Indianapolis Journal, Volume 53, Number 97, Indianapolis, Marion County, 7 April 1903 — Page 6

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURXAX. TUESDAY, APltll 7. 1003.

ON SHILOITS FIELD

(CONTINUED FROM FIRST TAGE.) hal lock-d away mistily toward those stones tSi.it meant so much blood. sufferIn.? and hardships, the silence that followed was hallowed. Old Glory. Shlloh. the monuments these three things stirred every tender chord In the hearts of the veterans. Col. James S. WrUht. who commanded the Twenty-fifih Indiana for both days on the battle line, formally. In the name of the commission, presented the monuments to Governor Durbin. The Governor's speech of acceptance was in a happy vein and excellently delivered. The Jlon. William Gary Sanger, assistant secretary of war, who, in behalf of the secretary and the United States, accepted th monuments from the Governor, In a brief speech, alluded to the magnificent bravery of the Indiana troops and their unflinching conduct In the bloody, disheartening battle. A SOUTHERN GEM. Col. Josiah Patterson, of Memphis, a Confederate colonel, representing the national commission, delivered a beautiful address. In nobility of conception, masterly English, charm of idea and force, it was a gem. Colonel Patterscon Is a sick man, but so determined to honor Indiana's soldiers that he spoke, although with great effort. Southern voices blended sweetly with Northern when the "Red, White and Blue" was sung Jn stirring chorus. Old men who had laid opposite each other in picket line, who had struggled like wolves in battle against each other, stood side by side, arm In arm. singing In high cracked voices, but beautifully, nevertheless, the good song. Colonel Ruble, of Mississippi, who spoke for his State In welcoming the Indiana visitors, wore the National Guard uniform. Governor Frazler, of Tennessee, was unable to be present, and Gen. G. If. Gordon . delivered the address a brief speech, but full of hearty hospitality and grave dignity. It touched a note of national harmoney and was graciously received. To Senator Reverldge was given a magnificent reception. When he arose at the side of General Wallace the old noldiers and the young visitors cheered and cheered. The senator was deeply affected by the spontaneity and warmth of the welcome. Ills address was singularly fitting, dashing, yet dignified; graver yet brilliant;: always Interesting and Inspiring. lie spoke lor an hour amid Intense silence. When the exercises were over, about 3 o'clock, little knots of veterans spread in reconnolterlng order, each little group peeking, with the eagerness of children, its old camping ground. Many times these old men. coming suddenly on a spot sacred to them, would forget their old age and stiffness and break into, a joyous run, throwing up their hats in glee. Many, though, were disappointed, for time has changed Shlloh. The old log church is gone; ravines have filled in, others have washed anew. Old trees have fallen, new ones have ". grown, and despite the efforts of the government to retain the park in its original form, there are many places looking strange. Rut the veterans found plenty of familiar places. Here they were hastily formed when the blow fell. Another would X-oint eagerly to the self-same tree against which they had leaned the night of the 6th In the tierce storm. Another saw with 6 ad n ess tha spot where their commander fell. Many of W. II. L. Wallace's men located the exact place where the general lay dj-ing in the Corinth road. The stately monument that marks the spot where Albert Sidney, Johnston breathed his last, was a Mecca for Northern and Southern men alike. Miss Nellie Grant was taken by a dozen old men to the stump of the great tree under which the general stood while he watched Buell's troops cross the river and from where he directed their positions. REGIMENTS WELL REPRESENTED. Almost every regiment to which a monument was dedicated to-day has at least one br two old men here. The Forty-fourth Indiana and the Thirtieth are perhaps the best represented. Captain Ensley, of Indianapolis, is of the Forly-rourth, while Henry Ingman Park, of Kendallvllle, heads the boys of the Thirtieth. The Thirtieth has Its tattered old battle flag taken by proud old ratn to places where it once waved fresh and unspotted. The Fortyfourth has fifty-men here. The Thirtieth has forty-four. Old soldier and visitors are lavish in their praises of the monument commission for the beautiful stones marking the positions of Indiana troops. Colonel Wood, Colonel Wright and Captain Ensley conducted visitors over the park, setting the lost aright. The afternoon was spent as the morrow will be in general sight-seeing. The party will leae for Danville, Tenn., on the special trains, at 5 o'clock to-morrow evening. Several Incidents of the trip to Tlttsburg Landing are worth recording. Last night when the steamers passed the old Cherry homestead at Savannah, General Grant's headquarters at Shiloh, the boat bearing Miss Grant checked its speed, turned on it electric lights, and sounded its vfhistle. The boys who went with Grant to the battlefield live in the old homestead, which Is practically unchanged In appearance. As the family responded to the signal the old soldiers on the boat gave three cheers. It was a graceful compliment to Miss Grant, who. by her modesty and vivacity, coupkd with a level head, had impressed herself upon the soldiers. Among the strangers picked up on the trip was a "Johnny Reb" who reported ' that he was a member of Moulton's bat- - tery under Forrest, the famous Confederate - leader. He proved to be the most sensational romancer ever found In the Southland, but he Interested Indiana people because he really figured in the capture of General Ctrelght, near Rome, Ga. He dis-c-Imed participation In the Fort Pillow massacre, for which he blamed the cavalry, who. he says, "were very wicked fellows." By daylight he yielded to the influence of a "small bottle" and was seen no more. General Wallace took exceptions to the blue prints Issued by the Park Commission, as one of them gives one of Sherman's brigades the position occupied by the First Brigade of Wallace's own command. EDWIN C. HILL. DEDICATION EXERCISES. COL. JAMES S.