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suffice it to say, they were well taken. 
During the winter of 1889 90, Congressman 
Charles H. Grosvenor, of Ohio, introduced a bill, 
framed by Gen. Boynton, asking for an appropria- 
tion of $250,000 to buy 7,600 acres of land desired 
for the park, and for the comtemplated improve- 
ments. The plan now was to include portions of 
Lookout Mountain, the battlefield of Missionary 
Ridge, and smaller plots about Chattanooga. The 
whole was to be called the Chickamauga-Chatta- 
nooga National Military Park, and to be under con- 
trol of the secretary of war. Gen. Grosvenor intro- 
duced the bill in the House of Representatives, and 
it was cordially supported, being 
disposed of in twenty-three minu- 
tes when the time came to vote 
upon it, and not receiving a sing- 
le adverse word or vote. It pass- 
ed the senate in twenty minutes. 
The whole scheme from thebegi li- 
ning, was characterized by prom- 
ptness of action. No time was lost, 
no useless volubility expended. 
The park is not and never will be a model of 
the art of landscape gardening. There are no con- 
ventional beds of foliage plants, carefully and 
methodically clipped; no crosses, mottoes or em- 
blems made of flowers; no shrubbery trimmed to an 
exact height; no velvet turf to be rolled and mown. 
Such was not the design of its projectors, yet it has 
a beauty and picturesqueness all its own by nature 
that does not in any way conflict with one’s idea of 
a military park. It is far from being a sombre or 
gruesome place, and the sun shines just as brightly 
upon it as upon the most ornate and artificially 
beautiful city park. Birds sing in the branches of 
P..\RT OF THE CRES'r ROAD. 
MISSIONARY RID(;E. 
the fine old native trees, al- 
though bullets and balls are 
buried in their trunks. Wild 
flowers spring in abundance 
from soil that has been drench- 
ed with the blood of brothers 
in conflict. 
At the time of the dedicat- 
ion there were 125 monu- 
ments and 500 tablets and markers on the field, 
also about 200 cannon of the same kinds used by 
the Union and Confederate batteries during the bat- 
tle. Three hundred more will be mounted. 
There are nine monuments to regular organiza- 
tions, also eight pyramidal shell monuments, 10 
feet high and made of eight inch shells, four of 
which are erected on spots where Union general 
officers were killed or mortally wounded, and four 
mark the spots where Confederate general officers 
fell. The one shown in our illustration perpetuates 
the memory of Brig. Gen. James Deshler, C. S. A., 
killed about noon on Sept. 20, 1863, at that spot. 
A GLIMPSE OF THE PARK. 
When the bill was finally passed, it called 
for fifteen square miles of land, including most of 
the Chickamauga field, with an appropriation of 
$125,000. The secretary of war immediately ap- 
pointed four commissioners, all of whom had 
served in the engagements about Chattanooga. 
They were Gen. Joseph S. Fullerton, chairman; 
Gen. A. P. Stewart, Capt. S, C. Kellogg, and Gen. 
H. V. Boynton, historian. 
The entire appropriation had been increased to 
over $1,160,000 up to the date of the dedication, 
this sum including the state funds as well as those 
set apart by the government. 
