The Batesburg advocate. [volume] (Batesburg, S.C.) 1901-1911, 1901-03-27
OUR DEAD HEROES.
Preparations for tho UuvelIing and
Dedication of tho
cHIckAMAUoA MONUMENT.
Tho Monument is Worthy of tho
Immortal Heroes Whose
Calamity and Death il
Commentaries. 8.

Commentaries.
After many years of waiting South
Usroiina is at last going TO do small but
deserved honor to tho gallant soldiery
that bsttled go bravely for the Southern
cause at Chickamsuga. State after
State has erected monuments to it's
brave soldiers on this hist oric battle.
hold, ard now South Carolina is IN to
erect an imposing monument. Many
States have dozen or more magni6 cent
monuments, many are there to regi-
ments, but South Carolina is to have
one large monument to its soldiery that
struggled SO nobly on Chiskamauga' 8
field.
Gevernor MoSwceney, Gen. Floy d,
Major q. K, Henderson and Capt. j.
Harvey Wilson is the commission in
charge of tho erection Of the monunent
Gen. Walker, who served With dis
tihction in the bloody battle, has de-
voted g. eat deal of time to the ar
rsngement aud has kindly prepared the
following elaborate programe of the
exercises:
For the convt nience of Veterans,
Sous, the State volunteer troops and
all citizens attending the Southern,
Railway has made special arrangements
ard this route will be the fficial route.
They will announce dates of leaving
various points and rates.
This ctficial train will be run down to
Lytle Station, near the battle field, and
about half mile frem the site of the
South Carolina monument. The dis
tance can be easily walked, but ar
raDgements will be made for hacks to
carry over such visitors as prefer rid
ing and paying.
at the station the proces sion will be
joined by Gen. j. w. Carnish, chief
marshal.
!. Band.
2. South Carolina volunteers. State
troops, under command of an officer to
by designated, by Adit Gen. Floyd.
3. Sons of Confec crate V. terans,
under command of Walter II. Hunt.
4. Veterans of South Carolina Divi-
sion u. Q. V.
b. Visiting Veterans.
8. Distinguished guests in carriages.
z. Visitors.
The column will march by the road
sAirting along the southern base Of
Range. AS they strike the
yStteloo House they will see a large
aarker, marked 10Th and 10Th South
ss' fdugfass 9ifaa i4ash fs5 ;tssz tim
pofnt.
Grthered under and around the bat
tle> SCARED f,g of the 10th South Caro-
lima regiment, which led them to
victory on the heights above, will be
the visiting veterans OF that command
The procession will salute and un-
cover as it passes the group of heroes.
} Further on is similar marker mark
ed oath South Carolina regiment and
Culpepper's battery, fought about one
mile TO the northeast of this point, and
near it the flags and the men OF those
gallant commands.
Further on, as the road to the Soutf
Carolina monument leaves the mair
road, will be found another marker tt
the immortal men of Kershaw's brigade
marked "Kershaw's brigade, I'd, Sd
7th, 9Th and 10Th South Carolina regi
ments ard Jsmess South Carolina bat
talon, fought for FIVE hours on Snod
grass Range above this point" Th
battle flags and heroes Of KershaN
will be saluted.
The procession now arrives on tn
ground sacred to the vslor and tn
worth Of South Carolina's sons, for
was that over which Kershaw swept q
he drove the enemy back to their las
stand on the ridge.
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veterans will press to the front, tn
State volunteer troops saluting.
The park commissioners will ha'
erected a large stsge and sufficient sea
ing capacity for the veterans and Wis
tors. Governor McSweeney, GoVera'
Of the State and chairman of the con
mission, will preside.
The meeting will be openol wit
prayer by the Rev. DR.. j. Ii. Thor
well, chaplain general, South CAROLS
Division, u. Q V.
G,n. 9. |. Walker, one who won di
tinotion on this and other battlefield
now the beloved commander of Il
South Carolina Division, u. o. ", al
who has taken q deep interest in al
mSterially aided in the accom- plishme
OF the memorial about to be dedicate
and leading member of the comm
0 sion, will then deliver the historic
y address.
, Addresses will then be made by t
t Hon. ID s. Henderson, Of the Senat
t and Col. j. Harvey Wilson, of t
. House of Representatives, through t
|, liberality of which bodies South Ca
lima has done justice to her heroic sol
An address will then be made
q General, now the beloved Bishop
d lison Cspers, who served on this bait
It field with his we'll known gallant
n Bishop Capers's address will lead up
Z the unveiling, which will be done
Is four young ladies, representing es
IT one of the four South Carolina co
y MAIDS engaged in the battle. /
&c Kersaaw's brigade, Miss ElbertA BlaI
y = granddaughter Of the distinguish
/. Col Ebert Bland, who gave up
u life fighting with Kershaw on Sn
u grass Range.
For 10Th and 10Th South Carol
regiments, Miss Ada Ohe Walker,
granddaughter Of Gen. q. l. Walker
" For the 24th South Carolina re
st ment, Miss Marie DuPre, grandni
m of Col O. III. Stevens, who gallAn
as led the 24th South Carolina regim
,r in the battle, and also the grandni
~ Of Lieut.. Col. Ellison Cspers, who s
r, ceeded Col. Stevens to the command
10 tho regiment and was also badly wou
20 ed in the battle.
V. For Culpepper's battery, Miss -
OF AS the ribbons are pulled the &C
n will fall aud show one of the hs