In this temple, dedicated to the Muse of the backward look, it may be appropriate to inquire, What relation, if any, had these events to the history of the times? The drama of the American Revolution held the center of the stage. Did our regiment enact a part? An important part. It triumphed mightily in its death. The tales of the butchery of these captured citizen soldiers, the cries of those mothers and little children, driven from their burning homes to the wilds of the forest, were heard all over the civilized world. The execration of mankind was visited upon a King, and a country, that employed savage allies and paid them ten dollars apiece, in gold, for the scalps of human beings. It produced another effect. It called the attention of Washington and the Congress to the imperative necessity of dealing a death blow, to the Six Nation Confederacy of Indian barbarians. A year passed by. The avengers of Wyoming darkened the waters that wash the shores of your beautiful peninsula-they swarmed over the lands where we are assembled to-night, they went forward, they did the work assigned them; Wyoming was avenged. [Illustration: WYOMING MONUMENT.] Permit me a word of review. The Connecticut controversy! with all its bitterness and contention, it is sunk in oblivion. The town of Westmoreland! it is sponged from the map. The Twenty-fourth regiment! it served three years--one for the colony, two for the state. It builded forts, it fought battles, it went down to defeat and death, amidst a wild saturnalia of blood, rapine, and murder. It is forgotten. "Time rolls its ceaseless course; the race of yore. Who danced our infancy upon their knee. And told our marvelling boyhood legends store Of their strange ventures happ'd by land or sea, How are they blotted from the things that be!" Appendix A. ROSTER OF THE OFFICERS OF THE TWENTY-FOURTH REGIMENT CONNECTICUT MILITIA From Date of Its Organization to Day of Its Destruction. Date of Commission Follows Each Name. -----------------+---------------------------- Colonel. | Zebulon Butler May, 1775 " | Nathan Denison May, 1777 -----------------+---------------------------- Lieut.-Colonel. | Nathan Denison May, 1775 " " | Lazarus Stewart May, 1777 " " | George Dorrance Oct., 1777 -----------------+---------------------------- Major. | William Judd May, 1775 " | George Dorrance May, 1777 " | John Garret Oct., 1777 -----------------+----------------------------