-WIIIGHT'S ADDRESS. Monuments Presented to Governor Durbin The Comnilmilon'i Work. Staff Correspondence of the Journal. SELMER, Tcnn., April 6. The exercises attending the dedication of the Indiana monuments on the Shiloh battlefield were, as already stated, carried out as arranged by the commission. Gen. Lew Wallace presided. Prayer was offered by the Rev. II. J. Norris. of the First M. E. Church. Winchester, Ind. Then Chairman Wallace delivered an address, which reviewed Incidents of the famous battle. Four members of the Mershon family, of Marion, Ind.. assisted by Charles Craumer, sang "The Vacant Chair." James Whitcomb RUey next recited effectively "Old Glory." Then followed "A Reproduction of the Battle of Shiloh" on two drums by Capt. W. H. Mershon, the original drummer boy of Shlloh and member of the Thirtieth Indiana Volunteer Infantry. Col. James S. Wright, of the Indiana Shiloh National Park commission, presented the monuments to Governor Durbin. Colonel Wright's address follows: "Mr. Chairman and Fellow-citizens Forty-one years ago a great army was encamped upon this field, going through the general routine of camp life, singing their camp songs, writing letters to loved ones at home and thinking of the many happy times they would have when the cruel war was over. During that great war ruin seemingly held this great country of ours in the bnlance. Our government was threatened, many different industries halted to see the final outcome of the struggle and the world silently viewed the war, anxious for Its result. The question that could not be settled by legislation was by that war forever dispensed with. Perhaps there was no other battle ever fought where victory was of more Importance than was the battle of Shlloh. "The Union men had advanced 230 miles from their base of supplies, and if the Confederate army was defeated it meant the opening of the Mississippi river and the loss of the great Mississippi valley to the Confederacy. Just at the break of day, and as the sun roe in all its beauty, and as .the Southern mocking bird perched on the .topmost tfc'Jg of the magnolia, sending up to heaven its melodious strains, and all nature seemed to be rejoicing, the sound of musketry was heard in the distance. Thn came eight that none but soldiers who had been in battle could describe. 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distribution of ammunition and th forma tion of a line of battle, foretold that a great conflict ws near at hand. On the enemy came. And the glitter of the bayonet, the flashing of the sabre, the moving of artillery, the roaring of musketry, told that two great armies had met In deadly conflict. And for eight consecutive hours an open field fight was waged such as had never before occurred on this continent. The battle was on. Our lines were broken and beaten back, and as the sun went down and dark came we found the Union lines formed In the rear of the line of artillery with odr left resting on the river. FIELD COVERED WITH DEAD. "The field was covered with the dead and dying, and looking over the defeated ranks of our companies and regiments the strongest hearts felt sick and faint. As I sat at the roots of that old oak tree, not to sleep, but to rest and to offer a prayer to the god of battle to spare us from another such day, the news was spread that Buell's army had commenced crossing the river and was marching to the front. General Lew Wallace Ym4 arrived with his division and had taken his position on our right. Thus closed the first day of the conflict, and in the drenching storm we spent the night. At the break of day on the morning of the 7th General Wallace opened the fight, and all along the line of battle the battle waged. If pos?Ible, fiercer than It did the day before. For hours the main line was unmoved until General Wallace moved forward, taking position after position, drove back their left flank and compelled them to retreat. Shouts of victory filled the air, and hour after hour we regained positions that were lost the day before, until the whole field had been recaptured and we were left In possession. Thus ended the second day of the great conflict, but GEN. UIYSSES S. 1 -t I " v - mm . Coxnmander-ln-Cfclef of Union not as did the first, for defeat was turned to victory, but many of the brave men were dead. Worse than the plague that falls upon men was the result of this battle. The dead and dying and the pitiful stories of the loved ones at home told by the wounded boys upon the field, and the bloody field, are things never to be forgotten." "Two-score years and one have passed since we struggled In that.remarkable battle upon that field, and as I look Into your faces. Unions and Confederates, I thank God that I have lived to see the time when we who were once enemies are now friends. Who were once proud to say that we rested under a different flag, now as brothers and together wrap the stars and stripes about us and rest in peace. Hand in hand we wander over this field. Confederates and Unions, viewing the honored graves of those who died for country's sake; relating those most interesting and never-tiresome stories of those years and '61 and '63, together with the stories of that strife In which our sons were brothers, the war with Spain, Since the close of the war the government has been blessed with untold prosperity. North and South alike. The lines of transportation and communication are very rapidly approaching the stage of perfection; it has increased In wealth so rapidly that to-day it is impossible to approximate its real worth. It has grown to be the greatest of manufacturing centers and is looked upon by the entire world with admiration. It has taken charge of all the great battlefields and turned them Into consecrated spots where rest the Nation's dead, and invited the States to erect monuments to the regiments that struggled on the various fields of battle. INDIANA'S COMMISSION. "In March, 1901, Col. C. C. Shraeder introduced a bill In the General Assembly of Indiana asking for an appropriation of $25.000 to erect upon this field twenty-one monuments, nineteen infantry and two battery, MAJ. GEN. LEW

