Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-04-12
MANY MONUMENTS In
PARK At CHICKAHAUGA
Twenty States Represented
in Memorials

Chattanooga, Tenn, April 11.-As'de
from the worldwide interest that such
a battlefield as Chickamauga, at Chat
tanooga, commands, and the still
deeper feeling that the entire United
States has in regard to this field wheIe
the bloodiest, most strenuously con-
tested battle of the civil war proved u
be the turning point of the great strug-
gle, nearly half of the states have still
another special interest For at least
twenty states have spent thousands of
dollars each in erecting monuments
and markers on this sacred ground in
memory of their troops which were en-
gagged there The Chickamauga Chat |
tanooga National Military park, which
is the formal name of the battlefield
since it was taken over by the govern
ment for preservation and improve
ment, will be one of the two principal
places of historic interest visited by
many thousand visitors, both veterans
and tourists, incident to the Confeder-
ate reunion, May 1929. Just few fig
ures, taking up the state in detail,
will give some idea of what tremen>
dous interest attaches to the battle
field in the various states, aside fro
the more general interest which every
body conversant with history must
feel.
The state of Alabama has authoriA-
ed the expenditure of $4,000 for. a
monument, but for some reason the
monument has never been erected
However, the good women of Mont
gomery in that state decided some time
since that Alabama was to be repre-
sented on the Chickamauga battlefield,
and the fine monument which is the re-
suit of their efforts will be unveiled
during the reunion, with elaborate
ceremonies. Maj Gen. Harvey f.
Jones, of the Alabama division, asserts
| that there will be a great outpouring
of his division, especially on account
of this feature.
Connecticut has monument costing
$1,000. Florida has spent $4,000 IN
this way. Georgia has devoted $4,000
to putting up its beautiful monument,
one of the finest in all the district, and
f1fty-five markers. Illinois has at Chick
amauga thirty-seven monuments aad
thirty-three markers; in the rest of
the district, eighteen monuments and
nineteen markers, representing grand
total of $4,000 invested
Indiana came to the front nobly WITH
thirty-nine monuments and seventy
FIVE markers, which cost $28, 600. Iowa
erected three monuments at an ex-
pense of $4,000. Kansas has one
n7onDp,apt Qua two ~, n rIyorc ~ Th;oI;
amauga, and two monuments elsewhere
in vicinity; cost $4,000. Kentucky us
ed $4,000 in establishing monument
and 23 markers at Chickamauga
Massachusetts put up a $4,000 monu-
ment.
Michigan is represented by ten mon
uments and eleven markers at CHICK
amauga, two monuments and one
marker outside, which cost all tod
+ $37, 500. Four monuments at Chick
amauga and one more at Chattanooga
show MinneSotaS expenditure OF Sl5,-
900. Missouri has one monument ana
four markers at Chickamauga, whicp,
with two more and four additional
markers represent $4,000. New JERSEY
erected a $4,000 monument.
New York has been more liberal than
any other state, with one exception, in
commemorative the deeds of soldiers
in the Chattanooga district, haying
seven monuments which aggregate
$4,000 in cost. The principal New
York monument occupies a command.
ing position on Lookout Mountain, OF
point, and can be seen for miles
around.
Ohio is the exception to the state
ment concerning New York, the for.