The Baraboo news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1884-1911, 1911-05-25
FINE MONUMENT
At V|CKSBURG
IS COMPLETED
Many Veterans on Scene of
one Of Greatest Battles
of the Civil War.

A special train bearing the Wiscon
sin-Vicksburg monument dedication
commission, Governor McGovern anC
party, state officials and veterans, lef
Madison over the Chicago, Milwaukee
& st. Paul railroad for Vicksburg Fri
day. The route of the train wa
through Joliet, Springfield, East st.
Louis and Corinth, the Shiloh battle
field, arriving at Vicksburg at 500 a
m. Saturday morning. The dedication
ceremonies took place on Monday
and the young woman who un
VeIled the monument in the forenoon is
Miss Florence E. Weissert, daughter
of Colonel Weissert, whose command
was on the right during the siege o
Vicksburg. Miss Weissert is grad
uate of the Milwaukee normal school
and the university of Wisconsin. 1t
seemed appropriate that this young
woman, whose father is the only sur
vivor of the original commission and
who fought in the historic battle o.
Vicksburg, should be chosen by the
commission as the one to perform the
memorable service of unveiling Wis
consin's monument.
Among those in the party are Gov
ernOr Francis E. McGovern, DR.. p. H.
McGovern and wife, Senator III. P.
Bird and wife, Colonel A. G.. Weissert
and daughter, J. ID. Burnham and
wife, Lieutenant Governor Thomas
Morris and wife, Secretary of State
James A. Frear and wife, State Treas
urer A. III. Dahl and wife, Attorney
General Levi III. Bancroft and wife
l.. Ekern and wife, State Superintend-
ent T.. P. Cary and wife, Colonel Dun
can McGregor and wife, Rev. Jenkin
Lloyd Jones and daughter, Senator [.
T. Bishop, Senator d. G. James, AS
SembIy Simon Smith, Department
Commander f. A. Welsh, DIR. O. w.
Watrous, General F. G. Winkler, II.
w. Rood, George B. Mcmillan, A. ]
Sherwood, r. E. Osborne, g. w.
Netherwood, A. 5. Jackson, A. b.
Brown, John Woodward, w. II. Har-
rison, Theodore Fellows, r. B.
ShowaIter, wife and daughter, w. HI.
GrinneIl and wife, E. w. Evans,
Ernest KoIb and daughter, Jesse Cole,
William J. Wagner, J. w. Baldock,
Judson Cook and wife, Captain Henry
Toms and wife and daughter, Stephen
Woodward, H. Lorch and wife, Gen
eral G.. E. EStabrook, John Boland,
Edwin Il. Harron, w. p. Waffle, Jacob
Fernam, John Boyce, DR.. William G.
Raynor, Captain 9. HI. Henry, J. J
Lane, George W. Graves, Simon Sau-
German, G. w. Wallis, Captain PIiny
Narcross, George w. Snow, Harlowe
J. Youmans, J. A. Hazelwood, Char
les Delscher and wife and others.
The Confederate veterans in the
sou tn were invited.
Colonel Weissert Only Survivor.
The first Vicksburg Military park
commission for Wisconsin was ap-
pointed eleven years ago and consist
ed of Colonel A. G.. Weissert, whose
command was on the right of the line
during the Vicksburg siege; Colonel
w. F. Villas, whose command was in
the center, and General George e.
Bryant, whose command was on the
left, thus making an quail division
for Wisconsin troops were on the
right, in the center and on the left OF
that ten mile line of battle.
Colonel Weissert is the only surviv-
or of the original commission. He has
had eleven years of faithful, hard
work in carrying out the provisions of
laws passed by the state relative to
the Vicksburg National Military park.
When General Bryant died, Senator
III. p. Bird of the same regiment, the
twelfth Wisconsin, was appointed tc
succeed him. When Colonel Villas of
the twenty-third Wisconsin died, o.
I, Burnham, a merchant of Richland
Center, who served in the sixth Wis
consin battery, which was at Vicks
burg during the battles and the siege
was appointed. These three gentle
men-Weissert, Bird and Burnham-
have had most to do with the work
connected with the 100000 monu.
ment.