By J. FRANK HANLY Cincinnati: Jennings and Graham New York: Eaton and Mains Copyright, 1912, By Jennings and Graham...

Mr. Chairman and Gentlemen of the Indiana-Vicksburg Monument Commission : To you this is no new stage. Its remotest confines were once familiar. You looked upon it, front and rear. You stood before its footlights. You knew its comedy—its tragedy. You had honorable and distinguished cast in the great drama that gave it fame in every land beneath the sun and place in the country’s every annal—a drama real as human life in tensest mood—in which every character was a hero, every actor a patriot, and