. Reunion and dedication of monument at Arlington national cemetery Wednesday, October 21, 1896 . — The General Assembly of Connecticut, at its session of1893, passed a resolution authorizing the Quartermaster-General of the State to erect for each regiment of the Stateengaged in the rebellion a monument at a cost not toexceed one thousand dollars, and to be placed in somenational cemetery or battlefield, the plans and location tobe approved by the regimental association, and subject tocertain conditions specified in said act and resolution. A special meeting of this regiment was held in Bridg
. Reunion and dedication of monument at Arlington national cemetery Wednesday, October 21, 1896 . — The General Assembly of Connecticut, at its session of1893, passed a resolution authorizing the Quartermaster-General of the State to erect for each regiment of the Stateengaged in the rebellion a monument at a cost not toexceed one thousand dollars, and to be placed in somenational cemetery or battlefield, the plans and location tobe approved by the regimental association, and subject tocertain conditions specified in said act and resolution. A special meeting of this regiment was held in Bridge-port early in 1894 to take the matter into consideration,whose action resulted in the appointment of a MonumentalCommittee, consisting of Comrades F. A. Lucas, D. C. Kil-bourn, W. H. Lewis, A. G. Bliss, and H. S. procured different designs and reported the same atthe reunion in New Milford in 1894. The associationadopted the design of Comrade Kilbourn, and continuedthe same committee, and voted that the monument be loca-ted at Arlington Cemetery, Virginia, that Judge Fenn be. ALFRED G. BLISS Committee at lins/ungtoit, D. C 19 invited to deliver the oration at its dedication, and that wewould accept the provisions of the act of the legislature. The committee then proceeded with their duties. went to Washington, and was by Senator O. introduced to Gen. Batchelor, the Quartermaster-Gen-eral of the United States army, and who was pleased to giveus lot loo in Section B for the site. In 1895, Comrade W. E. Disbrow of Company H becamethe Quartermaster-General of the State of Connecticut, andthe plans and specifications were handed over to him forexecution. It was expected that the monument would be erected in1895, b^^t various circumstances interfered, and your com-mittee reported the progress made to the reunion at Lake-ville in 1895, and were again continued as the committee,and W. H. Whitelaw was added to it; and it is mainlythrough his efforts
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