. Antietam. Report of the Ohio Antietam battlefield commission . he original contract provided that monuments should costas follows: McKinley monument, five thousand dollars ($5,000) ; jointmonument for the 5th, 7th and 66th regiments, O. V. I., fourthousand five hundred dollars ($4,500) ; seven regimental monu-ments for the 8th, nth, 12th, 23rd, 28th, 30th and 36th regiments,O. V. I., one thousand five hundred dollars ($1,500) each, tenthousand five hundred dollars ($10,500) ; monument for ist OhioIndependent Battery, seven hundred and fifty dollars ($750). The Commission later entered into c

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. Antietam. Report of the Ohio Antietam battlefield commission . he original contract provided that monuments should costas follows: McKinley monument, five thousand dollars ($5,000) ; jointmonument for the 5th, 7th and 66th regiments, O. V. I., fourthousand five hundred dollars ($4,500) ; seven regimental monu-ments for the 8th, nth, 12th, 23rd, 28th, 30th and 36th regiments,O. V. I., one thousand five hundred dollars ($1,500) each, tenthousand five hundred dollars ($10,500) ; monument for ist OhioIndependent Battery, seven hundred and fifty dollars ($750). The Commission later entered into contract with The HughesGranite and Marble Company for a bronze medallion for theMcKinley monument, and for four granite markers, at a cost ofseven hundred and fifty dollars ($750), thus making the cost ofthe ten monuments and four markers twenty-one thousand fivehundred dollars ($21,500). Monuments were erected strictly according to contract andto the entire satisfaction of the Commission, and dedicatory ser-vices were held on the battlefield October 13, Rl^T^, ^i.

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