The Washington herald., 1914-05-31
Confederates To Unveil Monument
PRESIDENT WILL ACCEPT MEMORIAL FOR NATION
Z
Exercises Held at Arlington Thursday
Its Purpose Is to Convey
Everlasting Peace Be
tween the Sections Of the
Union.

rich. warm soil; It took root It once
then came the plant and it, growth. and
now we have, In this monument the full
flower: Its fruit Ii to Be 3 rich harvest
Of fraternai feeling.
On the same trip South, at Macon. Ga.
an enthusiastic Southerner insisted on
pinning Confederate badge on the lapel
Of Mr.. McKinleys coat. The President
smilingiy wore II
In their annual reunion at Charleston,
in 1899, the United Confederate Veterans
thanked the President for his lutterancea
at Atlanta.
In Washington. d. c.. . committee OF
the Broadway Rouss Camp Of confed-
crate Veterans, Of which DR.. Samuel E.
Lewis was chsirman,s and two members
OF which belonged also to Camp III. be-
gan very early to investigate the graves
Of Confederates In Washington City and
its environs.
Gen. Marcus ]. Wright. an ex-Confed-
crate. prepared q bill which. on motion
Of Senator Hawley of Connecticut. an ex-
Union soldier, became q law June 8,
1900, under which the bodies OF 81 Con-
federate soldiers were gathered Into Q
beautiful section Of the National Gene
terry at Arlington, adorned with walks
and trees. and the name OF every soldier,
where available, was Inscribed on q mar
BILE headstone.
The blue print of the plot Of this sec
ton, as II came from the hands Of the
officers Of the War Department. had the
round plot in the center marked con-
spicuously m"
The Broadway Rouss committee had
co-operated faithfully with the depart
ment ofiicials throughout all this work.
Decorate Union Graves.
On the Memorial Day. next after the
completion Of the Confederate section.
the ex-Confederate organisations of
Washington City. after decorating their
own graves. marched slowly over to the
granite monument representing 2,1fl
Union dead. and placed q tribute 20
Northern valor In the form Of large
floral shield containing the words from
President McKinley's address,
In the Name Of Fraternity,
Confederate veterans June {, Eg-
And President Roosevelt on that day
sent as mis- tribute to the ex-confederate
dead q bountiful supply of beautiful iow-
ers from the White House.
But all this had not come about with
out some opposition. The scars left by
four years Of war were deep. particularly
at Richmond and New Orleans. and the
efforts made by politicians, Just after the
war. to infame the minds of Northern
soldiers against their late adversaries.
had not been without effect. In March.
1901. two prominent Southern women. one
from Richmond and one from New Or
leans, each representing what she in
sisted was the sentiment OF the United
Daughters Of the Confederacy, had pro-
tested to the Secretary Of War that the
South did not wish its heroes Inferred
at Arlington. but intended to remove
their remains to its own soil: and to sup
port their protest these ladies' cited reso-
lutions by a post OF the G. A. r. In Phil
adelphia, insisting that no monument or
inscription be permitted in the National
Cemetery that were not In honor OF the
National flag"
General appeal Il Made.
Secretary Root halted the re-interment
But soon there came from the Confed-
crate Veterans in annual reunion at
Memphis an unqualified and unanimous
Endorsement Of the act OF Congress. and
from u. d. C.'s throughout the country
abundant evidence that they. too. desired
the department to carry on the good
work.
That "the thoughts Of men are widened
with the process of the suns" Is beauti-
fully illustrated by what followed.
When the week in which the corner
stone Of the Confederate monument was
laid at Arlington in November, 1912. with
its many patriotic ceremonials. was over.
the two protesting ladies of 1901 expressed
themselves as delighted: and In the Won
derful Gettysburg reunion last year all
the Philadelphia G. A. r. posts Joined
enthusiastically with their comrades
throughout the great State of Pennsyl-
vania. In welcoming and Nheaping honors
on ex-Confederates as their guests.
There was no objection to inscriptions or
to Confederate flags or uniforms.
After the Confederate section had been
completed, with a mound in the center
for q monument the monument. like
Topsy, 'just growed." Before 1t had
been oficially authorized. the r. z. Lee
raised 81, 900 for II. In March, 1906, Mrs.
Magnus Thompson. who was district
president Of the U. D Z. for the District
Of Columbia. obtained from Secretary Of
War Taft. through Hon. John Sharp
Williams. OF Mississippi, permission to
erect the monument, and soon the Stone
wall Chapter Of the U. d. C. had raised
$1,000.
Association Is Formed.
November 6. 1905. Mrs Magnus Thomp-
son, IS president Of the U. D. C.'s in the
District Of Columbia, made a call on all
Confederate organizations In Washing
ton. and delegates from Camp IN. q. c.
", camp OF Sons OF Veterans, and ive
chapters of q. d. c. convened and formed
the Arlington Confederate Monument As
sociation, with an executive committee.
the personnel OF which now is as follows:
Executive committee A. c. NJ. Associa-
ton: sCol. Hilary A. Herbert. chairman:
MRS. Marion Butler. vice chairman: