Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1916-09-23
Monument Erected at Little
Rock Is Formally Dedicat
ed Yesterday.
]19 OF THE DEAD
LOST LIVES HERE
Gen. c. c. Andrews. Who Commanded
Minnesota Troops in Civil War, Says
Many OF His Men Died While En-
camped on Bayou al Pine Bluff.

A monument erected by the state
Of Minnesota in the National ceme-
terry at Little Rock to the 1852 Min
nesota soldiers buried there was un-
yelled yesterday. Gen. c. C. Andrews,
in charge of the Minnesota troops
at Little Rock and at Pine Bluff at
periods in the Civil war, made the
principal address, asserting that 119
of the men whose bodies lie in the
National cemetery died while the
command was encamped on a bayou
at Pine Bluff. The Little Rock
Democrat of yesterday contains the
following account Of the dedicatory
ceremonies, and Gen. Andrews adj
dress:
Gust preceding formal dedication
by Gov. J. A. A. Burnquist of Min
;nesota of a $4,000 monument in the
National cemetery to the 1862 Mime
sofa soldiers buried there, General C.
&C. Andrews, a Federal commander in
charge Of Union troops operating in
Little Rock and vicinity during the
or more veterans of the blue or the
that thrilled the memories of the
1l2IlCSIS VI lIlC w ..
General Andrews, to whom many
scenes in Little Rock were familiar,
presided over the dedicatory exer-
cises. The Rev. S. E. Ryan, himself
la former resident Of st. Paul, Mimi,
gave the invocation. Addresses then
were made by Governor Burnquist,
Gov. Geo. w. Hays, Mayor Charles
E. Taylor, General Andrews, H. P.
Dixie Of Minneapolis, General B. w.
Green and Capt. W. G. Akers, a Lit
tie Rock resident, who left Mime
sofa as member of the same COM
pany with General Andrews.
"'In the civil war;" said General
Andrews, it was my fortune to serve
sixteen months continuously in Ark
ansas, ten Of which were in the city
of Little Rock Returning now after
an absence Of So years, | am deeply
impressed by the many evidences of
growth and prosperity.
"The Third Minnesota regiment of
infantry, to which | belonged, spent
more than two years in Arkansas.
Leaving Minnesota in November,
1861, numbering 901 men, that regi-
ment, after varied experience, came
up from Vicksburg July 20, 1868.
with 400 men present for duty, and
camped two miles below Helena on
the banks of the Mississippi.
Federals Lose Wagon Train.
ct soon took part in General Fred
erick Steele's campaign to Little
Rock, where it arrived September II,
and on account of it's good discip-
line was by him assigned to guard
dutv in the CITY. Tn the spring of
1864 General Steele, with the great
Ter part of his force, moved south
from Little Rock to cooperate in
operations on the lower Red river.
While he was at Camden a long train
of wagons loaded with subsistence and
! forage was about to start to him from
Pine Bluff with an escort Of 5000
men. AS l had just received my COM
mission as general officer, its COM
mand was assigned to me. On the
road it was to take, an empty Fed
eral wagon train, returning from
F.! Camden with brigade escort, had
just been captured after a hard fight
in the woods in the vicinity of Mark S
mills, and it seemed certain we would
be attacked in the same place.
cat my request, therefore, the
Third Minnesota, which l knew could
be relied on in desperate situation
was taken from Little Rock to Pine
Bluff to go in the escort in place
of newer regiment. But just as
we were ready to start, word came
! that on account of disaster on the
lower Red river, General Steele witt