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SOLDIERS AND SAILORS' MONUMENT. 7
With what renewed ardor our men would fight, content to suffer, knowing that, instead of being forgotten in a nameless grave on some battle field, a grateful people were erecting monuments to commemorate their heroic deeds.
Our Michigan soldiers have covered themselves with glory. Let it not be said that we, who shall reap the harvests of which their blood is the sowing, are careless of their memories.
T. W. PALMER.
The committee referred to met on the 6th day of August following, when Judge Witherell was appointed chairman; J. W. Tillman, treasurer; and T. W. Palmer, secretary.
Frequent meetings were afterwards held, together with consultations with friends of the measure, and finally it was deemed best to await the termination of the war and the end of the rebellion.
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