A history of the erection and dedication of the monument to Gen'l James Edward Oglethorpe, unveiled in Savannah, Ga., November 23, 1910 . Battalion 1st 2d Battalion 1st Infantry. To General James Edward Oglethorpe. 33 the threshold of their undertaking. It has been said thatnot a day passes over the earth but men and women of nonote do great deeds, speak great words and suffer noblesorrows. Of these obscure heroes, philosophers and mar-tyrs, the greater part will never be known till that hour whenmany that are great shall be small and the small great; butof others the worlds knowled
A history of the erection and dedication of the monument to Gen'l James Edward Oglethorpe, unveiled in Savannah, Ga., November 23, 1910 . Battalion 1st 2d Battalion 1st Infantry. To General James Edward Oglethorpe. 33 the threshold of their undertaking. It has been said thatnot a day passes over the earth but men and women of nonote do great deeds, speak great words and suffer noblesorrows. Of these obscure heroes, philosophers and mar-tyrs, the greater part will never be known till that hour whenmany that are great shall be small and the small great; butof others the worlds knowledge may be said to sleep; theirlives and characters lie hidden from nations in the annalsthat record them. Of these last was Tomochichi, who, when upward ofninety years of age, was fighting the enemies of Georgia. Ina neighboring square, a few hundred feet from this spot,where he was laid to rest by the people of Georgia, a nobleband of Georgia women, carrying out the forgotten behestof Oglethorpe made in the long ago, have placed as a me-morial where he was buried a boulder of Georgia it is inscribed that he was the Mico of the Yamacraws;the com
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