The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1906-09-23
United Daughters
Of The ConfederaCy


! Park. the tablets standing by the road
side. Iettered in red to designate the
Confederates, those in blue the Union
army. anord various inscriptions des-
ignating the monuments and positions
OK the two armies during those two
days fight. so that from these aids and
: Inc various stone markers and monu-
ments, the plan and action and result
are plainly pictured, the realization Of
events is vivified and every spot which
Bears tablet. or stone. becomes
shrine.
number of large imposing State
monuments occupy prominent positions
on the field. Iowa. Indiana. Illinois,
and Ohio. Wisconsin and Pennsylvania
also. though they each had only one
regiment engaged Hundreds of granite
markers costing from $1,000 to $4,000
each mark the positions of regiments
from those States. Three mortuary
monuments erected by the government
stand where General Johnston, General
GLADDEN. and General w. H.. L. Wall
lace fell. Only one Confederate stone
appears on the field. this park on
Southern soil. its vast area OF 1900
acres
Major d. W. Reed in anticipation of
our arrival. with his wife and daugh-1
ter Joined our party and conducted US
In our pilgrimage to the sites Alabama
Is entitled to upon which monuments
can be erected. Quite number of
positions were considered, where our
troops distinguished themselves. but
only one where a number of regiments
were at one time engaged, and this,
too, at the hour of surrender on April
9Th.
The following Is description OF the
site selected. as graphically, given by
request, by the Secretary and Histo-
NJ a RI G
Dear Madam-The place selected for
the Alabama monument. on the west
side of the Hamburg and savannah
road, and forty-four yards south or
the Browns Ferry road. is within one
mile, by air line, from the landing, and
only one and one-quarter miles by the
road. Here. the 18th. 18th 18th Ala
banla infantry and the LIST Alabama
cavalry that had assisted in driving
Hulburt's division of Grants army. and
then, by left wheel movement, cut
off the retreat of the forces of Prem
tiss and w. Fl. L.. Wallace, aided in
the capture OF 1000 prisoners. The
18th Alabama, by order of General
Withers, took charge of these pris-
oners, at The place where the monu-
ment will stand and conducted them to
Corinth, Miss.
A little southwest Gladden's Alabama
brigade was engaged. and to tile nortn
was Trabue's brigade in which were
the 4th Alabama battalion and the
S1st Alabama regiment. With the ex-
ception of Brewers barallion of caval-s
ry, every Alabama regiment seems TO
have been represented in the line sur
rounding Prentiss and Wallace at
o'clock p. m, April 6th 1852. The To-
cation therefore, Is the most central
for all Alabama troops that could be
selected in the field. The monument
will be conspicuous because OF its To-
cation on a main road, along which
all visitors must pass on the way to
the Bloody Pond and the. place where
General Albert Sydney Johnston fell.
1t is within $50 yards of the monu-
ment marking Hulburt's headquarters;
near the location of Richardson's and
Walkers batteries; the camps of the
32nd and the 41st Illinois, and the
markers of the surrender of Prentiss
and of several regiments, while within
sight, to the west Is the montuary
monument of w. II. L. Wallace The
Committee of the United Daughters OF
the Confederacy is to be congratulated
upon its good judgment in the selec-
tion of the site of the Alabama mon
ument. Very respectfully yours,
d. w. Reed,
Secretary and Historian. Shiloh Ma
tional Military Park Commission.
You will remember that the design
selected for our monument cost $4,000,
sum Is not in the hands of the Com
mittee: now. that the contract Is in the
hands of the Commission and submit
ted for the approval of the war de-
partment, the next thing for us to do
is, with great zeal and pride to busily
engage in raising the needed amount
and also arrange for the expense of
the unwilling next April Arrange
ments have been perfected with Major
Reed to have pocket In the foun-
dalton for a tin box in which we pro-
pose depositing some papers notably
list to be read at the unwilling. Only
a short time Is left before the founda-
ton will be laid, two months at far
thest perhaps not more than one
month, and we urge that attention be
called to this matter at your first
meeting and an early response be made
to this urgent call for the increase of
our fund. 1t will be most gratifying
there the success o9 our monument, and
we can with pride offer this tribute }
so righteous a cause. Your president
will be gratified to hear from each
chapter upon this important subject,
and hopes to learn, at the proposed
meeting of the Executive Board some
time in October, probably during air
week, at Birmingham (of which fur
Their notice will be given) that the en-
tire sum has been raised and paid over
for our monument.
With best wishes for your well-do-
ing faithfully yours,
Mrs. ]. N. Thompson. President.