The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-09-24
MONUMENT TO M0SBY'S MEN.
ERECTED ny SURVIVORS OF HIS
FAMOUS COMMAND.

Many Veterans, and Over 200 OF
Cord Pulled by a Granddaughter
of One of the Dead Men-Lnurel
Wreaths Around the Monument.
One of the Men Executed Was "a
Georgian.
Richmond Va, Sept 2s.-Five thousand
Virginians and West Virginians. old Con-
federates from nearly every Southern
state and men and women from as far
north as New York. witnessed the unvei
irg. at Front Royal, Va, to-day, of
monument erected by the survivors of
Col. John S. Mosby's famous command
to seven of their comrades shot and hung
at that place during the war between the
states
j. e. b. Stuart Camp of Confederate
Veterans o. BerryvIle. Slower Camp of
strasburg, Turner Ashby Camp of Win
chester, Rosser Gibbon Camp of Luray
and William Richardson Camp of Front
Royal were in the procession. over 200
of Mosby's men were in attendance, the
largest number of members of this band
which has been together since 1865. In
the parade, besides the organizations
named, were the Warren Memorial Asso-
cation and the survivors of the Forty
third Virginia Regiment.
The monument is on an eminence in
Prospect Hin cemetery, and around this
7 gathered The great throng at 2:3O o'clock
to hear the addresses.
Col Mosby sent greetings from San
Francisco, Some of his most prominent
comrades responded to the camp roll call.
- one OF Mosby's men, William Thomas
OVERLY. was a Georgian, a valiant soldier
| picked for partisan service He was the
| only man who resisted when about to be
| executed When Clusters men pinned upon
his coat placard saying that such would
be the fate Of all Mosby men. OVERLY de
clared Mosby would hang ten to one fol
this murder.
Mosby recently sent the war record OF
fee in Washington an original documen
showing Gen. Lee had approved his re
Ialiating and Secretary Seldom had so in
| structed.
1t win be remembered that one of Gus
ters men feigued death and reported L
Aiger who retaliated by keeping Mosb,
out of the late unpleasantness with Spain
To-day's exercises doubtless end larg
meetings of Mosbys band
Col. Giles Cook made a short address
Rev. S. j. Ferguson offered an eioquen
prayer and then a fine grafton was deliv
cred by Maj. A. +. Richards of Louisville
Ky
At the conclusion of the oration, Marth
Megath Strother, granddaughter of Capt
Thomas r. Anderson, one of the seven me-
to whose memory the monument was erec
ted and Mary Wilkinson, great-nieee o
Henry Rhodes, also one of the seven, dreN
the cords which bound the veil hiding III
shaft from view and there were might
cheers from thousands of throats as tn
beautiful shaft stood disclosed.
An eloquent address accepting the mon
ument was made by Hon. r. II. Downin
on behalf of the ladies of the Warre
Memorial Association.
! Fair women then placed thirteen laure
wreaths around the base of the monu
ment. typifying the thirteen states of tn
| Confederacy.
i Gen. Payne Farquhar made happy 40
| dress and the exercises were concluded b
the singing of an original war song b
Capt Frank Cunningham of Richmond.
, free dinner and a most bountiful on
was served to everybody who would ca
The monument Is a beautiful grant
shaft twenty-five feet in hight end Is o
a commanding emnenee In the beautifl
= cemetery.
Inscribed on the base are the names {
|, the men who were executed Anderson
Carter, overly, Willis, Love, Jones an
| Rhodes