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[How Veterans Will Honor Blue
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'RESTORING GREAT BATTLEFIELD.
Mistoric Ground Will Be a YNovel
. Park, Writes William E. Cuartis,
| Guns Mounted Just as They Were
In 1863—River Batteries Held by
Confederntes Being Restored.
The battleground of Vicksburg is be
ing made into a historical object les
gon, says Wililam E. Cartis, the Chi
«cago Record-Herald's correspoundent,
gwriting from Vicksburg, Miss. Within
a few years, as soon as the plans of
the commissioners are completed and
the improvements have had time to
mellow and ripen, it will be one of the
most significant, as it is now one of the
most novel, parks in the world. There
has Leen a soldiers’ cemetery at \'iwl;::—i
burg ever since the war, situated where
the right of Sherman’s line stood (i'u*-i
ing the siege, and bodies of Union l!“,iiii
have been brought from the battle i
fields all over the state and !'r'nm!
across the river to lie with those of |
their comrades until they now IIil:lAb(‘l'l
16,600, more than half of them n:nm-»f
less and unknown.
i Near the entrance of the cemetery is
a marble shaft about ten feet high and |
badly chipped, which was m'i;;‘iu;lil_\‘l
erected at the site of the final confer- |
ence between General Grant and Gen
«eral Pemberton, July 4, 1863, at which
the terms of the surrender were :n'»i
ranged. It was removed to the ceme
tery because it was being destroyed by
vandals, who chipped off pieces of mar
.L)}S}'o; soyvenirs, A cannon was putl
alp in its place.
The Vicksburg battleground covers
ouly 1,200 acres. 1t has the most limit
ed area of any battleground in history
and was very much crowded wilhl
troops on both sides. You will remem- !
ber that it was not a battle, but :x|
siege. As the Union troops approached,
the Confederates withdrew to a ridgol
overlooking a crescent shaped ravine
with precipitous sides which encircled
the city from river to river and vary
ing from two to three miles from the
levee. This line of intrenchments was
eight miles long and was pr:wtir:lll_\'l
impregnable. The Union army m-vu«}
pied a similar ridge on the other side
of the ravine with a line of intrench
ments a little more than ten miles
long, with similar topography. At sev
eral points the intrenchments were not
more than one-third of a mile from
each other, but between them was an |
impassable gulf. There were very few
assaults, but continued work by the
sharpshooters and the artillery untill
the Confederates were starved out. |
All of the earthworks have been re
stored as nearly as possible to the pre
eise condition they were in at the time ‘
of the surrender, and at least one gun
has been mounted in each. The posi
tion of every regiment and battery has 1
been marked by a monument provided |
by the state to which it belonged, with
dronze tablets bearing hjstorical and
statisticai information. Sixteen north
ern states and fourteen southern states
were represented in the siege, the elev
en that seceded and Maryland, Ken
tucky and Missouri in addition. Sev
eral of the northern states have been
aery generous in making appropria
tions for monuments, as follows:
Minois .......$260,000 lowa .........$1050,000
e .......... §6,000 Wisconsin ... 380,000
Pennsylvania. 15000 New York ... 12500
Massachusetts 5000 N. Hampshire 5,000
These make a total of §523,500 with
out counting the appropriations of cou
gress. Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky,
Michigan, Missouri, Rhode Island,
Minnesota and. Teunnessee are making
preparation%, according to the repre
sentation of each in the struggle.
Illinois had the largest number of
soldiers engaged, a total of eighty
commands, and they will have eighty
monuments amd eighty-nine markers
showing the positious occupied by the
regiwents in camp, in the several as
saults and ou the sharpshooters’ lines.
Illinols will also have a central memo
rial in the tforin of a Grecian temple of
faie costing $192,000. It is not unlike
the tomb of General Grant at New
York, having a dome of white marble
fifty-four feet in diameter aml sixty
two feet high, and the names o¥ all the
soldiers cnzagzed will be inscribed on
the walls. The foundations are now
being laid on the camping ground of
the Forty-fifth lilinois volunteer infan
try, better known as ‘the lead mine
regiment” because it came from Ga
lena.
lowa had thirtyv-two commands en
gaged—twenty-eight regiments of in
fautry, two of cavalry and two bitter
fes of artillery—and the position of
every one will be marked by appropri
ate monuments, while the state memo
rial, designed by Henryv H. Kitson of
Boston, is now being erected and will
be finished during the coming summer.
It represents a semicircle peristyle,
with six panels in bronze bas relief
portraying the six principal battles in
which the Towa troops were engaged in
this neighborhood, and in the center is
the heroic figure of a trooper bearing
an unfurled flag. It stands where Gar
field’'s regiment, the Forty-second Ohio,
«id some hard fighting under the com
mand of Lieutenant Colonel Don A.
Pardee. Garfield was with Rosecrans.
