The Anderson daily intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson, S.C.) 1914-1915, 1914-06-05

Coniodcracy. who received il cn be-
half of that organization. Mrs S,ev-
ems In t;rn is TO present the shaft 10
the government. President Wilson.
accepting il.
The actual ceremony Of unve.ling
tie cord beins pulled by little Paul
f!icou, the 1lyear-old grandson of
tolon"l Herbert. who was secretary Of
the navy under President Cleveland.
The dedication ceremonies toda.
marked the elimination of years Of
work on the part of prominent Con-
tolerate veterans and members OF the
Daughters of the Confcderacy The
movement to raise money FOR the cree
tiOn OF the shaft began soon after th.
bodies OF 267 Confederate soldiers
were gathered in Il beautiful section q!
Arlington. with the name Of each so:-
dier. wherever 1t was possible, place !
on marble headstone.
The II. f. Lee Chapter of the Daugh-
ters of the COnfederacy. which had
been formed in this city to raise mon
ey for the monument soon had OBJ
tanned $1,000 and the Stonewnll Chap
ter similar sum. On November t.,
1906. Mrs. Afagnus S. Thompson,
president of the Daughters or tie Con
federacy OF the District of Columbia
| asked all Confederate organizations
in Washington to take an active par,
In the work and the Arlington Con-
federate Monument Association was
formed. with an executive committed
the present membership OF Which IS Il
follows:
Col. Hilary A. Herbert. chairman:
Mrs. Marion Butler, e-chairman:
Wallace Streator, treasurer Mrs
Drury Conway Ludlow, recording SEE.
reta-y; Mrs. William Oscar Rooms
i corresponding secretary and Judge
Seth Shepard. Capt. John NJ. Hickey
Atner II. Ferguson. Mrs. Magnus S
Thompson. Mrs. Rust Smith, Mrs. Jas
| e. Mulcars. Mrs. Archibald Young
Mrs. B. Claughton West. Mrs. Mary r,
Wilcox. Mrs. Jennie l.. Munroe Mrs,
Leonard g. Hoffman. Mrs. Marcus J
| Wright. Mrs. Lindley L .Lomax, Mrs.
William Anthony Wayne and Miss
Fannie w. Weeks. An advisory
hoard also WAS organized.
In 1907 q considerable sum had been
raised and a. their annual convention
in that year the Daughters of the Con-
| federacy. which has chapters all over
the south and In many northern stutes
! took over the work and formed NOR
| umcnt association OF their own, the
executive committee at Washington
however, being coptinued.
In November. 1916. committee oil
| design was formed and Sir Moses Eze.
kiel, the Virginia sculptor. who's
! studio is, In Rome, Italy, was called
before II at meeting in Washington
and submitted design for the monr,
ment which was accepted, The cor.
nerstone was laid In November. 1912.
The monument. including the base
is entirely or bronze and stands on =
foundation of dark gray. highly pol
ished. Woodstock granite. a heroic
sized figure OF woman typifes the
south. In her extended hand there
is laurel wreath with which tc
crown the dead: her other hand rests
on IL plOwst0ck, while underneath, on
Il circular base. arc thirty-twO life.
sized figures representing the hero
ism and sacrifices Of the men and wO.
men Of the south. as we'll as the enthu.
siam that was aroused when the tocsii
OF war was sounded. The soldier who
went to the front is shown the officer
leaving his child in the care OF an
old nanny" the blacksmith who has
forged his own sword and the bride
putting the sword and sash around her
husbands waist. Inscribed on the
monument Is:
ITO Our Dead Heroes
by
| THE Daughters OF the Confederacy.'
"They have beat their swords into
pIowshares and their spears into prun-
| ing hooks"
"Victrix causa dis placuit. sed victa
| Gatoni."
| mot for fame not for place or for
rank; not lured by ambition or
goaded ty necessity; but in simple
obedience TO duty as they under
stood IT, these mon suffered all, sac,
rificed all. dared all and died"