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<p>Mrs. Robert Hamilton Smith
1800 Harris Road
Philadelphia 18, Pennsylvania
Dear Mrs. Smith:
I am furnishing this statement of our meeting of the 28th to put on record our agreements and the favorable conclusion reached.
At a meeting in the Regional Office today, attended by Mrs. Robert H. Smith of UDC, Judge William Beard of SCV, Superintendent K.A. Wing of Gettysburg, and the Regional Director, the following changes to inscriptions on the UDC/SCV Memorial proposal were agreed upon:
1. The inscription for Walter Washington Williams will not be on the plinth of the statue but rather will be placed on the rear of the foundation pedestal, in the form of a bronze plaque or medallion, or carved into the stone as the sculptor shall choose.
2. This revised inscription shall read: “Walter Washington Williams – Recognized by the U.S. Government as the last surviving Confederate veteran. Died 1959 at the age of 117 years.”
3. The principal inscription of the memorial shall be changed to read: “A Memorial to the Soldiers and Sailors of the Confederacy.”
The above changes seem to Mr. Lee and myself to dispose of the difficulties relating to the last survivor status of Walter Washington Williams, and relating to the designation of the three border states of Kentucky, Missouri, and Maryland. With the authority now delegated to me, I therefore approve the memorial for construction, with these</p>
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