149th Monument at Gettysburg
Acceptance of Monument
By Colonel Nicholas Grumbach
Comrades:
On behalf of the Gettysburg Battlefield Association, which I am commissioned to
represent on this occasion, I take pleasure in accepting this splendid testimonial
to your bravery on this battlefield, and your devotion to your country. As
comrades, we sincerely appreciate what the State of New York has done in
erecting this beautiful and enduring monument to perpetuate the memory of the
services performed by us at this place, and that a government of the people, and
for. the people might be preserved among men. In closing I desire, on behalf of
the regiment, to thank the New York Commission for its work on our behalf, and
its kindly consideration of all our many requests during:
the progress of the work of adopting and erecting the monument now dedicated.
