Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-06-11
AT FREDERICKSBURG
The Confederate Statue UnveiledgTf
Town in Gala Attire-Noted Orators
Speak-The Days Exercises.

| FREDERICKSBURG, VA, June 10Th.
| town was profusely decorated with bunting
| of Confederate flags in honor of Memorial
| day and the unwilling of the Confederate
| statue. Thousands of veterans We're in at
tendance, including 4 number of Confed
crate camps with their drum copps
The Grafton of the day was delivered BY
| Gen. Bradley T. johnson. while other dis.
tlnguished SouthernerS also delivered ad-
dresses, among whom was Gen. Couse, who
| commanded the old Thirtieth Virginia regi.
| ment, which went from this city and
vicinity
The corner stone of the monument, the
apex of which will be crowned by a Con
federate statue, was laid on June 4, 1874. by
Fredericksburg lodge No. 4, Ancient, Free
and Accepted MasonS, and the monument
was complete and unveiled on Memorial
day, Thursday, June Q, 1884, with
IMPOSING and elaborate exercises. The
monument was erected by the Ladies'
Memorial association, and the stone was
taken from the farm of Mrs. bowman. in
this county. There is column on each
corner of red granite, and with gray
granite and plynth base. 1t con
tains the following inscriptions: :
On the east side-South Carolina, Vir-
ginia and North Carolina.
North side-Missouri Kentucky, Tennes-
see and Arkansas.
West side-Louisiana, Mississippi, Texas.
South side-Georgia, Florida, Alabama.
On the west side are muSkets; on the
south a castle, with battlements on the
north, and saber; on the east cannon
land the words, ITO the Confederate Dead. y
3 Gen. Bradley I. Johnson of Baltimore
orator of the day, delivered the unwilling
address, which was, in part, as follows
Fellow Confederates, men and women
For the last twenty years 1 have been
observing with growing wonder the phe-
n omenon of feeling toward the actors on
Hthe Confederate side. In the North
to-day no name thrills the human
heart like that of Lee: no name thrills
the people like that of jackson; no flag
flashes, no saber glistens like that of
Stuart. Neither Grant, nor Sherman,
nor Sheridan-great and successful
soldiers of the victorious side-have left.
such impression or imagination on til
hearts of the people as have the leaders of
the Confederates who died in battle or
yielded to overwhelming force when further
resistance would have been criminal | do
not mean to intimate, but l do not believe
that the North has changed its opinion as
TO- the wisdom of our cause
ley thought then, and they think
now, it was foolish TO break up the
union, because, first the union
was profitable, and second. be-
cause il sgas impossible before the
overwhelming ltICc loT US 10 succeed. nut
l do say the idea is dimly pressing itself
on the Northern mind, that we
tried to avoid war and did
not want IT, but that was
brought on. waged and continued for the
purpose Of keeping faction in power and
enabling the controllers Of this faction to
make profit out of it,
The monument was then unveiled by
Capt. John w. Barner.
The exercises closed with an artillery and
4&4antry salute.
AZ bronze statne of a confederate soldier.
nine and one-half feet crowns the apex Of
the monument.