The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1895-09-27

MONUMENT DEDICATED To SECOND MN
NEsOTA REGIMENT.
Howard, Gen. Joseph Wheeler, Gen.
William Warner, Col. Fred Grant,
Father Thomas Sherman, Gen. Will
liam Bate, Gen. Charles II. Grosvenor,
Gen. John b. Gordon, Gen. H. V.
Boynton and Mayor George W. Ochs.
One of the most interesting features
of the entire celebration was the bat
terry drills, executed by the Fourth
artillery.
Before the dedicatOry exercise on
the 10Th a battery drill took place on
Snodgrass Hill, on the very spot Occu-
pied by battery during the battle of
Chickamauga. The battalion regi-
mental drills have also been a pleasing
feature of the ceremonies. The gov
ernors who have participated, directly
or indirectly, in the dedication are:
Fred T. Greenhalge, Massachusetts,;
John 7. Rich, Michigan; Silas HOlcomb,
Nebraska; G. 7. Werts, New Jersey;
Levi p Morton, New York; William Nc
Kinley, Ohio; d. Russell Brown, Rhode
Island; Peter Turney, Tennessee; B.
n.
O'Ferrall, Virginia; William G. Upham,
Wisconsin; w. C. Oates, Alabama; A.
W. McIntire, Colorado; l.. b. Morris,
Connecticut; c. A. Culberson, Texas;
W. G. Atkinson, Georgia; ]. P. Alt
geld, Illinois. Claude Matthews, Indi.
ana; E. n. Morrill,, Kansas; John g.
Evans, South Carolina.
AS the Pennsylvania and Missouri
monuments have not yet been com:
pleted, the governors and staff of
those states have not been present,
but will be on hand when the special
state dedicatory exercises are in order.
The dedication has been full of incl
dents. Every day some pathetic or
patriotic "reminiscences cropped out.
Viniards' field, the scene of the most
desperate fighting during the battle,
has been crowded with men who
fought each other during that event.
full day. They have grasped hands,
and, with voices choking with emotion,
have told the story of that days car
mage. Woods men, Davis men and
men who fought on other fields have
gathered at those spots and drunk in
with the bitter memories renewed pa
triotism and love of each other. Long
street has stood on the spot again
where he crept into the union ranks,
and other officers have visited the
places where they were wounded,
fought or gained. 1t has been a glo-
rious success and a rejecting glory for
the union.
John Sherman has gathered with the
shadow of the granite monument to
their valor. now reposing on Snodgrass
Hill Over the field the acorn Corps
is distinguishableb by the granite acorns
which surmount or adorn their monu-
ments. and in the crowds the acorn
Corps" is distinguishable by the acorn
badge worn on their breasts. The
Opdyke monument, or, as is Familiarity
known, the Tiger monument, to the
One Hundred and Twenty-ffth Ohio
volunteer infantry, on the slope of
Snodgrass Hill has been much ad-
mired by the visitors. 1t is a granite
pyramid ten feet high, on the top of
which is finely chiseled tiger in the
act of creeping from his jungle.
Reviews, parades, river excursions,
music festivals and receptions have in
the imposing ceremonies,
and Chattanooga in peace, like Chat
tanooga in war, has become famous
as hospitable city, city worth gain
ing; in the war strategic point and
soon to be strategic point in the
warfare of southern commerce. The
dedication, swiftly gliding into the
past has done more to unite the Amer
cans than all the reunions, jubilees,
etc, held since the war, and now forever
abolished, as one orator said, are the
blue and the gray, and north and
south, together there are only 'tha
red, white and blue"
MILTOS 3. 0CHS