Title
Origin of Quotation on Taylor's Battery Monument
Description
Excerpt from Chicago Tribune with information on Taylor's Battery Monument.
Source
"Memorial-Day at Rosehill," Chicago Tribune, May 29, 1887.
Date
May 29, 1887
Original Format
Newspaper
Text
Col. Taylor’s Battery, Bridge’s Battery, the Board of Trade Battery, and other are represented by very handsome and appropriate monuments, around the bases of which lie the remains of many who bravely manned the guns till stricken down in death – a notable instance of which was that of O.E. Becker of Taylor’s Battery, who was killed in the terrible fight during Gen. Grant’s attack and capture of Fort Donelson. When he fell mortally wounded beside his gun, and was picked up by his comrades to be borne to the rear, he exclaimed: “I die for liberty, boys! Go back and man the guns.”