The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1905-07-13

preston to his men on going into bat
tie was, "Give 'em hades, boysw Gen.
Gordon writes in his autobiography:
ION one occasion as the bishop general
rode along his lines when they were
charging the works in front and as the
rebel yell rang out his natural enthu-
siasm carried him for the moment off
his balance. In the exhilaration Of the
charge the bishop was lost in the sol
dier, and he shouted: Give 1t to EN-,
boys! Give 'em what Gen. Cheatham
saysr Chicago News.
Soldiers Monuments.
Within the last half-dozen years
great sums of money have been ex-
pended by many States of the Union
IN the erection of memorial mcnu-
ments to their soldier dead on various
historic battlefields, writes Rem
Bache
The work is still going on, and the
government is doing much to help, $61,-
500 being given by Congress recently
in one lump to pay for suitable ceno-
taphs in honor Of regular army organ
izations which fought at Gettysburg.
Meanwhile, the great fighting ground
at Chickamauga, now n national park,
is getting to be thickly sprinkled with
works of art in imperishable granite
and bronze, which record the deeds of
both Union and Confederate troops,
and the same sort of patriotic enter
prise is being manifested at Antietam,
at Vicksburg and at the field of Shiloh.
The finest monuments on any of our
battlefields are now being put up at
Nicksburg. One of them, erected by
the State of Illinois at cost Of $780,
OOO, is of granite and bronze. 1t has
the lorm of a temple, nearly circular,
As feet in diameter at the base and 5S
feet high, with a sort of porch upheld
by columns.
Another, by Iowa, Is equally beauti-
full in its way, consisting Of a half
circle of columns, with elaborate dec
orations, including tablets.
The fighting ground at Vicksburg is
on bluff, 80 feet above the river,
and its most striking feature topo-
graphically is a ridge on which the
Confederate works and batteries were
situated.
At Antietam, which saw the hardest
days fighting of the Civil War, 10000
men being killed on both sides, all the
States that were represented by troops
are erecting monuments. Not long ago
Ohio dedicated ten such memorials to
her regiments in one bunch on that
field.
Perhaps the most interesting of them
was a huge granite block with a
bronze tablet which represented. in
Guasi-pictorial fashion, a boy making
coffee at a camp fire. The boy was
William Mckinley, at that time II
years old, who, finding nothing else so
useful for him to do, spent his time
during the battle in preparing a great
quantity of the hot and stimulating
beverage, so that it might be ready
for the worn-out soldiers after the
| fight was over. 1t was typical Of his
| thoughtfulness for others-a trait DOM
inant in his character through life.
The States have spent over $2,OOO,-
600 on reglmental monuments at Get
| tysburg. where the work has been 60
ing on for 25 years. In most instances,
where such a memorial was to be put
| up, the State has contributed a certain
amount of money, and the survivors of
the regiment have furnished the bal
ance Originally the battlefield park
at Gettysburg was controlled by pri-
vate individuals. who bought pieces of
| land and erected shafts or other COM
memorative structures upon them; but
all this property has now passed into
! the hands of the government
Search for a Treasure.
Major o. NJ. Wilson. an attorney of
Independence. is assisting in what
seems the impossible task of finding
$4,000 which is believed to have been
deposited in a bank or other place of
| safe keppinp nv Josiah (IarStinQ one