The National tribune., 1895-07-25
REGIMENTAL MONUMENTS.
Commands Not at Gettysburg and Chicka-
mauga Should be Rrcounizcd.

mauSa Should be Recognized.
EDITOR NATIONAL TRIBUNE: Is it not time
for tue many hundreds of regiments that we're
not so fortunate as 10 be in the battles of Get
tysburg and Chickamsuga should cry halt I"
on the expenditures Of the Legislatures in the
matter OF erecting battlefield monuments?
Very few, If any. of the men who were en-
gagged in equally brave and arduous work OBJ
ject 10 the erection Of the monuments at
Gettysburg, because OF the fact that it was a
decisive battle; but is it fair that the repi.
ments that were so fortunate as to be there
and at Chickamauga should have mopu-
ments erected at the expense of their States
when We stop to think that over 500 regi-
ments of the Middle and Eastern States were
not present at Gettysburg or Chickanauga but
were engaged under the direction of the Ma
tional Government IN equally hard aud cour-
ageous work in the defense of the National
Government, have no monument anywhere?
Take for instance. the 300 fighting regi-
ments as noted in Fox's Rcgimental Losses
and we find the following regiments with
out possible chance Of being recogn lied on
any of the many fields which they fought:
I'd Conn. II. A.; 9TH. 10Th aud 1lth Conn:
lst \. Y. Dragons. Cd n. Y. (lIarriss Light
9TH n. Y. II. A., Sth. 9th and l4th \. Y. II. A.;
9th, 46h. 49th, 5lst. 18th Slst, 93d, l00th l0Gth
l09th, ll2th, Hath, ll5th, Il7th. l2lst, l42d
I6slh l69th aud l70th n. Y: lst N ]. Cav:
18Th Pa. Csv 45tb. 4Sth. 49th, 50ih. 5Ist. 55tb,
6lst, 10th, Saith 96th, 9Th. Tooth, l02d, 18th,
l2lst, and lSSth Pa; 1st Md, 9th Md. Cav: 5th,
S3d, Both, 33d. Gath, Both. 3sth 46th, 49th, 55th
9th 9Sih, and l26th Ohio: 18th Ky: 39th and
40th Ind; Sth, 9Th, llth. 18th. GOTH 2Ist 3Oth,
3lst, 34th, 39th doth, 4sth. 55th. and 93d Ill;
LIST Mich. Cav, 5rh Mich. Sharpshooters ID
9Th, 18th. Goth, ana 9th Mich; 5th, 10Th. 3eth,
and 9th Wis; I'd, 81, 5th, 9th, 7th, 18th. 22d
and gath Iowa; llth. 18th. 18TH and 26th Mo-;
2lst, 2sth. 35th, Both. 5gtb. 57th, and 5sth Mass
LIST Ne. III. A., 9th, 6th, 9Th and 3lst Me-. Sd
9th, 9TH. 9Th, and 11th n, Y; lst VT III. A., I'd
3D. 4th, 9th 10th. and 18th VT; Ist Kan: 18th
u. s C. ]. and 5sth Mass. (colored). all engaged
from New Berne, N. C.. to Vicksburg. Knox
vile, Pea Ridge, and other hard-fought battle
fields, have no marker.
None Of these regiments but saw equally
hazardous service. Is il not gross injustice TO
them, and 10 many Others who did their full
duty as soldiers, lost more men in battle, and
who are denied any recognition ia National or
State Legslaturesp
j ask that the Union regiments that have
not been recognized will without delay enter
their protest against any further expenditure
of money on the part OF the National or State
Legislatures until there is some assurance that
the men who did equal service shall be remem-
bered. 1t does seem strange to me that any
regiment. no matter how deserving, should
under any circumstances be entitled to three
monuments, TO be erected at the expense Of the
State, while other regiments that Gid equal
service are left in the background.
Now, comrades, do not be backward about
this mattor. Many of the regiments have no
historian, while others are we'll written up by
newspaper men; but let us go 10 work and
assert our rights. aud If we cannot secure equal
recognition with regiments that did no more
than we did. let Us do everything we can to
stay any further expenditure Of money on
others.
What we ask is simple justice. Our service
was just as valuable, OF as much importance
rs many Of those who are having two or three
monuments erected at the e1p pense Of the State
w. w. T., Erie, Pa.