The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1903-04-10
INDIANA MONUMENT.
Dedicated to Hoosier State Troops VIII.
Fell at Shiloh.

Dedicated to Hoosier State Troops WhG.
Fell at Shiloh.
Shiloh. Tenn, April S.--Tile Indiana
monument on the Shiloh battlefield was
dedicated today with interesting cere-
.lonies. Several hundred Indtanans,
including Governor Durbin II staff,
inent citizens. were present. Addresses
Were made by Senator Beveridge. AS.
sistant Secretary of War Sanger. Gov
ernor Durbin and others. Senator Bev-
eridge said In part:
Since all must die, how fortunate it
is to die for an undying cause 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 piood was shed to
make the American people a single ma
ton and for no lesser purpose. All 9TH
cr results of the civil war were Incl
dent to that. And SO they died. 40 less
for the people north than for the people
south; for an American people, undi-
vided and individual.
A Glorious M~artyrdom.
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 and elsewhere.
'Eow little those words southern
and '%northern!' Let us forget them.
How much grander the single word
'American!' But when men die for
ideas, who dare denounce them all and
utterly? The loftiest quality Of human
character is tolerance; the Hottest but
one, and that M is Justice. Tolerance
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 been
erected to perpetuate the heroism of the
soldiers of Indiana. 1t 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 n students know the
history OF it's 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 it's
soldiers without remembering the splen-
did work Of the governor, Oliver p.
Morton, whose patriotic and effective
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 hat he
started on its 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
n1tude of the struggle. Time does not
permit me to refer to the names OF the
Indianans, the heroes who died here, or
OF those who lived to bear with mod
esty through later years the laurels
which they won on this battlefield.
The federal governmen in accepting
these monuments becomes charged witb
the duty of guarding them and SEP
ing fresh the memory Of the heroes, the
record of the deeds they commemorate.
h memory Of the brave soldiers. who
fought on this and other battlefields will
die, for SO long as the country en-
dures their examples will help men and
women III years yet to come to strive
courageoUsly toward hat high stand
ard to which every American should as
pire."