Mrs. Paul Tonsing is pictured standing beside a monument on top of Lookout Mountain in Tennessee. She accompanied her son Robert Tonsing, his wife, and sister-in-law on a trip to Civil War battleground sites in August. Her father, Col. John A. Martin, commanded the 8th Kansas Volunteer Infantry regiment that took Lookout Mountain from the Confederates on November 25, 1863. Col. Martin was also the editor and publisher of the Atchison Champion for many years and served as governor of Kansas.
Mrs. Paul Tonsing is pictured standing beside a monument on top of Lookout Mountain in Tennessee. She accompanied her son Robert Tonsing, his wife, and sister-in-law on a trip to Civil War battleground sites in August. Her father, Col. John A. Martin, commanded the 8th Kansas Volunteer Infantry regiment that took Lookout Mountain from the Confederates on November 25, 1863. Col. Martin was also the editor and publisher of the Atchison Champion for many years and served as governor of Kansas.
Mrs. Paul Tonsing is pictured standing beside a monument on top of Lookout Mountain in Tennessee. She accompanied her son Robert Tonsing, his wife, and sister-in-law on a trip to Civil War battleground sites in August. Her father, Col. John A. Martin, commanded the 8th Kansas Volunteer Infantry regiment that took Lookout Mountain from the Confederates on November 25, 1863. Col. Martin was also the editor and publisher of the Atchison Champion for many years and served as governor of Kansas.
side a monument atop Lookout Mountain in Tennessee, taken in August when she accompanied her son, Robert Tonsing of Wichita, his wife and sister-in-law on a trip | to Civil war battle grounds. Her I father, Col. John A. Martin com- i manded the regiment, the 8th Kan j sas Volunteer Infantry, which took the mountain from the Confed- | erates Nov. 25, 1863. Col. Martin I was editor and publisher of the I Atchison Champion many years and served as governor of Kansas.