New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1896-06-03
THE NEW ULM MON UMENT.
Judge Plandreau Oorrects an Error Made
BY Observer H. p. Hall.

In the Minneapolis Journal of the
525th, Il. 2. Hall. who visited New Ulm
during the Carnival, made a statement
to the effect that the Inscriptions on the
Sioux Monument in this city represented
Judge Charles E. Flandreau as being one
Of the fallen heroes.
Flandreau resented this error in let
ter to the Journal on the 9th which
was as follows:
II. p. Hall has contributed some ve1y
interesting papers to your journal recent
ly, under the head of Observations
and his historical statements have been
unusually accurate, but I find in the one
about the Birch Coulie monument, which
appeared in yesterdays issue, very
serious error, and as it concerns myself
desire to correct it. After relating the
manner in which the law was violated by
the committee having charge of the er,c-
hon of the Birch Coulie monument. both
as to its location and its inscriptions,
among the latter of which is erroneous
ly recorded the killing Of Judge J. ].
Egan, who was not killed at all, he goes
on to say that 'Similar error IS inscribed
on the New Ulm monument, where,
among the names of those who fell in
defense of that town, our well.known
and very y-muCh-alive citizen, Charles E.
Flandrau, is recorded In this state
ment Mr.. Hall is entirely at fault; moth
ing Of the kind appears on the New Ulm
monument. The full inscription on that
monument can be found in the second
edition of Volume of minnesota iu
the Civil War and Indian v arr on pages
818e and 81Sf. The committee which
designed and erected this monument con-
suited me about the inscriptions to be
placed upon it, and I would hardly have
recorded my own taking off among the
incidents of the fight, twenty-nine years
after its occurrence.
On the following day old Hall came
back at him after this fashion:
notice that Judge Flandrau objects
to being dead, even on "the record" and
no one rejoices more than do, that he
is here to demur. did not, in my al
luslon to the New Ulm monument, ina.
gine that Judge Flandrau supplied his
dead men," though knew he was con-
suited by the committee having charge
of the erection of the monument. Nv
authority for the statement made was
reading the inscription fro the monu-
ment itself, and not from the printed
pages of the minnesota History of the
Civil War; to which the Judge refers
me: In that history the inscriptions on
the New Ulm monument are given, as he
says, and part of the inscription is head
ed" Under that main heading there is,
in the printed books, this sub-head in
smaller type: 'sCaptain Charles F.. Flan-
drau's Company, st. Peter Frontier
Guards" Underneath this caption appear
in the same print the names of the sew
eral killed, in plain reading matter type.
feel quite certain, from my personal
inspection of the monument, that either
owing to the exlgencies Of space, or
lack of experience in headlines and pune
tuation, the stone cutter has engraved
Judge Flandrau's name thereon in a
manner to be confusing, for I remember
l took especial pains to read it over half
a dozen times, in order to be able to
properly congratulate the Judge on my
return home that he was improperly re-
corded, which I took especial occasion
to do. 1 am sufficiently glad that the
judge is alive to concede that he only
appears in the sub head and not in the
actual sscorpus deficit" Still mean to
ask the judge to take a day of some-
time, and go up to New Ulm. with me
just to look over that monument and see
what difference is possible between the
work Of the stone cutter aud printer.
After reading the above d Review re-
porter took the trouble to inspect the
monument and the particular inscription
in question and il must inform Hall that
he is wrong and that Flandreau;s right.
We can only account for his error on the
grounds that the day on which he saw
the monument was terribly windy and
almost binding with dust, or on the
ground that old Hall himself had enjoyed
too literally the companionship of In
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