Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 December 1907 — HOOSIER STATE MEMORIAL. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

HOOSIER STATE MEMORIAL.

Design for Indiana Monument at Vicksburg Military Camp. The illustration represents the design of the monument which will mark the position of Gen. McGinnis’ brigade, at Vicksburg, but all the monuments . for the infantry commands are of the same general effect with the five-command monument, marking the Twelfth, One Hundredth, Ninety-seventh and Ninety-ninth tery, possibly a trifle larger. All will bear the names of the commands in position on the site selected—for instance, the McGinnis brigade monument bearing not only the names of the Eleventh and Twen-ty-fourth Indiana infantry regiments, as observable in the foreground, but on the corresponding squares the names of the Thirty-fourth and Forty-sixth Indiana regiments. What are designated as tbreepommhnd, two-comn>ind and pne-comr mand monuments will be correspondingly smaller in dimensions, but still all of them will be of conspicuous size, and they will occupy commanding positions. They will bear the seal of the State. A slight change in general design is noticeable in the monument for the First

pany C, Fourth Indiana cavalry, in that, -for the battery, the crossed-rifles- with bayonets is replaced with two cannon in similar position, while that of the cavalry carries sabers. The Indiana commission has received estimates showing that all of the monuments can be erected within the legislative appropriation of $38,000, and in comparison with the monuments already in position, representing Ohio and Illinois and even lowa, they will be equally as handsome, and possibly may receive more commendation because of the good taste shown in selection. Every oue. of them, when in position-, can be seen to good advantage, as the Indiana troops tvere well forward in the campaign against Vicksburg.

WHERE M’GINNIS’ BRIGADE STOOD.