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which bill authorized you. Hon. Winfield T. Durbin. Governor of Indiana, to appoint a commission to take charge of the work, and on May 3, lltfll.-we received our commissions. As a member of the Indiana National Park Commission, it falls upon me to present to your Excellency the monuments which have been erectid by the State of Indiana upon the battlefield of Shlloh. And in this connection it is proper to give you a brief account of the work of the commission. After having been called by your Excellency, we met and organized and elected Thomas H. Wood, of Franklin. Ind.. as our president. The first Important work Imposed upon this commission was that of establishing historically Important positions held and occupied by the respective Indiana regiments and batteries during this battl. to locate the proper sites for the grown up. changing the appearance of the battlefield and country, yet time had not changed the rolling ground and valleys nor the prominent historical locations. Many days were spent on the battlefield by the commission in a careful investigation and in locating the lines and positions of these regiments and battery commands. All were located to the satisfaction of the Shlloh National Military Park Commission In charge of the park. "And here your commission desires to express Its thanks to the national commission. For nearly two years Col. Cornelius Cadle, chairman. Col. Jotiah Patterson and Major J H. Ashcroft, commissioners, and especially Majcr I. W. Reed. Secretary and Historian Atwell Thompson, engimer in charge of the patk. have all been untiring in thelf efforts in our behalf. THE MONUMENTS. "Circulars were sent by this commission to all the principal monument makers In the country, asking for designs and bids for the construction of these monuments and also asking that they submit to the commission with each design prooer eam-

