The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-05-12
Alaban1a $ Noble Part at Shiloh;
 State Neglects Memory Of Soldiers
Daughters of Confederacy Raise Cram ife Shaft to Men Who Died on
 BattIeneId--Interestin Ex-
 ercfses Participated in hy Large Audience.
BY WILL T. SIBERIAN.


 The Alabamian who visits the field of Shiloh learns 8 shocking lesson. He is amazed at the splendid story of the gallantry of the soldiers of his native State, in this fight, one of the great battles of modern times, and he Is shocked at the indifference and neglect. with which the State has treated the memory of those who glorified the name of Alabama.
 And he is shocked when he sees the stunning contrast between the treat ment with which the Northern States. not the Federal Government but the States themselves, honor their sons who fought at Shiloh and the neglect of the splendid heritage left by the soldiers of Alabama, whose intrepidity and courage at Shiloh beat back Sher- man, Wallace, Prentiss and Hurlburt.
 There isn't school child in Ala bama who knows the great chapter of history that Alabamians made that day. There Is hardly a man in the State un- less he be one of the soldiers who fought on that field, who knows the story of the daring dashes of the Ala bamians until the Federals had been beaten back to the protection of their parked artillery on that bloody Sum day in April, s2.
 It shocks the Alabamian to note that the Northern State. not one. but all. \ the part its soldiers played, while Ala bama, until Monday, had calmly and coldly ignored any achievement her soldiers had done in that history making conflict And the pity of 1t IS that the heroic story of 1t is not known In Alabama even to the man who reads and studies Alabama history. And yet Alabama figured more prominently on that field than any other State, North had field than any other State but Tennes- see. Her troops had richer opportuni- ties in the fight, for they were person ally led by Albert Sidney Johnston. Under Johnston, they were on the first day led from success to success, until. with Chalmerss Mississippians. they swept over the Pittsburg Landing Road. cut off the retreat of Wallace and Prestiss's men and captured the men of those prigades who had been man. ming the sunken road and pouring deadly volleys into the attacking Con- federates.
 Daughters Remove Stain.
 The Daughters of the Confederacy of the Alabama Division have removed the stain from the name of the State, but Alabama as a State, deserves no credit for the granite monument which, standing where 1t does If 1t had no other lettering on 1t but the word Alabama" would be eloquent proof of the dash and daring of the soldiers of Alabama. The Alabamians made the hfgh-water mark of the Confederates' victorious advance on the first and bloodiest day of the fighting. In the right wing of Johnston's Army, which beat back and folded around the Fed erals. there were Mississippians, Lou istans, Texans and Tenesseeans, but in this wing, the Alabamians outnumbered all others and they fought the light where death reaped its richest har- vest.
 No other State can erect monument as far in the Federal lines as Alabama, Clanton's cavalry, who behaved so nobly on that day, was on the extreme right of Johnston's right wing and the Ala bama horsemen were nearer Pittsburg Landing than the soldiers of any other