Title
Description of Enterprise to Erect Marker to Bvt. Maj. Gen. Thomas E.G. Ransom
Description
Excerpt from Chicago Tribune with information on the enterprise to erect a marker to Bvt. Maj. Gen. Thomas E.G. Ransom.
Source
"Decoration Day," Chicago Tribune, May 31, 1870.
Date
May 31, 1870
Original Format
Newspaper
Text
GENERAL RANSOM.
This hero lies buried to the left of the grand entrance, and his is the first of the soldier graves. Consequently it was the first to receive a floral offering, and fellow-officers showered this simple gift over his remains generously. As yet the grave is unmarked, and but for a little pasteboard placard, laid upon it for the occasion, no one would have dreamed that one of the greatest and truest soldiers of the war lay buried under the greensward of that little mound. While speaking of this matter it would perhaps be well to say that an enterprise is on foot looking toward the erection of an appropriate monument in honor of this noble son of Illinois. A Citizens’ Committee, composed of General Wallace, Dr. Brock Movickar, C.C. Kellogg, and General James R. Hugunin, and an Army Committee, composed of General Wm. E. Strong, and Joseph Stockton, and Colonel L.H. Whittlesy, have the matter in hand, and will wait upon our citizens for subscribed, and but $600 more are wanted. The design is a Scotch granite shaft, twenty-seven feet high. The committee hope to be enabled to dedicate the same on the next Decoration Day.
This hero lies buried to the left of the grand entrance, and his is the first of the soldier graves. Consequently it was the first to receive a floral offering, and fellow-officers showered this simple gift over his remains generously. As yet the grave is unmarked, and but for a little pasteboard placard, laid upon it for the occasion, no one would have dreamed that one of the greatest and truest soldiers of the war lay buried under the greensward of that little mound. While speaking of this matter it would perhaps be well to say that an enterprise is on foot looking toward the erection of an appropriate monument in honor of this noble son of Illinois. A Citizens’ Committee, composed of General Wallace, Dr. Brock Movickar, C.C. Kellogg, and General James R. Hugunin, and an Army Committee, composed of General Wm. E. Strong, and Joseph Stockton, and Colonel L.H. Whittlesy, have the matter in hand, and will wait upon our citizens for subscribed, and but $600 more are wanted. The design is a Scotch granite shaft, twenty-seven feet high. The committee hope to be enabled to dedicate the same on the next Decoration Day.