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Military Monument

Military Monument image
Parent Issue
Day
1
Month
January
Year
1848
Copyright
Public Domain
OCR Text

A correspondent of the Washington Union writes:- "Simple and yet grand is the memorial of our victories in Mexico, now in progressofcompletion at West Point. On he most prominent front of the mighty Palisades, the names of " Palo Alto." "Resaca De la Palma,' "Monterey," and "Buena Vista" are cut in colossal letters. "Vera Cruz," is nearly completed, and the others will follow. It is difficult to conceive a monument more expressive or more sublime - the immortal words 'alone in their glory" on the face of the eternal rocks, the skvabovc,nnd tlie deep Eludson below, forever. The boys at West Point know how to write history as well as to make it; and they do both with the cold steel!" The site of ihe National Military Academy is the appropriate place for such a monument. That institution, on which $4,000,000 has been bestoived, derives !ts existence from this glorification oí the arts of War.