The Unveiling Of The Confederate Monument On Mount Royal Avenue May 2, 1903.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN-Sir: In your account in your issue of Sunday last of the unveiling noted above of the monument to the Confederate soldiers on the date named you have omitted, I am sure unwittingly, a most important fact connected therewith.

You mention the presence on that occasion of the veterans from the Confederate Soldiers’ Home at Pikesville, who constituted a guard of honor to the Daughters of the Confederacy. You mention that the monument was presented to the city by Capt. G. W. Booth, vice-president of the Society of the Army and Navy of the Confederate States in Maryland, which society was present, but you make no mention whatever of the camps of the United Confederate Veterans which composed the larger part of the procession, nor of the opening address by Gen. A. C. Trippe, the commander of the Division of United Confederate Veterans of the State, which was full of patriotism and eminently fitted to the occasion.

The other parts of your notice were in every way correct, but it is due to the large body of ex-Confederate soldiers comprising the United Confederate Veterans that they should not be ignored in the prominent part they took on this most glorious and eventful day. I feel sure you will make the amende honorable.

W.M. Pegram,
Division Staff, United Confederate Veterans.
Baltimore, Aug. 7.