The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-08-18
A FLORIDA VETERAN
WHO SAW RICHMOND


r d;4o, ~ I.In-;d, p,. Tilt:
ii SiiliiS
| His Readers About Visit TO
Reunion.
! "
Captain j. I. Subbs. editor of the
! ing series OF very interesting ac-
| counts of his trip to Richmond when
! he attended the Confederate Reunion.
His accounts of what he saw IN
Richmond VIII not be newsy to local
readers, put 70 thousands OF veterans
outside of Richmond the following
will be very instructive and enter
tanning:
Hollywood Cemetery.
But the field is too extensive and
we must quit the Confederate White
House and Capitol and turn our at
tention 10 the most superb cemetery
i'm the world the Hollvwood cemetery,
! OF Richmond. va. Its location is
! grand. II liz broken into hillside and
| valleys. while the James River rushes
and shutters and means over the rocks
a hundred feet or more below.
II lie carved and graded into hun
dred shapes to conform to nature, and
| the living have expended their wealth
| in erecting monuments in loving men-
| ory of their dead.
one of the least costly-barely more
| than two feet high and one foot wide
| on the hillside moss-covered reads
| Tins.
John TYLER. President of the United
| states from 1871 to 1s45. Born in
| Charles CITY. va, March 20, 1890. Died
| at Richmond va, January II, 1862.
And lust above and beyond this
| Ia an iron pagoda about s by IL feet
/ and fifteen feet high. and containing
| q ponderous sarcophaSus with this
| inscription.
| flames Monroe, born in West
moreland county, 25th April, 175s,
| died in the CITY OF New York July
| - 1s3I
NV order of the General Assembly
his remains were removed to this
cemetery 9Th july, 1855. as an evi-
dence OF the affection of Virginia
| for her good and honored SON.
| Won will observe that the inscrip-
| ton does not mention the fact that
| lie was a President of the United
| States-but it might have done SO
with propriety because 1t would have
| attracted more attention and given
wanted information to many a
thoughtless visitor who undoubtedly
viii rest moment by this modest
tomb without knowing that here rests
| Doctrinen a wise. far-seeing states
man. 81,
| We have now reached the very
! summit of HOLLYWOOD. the angry, mud
| DIV waters of the James River ever
yhirlinp far below. we now come to
| the resting Mace Of Jefferson Davis.
1 nor yirrinian. hut strangely enough
1 he and the immortal Abraham Lin
coin are both sons os old Kentucky.
They were born-Davis in Christian
county. 1908. and Lincoln in Hardin
county 1909. Davis had the adyant-
aea ~ military education at West
pointl1incoln had none-bnt both
4 vera officers in the Black Hawk indian
| War og 1912. They first met at
n;yon m I.incoln with his coon-sl,in
90 :, lad been elected cantain ~ hts
harkwoods co,npanv. He reported for
] dutv and 1t was Jefferson Davis. a
vounr graduate from West Point. who
aSn,i1,stered 70 him the oath az ale
glance ia the United States. What a
startline vision It would have been
~ those two Young men IL the unveiled
fn+nra could then have appeared to
| them
Rnt we are now standing by the
nr;vate tonb or JEFFERSON Davis and
W. fam,lv a nerfect image Of the
Dr. prs sidant ~ the confederacv stands
~, nafestal with his right hand
agoinst Ills side and his hat In his
ief4i ba,d hanging straight down. lie
10 !, nerfoct repose. 1t SAYS:
"Jefferson Davis at rest. An Ameri-
can soldier, defender of the Constitu-
ton. born in Christian county, Ky.
lMn. 1sos Died al New Orleans. La,
nacsmber 6. 1889.
.West point class 1s2s. Member OF
H6nse of REPRESENTATIVES from Mis-
sissinni ls45-ls46. Colonel First Mis-
sissinni Rifles, Mexican War, 1916
1sI7 Brigadier- general United States
army. NAV IL. 1s47. United States SEN
ate 1s47-is57. Secretary of War ls4s-