Dedication of Monuments Erected By the State of Iowa
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Humbert, Cedar Falls, Thirty-first Iowa in- fantry, EUiott Frazier, Morning Sun, First Iowa battery. Chairman — John A. Young, Washington. Secretary — Alonzo Abernethy, Osage. The Lookout Mountain and Missionary Ridge Monument Commission appointed by Governor Cummins, in compliance with chapter 197, laws of the Twenty-ninth General Assembly, for the erection of monuments on the battlefields about Chat- tanooga, Tennessee, let the contract early in 1903 for three state monuments, as provided by ...law. Two of the monuments were completed early in 1904, and the material for the third and larger one was all in position a month later, except a half dozen blocks of granite, one of the number a thirty-foot shaft, weighing forty tons. Three suc- cessive accidents occurred in attempts to place this shaft In posi- tion. Each time it received some injury. Finally a third shaft was shipped from Barre, Vermont, in January, 1906, placed in position two months later, and the whole monument completed and accepted March 15th.
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