Excerpt from Excursion to Antietam and Dedication of Monuments of the 8th, 11th, 14th and 16th Regiments of Connecticut Volunteers: October, 1894<br><br>At the business meeting of the Sixteenth Regiment, held at Hagerstown, Md, September toth, 1889, General J. B. Clapp, pre sented a resolution asking for a committee of five to take action for the erection Of a monument to the regiment on Antietam battle field. The executive committee, consisting of Col. F. W. Cheney General John B. Clapp, Captain T. B. Robinson, Lieutenant A. G. Case, Corporal W. G. Hooker, and Colonel B. F. Blakeslee, was given power to make-inquiries concerning location, price Of land, plan and manner of subscription, and legislative aid.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.