The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-05-12
Alabama DanghteYS UnbeH
 W0nBuenf On Shiloh Field
Mrs Cory Describes Interesting Trip to Famous Battlefield and Gives History of the Movement to Appropriately
 Commemorate Confederate Dead.
BY MRS. CHAP FELL CORY.

Monday night was the deluge. Tues day the clouds hung low and heavy. but at 5:so o'clock in the morning the train with its heavy load of Daughters, Sons and Veterans, pulled out for Riverton. At Riverton they boarded the St. Louis pack ct Kentucky" 200 strong, steamed down the Tennessee for Pittsburg Landing.
 There was no clint of the blue for which the Tennessee is famed, for the floods had muddied the waters, but the scenery along the banks was beautiful Here and there was a rugged cliff, but always and beyond the gentle slope of low, green hills.
 Before reaching the cemetery one sees the dim outline of an old road winding around the banks which is pointed out as the place where Buels army went rapid ly and silently to the rescue. The Na- tional cemetery tops a high sloping bluff of living green while the view from this commanding height is surprisingly beau tiful Within the cemetery Is simple shaft with this inscription:
 United States National Cemetery, Pittsburg Landing. established 1866. Inter- ments, 859O Known, 1929. Unknown, 2S61. :"
 A plain stone, sometimes with a name but oftener with a number, marks each grave. A few carriages and many wagons were at the landing, which quickly con- veyed the crowd to the monument. On the main road about one mile distant, the site for this Confederate monument was chosen. All the wGy from the cemetery through the park, one feels on sacred ground for here and there gleaming through the wide forest are seen different shaped boards, one blue, the other red, showing that here the federal soldiers held the field and there the Confederates.
 Other markers in the shape of tents designate likewise, where the different armies camped, those marked with red representing the armies of the south; those with blue, the north.
 The site of the monument Is on the most important road of the park one and a half miles distant from Pittsburg Land ing, and about the same distance from the place where Albert Sidney Johnston fell mortally wounded and only a short distance from the famous Bloody Pond" on one side of the Hornets Nest" on the other.
 Dr. Thomas M. Owen acted as master of ceremonies at the unveiling, while the following programme was impressively carried out:
 Musc-"America."
 InVOcatOn-ReV. Dr. Jesse B. IOunS.
 Remarks-T M. Owen, presiding offi- cer.
 Report Shiloh Monument Committee Mrs. l.. G. Dawson.
 Unveiling-Mrs. Louise Bankhead Perry and Miss Mark Kirkpatrick.
 "DiXie'-Band.
 Address-Mrs. Lizzie George Henderson, President General United Daughters of the Confectionery.
 Depositing box of relics in corner stone, Mrs. Harry D. Jones.
 Presentation-Mrs. ]. N. Thompson, President Alabama Division. U. D. c.
 Reception-Col. c. Cadle, National Mill tary Park.
 Acceptance Basil Duke, for commission.
 Doxology.
 It was a matter of regret that ex-Gov. Joseph F. Johnston, Judge Carmichael and Congressman Richardson, who were on the programme, were unavoidably ab- sent.
 Some of the ladies invited for the un- yelling not being able to come, two of the most distinguished veterans were se- lected to assist, Col. Harvey Jones and General Joe N Thompson.
 A delightful feature of the exercises was unique talk from Capt Peter Mas tin of Montgomery, who brought with him a young grandson, that he might view the scene of his grandfather's s marches.
 The whole service was most impress