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The monument occupies a very commanding position in the ceme- tery, and can be seen from almost every direction as one approaches the city. It stands in the southern portion of the cemetery on a mound about five feet high, where the unknown dead are buried, and is about twenty-five feet in height. The apex of the monument rests on four columns of red granite. Upon the apex the figure of a Confederate soldier stands in a position of "parade rest," and is facing to the South. On the four sides of the apex are cut crossed muskets, crossed sabres, a cannon, and a castle with battlements; on the east side under the cannon are the words : " To the Confederate Dead."
The corner-stone was laid on June 4, 1874, by Fredericksburg Lodge, A. F. and A. M. The statue of a Confederate soldier was from a design by George T. Downing, and was cast at the bronze works of the Bridgeport Monumental Company, of Bridgeport, Conn.
PERSONAL.
A. B. Bowering, leader of Bowering Band, this city, is an ex-Con- federate veteran, and led the band that played the last tune heard by General Lee from a military band of his army as he rode away from Appomattox after the surrender.
GLIMPSES OF ARMY LIFE IN 1864. Extracts from Letters written by Brigadier-General J. H. Lane.
[I.] LIBERTY MILLS, VA., February 5, 2864.*
- * * The telegraphic columns in the Richmond papers have
anticipated the action of my brigade about reenlisting. I intend calling on them for an expression of opinion next week, and I hope
- In connection with this period the reader is referred to " History of
Lane's North Carolina brigade." Southern Historical Societv Papers, Volume IX, pages 353-361.
