The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1908-07-09
CONFEDERATE MONC-
MENT.


The monument is a massive granite
shaft thirty feet high, erected in homo:
Of the 5000 Confederate dead. whose
white marble headstones mark their
last resting places in this cemetery.
a long procession OF Daughters in
carriages, automobiles, veterans, Mari
eta Rifles, citizens, and legislators,
headed By Gem City Band, made an
imposing pageant.
Mr.. George Sessions was Marshal Of
the day. Many flags we're displayed.
The ladies have worked long and
faithfully in the contamination OF this
object, and have been thus gloriously
rewarded.
The Gem City Band discoursed lively
music at intervals in the program.
Prayer was offered by Rev. w. L.
Pierce, Of the Methodist church.
General William Phillips introduced
the speaker chosen for the occasion,
General Clement A Evans, the great
commander Of the hosts of living Con-
federates, and his address was a mag
nificant one.
His graphic description of Johpston's
retreat from Dalton and the battle of
Kennesaw mountain was thrilling and
pathetic and moved the great crowd to
a spirit ef patriotic enthusiasm The
grand old Confederate General never
delivered better speech.
General Evans presented Mrs r I
Nesbitt, the President of the Daugh-
tiers OF Confederacy, with a beautiful
bouquet of flowers in honor of her e.
deity, untiring and noble work.
By invitation, Governor Hoke Smith
and the Georgia legislature were pres
ent and participated in the exercises
Hon. j. q. Foster, representative from
Cobb, introduced Governor Smith, who
delivered an excellent and eloquent
speech. His description Of the first
battle OF Bull Run and Manassas, where
General Jackson stood like Stone
wall, " was mastery and fine tribute
to the intrepid bravery of the Confed-
crate soldier, raw recruits, that hurled
back in defeat the regulars" of the U.
S. Army. The speech of the Governor
was in keeping with his we'll known
ability as an orator, and our people
felt honored by his presence on this oc-
casion
President Flynt OF the Senate and
Seaborn Wright of the House also de-
livered beautiful and stirring address,
es.
The first favored the Legislature
appropriating money to beautify the
Confederate cemetery as it is the
property of the State and the second
advocated the building of monument
to tAe Confederate women OF the CO.'S
in the rotunda of the capitol with ev-
cry Georgia soldiers name engraved
thereon in imperishable bronze.
Hon. j. q. Foster, in one of his elo
quent introductories, alluded to the
beautiful devotion Of the lamented Mrs
d. F. McClatchey, who eight years ago,
started the movement to build the
monument now erected.
The Marietta Rifles, under command
of Captain Fred Morris, fired salutes
at the conclusion Of the exercises.
1000 people we're present and the
occasion was one of great interest and
pride to every Southern heart.
The unwilling of the monument was
by fourteen little girls representing the
States whose soldiers sleep in the GEM
etery-Maryland, Virginia, North Caro-
lima, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida,
Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas,
Arkansas, Tennessee, Kentucky and
Missouri.
The young girls were Aimee D Glov-
er, Ruth McOulloch, Page Anderson,
Julia Anderson, Emma Hedges, Ade-
laide Seize, Linda Anderson, Jeanette
Black, Carrie Phillips, Augusta Cohen,
Pauline Manning, Sue Green, Cora
Brown, Sarah Patton and Lois Gardner.
Mrs Wilder Glover had these pref
ty little girls in charge and they execu-
ted their parts with precision III the
unwilling.
The benediction was offered by DR.. J,
H. Patton, of the Presbyterian church.
The monument is very fine one, and
was erected by the McNeel Marble Com
pany, of Marietta, and shows up most
beautifully, and does credit to the
workmanship of this enterprising firm,
one Of the largest in the South.
On the south side of the monu-
ment in raised letters, are the words:
To Our Confederate Dead. Erected
and Dedicated, by Kennesaw Chapter
United Daughters of the Confederacy.
Marietta, Ga, 1905"
On the west side is a Confederate
Cross, beneath which is the inscription
ITO Our Cobb County Soldiers, who so
Nobly Illustrated Georgia On many a