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48. Newspaper Article, May 21, 1970.

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The Gettysburg Times, May 21, 1970, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania Work To Start In Two Weeks On Construction Of $17,000 Monument To Indiana Troops Indiana will honor its troops who fought here in 1863 with a new $17,000 Cenotaph to be erected in Spangler’s Meadow on the battlefield this summer. The new monument will be near the present marker of the 27th Indiana regiment in the meadow near Spangler’s Spring. One section of the 28,000 pound granite marker will bear the inscription, under the word “Liberty,” “In honored memory of those valiant men of Indiana” who served in the 7th, 14th, 19th, 20th, and 27th Infantry regiments, L and K companies of the 1st Indiana Volunteer Cavalry Regiment and A, B, C, D, E, and F, Companies of the 3rd Indiana Volunteer Cavalry Regiment. Under the word “Equality” the marker will have this inscription “On July 1, 1863 Indiana units engaged Confederate forces at Gettysburg and sustained some of the first casualties among the Union ranks. In this battle to preserve the Union 552 men from Indiana were casualties to that cause.” “ADVANCED FREEDOM” In the center of the proposed monument will be the word “Indiana,” the seal of the state, and the wording, “Dedicated to those Hoosiers who so nobly advanced freedom on this great battlefield.” The terrace on which the monument will be placed, and the 40 foot long walkway from the parking lot at Spangler’s Spring to the cenotaph will be made of Indiana limestone while the 10-foot pylons, the plinth, sub-base and bottom base will be made of Rock of Ages granite from Vermont. The basic design of the monument was outlined by James Codori Memorials here after he read in The Gettysburg Times that Indiana had established a commission to place a marker here. APPROVAL GIVEN The Indiana Commission liked Codori’s proposal and the final design was drawn up by Al Yeager, chief designer for Rock of Ages, and approval was given by both Indiana’s Commission and the National Park. Attorney Thurman DeMoss, Franklin, Indiana, chairman of the Indiana Gettysburg Memorial Commission, and Mrs. DeMoss, visited Gettysburg over the last weekend to confer with James Codori here concerning the plans to complete the construction by October. Dedicatory exercises will probably be held early in November. Attorney DeMoss said that when the project is completed Indiana will be the last of the “northern states” which had troops here to erect a state monument on the local battlefield. Indiana has seven regimental markers on the ’field but no state monument. All but three of the Southern states which had troops here have placed monuments so far, with Louisiana planning to place one in the near future. THIRD COMMISSION In addition to DeMoss other members of the Indiana Gettysburg Commission include Margaret Colclesser, of Mishawaka, Indiana; Ralph Rader, Akron; J. Ben Rickets, Wheaton and Galen Colclesser, Fort Wayne. The monument project is a result of 18 months of work by the Memorial Commission which was first appointed by former Governor Roger Branigin in the Fall of 1968. The commission was created by an act of the 1967 Indiana legislature. The group is the third such commission to be appointed by the state of Indiana. In 1885 state officials and five Civil War veterans comprised a commission which erected markers at Gettysburg for seven Indiana units involved in the battle. In 1913 a Gettysburg Anniversary Commission was appointed to take part in the 50th anniversary of the event. George F. Emery, Superintendent Gettysburg National Military Park Gettysburg, Pennsylvania 17325

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