pies of granite and Bedford oolitic stone. Various styles and designs of monuments to the number of nearly 150 were submitted to the commission. The members of the commission were called together by the president, Capt. Thomas B. Wood, and after spending considerable time in examining the samples of stone submitted and the different designs for the monuments they were found to be so varied In style that the commission did not get through with closing the contract until they had to adjourn. As a matter of econ omy I introduced a resolution providing that a committee of three with the president of the commission as chairman be appointed to personally take charge of the work and to contract for the same. This resolution was unanimously adopted, and thereupon the president appointed the other two members to serve on this committee, who were Benjamin M. Hutchins and Nicholas Ensley. Several months were consumed by this committee in getting the contract closed. As the amount appropriated for each monument was limited, the objecv this committee had in view was to get the largest and most appropriate design for the money. Indiana Bedford oolitic stone was selected by the majority for the monuments and the design of John R. Lowe, of Indianapolis, was selected as the largest and most appropriate one submitted. Thse monuments are now erected In this park, each monument having made one carload, or twenty-one carloads In all. After the contract was let for the twenty-one monuments It was ascertained that there should have been one erected to the Second Inmonuments and to establish the fighting positions of these organizations during the battle. And, though forty years had passed since the forests of Shiloh thundered with the guns of the contending armies, and in many places the woods had been cleaned away, while In others dense forests had diana Cavalry, and during the last session of the General Assembly Col. C. C.

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From Photographs Made In 1S621 I-4- - , It . -. w K.-V- - r. . , , . f.t Army at Shlloh. Shraeder asked for $1,500 for that purpose, and as soon as possible it will be placed in position to our left. "The work of preparing the report of the locations selected for each regiment and battery monument and the writing of the inscriptions for the front and the historical inscriptions for the back of each of these monuments, from which the future history of Indiana will be written, and all of which had to conform with the war records, official reports and the rules of the War Department, was assigned to Capt. Nicholas I'nsley, be having served In both days' battle. This was the most difficult task of all, and many months of Captain Ensley's time were given to the work and to the conducting of a large and Important correspondence, to all of which he gave his best efforts, inspired by a feeling of love and patriotism to our soldiers and comrades who fought at Shiloh and to our beloved State of Indiana which had so generously provided the means with which to accomplish this important work. MORE WORK TO DO. "This service does not close the work of this commission. There still remains a sum of money unexpended and which will be carefully used In completing the work of the commission, including securing photographs of all the monuments erected, photographs of important battlefield scenes in the park, photographs of generals and officers on both the Union and Confederate side who were killed In action, photogrpphs of commanding generals, both living and dead, photographs of the commanding officers of tll regiments and batteries engaged In the battle, a photograph of Governor Oliver P. Alorton and one of the present Governor, the making of half-tone cuts of them all for use In Illustrating the final report, the completion of all historical manuscript so it may be ready for the printer TVAWACE CAPT. Member of and the publication of said historical report in volume form, all of which is yet to be accomplished by this commission. "Indiana's loss in the two days' battle at Shiloh, April 6 and 7, 1S62, was 1.259. Of this number 160 were killed upon the field during the battle, many of the wounded died after the battle, and many others were maimed, disabled and helpless for life. On Sunday, April 6. the first day's battle. Indiana had but three regiments and one battery engaged, viz.: The Twenty-fifth. Thirty-first and Forty-fourth Regiments and the Sixth Battery, which were engaged constantly the entire day. The Twenty-fifth Regiment was engaged In front of Shiloh Church and to the right of the "review field." while the Thirty-first and Fortyfourth Regiments were engaged on the' left of the historical "Hornet's Nest," where the dead and wounded soldiers, wearing both the blue and gray, lay upon the ground thicker than sheaves of grain ever did in a harvest field. Here, during the day's battle, the woods caught fire and many dead and wounded were burned. The inscriptions on each of these twenty-one monuments will tell Indiana's historic story. Sixteen Indiana regiments and two batteries were engaged during Monday. April 7, the second day's great battle, and their persistent bravery and patriotic devotion were never exceeded at any time. "Our honored chairman, MaJ. Gen. Lewis Wallace, commander of the Third Division of the Army of the Tennessee, the only surviving general of the battle, opened the battle on the morning of the 7th at h:M a. m., with the first shot of the day by Ueut. George R. llrown, commanding the Ninth Indiana Rattery. General Wallace's division was on the right of the army, which did not meet with a repulse during the entire day's battle. When the battle closed in the evening his division was on the advanced line, halting on the south side of Shiloh branch. , "Indiana's name and fame on the field of Shiloh have gone into history. Forty-

one years have now filed by and Indiana has built these monuments to the memory of her fallen sons. Yet the monuments are not mortuary affairs, but monuments to liberty and civilization; not to create a feeling of sadness, but a thrill of patriotIsm and of love for the soldier who fought for his country on the field of Shiloh. Governor, I now present these monuments to you." GOVERNOR DUItlllX'S ACCEPTANCE

