Identifier: recordofdedicati00mass (find matches)
Title: A record of the dedication of the statue of Major General William Francis Bartlett
Year: 1905 (1900s)
Authors: Massachusetts. Executive Dept
Subjects: Bartlett, William Francis, 1840-1876
Publisher: Boston, Printed by order of the governor and Council, Wright and Potter printing company, state printers
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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. Chapter four of theresolves of Nineteen hundred and three prescribed thatthe Governor and Council should determine the statuessite. In accordance with those resolves the modeling ofthis statue by Daniel Chester French was ordered. Ithas been placed here in the Hall of the Flags in eternalsalute to the very colors which our Massachusetts Sydneyin life so gloriously upheld. It is my high privilege as chairman of the StateHouse Committee and as senior member of the Honor-able Council officially to report to you, sir, the completionof the work entrusted, under your excellencys super-vision, to our charge. It is further my happy duty nowto deliver to you, sir, as chief of the Commonwealth,this statue, a memorial of one whose sheer, consummateheroism in war was as much a matter of course as hismodesty and generosity in peace, a Massachusetts idealincarnate of an American officer and gentleman—William /Francis Bartlett. 37 ADDRESS BY HIS EXCELLENCY JOHN L. BATES Governor of Massachusetts
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HIS EXCELLENCY JOHN L. BATES, GOVERNOR ADDRESS By His Excellency Governor John L. Bates ^^IrS^R. Chairman — By the action of the Gen-eral Court it was decreed that Massachusettsshould show her love for one of her de-parted soldiers by the erection of a statue to his memory. To the committee of the Council was entrusted theexecution of the decree. The committee called to itsaid the genius of one who, passing his boyhood nearConcord Bridge, early gathered from the old battlefieldan inspiration that has enabled him to well depict inmarble, and in bronze, the spirit of patriotism. This statue, but now unveiled, commands our immediateadmiration, for its every line tells of devotion to the flag.It is a worthy memorial of a deserving man, and onbehalf of the Commonwealth, I accept it, sir, and thankyou and the committee and all whose efforts have con-tributed to its erection. The people of this State have not been unmindful ofthe causes of their happiness, nor forgetful of their obli-gatio

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