Show chickamauga MEMORIAL neither money nor lare speredon Spa spared redon on it t A NEW NATIONAL PARK glories in storied stone will soon boon form ft a forest of monuments A oran grand d design deign without historical mst orical Paral parallel lil movements of tile the several bodies of troops engaged iza in that great battle ten square miles of the battleground battles round copyright IV tor Y bacheler Bc eli heler eller johnton johnson J 1 b e r there la Is not a single recorded vote ot of opposition to the halt million dollars ot of appropriation made by congress tw for purchasing and beautifying tho the tracts highways tte etc included in tho the chickamauga and ana chattanooga rca na military park which Is now being marked in such way aay da as to illus irate actual movements in the battle battla ot of chackan laugn Chatta chattanooga flonary ridge and lookout mountain the absence 0 opposition tion la Is fair pro arc sump tive evi evidence lence congress belne being a body of representatives of 0 all sections political md and geographical that tile ha plan Is a 9 2 rational national one C that at it hag haa appealed to and awaken cd tho national pride and interest the alg dealsa 1 l as it now stands Is without lik a historical par parallel alel no ko govern A I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 4 M i y 0 O I 1 4 5 I 1 n ami JM i 41 I 1 y V I 1 N t y A IF if I 1 4 1 A il 1 1 1 V v p ii it V I 1 1 I I 1 I 1 I 1 ss monument of second minnesota veteran volunteers near snodgrass hill tower ment no nation has ever undertaken to purchase and restore any of the fields of 0 Us its great battles and place upon them by means of monuments and tab tablets els an complete and impartial showing ot of the movements of 0 each side of the two examples will which ch could be at all compared con pared to this enterprise waterloo Is but a fragment arid and gettysburg has only lately admitted any markings or memorials ol of the army ot of northern virginia the field of 0 battle waged against a foreign power could not yield the nee essary completeness for or such purpose since what whar marked an advantage of the enemy must remind ot of a reverse to the national arms it is only on the battlefield tle field of a civil war of 9 nation at peace and reunited that eveia valo lous ious deed on both sides could be marked and recorded with satisfaction to all the people there Is more than one reason why the neld field of among all the battlegrounds ot of our civil war should have been the alie one selected for such a purpose in no battle ot of the late war were so BO many states represented troops being present from all but five of those comprising the union in 2860 and lying last east of the rocky mountains further lher the north and south here have an equal interest in recording the tha deeds deeda of their gallant sons sirce since the battle may be safely called a drawn one leaving no actual advantage i with either side the killed and wounded during durl ni the two days struggle exceeded tor for the number engaged and the time of fighting not only the losses in any 14 1 Is S I 1 1 I 1 I 1 i jjr 1 I 1 illk 4 I 1 1 1 ap 11 LI I 1 I 1 I 1 W rl 9 ji 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 k aiila vl v y 11 i 1 I az 0 I 1 affif r I 1 A 11 I 1 11 4 I 1 Z 1 1111 1 al 51 fl f at 15 I 1 1 ajaj 7 M fa L Z acorn monument other her of the great battles of our civil war but bul 1 those 0 of the notable engage merits ments of ct modern europe it v decla thata that a nation with such a record for valor valoi on oil the hold fild should riot not preserve it as congress has lully liovvi lio vii ed for it doing at the national park but that it should take pains to call the c attention at tendon of the people to tile the remar cable lesson thus pre belted the first a y stcl etc taken in the matter wan wall tile ho parch re by the united states co ediin i lert square miles malca of 0 the t battleground this ground ilea t arly in walker county georgia Geor sli willin tro jr rolica 1103 of ohp tennessee Tonne isto hue iiii x alent tit ten nilla from chattanooga li it fortunat e 17 for the purpose pui roae pose not in n line of 0 the recent growth aej iiii im bucit of the cachon und and ii ij jj ij city A pot col of the th la daml nd very poor and unlit unfit ter or firming farral ns L ihli ii vart bics tics for today toda to day da in I 1 it wild state e sicily as 33 it did ou on the cate of tile the thirty one years yearb ago there were farms the gov elit ment condemning in C case the owners refused to sell but i pt them to remain where here they desired to do to so iia is tenants at a model ate rental all ill the e old ld houses and farms of thic 0 tile date of lit the battle have be beai carefully care tully vre preserved served and indicated a aa it has every existing landmark by lettered le metal tablets t and no improvements aji lc be made which will materially change the appear appearance e or configuration ground anc of the the entire tract Is I 1 either cither level gently loll lus with anith a taw few sharp or tills hilla lit in the western part the anal little u 0 round ground h ch are the break ingli away anay ot of missionary Ij jg and some boine toward lovard aliu boundary boun ilary oizell hali Is pait lally ale for formed ined castro aas liy by chickamauga in the barren