Excerpt from Camp Randall Memorial Arch, Dedicated June 18-19, 1912<br><br>There was some talk among certain comrades about sending notice to every member of the Twelfth that a reunion of our regi ment would be held on that occasion. I did' not send such notice to you. For I feared that if we should undertake such a gathering it would have a tendency to break up the reunion we had voted to hold at Viola this year. I did. However. Give notice in some papers that a tent would be put up on the grounds for the use of such members of the Twelfth as would be there.<br><br>Though the arch proper had been completed before the time of our meeting. The two pieces of statuary - one of a bov soldier just come into camp. The other of the Grand Army man fifty years after - had not arrived. Because of this we were all greatly dis appointed. The commission had been assured that the figures would be here in time. Or they would have put the date of the dedi cation later.<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.