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Identifier: report02kans (find matches)
Title: Report
Year: 1920 (1920s)
Authors: Kansas. Vicksburg National Park Memorial Commission
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Publisher: Topeka, Kansas State Print. Plant
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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dividing the seceding statesand opening the Mississippi river to traffic. Kansas at the time of the siege of Vicksburg had raisedthirteen regiments of troops, a larger quota in proportion toits voting population than any other northern state; therefore,in having one regiment engaged in the Vicksburg campaign,probably had a larger per cent of its troops on the ground thanany other state, and that those troops did their full duty isevidenced by the fact, while the average number of men killedin action or died of wounds in the Civil War in all the states wasthirty-five per thousand, among Kansas troops the mortalitywas sixty-one per thousand—and yet Kansas has not erecteda monument to their memory upon a battle field in the UnitedStates. Another pertinent question: Why statues of Lincoln, Robin-son and Deitzler? Your commission visited Vicksburg, having in mind as asuitable memorial for Kansas such characters as Jim Lane andJohn Brown, but found them ineligible, since the rules confine
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Liiion Navy Memorial Memorial Commission. 13 representation strictly to those who commanded troops in theVicksburg campaign. This limited us to General Deitzler; hence we decided to in-clude statues of Governor Robinson, who, as commander ofstate troops, and Lincoln, as commander in chief of the army,are both eligible. Another reason why Kansas should erect a monument uponthe Vicksburg battle field is the fact that at the close of thewar thousands of the men who fought there came to Kansas,where they continued the battle against drought, grasshoppersand populism, and won. They and their posterity made Kansas what it is to-day—thegreatest agricultural state in the Union; it is therefore fittingthat the state should recognize what they did in its behalf. The old boys are now tottering upon the brink of the here-after, and if they are to witness the states recognition of theirservices, in the shape of a monument of sufficient magnitudeand dignity to be at all commensurate with their se

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