Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-05-25
VETERANS OBSERVE
MEMORIAL DAY
Confederate Exercises and
dwelling Are Held in
Alexandria.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

ALEXANDRIA. Va. May as
Grouped about the Confederate monu-
ment, erected in memory Of the South
ern forces who SO years ago fell back
before the advance OF the Union Army,
6 Of the 10 surviving members of r. E..
Lee Camp. United Confederate Vet
Grams. camp that once boosted 229
federate Veterans and Daughters of the
Confederacy in observing Confederate
Memorial day
The SIX Col. Edgar Warfleld, George
x. Pickett, Col. John Fallon. Robert
Wiley, Jesse Murray and James Foster,
modeStly faced the rostrum as the
praises of the Southern forces we're
sung by Rev. William IS. Hammond of
the Methodist Episcopal Church South,
the principal speaker on the program.
Gen. wilkinson Present.
Gen. w. L. Wilkinson. commander of
the District OF Columbia Brigade, United
Confederate Veterans, attended the ex-
ercises.
Rev. Hammond related the march Of
the first Union troops onto Virginia
soil and told of the killing of James w.
Jackson by New York Zouaves when
Jackson fatally shot Col. Ellsworth Of
the Zouaves for removing a Confederate
flag from the Marshall House.
He asserted that the highest inspira-
ton of the South's youth today is
the memory of their fathers valor.
IF you have any divisional feeling,
forget It," he told his listeners. I'VE
are now the United States"
March to Monument.
Preceding the brief program at the
monument a parade, composed of the
Alexandria Light Infantry. three COM
panies of cadets from the Alexandria
High School and the three Confederate
organizations, formed in line at Lee
Camp Hall and marched to the nnonu-
ment, when Samuel Luckett, COM
nader of r. E. Lee Camp. Sons Of Con-
federate Veterans, took charge.
Invocation and benediction were Of
fered by Few. Ernest M. Delaney. pastor
of the Second Presbyterian Church. A
Quartet from the Methodist Episcopal
Church, composed of Mrs. Harrie White,
Mrs. G. L. BroSseau, e. S. Billheiner
and William Clark, sang Kipling's Re
cessional.'
The parade formed again after the
exercises and marched to the Christ
Episcopal Church, where the Veterans,
Sons of Veterans and Daughters of the
Confederacy placed flowers upon the
mound of Confederate dead in the
churchyard. A salute was fired by the
squad of 1nfantrymen and taps were
sounded by trumpeter from the Cttl-
zens' Band.
Tablet Is Unveiled.
The days program was concluded at
the Marshall House, where Mrs. William
I. Dening of Washington. only grand
daughter of Jackson. unveiled bronze
tablet in honor Of her grandfather. The
tablet was placed by the Sons OF VET
Grams.
The inscription upon the bronze plate
is as follows:
The Marshall House
Within This Building in the Early
Morning of May "a, 1861
JAMES w. JACKSON
Was Killed by Federal Soldiers
While Defending His Property and
Personal Rights. as Stated in the
Verdict Of the Coroner's Jury
He Was the First Martyr to the
Cause of Southern Independence
The Justice of History Does Net
Permit His Name to Be Forgotten
Not in the Excitement Of Battle,
But Coolly. and for a Great
Principle
He Laid Down His Life, an Example
to All, in Defense Of His Home and
The Sacred Soil Of His Native State,
Virginia
Erected by the
Sons and Daughters Of Confederate
Soldiers