Omaha daily bee., 1902-05-19
NEWS OF INTEREST FROM IOWA.

merely an apology Tor a more appropriate
What is the meaning of this ceremony?
Merely, an expression OF respect and graft
tude of the friends and comrades OF Colonel
Kinsman? Let us hope that no one will
leave this sacred spot with such an idle
thought. Far better to have left the bones
assimilation with the soil sanctihed as the
spot OF his glorious death than that his
burial at home should furnish the occa-
sion to indulge such a display Of unpard-
enable vanity. This shaft. endurabfe as
human skill can construct. yet but tenn
porary as compared with flames eternal
record. stands for the loyalty, the devo-
ton, the gratitude, the liberality and the
patriotism of our people. 1t Is Colonel
preston of the gratitude and remembrance
OF his comrades and friends. Yet il pro-
claims that, even in these lays OF extreme
commerciallsm. our country demands our
highest .endeavor and most loyal devotion.
II proelaims the security OF American
dence of our people in the constitu ton
and the perpetuity of the union. 1t pro-
claims the lasting loyalty Of Iowa and her
and for which Kinsman died.
Former Comrades Present.
Among the members Of the Fourth Iowa
here yesterday were: Grenville NJ. Dodge,
colonel. Council Bluffs; s. M. Craig, cap
tain Company B, Council Bluffs. H. G..
Ankeny, captain Company H, Corning, Ia;
~ Duib Chf Ndpldlh COulphuy H. COTn-
ing, Ia; s. F. Stiles. quartermaster SER
geant, Fremont, Neb.; Wallace McFadden.
Company B, Council Bluffs; William H..
Davy CCampbelD. Company B., Council
Bluffs; G. w. Tucker, Company B, Persia,
Ia: r. N. Merriam. Company B. Council
Bluffs; B. F. Walton, Company B., Little
Sioux, Ia; william Bixler, Company H,
Corning. Ia; A.. w. Ames, Company II,
Alton, Ia; sturgis Williams, Company A,
Percival. Ia. Clark d. Lawrence, Company
II, Corning, Ia; ]. T.. Lambson, Company
A; John P. Finley. Company d, Ger
ing, Neb.; Hugh W. Goss, Company
B., Council Bluffs; J. w. Frey, Company H,
Corning, Ia; James Widner, Company H,
Corning, Ia. ]. T. Hopper, Company A,
Omaha Scott Rice, Dodge battery; Frank
Dalton. Company A, Glenwood.
These members Of the Thirty-third Iowa
regiment participated in the exercises: j.
A.. Strain. Company G. Des Moines: I. G.
Stewart, Company @. Primghar, Ia; M. A.
Tucker, Company X, Beatty, Kan; Hugh
W. Goss. Company E, Council Bluffs; ]. r.
Wilcox, Company G., Beatty, Kan; William
Porter, Company G, Prairie City, Ia;
August Seaman. Company l, Atlantic, Ia;
Wall Miller, Company F, Clarinda, Ia;
M. w. Patterson, Company F. villisca, Ia;
Jasper Long, Company F, Clarlnda, Ia;
E. P. Ashford, Company A. Rondell, S. D.;
l.. B. McAlpine, Company F, Clarinda, Ia.
G.. G.. George, Company F, Beaver City,
Neb.; ]. e. Irwin, Company r, Clarinda,
Ia. Thomas C. Small, Company X, Pawnee
City, Neb.; J. W. Deweese, Company G,
Lincoln. Neb.; w. T. Cameron, Company
D. Corydon, Ia.
Lieutenant straights EuIoEy.
Lieutenant J. A. Straight Of Washington,
D.. c., who with Jesse Pruitt Of Winterset,
Ia, located the grave of Colonel Kinsman
upon the southern battlefield where he met
his death thirty-nine years ago, delivered
the eulogy.
After sketchlng the career OF the subject
OF his eulogy from his birth in the province
OF Nova Scotia under British rule to his
connection with the late d. C. Bloomer in
the law business in Council Bluffs, be said:
When the great shadows of the terrible
SIvli war came upon us In 1861 and the!
was flashed to the excited and
loyal people of this city that Sumter had
been fired upon, knots OF men gathered
whispering to each other, fearing lest list
ening friend might differ from friend,
should they proclaim their loyalty and
raise. A young man of stalwart frame
and clear blue eye emerged from the Of
nee OF Z. {. Bloomer, one of the old-time
land marks OF Broadway, and announced
In the most positive manner that II the
men of the south had fired upon Sumter
adopted country with his life, II need be.
IN a Few hours a company of men was en-
rolled and General G. NJ. Dodge was
elected captain and our hero one of that
company. Afterward this company became
the nucleus of Company b of the Fourth
Iowa.
AS we turn for a moment from this mill
itary history OF the man we revere and
today seek to honor, let us think of him
huence and Inspiration of a foreign coun-
try and flag. taught by fond parents to
would have n See9 but Su 'n natur sGIVe tbas itbi lt
young man should hesitate in doing the
thing he thought was right. His nature
and his heart was patriotic to the core. He
loved America for what It promised to
was not an idle dream. but a stern re-
ality. a fixed principle in which his whole
life was to be a part. He believed his
was ready to do his part in that saving.
him there was but one duty-one plain
path TO follow. and while with others con-
verstng on the portent OF the news and
the direful consequences of a civil war he
turned into the office, took down a small
pavement and while waving it to the breeze
began calling upon volunteers to join him
In defending that flag against all would-be
the vast loyal army of patriots-'twas
thus he became an American by second
birth. He was born again to go forth 10
do and die for his beloved, yet adopted
flag and country. He was a born soldier
all that the term implies. and yet a
man.
Following a short address by ]. W. De-
weese of Lincoln, Neb., who served under
Colonel Kinsman In the Twenty third Iowa,
the exercises were brought to a close by
the hand playing America"
Description of Monument.
The monument Of gray granite is twenty
feet in height and consists OF a rounded
shaft eighteen inches in diameter at the
base and tapering slightly to the top, on
which is a large granite ball. The shaft
rests on a broad granite base. Carved on
the shaft Is an American flag which encir-
cles the column from near the top to the
base and is brought out in relief by be-
ing polished In contrast to the rougher
surface Of the shaft. The cap block be-
meath the shaft has a border OF large stars
and below is the main block Of the base.
which. on three sides bears inscriptions,
and on the fourth the bronze medallion OF
Colonel Kinsman. The medallion is a life
size has relief bust OF the colonel In full
and shows him wearing a full
beard. as he did at the time OF his death.
The base stone bears the name "Kinsman''
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