Tablet to the Monument - 58th Regiment - Princeton, IN
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YoSam.
N 38° 21.330 W 087° 34.107
16S E 450333 N 4245412
Tablet, a metal sign of history.
Waymark Code: WM107FK
Location: Indiana, United States
Date Posted: 03/14/2019
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County of monument: Gibson County
Location of monument: Broadway St side, Courthouse lawn, Princeton
Erected: 1914
Erected by: Veterans of the 58th Infantry Regiment
Contractor: C. Rule & Coleman
Plaque at Base of Monument:
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.
This tablet was erected and dedicated in 1914 by the survivors of the 58th Regiment as a memorial to their deceased comrades, and to preserve the history of this Monument.