. History of Cuyahoga County soldiers' and sailors' monument. Scenes and incidents from its inception to its of the memorial structure, and roll of honor . eopponents of the Commissioners plans. After thebusiness meeting and the speeches came the games,and it was dusk when the veterans took up theirhomeward march, well pleased with themselves andtheir holiday. Promptly at 2:30 oclock, the bugle for the secondtime sounded the assembly, and the members of theUnion gathered in the open pavilion to hold theirannual business meeting. President Pudney called themeeting to or
. History of Cuyahoga County soldiers' and sailors' monument. Scenes and incidents from its inception to its of the memorial structure, and roll of honor . eopponents of the Commissioners plans. After thebusiness meeting and the speeches came the games,and it was dusk when the veterans took up theirhomeward march, well pleased with themselves andtheir holiday. Promptly at 2:30 oclock, the bugle for the secondtime sounded the assembly, and the members of theUnion gathered in the open pavilion to hold theirannual business meeting. President Pudney called themeeting to order. The minutes of last years sessionwere read and approved. The President delivered the opening address, inwhich he said : Comrades, Ladies and Gentlemen: I desire toreturn sincere thanks for the honor of presiding overthis Union during the past year. Fourteen years ago,1,300 of us met in Case Hall, with no other object inview except that of forming an organization that shouldunite the old Soldiers and Sailors. We representedevery State in the Union north of Mason and Dixonsline, and some of the States south. We have metevery year since that time. The Soldiers and Sailors. INFANTRY EMBLEM IN CAPITAL. soldiers and sailors monument. 133 Union of these United States is no sort of false organ-ization. We have had drafted from onr ranks fivePresidents, in whom we have added to the roll of fameas grand men as the world ever saw. We, as Soldiers,have no reason to be ashamed of the record we havemade. Before we sprang into existence as soldiers, weheard it said that there were no Soldiers like thosetrained men who fought at Austerlitz, Waterloo, andBalaklava. But at every field, from Bull Run toAppomattox, the deeds of those men sunk into insig-nificance as compared with what the Volunteer Soldiersof America did. The State of Ohio and CuyahogaCounty had something to do and something to say inevery battle. Let us, as Soldiers and citizens, continueto meet and perform our duties, and l
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