Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1891-07-08

Tuesday, July 21st, less than three weeks
from this time, the heroic bronze statue OF
Gen. Ssonewall Jackson will be unveiled
above the vault, in which his remains now
lie, in the Lexington Cemetery. Every eff
fort is now being put forth by the friends
and admirers of the great soldier here and
elsewhere, to make the occasion a fitting
testimonial of the appreciation by his PEG
pie of his great achievements as well as
spotless private life. The affection and
admiration in which his memory is held,
and the fine railroad facilities of which the
town is possessed, will unite to cause such
a gathering of old Confederate veterans and
friends here as will not probably take
place again on Virginia's soil.
The full details of the program have not
as yet been determined.
This much is known. Gen. Jubal A.
Early will on that day deliver an address
upon jackson as Soldier. This address
will be delivered at eleven O'Clock from
platform in the grounds of Washington
and Lee University. Gen. Wade Hampton
will preside. and among the distinguished
surviving Confederates who have signified
an expectation of being present are Gen.
Beauregard, Gen. John B. Gordon. Gen.
Rosser, Gen. W. II. Payne. The process.
sion will be formed on the University
grounds, whence it will proceed down Hen
~ street to Main street and up that street
to the cemetery, where the Statue will be
unveiled. A generals salute of seventeen
guns will then be fred by veterans of the
Rockbridge artillery with the same cannon
with which they won enduring fame at
First Manassas.
Gen. James A. Walker; the only sur
viving commander of Jackson's brigade,
will be Oh ief marshal of the procession.
He will arrive here on Saturday, the 18th,
and will then select his aids. The veterans
of the Stonewall Brigade, 500 strong, will
head the procession, and leading them will
be the old stonewall Brigade band. In
the line will be the r. e. Lee Camp of
Confederate veterans Of Richmond, and
with them veterans from New Orleans,
about IT'S strong; the Stonewall Camp of
Confederate Veterans of Winchester, $50;
Confederate Veterans organization from
Baltimore, 400 strong; Confederate Veter-
ans Camp from Salisbury, N. c., 200
strong; Rockbridge Artillery, rs; Clark
County Cavalry, 81, and other veteran Or
CARNATIONS, and visiting soldiers who will
be present. Following these will come the
volunteer soldiers. Among those who will
certainly be present are the Second Vir-
ginia regiment, Col. }. A. Mutton, of Win
chester, commanding, about 300 men.
THE DECORATION OF THE TOWN.
The work of decoration has been placed
in charge of committee of which MIR. E.
l.. Graham is chairman. The committee
held its first meeting on Monday afternoon
in the Franklin Hall and outlined its work,
which consists in decorating public places
about the town. Most of them are places
with which General Jackson was moro or
less intimately associated when citizen of
Lexington. The places selected are the
old Jackson mansion house on Washington
street, the Presbyterian lecture room, the
Institute. the University Chapel, the Court
House and the Franklin Hall Arches will
also be placed on prominent points of the
streets through which the procession is to
pass.