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Battle Abbey Of SOUTH ======= WIIEN tlie Confederate Memorial Institute, now nearing j completion in Ilichmoud, the 1 former capital of the Confederacy, is dedicated it will be the handsomest building of the kind in the world and will be a fitting memorial ' to the men who fought and died for the Lost Cause. It will be the Battle Abbey of the South and will stand as a lasting record of the chivalrous Southern civilization characteristic of Dixie Land. The institute represents years of effort on the part of the Confederate Memoriai Association and the United Daughters of the Confederacy. It is erected by the people of the whole South as their storehouse for the historical records of the war period. In It will be preserved for all time the documents pertaining to that titanic struggle. No expense has l>een spared to beautify the grounds and building. Large private subscriptions have helped to swell the gigantic fund necessary to the undertaking. The mural paintings alone in one room will cost $30,000. and It will take the artist two years to coinniete the work. It will occupy a com | tnanding site iu the residential section of new Richmond and will be maintained by the association under whose auspices it was constructed, acting in Its capacity as trustee for the people of all the Southern states. The site is located on the left side of the Boulevard between Stuart avenue and Kensington street. The association owns the lot between these two atreets. which extends westward as far as Sheppard street. The dimensions of the property measure 379 feet on the Boulevard and Sheppard street and 730 feet on Stuart avenue and Kensiug ton street. The site is on an eminence, and the grounds are so laid out as to display to the best advantage the digImrvAoincr illUtM auu !Ui|/Voiug The structure stands 150 feet back from the Boulevard upon a terrace designed to give at once a dignified setting and suitable approach to the building. A broad flight of stone steps leads from the lower level to the terrace, flanked on either side by a stone balustrade. The terrace, Itself extending some thirty-five feet from the building and eight feet above the lower level. Is continued around the ends of the building, giving access to the grounds in the rear. These will be commodious and beautiful. The building itself is not large, although It is imposing. The building, which is faced throughoat'with Indiana limestone, consists of ? mantra! nnvilion with a wing on either side, having a total length of 150 fret and a height from the terrace to the top of the parapet of forty-four feet. The main entrance is behind a portico of four columns of limestone of the Roman Ionic order twenty-five feet in height The two wings on the outside are divided into panels by means of pilasters of slight projection, and below the cornice which crowns the whole large stones are provided which it is hoped at no distant day will be transformed by the art of the sculptor into carved panels to serve as suitable memorials nt >>..m a. .if tho OTP-if PVPlltS of that time which the whole building Is do-1 signed to commemorate. Passing through the main entrance, which is guarded by bronze doors six feet wide and seventeen feet high, the visitor enters a hall thirty feet long and twenty feet wide. The floor of the hall is of Georgia marble. The walls are divided into panels by pilasters of a warm cream colored marble supporting a cornice of the Roman Doric order. The ceiling of the hall is in the form of a curved vault, with an ornamental skylight of leaded glass. In the spaces above the cornice at either end of the hall will be placed a reproduction of the battleflag of the Confederacy, done in color, and in the npper portion of the spaces below the cornice and between the pilasters will be panels of ornamental design, each containing a reproduction of a seal of one of the eleven original Confederate states. Opposite the main entrance and opening on the main entrance hall are situated the office of the secretary and the coat room. Turning to the left from the entrance hall, one enters the Memorial Hall, the most interesting and important room in the building. Its dituen sions are: Length 4(5 feet, width .'54 feet and height from floor to celling { ?l> feet. The architectural features of this room are designed to act as a frame for the paintings. which are to occupy all the wall spaces. The finish, which will he of quartered white oak. consists of tinted pilasters, with carved Corinthian c apitals supporting a richly ' ornamented cornice. A wainscot three feet high is carried round the room and forms a base for the pilasters. But the important feature of this room will be the paintings. These will be devoted to the military history of the Confederacy and will be done by the eminent artist. Charles Hoffbauer. The grounds behind the building are to be laid out so as to form a lawn of greensward stretching almost to Sheppard street, flanked on three sides with magnolia trees and flowering shrubs, with English ivy and periwinkle forming a carpet. The lawn (aptly called the Court of Honor) will be bordered at intervals with statues of eminent statesmen and warriors. .??