Identifier: illinoismonument00beve (find matches)
Title: Illinois monuments at Gettysburg
Year: 1892 (1890s)
Authors: Beveridge, John L Vaughan, David B., joint author Greenhut, Joseph B., joint author
Subjects: Gettysburg, Battle of, Gettysburg, Pa., 1863 Soldiers' monuments -- Pennsylvania Gettysburg Illinois -- Militia History United States -- History Civil War, 1861-1865 Monuments
Publisher: Springfield, Ill. : H. W. Rokker, State Printer and Binder
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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ces destroy the recollectionsof those events. They come trooping home to-day. My dear and worthy comrade, General Beveridge, has very graijhicallyandverv correctlv j^ointed out to you the position occupied by the Eighthand Twelfth Illinois cavalrv when the enemy opened his batteries upon usearlv in the morning of July llrst. The general has told you howiJeneralBuford. with his cavalry held his position at this point until (GeneralRevnolds came up with the infantry: and the fact that General Beytu)ldswas killed in advance of the position of the cavalry, as is evi(U>nced bythe location of the monument erected where he fell, shows very clearlythat Buford and his cavalry were equal to the emergency. The general vcrv ajjpropriately makes nuMition of the fact that comrade.rones of the Kiglitli fired \\\v llrst shot on the Tnion side. He is right,and it is right and proper that the credit and honor should go where itlielongs. But the general omits on item of history which deserves mention
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;:OSEPII 15. GRKKXHrr, Commissioner. Captain Con mar.diniX Co. K, S2d 111. Inl ty, at Gettysburg. 33 here. The omission was not intentional on the part of the major. Par-don me, General Beveridge, I am thinking of yon as of the time whenyon were winning your stars. You were a major then, and let me assureyou that you never held a higher position or performed a greater serviceto your country than when you commanded the Eighth Illinois cavalry.I want to say now and here, that while General Beveridge is correct asto who tired the first shot, that Private Ferd Uskiier, of Co. C, TwelfthIllinois cavalry was the first man to lay his life upon the altar of his^country at Gettysburg. Over there to my right, on that hillside, but afew rods away, about seven oclock in the morning on that eventful dayjust as we were forming into line. Private Ushuer was struck with a pieceof bursting shell, which was one of the first fired by the enemy. He wasinstantly killed. As proof of what I say I point to t

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