Ohio has thirty-nine monuments and
twenty markers to show the positions
of the thirty-nine commands from that
#tate, and they will be dedicated with
appropriate ceremonies on the 224 of
May, the anniversary of a fierce as
mault by the Union troops upon the
Lonfederate intrenchments.
l The only completed memorial,and a
very spirited one it is, was erected by
Massachusetts—a bronze figure of a
v dunteer, heroic size and in marching
costume, looking across to the Confed
erate lines from a moustrous bowlder
of thirteen tons weight, brought all
the way from Massachusetts. It was
designed by Mrs., Theodore Alice Rug
gles Kitson and was erected and dedi
cated in 1903.
The New York commission has se
lected u high knoll for the memorial of
that state, which is now being erected
near the site of General Grant’s head
quarters. It was designed by an emi
nent artist.
Pennsylvania bought its own site, a
tract of ground adjoining the park, at
a cost of £15,000, and just beyond Gen
eral Grant’'s headquarters is erecting
a shaft sixty feet high and weighing
fifty tons. Rhode [sland, Michigan, In
diana and other states have .\‘olectmli
sites for their memorials, which will
be erected by them within the next few
years,
Grant's headquarters will be marked
by a shaft and tablet, and Sherman’s
in a similar manner. The commission
ers wint an equestrian monument as a
memorial for Grant, and some time'
they will get it. Pemberton's head- |
quarters in the city of Vicksburg will |
be marked with a tablet also.
The Shirley House, which was the
most conspicuous object in the Fed
eral lines during the siege and was a |
landmark to both armies, has been re
stored exactly as it was at the time
and will be used as.a resthouse for
visitors and memorial museum. Cap
tain Shirley, who lived in the house at I
the time of the battle, was a New
Hampshire Yankee, His wife was a
Boston lady, and their daughter is the
wife of General John Eaton of Wash
ington, for many years commissioner
of education and afterward, civil serv
ce commissioner. Mr. :uu?.\lrs. Shir
.y were buried on the battleground,
and their graves have been properly
marked. vax e e
The positions of the Confederate
troops have alt been located by state
commissions under the direction of |
General Stephen B. Lee, who (lefent'mll
Sherman at Chickasaw bayou, and the
markers have heen placed, but no ap
propriations have yet been made for
memorials by any of the southern
states. (eneral Lee has taken a deep
interest in the battle park ever since
the plan was first suggested by Cap
tain J. F. Merry of Manchester, la,, a
veteran of the Twenty-first lowa in
fantry. At his invitation a meeting of |
veterans of both armies was held at |
Vicksburg in October, 1895, and an as
sociation was organized which secured
the necessary action by congress. Cap
tain W. T. Rigby of lowa was made
the chairman of the commission and
has been in personal charge of the
work ever since. It may be said that:
be has made the park. He is an au
thority upon all matters connected with
Vicksburg and familiar with the mi
nutest details of the history of the
siege. Captain Everest of Chicago is
the other commissioner. General Lee
is president of the association. e
lives at Columbus, Miss., is command
er in chief of the United Confederate
Veterans, was formerly president of
the State Agricultural college and is
now a planter,
There was one Maryland and one
Virginia battery on the Confederate
side in the siege. The Virginia battery
was commanded by Captain J. W.
Johnson, father of Mary Johnson, the
novelist, and recently president of the
Georgia Pacific railroad. Captain John
son, haviag become discouraged be
cause of the indifference of the Virgin
ia legislature, is now raising a sub
scription for a monument among the
survivors and their friends.
The river batteries held by the Con
federates are being restored. Guns are
mounted just as they were in 1863,
when Admiral Porter's fleet ran by,
and a similar gun will be placed on the
spot where stood Whistling Dick,
which sunk the Union gunboat Cincin
nati. Secretary Morton is having the
record of the navy at the siege looked
up and will recommend an appropria
tion by congress for a monument to be
erected in South fork, the most south
erly of the fortifications below the city
and the most couspicuous point on the
banks of the Mississippi near Vicks
burg.
Although the park is by no means
completed, twenty-seven miles of roads
have beem made, the location of ev
ery regiment and battery has Dbeen
marked, thirteen siege guns and 112
field guns have been placed in the po
sitions they occupied in the siege, and
nearly all of the fortifications have
been restored. It is not a landscape
garden, nor is it intended to be a pleas
ure park, but it is an exact reproduc
tion of one of the most famous of the
world’s battlefields for the benefit of
students of history and military sci
ence.
“A Judgment of God.”
A crane which reccatly fell at the
Putiloff works in Russia killed eleven
men and injured fifteen others, says
the St. Petersburg correspondent of
the London Telegraph. It also smashed
two gunboats in course of construc
tion. The workmen state that the acci
dent is a judgment of God because of
the continuance of the war in Manchu
ria.
Pinon Nuts to Fatten Hogs.
Fattening hogs on pinion nuts is the
latest money making method in Colo
rado. Half a dozen hog farms have
been started in Conejos county this
year with the pinion nut as the staple
feed. A quarter a pound for bacon is
the net result.
It is not generally known that one
of the most valuable gold mines in the
south is at Acworth, Ga., but such is
the case.
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GRAVE CHARGES BROUGHT AGAINST ASYLUM
Accused by Committee of ;;;;Cru;tfiya to Helpless Patients and
of Drunkenness and Immorality Among Themselves.
