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Show UTAH HISTORICAL QUARTERLY 1938, to remember the war and to dedicate the “Eternal Light Peace Monument” erected on Oak Hill, President Franklin D. Roosevelt accepted the monument on behalf of the nation. At the base of the monument are inscribed the words “Peace eternal in a nation united.”102 UTAH CIVIL WAR VETERANS ATTENDING THE 1913 REUNION The Salt Lake Herald-Republican published the following list of veterans on June 28, 1913, after the veterans had departed for Pennsylvania.103 An earlier list in the Salt Lake Tribune named several other veterans who planned to attend.104 Union Veterans of Gettysburg Francis M. Bishop, Salt Lake City William H. Brown, Ogden H. P. Burns, Salt Lake City George A. Cook, Grouse Creek S. D. Chase, Salt Lake City Norman D. Corser, Salt Lake City Aaron Darling, Salt Lake City Orlando F. Davis, Salt Lake City William Goodsell, Salt Lake City Ezra D. Haskins, Salt Lake City W. H. McNeil, New Harmony Henry Page, Salt Lake City John W. Reed, Salt Lake City Henry C. Rode, Salt Lake City Thomas Smith, Midvale L. H. Smyth, Salt Lake City John Westen, Ogden William F. Wilson, Salt Lake City Confederate Veterans of Gettysburg A. D. Gillis, Eureka John J. Taylor, Payson Charles Warren, Salt Lake City Additional Confederate Veterans John Amos, Payson Walter A. Bennet, Salt Lake City John F. Beesley, Provo G. B. Dobbins, Salt Lake City W. L. H. Dotson, Salt Lake City B. F. Hill, East Millcreek the gathering . . . Representing the Bee Hive state will be John W. Widdoes, 94, American Fork, Ira A. Stormes, 92, commander of the Utah department of the GAR, Robert L Rohm, 90, Myton, Thomas W. Brookbank, 92, Salt Lake City, and George W. Vogel, 97, Ogden. The state’s only two residents who fought under the Confederacy flag—William H. Perry and John D. Johnson both of Salt Lake City—could not make the trip because of illness. The five veterans all expressed pleasure at being invited to the reunion, although none actually fought in the battle of Gettysburg. “Five Utah Veterans,” June 30, 1938. None of those five Utah veterans attended the 1913 Gettysburg reunion. See Paul L. Roy, The Last Reunion of the Blue and Gray (Gettysburg, PA: Bookmart, 1950), 86. 102 Roy, Last Reunion, 117; Jay S. Hoar. "Gettysburg's Last Surviving Soldier: James Marion Lurvey," Gettysburg Magazine 16 (1997): 124–28. 103 “Veterans of Both Armies Leaving for Famous Battlefield,” Salt Lake Herald-Republican, June 28, 1913. The newspaper included the name of an additional Union veteran, Amos K. Smith of Salt Lake City, in its June 28 list, but he did not attend. 104 “Day’s Anxious Vigil Rewarded; Veterans Leave for Gettysburg Today,” Salt Lake Tribune, June 27, 1913. Other lists of veteran attendees appeared on June 22 (“Thirty-Four Veterans Sign up for Trip East,” Salt Lake Herald-Republican, June 22, 1913) and June 27 (“Fund to Send Utah Veterans to Field of Battle Raised,” Salt Lake Herald-Republican, June 27, 1913). 288 |
