Palestine daily herald. [volume] (Palestine, Tex.) 1902-1949, 1906-10-25
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Special to the Herald.
Vicksburg, Miss, Oct. 25.-SDeciaI
trains that reached the city today
brought hundreds of veterans and
other visitors from Illinois to attend
the dedication of the 100000 temple
monument erected in the National
Park to the memory of the Illinois
soldiers who fought and fell in the his,
toric siege of Vicksburg. Governor
Deneen and other official representa-
tives of Illinois. the members of the
state commission, and the First Reg
iment, l. n G., of Chicago, are among
the arrivals. Governor Vardaman of
Mississippi and Governor Blanchard
of Louisiana, with many veterans of
the two states, have accepted invita-
lions to participate in the ceremonies.
A citizens committee of leading
business men is looking after the com
fort of the visitors and assigning
them to homes for the three days that
they will be here. The exercises of
the week open with a public reception
to the visitors tonight. Tomorrow the
grand parade to the memorial and the
dedication will take place. A thou
sand or more soldiers will be in the
procession. The Grafton of the day is
to be delivered by Hon. William J.
Calhoun of Chicago. On Saturday
there will be an inspection OF the llli-
nois markers and monuments scat
tered throughout the military park,
and a Joint camp fire of Union and
Confederate soldiers will be held in
the pavilion of the Country Club in
the evening.
The Illinois monument is one of the
handsomest and costliest war memo
rails ever erected in the United
States. The monument is in the form
of a rotunda or circular temple and
bears considerable resemblance to
the Grant memorial in New York City.
The temple is nearly sixty feet in
diameter, and from the base to the
top of the dome the height is sixty
two feet The entrance is through a
Tetrastyle Doric portico thirty-two
feet wide and projecting fourteen and
'one-half feet on the south facade of
the temple. The pediment is support
ed by four immense columns. The
face of the pediment is ornamented
with a sculptured group representing
history enrolling the name of the Hi
nois soldiers and sailors who took part
in the great campaign and siege from
March 29 to July 4, 1863. On the
frieze is inscribed in raised letters
the word illinois"
Around the exterior of the temple |
are engraved in bold letters the we'll |
known phrase from Lincolns inaug |
ural: with malice toward none, with
charity for ALL" and the last phrase
in General Grants farewell order to
the army, Let us have peace"
The interior walls are covered with |
bronze tablets bearing the names of
all the Illinois soldiers who took part
in the siege of Vicksburg, according
to the organizations of infantry, ar
tillery and cavalry to which they be-
longed, respectively. Directly oppo.
site and facing the entrance is large
bronze panel, upon which is inscribed
in appropriate phrase the date of ded.
ication, the names of the members of
the state commission, etc. Immediate
ly above this large panel is inscribed
the name of Abraham Lincoln, and
underneath the name of
Richard Yates, the war governor of
Illinois On the right is the name of
Ulysses S. Grant, and to the left that
OF General John A. Logan.
The site of the temple is one of the