With the public recently turning its eye toward Confederate symbols, this is instead a memorial to those who fell.
BACKGROUND
The Bourbon County Confederate Monument, located in the middle of the Paris Cemetery of Paris, Kentucky, was built by the Confederate Monument Association in 1887. Like many monuments to the Confederate States of America in Kentucky, it is an obelisk, but is unique for being built like a chimney. The structure is made of mortared limestone, locally quarried, and the chimney is 30 feet (9.1 m) tall on a 10-foot-tall (3.0 m) base.
On the rear of the monument is a list of all those who died in the War from Bourbon County for the Confederacy, or those serving the Confederacy who died in Bourbon County. Bourbon was one of the more Confederate of counties; by November 1863, 700 men from Bourbon County served for the Confederate cause, whereas only 200 men from the county fought with the Union.
On July 17, 1997, it was one of sixty-one different monuments to the Civil War in Kentucky placed on the National Register of Historic Places, as part of the Civil War Monuments of Kentucky Multiple Property Submission.
PUZZLE
To find the cache, please find the necessary bits of information on the monument that lead to the final.
- A is the column number where Chris. Dooley is found, listed as "to preserve the memory of heroic men".
- B is the row number where Hugh Hall is found, listed as "to preserve the memory of heroic men".
- C is the number of lines in section that begins with "to preserve the memory of heroic men".
- X is the row number where John Yeager is found, listed as "to preserve the memory of heroic men".
- Y is the number of Captains , listed only under those who died in Bourbon County since the war.
- Z is the total number of columns listed under those who died in Bourbon County since the war.
Please take the above values and substitute in the following coordiantes.
N 38° 12.ABC W 084° 16.XYZ
Checksum of A + B + C + X + Y + Z is 13.
CACHE
The cache is a centrifuge tube with log only. As always, bring your own writing instrument.
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