Excerpt from Centennial Anniversary of the Independence of the State of Vermont and the Battle of Bennington: August 15 and 16, 1877
Prior to the meeting of the general assembly, in 1876, attention had been called to the propriety of commemorating in a suitable manner, the events of Vermont"s centennial year; and some organized effort had been made in that direction. Thus, the Bennington Historical Society, with ex-Governor Hiland Hall as president, had been formed with the object, among others, of "assisting in the proper observance of the centennial anniversary of the Battle of Bennington." The subject had been discussed for three years in the "Reunion Society of Vermont Officers;" and the "Veteran Soldiers" Reunion" - composed of the surviving officers and soldiers of Vermont Volunteers during the war for the suppression of the rebellion - had fixed upon Bennington as the place of their next reunion, and centennial week as the time. The "Vermont Editors and Publishers" Association" had appointed their annual meeting on the Tuesday before the 16th of August, 1877, and had selected an orator - Hon. Eliakim P. Walton of Montpelier - with express reference to the historical significance of the occasion.
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