Democratic Sentinel, Volume 20, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 March 1896 — IN HONOR OF INDIANA. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

IN HONOR OF INDIANA.

The Bronze Tablets for Chickainauga Monuments Are Inspected. Chisf Ordnance • Inspector Thompson, U. S. A., representing the War Depart-

ment at Chicago, inspected the memorial bronze tablets to be used in connection With bronze seals of the State of Indiana on the stone monuments marking the .positions of the Indiana troops in the battle of Chickamuuga, erected in Chickamauga National Military Park by the State of Indiana. The troops of Indiana and Illinois form'd a large proportion of the total number

engaged in that bloodiest of all modern battles, and these monuments are a tribute to the gallant mea who made .

ground holy by dying there. No single struggle on any battlefield of the wart ttor on any battlefield of modern times, surpasses 4 in all there is of patriotic devotion and self-sacrifice. , There are thirty-nine of theso memorial tnblets, one for euch regitnout of infantry, mounted infantry, cavalry and buttery that took part In the engagement, together with a tablet bearing the seal of the State.

Each tablet bears in relief a representation of the arm of service commemorated by the tablet, and in raised letters a brief description of the movements of the regiment iu the battle, and the losses in killed, wounded and missing. The tablets are placed upon Ac atone monuments, erected on the spots where each particular regiment was engaged during the fight.

ARTILLERY TABLET.

INFANTRY TABLET.

CAVALRY TABLET.