Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1895-09-06

HOW BATTERY LOCATIONS ARE MARKED.
Army of the Cumberland. On sept. 10
the Chickamauga portion of the park Will
be formally dedicated the exercises being
opened at Snodgrass hill by Secretary La
mont The orators at the hill Will be
General John NJ. Palmer of Illinois and
General John Is. Gordon of Georgia. In
the evening there will be exercises at Chat
tanouga under the auspices of the society
of the Army OF the Tennessee General
Granville Dodge presiding. General q. ..
Howard, [. :. A., and General Joseph
Wheeler of Alabama will deliver the set
speeches. The Chattanooga section OF the
park will be dedicated on the next day. the
orators being General Charles II. Gtosvcn-
or of Ohio and General William II. Bate
of Tennessee. In the evening there will be
exercises at 8 o'clock conducted by vetcr-
ans of the Army of the Potomac and the
Army Of Northern Virginia. General Ed
ward G. Walthall of Mississippi will preside
and the speakers will be General Orlando
Smith and Governor William G. Oates OF
Alabama.
The president of the United States and
his cabinet, many governors, generals ana
other officers and officials of high and low
| degree are expected to be present, the
south taking as much interest as the
north. ONO Will perhaps make the great
est showing of any one state. Governor
Mckinley ana his entire stan Will be on the
ground, and the number of Veterans from
that state Will quito likely exceed those
from any other, as the number OF mcmurl-
ais set up for Ohio suldlcrs-5o-ls in eN-
cess of those erected for the fallen of any
other commonwealth. Ohio has expended
S05, 600 ON her monuments and New York
has appropriated So1 coo, but in place OF
many memorials the latter state has
planned to erect one magnificent obserNa-
ton tower on Lookout mountain at IA cost
of SS3, 900, the remainder going to the cr-
cction of nine tablets This plan has not
been approved by the general government,
but New York will be well represented at
the opening all the same. OF the other
states Illinois leads with nearly 40 monu-
ments, and Indiana, Wisconsin, Minnesota,
Michigan, Missouri, Kansas, MasSachu-
setts Pennsylvania and Tennessee follow.
In all the state monuments number nearly
$50, and when all have been erected will
have cost nearly 800, 600.
Besides, the general government has
marked about ,, 900 points of interest with
tablets and erected eight pyramids of
shells showing where brigade commanders
fell The battery stands are marked by
cannon mounted on carriages of the type
used during the battles, and there arc
about 20 of these memorials. All in ali II
will be seen that the number of memorial
objects is very great, and this number will
be increased enormously in the years tC
come, when the southern states generally
follow the example set by so many of the
northern ones. The work of improving
the battleiields has been carried on with
the idea of preserving its appearance rs ii
was in 1868, the only changes consisting
of road improvement and the memorials
Among the most important tasks with
which the national commission has had tc
grapple has been that of relocating the va
rio,,. IiDos Of battIo and tho linnS of aartI,