The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-05-12

In the handsome granite memorial
 raised to her soldiers, Alabama takes
 the lead of other Southern States. She
 begins a new era in monument work for
 the shiloh memorial is the first monu-
 ment to be erected by Alabma outside
 of the confines of the State. But the
 credit is due neither to the State gov
 ernment of Alabama, nor to the men of Alabama, but to the women of Alabama ito those who are Daughters of the Confederacy.
 This monument of beautiful Vermont granite stands fifteen feet high and is | surmounted by pyramid of cannon On either side of the body of the
 memorial the word Alabama" appears | in bas relief.
 Inscription on Granite. On the south face of the monument, the face which looks to that part of the battlefield in which the Alabama troops first moved, there is cut in the stone the following inscriptions: Alabama General Officers at Shiloh, Brig. Gen. Jones M. Withers, End Brig, End Army Corps. sBrigadier General Sterling A, M. Wood, 3rd Brigade, 3rd | Army Corps, Alabama Cavalry. Braggs Escort Company, Captain Robert w. Smith, First Battalion, Captain Thomas F. Jenkins. Mississippi and Alabama fdtldllOn, lSleutendnt COlOnel ftlCnar0 H. Brewer. 1st Regiment, Colonel
 James H. Clanton. Cages Battery. Cap
 tery, Captain Charles P. Gage, Ketch-
 um's Battery. Captain w. H. Ketchum, Robertson's Battery, Captain Felix H. l Robertson"
 On the west face of the monument, | which looks to the spot on which the 5000 men of Prentiss and Wallace sur
 rendered. the following Inscription Is m it, Cf
 "To the lasting memory of the he-
 roes from Alabama who fought at Shi- loh. April 6-7, 1862; Erected by the
 Alabama Division. United Daughters of
 the Confederacy. 1907"
 On the east face of the monument
 the face which appears in the publish ed picture, appears the handsome bas-
 relief work representing the flag of the
 Confederacy. with a carbine and rife.
 On the north face, which looks towards Pittsnurg Landing, there are cut into
 the stone the numbers of the Alabama
 Infantry regiments, together with their
 commanders. which participated in the
 great battle. The numbers and names
 cut into the stone are,
 Fourth Battalion. Major James H. Clifton; 18th Regiment; Lieutenant Col
 onel John W. Harris; 17th Regiment,
 Lieutenant Colonel Robert c. Farriss:
 18th Regiment, Colonel Eli s. Shorter; 18th Regiment Colonel Joseph F.
 Wheeler; 21st Regiment, Lieutenant Colonel Stewart W. Gayee, (wounded), Major Frederick Stewart; 22nd Regi- ment. Colonel Zach Deas, (wounded), Lieut.. Col. ohm G. Marrast: 18th Regiment, Colonel Loomer, (wounded), Major George D. Johnston: 26th Regi-
 ment Colonel John D. Co1tart. (wound- ed), Lieutenant Colonel William D.
 Chadwick; 31st Regiment, Colonel Mont gomery Gilbreath."
 Spring Smiled On Scene. A beautiful day of Southern Spring was vouchsafed the Alabamians and
 their friends who journeyed to the bat tlef1eld to honor the soldiers of the State of Alabama for their part in the fight.
 The Alabama Division of the Daugh- ters of the Confeedracy had gathered at Sheffield for its annual convention and the first day of the gathering
 was devoted to the unveiling exercises. The Daughters and their friends made the sixty mile trip from Sheffield to
 Shiloh by rail and by steamboat. The first half of the journey was made in
 special train to Rtverton, the pres
 enc head of mitigation on the Ten
 nessee River. At Riverton the large party boarded the big Tennessee River
 packet Kentucky" which carried the party to the battlefield.
 Honored guests In the party were Colonel Cornelius Cadle, the head of the National Shiloh Park Commission l and his associate on that commission | serving for the Confederate soldier,