The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-06-15
The COLUMBUS ARCH
MEMORIAL TO CONFEDERATE
DEAD AT CAMP CHASE.
GIFT OF A NORTHERN MAN.
NORTH AND SOUTH UNITED IN
CEREMONIES.

and Confederate Veterans-GOV.
Nash of Ohio Presented the MOnu-
ment, the Gift of william p. Har-
risOn of OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES by
Judge ID. e. johnson i'm Absence of
Gen. GordOn-Capt, DinI<ins of New
Orleans the Principal Orator.
Columbus, O., June 1.-THE unveil-
ing and dedication of a memorial arch
10 2.25O Confederate dead attracted s.
900 people from all parts of the coun-
try to this city to-day. The arch was
the gift of William H. Harrison of
Cincinnati, a former citizen of Column
bus. The soldiers to whose memory the
arch was dedicated were prisoners at
Camp Chase, west of Columbus. dur
ing the war, and died in prison. For
many years the little cemetery was
neglected. Later, President Hayes paid
a farmer 20 keep the burial ground
free from weeds. EX-Gov. Foraker had
the government enclose the spot with
stone wall and several years ago
Col. w. II. Knauss, a Federal veteran,
instituted a yearly custom of decorat-
ing the graves. The ceremonies of to-
day were elaborate. There were many
ex-Confederates present from all parts
of the South, and there were many
floral offerings from Confederate
camps. The graves were decorated by
the ladies of the G. A. r. and the
Daughters of the Confederacy.
Both Joined in EuIOgies.
Union and Confederate Veterans
joined in eulogies of the Confederate
dead at the annual memorial exercises
held at the Confederate cemetery here
to-day. Fully 1900 visitors were pres
ent including a delegations of about
200 from Charleston, w. Va, and rep
rensentatives from other Southern
states. Many chapters of the United
Daughters of the Confederacy sent
flowers to be strewn upon the graves,
practically every state in the South be-
ing thus represented.
Special interest attached to the ex-
ercises to-day because of the dedica-
ton of the monument in honor of the
Confederate dead. The memorial con-
sists of a solid granite arch Is feet in
height, surmounted by bronze statue
OF a Confederate soldier. Upon the
keystone Of the arch is chiseled the
word, Americans"
An elaborate programme of exer-
cises attended the dedication. The I'M
yelling address was made by Judge
David A. Pugh, an eX-Fedaral officer
of this city, and the presentation adj
dress was made by Gov. George X.
Nash, also a former Federal soldier.
Gen. John B. Gordon was expected to
receive the monument on behalf of the
people of the South, but he was I'M
40 1afa
acceptance was delivered by Judge D.
e. Johnson of Bluefield, w. Va. The
principal address of the day was made
by Capt. James Dinkins of New Or
leans, an eX-Confederate.
Capt. Dinkins' Address.
Capt. James Dinkins, Forests Cav
airy, OF New Orleans, spoke in part
as follows:
Although the people of the South did
not bid me come. l know that l repre-
sent them to-day when l extend the
hand of kindship and express my pleas
ure in meeting the people of the great
state of Ohio. Valiant in war. pro-
gressive in peace, the nation knows you
well and has called your sons to high
places on field and in council.
The South shares the pride in your
achievements. and testifies to the quail
ity of your manhood-first to pay the
tribute of courage to those who once
opposed, first to hail the grander broth
erhood of the stronger union, first TO
raise the rainbow arch above the sac
rifce of strife.
Our comrades dead are the living
fire upon the affairs of memory, and
your tender slolicitude has taught all
Americans that immortality's light per-
petually hallows every grave where he
roes lie, and that every death for duty
was hero's death.
Union Dead in Louisiana.
The beautiful custom of keeping
green the glorious the sacred spots
where soldiers sleep stirs patriotism
wherever practiced. No section monop-
olizes it. no sectional lines divide the
reverence paid. In our own fair Louis
lana are two national cemeteries, one
at Baton Rouge, where rises the cap
itol, the other at New Orleans, close
to Chalmette field, where Jackson gave
undying force to the American doctrine,
to which Monroe afterwards gave I'M
dying name. Our flag is still there
Under its folds sleep Union soldiers
from many fields. Under it's folds for
twenty years, and more, have women,
our Southern women, Strewn the flow
ers of love. Mothers and sisters there
are in Ohio and Iowa and Illinois and
Wisconsin and other states, whose
hearts lie buried there too far away
to place their own tokens upon the
biers of their beloved.
Mothers and sisters there are in
Louisiana who say: "These are our
own; their graves shall not be neg
lected." Their magnolias transplant
the message of your lilies, their roses
clasp yours in the wreath of a ma
tons mourning. dewed perennially by
a nations tears.
Confederates have gathered annual
ly upon this spot, marching beside that
other grand army proud that the wo-
men of New Orleans have set the ex-
ample to which more men bow their
heads each year in the sight of the
God whose blessings our banners beg.
Only a few days ago we said amens
over your prayers there. To-day you
share our sorrow above the buried
gray.
The people of the North and South
have often held different views and
opinions in the past, and will continue
to do so in the future, but the only
serious disa greement between them
was forever settled by war thirty-sev-
en- years ago.
One People, One Language. One Flag
/ believe I speak for the whole South
when / say: MY head and my heart
for my country. one people one Ian
guage, one flag" All nations may well
envy the patriotic spirit, boundless as
the air and resistless as the bounding
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