which she is this day Immortalizing in marble and bronze.

Skinner, commanding, 250 men, and worthy to be associated with the First in the achievements of the war.

Next came in order all the thirty regiments of the war, some of them represented by 200 or 250 men, while others scarcely reached 100 left of the 1,000 that went into the field. Each had had its own peculiar experience, like the Connecticut troops at the battle of Chancellorsville, when "fifty of them lay dead, and 135 lay wounded on the field, and 500 more were on their way to rebel prisons;" or like the Sixteenth Connecticut, that unfortunate regiment, which was hurried into the battle of Antietam, undicipiined and scarcely armed, to be slaughtered in the "Cornfield," and soon after to be captured at Plymouth and sent to Andersonville prison, where, out of 400 men, less than 200 lived to come out. The official account of the day says:

Headquarter tents were placed along the river bank of Bushnell Park, properly designated, and the veterans on arriving easily found their quarters, and formed companies and battalions without delay. The column was formed in platoons of twelve files, closed in mass, the lines being handled by signals from elevated points commanding the entire line and preventing any breaks. The march was begun at 12 o'clock, noon, and the head of the column reached the Capitol about 2 o'clock. The parade marched through Ford, Hoyt, Church and Ann streets to North Main, down Main, passing around City Hall and Post Office Square to the South Park, through Jefferson and Washington to the Capitol. All along the line of march the city was brilliantly decorated, and fully 70,000 people witnessed the parade. During its progress a national salute was fired and all the church bells were rung.

Arriving at the Capitol the commission which had in charge the unveiling of the statue, the State officials and the guests of the State, as well as the military staff and friends of Governor Buckingham, were detached from the procession, and as many more as could find room within the building where the services took place.

The Hon. John Allen, chairman of the commission on

THE DISABLED BATTERY WHEEL

AND

THE BATTLES IN WHICH IT HAD BEEN ENGAGED.

"TUR FIRST LIGHT BATTERY, CT. VOL. A. P. ROCKWELL, CAPT."

the unveiling ceremonies, introduced the Rev. Dr. Merriman, who offered prayer. The statue was then presented to the State by the Hon. Henry B. Harrison of the statue commission, and accepted by Governor Waller. An extract from each speech will give an idea of the feeling that dominated the occasion. Mr. Harrison's address of presentation was as follows:

YOUR EXCELLENCY:-To you, as the governor and official representative of the State, the commissioners, who were directed by the General Assembly to procure and cause to be placed in the battle-flag vestibule of the Capitol a statue of Governor Buckingham, have the honor to announce that they have discharged the duty which was thus imposed upon them.

The statue is here. It is covered by the flag of the State and of the Nation entwined together. The hour has come for you to lift them and reveal to us the noble figure of your great predecessor.

There was an illustrious Greek who declared that he had no accomplishments or graces, but that he knew how to make a small State great.

He whom to-day we honor was himself great, because he, too, knew how to make a small State great. If the greatness of the State was not made by him, it was by him enhanced and exalted.

He was the chief of a State then containing less than 470,000 people. But he knew how, in the dread days of war, so to inspire and so to stimulate this little commonwealth as to make her send forth to battle and wounds and death on distant fields, for the sake of a righteous cause, more than 53,000 of her sons-more than one-third, almost one-half, of all the able-bodied men within her borders fit to bear arms.

Perhaps, in his modesty, he did not know that he was great. We ourselves, who did know it, knew not how great he was until death and time, revealers of the truth, enabled us to take the just measure of his grand character and his lofty spirit.

This imposing demonstration is the unerring witness to his greatness. From every hill, from every valley, from every city, and from every hamlet in the State-from many States and from distant States-the scarred veterans of the holy war have gathered together here, moved by one spontaneous, magnetic, and irresistible impulse, to associate with this ceremonial the memories of their patriotism, their sacrifices, and their valor. come the warriors of the sea. the warriors of the sea, a vast

With the soldiers of the land have And with the soldiers of the land and multitude of men, of all conditions, of

all temperaments, of all beliefs, and of all passions, have come up hither with one accord and in unity of spirit as to a high solemnity. What means this mighty movement? What means this universal and overpowering impulse?

It is the mystery-the old and eternal mystery-of the power of a noble and royal spirit, a noble and heroic life, over the hearts and lives of men.

He was great because he was a true type of the best characteristics of the race which founded and peopled Connecticut.

Ilis sagacity was unerring; his courage dauntless; his will inflexible; his devotion to duty supreme; his faith in God absolute.

Like the race from which he sprung, he loved peace; but, like that race, he feared not war.

The sculptor, himself a son of Connecticut, in whose veins runs the same blood that warmed the heart of one of her early heroes, has approached with affectionate reverence the work which was committed to his hands. He was equal to the work. With the finger of genius he has touched the bronze and wakened it to life immortal. Remove, sir, the veil, and disclose to us the grave face and majestic form of the War Governor.

Let us behold him in the midst of the surroundings which best befit him.

This stately Capitol, with all wealth of marble and of granite and of decoration, is henceforth to be his appropriate resting place. This vestibule, consecrated already by these tattered flags which his right hand delivered to the brave men whom he sent forth to battle and his right hand received from them when they came back victorious, will be made more sacred forever by his august presence.

At the close of the address the statue was uncovered by Governor Waller, who made the address of reception, in which he said :

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The stately figures, in marble and bronze, of Trumbull and Buckingham, the War Governors of Connecticut in the Revolution and the Rebellion, now adorn this magnificent building, and the places they occupy are of historic import. The statue of Trumbull, who took such a conspicuous part in the formation of this government, stands where in honor it should, at the very portals of the Capitol of this commonwealth. The statue of Buckingham is appropriately here. Its position in this part of the Capitol, in which are placed the sad but honored trophies of our State in the War of the Rebellion, adds to its memorial significance, and these worn and blood-stained battle flags, standing like so many sentinels of honor to guard it, add to its glory.