Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1902-01-22
ONE MoaE sIArINrL on GUARD.
The Confederate Monument IN Anderson
UnvelIod.

Il
federate Monument recently erected by
the Ladies' Memorial Association was
unveiled to-day with appropriate exer-
cises. The principal address was made
by Col. James Armstrong, OF Charleston,
and short addresses were also made by
Col. j. A. Hoyt, of Greenville, and Col.
s. w. Wilkes, Of Atlanta, a SON of the
Col. S. w. Wilkes, Adjutant of the 4th
South Carolina Regiment, who was killed
at First Manassas. US
There were about $500 persons to wit
ness the exercises and the day has been
gala one for Anderson. There were
present many visitors from surrounding
counties. Hundreds of Confederates
Veterans we're in the procession and
were escorted by the Anderson Rifles in
uniform. The Rifles fired salute after
the unveiling. The Clemson College
Band furnished music for the occasion.
The monument was unveiled by Miss
Lenora Q. Hubbard, who began the
movement to raise TIE necessary t.,nds
many years ago, and who has been a
most persistent and faithful worker in
tne cause ever since. 's5't
The monument has been erected at a
cost of $2,7OO and the work has beon ac-
oomplished solely by the patriotic efforts
of the members of the Ladies' Memorial
Association. 1t is splendid ornament
to this splendid city, and naturally the
people here are proud of it.
THE MONUMENT. 4
The monument is on the West side of
the public square and faces the Court
House, which is directly in front of it on
tie East. 1t is 33 feet high from the
base and stands 35 feet above the level of
the square. tits of Tennessee grey mar
BILE and consists Of triple base, two
dies, fourteen small marble blocks COM
pose the shaft, rough and dressed alter
nately, and the marble figure of Con-
federate soldier at parade rests on TOP.
The front or East side memorializes
the infantry of the Confederacy, and cn
the first die is the inscription: "The
spirit OF CHI airy was not dead in 1851,
when the soldiers of the Confederacy
went forth to battle for the love of home
and country, AID the preservation of
constitutional liberty. How we'll they
acted their part in the gigantic drama of
war, which for four years convulsed the
American continent and held the atten-
ton of all the world, the truthful and
impartial historian will tell. Let him
record how the wrested victory from
forces who far surpassed them in num-
bers, in excellency of arms and equip
ment, and in all the provisions and muni-
tions of war, and who were supported
by the national, moral and political pow
ers of almost the entire civilized world !;
let him record with what courage they
met death and danger; with what forti-
tude they endured sickness and impris-
onment; with what unfagging cheerful
ness they sustained privations and suf-
ferings; and, above all, let him record
with what sublime endurance they met
defeat, and how, in poverty and want,
broken in health, but not in spirit, they
have re-erected the greatness of the
South and made it again the sweetest
land on earth. In grateful acknowledge
ment of their powers in war and of their
achievements in peace, this monument
is erected, that it may teach tho genera
tions of the future the story Of the
matchless, unfading and undying hopor
which the Confederate soldier won."
On the plinth, between the first and
second dies, "Our Confederate Dead" is
inscribed in large raised letters. The
second die has engraved upon it stacked
arms, from which is suspended wreath
of laurel. The monogram, sc. S. A."
is artistically carved in the cap of the
die.
The north side of the shaft is emblem
attic of the Confederate cavalry. Upon
the face Of tho first die the Confederate
flag is engraved and underneath it is in
scribed this extract from Father Ryan's
Conquered Banner:''
"Though conquered, we adore it;
Love the cold, dead hands that bore it,"
Two cavalry sabres crossed, with a
laurel suspended from them, is the de-
sign carved in the face of the second die.
palmetto tree cut into the overhanging
cap stands sentinel above, * .tI
The West side commentaries the artil-
lery branch of the Confederate service.
Here the great battles of the war are in
scribed on the face of the first die in the
following order: First Battle Manassas,
williamsburg, Seven Pines, Gainess
Mill, Frazier's Farm, Second Battle Ma
nassas, Boonsborough, Sharpsburg, Fred
| ericksburg, Chickamauga, Wilderness,
Spottsylvania, Charlottesville, Malvern
Hill, Petersburg, Gettysburg, Franklin,
Atlanta, Appomattox.
Above, on the second die, cannon is
carved, with cannon balls, cannon wiper
and around them is draped the Confede-
rate battle.fag. On the cap above again
appears the monogram, &c. s. A"
The South side of the monument is
devoted to the commemoration of the
Confederate navy. Another quotation
from Father Ryan appears on the face of
the first die, as follows:
"The world shall yet decide, F.,
In truths clear, far-off light,
That the soldiers who wore the grey and
died
With Lee, were in the right"
A ships wheel and an anchor are the
naval symbols carved on the second die.
The cap above shows laurel wreath
circling the Confederate battle flag. The
knot at the bottom of the wreath has
"61-65'' engraved on it and just above,
within the circle, is the monogram,
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