Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-06-29
TO HEROES OF SHILOH
shiloh Commission Selects Inscrip-
lions TO BE Placed on the NIonu-
ments at Battlefield Park.

ments ut Battlefield Park.
Special to Times Republican.
Des Moines, June 29.-The Shiloh COM
mission in session here yesterday Sc
lected Inscriptions for the monuments to
the Iowa fallen. Major ID. w. Reed the
commission attended the meeting and
was given copies of the Inscriptions
chosen. As soon as notification of the
acceptance of the designs and inscrip-
tons IS received from the national COM
missoin is received the contracts fer the
monuments vii be let. 1t will take per-
| haps a yearto complete them.
Fifty thousand dollars Will be spent
| by Iowa for the commemoration of the
| work of Iowa eleven regiments on the
Shiloh battlefield OF this. S25O is to
| pay for one large state monument: ST.,
900 is for the expenses of the commits
| sion, and $2,0oD each is TO be spen, on
the eleven reeimental monuments.
Iowa will probably rank third in the
! order of the erection of Its monuments
on the famous field. The Illinois monu-
tnents have recently been completed.
| Ohio workmen are on the ground. and
the Ohio monuments will be completed
within few months. The legislatures
of nearly dozen other states have al
ready made appropriations for the mon
uments and bills FOR similar approprl-
ations are row before the legislatures
of three or four cher states. In all
| probability the Iowa monuments will be
next in order after Ohio.
The inscriptions for the state monu-
ment We're prepared by the commission
ers jointly Each commission suggested
the inscription .or his respective regl-
mental monument, and all We're adopted
/ BY the commission as body.
On the first face of the granite state
4 monument carved in the stone IN let
| tiers SO deep that time cannot efface
/ them, will be the following:
This monumo MT is erected by the
state OF Iowa in commemoration Of the
llos .ty. patriotism and bravery Of her
/! sons who on this battlefield OF Shiloh
on the sixth and seventh day of April,
| "A. ID. 1862. fought to Perpetuate the sa
cred union OF the states
On the second face will stand this eN-
tract from Lincoin's immortal Gettys-
burg address:
The world VIII little note nor long
remember what we say here, but it can
never forget what they did here
Major S. II. NJ. Byers, OF ioes Moines
contributed the following original verses
1 for the third face:
Brave Of the brave, the twice five
thousand men.
| Who all that day stood in the battles
cbanl.
! Fame held them dear and with immort-
!. al pen
rock"
i A simple record of the regiments tina
fought for the Union, on the field, undel
Iowa leaders will be the fourth face O.
: the monument, as follows:
t Iowa regiments engaged at the BATH
, of Shiloh. April 6 and I, A. D., 1862:
!. Second infantry, Lieut.. Col. Jane
Baker.
Third infantry, Maj. j. w. Stone
Sixth infantry. Capt. j. w. Williams
{ Seventh infantry. Lieut.. Col. j. c
: Parrot.
i, Eighth infantry. Col. j. l.. Geddes.
, Eleventh infantry. Lieut.. Col. Wm
/ Hall.
Twelfth infantry. Col. j. j. Woods.
Thirteenth infantry. Col. NJ. NJ. Crock
, err
Fourteenth Infantry, Col. W. T. Shaw
Fifteenth infantry, Col. n. T. Reid.
Sixteenth infantry Col. Alexande
Chambers.