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<p>_____ December 15, 1959”. Maybe I am too sentimental but I would like the verse for front and back under “erected by U.D.C. and S.C.V.” to read:
“Soldier rest, your warfare o’er
Sleep the sleep that knows no breaking
Dream of battlefields no more
Days of danger, nights of waking”
A good designer could design such a monument and with the help of a good architect, it could be erected at a much lower price than the De Lue design. There is one in Mrs. Smith’s City of Philadelphia. I believe his name is Grant Simon. I feel we are paying $15,000 for the name of De Lue on the monument.
I am sending two ladies, Mrs. C. Robert Walker and Mrs. Max S. Flynt, to represent me at the Board Meeting. The President, Georgia Division, U.D.C., the President-elect and others will all speak against the De Lue design. I am asking that action for selecting the De Lue design be rescinded. It was too hastily passed by a few when the Centennial Commissioners, the U.D.C. and others are a much larger number opposing it.
I was in Governor Sanders office yesterday when he gave to my Hall of Fame Committee $10,000 for the erection of the Overlook Pavilion honoring the fourteen Georgia Generals who fought on Kennesaw Mountain June 1864. This memorial, 100 feet across, will be a fitting one to these fourteen Generals and it is in the hands of my Committee. It will be dedicated the week of June 7th this year. Kennesaw is fast becoming similar to Vicksburg and Gettysburg Battlefield Sites under the U.S. Park Service.
If the De Lue design is rescinded and another chosen, I believe I can promise you that my Committee and I will get all quotas sent in that we have obtained but only if Mr. Sturdivant, you and others will write no more letters to the Governors asking for them.
When I reported to the President-general that my Committee had bills successfully passed and signed by the Governors for the amount of $32,000, I did not mean to say my job was finished. I fully intended getting this amount into the hands of the Treasurer-general and then to report to Mrs. Smith, “mission accomplished”. However, when she wrote me that she had placed it in the hands of Mr. Sturdivant and yourself and the letters began to flow, I felt there might be trouble. I am not working for self glory but to get a monument at Gettysburg. I must be true to my deep convictions that the De Lue design is NOT the one. I am sorry I am sick and my 86 years will not allow me to go and talk to the body about what concerns all of such so much.
I am glad to call U.S. Senator Russell one of my friends.
Sincerely,
Gertrude L. Kibler</p>
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