. Sponsor souvenir album : history & reunion (1895) . Colonel William P. CONFEDERATE HONUHENT, ALEXANDRIA, VA. LL honor to the women and men who close by thecapital of the nation have erected a superb monu-ment to their own Confederate dead at Alexan-dria, Va. It is surmounted by a soldier, hat inhand, his arms folded, and standing with his heada little drooped, as if he was preparing to makeanother vigorous battle—a battle with conditions which mean the recov-ery of fortune, and redemonstrating merit to distinction as a patriot. Anold paper says: For all time will Alexandria bear
. Sponsor souvenir album : history & reunion (1895) . Colonel William P. CONFEDERATE HONUHENT, ALEXANDRIA, VA. LL honor to the women and men who close by thecapital of the nation have erected a superb monu-ment to their own Confederate dead at Alexan-dria, Va. It is surmounted by a soldier, hat inhand, his arms folded, and standing with his heada little drooped, as if he was preparing to makeanother vigorous battle—a battle with conditions which mean the recov-ery of fortune, and redemonstrating merit to distinction as a patriot. Anold paper says: For all time will Alexandria bear in her heart ofhearts the manner of these gallant men who, on the 24th day of May,1861, left their homes at the call of public duty, for the monument is in-scribed with the names of those Alexandrians whose homes never sawthem again, but the hearts of whose fellow-citizens will enshrine themforever: Yon marble minstrels voiceless stone In deathless song shall tell,When many a vanished year has flown, The story how you fell;Nor wreck, nor change, nor winters blight. Nor times remorseless doom,Can dim one ray of holy
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