Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 November 1908 — FOR SOLDIERS’ GRAVE. [ARTICLE]

FOR SOLDIERS’ GRAVE.

Markers for Men Killed in Wreck Near Ijafayette in 1864. Lafayette, Ind., Nov. 19. —Fortyfour years after the accident, the graves of twenty-two Union soldiers, killed in a wreck in 1864, will be marked with beautiful marble headstones received here yesterday from the War Department of the United States Government. The graves are In Greenbush cemetery. In 1864 two trainloads of Union soldiers on the old Lafayette & Indianapolis railroad, now the Big Four, came in collision near this city and twen-ty-two soldiers met death. The graves have been unmarked. Capt. J. B. Shaw has interested himself in the headstoue project and has worked for fifteen years to bring it to completion. The headstones will be' inscribed with the names of the wreck victims that were indentifled. In addition to providing the headstones for the Union soldiers’ graves the Government has granted the request of local patriotic citizens for markers for the graves of thirtyfive Confederate soldiers who died in a temporary military prison maintained here during the civil war.