The evening times., 1899-06-21
MONUMENT TO CADETS.
Beautiful Memorial 10 BE Erected at
Virginia Military Instftute

Lexington. Va. June 21-At the alumni
meeting of the Virginia Military Institute
today there was presented for the frs,
time the design of the proposed monumen;
TO the memory of the young heroes who
nobly gave their lives for the Lost Cause.
and to those who survived of that youthful
band of the memorable battle of New
market. Va. whose bravery will ever live
green in the memory of the cadets OF the
past, present, and future and incite them
to noble deeds.
The proposed monument is to be known
as the Battle and Battalion Monument
Virginia Military Institute Cadets. New
market, May 10. 1864, :. and is to be made
from a model by one of the gallant men,
bers of that band who took part in that
battle and was a member of Company c.
Sir Moses Ezekiel, Of Rome, Italy, who
has gained fame abroad and at home as
an artist. and who now offers this. one
of his masterpieces, as a memorial to his
dead and living comrades. To quote his
words: "As orderly sergeant of Company
C, Virginia Military Institute. | feel it al
most a duty to write and say that. if YOU
intend putting UP memorial to my fall
len comrades in the battle, l hope to be
the means of rendering my tribute to their
memory in the work of my hands in my
give my time and labor and art toward
it."
The monument is to be in bronze, heroic
size. and is female figure clad in mail
mourning, seated upon piece Of breast
work. Her foot rests upon a broken can
non. overgrown with ivy, and she holds a
reversed lance in her hands. The statue In
seated posture is feet high, the oval base
is feet inches by 3 feet; the whole 10 be
placed on a solid block of Virginia granite
feet high and feet by feet inches
The pedestal is to be placed on a living
rock base on the western corner c. the
parade grounds at the Virginia Military
Institute, the top Of which is Is feet above
the general level: this to be surrounded
by a symmetrical mound 100 feet in iii
ameter. encircled by a walk and driveway
The face OF the monument is to be turned
toward and overlooking the graves where
sleep the boys who were killed in the
charge that won the battle and at the
same time the entire monument will be IN
unObstructed view from the cadet bar
racks and every point of the parade
ground and the camp ground by it. havir.;
for a background the western mountains
and the sunset sky. and one OF The mos:
magnificent views in the Valley OF Vir-
ginia. Bronze plates will inIose the Ic-
destal, properly inscribed
The cost of all expenses attached to the
proposed monument is estimated to be
$1,000. OF this, $4,000 will be for casting
in bronze and the remainder for carriage
and completion at the Virginia Military In
stitute. OF this amount 81. 900 has already
been raised by the efforts Of Miss Margaret
Freeland. of Lexington, Va, and Hon
Charles J. Faulkner. Of Martinsburg. w.
Va. whose interest and enthusiasm, al
most uQaideQ. have ACCOMPLISHED the
above. Three hundred dollars additional
has been received from N. B. Mcdowell
and his aged mother. of Charlotte, N. c.,
they having had brother and son. W. H.
Mcdowell, killed in the battle. In the same
mail were received contributions from
Charles Broadway Rouss, of New York,
and William Wheatley, of Washington, D.
C. At that rate, the amount necessary
% complete the work will be forthcoming
ere long, and the monument unveiled next
day. 1t is hoped that such will
be the case