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<p>Hon. Richard B. Russell
U.S. Senator from Georgia
Senate Office Building
Washington 25, D.C.
Dear Senator Russell:
Enclosed is a copy of my report as General Chairman of the Committee for Promotion of the Monument to be Erected at Gettysburg for the passing of the Confederate Army and Navy. The last Confederate veteran died in December, 1959. The last Union Army veteran died in 1957, and already the Sons of the G.A.R. have erected a monument to the passing of the Union Army.
On the occasion of the U.D.C.’s erection of the beautiful monument to the South in Arlington Cemetery in June, 1914, the U.S. War Department stated that it reserves the right to place the foundations of monuments in U.S. Military Parks (see The History of the United Daughters of the Confederacy).
The enclosed design of 14 columns, each column representing one of the 14 states with the name of the state at the top, has been submitted to me by Marietta Memorials, Inc., successors to McNeel. This design has found favor with the Governors, Centennial Commission, and members of my Committee, but we have been told by Bryant Baker, A. Thomas Bradbury, Architect for Georgia, and Edward A. Moulthrop, Chairman of the Art Commission for the State of Georgia, that the figure must be 7’6” and the columns must be raised to be architecturally correct and that the foundation would be expensive.
I am asking you whether or not the War Department is still financing the foundations of such memorials in U.S. Military Parks. If I raise the full quota, I will have only $36,000, and I believe that we could get this done if the War Department would finance the foundation.</p>
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