Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-06-05
CANNON SECURED
FOR WALKER
MONUMENT
CONGRESSMAN LON LIVINGSTON
WIRES JULIUS BROWN THAT
GOVERNMENT WILL GIVE
NECESSARY CANNON.

Julius L. Brown, president of the Walk
err Monument association, Monday
received the following telegram from
Colonel L. f. Livingston, the popular con-
gresham from this district in the United
States congress-:
Five guns secured; four from Alabama
and one from North Carolina. No expense
to. government. L. F. LIVINGSTON"
To this telegram Mr. Brown sent the
following. answer:
Colonel L. F. Livingston, Washington,
d. c.:
May the Lord love you. Wire me from
what point IN Alabama and from what
point in North Carolina the guns are, so
we can arrange for freight. Will see you
Thursday morning in Washington.
JULIUS L. BROWN. President"
Mr.. Brown will go to Washington to-
day to personally invite President
Roosevelt and the secretary of war to at
tend the unwilling of the monument of
Major General W. II. T. Walker, on July
I'D, the anniversary of his death.
The Walker Monument association was
formed a short time ago to erect a mon
ument to the memory of General William
H. T. Walker, the only major general
from the state of Georgia, who was killed
in the civil war. The monument is to
be an exact duplicate of the monument
erected several years ago to the memory
of General Mcpherson, the Federal gen
eraI who was killed at the same time.
Major General w. Fl. T. Walker was
killed on the I'D day of July, 1864, in the
lighting around Atlanta. He was the only
major general from Georgia who died from
wounds during the war. He was gradu-
ate of the West Point Military academy
and a native of this state. He was wound
ed in the Seminole Indian war, in the
swamps of Florida. and was again almost
fatally wounded in the Mexican war he
was a lieutenant colonel in the United
states army when Georgia left the union,
and he Immediately resigned his commits
sion to fight for his state. Governor Jo-
seph Brown appointed him lieutenant
colonel in the first regiment of Georgia
regulars (which went to the front. General
IIardee commanded the regiment He re-
ceived commission in the Confederate
army and resigned from the service OF
Georgia, but later left the Confederate ar
my ard was made a brigadier general or
the forces which Governor Brown collect
ed to defend Savannah in 1861. When Gov
ernor Brown turned these troops over to
the Confederate government, General
Walker was promoted to a major gener-
alship. He was killed at the head OF Ter
RVS mill pond, near Grant park, on July
22d about one-third of a mile from wnere
General Mcpherson fell
The veterans OF tllAS SOSlioA nav us
been talking of erecting a monument to
General Walker, but nothing has been
done until recently, when Mr.. Julius l.
Brown took the matter up, and or
ganized the Walker Monument Associa-
ton. This association was chartered, ana
determined to erect the monument in time
TO be unveiled on July I'D, the anniver-
sary of the death of General Walker.
Hon. Joseph B. Cumming, of Augusta,
Who was General Walkers chief of staff,
win be asked to make an address re-
ceiving the monument, and DIR. L. II.
Kennon. of Atlanta, who was also on Gen
eral Walkers stan, win be asked to par
ticipate. The association also purposes
decorating the monument of General Ne
Pherson at the time of the unwilling OF
the monument to General Walker.