portions of oc the flat w limestone crops up through tho the eui su faco iraco amons among stunted pines ecru scrub oak oah and otter 5 loady to hand b and ithe best st of material an lot for tua forty corty miles t les 1 t II 11 I 1 I 1 A j 4 1 A 4 I 1 J I 1 1 I 1 ak M j IV I 1 fa I 1 mt in 1 I I 1 X i 1 a A MI 1411 IA 0 o li N f I 1 L 1 ka 0 A ill 41 1 I 1 ax 11 j I 1 f g 4 v 1 1 1 I 1 51 I 1 g aw I 1 I 1 vv i I 1 I 1 0 an ath gnp t t t 1 X e ca wh av ft 0 VV i aa r w I 1 1111 A V kal 1 1 mi r i I 1 T I 1 1 I 1 Z r A 1 V 7 IP Z 4 7 ia I 1 4 f ap vj 11 I 1 ra 1 T 5 q 13 JI 44 it kl wi auh I 1 pa W 1 1 I 1 m I 1 V 11 I 1 iy ay ir historic dyehouse dye dyc house now used for headquarters of beautifully finished macadamized drives which have been built within the park all of them having been carefully held to the lines of the old highways existent latent ex at the time of the battle the improvement find and beautifying will consist in these thebe lovely shady drives driven in clearing out the woodland planting avenues of ct alna grassing uie the entire trade track and possibly lit in the rebuilding of several historic structures destroyed at the time ot of the battle the main interest of the park however centers in its monuments of which liere here will be upwards of a thousand counting nil fill from the modest square of granite with its inscription or tho the bronze tablet to the most elaborate and imposing pieces of sculpture of 0 the twenty states which had troops engaged in the battle twenty three have commissions now actively co operating cooperating with the national c commission ill in locating battle lines and and preparing for tho the erection of state monuments nearly every week now sees some state or association in chattanooga and at the park planning consulting deciding upon locations monuments ready to be erected come in by the dozen and are being dally daily put in place instead of each state erecting a single singe monument to its men who tell fell upon ibis held field each marks the many positions of its different bodies of troops at important and crucial moments during the two days fight by many bonu merits ments tho the states have made or will make appropriations from their treasuries to c over cover this expenditure of these mon monuments u ohio alone will have fifty rive at the cost of ninety five thousand dollars and new yolk toik has appropriated eighty one thousand tor for the monuments all down along the line of the battle which runs ruins almost due north and south through the park and nearly parallel with the old lafayette road here where the forces came into herco collision where they clinched and swayed and struggled on the evening ot of sunday september the the big shafts and pyramids ot of marble granite and bronze gleam singly and in twos threes and ol clusters usters between the bols bolos of the bis big trees t rees they have hare move more of variety and individual interest these battle monuments ments than those ordinarily seen in Leme cemeteries the state slate commissions which received bids and plans for monuments from designers and manufacturers all over the country in turn submitted them for suggestions and criticism to thi three ee survivors of ea each ch military organization intended to be represented the suggestions and decision of these three recie v eie not in all cases final the state commission deciding it if any of 0 f their plans were inexpedient and the national maintaining a upon the inscriptions that only such suc h as are historical records ot of the battle be used this method ot of selection has introduced freshness a touch of crudity it if no soldier idler hla his gun at his hill shoulder kneels upon the front of 0 the sixt sixteenth benth infantry monument the third lies hag also a reclining figure tiring firing through u gh a rall rail fence here the mans for form in la is much smaller Bra aller and tile tho whole in slighter relief the expense of those these As ot of all monuments to regular troops Is borne by the tha united states but the designs like 01 0 1 aej PP iga 3 4 14 0 t gr V f e 21 af r ti I 1 0 71 i ia I 1 1 I i I 1 y 1 ll 11 1 I 1 N r 1 11 Z 1 ra I 1 I 1 ai ade I 1 1 I I 1 I 1 if 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 general atles I monument those of the state monuments axe are selected or suggested by survivors of the organizations on the western face of the rectangular or pyramid ot of light battery II if fourth united states stasea artillery stan standing d over near the lafayette roadside appear the simple words SHI SHILOH LOIr STONE RIVER chickamauga SIEGE OP chattanooga bloody chapter headings ot of the three years history of this organization up at headquarters where the en gincel IS bookkeepers and chief of construction st forces have offices in the oie historic dyer house there are heaps ot of unexploded shells which have had 7 1 ar 1 4 W 4 aze d w 1 41 0 e 7 I 1 EW M A 1 i v I 1 I 1 T 40 V 1 I 1 I 1 12 apo ran I 1 1 ill ta T I 1 i p I 1 li I 1 V iw ai f tej V I 1 ali A t 0 K af au C il I 1 I 1 1 7 I 1 1 I V Y 01 I 1 1 axi I 1 C cai 0 I 1 5 I 1 i iju 1 19 I 1 V 1 1 F 10 d 1 3 7 4 I 1 r I 1 r W T it 6 f 1 I 1 i fd I 1 t 11 C ill 11 1411 1 19 I I 1 i dri I 1 1 I 1 rai I 1 7 j 1 I 1 I 1 L 1 I I 1 I 1 1 M 4 a q 1 I 4 7 I 1 1 1 11 11 rr 4 W r 0 1100 vi 21 N I 1 V rexi j IV 11 11 I 