St. Paul daily globe., 1889-01-11
MEMORIES OF THE WAR.
A Proposed History of Minnesota
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A meeting of representatives Of Min
nesota organizations in the civil war
was held at the Office of Gen. Bishop
yesterday afternoon to act upon a pro-
ject for publishing an official history of
Minnesota regiments and batteries.
There were present C. B. Heffelfnger,
Minnesota volunteers; j. w. Bishop, A.
r. Kiefer and |. Svenson. Second regi-
ment; C. G. Andrews and I'll. Mattson,
Third regiment; j. B. Sanborn, Fourth
regiment; w. A. Van Slyke, Fifth regi-
ment; ii. L. Carver and J. G. Whitney,
Sixth regiment; William r. Marshall
and W. RacicOt. Seventh regiment;
William Fowler. D. L.. Kingsbnry and
Edward Richards, Eighth regiment;
w. J. Dean, Ninth regiment; j. H.
Baker and c. w. Hackett, Tenth regi-
ment; Horace Austin and James Star
key, First Mounted rangers; w. NJ.
Campbell, Second cavalry; W. A. Hotch-
kiss. Third battery; Horace III. Western
and I'll. G. Monroe, Third battery: Har-
vey Officer, First heavy artillery; Fran
els Pteler. First company sharpshooterS,
and j. j. CLANCY, Second company.
A bill was read by Gen. John B. San
born, which had been considered and
approved DN IL CUitliiilGtcG S6lcCJcu NY IL
previous meeting for the preparation
ganization and services Of Minne-
sofa troops. 1t provides for a
broad OF commissioners, to serve
without pay, consisting of Will
lam Lochren. First Minnesota: j. w.
Bishop. Second Minnesota; G. c. An
drews, Third Minnesota: J.. B. Sanborn,
Fourth Minnesota, and l.. 4. Hubbard,
Fifth Minnesota, to supervise the prepa-
ration and publication III one volume of
the separate histories of the different
organizations. These histories arc to
be prepared with the assistance of COM
mitteeS of the respective organizations,
and to average about sixty pages of nar-
rative. Ten thousand copies are to be
printed and bound by the state printer
according to sample volume fur
nished by the commission, the
printing to be paid for out of
the general printing appropriation.
One copy of the history will be present.
every honorably discharged survivor of
Minnesota organizations, OF if deceased,
to his proper representative. A copy is
to be given to each public OF college
library, libraries of state institutions,
each school district library and each of
ficer of the Legislative and executive
departments Of the state government.
A number Of copies are to be presented
the state university, the historical So
ciety and the state library for exchange.
The sum of S., 600, or so much as may
be required. is called for to enable the
commission to carry the idea into exc
cution, and this amount is intended to
cover literary, editorial and Incidental
expenses.
A committee of five, of which ex-Gov-
ernor Austin is chairman. was appointed
to present the bill to the legislature and
secure its passage with as little modifi-
cation as possible.
A memorial to the legislature asking
the passage of the bill was signed in
duplicate by all present. 1t is believed
| that if the legislature will act promptly
on the bill, the history can he ready for
delivering at the time of the next an
nual reunions of Minnesota regiments
usually during the state fair.
Letters were read indorsing the pro-
| iect from number of Minnesota sold
iers who could not be present, includ-
ing: Gen. l.. F. Hubbard, Col. Colville,
Frank B. Forbes, A. IL. Kerr, A. J.
Carlson, III. S. Bailey, Henry S. Hurter,
E. A. Rice, FL. S. Donaldson, William
Lochren, Phil Shillman, William
| Pfaender, j. r. Jones and l.. l.. Baxter.