The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, May 01, 1913, Page SIX, Image 6
Battle Abbey
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SOUTH
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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.
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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.
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NOTED SOUTHERN MARTYRS.
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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
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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
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this early bero and tbe still more trag
l.c one of bis cousin. General Richard
Brooke Garnett who fell while leading
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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
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' 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.
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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.
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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.
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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. Women inaugurated
the custom."
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