The committee appointed by the
Florida legislature to visit and report
the condition of the state asylum for
the insane has returned a sensation
al account, charging that the board in
charge of the institution is responsi
ble for deplorable conditions and un
pardonable evils in the asylum.
The report declares that the institu
tion is not a hospital for the insanc,
but a dumping ground for all kinds of
people, who are maintained at an
enormous expense to the state. No
systematic effort is made by treatment
given to restore the mentality of the
patients, and the sick have not been
given necessary attention.
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A taste for perfect figure is insepar
able from a love of the beautiful,
The scents of the heliotrope, violet or rose are
as precious as the lovely flowers whose breath
tht?' are, and while the lives of flowers are brief
and we can only enjoy them for a day, the
beautiful woman gives the pleasure of her fra
grance tous as a permanent blessing. The sweet,
pure breath of the babeis suggestive of innocence
and health—the soft fragrance of a beautiful
woman suggests to the senses purity, health and
elegance; she is the refinement of civilization;
she is indicative of z desire to please, an index of
good taste, and an unerring badge of gengility.
Bradfield’s
in regulating those lunar periods in women, per
mit of no wrinkles, pale cheeks, tortured nerves
and shapeless figures. It is certain, sure ard
safe. Itis Nature’s remedy,and there is nosuch
thing as cheating nature. The druggist may
offer some other remedy and call it “Lust as good”
thus deceiving the purchaser; but the menstruval
organs will not be deceived by it, a permanent
injury is often the result.
I'ry our Regulator. Of 2!l druggists, $l.OO.
Our Treatise on Women mailed free.
THE BRADFIELD REGULATORCO
ATLANTA, GA.
' NEARLY
400,000,000
~ PACKAGES
of this most nutritious of all foods
have already been consumed but
CHEER UP!
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el needa Biscuit [§;
Don't forget
Graham Crackers
Butter Thin Biscuit
Social Tea Biscuit
Lemon Snaps 4
Good wheat is plentiful. Flour mills
are grinding steadily. NATIONAL
BISCUIT COMPANY bakeries, the ‘
cleanest, largest, most modern in the
world, are working day in and day out
to supply you with your favorite soda
cracker. So Uneeda Biscult are still
in abundance-—the price is the same—
NATIONAL BISCUIT COMPANY
It charges drunkenness among the
attendauts and nurses, who have been
brutally eruel in their treatment of
| helpless patients. Vige and immoral
| ity, it declares, have prevailed until
| the inmates have begged to be remov
‘ed and nearby citizens have been out
'raged by the conditions. It further
[ states that no accurate system of the
!expenditures have been kept, and the
| committee infers that there has been
| misappropriation of funds.
’ BECAME THIEF TO SAVE SON.
Trusted Bank Employe Makes a Pa
| thetic Confession.
Carl M. Spencer, a former trusted
employe of the Des Moines National
Bank, has been indicted on a charge
of embezzlement and alleged fraudu
lent entries. The amount of his short
age will not exceed $5,000.
There is a pathetitic story in con
nection with Spencer’s confession,
which he made prior to his indictment.
For many years annually he had been
taking an invalid son east for medical
treatment. He had been unable to
meet the expenses this vear, and to
save the boy’s life took the money
from his employers.
I(i REAT VARIETY IN SHOE STYLES
l Many Novel Cafars and Leathers Will
I Ee Lotrodnced.
i The variety of rew styles for spring
{{lb'l suiimer covers 2 broaéer rang
than ever before, and the introdu¢tion
of new leathers and new colors has
made possilie new combinations and
artistic effects never before attempted
in footwear, says the Shoe Retailer. 1
! The choicest goatsking of Morocco
have been tanned in beautiful shades{
of the fashionable colors and made upl
in very attractive afternoon shoes for
women, ‘
Pumps of patent leather and dull
kid, with stiff leather bows to match,
will be used for dress occasions.
Tan Russia calfskin and Russia
goatskin and white shoes of duck and
buckskin will divide popular favor for
outdoor affairs in the summer.
" Gnu kid and gun metal calf, in
light weights, are the newest features
of men’s and women’s shoes, and both
appear to be rapidly gaining in popu
larity. These leathers have a duli, rich
luster and are easily kept in condi
tion. They are shown in Oxfords and
evening pumps.
Pumps are again becoming general
ly popular as a gentleman’s evening
dress shoe, shown in patent &nd dull
leathers.
The sixteenth legiment, United
States troops, will leave Atlanta for
the Philippine Islands this week.
PLEASANT. HARMLESS. EFFECTIVE.
Cures Bowel and Teething Troubles.
Two Sizes--25c and 50c Bottles.
For : Sale : Everywhere.
New Hardware and
Furniture Store.
We are now opening a new stock at Mol
fet’s old stand. Will keep a full line of Hard-
HARDWARE, FURNITURE.
HOUSE FURNISHING GOODS.
Stone Crockery, Mattings,
Carpeting, Rugs, etc.
Melton Furniture & Hapdware 00
WE WISH T 0 ANNOUNCE T 0 THE PUBLIC
that we are now ready to take orders for sum
mer coal. We have bought direct from the
mines the very best grade of summer coal.
By buying now we can give you better coal
lower at a price than later on.
Shields & Cox.