Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 May 1899 — KENTUCKY’S WAR MONUMENT. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

KENTUCKY’S WAR MONUMENT.

Erected to tlie Memory of Cains aol Confederate Soldiers. The fact that bitterness no longer exists between the North and South was celebrated recently by the erection of the first

monument ever raised to the joint memory of Federal and Confederate soldiers. II is. appropriately, the work of the State at Kentucky and stands on the battlefield of Chickamauga.' Kentucky had seventeen Union and nine Confederate organizations at Chickamauga. The monument stands at the spot where the Fourth Kentucky regiment of the Union

army met and fonght the Fifteenth Kentucky regiment of the rebel forces. (lor. Bradley, on behalf of the State, turned over the monument to the United States Government. This is the inscription on the stone: .

KENTUCKY’S SHAFT.