The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1914-06-05
PRESIDENT WAS
CHIEF SPEAKER
IMPRESSIVE CEREMONIES HELD
IN ARLINGTON NATIONAL
CEMETERY
THOUSANDS IN ATTENDANCE
The Actual Ceremony of dwelling
Was Pretty one-Mrs. Daisy Nc
Laurin Stevens, of Mississippi, Pre-
the Shaft to the Government

Washington, June Ain the pres
ence of several thousand persons, in
cluaing many Confederate veterans
and Daughters of the Confederacy,
as we'll as former Union soldiers, and
with unique and interesting cere-
monies, participated in by the Pres
1dent OF the United State 5, the Con-
federate Monument in Arlington Ma
tional Cemetery was unveiled today.
Colonel Hillary A. Herbert, chair
man of the executive committee OF
the Arlington Confederate Monument
Association, formally turned over
the monument to Mrs Daisy Nc
Laurin Stevens of Mississippi presi-
dent-general of the United Daughters
OF the Confederacy, who received it
on behalf of that organization. Mrs.
Stevens, in turn, presented the shaft
to the government, President Wills n
accepting it.
The actual ceremony of unveiling
the monument was a pretty one, the
cord being pulled by little Paul
Micou, the 11-yearold grandson OF
Colonel Herbert who was secretary
of the navy under President Cleve-
land.
The dedication ceremonies today
marked the elimination of years of
work on the part of prominent Con-
feddrate veterans and members Of
hn obi nP do.
The movement to raise money for
the erection of the shaft began soon
after the bodies of 267 Confederate
soldiers were gathered in a beauti-
full section of Arlington. with the
names of ach soldier, wherever it
was possible, placed on a marble
headstone.
The r. E. Lee Chapter, of the
Daughters of the Confederacy, which
had been formed in this city to raise
money for the monument soon had
obtained $1,000 and the Stonewall
Chapter similar sum. On Novem-
Der 6, 1906. Mrs. Magnus S. Thomp-
son, president of the Daughters OF
the Confedracy of the District of
Columbia asked all Confederate or1
ganizations in Washington to take
an active part in the work and the
Arlington Confederate Monument AS
sociation was formed.
In 1907 a considerable sum had
been raised, and at their annual con-
vention in that year the Daughters
of the Confederacy which has chap
tiers all over the South and in many
Northern states, took over the work
and formed monument association
of their own, the organization in
Washington, however, being contin-
ued.
In November, 1910, a committee Of
design was formed and Sir Moses
Ezekial, the Virginia sculptor whose
studio is in Rome. Italy, was called
before it at meeting In Washington
and submitted design for the mon
ument which was accepted. The cor.
nerstone was laid in November, 1912.
The monument, including the base,
is entirely of bronze and stands on
a foundation of dark gray, A heroic
sized figure OF a woman typifies the
South In her extended hand there
is a laurel wreath with which to
crown the dead; her other hand
rests on a plowstock. while under
meath, on a circular base. are thirty
two life-siZed figures representing
the heroism and sacrifices of the men
and women of the South as well as
the enthusiasm that was aroused
~hen the tocsin 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 Dekd Heroes, BY The