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Altogether the flag staff is u mo t
valuable memento.

the dedication, but the elaborate
Masonic ceremonies .ould have tnken
TOO III ,ch time from the limited time
available, 80 this functi) IN had to be
reluctantly dispensed with. The
monument has q corner stono and in
it will be deposited:
Col Dickrrt'a valuable sketch O
K"rshaw's bri gadn.
2 Col G. |. Walkers sketch Of ST..
10th South Carolina regiment, type
written manuscript.
3. Sketch Of 10 and 10Th Snull
Carolina regiments, Gen. e lison ca
pers for Adjutant General OF South
Carolina.
4. Sketch Of 18th and 24th SuutI
Carolina regiments, by Gen Ellison
Capers.
S Sketch of Culpoppor'4 battery.
6. Rolls Of 10Th and 24th SoutL
Carolina regiments and Culpoppor'A
battery--the rolls Of Kershaw's bri
$ade being in Capt. Dlckert's booL
md Of 10Th South Carolina regimen
ia Col Walkers book.
7. Commissions as follows:
Commissions appointed under an.
thority of the State of South Carolina
to locate positions Of South Carolinn
troops, and to erect Il monument aud
markers to the same, on tho battle.
field Of Chickamauga
First commission, to locate posi-.
ton Of South Carolinn troops, visited
the battlefield, May 18th, 1894, an'
located the position thereof:
Gen Hugh L. Farley, Adjutan'
and Inspector General, South Caro-
lima; Major G X Henson, Capt E. j
Goggans, Major j. D. Lncas, veteran
K"r~haw's brigade.
Gen Q. l. Walker, Capt II +. Me.
Caslan, l.. p. Harling, Veterans of
10Th and 10Th South Carolina regi
ments.
Capt Thos J. AEpleby, veteran OF
9th South Carolina regiment.
Capt j. +. Culpepper, Lieut.. PER-.
Moses, veterans of Culpepper's bat
terry.
The above commission recommend.
ed that suitable monument and mark
ers be erected. In response thereto
the:
Second commission WAS appointed
nnder authority of joint resolution
the General Assembly, D"c' mb"'
%, 1904, to select designs and spcnr'
estimates for said monument and
mar kers.
Col G. Irwin Walker, Major j. D
McLucaa, Major 9. X Hrnd-rson.
The above second mmmsaion 90
lected designs, secured estimates and
reported to the "'t session Of th,.
General Assembly, but no nppropri-
alton was made.
At it's Convention Of 1890 the
South Carolina Division, United Con
federate Veterans, decided to memo
rIallze the General Assembly and
urge that proper respect be paid to
South Carolina's sons who fought and
died at Chickamauga, In response
thereto tho
Third commission was authorized
by the General Assembly at it's y. q.
sion Of 1900, and an appropriation
OF $4,000 was made for the erection
Of said monument and marknrs, to
be erected by the commission, at such
places as it may decide on. The.
commisaion was to consist OF the Gov
enor, Adjutant and Inspector Genrr-
al and three Confederate Veterans.
1t was as follows:
Governor Miles B McSweenny,
chairman; Con. G. Irvine Walker,
secretary, Veteran; Con. j. w. Floyd,
Adjutant and Inspector General,
South Carolina, Veteran, but ap.
pointed OK offiolo; Maj,r G X. Hen.
deraon. Col. j. Harvey Wilson, Vet.
Grams.
Under the supervision Of the above
third commission South Carolina
monument, in the cornerstone of
which this rec 'rd is dsposited. was
erected, 1t was dedicated, unveiled
aid turned over to commissioners OF
the Chickamauga and Chattanooga
N ,tional Park this 9th day of May,