Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1891-04-08
THE STATUE DESIGN.
DESCRIPTION OF The MONUMENT TO
BE ERECTED TO GENERAL HILL.
onlccrs of tho Association That win Soon
DO Chartered-To Be Finished
During the Fall.

As stated IN the DISPATCH of yesterday.
the gentlemen interested in the A. L. HUI
monument movement who met at the resi-
dence of Major Lewis Ginter Monday
night effected permanent organization
and determined to apply to the Circuit
Court Of Richmond for a charter.
The name Of the organization Is The
A. p. Hill Monument Association" ana
the officers are; President. Major Thomas
Brander: Secretary, Captain Thomas FL
lett: Treasurer. Colonel William II.
Palmer; Directors, the above and Mr..
Robert B. Munford and Major Lewis Uin-
ter.
The nominal capital Of the association
is 10 be n. 900, and the application for the
charter will probably be iled to-day:
Mr.. James Netherwood was the lowest
bidder of eight competitors for the stone
work and the contract will be awarded to
him this week.
The masonry, consisting Of base course
of several members, pedestal aud smart,
will rise from a sodded bastion redouot
six feet high and will be surmounted by
bronze figure Of General Hill eight feet IN
height.
POSE OF THE FIGURE.
The pose of the figure will be modelled
after Sheppards picture OF Hill IN the
State Library. and will represent the Gene
raj in an attitude he was wont to assume
in going ont IN front of his staff on the
eve of battle 10 make n reconnaissance.
The head will be turned slightly TO the
left. The right hand will hang naturally
al the side while the left will grasp his
sheathed sword at the second ring-band,
and be drawn up Just far enough 10 let the
weapon rest in the hollow OF thearm, with
the hilt projecting over IT.
THE REDoUBT.
The redoubt will be in sward circle OF
thirty-foot radius, and this III turn in q
circle of hundred-foot radius. Each OF
the four approaches viii show the sides OF
two salient angles and two hanks, and cur
tain of the bastion with a base-line ofthirty-
three feet. The diameter from salient
angle to salient angle will be some forty
six feet and the total elevation thlrty-four
feet.
The bastion and masonry designs arc by
Colonel L. VI. X. Talcott and Mr.. William
J.. sheppard aud the latter, 1t is under
stood will model the figure. Az noticed,
the Hermitage road and Laburnum ave-
nue., az the intersection of which the
monument will be erected, is each one
hundred feet wide. The distance between
arcs connecting these roads is two hun
dred feet thus giving drive around the
monument Of seventy feet in width.
THE REMAIN To cB REMOVED.
The remains Of General Hill will be re-
moved from Hollywood and deposited be-
meath the monument. A controlling influ-
enco in selecting the site was that when
Hill was promoted from colonel OF the
Thirteenth Virginia regiment 10 the COM
mand of a brigade and Joined the brigade
on the march his first camp near Richmond
was in the woods at Young's Pond, which
are in full view of the monument location.
Again, when he was made division COM
mander he took command of his division
at Ashland. marched down to the woods
back of Brook Hill. aud camped there, and
thence made his movement across Meadow
Bridge 20 attack Mcclellan.