. Vicksburg for the tourist . EN SUCH memorials are finished (Illinois, Iowa, Massachusetts, T Minnesota, Mississippi, New Hampshire, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Wisconsin), and appropriations have been made forthree—Alabama, Michigan and Missouri. To June 1,1911, fifteenstates have made appropriations for the Vicksburg Park, aggregat-ing $847,000. Indianas and Ohios, each, provide generously forregimental and battery monuments and markers, but not for aState Memorial. Each of the memorials now in the Park isbeautiful and appropriate, but specific mention is made of threeof them to c
. Vicksburg for the tourist . EN SUCH memorials are finished (Illinois, Iowa, Massachusetts, T Minnesota, Mississippi, New Hampshire, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Wisconsin), and appropriations have been made forthree—Alabama, Michigan and Missouri. To June 1,1911, fifteenstates have made appropriations for the Vicksburg Park, aggregat-ing $847,000. Indianas and Ohios, each, provide generously forregimental and battery monuments and markers, but not for aState Memorial. Each of the memorials now in the Park isbeautiful and appropriate, but specific mention is made of threeof them to call attention to features of special interest that they possess:The inscription on the Pennsylvania Memorial is the following appro-priate and noble sentiment: here brothers fought for their principles,here heroes died for their country. anda united people will forever cherish theprecious legacy of their noble manhood. The Illinois Memorial is a beautiful marble dome, bearing on its innerwall the names, more than 35,000, of
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