Evening star., 1941-06-22
Statue Of Longstreet
To Be Dedicated at
Gettysburg Ju|y2
Two D. c. Delegations
To Attend Ceremony in
Honor of Confederate

Plans for the dedication of an
equestrian statue of Gen. James
Longstreet, Confederate leader, on
the Gettysburg battlefield on
Wednesday, July 2, were disclosed
yesterday by the Longstreet Me-
mortal Association and other organ
izations taking part.
Two large delegations from Wash
ington will attend the ceremony,
one leaving the morning of July l
and the other about July 2. The
program will begin at 2:30 pm.
The first group will be headed
by Gen. Julius Franklin Howell,
commander in chief of the United
Confederate Veterans, and his staff
will include Maj. w. F. Van Swear
ingen, general chairman of the ded-
ication; Mrs. Maud Howell Smith,
Mrs. Lena Macdonald, Miss Mar
tha Mcleod, Miss Estelle Brown
and others. They will be met at
the Maryland line by a reception
committee from Gettysburg. At the
Harrisburg Pa Airport the party
will meet Mary Pickford, the screen
star, who will take part in the
ceremony. The delegation will at
tend banquet at the Gettysburg
Hotel that evening. Col. Fred P.
Myers, Washington attorney, will be
POSTMASTER.
L. S. Troops to Take Part.
The second delegation will include
those unable to leave the previous
day, and all who can go are in
vited to join this group.
United States troops taking part
in the ceremony will be the list
Coast Artillery, commanded by Col.
E. w. Timberlake, bringing rs off,
GERS and 1900 men, $50 vehicles,
band and colors and large detach-
ments from the 28th Division, sta
toned at Indiantown Gap, Pa. The
I'd Corps commander, Mai. Gen.
Henry c. Pratt, and the division
commander, Maj. Gen. Edward
Martin, are to be present.
The colorful parade will include
details from many patriotic, fra
ternal and civic organizations.
The dedication will take place or
the 18th anniversary of the Battle
OF Gettysburg, which began July !
1863, and lasted three days.
A new symposium of the occasion
will be broadcast nationally, with
speeches by U. C. V. Commander
Howell Miss Pickford, Francis P
Mathews, supreme knight of the
knights Of Columbus; Thomas
Kearny, grandson of the famous
Union commander, Gen. Philip
Kearny; Richard Charles Queen OF
California, winner of the Purple
Heart in the World War, and others
President Roosevelt has been invited
and is expected TO send a repre-
sentative if he is unable to attend
Lees "Old War Horse"
Gen. Longstreet, who commanded
corps under Gen. Lee during the
campaigns of the Army of Northern
Virginia. served 20 years in the
United States Army before the Civi
War and took part in Indian fight
ing and in the Mexican War, ir
which he was severely wounded al
Chapultepec. During the War Be.
tween the States he won the title
Lion of the South" for his hare
fighting and was called by Lee af.
fectionately his "old war horse.
The 1st Confederate Corps, under
command of Gen. Longstreet. fought
valiantly throughout the war arc
held the last line at Appomattox
Once Longstreet and his corps
turned south to win the Battle Of
Chickamauga. They were in the
thic kof the fighting at the Confed-
crate center and right flank al
| Gettysburg.
The statue of the Southern chief
tain was designed by Paul Manship
internationally famous sculptor. II
was sponsored by the Longstreet
Memorial Association.