Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1881-05-11
THE OLD THIRTEEN.

This will be q memorable day at
Spartanburg, S. G. There will be re
union of the Old Thirteen States and
Tennessee. The occasion is the re-
union of the unwilling Of the memo~
rial column, erected by the thirteen
original States of the Union and
Tennessee, and the bronze statue of
General Daniel Morgan, the hero of
Saratoga and Cowpens. This statue
was ordered by the 10th Congress as
q slight recognition of gallant sol>
der of the revolution, and designed
to keep green his memory in the
hearts of those he served so we'll.
The committee of arrangements have
kindly furnished us with the follow
ing description Uf the monument:
The monument is properly divided
into three different parts, viz: The
base, the shaft, and the statue,
which stands upon it's abacus.
The base which is octagonal in
plan, is composed of four members.
The base proper, complete octagon,
is in two pieces, and is the only por~
ton of the monument containing q
perpendicular Joint; all the other
separate members being in one piece;
this base is eleven feet in diameter,
and one and one-half feet thick.
The sub base is in one piece of
stone eight feet and three inches in
diameter ''wash of about one
ince in height is cut on the base and
sub>base forming bevelled face from
the outer edge of the base to the
sub>base, and from the outer edge
of the sub-base to the diesblock;
this bevelled face although utilita-
rian feature, by anticipating as it
were the taper of the .die-block,
avoid the violent contrast which
would otherwise exist between per~
fectly square corners, and the softer
outline of the die-block. The die
block (resting Immediately upon the
sub>base) is at the bottom five and
one-half feet in diameter it is four
and half feet in height to the ar
chitrave, and tapers to diameter OF
four and two thirds feet at that
point. The architrave which finishes
4hA base is composed of three men,
Ders, the GAZETTE, INLET, and level. a
common but appropriate comblna-
ton, and in keeping with the simple
character of the design. At this
point the base of the monument ter
inmates and the shaft begins.
The shaft, a simple truncated cone,
three feet and two-thirds in dame
Ser at the base, and three feet and
one-third at the point Of juncture
with the cap, is little less than three
diameters high, crowned with a
moulded cap, in which the strict
severity of the Doric has given place
to a freer mode of treatment: mas
much as in this case the mouldings
are much lighter, and the number Of
the members greater the members
composing the capitol are counter
sunk fillet or cincture an elongated
cavette carved with the usual leaf and
dart; a fillet, an ogee (the largest
member); the whole terminated by
the square abacus, which is four feet
and five inches across. From the
ground to the top Of the abacus is
twenty-one feet.
The whole is surmounted by &
bronze statue 9 feet in height, of
Gorgan, dressed in the hunting shirt
of the olden time, with the otter skin
ehapeau of the then Rifemen uni
form, modelled by Ward, of New
York, and will stand in silent testi-
mony of the sculptors skill and
hearty enthusiasm in his work The
figure of General Morgan represents
the hero as having just taken a step
the right foot advanced (the weight
of the body throw forward and rest
ing upon it,, the left foot not ye'
having left the ground; the left arm
is raised to the height of the breas
Athe hand seems to be clutched)