Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1882-08-25
UNWILLING OF THE CONFEDERATE MoNU-
MENT AT FRONT ROYAL.
Reported for the Alexandria GAZETTE.

Of the majestic Blue Ridge mountains, was
alive yesterday with people, and from every |
house was displayed u profusion of bunting,
the occasion being the unwilling ola magnif-
cent monument, erected by the ladies of the
Front Royal Memorial Association. to the
of 1856 Confederate dead resting in
honored graves in the cemetery about half
q mile from the town. The parade and GER
emonies had to be postponed until late in
the afternoon by reason of three hours
delay Of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
train containing the Maryland visitors,
causing considerable disappointment and
disarranging things generally. The nom
arrival on the Winchester train of Elk. Gov.
Holiday, who had been selected rs the ora
tor of the day, also had the effect of reduc-
ing the ardor of the managers of the affair
to minimum. With these two exceptions,
everything passed off pleasantly The ex-
cursion trains from along the line of the
Virginia Midland Railway brought large
crowds from the several surrounding places,
which were greatly increased by the arrival
of trains from off the Baltimore and Ohio
road in the afternoon.
When the Baltimore visitors reached
procession was formed in the following or
der: Chief Marshal, DR.. G. H. Hill, an old
United States Army officer, and personal
staff, Henry w. Richards, VIM. Mauck, S.
d. Turner, and Herbert digger, little boy,
son of Gen. digger, Of Illinois; assistant
marshals, Capts F. w. Lehew, Samuel J.
Simpson, S. +. Macatee and John r. Rust;
the Berryville band; Warren Light Infan-
try, of Front Royal. Captain c. A. Ma
catee; Anderson Guards, Capt. +. D. New
man; the Union Cornet band, of Winches-
ter; Harris0nburg Guards, Capt. John Dono-
van; Winchester Light Infantry, Capt. John
Williams. The above companies are all Of
the Second Virginia Regiment, and were
under command of the regimental officers
Col. w. l.. Bumgardner, of Staunton; Adju-
tant H. H. Downing, of Front Royal, Majo
J. w. Magruder, Of Woodstock, and Quar-
termaster B. F. Brown Following the
military came Gen. Charles E. Phelps, re-
presenting the Union Army, one of the ora
tors, Of Baltimore, and other guests, in car
riages; the Ladies Memorial Association,
and thirteen young ladies, attired in white,
with black sashes, representing the thirteen
Southern States; the Army and Navy of the
Confederate States in Maryland; the Mary
land Line Association; the Murry Confed-
crate Association, and delegations ofex-C Con-
federates from Frederick and Hagerstown,
under command of Capt George Thomas,
of St. Mary's county, Md, who succeeded
Capt VIM. H. Murray as captain of Com
panyA A, Second Confederate Maryland, when
he was killed ut Gettysburg; then followed
a body of the old Confederate cavalry in
| columns of fours, under the command of
Captain s. j. Simpson, of the Seventh Con-
faI Fn1,p lou, ,,ffn ~. ]
Confederate infantry, under Captain F. w.
Lehew, of the old Seventeenth Confederate
| Infantry.
The procession, which was followed by
many citizens in carriages, proceeded up the
main street of the town to the cemetery
where the unwilling ceremonies took place
in the presence of u large concourse of peo-
pie. Upon the stand were officers of both
the Confederate and Union armies, among
them the committee Of the Maryland Con-
fedefates, Gems. G. E. Phelps, H. digger, E..
o. c. Ord, NJ. Summerfeld Baldwin, of Bal
timore, Mr.. Giles Cook, jr., chairman of the
Front Royal committee, Judge r. T. Lowell
and Henry c. Allen, Col. Gatrie and Capt.
Mr. Cook read letters from Wilson Post.
e. A. r., and Gen. Ross, of Baltimore. re-
GREETING impossibility to be present, and an
nounced that ex Governor Holiday had al
so Deen prevented from being in attendance.
Major Turner, in short speech, wclcom-
ed the Maryland Confederates and other
strangers on behalf of the Ladies Memorial
Association. 10 all he extended IL cordial
welcome, but to the brave men of the Union
army, who forgetting all past differences.
came to pay respect to the memory of the
brave men who died bravely for what they
believed to be right, it gave him pleasure to
tender special welcome
The white covering was then, amid the
music of the bands hoisted from the beauti-
full monument by the following thirteen
young ladies, representing the Southern
States: Mamie Burt, South Carolina; Ma
mic Kirby Georgia; Fannie Cover Alabama
carrie Dorsey, Louisiana; Sallie Lowell, Ar
kansas; Loula Macatee, Maryland: Nettie
Macatee, Florida; Nettie Weaver, Virginia:
Fannle Payne, Missouri; Mary Macatee,
Texas; Laura Marks, North Carolina; An
ME Miller, Mississippi Annie Brown, Ten
neSsee.
An excellent and most appropriate speech
by Gen. Phelps followed the unwilling of
the monument. The General said that II
years ago the last gun of the war was
Tired. During these past seventeen wears
battles had been fought i'll Europe Asia and
Afrlca-battlcs that have changed the face
of the world. During these past seventeen
eventful years numerous crops of grass had
grown upon the graves of the brave men in
the little cemetery whose memory we have
assembled to honor, and never were men
more deserving of honor than the soldiers
of the Confederate army, whose four years
of heroic devotion to the principles they be-
heVed to he right, stands unequaled in his
tory, Among the greatest of all changes
that have taken place during these seven
teen past years is the change that has taken
place in mems hearts. Had been told seven
teen years ago, when he occupied the hills
of Virginia, and was regarded as an enemy
by nearly every man of the State, that he
would address Virginia audience on the
occasion of the unwilling of monument to
the memory of the men he was trying to
crush, ne would have informed the man
predicting such an absurd thing that he
was false prophet. These seven
teen years that have gone into the past
have made us wiser men, and he thank
ed God for the change. He was one of
those, and there were thousands like
him all over the North, who believed that.