. Report of proceedings incidental to the erection and dedication of the Confederate monument. and about us— 1 do believe it —is gathered the great cloud of witnesses, the inustered-out armies thatonce met in battle shock, men who were faithful unto death and havereceived the crown of life, but onr ami) now, the real, the ImmortalGrand .-Vrmy of the Republic. •Sheridan and Jackson. Sherman and |ohnston. Grant and Lee arethere, are here, with that invisible, indivisible, approving, protectinghost. And with the benediction of our common Father, and the Princeof Peace, our elder Brother, we rejie
. Report of proceedings incidental to the erection and dedication of the Confederate monument. and about us— 1 do believe it —is gathered the great cloud of witnesses, the inustered-out armies thatonce met in battle shock, men who were faithful unto death and havereceived the crown of life, but onr ami) now, the real, the ImmortalGrand .-Vrmy of the Republic. •Sheridan and Jackson. Sherman and |ohnston. Grant and Lee arethere, are here, with that invisible, indivisible, approving, protectinghost. And with the benediction of our common Father, and the Princeof Peace, our elder Brother, we rejieat the words that come from asoutliern womans lips and loving, loval heart. Together, cry the people, and together still shall everlasting charter-bond, forever for the liberty, the signet-seal, the one eternal these united emblems, the Palmetto and the Pine. Requiem, by the Imperial-Arion Octet. Chairman Bolton: •?Gtiitlenini—Gen. John C. Underwood, soldier,statesman, governor, jihilanthropist and friend, will now take charge ofthe military ceremonies. f. MONUMENTING THE CANNON. LADY ASSISTANTS No. 1 No. 2 No. 3No. 4 No. 5 MISS LUCY LEK HILL ( 1 ChicaBo, III., consecrated the first gun. MRS. ALBERT .^KERS. Washington. D. C , consecrated the second gun. MISS L.^UR.\ LANDON MITCH ELL, Charleston, W. Va., consecrated the third gun. MISS ISABELLE ARMSTRONG, Washington. D. C. consecrated the fourth gun MRS. KATIE CABELL CURRIE, Dallas, Texas, dedicated the battery. To all of whom both official and personal thanks are hereby extended. •35 CEREMONIAL AROUND THE MONUMENT. As Prepared and Arranged by Maj -Gen. John C, Inderwood, Commanding. Tlu niilitar\-, with solemn, cadenced steps, marched in fnneralparade on the burial plot, to strains of the Dead March in Saul by itsband, and formed a cordon about three faces of the monument. TheConfederate Veteran Association and individual members of variousPosts G. .V. formetl a united line within the s
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