To Confederate Dead

The dedication of a monument to 6,000 confedérate prisoners who died at Camp Douglas, was a striking feature of the Memorial day exercises at Chicago. Ainong the distinguished vlsitors who participated in the dedication were Lieutenant General Schofield, General Plagler, Senator John M. Palmer, General Alfred Orendorff and Colonel J. P. Sanger, inspector general of the army. Among the ex-confederates were Senator John B. Gordon of Georgia, General Wade Hampton, General James Longstreet, General Fitzhugh Lee, ex-Senator M. C. Butler, ex-Senator Eppa Hunton, General Basil M. Duke and General A. P. Stewart. The monument was erected in Oakwoods cemetery, a few miles out of Chicago, in 1893. The pedestal Is of pearl granlte, 40 feet high, and is surmounted by a bronze statue of a confedérate soldier. On the front of the lower base are the words "Confedérate Dead." On the upper base is a bronze model of the confedérate seal, representing a mounted soldier- General Washington - inclosed within a wreath of foliage of the products of the South. This inscription is on the face of the front panel: "t Erected : to the Memory of the : : SIX THOUSAND SOUTHERN : ■ DIERS, : : Here Buried. Who Died In : Camp Douglas Prison, : : 1862-65. : Confedérate Dead. : On each of the three other sides of the die is a bronze panel representing the "Cali to Arms" of the confederacy, "A Veteran's Return Hóme" and "A Soldier's Death Dream." Around thé monument will be cannon, shot and shell appropriated by congress. These were captured by the confederates in the war and recaptured by the federáis.