Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 March 1894 — A Grand but Unique Memorial. [ARTICLE]

A Grand but Unique Memorial.

The monument wh’ch has been erected upon the battlefield of Solferino is one of the largest, if not the largest, of its kind in Europe. It consists of a tower seventy-four meters high, surmounted by an electric lamp, and rises in seven stories, each representing a campaign in the struggle for the independence of Italy. Each separate story contains all the names of the generals and other officers, as well as the men who fought in that campaign. No fewer than 700,000 names are thus inscribed on the inner walls of the monument. On the ground floor are the busts and portraits of all the leading generals, and the chief ornament in the center of the ground floor is the colossal monument in bronze of Victor Emmanuel, by the Venetian squlptor Dal Zotto. The tower stands in grounds beautifully laid out, and constitutes a magnificent memorial of Italian unity. Beneath the structure repose 2,000 skulls and other remains of soldiers of the three nations who fell on the field of Solferino.