And Ills Presentation of the Blonumenti to the United States. Governor Winficld T. Durbin, In accepting the monuments for the Indiana commission and In presenting them to the United States, said: "Gentlemen of the Commission On behalf of the people of Indiana I receive these monuments, and In their name I thank you for the energy and intelligence with which you have discharged your important duty. Your task has been an arduous one, requiring In Its fulfillment the same unselfish spirit of devotion animating the men of Indiana who fought upon this glorious field of battle on April 6 and 7. lsC'2. It has been yours to fix the facts of history In Imperishable stone, quarried, as was the heroism it commemorates, from the heart of cur beloved State. Shakspeare said that there are 'sermons in stones,' and surely these monuments shall speak to generations yet unborn with an eloquence surpassing that attainable by human tongue. Here through the centuries shall stand these silent sentinels of valor, enduring as the hills, typifying in their rugged strength the stubborn courage of those Indiana soldiers who, when night fell on a field of terrible disaster, rested upon their arms with resolution In their hearts, and, on the morrow, rose with a spirit unsub- - "h,'. Vi, ..tf'Vv o o 7? D

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dued and unconquerable to carry their country's flag to splendid victory. "Shiloh! What memories that name brings across the years to those of the generation upon which God laid the duty of solving in a half-hundred long, terrible months of sorrow and sacrifice, the problem of the Nation's destiny.- To those survivors of this battle whose happy fortune it has been to witness not only the Union's restoration, but its growth In greatness to a place among the powers of the world undi earned of forty years ago, it recalls a roar of battle more terrible than ever before had thundered in the Western hemisphere. It peoples this now peaceful landscape with two might armies, grappling for two days in bloody conflict. It fills the air with the unceasing crackle of musketry, the roar of constant cannonading, the shout of the charge and the groan of the dying. To those who waited at home for news from the front, the mothers and wives who were as true soldiers of the republic as those who marched in line of battle, it brings memories of nnguish and anxiety succeeding the first vague rumor that a great battle had been fought at Pittsburg Landing, followed by the merciless details of terrible slaughter, concluded at last with the long lists of killed and wounded, which threw the shadow of death upon more than a thousand Hoosier households. COST OF WAR. "It was after Shiloh that the American people awoke1 to a full realization of the terriblecost of civil war. Within fortyeight hours nearly ten thousand Union soldiers fell dead and wounded upon this field; fewer American soldiers dropped before the fire of British troops during all the eight years of the American revolution. On this one battlefield of the rebellion the loss of the contending armies in killed and wounded was twice as great as the comNICHOLAS ENSLEY tiki P's,?::--. ;,-;yvt Monument Commission and Author of Inscriptions. bined loss of the American land forces In both the second war with Great Britain and the war with Mexico. The twenty regiments and two batteries which represented Indiana at Shlloh lost in killed and wounded 1.213 men a greater loss than was sustained by the American forces at Urandywine. Germantown or Kings Mountain three of the bloodiest conflicts of the American revolution. Yet this was but the first of a series of battles unexampled in the history of warfare for the courage with which they were waged on both sides, or for the percentage of loss of life. Manassas. Antletam. Fredericksburg, Stone's River, Chanceliorsville, Gettysburg, Chickamauga, the Wilderness, Cold Harbor and a hundred other holacausts were to come. As many Indiana soldiers were to give up their lives for the flag before the last chapter of that tragedy was written as had been yielded for it by all America in all the wars fousht under the stars. and stripes before that fateful shot in Charleston bay signaled the beginning of the war between the States. "But never did the Hoosier commonwealth rise more majestically to the occasion than in the hour when the people of Indiana realized the price her sons had paid for victory In this great battle for the control of the continent's strategic waterway. Over the State swept a wave, not of Irresolution and indecision, but of patriotic fervor, and the spirit of sacrifice for the flag's sake took only deeper hold on Hoosier hearts. Indiana looked upon the dreadful list of her sons wounded and dead. Her answer was more soldiers for the cause, marching out of the state capital with the blessing of Oliver P. Morton upon them, regiment after regiment, battery after battery, until Indiana had given more generously of her blood and treasure than any other State whose soldiers fought beneath the stars and stripes. INDIANA'S GLORY. "I shall not attempt to dwell to-day upon the brave part borne by Indiana troops

