Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1888-10-05
The Pickett Monument.

Two years ago Il move WIS SET On IOOL ny tuo
SURVIVORS OF Pcketts division for the erection on
the battlefield Mt GET ;sburg of monument TO
mark the $50: reached by the division Funds
were readily secured, aud the plan of monument
adopted but Fl ketts men were given to under
stand that parts of the nscri ton adopted for the
Confederate monument were objectionable, parti-
cularly the word patriotism" 1t then re-
solve to nlacs on Gettysburg Hill in Hollywood
Cemetery, Richmond, the monument which was
unveiled to-day with so much ceremony
and which was witnessed by thousands of people.
MIS- Pickett, the widow of the soldier in whose
memory the monument is erected, reached there
Yesterday from Washington. sho was met By a
comm ttee OF Pick EFT division and escorted TO the
hotel On a train Just behind were l25 members
of the Philadell hia brigade. These men con-
fronted Picket 8 division in the famous charge at
Gettysburg, and camo to participate in the
unwilling of the monument to their gallant an
tagonist.
The monument is of design similar to that of
the base of the Stonewall Jackson monument in
the Capitol Square.
1t WAS intended that the Gettysburg monument
should bear the following inscriptions:
First side: Faithful Unto Death. The sur
vivors of Pckett's Division of Virgnians
ITO the memory and in honor of their daunt-
less comrades who fell in our splendid charge,
July 3, 1862
"Glorious is his fate aud cnvied is his lot who
for his country fights and for it dies.
"They did all that men could do.
OR .LEE"
Second Side-"Patriot;sm Picketts Virginia
Association: Brigades, Kemper's Gsrnettsi AIM
istead's and Corses; batteries, Fayette, Latham
Caskie and Fauquier Fortituae equaled Only by
bravery"
Third Side-oyslor. The brigades of Kemper
Carpett aud Armistead, of Pickett's Division,
a., I'd linz and roachpi thia nj
in their charge of July 3, 1868 Numbers en-
gagged, 4, 700 numbers lost, 1888.
"Chargug an army while all the world Won
dered"
Fourth side-"Devo.ion. Killed in the charge
of July 8, 1868: Brigader Generals Garnett and
Armisteai; regmental officers, Colonies Williams
Hodge, Pattcr on, Stuart, Eimonds, McGtuder,
Owens, Allen, Ellis and Wade, Lieutenant Colonel
Colcott and Major Pooro.'
"Peters5nrq June, 1S64.-We tried very hayl
to step Picketts men from capturing the breast
works of the enemy, but couldn't do it.
E. LEE, General
! lie front plate of the Richmond monument has
on il the following:
Pickelts Division A. N. Va Maj II. Cen George
E Pickett, commanding.
Wherever field was to b held or won,
Or hardship borne or right to be maintained,
Or danger met, or deed of valor DONE
CT honor, glory gained,
Where men were called to front death face to
face.
there WAS its rightful place
And though denied success, "on Fames eternal
TO |, worthe to be fyled."
On the other i've sides the companies and names
of officers of the Ssh Battalion CT Artillery, and
of the different regiments Of Kemper's, Armis-
tead's Garnetts and Cores Brigades are given
with appropriate i sc:iptions following each COM
maud.
Hundreds of Pickett's blttle SCARED veterans
formed In procession and marched to Hollywood
where th.ca monument was unveiled By Gen. II. D.
Corse Mai. R. Taylor Scott delivering the grafton
Lee Camp Of Alexandria was in the line of the
procession.