Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1895-06-05

represented should Judge their former
opponents as they would themselves be
Judged This can be done without the
sacrifice of principle of either side, as
the example of our mother country has
shown us. York and Lancaster, eava-
lier and roundhead, no longer wage
war on each other; all are Englishmen.
proud of their country, and the red
rose and the white are emblems of
peace and of the glory of Old England.
| Can we not all be proud of the proves
| of the American soldier 2"
A memorial poem by Major Henry 7.
Stanton, of Kentucky, was next, and
the literary portion of the dedication
was closed with an address by Right
Rev. Samuel Fallows. bishop of the Re
formed Episcopal Church, Chicago, late
general of United State volunteers.
CONSERVATIVE THE GUNS.
Then came the beautiful and impress
sive ceremony of "consecrating the
guns At each corner of the monu.
ment stood field piece, presented to
the association by the United States
government. The ceremony is known
as 'monumenting the guns" and con-
sists in making the ordnance part of
the monument to the dead.
| GRAVES DECORATED.
Following the set programme came
the decoration of the graves of Union
soldiers in the cemetery by the Con
| federate Association, assisted by large
number of visiting ladies from the
South, many of them well known
Among them were General Under
woods daughter, General Longstreet's
daughter, General Cabell's daughter
and many other celebrated Southern
women.
| The display of flowers on the graves
of the Confederate and Federal dead
was very impressive and will long be
remembered. For several days they
had been coming by the carload, sig
carloads having come by one railroad
alone-an unprecedented supply
Savannah sent palmettos, moses, wild
smilax, magnolia blossoms and laurel
wreaths. New Orleans sent 5000 mag
nolia blossoms, and other tributes
came from New Orleans and Pensacola.
The Charleston car contained 900 green
palmettos, l 800 pounds of Carolina
moss, branches of cedar and many
branches in laurel leaves, interviewer
with the letters IS. c." the work and
| tiers of the Confederacy and the Ladies'
Memorial Association of Charleston.
Two carloads came from Charleston and
included roses, palInettos and moss de
signs by the Ladies' Memorial Associa-
| ton.
| At night there was a military ball
and reception at the First Regiment
Armory and q reception at the Palmer
| House.
| THE MONUMENT.
The monument dedicated to-day
stands forty feet from the ground to the
top of the figure which surmounts it.
The pedestal is Of pearl granite from
quarries at Constitution Hill. near At
lanta. It's lower base is Is feet, inches
square and upon it are laid three other
bases. On the front of one of them,
cut in raised aud polished letters, are
the words 'tConfederate Dead" The
upper base is adorned with a serio~ -
rich holdings and in the front of this
stone is placed an enlarged model of
| the Confederate seal, worked in bronze,
representing in relief a mounted sol
der, General Washington, inclosed
with wreath wrought by entwining
| the foliage of products of the South.
| The die of the monument is made of
one massive stone, the dimensions be
ing feet and zach square by 2 feet
and 10 inches high, and has re entering
| angles which are filled with groups of
cluster columns terminating in richly
carved Homanesaue. Upon the north
| face is worked in incised letters upon a
polished panel this inscription: Erect
ed to the memory Of the 5000 Southern
| soldiers here buried, who died in camp
| 90 lD.,
wHATIT CONTEMPORARIES.
At Cottage Grove avenue and Thirty
| fifth street, then in the outskirts but
now in the heart of the city, a stockade
was built during the civil war and
named Camp Duus las, and there many
thousands of Confederate prisoners
| were confined between the years 1862
and 1865. The men held there under
| the re straint which befell captives of
war had spent their lives in that balmy
climate of the sunny South, and the
rigors of a Northern winter told upon
them severely. AS consequence 5000
of them were liberated by death and
were buried in lakewood Cemetery. at
| Cottage Grove " nue. and Sixty sew
| enth street. II was to the memory of
these 8, 900 men that the monument was
dedicated by their comrades and op-
ponents in arms.
| This dedication is the outcome of
movement started by the Confederate
Association of Chicago 1t undertook
to raise the necessary funds for the
erection of the monument, and Gen.
John G. Underwood, Southern officer,
| in command of the Northern divisions
of the United Confederate Veterans,
| was chosen to carry the work forward.
| The fund started with 81 900 from
lecture given in Chicago by General
Gordon, of Georgia. Citizens of Chica-
go also subscribed $1,000, and subscrip
tons by observation-disclosures and 9TH
ers in the South brought the fund up
to the necessary amount. The monu-
ment was three years under construc-
ton.