Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-08-26
MEMORIAL TOTHEDEAD
Confederates Who Died in
Both Battles of Manassas.
MONUMENT UNWILLING
CEREMONIES TO BE HELD TUES
DAY NEAR WELLINGTON, VA.
Shaft is Of White Marble Sixteen Feet
in Height, Surrounded by
Markers.
MONUMENT UNWILLING
Special Correspondence Of The Evening Star

Special Correspondence Of The Evening Star.
ALEXANDRIA, Va. August %. 1904.
Bull Run Chapter. United Daughters OF
the Confederacy, held a meeting last even
ing in Lee Camp Hall. on Prince street, and
made arrangements for attending the un-
yelling near Wellington. In Prince William
county, August 30, of the monument to the
confederate dead who fell in the first and
second battles of Manassas. The local
members of the chapter, with members OF
other southern organizations, will leave
here Tuesday morning, and will reach
Groventon cemetery, where the shaft Is TO
be erected. shortly after 10 o'clock The
program includes the ceremony Of unveil-
ing and addresses by prominent Virginians
The cord by means of which the monu-
ment will be Invested of it's coverings will
be drawn by Hiss Newell Dogan of Prince
William, daughter of Mrs. ]. F. Dogan.
president of the Bull Run Chapter. The
addresses will be delivered by Mr.. Thomas
Lyon, member from Prince William county
of the state legislature Gov. Montague,
Judge j. b. McCabe Of Loudoun and others.
Members of other chapters of the Daugh-
tiers of the Confederacy are expected TO be
present and to take part in the exercises,
which will be under the auspices of the
Bull Run Chapter.
The monument is of white marble, stand
ing about sixteen feet. Around 1t there
names of the states represented. On the
| front is the inscription. Erected by the
United Daughters of the Confederacy to
the confederate dead, under which Is the
following verse:
We care not whence they came,
Dear is their lfeless clay;
Whether unknown or known to fame,
Their and country still the same,
They died-and wore the gray.
On the other side the following is en-
of their country on the fields of the first
and second battles of Manassas They
sleep well in their unknown graves on the
counting of time Is not, for they dwell In
the city of GOl.'
Location of Memorial.
The memorial will crown an eminence
in the center of the cemetery. 1t will stand
on circular plaza which Is approached
by wide gravel walk set of by con-
crete curbing. The tall, stately shaft Will
be solitary testimonial to the brave deeds
of the southern dead. OF the valor Of con-
federate arms it will bear record in a bat
tle-swept region where before only the
heroism of the Union soldier was per-
petuated in stone and marble. On the
slopes and emnences including and sur
rounding Groventon cemetery the soutn-
ern and the northern dead lay tmckiy
strewn after the second battle of Manassas
AS the years of peace after the great con-
fict passed the spots rendered especially
memorable by the heavy slaughter OF red
eral troops were appropriately marked by
monuments, but, excepting the inclosure
of Groventon cemetery and a few modest
slabs here and there, that portion or the
battlefield bore no memorial to the south
ern dead. The lone confederate monu-
ment to be unveiled Tuesday Will stand
on a hill between two others, both OF
which are surmounted by shafts erected
to the memory of Union soldiers. On one
hand Is Henry Hill and on the other Dogan
HILL each with it's many mounds and each
with it's monument.
Groyenton cemetery covers an acre Of
ground Within this space are the re-
mains of 500 confederates. They were
buried practically where they fell. and for
that reason Groventon Is essentially pat
tie cemetery. Soldiers who succumbed TO
their wounds in the hospital or fell on
the march were buried elsewhere. There
only those who were slain in action were
inferred.