Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 February 1896 — IN HONOR OF INDIANA. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

IN HONOR OF INDIANA.

The Bronze Tablets for Chickamauga Monuments Are Inspected. Chief Ordnance Inspector Thomnaan. U. S. A., representing the War Department 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 Chickamauga, erected in Chickamauga National Military Park by tin? State of Indiana. The troops |f Indiana and Illinois formed a large proportion of the. total number engaged in that blopdiest of.all modern battles, and these monuments are a tribute to the gallant men who made the

ground holy by dying there. No single struggle on an|y battlefield of the war, nor on any battlefield of modern times, surpasses it in nil there is of patriotic‘devotion and self-sacrifice. There are thirty-nine of these memorial tablets, one for each regiment nf iufant.-y, mounted’ infantry, cavalry and battery that took part in the engagement, together with a taW«t beariiijg the seal of the State.

Each v tablet bears in reljpf a representation of the anti of service commemorated by tbeutablet. and in raised letters a brief ■leaeriptioß of the movements of the regi-

ment in the battle, and the losses in killed, wounded and mining. The tablets art? placed upon the stone monuments, erected on. the spots where each particular regiment was engaged during the fight.

ARTILLERY TABLET.

INFANTRY TABLET.

CAVALRY TABLET.