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Identifier: indianaatvicksbu00indi (find matches)
Title: Indiana at Vicksburg
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Indiana. Vicksburg National Military Park Commission Adams, Henry C. jr. comp
Subjects: Indiana -- History Civil War, 1861-1865 United States -- History Civil War, 1861-1865 Regimental histories Indiana Vicksburg (Miss.) -- History Siege, 1863 Vicksburg National Military Park
Publisher: Indianapolis, W. B. Burford, contractor for state printing and binding
Contributing Library: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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r hands andseals this 23rd day of January, 1908. The State of Indiana,By The Indiana Vicksburg Military Park Commission.By Henry C. Adams, President.Approved this 13th day of February, 1908. J. Frank Hanly,Governor of the State of Indiana. American Bronze Foundry Company, By C. A. Tinkham, President.Attest: L. D. Burns, Secretary. Report of The Commission. 431 Financial Report Of the Indiana-Vicksburg Military Parlv Commission. Appropriation, 1907 $38,000 00 Expenses of tlie Connuission $693 93 Teleplione, telegraph, postage, advertising and steno-graphic work 137 44 Printing 46 80 H. L. Ogborn, plans and additir3ial drawings 327 00 Photographs and framing 103 50 Expenses of the dedication 1,575 13 Recutting granite work 37 00 Angola Monument Company 32,285 00 American Bronze Foundry Company 2,420 So Balance 373 35 $38,000 00 $38,000 00 (Signed) John W. Sale, Treasurer. I have examined the above report and have found the same tobe correct. W. H. OBrien,Auditor of the State of Indiana.
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(432 Dedication Ceremonies. Owing to labor disturbances in the granite quarries, the AngolaMonument Company was unable to comply with the contract tocomplete the monuments by September 15, 1908. This necessarilypostponed the dedication of the same. November 21, 1908, afterconsultation with Governor Hanly, the time of dedicatory cere-monies was set for December 29, 1908. On December 27, 1908, at 8 p. m., the Commission, with Gov-ernor Hanly and staff, ex-Governor Durbin and a few others astheir guests, and many others from various points in the State,boarded a special train and departed for Vicksburg, over the Penn-sylvania and Illinois Central Railroads. The party arrived at Vicksburg at 5 :40 in the evening of Decem-ber 28th, and established headquarters at the Hotel Carroll. Theywere later guests at a reception given in honor of Governor andMrs. Noel, at the home of Colonel Scudder. The citizens of Vicks-burg, on the day following, after the dedication ceremonies, ten-dered a recept

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