The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1903-04-10
INDIANA MONUMENT.
Dedicated to Hoosier State Troops VIII.
Fell at Shiloh.

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Shiloh. Tenn, April 8.-The Indiana
dedicated today with interesting cere-
monies. Several hundred %Indianans,
including Governor Durbin and staff.
General Lew Wallace and other prom
inent citizens, were present. Addresses
were made by Senator Beveridge, AS
sistant Secretary of War Sanger, Gov
crnor Durbin n others. Senator Bev-
eridge said in part:
Since all must die, how fortunate 1t
is TO die for an undying III and un.
der the approving eye OF history. So
fell those who gave their lives to save
the life Of the nation; and history re-
cites no nobler story than the story of
their sacrifice. Their blood was shed to
make the American people a single ma
ton and for no lesser purpose. All 9TH
er results of the civil war were incl
dent to that. And so they died, no less
for the people north than for the people
south; for an American people, undi-
vided and individual.
A Glorious Martyrdom.
Their martyrdom was to establish
forever a brotherhood, of the flag, a re-
lationship so lofty that 1t cannot see
sections, within the boundaries of the
republic. Let us who live be tolerant
of the views of those heroes of the other
side Who died before the guns Of our
heroes here Inc elsewhere.
"How little those words southern
and northern Let US forget them.
How much grander the single word
tAmerican!' But when men die for
ideas, who dare denounce them all and
utterly? The Hottest quality Of human
character is tolerance; the Hottest but
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and loving kindness and charitable for
%giveness; on both sides, through all the
land, sweet reasonableness."
Secretary Sanger's Address.
Assistant Secretary of War Sawye,
said in part: IN the absence of the
secretary of war it is my privilege to
receive on behalf of the United States
those monuments, which have I beer
erected to pe~rpetuate the heroism of the
soldiers of Indiana. It is fitting the
state should make an enduring record
of the part her sons took in the battle
and of the courage and devotion with
which they poured out their life blood.
The older men here will remember
the enthusiasm with which Indiana re-
sponded to the call of President Lincoln
for volunteers and Students know the
history of its soldiers in the armies of
Grant and Buell. at Mills Springs, and
although this region in the operations
all through this region in the operations
We cannot think of the state and its
soldiers without remembering the splen.
did work of the governor, Oliver P.
Morton, whose patriotic and effective
labor left a legacy of which his state is
SO justly proud.
First Red Cross Boat.
Nor, as we stand here today on his
battlefield and think of the suffering OF
the wounded, can we forget that he
started on it's mission OF mercy the first
steamboat to arrive here fotry-one
years ago today with surgeons and
medical supplies. Shiloh was not only
the first great battlefield of the war
but Was the first battle which gave the
country a realizing sense of the mag.
nitude of the struggle. Time does not
permit me to refer to the names of the
~lnd1anans, the heroes who died here, OF
OF those who lived to bearlw with mod.
esty through later years the laurels
which they won OF this battlefield. 4
THE federal governmen in accepting
these monuments becomes charged WITH
the duty of guarding them and -.ep
Ing fresh the memory of the heroes, the
record of the deeds they commemorate
The m of the brave soldiers WIFI
fought on this and other b%attleields will
never die, for so long as the country en-
dures their examples will help men ant
women in years yet to come to striv,
courageously toward that high stand
ard to which every American should as
pire."