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upon this battlefield. If my Hps were not mute In the presence of those monuments which the heroism of 20.000 Indiana soldiers, living and dead, make expressive beyond the power of speech then they would falter In the presence of our presiding officer, the most distinguished surviving participant In the events we now commemorate, who, having laid down a' sword which flashed wherever the fight raged thickest In two of the Republic's wars, has conquered a world with his pen, leading it captive at the wheels of BenHur's chariot. Suffice it to say that here, as on hundreds of other battlefields, their courage was tested, their devotion tried in the fiery crucible of war, and came forth gleaming like fine gold. Here they resolutely faced the bravest foes the world could send against them, and stood their ground till victory shone beneath the lifted clouds of battle. And from this field these shattered regiments marched on to other fields, doing their duty as they saw it. scornful of danger, contemptuous of hardship, lifted above the fear of suffering or death by the inspiration of a cause they deemed holy and of a flag they loved. We have done well, my fellow-citizens of Indiana, to build at the very axis of our splendid State the greatest soldiers' monument In all the world, commemorating not so much a cause or a leadership as the heroic qualities which have shone forth at crucial moments in the history of the Nation. If the Indiana of the future be true to the ideal for which that monument lifts its beautiful proportions, and to the qualities of character It commemorates, Kreat will remain her place among the States so long as the Republic shall endure and may It endure forever! SHRINES FOR THE FUTURE. "In that same sense the government does well to set apart these battlefields. Let them become shrines for future generations of Americans not that war may be glorified, but that courage may be commemorated; not that we may celebrate the victory of a cause which finds Its more enduring monument In a government that realizes Daniel Webster's dream at last of a Union 'one and inseparable, now and forever, ' but that the sublime courage which leads men to give up their lives, if need be, for conviction's sake, may be ex

