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charge of its erection, as taking up the
| history of the United States where the
Washington Monument left off.
| Still further is the national Significance
| of the event emphasized by the fact
that the Secretary Of State, who is COM
| ing to be known as an international
apostle of peace. will stand as joint host
| with the Arlington Confederate Monu-
| ment Association of the United Daugh-
| ters of the Confederacy in a reception to
| the sculptor Of the monument and the
| women of the south. who led in the effort
| to erect this monument to union and
| peace.
Exercises at O'Clock.
| Unveiling exercises start at pm.
vii Col. Herbert. Secretary of the
Navy under Cleveland as master Of
ceremonies and Capt. John H. Hickey
and Col. John J. Glen as marshals of
| the day. The music will be by the
| 5th Cavalry Band William j. Cain
bandmaster. The program is as fol-
lows: Grand selection, Southern Airs"
Conterno; invocation, DR.. Randolph H.
McKim; address. Gen. Bennett H.
Young. commander-in-chief. U. c. v;
address, Gen. Washington Gardner,
| comma nder chief G. A R.; cornet
solo. THE Holy City; address, Col.
Robert Z. Lee: address. Col Hilary A.
Fasl f mieou es of
Col. Hilary A. Herbert; salute. twenty
one guns, battery of artillery; intro
duction sof the. sculptor. Sir; Moses
ssess ns Of te
Stevens, president general, United
Daughters Confederacy; address. the
President of the United States; MY
Country. 'Tis of Thee star Spangled
floral tributes. benediction. Rev. An
drew. r. Bird
| The ushers are Frank Martin Chair
NAM, r. II. Brook. David Clopton, S. G.
| Calvert, Lieut.. Austin Cumming, A. G.
Drane, E. c. Dutton. H. E. Davis, Charles
A. Douglas. William Frailey, R. NJ. Hooe
! A. B. Hooe. Malcolm Henry, w. B. King.
| James MCGEE, ]. K. Price, Thomas Ruff
+ H. scudder. Lieut. w. c. Won Kessler.
| clopton Chambers. S. w. Graham, DR..
Clarence Owen, Benjamin Micou. DIR. Gill
mer Brenizer. Thomas A. Speight, E.
fireman, ]. L. Baily. D. j. Gault. c. X.
Bergman, C. w. Warden and Capt. John
G.. Capers.
| Members of the cabinet, senators.
representatives and other prominent gov
| ernment officials are among the invited
guests, but they will be secondary in
| Importance to the grizzled men who wore
| the gray or the blue from 1881 to 1855
Every southern state has arranged to send
| a delegation of veterans. accompanied by
hundreds of others interested in this ce-
|
south. The Old Guard of Baltimore is to
attend in a body.
| Represents Years of Effort.
| The monument unveiled tomorrow is the
elimination of years Of effort by prom
inent Confederate veterans and of the
Daughters Of the Confederacy Raising
| of funds for the memorial started almost
concidently with the alloting a section in
| Arlington cemetery to the Confederate
| dead.
! The enthusiasm of the south for the
flag in the war with Spain electrified the
north, and when that war was over Presi-
dent Mckinley, who had himself been a
gallant Union soldier, made speech at
Atlanta. December q. 1898. that touched
| the heart of the south as 1t never had
been touched before. In it he said:
Sectional lines no longer mar the
map of the United States s., sectional ,s 91aai
| we bear each other. Fraternity Is the
national anthem. sung by chorus Of
| forty-f1ve states and our territories at
home and beyond the seas. The old
flag once again waves over us in peace
| with new glories which your sons and
ours have this year added to its sacred
folds.
"And the time has now come in the
evolution of public sentiment and feel
ing under the Providence of God, when
| in the spirit of fraternity we should
graves of Confederate soldiers"
| In their annual reunion at Charleston
in 1899 the United Confederate Veter-
ans thanked the President for his ut
| terances at Atlanta
In Washington q committee of the
Broadway Rouss Camp of Confederate
was chairman. and two members of
which belonged also to Camp I'll, be-
gan very early to investigate the
graves of Confederates in Washington
and its environs.
Gen. Marcus J. Wright. an ex-Con-
federate. prepared a bill which. on mo-
/ tion of Senator Hawley of Connecticut,
an ex-Union soldier. became a law
June 6. 1900. under which the bodies
of 267 Confederate soldiers were gath
II cred into a beautiful section of the Ma
tional cemetery at Arlington, adorned
II with walks and trees. and the name
Of every soldier. where available was
inscribed on a marble headstone.
Tribute to Union Dead.
On the Memorial day next after the
completion of the Confederate section. the
ex-Confederate organizations of Wash
ington. after decorating their own graves,
marched slowly over to the granite mon
ument representing 2.1u Union dead and
placed a tribute to northern valor in the
form of a large floral shield containing
the words from President Mckinley's ad-
dress,
I'm the Name Of Fraternity.
| Confederate Veterans, June I, 1SOS."
And President Roosevelt on that day
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