The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1910-07-17
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CONFEDERATE MONUMENT !
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GREENWOOD CEMETERY

! CONFEDERAI lie MONUMEN l a.
| GREENWOOD CEMETERY
The most commanding and beautiful
memorial in Greenwood Cemetery is tn
Confederate monument, the gift 0
Capt Pete Youree, which was erected
last week by the McNeal Marble Work.
Of Marietta, Ga.
The monument stands clear rs Il
feet from the ground. 1t is Of Georgia
granite with a magnificent base, square
shaft surmounted by the figure of {
Confederate color bearer. Sword OF
hip, flag in hand" head erect, the rose
Of heaven" OH his check and daring ir
his eye, he scans the distance looking
into the enemy's lines. The figure is
1.-THE and instinct with life. 1t is not a
mere statue, but a picture of the boy
in gray that we knew and loved, and
instantly commands the admiration OF
the beholder.
The inscription &C. S. A. IS6I-I865
follow Then the one word "Ccnfed-
crate" handsomely lettered, that tells
the whole story, appears just below the
crossed flags. Here again are praise and
admiration for the excellence of the
work. The flag of the Confederacy, the
stars and bars distinctly brought out,
and the battle flag which was carried in
the thick of the fight for four long
years, are wrought with artistic delicacy
and beauty of touch.
The dedication follows and is on the
face of the monument, fronting the
principal driveway of the cemetery. It
reads This stone is raised as tribute
of love and loyalty to his old comrades
in arms, by Pete Youree, Captain Com
handing Company |, Slayback's Regi-
ment, Joe Shelbys Brigade, Missouri
Cavalry"
The other inscriptions are also beau
tiful and appropriate. On the east side
of the monument:
"A folded flag, brilliant page unrolled,
A deathless song of Southern chivalry"
On the north side facing Pythian
Rest:
I'VE care not whence they came,
Dear is their lifeless clay
Whether unknown or known to fame,
Their cause and country still the same,
They died-and wore the gray"
South side facing Masonic Rest:
Their glory shall never die; their
epitaphs are written in the hearts of
mankind; and wherever there is speech
of noble deeds, their names shall be
held i'll remembrance.
The heart swells with emotion as we
gather around this Confederate memo
rial and the page of history unrolls. We
recall that there was time when over
all of this Southland there was self
sacrihce-when young men in the
freshness and vigor Of life, and old
men gray with lifes decline, when wom-
Ell old and young counted it a privilege
to surrender everything for that which
they believed to be the cause of right
eousness. 1t is this that consecrates
four years with a glory that can not die
md stirs our blood as we stand by the /,
graves of the honored dead.
There is not more beautiful mon
lment in the South than this newly
erected one i'll Greenwood cemetery.
The men and women of the old South
viii continue to build monuments, for
hey are pledged to keep alive the ever
glorious memory of Southern valor,
hat the fame of the soldier of the Con-
'ederacy shall not be dimrned nor his
lonor injured by the waste of time,
LAYING THE CORNERSTONE.
Quite unexpectedly last Monday
morning the committees appointed by
Captain and Mrs. Youree just before
heir departure for Europe to receive
he Confederate monument, were in
ormed that the corner stone was ready
. be laid, and those in charge of the
-sNNlStoNes WHY III IL
o'clock, in ordr that the work might not
oe delayed, Consequently only the COM
nittees of the Leroy Stafford Camp
md the Daughters Of the Confederacy
we're present And it was their high
privilege to place the precious box con-
aiming the necessary papers and histor
cal data in the cornerstone of the mon
nnent Standing with bowed heads and
n reyerent memory of the past, the
Confederate ritual was read, the stone
let and sealed. The last words tenderly
-epeated were these: Let US keep alive
he love and loyalty of the soldier of
he Confederacy, his sacrifice and suf-
.ering; left we forget--lest we forget."
WHAT THE BOX CONTAINS.
Copies Of the Shreveport Times. Jour
lal and Caucasian of July 10, 1910.
List Of members of Shreveport Chap
er u. D. c.
r