Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1891-01-13
CHICANAUGA.
Eastern States Interested in
the Great Battlefield.
The Proposed Erection of Sol
dierS' Monuments

WASHINGTON, Jan. IS. The general
interest felt in the National Military
park at Chickamauga is well illustrated
by the attention given to it in the mes
sage of Governor Hill, of New York, and
in the following editorial in the New
York Sun, evidently from the pen of
Mr.. Dana himself:
In his annual message to the legisla-
ture, Governor Hill asks that suitable
tablets and monuments shall be
set up in the Chickamauga and
Chattanooga National Military park
for marking and recording the
services of New York troops on the bat
tletields which that park and its ap-
proaches inclose.
Probably most members of the legis-
lature have not been aware that as many
as sixteen New York regiments and bat
teries took part in the operations that in
cluded the storming of Lookout Noun
tain and Missionary Ridge. The roads
along these famous battle grounds are
comprised in the Chickamauga park
scheme, and the Eleventh army corps,
under Howard, and the Twelfth, under
Slocum, were sent west from Virginia in
season to be engaged in those remarkable
operations of November, 1868.
-, .. '' We find among these New York
regiments the Forty fifth, also called the
Fifth German Rifles, and the Forty
eighth, both of New York City; the Six
tieth, the Ogdensburgh regiment; the
Sixty-eighth, OF Cameron Rifles, COM
manded by Col Felix Salm-Salm, after
ward killed at Gravelotte; the Seventy
eighth, or Cameron Highlanders; the One
Hundred and Second, mostly a New
York City regiment; the One Hundred
and Nineteenth, also Of New York City;
the One Hundred and Thirty-fOurth,
mostly from Schenectady and Schoharie
counties: the One Hundred and Thirty
sixth, organized at Portage; the One
Hundred and Thirty-seventh, one,of the
four regiments in Geary's division, form
ing the front line i'll the assault on Look
out Mountains; the One Hundred and
Forty-tirst, organized at Elmira; the One
Hundred and Forty-third, at Monticello;
the One Hundred and Forty-tifth, which,
however, was distributed to other regi-
ments; the One Hundred and Forty
ninth, of Syracuse, which was in the
front line at Lookout; the One Hundred
and Fifty-fourth, organized at James
IOWu. we dlhO lIlltl III tillS 1lSb DdbltTy
|, of the New York artillery, and the
Thirteenth Independent New York
battery.
ut will be seen, therefore, not only
that New York was we'll represented
battles, but that all parts of the state
have an interest in the memorial pro-
Ject which the governor presents to the
Jo1-iolatT1Tn I1oIcoI ne 4ho
which has commended the Chickamauga
park plan from the oustet, is, that while
in its momentOus issues the fighting in
that region toward the close of 1868,
was to the west what that of Gettys-
burg, in July of the same year, bad
been in the east: it was also, as at
Gettysburg, shared to noteworthy ex-
tent by troops from many states In
addition to the New York forces already
spoken of, two regiments from Connecti-
cut, two from Massachusetts. an ar
tillery battalion from Maine, two regi-
ments from New Jersey, one from Mary
land and eleven regiments from Penn
sylvania, besides two batteries from that
state, are put down in the records as
being at Chattanooga. Most of these,
as, indeed, all OF the New York troops,
We're present only at Lookout Mountain
and Missionary Ridge; but some of the
Pennsylvanians were also engaged at
Chickamauga, In this respect, there
fore, Chickamauga and Chattanooga re-
call Gettysburg, where troops from
Ohio, Indiana Wisconsin, Michigan and
Minnesota took part with their comrades
of the east
''While some of the New York regi-
ments engaged at Lookout Mountain and
Missionary idge suffered severely there,
notably the Sixtieth, One Hundred and
Thirty and One Hundred and
Forty ninth, others lost most heavily in
the Atlanta campaign of 1854 which
formed the SEQUEL of those operations
Indeed, the One Hundred and Seventh,
One Hundred and Twenty-third and
One Hundred and Fiftieth, or Dutchess
county regiment, and Battery M, First
New York artillery, began their official
records of western battles with the At
lanta campaign. Yet, looking at Chick
amauga park as a representative memor-
ial ground for the western operations,
perhaps such regiments may find reason
for putting monuments to their dead
there.
New York alone has expended at
Gettysburg more than $500, 900 for me
mortal purposes, chiefly in the form of
monuments to her troops engaged on
that field. Other states have been con-
spicuous for their liberality in the same
direction, and congress has done its part
The legislation of a few months ago
which secured the Chickamauga park
will undoubtedly be followed by the
erection during the present year and the
years succeeding OF similar memorials
and tablets there. New York should be
among the foremost in this work The
two great military parks of Gettysburg
and Chickamauga will be the wonder of
future gcners tions for the detailed pre-
cision with which their lines of battle
have been laid out SO as to form not
only historical memorials the counter
part of which can be found nowhere else,
but also remarkable object lessons in the
military art.
Governor Hill in his message. had
this to say of the Chickamauga park:
The congress of the United States
has provided for purchasing the battle
field of Chickamauga and obtaining the
reads along Missionary Ridge and over
Lookout Mountain, and establishing
thereon "A National military park. The
s. ale of Georgia has ceded TO the United
States full jurisdiction over the Chicka-
mauga field. and the Authorities Of
Tennessee have ceded the roads already
mentioned.
"A National commission is now en-
gagged in preparing historical tablets to
mark all the lines of battle on both
fields. The act establishing the park
authorizes the states which had troops
in these campaigns to erect monuments