Title
Description of Decoration of Unfinished Bridges' Battery Monument
Description
Excerpt from Chicago Tribune with information on Bridges' Battery Monument.
Source
"At Rosehill," Chicago Tribune, May 31, 1869.
Date
May 31, 1869
Original Format
Newspaper
Text
Bridges’ Battery boys, or those of them who fell, be at the top of the hill, inside a circular mound, at the centre of which is the foundation of a monument not yet finished, and which was described in yesterday’s TRIBUNE. On top of it was an urn filled with a mammoth bouquet, the base of the urn being entwined by wreaths and on the base lay the national flag, and on it an immense wreath, with the words “Bridges’ Battery,” in raised green letters. The graves were also decorated with the names of the occupants surrounded by wreaths. The battles in which the batter fought were on the tomb as follows: Stone River, Chicamauga, Mission Ridge, Resaca, Dallas, Kenesaw Mountain, Peachtree Creek, Atlanta, Jonesboro, Franklin, Nashville.