Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-05-30
MEMORIAL TABLET To Be
UNVEILED IN HOLLYWOOD
"s OF Work Of Women Of South
In Marking Confederate
Graves.
RING DEAD FROM GETTYSBURG
taylor Ellyson Crump to UnveiI
iahict mt Exercises To-Morrow Az.
'erhoon-Address by General
i'ehnctt II. Young.


Bennett II. Young.
many people in Richmond, par
me younger generation, Me-
80 a4 Day Is n mere form, a summer
~ But to those who were pres
mat first Memorial Day forty
ears ago, 1t is Il solemn, bitter
"''F' poignant reminder OF one OF
lost moving scenes that Richmond
ever seen.
course: during the war the brave
81 both sides were buried, for the
part just where they fell, hun
VS. oi them in long. shallow trenches.
y" no marks of Identification what
sometimes comrade found an
i p"F'unity TO make some note Of cx-
w where they lay, that their faml-
might have the sorry consolation
1 81 inc war, of coming to claim their
"''S' SUCH was the case, for in
hcc. with Colonel William Haskell
nicd at Gettysburg. His two broth
/ VINO were in his regiment. made a
4 L" "t where his body was placed b.
points OF the compass. hoping to
M. nack some day and get IT, Many
tTS later, with the help of those same
! r'tons. they located their brother
I Ter pine tree. Three harvests had
th gathered over his head
i 'NfEDERATE DEAD FROM
4 81 HG BROUGHT TO HOLLY
4 ""'i the war was over the thoughts
''''t one. naturally. turned toward
n -" 'n"y had lost, and they longcd to
~ i0en from The sOddcn corn fields
SIoomy forests where they lay, and
~" lhcn in consccratcd ground. This
1 versa. desire found expression in
lho'lai associations. which sprang
4 0'inr IN almost every city in the
4 uth. ~ every known method, and
every Imaginable sacri;ice. the
'h"N Tor doing this was painfully col
'"h mostly by the women of the
hiHd"racy. \ plot Of ground adioin-
hollywood Cemetery was secured
IN" permission OF the government
move the soldiers finally obtained
'is Vas the more easily obtained as
great numbers Of those buried in
40 ana farmyard seriously inter
rcd with agriculture. So "A sad dele
tton went to the fcld Of Gettysburg.
lcre laE thousands OF Confederate
al aug up III" mingled bones and
aced them In little wooden boxes,
AN ana Hnpretcntious. but the best
d AZ an impoverished city could afford
4 chmond has seen no saddcr dav than
At on which the trainloads of these
II" boxes pulled in. Amid the tear
owned sorrow Of relatives. friends
4 Il comrades In arms, the pathetic
tie boxes that represented so much
-kless h"rotsm on the field Of Gettys-
*. were loaded into wagons and
ken 10 the cemetery. There. after a
! TENN religious service, they were in
frcd sometimes as many as ten go
INTO one grave. practically none
~ bic Of identification.
| :nMISSIoN REFUSED no
MOVE: DEAD FROM ARLINGTON
That was one of the first Memorial
JyS but in tho hearts Of the people
cry day was Memorial Day. and
| cry day saw many mourners trudC-
tho long way out. loaded with flow
FOR the unidentified dead: for Hoi-
wood was in the country then and
ere was no street car.
They tell AN interesting story OF the
| moderate graves AT Arlington. When
| omission Was first asked to remove
Southern soldiers from Arlington
vas refused. and only given after
ara when ii was too late TO be posi-
one day. in the morning, people
me out from Washington and deco
| led the graves Of the Union dead who
zre buried there. That afternoon,
! zen women from Baltimore came TO
corntc the graves OF the Southern
4 .d. they were refused admission and
! er threatened with violence If they
rsistcd In their efforts to enter. So
- were obliged to leave Sut that
eht terrific wind and rain storm
No up, and tho morning revealed a
Zrsuge sight Every minutest vcstige
| flower and nag had been blown from
. Federal graves TO those OF the
| uthcrn soldiers. who now rested un-
= veritabic riot OF color.
a, -rtIt-nS lInnx.S HAVI,
PARkED AND PRESERVED GRAVES
! The work OF marking the graves with
= one blocks and keeping up the sec
ons where tine soldiers lie has been
ldcrtaken, from the beginning, by
e Hollywood Memorial Association.
/, their efforts also is due the appro-
-iation at the last regular session of
g General Assembly of Virginia Of
. 600 for the purpose of putting the
/ ction in perpetual care of the Holly
. GOD Cemetery Company. Their work
this behalf is to be kept in memory
q handsome tablet of bronze and
ante The unwilling of this will be
j. Taylor Ellyson Crump, grandson
/ Taylor Ellyson, and son of MIR. and
RS Frank Crump, will be an import
II; feature of Memorial Day ccre-
onics this year. The little boy
i msclf is loyal grandson of
fie Confederacy, being member of
napier No. /. Grandchildren OF the
| onfederacy. an auxiliary to the Rich
I ord chapter.
Memorial service swill be held as
sua! this year at the soldiers section
hollywood Cemetery tomorrow
+ ,ternoon The presiding officer will
I, colonel w. Gordon McCahe, and
e order of events will be as follows:
1 Prayer by Rev. James Power Smith,
y.
Music in charge of Professor Walter
! Mercer.
Introduction Of tho speaker by Col
|1el W. Gordon McCabe.
| Speech by Go->Sral Bennett II. Young.
bmmandcr-in-c chief United Confeder-
Veterans.
! Professional to monument, Onward
hristian Soldiers"
Unwilling Of the tablet by j. Taylor
Tyson Crump.
Benediction, Rev. James Power
, NTH. y. ID.
1 Music. Dixie
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