The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-05-29
THE MONUMENT WEEK.
a GENERAL DWELLING OF HEROES
IN MARBLE AND BRONZE.

Decoration Day VIII Be Made Memoir
able by the dwelling of the Great
Soldiers Monument at Rochester, the
Gen. Paterson Monument at Lenox
and the A. P. Hill Statue at Richmond.
OnJune 2"HiRh Water Mark" Monu-
ment Will Be Unveiled on the Field
Of Battle of Gettysburg - Fifteen
Hundred Seats Reserved for People
Of Prominence.
Copyright 1927
And when the stream
Which overaowed the soul was passed away
A consciousness remained that it had left
Deposited upon the silent store
VI memory, images and precious thoughts
That shall not die and cannot be destroyed.
Monument week" would perhaps be an
appropriate name for this period of decora-
tion days; this time of annual tribute, of
deep veneration for deeds of valor and of
fitting recognition for the results of patri-
otto endeavor. Time is lending its halo as
the years increase the perspective of those
troublous times, times when troops of
heroes undistinguished died." and we Of a
later generation are arising more and more
70 that worship, ever the incentive to re-
Grafton showed for Washington, for Well
ington, for Butcher, or in the DINNER past
Tor an Arnold Winkelried.
Tomorrow three monuments Of especial
note are to be unveiled and later in the
Week another is to bs dedicated on the field
OF the battle of Gettysburg. All Of these
dwellings will be made occasions of note,
occasions for the outpouring of a younger
ge9eraton's gratitude and appreciation.
A n /, IatS
Hen. A. Z. Hill will reveal the marble pre-
sentiment of the southern hero to the pub
nc eyes. At Lenox, Mass, the statue
Vi revolutionary hero, Gen. Pater-
son, will DO unveiled. and at Roch-
ester the denizens of that entire section
Q! the state will listen to what the orators
VI to-day can say in praise OF the soldiers
VINO tell in the civil war. Ga June comes
the capstone Of the weeks events, the dedi-
oaton OF the high water mark monument
4. gettysburg on the very spot where Halls
suu Harrow's brigade attacked Longstreet's
column on July 3, 1868.
Inc monument at Rochester is splendidly
designed aud is the outcome of a movement
e.4rted nearly twenty years ago by citizens
~ tnst place. 1t is nearly forty-three feet
e. llght, with a ground base twenty-five
teeI square. The base of the monument
rises about eleven feet above this, aud the
5A1uOoAb plOSS VI SOlA0 kAohAbS
ooout ten feet in hight At the four
eeorners of the base are bronze
ngures emblematic Of the four departments
IL sne service, the cavalry. the artillery, the
..ni.aH'ry and the navy. These are of heroic
s'1e' The sides Of the monument bear ap-
p1oprlate bas-reliefs, the one on the north
..espIreessenting the firing upon Fort Sumter.
fo uu mat on the west the famous encounter
Dos"een the Monitor and the Merrimac A
he he representing Pickett's charge at the
, nItTe OF gettysburg marks the south side.
I'll, muAe the bas-relief on the east recalls Lees
sdI to Grant, at Appomattox, At the
~ Sos Oh each bas-relief are carved portraits
'ue famous union generals Of the
s, ar. On either side of the monument
carved the seals of the nation and state
I'm uniting the shaft is bronze statue Of
rn n,uron, OF heroic size, and represents the
snaIVred President with q copy of the
alcipatlon proclamation. The north
;'T So =! u the monument bears this inscription:
tb iGienIose, who faithful unto death, gave
nv or lives for their country, lS6l-1S65. "
~ wv .ne opposite side are these quotations.
dspeoare 10 peril; they breasted the
THE republic called. they