People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 July 1895 — Attention Eighty-Seventh Indiana! [ARTICLE]

Attention Eighty-Seventh Indiana!

To the Comrades of the EightySeventh Indiana volunteers: It has become part of the history of the country that no troops did harder or more effective fighting at the battle of Chickamauga on Sept. 19 and 20 1863, than Colonel Vanderveer’s brigade, composed of the EightySeventh Indiana, Ninth and Thirty-Fifth Ohio and Second Minnesota. The battlefield of Chichamauga is to be dedicated as a national park Sept. 19 and 20, 1895. The occasion will be one of great interest. Thousands of veterans, both of the Federal and Confederate armies, who participated in that bloody battle will be present. The places occupied by every brigade and regiment during the battle have been definitely ascertained and marked. Members of the Ninth and Thirty Fifth Ohio and Second Minnesota are arranging to be present in large numbers. It is their desire to have a brigade reunion at the time of the dedication. Letters from General Boynton, who commanded the Thirty-Fifth Ohio, and others have been received earnestly requesting the Eighty-Seventh to participate in the reunion. It will certainly be a grand thing to go with our old comrades over

the battlefield where we fought thirty-two years ago. The monuments to the several Indiana regiments which fought in that battle will, it is believed, be completed by that time. Railroads will, no doubt, furnish transportation at the rate of one cent a mile each way. Accommodations in private houses can be secured for about $2 per day, with two or more in a room, according to the size of the apartment. Quarters in private houses for gentlemen and their wives at moderate prices if engaged now. Parties of gentlemen who do not care to occupy berths in the camps and barracks can be accommodated with new beds and bedding, located in clean, wellventilated rooms, including toilet conveniences, for eight days, from Sept. 15 to 22, 1895, by sending (before Aug. 15) $5 to Capt. Charles F. Muller, chairman camp committee, Chattanooga, Tenn. It is earnestly requested that the Eighty-Seventh will be well represented at the dedication and in the brigade reunion. Every member of the regiment is most cordially invited to be present. Comrades of the Eighty-Seventh are requested to meet at Snodgrass Hill at 9:30 o’clock a. m. Septemper 9th. It is requested that those who will attend send their names to Capt. J. A. Burnham, Rensselaer, Ind., by Aug. 15.