. Report of proceedings incidental to the erection and dedication of the Confederate monument. May 20- ,^i, 1895. BIOGRAPHIC: John Charles Black was born in Mississippi in iSvj resident of Illinois since 1S47; received a classical education and studied in Eleventh regiment infantry. Indiana volnnieers, U. S. April 15, 1861, and served until July 25: re-enlisted from Illinois July 2S, Thirty-seventh reKiment infantry. Illinois volunteers. September 5, iS5i; lieutenant-colonel. July 12, 1K62; colonel. December 51. 1862: brevetted brigadier-general of volunteers, Apri
. Report of proceedings incidental to the erection and dedication of the Confederate monument. May 20- ,^i, 1895. BIOGRAPHIC: John Charles Black was born in Mississippi in iSvj resident of Illinois since 1S47; received a classical education and studied in Eleventh regiment infantry. Indiana volnnieers, U. S. April 15, 1861, and served until July 25: re-enlisted from Illinois July 2S, Thirty-seventh reKiment infantry. Illinois volunteers. September 5, iS5i; lieutenant-colonel. July 12, 1K62; colonel. December 51. 1862: brevetted brigadier-general of volunteers, April 8. 1865, for gallant services; served in the field throughout the war and was badly fnited States commissioner of pensions March 5, 1885, resigned March 4. i88g, but served until his successor was congressman at-large for State of Illinois. November, United States district attorney for Northern district ot Illinois. January, 1S95 ?,^^^. not extend the hand (if fellowship to an\ Anierican?- the whole thing, tlie whole substance of all that I nii,!;lit sa\ to \(m if 1 had the night before me. There is no sane man under the American Hag to-da\ who does not say the hand of fellowship ougiit to be and is extended. This mornmg 1 addressed an assemblage of school chikiren, a rep-resentative assemblage a thousand strong, from amidst 14,000,000 ofschool children who occupy the public schools in America. Not one ofthem ever heard a hostile gun. To each and every one of the 14,000,000who are to-day attending the public schools in the forty-four states andthe territories, the war that we. some of us. remember is simply andpurely history. There is left to them of that histor) very little besidesits beaut\ and that glamour which always hangs about the achievementsof stricken fields. To-morrow it will be mine to stand by the side of the graves ofcomrades. We that are here occujiy a middle place between the gener-ation that comes on
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