Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 August 1893 — IN MEMORY OF HEROES. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

IN MEMORY OF HEROES.

fbe Monument to Men of Wounded Knee at Fort Riley, K»n. The members of the Seventh Cavalry at Fort Riley, Kan., recently unveiled a monument to those who were killed in the battles of Wounded Knee and Drexel Mission, near Pine Ride Agency, South Dakota, Dec. 29 and 30, 1890. It is built of Vermont and Quincy marble from Berry Falls, Vt, and Quincy, Mass., and is 25 feet in height, resting on a pedestal 15 feet square of native limestone, It is on a beautiful eminence, where the principal drives of the fort meet, and overlooks the valleys of the Smoky Hill, Republican and Kansas

Rivers. It is not far from the famous Ogden monument, erected to the memory of Major Ogden, who in 1855 died while nursing the enlisted men of his command through an attack of Asiatic cholera, and which Is said to be on the central point of the United States, as shown by careful geographical measurements. A flight of steps leads up the south side, and on the granite face of the shaft appears this principal inscription: * : To the : : SOLDIERS : : Who Were Killed : : in Battle : : at ’: Wounded Knee : : and : : Drexel Mission : with : Sioux Indians, : : South Dsikota, : : Deo. 29 and 30. 1890. : : Erected as a tribute : ; of aSeotlon by their : : comrades of the Bev- : : enthGavalry and Med- : : leal Department, U. : : S. Army, A. D. 1893. : * On the remaining sides are the names and rank of the men who fell in the battles named and to whose memory the monument is built.

WOUNDED KNEE MONUMENT.