. Two days of war, a Gettysburg narrative, and other excursions . New York at Gettys-burg, AND FROM the N. Y. Mail and Express. IThe following is from the New York Mail andExpress/ Sept. 6, 1897.] The historic field of Gettysburg alreadybristles with monuments, but none of them com-memorates braver deeds or more desperate cour-age than that which was unveiled to-day by thesurvivors of the Seventy-third Volunteer Regi-ment, better known as the Second Fire regiment that was in the sanguinary engage-ments of those three deadly days came out ofthem with greater credit or with ranks more
. Two days of war, a Gettysburg narrative, and other excursions . New York at Gettys-burg, AND FROM the N. Y. Mail and Express. IThe following is from the New York Mail andExpress/ Sept. 6, 1897.] The historic field of Gettysburg alreadybristles with monuments, but none of them com-memorates braver deeds or more desperate cour-age than that which was unveiled to-day by thesurvivors of the Seventy-third Volunteer Regi-ment, better known as the Second Fire regiment that was in the sanguinary engage-ments of those three deadly days came out ofthem with greater credit or with ranks moredecimated. It is fitting that the principal ad-dress of the day should be delivered by that gal-lant officer, Gen. Henry E. Tremain, whose serv-ices on that as on other desperate fields havebeen testified to by the Congressional address, published in ancthier column, is agraphic picture of the fighting on the bloodysecond day and an eloquent tribute to the valorof both the dead and the living.—(EditorialColumn.) [The same issue prints as follows]108. ,THE NEW YORK] PUBLIC LIBRARY ASTOR, LENOX ANDTtLOtN FOUNDATIONS. TEE SECOND FIRE ZOUAVES. 109 FIEE ZOUAVES WOKK Handsomest Monument Unveiled at Gettys-burg To-day.—Many Veterans of the Eegimental Monuments to beErected by Commands of the Armyof the Potomac. THE EXERCISES. Gettysburg, Pa., Sept. 6 (Special).—On thefield of Gettysburg there was dedicated to-day thelast of the regimental monuments to be erectedby the veterans of the Army of the enough, this monument commemoratesthe valor of a New York regiment, the Seventy-third Volunteer Regiment, or, as it is betterknown, the Second Fire Zouaves. In that des-perate three-days battle, wherein the flower of thearmies of the North and South swept back andforth between Seminary and Cemetery ridges inthe death-grapple that decided that the Unionshould endure, the soldiers of nineteen Stateswere engaged upon the Federal side, but of allthe S
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