81st Indiana Infantry Regiment Monument - Chickamauga National Military Park
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This monument to the 81st Regiment Indiana Infantry is located in Viniard’s Field on LaFayette Rd at Viniard-Alexander Rd in the Chickamauga National Battlefield Park.
Waymark Code: WMDPE3
Location: Georgia, United States
Date Posted: 02/10/2012
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This monument to the
81st Regiment Indiana Infantry is in recognition of their service during the
Battle of Chickamauga, fought September 19–20, 1863. The 81st Indiana Infantry was organized at New Albany and mustered into service on August 29, 1862. This is the only monument to the 81st Indiana on the battlefield.
Text on the front of the monument:
2nd Brigade - Carlin
1st Division - Davis
20th Corps - McCook
81st Regiment Indiana Infantry
Text on the rear of the monument:
Indiana's Tribute
to her
Eighty-First Regiment Infantry.
Second Brigade (Carlin)
First Division (Davis)
Twentieth Corps (McCook)
This Regiment left its position in the vicinity of Pond Springs September 19th, marched past Crawfish Springs, and about 2 P.M. took position where this monument stands. After a severe fight the enemy was repulsed, but again advanced with stronger force, the 81st retiring beyond the LaFayette Road. Finally the enemy fell back stubbornly, and the Regiment regained this position. At three o'clock on the morning of the twentieth, the Regiment was moved near to Widow Glenn’s. It was afterward ordered with its division to the right of Wood’s Division near the Brotherton. About eleven o'clock was desperately engaged, the enemy advancing in overwhelming numbers and breaking through the Union line, when the Regiment, with the rest of its division, was forced off the field.
Killed 4, wounded 60; missing 23; total 87
From the NRHP nomination form:
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Structure Number: |
MT-838(see note) |
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LCS ID: |
008804 |
Historical Significance:
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National Register Status:
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Entered - Documented
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National Register Date:
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11/24/1998
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National Historic Landmark?: |
No
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Significance Level:
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Contributing
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Short Significance Description:
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Marker contributes to national significance of park under NR Criterion A because it represents the national movement among veterans & related groups to commemorate Civil War battlefields. This was the first U.S. national military park.
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Short Physical Description
9' x 6' x 15' high, the Indiana oolitic limestone monument has a 2-step rock-faced base and a smooth-faced inscribed shaft that incorporates bronze state seal. Projecting pyramidal cap supports stone cannonball and stone eagle.
Long Physical Description
Monument located within the Chickamauga Battlefield in East Viniard Field, map site #251.
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Structural Component(s)
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Material(s)
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Superstructure
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Limestone
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Substructure
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Limestone
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Superstructure
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Bronze
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Construction Period:
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Historic
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Chronology:
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Begin Year
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Begin Year AD/BC
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End Year
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End Year AD/BC
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Designer
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Designer Occupation
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1.
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Built
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1897
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AD
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My Sources
1. NRHP
2. Wikipedia - Battle of Chickamauga
3. The Civil War Home - The Chickamauga Campaign - Union Order of Battle
4. Wikipedia - 81st Regiment Indiana Infantry
Note
Trailhead Graphics, Inc. has produced a map of the Chickamauga Battlefield showing the locations of all of the monuments and the markers on the battlefield. Each location on the map has a number associated with it that cross-references to an index on the back of the map that has the name of the marker (called the Chick-Chatt NMP monument numbering system). This number corresponds to the structure Number listed on the NPS List of Classified Structures that is normally prefixed with the letters MT for the Chickamauga Battlefield