Title
Dedication of Chicago Board of Trade Battery Monument
Description
Excerpt from Chicago Tribune with information on the dedication of the Chicago Board of Trade Battery Monument.
Source
"Unveil Shaft to Dead," Chicago Tribune, May 31, 1901.
Date
May 31, 1901
Original Format
Newspaper
Text
UNVEIL SHAFT TO DEAD.
MEMORIAL IN ROSEHILL TO BOARD OF TRADE BATTERY.
Record of Organization in Battle Read at Exercises – President Warren Pays Tribute of the Living to Members Gone Before – Crowd at Oakwoods Decorates Graves of Soldiers – Colonel Mulligan’s Men Remembered – Flowers on Water for Sailors.
In Rosehill Cemetery, where the largest number of veterans of the civil war lied buried, the members of the Board of Trade Battery unveiled a monument to their dead yesterday. The shaft now stands close to the monuments to other batteries recruited in Chicago. It bears on its base the names of the battles in which the organization fought during the war. In all the cemeteries services were held over the decorated graves of union soldiers, the morning being thus occupied by most of the G.A.R. posts.
On the monument unveiled in Rosehill is this inscription:
Chicago Board of Trade Battery.
July, 1862-July, 1865.
Battles through which the battery passed, are inscribed on the base of the monument, are Stone River, Elk River, Chickamauga, Farmington, Dallas, Decatur, Atlanta, Lovejoy, Nashville, Selma, Jonesboro, and Ringgold.
Reads Record of Campaigns.
Miss Clara Nourse unveiled the monument and during the exercise Secretary J.A. Nourse gave the record of the battery’s campaigns. Originally recruited to 115, additions made the total 236 men.
“We lost during service five killed in battle,” said Mr. Nourse. “Ten died of wounds, fifteen were sent to the hospital because of sickness, twenty-six were discharged on account of disabilities received in the service, seventeen were discharged for promotion, and fifteen were detailed for duty at the headquarters of various Generals. Since the muster out we know of fifty-two deaths among our members.”
Tribute from the Living.
The annual address was made by President Benjamin F. Nourse, and President W.S. Warren of the Board of Trade spoke in behalf of the present members of the board. President Warren said:
“It is perhaps to be regretted that these fallen heroes had been left so long without a suitable monument to mark their final resting place and commemorate their deeds of valor and devotion to the country. But there is some compensation in the thought that this occasion, after the long lapse of years, brings us into closer touch with the brave boys, living and dead, of the Board of Trade Battery than could otherwise have happened. In this lucre-chasing time we are in great danger of losing our enthusiasm and our ideals. Let us make the dedication of this monument a fresh starting point to ever glory in the achievements of these men, the cause for which they fought and bled and died, and the results of their self-sacrifice.”
MEMORIAL IN ROSEHILL TO BOARD OF TRADE BATTERY.
Record of Organization in Battle Read at Exercises – President Warren Pays Tribute of the Living to Members Gone Before – Crowd at Oakwoods Decorates Graves of Soldiers – Colonel Mulligan’s Men Remembered – Flowers on Water for Sailors.
In Rosehill Cemetery, where the largest number of veterans of the civil war lied buried, the members of the Board of Trade Battery unveiled a monument to their dead yesterday. The shaft now stands close to the monuments to other batteries recruited in Chicago. It bears on its base the names of the battles in which the organization fought during the war. In all the cemeteries services were held over the decorated graves of union soldiers, the morning being thus occupied by most of the G.A.R. posts.
On the monument unveiled in Rosehill is this inscription:
Chicago Board of Trade Battery.
July, 1862-July, 1865.
Battles through which the battery passed, are inscribed on the base of the monument, are Stone River, Elk River, Chickamauga, Farmington, Dallas, Decatur, Atlanta, Lovejoy, Nashville, Selma, Jonesboro, and Ringgold.
Reads Record of Campaigns.
Miss Clara Nourse unveiled the monument and during the exercise Secretary J.A. Nourse gave the record of the battery’s campaigns. Originally recruited to 115, additions made the total 236 men.
“We lost during service five killed in battle,” said Mr. Nourse. “Ten died of wounds, fifteen were sent to the hospital because of sickness, twenty-six were discharged on account of disabilities received in the service, seventeen were discharged for promotion, and fifteen were detailed for duty at the headquarters of various Generals. Since the muster out we know of fifty-two deaths among our members.”
Tribute from the Living.
The annual address was made by President Benjamin F. Nourse, and President W.S. Warren of the Board of Trade spoke in behalf of the present members of the board. President Warren said:
“It is perhaps to be regretted that these fallen heroes had been left so long without a suitable monument to mark their final resting place and commemorate their deeds of valor and devotion to the country. But there is some compensation in the thought that this occasion, after the long lapse of years, brings us into closer touch with the brave boys, living and dead, of the Board of Trade Battery than could otherwise have happened. In this lucre-chasing time we are in great danger of losing our enthusiasm and our ideals. Let us make the dedication of this monument a fresh starting point to ever glory in the achievements of these men, the cause for which they fought and bled and died, and the results of their self-sacrifice.”