. Report of proceedings incidental to the erection and dedication of the Confederate monument. HIC: Henry Kyd Douglas, of Hagerstown. Md., was born in Shepherdstown, Va.; educated at Franklin and Marshall CollegeEnlisted in the Confederate States arjny,IS private in Second regiment infantry, Virginia volunteers. 1861: promoted lieutenant and captain Company B, and served as assistant inspector-general of the Stonewall Brigade; A. D. C. A. I. G.,and A. A. A. G , to Thos. J. lackson in 1862. Chief of staff to Edward Johnson, May. and A. A. G., June 3. 1803; A. A.
. Report of proceedings incidental to the erection and dedication of the Confederate monument. HIC: Henry Kyd Douglas, of Hagerstown. Md., was born in Shepherdstown, Va.; educated at Franklin and Marshall CollegeEnlisted in the Confederate States arjny,IS private in Second regiment infantry, Virginia volunteers. 1861: promoted lieutenant and captain Company B, and served as assistant inspector-general of the Stonewall Brigade; A. D. C. A. I. G.,and A. A. A. G , to Thos. J. lackson in 1862. Chief of staff to Edward Johnson, May. and A. A. G., June 3. 1803; A. A. G. of Stonewall division: A. A. G. and chief of staff to John B. Gordon, and subsequently to Jubal A Early, May 20. Thirteenth and Forty-ninth Virginia regiments (consolidated), and assigned in 1865 tocommand the Light Brigade, the Confederate troops that fired the last volleys at First regiment infantry, state troops, Maryland, in Fifth judicial circuit. State of Maryland. 1891. .adjutant-general of Marylaiiil, 1893 .-.^*^^. 69 (Applause and cheers.) To-morrow we achieve the E^reatest iiiiHtary victoryof civihzation. (Cheers.) There is but one city in this country that isbrave enough to have that done, and that is the City of Chicago.(Tremendous cheering and applause. ) In war we reached no fartherthan Gett}^sburg, in peace we have captured the northern metropolis ofthis great nation. (Cheers.) I came to speak to you as a southerner, with no explanations tomake and no apologies to give to any human being because I wore theConfederate gray and followed the southern cross. (Applause.) I come,knowing that I can speak to soldiers who know that the greatest militaryhonor that they could ever have achieved is to have conquered the armythat was commanded by Lee—the soldiers that followed StonewallJackson. (Great applause and cheers.) Marc Anthony said: We came to bury Cesar, not to praise have buried these de
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