Gentlemen - I have read with great interest and pleasure the address of Mr. Milo H. Slater, president of the Colorado Veterans' Association, at the recent dedication of the monu ment erected to the memory of the Colorado soldiers who fell during the war for the Union, and I wish cordially and heartily to endorse the suggestion that has been made that it be printed in pamphlet form and distributed among the libraries and the public schools of the state.

No more timely or valuable contribution has ever been made to the history of the commonwealth. It is a clear, con cise, truthful presentation of the services of our pioneer sol diers to the republic and the nation, concerning which too little is known by the men and women of the Colorado of today. It illustrates and impresses, as no other recent docu ment has done, the signal heroism and patriotism of the men who laid the foundations of Colorado upon the broad basis of devotion to the national Union.

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