Excerpt from Report of the Proceedings in Connection With the Monument Erected by Daniel Butterfield, U. S, V. At Fredericksburg, Va: In Honor of the Fifth Corps, Army of the Potomac, and Presentation of a Tablet by the 12th N. Y. Regiment Association to the Oneida Historical Society, Utica, New York
The Thirty-first Re-union of the Society of the Army of the Potomac in the historic city of Fredericksburg, Va., was deemed a most fitting occasion for the laying of the cornerstone of the monument to the Fifth Corps, to be erected through the liberality of Major-General Daniel Butterfield, one of its most distinguished Commanders. The site selected was just inside the entrance to the National Cemetery, where are interred the remains of sixteen thousand veterans who fell a sacrifice in the desperate battles in and around Fredericksburg. The event was honored by the presence of President McKinley and Private Secretary George B. Cortelyou, Secretary of State John Flay, Secretary of War Elihu Root, Attorney-General John W. Griggs, Secretary of the Navy John D. Long, Postmaster-General Charles Emory Smith, Secretary of the Interior Ethan A. Hitchcock, Lieutenant-General Nelson A. Miles, and his A. D. C, Colonel Michler, U. S. Senators William J. Sewell and J. R. Hawley, Governor J. Hoge Tyler of Virginia, Major-General D. E. Sickles, U. S. A.; Major-General Joseph Wheeler, U. S. A.; Brigadier-General George D. Ruggles, U. S. A.; Brigadier-General J. Ford Kent, U. S. A.; Brevet Major-General M. T. McMahon, U. S. V., Acting President of the Society of the Army of the Potomac; Brevet Brigadier-General Henry E. Tremain, Brevet Colonel Horatio C. King, U. S. V., Secretary of the Society of the Army of the Potomac; Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel J. P. Nicholson, Recorder in Chief of the Loyal Legion; Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel Samuel Truesdell, U. S. V., Treasurer of the Society of the Army of the Potomac; General Edward Hill, U. S. V.; Colonel William Heermance, Hon. St. George R. Fitzhugh, Major T. E. Morris, Hon. H. F. Crismond, Hon. John F. Goolrick, Colonel E. D. Cole, and a large number of the members of the Society of the Army of the Potomac and Confederate Veterans.
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