^ . . ?PI rt) IKM i* * v w ? * v FORTH from Its scabbard, pare sad bright Flashed the sword of Lee I Far In froot of the deadly fight. High o'er the brave, lo the cause of right. Its stainless sheen, like a beacon Ugbt, Led as to victory. Oat of Its scabbard, where full long It slumbered peacefully. Roased from Its rest by the battle song, Shielding the feeble, smiting the strong, Quardlng the right and avenging the wrong. Uieameo toe swora 01 lcci Forth from its scabbard, high in air. Beneath Virginia's sky, And they who saw it gleaming there And knew who bore It knelt to swear That where that sword led they would dart To follow and to die. I" NOTED SOUTHERN MARTYRS. 1 mmmi Ukn.tn, Mvuvi ai uai "cik aiiu w.v First Officers Killed. Brigadier General Robert Selder Garnett, the first general officer ti give his life to the Southern Confeder acy, belonged to a numerous and dis i* gjj# GENERAL ALBERT SIDNEY JOHNSTON, KILLED AT SHILOH. tinguished family iu Virginia. lit was killed in a rear guard action al Carrick's Ford on July 13. 1861, while defending his native state against the Federal force which invaded it across the Ohio border. His opponents wert commanded by General George B. Mc Clellan. The name of Garnett is wov en imperishably among the finest tra a# fKA Gnufh Hr Hon th ni UiUVUS VI IUV wuu IU MJ ?,?v V.VWW this early bero and tbe still more trag l.c one of bis cousin. General Richard Brooke Garnett who fell while leading Memorial to th - MM /r*% a /T\ j a brigade of Virginians in Pickett's! ; charge upon Cemetery Ridge, Gettys , burg. July 3. 1?53. j General Albert Sidney Johnston was j1 not alone tbe first army commandei killed in tbe war between the states _ be was the first and only leader bear ing the full rank of general who gave up his life on the battlefield. A native of Kentucky. General Johnston may be said to have died defending tbe honor of his home state. The plan of campaign which led him to his death at the battle of Shiloh. April 6. 1862. had for its ultimate object the recovery to the Southern arms of all of Tennessee and the bordering counties of Kentucky. "The best soldier I ever commanded." was General Zacbary Taylor's en comium on Johnston's Mexican wat : L I ' BRIGADIER GENERAL ROBERT 8. GARNET!, > KILLED AT CARRICK'S FORD. . record as volunteer colonel. Subse queutly becoming a colonel of cavalry In the regular army, he bad for a sub! ordinate Lieutenant Colonei Robert E. Lee. Colonel Johnston was In coml mand of the department of the Pacific ; when the war began. e Confede ate Dea - ' -1 fltke LTV OUI or its scabbard i never nana Waved swnro from staio as free. Nor purer swurd led braver band. Nor braver bled for a brighter land, far brighter land had a cause as grand. Nor cause a chief like Lee I :ortb from its scabbard I How we prayed That sword might victor bel fad when our triumph was delayed fad many a heart grew sore afraid Ve stiU hoped oa while gleamed the blade Of ooble Robert Lee I farth from Its scabbard 1 All in vain Portb flashed the sword of Lee! Tis shrouded ocw In Its sheath again; t sleeps the sleep of our ooble slain, kfeated. yet without a stain. Proudly and peacefully. | I I I II l-MIIH-M-I-l?; ORIGINATED IN THE 80UTH. ;; ) Memorial day?the observance .. and the name?originated in the 1) South. The custom of decorat ing the graves of the dead Con federate soldiers began in some of the Southern states In 1863 | T and nt tha rtiitspt wns narticlDat- J, ; ed in only by women. The ens !! torn has continued ever since, '; but the day, unlike the similar *; .! occasion in the North, does not ;; occur in all places at the same *j .! time. The Confederates' Memo| | rial day comes on April 6 in *; Louisiana, on April 26 In Ala- > bama. Florida, Georgia and Mis- || sisslppi, on May 10 in North and 11 South Carolina and on the second 11 Friday in May in Tennessee. H-M-M-I-M 1 1 I'M M M.H..H..H..l.fr AWCICWT rHQTHM RPVIVPn Women and Children of the South Founded Memorial Day. Flowers were used by the Greeks. Romans and Egyptians in their funeral ceremonies. Especially did the Greeks and Romans delight to honor their heroic dead by magnificent funerals and anniversary celebrations. Such occasions induced splendid outbursts of patriotic oratory. The most famous speakers of the land were glad to pay glowing tributes of eloquence to the deeds and virtues of the fallen warriors. Pericles. Demosthenes and other silver tongued men of those days made some of their most notable efforts over their country's slain. "During the contest between the states." said the late uenerai josepn Wheeler, "the women and children of the South delighted to bring flowers and evergreens to decorate the graves of the martyrs to their cause. "As the spring brought the anniversary of the doomsday of the Los1 Cause the women instituted another and a special day in honor of their beloved soldiers, and the pathos of the devotion was deeper in that the sacrifice of their lives had been made, seemingly, in vain. 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