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Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 1. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 289 (search)
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263.-Fourteenth Regiment, N. Y. S. V., arrived at New York, June 18.
The regiment landed at the foot of West Fourteenth street. The Oneidas of the Metropolis, to the number of two hundred or upwards, decorated with an appropriate badge, and under the direction of William W. Backus, the marshal of the occasion, assisted by John A. Bryan, Morris S. Brown, James M. Tower, A. D. Barber, Robert J. Hubbard, J. O. Candee, and Albert T. Battel, assistant-marshals, formed a line and received the volunteers with the usual honors; and, preceded by a city band of music, escorted them through Fourteenth street and Fifth Avenue to Washington Parade Ground, where the flag presentation took place.
A large concourse of ladies and gentlemen, many of them natives of Oneida County, witnessed the ceremony.
The welcoming speech was made by Charles P. Kirkland.
He said:--
Col. McQuade and the Officers and Men of the Fourteenth Regiment:
In the name and on behalf of the Sons of Oneida, re