REPORT OF COMMITTEE ON MEMORIAL TO THOSE YALE MEN
WHO FELL IN THE WAR BETWEEN THE STATES.

The Committee respectfully report that since
their appointment June 30th, 1909, they have associated with
themselves, under the authority granted in their appointment,
Anson Phelps Stokes, Jr., Secretary of the University, Lee
McClung, at that time Treasurer of the University, now Treasurer
of the United States, and Allen W. Evarts.

The Committee now consists of - Henry E. Howland, '54,
of New York City; William W. Gordon, '54, of Savannah, Georgia;
Simeon E. Baldwin, '61, of New Haven; Henry P. Wright, '68,
of New Haven; Allen W. Evarts, '69, of New York City; Talcott
H. Russell, '69, of New Haven; Charles H. Strong, '70, of
Savannah; Lee McClung, '92, of Washington, D.C.; Frank L. Polk,
'94, of New York City; and Anson Phelps Stokes, Jr. '96, of
New Haven.

The Committee has had numerous meetings for the
transaction of business and has caused to be prepared a sub-
stantially accurate list of those who are to be the subject
of the memorial, including one hundred and sixty-four names,
subject, however, to correction. This, owing to the lapse
of time since the events of the war, and the imperfection
of records, has been a work of considerable difficulty.

The Committee has considered plans for the memorial,
but no design has yet been submitted which has received their
full approval. This accounts for the apparent delay in action.

At the last meeting, held June 16th, 1911, it was
voted that the memorial be placed in the passageway between the
Court of Honor and Memorial Hall in the Bi-centennial Building.
This was in accordance with the original vote passed July 5, 1909.

Between that time and the vote of June 16, 1911, there had been discussion as to whether another location and plan should not be chosen.

At the last mentioned meeting it was also voted that Judge Howland, the Chairman of the Committee, be requested to ask Mr. Daniel Chester French whether he would undertake the construction of the memorial in the original location.

The Committee confidently hopes that in the immediate future a satisfactory design will be secured and steps taken for its construction.

Respectfully submitted,

Secretary of the Committee.

New Haven,

June 20th, 1911.

TO THE ALUMNI OF YALE UNIVERSITY. -

Report of the Committee on Memorial to Yale Men who lost
their lives in the War Between the States.

The Secretary respectfully reports that the Committee, after much discussion and careful consideration of various plans, has finally adopted, subject to the approval of the Memorial Committee of the University, a design submitted by Mr. Henry Bacon of New York, to consist of tablets erected on each side of the passageway leading from the Court of Honor to Memorial Hall, with the names of those who died on both sides during the War, that is in the period from April, 1861, to the close of the year 1865, arranged classwise, with an XXXXXXXX inscription on the floor and with allegorical figures on each side of the tablets. This plan will involve the re-building of the entire archway, including the floor, the use of marble for all of the memorial except the over-head arch which will be of mosaic with a suitable design uniting the two tablets. The cost is not to exceed twenty-two thousand dollars.

The Committee has also agreed upon a suitable inscription.

Such progress has been made that it is hoped
that the work may be completed in time for the commencement
of 1913.

This memorial will be, it is believed, the first to be erected under the charge of a committee some of whom were actually in military service in the Union and Confederate armies, respectively; a memorial designed to do justice at last to the high devotion to principle and the courage of those who fought on both sides in the Civil War; to express the hearty acquiescence of both sides in the final result, and the earnest wish that the union which now unites the land may be perpetual.

Respectfully submitted,

Secretary.

New Haven, Conn.

June 18, 1912.