The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-07-17
GR|GSBY'S ROUGH RIDERS
Scenes on the Tented Plains OF
Chickamauga Park.
GRAND OLD MONUMENTS
Emotions That These Reminders OF the
Old War Awaken in the Minds OF
the Present-Day Soldiers-Char-
acteristics OF the Men.

picture of Camp Thomas, sent by the
Standards correspondent with Troop
+. will make pleasant reading for the
( friends of the Rough Riders under
Colonel Grigsby:
Camp George II. Thomas. Sd u. s.
Vol. Cavalry. Chickamauga Park, Ga.
July lot is a strsng scene that
greets the eye of the visitor as he en-
tiers the park. White tents shimmering
in the sunlight like daisies in a mead
ow: white tents g~linting through the
forest green; white tents looking down
from every elevation and em~inence;
white tents reposing in the valleys and
depressions and under the trees; white
tents in the open, stoutly defyine the
almost vertical rays of the sun: white
tents to the right and left and all
around. Not the peaceful tents of the
shepherds, for armed sentinels walk
back and forth. Guards keep moving;
soldiers lounge in squads or drill in
battalions, or stroll about by twos or
tours. Flags are silently waving in the
lazy breeze. Gun and bayonets glls-
ten in the sunlight; sabers clank.
The government has dom much 20
beautify Chickamauga in the matter Of
BODYBUILDING and raising OF monu-
VII "a 6h1'N ~ - AF~A'%g 49,
been expended on the 1900 acres.
Monuments have been erected TO mark
the spots where fought or fell brave
men Of 80 odd years ago-side by side
are the memorials to the federal and
confederate dead. 1t is right for a ma
ton to honor its dead and p~erpetuate
the memories of Its heroes. 1t is the
qualification OF a dominant desire. All
nations Of intelligence have reared
monuments and chiseled tablets, paint
ed pictures. carved statuary or fash
Toned images TO prolong the memory
of themselves. their kline n time.
The monument which the present age
erects will long outlive their builders,
and the chiseled inscriptions. brief but
pregnant and meaningrul, will be a
message of valor to the future. But 10
is not of future ages we so much think.
These stones. / fancy, are not built by
nations wholly for the purpose of hon
oring those whose deeds they record.
Rather are they the expression of the
general human protest against annihi-
lation. We would live. not to-day
merely, but always. Hence we write
books, build monuments. endow col
leges, bring forth chlldren-our young
err selves-cherish grandchildren-other
victories of ourselves over time-and
in all ways strive for an Immortality
of the body as we'll as the soul. 1her1
are underlying and hidden motives
that move us to do many things whe'
we thlnk other and entirely diferen
sentiments actuate us. The world a
: large knows no more about the phil.
osophy of csusation han many OF
those who profess to know all about II
which is nothing.
Monuments attract the attention ni
old soldiers who visit the park, and
especially those who were engaged or
this field. The supplemented ruralisi
who returns after 80 years To find the
spot where he fought and starved and
suffered marked by an imposing an
substantial whereon are re
corded his deeds Of daring and valor
feels transported. For him the gran.
ite possesses every element of perma'
nency n indestructibility, 1t is
: sort Of petrihed fame, and ossified NOR
tally. To those within hearing he ex'
; patiates volubly and with a generous
If not a tiresome amplitude of detail
on the days when he was here, whert
he stood, where he fought, where hi:
captain fell, and so on, and he proudly
points TO the shaft as a vindicatlon o.
/. his veracity. To the larger vision, 1
monume has less OF. meaning. Mef
who fought ~valiantly on the spot nov
= marked. and who have continued tn
| conflict with undimlnished vigor in civ
/ II life in civic ways, winning laureIi
: and multiplied successes. are less Wis
4 IDLY moved and less given to enthu
siasm. Perhsp s II Is a they havt
schooled themselves in the secret D
holding the emotions in subsection
. their feelings are under constant am
= rigorous discipline. Possibly 1t is be
! cause they feel more sensibly the IA
tisue of the conflict. Perhaps II Is tina
i hey see with clearer vision the fatuit'
of ambition and the futility n worth
4 lessness OF victory. From the foot q
the monument and out into the pas
are strewn the unshrived corpses o
dead years that were sacrificed to tn
o idolatrous worship of phantoms, or .
e the gathering of Dead Sea fruit. TIL
vanity OF il all il crushing. For. afte
all, a monument. however grand an
imposing il may be, will ultimatel
a crumble into dust. Its life 10 a life O
/, centuries. Ii is a mere atom from IN
monuments-God's monuments, who's
q lives are aeons. The one is In expires
= sion of a human aspiration after i'm
mortality, a defense against oblivion
the other Is an adumbration of IN
Infinite viii. an admonition that If
is transitory. hat all things must pas
- away and that even the heavens wi
% be rolled up as a scroll.
10 Crowds are always interesting. an
n crowds OF soldiers especially SO. Nv
:, with the soldiers al ChiCkamaus
there are perhaps 10000 a day of civil
II ians. counting visitors and attaches (,
= different commands. There are thou
- ands Of mules and horses s~cattera
;, about in different stockades and a
tended by a small army Of men. TheI
are hundreds Of mules and horses tot
somely Juggling at army wagons hau
ing government supplies. There al
4, freight trains rolling into the depo
= n passenger rains coins and con
!. ing. There are acres of covered was
= ons. fountains Of wheels. mounds
= small cannon, now valuable as o
> brass only. There are batteries of a
"a tillery ready for service. and regimen
!, of cavalry awaiting orders. There Is
comprehensiveness about the encaml
= ment. and an orderliness and cleanl
y ness that testihes 10 the carefulness