The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1897-11-18
THE It'll Pa. CAV. MONUMENT.

Famous fields every one of them and the
slaughter terrible. But the old soldiers
going back there after more than three de-
cades hardly know the places now where
those mighty conflicts took place.
Every account Of the battle Of Chicka-
manga tells of the burning cabins" but
all the cabins have been substantially re-
built on or near the places of their location,
except frame has taken the place of log.
Every building on that great plain was de-
stroyed except the Snodgrass house, which
still stands, battle-scarIed, weathsr-beaten,
solitary veteran of the age of short-range
rifles, bayonets, smoky gun-powder, and
cannon-balls. The most striking and war
like features of the Park are the pyramids
of cannon balls which mark the positions
where famous assaults were resisted or
brave officers slain.
The Chickamauga-Ch Chattanooga Park had
it's inception in 1881, though not projected
till eight years later: 1t was when the
Army of the Cumberland held Reunion
there, and when, for the first time, the Blue
and the Gray joined hands in unfurling the
Stars and Stripes from flagstaff erected for
that purpose. 1t was my privilege to have
some pert in the Reunion, having written
poem delivered by Gen. Warren p. Edgar
Show me the men in the ranks. will show you
the might of the Nation;
Crown them with iaiIrcls and love- the battle
SCARED sons Of our peril;
Sacred the hills wherssti,ey lie, the plains that
ceived their bH ptisipal,
Bright as the pathwaysof souls treading the arch
way OF heaven. =
hills and confroat Us.
Lay their dead handSgia our hands, awed in the
silver-tongued silence,
Under the piniUns of peace, under the whispers of
proRiise,
Calmly with eye unto eye. sharing the sweet bene-
die'i0n. Ia
What would they say cd1,ld they rise. look in our
eyes and sauteus:s
Men Of the Norlh..ssf the South, nurtured in
Call it not vain tlHs sa fell bearing the ensisns
High on the SUBMITS Of fame, far the outposts
OF Freedom. Of
Men Of the North snd-th South, bitter the fount-
aims of faction,
Eschol has grapes that are sweet valleys OF milk
and of honey:
Turn from your idols isrsd forth mount to the bills
ana possess ttems sft
Fashion your temples. of peace. tribe unto tribe
adding tribute"
Have they not needed the voices? Have
they not repaired the waste places? Let
the once stragglin9- village of Chattanooga,
with its less then 1000 inhabitants, rising
from the ruin and desolation of generation
ago to city of $4,000, with fine stone
structures, electric lights and a reservoir on
the nights of old Fort Wood. make answer
Let the 300 monuments and hundreds of
markers and tablets and the multiplied
observation towers which float the fiag of a
united country, and send along the mes
sages of peace and good will, from stored
hight to stored hight, make answer
1t IS surprising how much has been ac-
cOmplished since the Blue and Gray united
in the little church at Crawfish Spring, Sept
20, 1889, IN forming The Chickamauga Me-
mortal Association, which holds It's charter
from the State of Georgia. Congress in
1890 passed an act authorizing The Chicka-
manga and Chattanooga National Park, with
the proviso that any State, North or Sou b.
engaged in those battles nil hit enter The
grounds to place their mOpumenls or mark
the spots where their troops were formed.
In conformance with this act the Penusyl-
wanna monuments have been dedicated.
The 18th PA. Cav, 1st battalion Ohio
Sharpshooters, and the 10th Ohio constituted
Rpsecrans's escort at his Headauarte
Other commands in the Park in whose
honor Pennsylvania has erected monuments
are Battery b, 26Ih Pa Art. also the nth,
18th, 18Th Pa, the 7,h and 9th Pa. Cav
popularity known as "Lochiel's"; also
knap's famous Pennsylvania battery.
The 18th Pa. was IN the ihickest of the
fight on that stubbornly -contesied Kelly's
field, having lost 800 men killed and 1877
wounded and missing. The monument
erected to the memory of the achievements
OF Pennsylvanias sons at this point is one
OF the hnest and most impressive of auy
erected by any State On the granite
pedestal are two soldier boys. One. the
cOlOr-bsarsr, has been shot and is dropping
to his knees, but is still clinging to the flag
he holds alOft while the other, still in ac-
ton, grasps The col0rs to bear them to the
fore.