Excerpt from Indiana at Antietam: Report of the Indiana Antietam Monument Commission and Ceremonies at the Dedication of the Monument
In the beautiful National Cemetery at Sharpsburg, Maryland, not far from the center of Antietam battlefield, sleep many thousands of brave men, who fell there forty-eight years ago. Among them are men from each of the Indiana regiments that fought there. They will sleep on, unmindful of what a grateful commonwealth has done in remembrance of them.
"They need not now our praise,
Nor the shaft we raise,
Nor flower for any lost, forgotten grave,"
but their living comrades, their families, kindred, descendants, and all the people of our great State, will not cease to feel thankful that the General Assembly of 1909, in its wisdom, made provision to mark the spot where these men fell.
The act appropriating a fund for this monument was in line with the policy of our State to erect upon each field where Indiana soldiers, in any considerable number, fought during the Civil War, some appropriate memorial, by means of which their services and sacrifices might not be forgotten by coming generations, and while this appropriation came late, it came in such ample form as to emphasize the wisdom of our lawmakers in their determination to do well, rather than hurriedly, what all felt should be done at some future day.
Through this act the heroes of Antietam have received their share of the honors a grateful commonwealth would bestow upon the men who gave their lives for their country.
The selection of portraits, forming part of the report, represents officers connected with the Indiana regiments that fought at Antietam, and all but two of whom were there with their regiments, and one of these two, the brave Major May, fell on the bloody field of Gainesville, Virginia, August 28, 1862.
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