Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1892-05-30
ASSOCIATED PRESS DISPATCHES.
The gill monument.

The Hill Monument.
RICHMOND, May 30.-Thc statue of
Gen. Ambrose Powell Hill was unveiled
to-day with imposing ceremonies. The
city is full of strangers, many of the
houses are decorated and the number of
soldiers, both afoot and mounted, seen
On the streets remind one of the stir
ring times here during the war.
Nineteen military organizations from
out of town. besides the Richmond mil
itary. were in line, and thirteen Coniad-
crate camps and veterans associations
naraded and witnessed tie ceremonies
in connection with the unveiling OF the
monument on the Hermitage road and
Labr,ruum aveuue. Among The veterans
in line WAS Lee Camp OF Alexandria,
with the old l7ih Virginia Regiment
battle FLAG. Gen. Harry Heth, OF Wash
ington, was chief marshall and Col. iai-
mer his chief OF staff.
Business is quite generally suspend
cd and Broad street where the line of
procession was formed was packed with
people. To march olLe unwilling site
was long and tedious one, being about
a mile a-half from the city. 1t over
looks the spot at which General Hiil
assumed command OF his first brigade
aud subsequently, Of his light division,
and is in close proximity TO the point
ut which with that division he brought
on the Seven Days fight"
F,,,,,,aI o,, C,r,aa and
9th streets and the line ofmarch was up
Grace to 9TH, thence to Franklin, up
Franklin to the Lee monument, thence
by the Hermitage road 10 the monu-
ment.
All tie military organizations were i'll
command of Col. Henry c. Jones, colo
mel of the First Regiment, while TIE vet
Grams were commanded by Col. ". z.
Smith, commander OF Grand Camp
Confederate Veterans. The cavalry
display was the best witnessed III Rich
,nond since the w&r.
The programme OF ceremonies 1T the
monument was as follows: Call to order
by Mai. Thomas \. Brandcr, the presi-
dent OF The A. ?. Hill Monument Asso-
ciation prayer, by Re-. j. 3, Newton,
chaplain Pcgram Battalion Associations;
music; introduction of orator, by Dr. j..
William Jones, former chaplain Of the
Thirteenth Regiment Virginia Infantry;
address, by General James 4. Walker,
commander of StoEcwall Brigade:
music: unwilling Of monument; salute
By artillery and infantry.
The unveiling-cord was drawn by
Miss Virginia Preston Mems, grand
daughter of Colonel William Palmer.
General HIPS assistant adjltant-gcn-
cral and chief of staff and the signal
gun was fired by Il detachment Of the
Pegram Battalion Association.
The monument is thirty-iour feet
high from the base to the top of Gen
erals Hills head The pedestal, which
is of Virginia granite, is twenty feet
high and stands on y bastion redoubt
six feet high The statue is of heroic
size, eight feet high. The latter is
modelled ION crayon picture by w.
l.. Sheppard, a distinguished artist of
Richmond, and the work was executed
by Casper Buberle, of New York, who
was associated with Valentine in max
ING the rccumbcn: figure OF Lee. The
pose is regarded as particularly strik-
ing.
The inscriptions are cut in the smooth
surfaces ofthc pedestal, and are as fol
lows:
~. P. Hill"
Born in Gulpeper county, Novem-
Der 0. 1925. Killed before Petersburg.
April ,. 1868"
acknowledgement and comnan-
der Third corps. Army Northern Viz
ginia.'
Erected by Peaiam Battalion and
his comrades of the army of Northcrn
Virginia