1 7 11 R 11 17 1 4 W NN I r N W 41 I 1 3 1 id f 11 I 1 I 1 N 1 4 N t 1 L I 1 i 1 5 11 ial 11 1 1 91 I 1 e 04 1 W I 1 PW 5 r I 1 V I 1 I 1 Q T I 1 1 5 raar ra ar 1 I A 0 0 I 1 I 1 their charges drawn and are to be used in the construction of monuments to mark the spots where officers or of prominence were killed or mortally wounded the place discs crowning a beautiful wooded upland where general lytle tell fell la is already so indicated upon a it angular granite base rises a pyramid of 0 shells about nine reel feet high one side bears a bronze tablet re elting his titles and the date and circumstances of ills his death in a very dreary treeless hollow down by the lafayette road a similar pile is being erected to mark the spot where genet general al heg was killed over tit in the direction of 0 the reeds bridge road Is a shell pyramid whose tablet reads BENJAMIN HEUM HELM Bril brigadier general C 3 A Comman dhir brigade s elision dl islon ision mortally counted woun ted here about 10 A M r Z 31 ISIS this athla man was abraham Lincol ns q I 1 w e I 1 I 1 A 1 m IL ea i I 1 W 1 e I 1 lr ir vr f I 1 7 I 1 1 F I 11 1 1 I I 1 I 1 onar va afi 1 1 I 1 I 1 WS C V K 1 j 1 1 it j if I 1 ii f N iol I r ra ill y 1 t I 1 ap 10 az i ai ri A 11 1 I 1 I 1 M M 1 I 1 1 1441 I 1 iq V 1 I 1 I 1 2 1 I 1 js w 5 alf I 1 fl L k I 1 I 1 5 0 i 11 if I 1 I 1 1 1 i 4 ika 0 ef I 1 M I 1 r R I 1 y V N I 1 I 1 basl 1 1 1 I 1 52 V I 1 7 I 1 YN ti 11 I 1 ff monument of the fifteenth V U S infantry you will yet as a a whole the bonu brents have benefited by it and many of them their are indeed beautiful as well as ai oddly original the pictures pla tums made mad by these mese bronzes are really wonderful the sun comes through the leaves above them strikes upon the bayo bayonets rims or 0 C the fighting men glows upon tm tha of tile the guns and illumines the races faces turned toward you over tho the shoulders of the chang charging ing force till you see the battle sweat at and grime crime upon them the agony in dying eyes fist fast glazing pity holda bolds the canteen to dying lips and almost fancy you hear in silent allent autumn woods tle din of conflict again the lifelike perspective spec Opec tive and vivid effect alta attained ined in throe ty by four plates of metal is marvelous arid and though they may riot not all he be by one bawl ahr lr uniform excellence Is surprising each one at you look at it tempting you to think it better than the last the second ohio infantry monument down on the line 18 3 a single enormous enor moui acorn acorin symbol of the hi fourteenth army corps in brown granite gra bite standing six or light eight high on a low heavy base that contains the insell near koar tills acorn monument are nee three memorials rae morlais orect croc teil eti ly ill alio llio united states to its fig regulars on oil that 0 of the nine deeni hi infantry antry la Is a lire life sized granite fl isare dro it in hl his h r let a soldier so leller lying at full length behind a barrier barder with his big sun gun rested ready y to fire his hie face at keen attention aloza n dups av away ay another Crit cranata brother in law or rather was married to a sister ot of mrs lincoln the fact ill that a t ma many ny of 0 this ladys kindred and bonn connections e e eions fought on the losing side lias has been b e en practically forgotten by this generation one granite monument has little bronze rifles bolted upon the front of 0 it framing its inscription the graceful cenotaph an all adlar dressed granite block erected by the united states staten to maik at k the position of battery it al fourth united states Artl llly has bronze nags flags bulled tuil cil draped over its wrinkled front and that of 0 captain battery A glrst ohio light artillery has a diminutive cannon and balls of metal attached I 1 to it tho the united states has erected olve five observation towers seventy feet high substantially constructed of 0 steel and iron they stand upon various heights height of tile the and the adequate reward of a climb to their upper galleries Is a view beautiful in itself a and nd giviner a comprehensive outlook over tile the held field upon which tile the tower 1 Is located and if there Is someone present competent to out and explain the movements of the troops during tile the battle an all standing ng 0 of the tight fight to be gotten in n no other othe r wily way one of these stands upon I snodgrass HIM sometimes called by the soldiers horseshoe or battery ridge the highest ground in that part of 0 the heid field he id this Is the elevation c which was held io ho stubbornly all through that leril teril bli ble sunday OF of the tit bv it k suii LLA su L ii L i known to his men in affectionate familiarity faint int mili if ar arity I 1 as pap A T thomas to Is r from m the balconies ot ibis thle tower you 0 u look down clown on many monuments cor completed n shafts foundations put down positions marked by lette lettered r ea boards dot the slopes in every direct direction ioli tor for it was waa here that the most desperate lighting ot or that hard fought foucht field ook place the beautiful monument or of the S second c monument ert d minnesota just cast ot r the tower tog reel tea A that the second regiment ent minnesota veteran volunteer infantry occupied this sunday september tile the to 20 1963 from p tn t to |