Tag: Groveton monument (Bull Run battlefield)

Dedicated June 10th, 1865.

Gardner’s Photographic Sketch Book Of The War. Vol. 2, No. 100. Dedication of Monument on Bull Run Battle-Field. June 1865.

Here is shown one of the Monuments erected in memory of the Union dead who fell at the battles of Bull Run and Groveton. the Monuments are of chocolate colored sandstone, twenty-seven feet high, and were erected by the officers and men of General Gamble’s separate cavalry brigade, camped at Farifax Court-House. The Monument on the first Bull Run field is situated on the hill in front of the memorable stone house, on the spot where the 14th Brooklyn, 1st Michigan, and 1st and 2d Maine were most hotly engaged, and where Ricketts and Griffin lost their batteries. the shaft is twenty-seven feet high, and bears upon its top a hundred pound shell. On the pedestal at each corner is a shell of similar size. On one side of the shaft is inscribed, “To the memory of the patriots who fell at Bull Run, July 21st, 1861,” and on the reverse, “Erected June 19th, 1865.” The Monument at Groveton is similar in its proportions, bearing the inscription, “To the memory of the patriots who fell at Groveton, August 29, 1862,” and on the reverse also, “Erected June 10th, 1865.”

The dedicatory exercises were conducted on the first Bull Run field, by Rev. Dr. McMurdy, who read an appropriate service, which was followed by a hymn written for the occasion by Pierpont, a military parade by the 5th Pennsylvania Heavy Artillery, Colonel Gallup, and a salute by the 16th Massachusetts Battery, Captain Scott. At the close of these ceremonies, eloquent addresses were delivered by Judge Olin, General Wilcox, General Heintzelman, and General Farnsworth At the second Monument the services were similar to those described.