The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1895-05-30

historical accuracy. All monuments
must be either of durable stone or
bronze. and all inscriptions must con-
form to the official reports and be pure
ly historical. The Chickamauga Ma
tional park commission has been busy
constantly since the park was author
ICED by congress in 1890 in studying
and locating the fighting lines and po~
sitions on each side. in cooperation
with state commissions composed of
men who were in the battles and they
have now nearly finished their work.
The states having commissions to clear
up disputed points with respect to
their troops at Chickamauga are Ill
inois. Indiana. Iowa. Michigan. Mime
sofa. Wisconsin. Missouri. Kentucky,
Tennessee, Ohio. New York. Pennsyl-
vania. New Jersey, Massachusetts. AL
ALBANIA. Arkansas, Florida. Georgia.
Mississippi. North and South Carolina.
Texas and Virginia. Many OF these
commissions during the past year have
visited the field and made excellent
progress in the work of location. Some
of the states have each appropriated
as much as 100000 for monuments in
the park.
Under the recent law establishing a
national park at Gettysburg. intro
duced bv Gen. Daniel T.. Sickles and
approved i'm February last. the govern
ment will at once proceed To acquire
the 500 acres and rights of way over
avenues owned by the Gettysburg Bat
tlefield Memorial associa tion. and also
to acquire other lands on the battle
field by purchase and condemnation.
Additional roads will be opened and
tablets will be set up definitely mark
ing the lines of the troops on both
sides. The rights. however. of states
and military organizations to plats OF
ground on which markers and mon
uments have already been placed will
i'm no wise be prejudiced. The Get
tysburg National park commission.
like that of the Chickamauga park.
will cooperate with state commits
sions in fixing positions that are not
yet determined.
\ special and noteworthy feature OF
the Gettysburg park. authorized i'm the
Sicklcs law, will be n huge bronze tab
let on pedestal bearing a medallion
likeness of President Lincoln and the
whole of his immortal address on the
occasion of the National cemetery ded-
ication at Gettysburg on Nov. 10. 1868.
There are now nearly 10000 worth
of monuments on the Gettysburg field
erected by states and regimental or
CARNATIONS and military societies. But
until "a couple of years ago there were
no lines of battle marked. and a visitor
to the field. noticing the absence of
monuments on the confederate side.
would be prompted to ask, Against
whom were the Union troops fighting?"
This lack will now be supplied. and the
lines of all troops will be carefully in
dicated by tablets. as at Chickamauga,
without censure and without praise.
and. above all, with historical accur-
acy.
The Shiloh Military Park. for which
congress passed an authorizing act i'm
December last. under the lead of Rep
resentative David h. Henderson of
Iowa. will comprise about 5000 acres.
woods and farming land. over 1000
cOnfederates lie buried on that hard
fought field april and Z. 1s62D and in
the National cemetery are $500 union
dead. a commission like those of
Chickamauga and Gettysburg is about
to take charge of the ground and after
the land shall have been acquired will
at once begin locating the battle lines
and sites for tablets and monuments
for the 25S organizations engaged I'm
the battle The arrangement Of roads
and brigade sections viii be placed un-
der the supervision of the best land
scape architects procurable by the war
department The regulations as to
tablets and monuments will be uniform
for all three parks-Chickamauga, Get
tysburg and Shiloh.
Thus far $3.50. 900 have been granted
by congress toward the Chickamauga
Park alone. The sums appropriated
for the expenses of marking Gettys-
burg lines before the authorize ton Of
the park on that field aggregate $li5.-
O0O and these, with the $1,000 carried
on the Sickles act. make a total To date
for Gettysburg Of 500, 600 For begin
ming Shiloh Park $4,000 was granted in
the Henderson act. and inasmuch as
land there is cheap. the cost of the
land alone is limited to $4,000. The
remainder and future sums yet to be
appropriated will be applied to the
restoration of the grounds as they were
i'm 1852 and To the erection OF monu-
ments and tablets and to the building
of roads.