. Shaler's brigade. Survivors of the Sixth Corps. Re-union and monument dedications at Gettysburg, June ... 1888 . ll of kind words and love to the survivors of the Brigade, fromGeneral D. N. Couch, of Norwalk, Connecticut, late their Divi-sion Commander ; General John Newton, of New York, also latetheir Division Commander; General H. G. Wright, of Washing-ton, D. C, the honored and brilliant commander of the old SixthCorps, and General Martin T. McMahon, of New York, thepopular old Adjutant-General of the Sixth Corps—each evokingenthusiastic applause as these old, distinguished, beloved andho
. Shaler's brigade. Survivors of the Sixth Corps. Re-union and monument dedications at Gettysburg, June ... 1888 . ll of kind words and love to the survivors of the Brigade, fromGeneral D. N. Couch, of Norwalk, Connecticut, late their Divi-sion Commander ; General John Newton, of New York, also latetheir Division Commander; General H. G. Wright, of Washing-ton, D. C, the honored and brilliant commander of the old SixthCorps, and General Martin T. McMahon, of New York, thepopular old Adjutant-General of the Sixth Corps—each evokingenthusiastic applause as these old, distinguished, beloved andhonored names were read. He then stated that he was glad toannounce the presence of one whom the Brigade had followedin many of the actions of the Army of the Potomac, and whohad the honor to command it on these grounds during the ac-tion of Gettysburg; and it gave him great pleasure to intro-duce General Alexand«^r Shaler as the Brigade Orator of theDay. Cheer after cheer rang through the woods as the Generalmounted the rock; and when the applause, lasting severalminutes, had subsided, he began his {^ener^crl SI|h1ei|s OrLctticn. COMRADES OF THE OLD BRIGADE, Ladies and Gentlemen : ^E meet to-cla}^ upon historic grounds. Some of us havemet here before. Twenty-five years ago, within a fewdays, two great armies confronted each other in this in defense of State Rights, the other in defense of UnitedStates Rights. One assaulted the Union, the other defended it. I shall not attempt to describe, in full, tlie great battle wliichensued, relate the causes which led to it, nor discuss the effectupon the country of the resulting victory of the Union Army;but content m3^self with a brief synopsis of the part taken inthis and other battles b} that portion of the Sixth Corps inwhich we had the honor of serving. Let us go back to the autumn of 1861. The tocsin of warhad sounded. The cry to arms had reverberated throughoutthe land. Fathers, husbands, brothers and sons
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