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Show BATTLE MONUMENTS ON LOOKOUT MOUNTAIN t CHATTANOOGA, Tenn., Nov. 19. Forty-three years from the day the battle bat-tle of Lookout Mountain was fought, the State of Iowa today dedicated a monument on the scene of the hardest fighting. A large delegation from the State, headed by Gov. Cummins, was present. , The shaft commemorates the services of Williamson's brigade, Osterhaus' division, Fifteenth army corps, to which the Fourth, Twenty-fifth and Thirtieth Iowa infantry and First Iowa battery belong. Addresses were made by Gov. Cummins, Cum-mins, Gen. J. B. Weaver, and CoL Abernathy of the Ninth Iowa. This afternoon the monument at Sherman Heights on Missionary Ridge was dedicated. It honors the Fifth infantry. Sixth infantry. Tenth infantry infan-try and Seventeenth Iowa volunteer in fantry. , These monuments, which are elaborate elabo-rate and costly, mark the right and left of the Union line of attack in the battles raisins the sicca of Chattanooga. |