Picture Courtesy of Jim Kuntz

Picture Courtesy of Jim Kuntz

This monument was erected by the 58th Regiment, Indiana Volunteer Infantry. In honor of it's dead whose names are inscribed thereon; comrades who were killed in battle, or who died from disease or other cause during the service of the Regiment in the Civil War. The funds for its erection were secured by voluntary donations and subscriptions from members of the Regiment while in the service. No part of the funds were solicited or received from any source outside of the Regiment.

The contract for monument was made in 1863. It was completed, erected and dedicated, July 4, 1865. The Regiment being still in the service at that time. This was the first Regimental Monument erected in Indiana in memory of soldiers of the Civil War. It is the only monument in Indiana, or in the United States, that was erected and dedicated by any Regiment in honor of its dead, while that Regiment was still in the service in the manner of its conception, in the manner and condition under which it was erected and dedicated. This Monument is in a class by itself.

The monument was restored in 1940. The restoration was funded through an appropriation made by the county commissioners. Restoration work included sanding the monument, constructing a new base, and sandblasting names of the war dead into the marble. IAS files contain transcriptions of names listed on monument.

On east side of shaft:) COMPANY A/(followed by three names)/COMPANY B (followed by four names)/COMPANY H/(followed by three names)/CHICKAMAUGA/COMPANY G/(followed by 22 names)/ERECTED BY THE SURVIVORS OF/THE 58TH REG., IND. VOL./TO THE MEMORY OF/THEIR DECEASED COMRADES/IN ARMS/1864/HONOR THE FLAG (On north side of shaft:) COMPANY H/(followed by nine names)/MISSION RIDGE/(followed by eight names)/COMPANY A/(followed by fifteen names)/COMPANY B/(followed by 25 names) (On west side of shaft:) COMPANY C/(followed by five names)/COMPANY D/(followed by 4 names)/COMPANY I/(followed by five names)/LAVERGNA/COMPANY I/(followed by 27 names)/COMPANY C/(followed by 20 names)/COMPANY D/(followed by 20 names) (On south side of shaft:) COMPANY E/(followed by two names)/COMPANY F/(followed by four names)/COMPANY G/(followed by three names)/COMPANY K/(followed by six names)/STONE RIVER/COMPANY K/(followed by 22 names)

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