. Dedication of the monument on Boston Common erected to the memory of the men of Boston who died in the Civil War . - of Commodore Foxhall A. Parker, Commandant 40 THE ARMY AND NAVY MONUMENT. United States Navy Yard, a salute will be fired at the Navy Yard,Charlestown, morning, noon, and sunset. The Committee on the Monument announce that the Monument will beilluminated during the evening. Chiefs of Divisions are requested to transmit to these head-quarters, onthe day following the march, consolidated reports of their commands. By order of A. P. MARTIN, Chief Sherwin, Adjutant-
. Dedication of the monument on Boston Common erected to the memory of the men of Boston who died in the Civil War . - of Commodore Foxhall A. Parker, Commandant 40 THE ARMY AND NAVY MONUMENT. United States Navy Yard, a salute will be fired at the Navy Yard,Charlestown, morning, noon, and sunset. The Committee on the Monument announce that the Monument will beilluminated during the evening. Chiefs of Divisions are requested to transmit to these head-quarters, onthe day following the march, consolidated reports of their commands. By order of A. P. MARTIN, Chief Sherwin, Adjutant-General. DESCRIPTION OF THE GENEEAL DESCBIPTION OE THE MONUMENT. The Monument erected by the City of Boston in memory ofher sous who fell in the war of the Rebellion stands upon FlagstaffHill, the highest point of unoccupied ground within the limits ofthe city proper. Rising proudly from this elevation to a heightof more than seventy feet, its graceful column of granite forms aspecial point of attraction for the thousands who pass it in thedaily ebb and flow of business and pleasure, and serves as a per-petual reminder of the martyrs whose death it commemorates,and the sacredness of the cause for which they perished. The shaft is of white Maine granite, quarried by the HallowellGranite Company, which executed the work after the plansfurnished by Mr. Martin Milmore. The foundation upon whichit rests is of solid masonry, cruciform in shape, built up froma depth of sixteen feet to the ground level. The first course of the structure consists of a platform, irregu-lar in form, covering an area thirty-eight feet squar
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