alted. The boundaries between the North and South are, thank God, no longer lines of battle, and here, amid the mingling throngs of men who wore the blue and men who wore the gray, their children and their children's children, the old battle lines of cleavage become instruments of reunion. Standing amid the memories which throng this field, we bring to mind another and alater war, wherein the sons of those who gallantly charged with Albert Sidney Johnston, and those who stubbornly stood with Ulysses Grant, marched side by side under a flag common to both, and the words of the silent chieftain, writing of this very battle a dozen years ago. seemed to be Instinct with prophecy: "The troops on both sides were American, and united they need not fear any foreign foe. "It is my pleasant duty. Colonel Sanger, on behalf of the State of Indiana, to turn over to you, representing the United States government, these monuments erected in accordance with a generous and patriotic resolution of the Sixty-second General Asstmbly of Indiana. We give them as proudly and as freely as the men whose services they commemmorate gave their blood that the flag might be preserved without the loss of a star from Its azure field. That the Indiana of the future, whenever required by the Nation's need, may emulate the example of the embattled regiments which gloriously maintained the traditions of the State upon this historic field fortyone years ago to-day, Is our most ardent aspiration." ACCEPTED DY THE UNITED STATES. William Cary Sanger's Remarks on Receiving: Imlluun's Gift. When the Governor concluded his eloquent tribute to the valor of Indlanlans "America" was sung. Then William Cary Sanger, In behalf of the secretary of war and the United States government, formally accepted the monuments, saying in part: "In the absence of the secretary of war It is my privilege to receive, on behalf of the United States, these monument which have been erected to perpetuate the heroism of the soldiers of Indiana. It Is fitting that the State should make enduring record of the part which her sons took in the battle, and of the courage and devotion with which they poured out their life's blood. The older men here will remember the enthusiasm with which Indiana responded to the call of President Lincoln for volunteers and the student knows the history of its soldiers in the armies of Grant and Buell, and with the fighting forces at Bowling Green,, at Mill Springs and all through this region In the operations leading up to the occupation of Corinth. "We cannot think of the State and Its soldiers without remembering the splendid work of Governor Oliver P. Morton, whose patriotic and effective labor has Jeft a legacy of which his State is justly proud, and as we stand here to-day on the battlefields and think of the suffering of the wounded, who can forget that he started on its mission of mercy the first steamboat to arrive here forty-one years ago with surgeons and medical supplies. "Shlloh was not only the first great battle of the West, but it was the first battle which gave to the country a realizing sense of the magnitude of the struggle. General Grant said that up to the battle of Shiloh. he, with thousands of other citizens, believed that the war might end suddenly if a decisive victory could be gained, but after the fight he 'gave up all Idea of saving the Union except by complete conquest.' "The Confederate assault, which was made largely by untrained soldiers, has been properly called a military masterpiece. The heavy loss on both sides was conducive evidence of the courage with which the battle was fought. The Union losses were 0 per cent, and the Confederate losses 26 per cent. These figures speak volumes for the character of the men on both sides of the great battle which was fought here, and assures us of what we all realize, that the American soldier never knows when he Is beaten, and makes us confident that In any emergency they will bear themselves as soldiers should. "Time does not permit me to refer to Indiana's heroes who died here, or those who lived to bear with modesty through later years laurels which they won on" this battlefield. The federal government. In accepting these monuments becomes charged with the duty of guarding them and keeping fresh in the memory of the people a record of the deeds which they commemorate. In creating and keeping these national parks, the country is not merely perpetuating the fame of brave men. it is not merely recording with landmarks of granite and bronze the gallant part which the soldiers on both sides took in the awful contests of the civil war; It is not only emphasizing the fact that a united country thinks with pride of the valor of an the heroes who fought in that great struggle, but it is putting into visible form the conviction of the people that examples of brave and faithful performance of duty should be ever honored throughout our land. We should never forget that the lessons of war are but Imperfectly learned if we think of them as only helping us to bear ourselves bravely In the face of an armed enemy. In times of peace there are battles to be fought and victories to be x won. the effect of which upon the destinies of mankind are as farreaching as the results of an armed conflict. Honor, courage, integrity, devotion to principle, and the faithful performance of duty are Just as essential to the greatness of a free people as courage and self-sacrifice sre to the success of a fighting army. "The principles upon which our government rests elo not, of themselves, insure good government; they merely give to the people the power to have that kind of government which the people desire and they can make it as good or as bad as they wish. As patriotic Americans, we should not be discouraged because there is need In so many directions for faithful and effective work in improving existing conditions. From these Impressive scenes we can draw inspiration and help for the better performance of the duties which crowd upon us as American citizens. The memory of the brave soldiers who fought on this and other battlefields will never die. for so long as the country endures their examples will help the men and women In the years yet to come to strive courageously toward that high standard to which every American should aspire." COL. JOSIAH PATTERSON'S SPEECH. Patriotic Addre hy a Shlloh National l'nrk Commissioner. At the close . of Mr. Sanger's address Col. Joeiah Patterson, of Memphis, representing the Shiloh National Park commission, was Introduced, lie said: "Mr. Chairman, Comrades, Ladles and Gentlemen Thoughtful and patriotic men have always realized that the American Union, as It was conceived and understood by the fathers, could not be perpetuated by force. Armies may maintain the territorial Integrity of the Republic, but they are powerless to shoot patriotism Into an unwilling people. Such a union as has existed for centuries between England and Ireland may be maintained Indefinitely by

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General Offices Law Building, Indianapolls. S ' - Capital stock, Jl.000.000. Bond issue. $500,000. Security Trust Company. Indianapolis, Trustee for Bonds, OPKICERH FRED W. KPACKE. Trefldent. ORLANDO M. PACKARD, Treasurer. GEO. W. M'DANIEL. Vice President. VANTON O. FOULK. Secretary. We offer bonds of the above Issue at par with a stock bonus of 25 per cent For falK particulars apply to the JVIIDIAJVO PORTlvAND CKIVIISIVT CO lca.'vv Rctlldlnct IncllnnnpoU, Israel LI

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